Midweek 6th August 2025

The latest BBC scandal – top presenter charged with Rape x2…… “

we’ve long had free speech in this country – but this is where it ends … “

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  1. Scroblene says:

    …and I was only checking my emails – honest…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Nice job Scroblene – I try to be punctual …

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    • BRISSLES says:

      If you say so ….. 😆 🤣 😂

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    • MarkyMark says:

      We demand a level playing field – only one box to enter all the bbc biased stories into so we can create a northern power house with diverse people using a 1 in 1 out system of immigration. EDI – Equity! Diversity! Inclusion! ** does not in include native white people.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Thank you Fed, Brissles and MM, I have to admit that I’d been watching an old BBC – pre-woke era – documentary on Mike Oldfield, and was immediately in a reverie of that great programme when we could all manage to understand Melvyn Bragg when he introduced Tubular Bells live!

      It’s only seven years old, and it’s sad that the bBC has descended into super-woke, far-left ‘inspired’, shallow drivel compared to only a few years ago!

      So there I was, with Viv Stanshall’s voice ringing in my ears and randomly plucking at sites to watch for the final hour of the day…

      And here I was…

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Whooo Hooooo Scrobie, is that not two in a row? You have got to go for three in a row now. Ignore MM. He is just trying to wind you up!

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      • Scroblene says:

        The mental scars from Marky’s comment will heal in time, Uppers, and thank you for your patience in waiting for me to join the discussion…

        The link to the prog I was watching is here: –

        Of course, if you didn’t like Mike Oldfield, there’s always Angela Rayner sings gems from the Labour Burial Church Service…

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Scrobie, I do like Mike Oldfield. I think I have the video for MO’s Milennium Bell concert in Berlin a.k.a ‘The Art in Heaven Concert’ somwhere. Think it is also available on YouChoob. It had a stellar line up with Pepsi from Pepsi & Shirley together with blond S.Africn woman whose name I have forgotten. Miriam Stockley. I have just been informed on the vid below. [My memory deserts me when I really need it. 🙁 ] The blonde bass guitarist I remember is Carrie Melbourne.

          “Of course, if you didn’t like Mike Oldfield, there’s always Angela Rayner sings gems from the Labour Burial Church Service…” Ho Ho 🙂 x10

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  2. wwfc says:

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    Alison Pearson carrying the conscience of Britain —-from the DT …

    STARTS was having coffee in the garden with John, the lovely man who comes to help me with all the jobs I can’t manage (a temperamental pond pump and rampant blanket weed among them), when conversation turned to John’s concern for his daughter.
    Kirstie’s journey to college takes her past a former RAF base now occupied by illegal migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats. Their ranks have swollen recently to several hundred as the Government struggles to fulfil its promise to empty asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament. Not by deporting the legions of undocumented young males from Africa and the Middle East – of course not, silly! – but by secretly redistributing a majority of those migrants from hotels into HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) and military facilities, presumably in the hope that the public will be less likely to notice and kick off.
    But girls like Kirstie cannot fail to notice. Not when the foreign males who leer and hiss at them, as if they were living in Egypt not Essex, now outnumber the population of their village. Not when it is girls who were born here who are advised to change their behaviour to accommodate the culture of the new arrivals by being less provocative, and walking a different way to school.
    Lately John, like a lot of fathers I suspect, has started fearing the worst. “We were talking in the pub the other night and we decided that, in the end, it’s men like us who will have to go down and defend our southern border,” he said to me that day in the garden.
    The bees went about their buzzy business in the hollyhocks, there was a gentle trickle of water in the pond, its pump just mended by this good and reliable man. It was a quintessential English summer’s day, temperate and benign as the people of these islands tend to be until roused, yet there we were, drinking our coffee and picturing thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of Johns, the backbone of our country, the sturdy yeomen who have always come to the rescue in centuries past, marching to the beaches of Kent to protect us against invasion. To protect their women and children.
    That may sound alarmist, apocalyptic even, but is it really? When men like John are discussing in Wetherspoons what normal people can clearly see is a national emergency, no online Starmer-Stasi snoopers can stop them much, though a panic-stricken, authoritarian government would like to shut down free speech.
    Things that we would once have thought unimaginable, indeed completely bonkers, now feel like weekly, almost hourly, occurrences. Over 25,000 migrants, mostly young males, have already broken into Britain this year (49 per cent more than at the same point last year), and the nation that launched the D-Day landings against a mighty foe is now reliant on a spell of bad weather to keep the numbers down. Or on the latest doomed government “one-in-one-out” scheme, beginning today, in which France generously allows herself to be bribed at British taxpayers’ expense to take back maybe one of the 700 migrants who make the crossing in a single day, only to send the UK a substitute asylum seeker. Probably not a brain surgeon, to take a wild guess.
    Not only will such a tiny chance of being deported fail to act as a deterrent, it allows Labour to slyly open up a legal route into the UK while pretending it’s a benefit to us.
    What would those who gave their lives in 1944 think of us – from Operation Overlord to Operation Over-Run in 80 years?
    Since the 2015-2016 New Years’s Eve celebrations in Cologne, when around 1,200 women were raped or sexually assaulted by gangs of foreign men, I have warned repeatedly of the consequences of admitting young males from backward, misogynist cultures into a liberal, Western society. Naturally, telling the truth got me called “racist” and I earned a coveted place on an Islamophobia list.
    But the pretence that a farmer from Afghanistan suddenly turns into Hugh Grant the minute his trainers hit the shingle at Dover was always a progressive fantasy. Sex-starved lads raised to regard women as livestock (Afghan women are no longer allowed to speak outside the home let alone go to school) are poor candidates for integration. They were always going to take gross liberties with our liberty. And so here we are.
    In leafy Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two Afghan asylum seekers. Despite Warwickshire Police’s best (make that worst) attempts to conceal their identity, Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was charged last week with rape, while Mohammad Kabir, 23, was charged with kidnap, strangulation and aiding and abetting rape. The police explained they did not wish to reveal the suspects’ immigration status for fear of exacerbating our old friend “community tensions”. In this case, community tensions is code for furious parents who strangely don’t want their daughters abducted, their innocence torn from them by barbarians who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
    In another incident on July 13, a Sudanese man who was living in a three-star asylum hotel in the upmarket Cheshire suburb of Wilmslow allegedly tried to lure away a girl aged 10 while she was with her father.
    Epping, meanwhile, has seen fierce protests after an Ethiopian, who had only come ashore eight days earlier and was being put up at the Bell Hotel, was charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
    These alleged attacks are not an aberration; they are exactly what you would expect if you were to drop a gang of marauding vikings into a high-school prom at an all-girls’ school. That has, effectively, been the policy of successive British governments. Our political class prefers to burnish their reputation among “our international partners” by remaining in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), making deportations almost impossible, while young girls – catcalled, groped, raped, strangled, abducted – are just thought of as unfortunate collateral damage. If they think about them at all.
    When it was disclosed recently that a superinjunction had been taken out by the last Conservative government to cover up importing thousands of Afghans into the UK, following a leak of names, I was berated on X by former defence minister Ben Wallace for daring to suggest that that underhand humanitarian mission could raise the level of risk for British women and girls.
    Mr Wallace thought the noble purpose of extricating men who may (or may not) have aided our armed forces was what mattered. I disagreed, foreseeing ever more rapes and cultural disintegration. A fate also predicted with some urgency, I notice, by US vice president JD Vance who last week accused Europe of “engaging in civilisational suicide”.
    Coincidentally, a reader in Wiltshire got in touch to report how all those Afghans resettled in a local army camp are getting on. “It’s horrific, Allison,” she said. “The behaviour of the Afghans in Larkhill – loitering around children’s playgrounds, lads “messing” with girls on school buses, human faeces regularly found on dog walks in camp. The GP practice is closed to soldiers one day a week to allow the migrants exclusive access. The reception staff have been handed crib sheets on how to greet Afghans in their own language. They are incensed. ‘Why aren’t the immigrants given crib sheets on how to address us in our own language?’ ”
    My source says the Afghan families have been allocated most of the large houses, while soldiers who are entitled to bigger quarters are told “there isn’t a three-bed house in the whole of Wiltshire”. It’s no surprise to learn that “resentment is massive. The Afghans get free food – the truck goes round at least twice a day.
    “If you drive through the camp you’d think you were in Kabul – groups of several men walking ahead of the women all covered in head-to-toe niqabs. Since the news of the superinjunction broke, they’ve been put under curfew. All the lads were warned that if they spoke out they’d be put on a charge.”
    See how the state acts to cover up its crimes against the British people. Whether it’s silencing squaddies deprived of their rightful quarters or threatening with arrest those marvellous mums and grandmothers in raucously defiant pink who performed the Hokey-Cokey before staging a sit-in outside the Britannia Hotel asylum centre in Canary Wharf. It is politicians and senior civil servants who should be arrested, I reckon. They waste stupefying amounts of our money on people unlikely to ever make a net contribution to Britain and call it compassion. For whom? The National Audit Office has just predicted that, within 10 years, the cost of asylum accommodation will reach £15.3bn. It is intolerable. Imagine all the good such a sum could do to help struggling businesses and boost employment for our young people.
    Even when the popular sense of anger is palpable, as it is right now, the ability of our ruling class and much of the media to deny any adverse consequences of immigration is astonishing. I listened with mounting anger to Radio 4’s PM programme on Monday (Sorry, mea culpa. I know you’ve told me to ditch the BBC!) where a reporter was trying to discredit data which showed that 40 per cent of sexual crimes in London were committed by foreign nationals. That, he explained, was only because migrants tend to be younger, and young men are most likely to commit those offences. I’m sure that will be a huge comfort to the traumatised women.
    All credit to Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick for causing consternation among the Open Borders fanatics by making the link between out-of-control migration and soaring rape figures. Compare the response of our woefully weak Prime Minister who wants to “put pressure” on police chiefs to be “as transparent as possible” about the ethnic background and immigration status of those charged with crimes such as rape and sexual assault. Even though it is the Crown Prosecution Service, which Sir Keir Starmer once ran, that refuses to keep track of the number of sexual offences by asylum seekers. We know why, don’t we?
    Government sources said they hoped greater transparency would “help rebuild the public trust”. As if. That’s the same government which is mounting unprecedented and sinister surveillance to keep track of “anti-migrant” opinion. Fifty million people will shortly be helping the police with their enquiries.
    “If you come here illegally on a small boat you will face return,” Sir Keir Starmer warbled at migrants yesterday. Not, “You will be deported immediately” but “you will face return.” Or, let’s face it and far more likely, “You will be handed a free phone and free accommodation which we will pinch from a soldier’s family if we have to.”
    Compare with Greece, which has set up secure camps to detain all illegal migrants for three months, all of them denied the ability to claim asylum. Emergency legislation is allowing Greeks to circumvent the ECHR. Denmark, another ECHR member, has practically closed the borders and is using gated detention camps, some housing up to 2,000 migrants who are allowed out for just two hours a day and cannot work. If a government wants to put its citizens first, it can. Ours doesn’t.
    From now on, I suggest we put the blame for every rape, abduction and strangling by an illegal migrant squarely where it belongs – on the Government, Home Office civil servants and complicit media class.
    We don’t want a one-in-one-out scheme, thanks all the same. We want a 50,000-in-50,000-out scheme. We want Kirstie and every girl like her to be able to walk unmolested to school, not to be hissed at by men who lack all respect for our values and our women.
    If our leaders are too weak to act, lovely John and the yeomen of Britain will go to the border, and they will do what needs to be done.ENDS

    1.26 k comments at 10pm Tuesday night – with a lot of people predicting civil war ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Not by deporting the legions of undocumented young males from Africa and the Middle East – of course not, silly! – but by secretly redistributing a majority of those migrants from hotels into HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) and military facilities, presumably in the hope that the public will be less likely to notice and kick off.
      But girls like Kirstie cannot fail to notice. Not when the foreign males who leer and hiss at them, as if they were living in Egypt not Essex, now outnumber the population of their village.

      ………………………..

      The epilogue reveals that the story was written in the last holdout of the Western world, Switzerland, but international pressure from the new governments, isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders, along with internal pro-migrant elements, force it to capitulate as well. Mere hours from the border opening, the author dedicates the book to his grandchildren, in the hopes they will grow up in a world where they will not be ashamed of him for writing such a book.

      When the migrants pass through the Strait of Gibraltar, the French president orders troops to the south and addresses the nation with his plan to repel them. However, in the middle of the address, he breaks down, demanding the troops simply follow their consciences instead. Most of the troops immediately desert their posts and join the civilians as they flee north, and the south is quickly overrun by the migrants.

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

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      A powerful, moving piece from a credible journalist. The only observation would be the statement “We don’t want a one-in-one-out scheme, thanks all the same. We want a 50,000-in-50,000-out scheme.” No, people don’t want that. They want “None-in, 50,000-out. Every month, for as long as it takes”.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        1 migrant in, 650 MPS out
        1 migrant in, 800 Lords out
        1 migrant in, 1000 Civil Servants out

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    • G says:

      Has anyone recognised the ‘ceiling’ in this rubber boat matter?

      Discussions only elevated to weak ideas what to do about it by TTK & his Marxist followers / and/or the public. I would like the discussions on the matter to keep rising and penetrating the ‘ceiling’ to understand why the UN sponsors the invasions (plural as Europe as well) and what they expect to happen in the long term if the invasions continue unabated. There is no discussions or statements of intent even by our so-called Government.

      What is the overall / Grand Plan?

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Tommy Robinson – on X – says he has been charged with 2 offences under the censorship act – by the TTK stazi – aka – the metropolitan police … we need a new police ‘agency ‘,

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  5. vlad says:

    I heard a good expression today : the Starmtroopers, said of the police. Seems apposite to the above post 🙂
    Let’s try and make it catch on.

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  6. Nibor says:

    What do Stalin , Pol Pot , Putin , Luschenko , Ji of China , Mugabe , King Herod , Tamerlane the terrible and Attila the Hun all have in common ?

    They are all political personages that the BBC prefers to Nigel Farage .
    At least that is the impression you get listening to their so called comedies on Radio 4 .
    What a pity their so called comedians couldn`t sit with the cackling old hags near the guillotine at the time of The Terror .

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  7. andyjsnape says:

    Violent Channel smuggling gang’s French and UK network exposed by undercover BBC investigation

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly48nmmzdro

    Government promotion brought to you by the bbc

    As if this will make a blind bit of difference. Its like removing 1 drug dealer to be replaced 5 mins later by another

    #useless government
    #defund

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  8. andyjsnape says:

    Last rant from me for the next 15 mins or so…

    ‘£50bn black hole’ Reeves facing huge tax hikes to fill £50BN black hole (apparently), reports the bbc webshte…. Remind me how much the illegals are costing us the tax payer?

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Happy Hiroshima day – 80 year on porn . BBC didn’t approve. of dropping the big one – nothing about how Japan conducted the war it started – just an opportunity to stick it to the US .

    Trumo – of course – gets rolled into it

    The BBC alters history to meet its ‘ narrative – it was an Anglo American bomb – including an RAF squadron trained up to drop it if for some reason the Americans couldn’t do it .

    Anyway I think the master chef story is far more important – ‘Greg and the other one ‘ are back tonight but they are being edited out ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Attacks in China and Japan raise concerns about xenophobia in both countries” DUE TO BRITISH RACISM AND BREXIT AND COLONALISM AND TRUMP… HAH AHA HA HAH AH
      https://apnews.com/article/china-japan-attack-bf1a82025a971cba6d2852d3450df206

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      A post on another site said that “Japan doesn’t get the bad guy treatment that Germany has had for 80 years and they wondered why?” I agree with that statement but I wonder if the fact that many of the deaths occurred in China and the Far East so were basically out of sight out of mind, I’m guessing that many people are not aware of Unit 731 and the experiments done on living humans nor that many of the perpetrators went back to Jason and carried on their lives and were not held accountable. Perhaps the BBC would care to investigate this?

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      • Guest Who says:

        My Dad was one of the first into Changi Prison when they surrendered.

        He was quite sanguine about the use of the bomb, which he reckoned likely saw him go on to be my Dad.

        Would not buy a Japanese product in my memory.

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        • taffman says:

          “The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II”
          Book by Edward Russell.
          Worth a read for those in any doubt .

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        • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

          My Dad was RN all through WW2 – in his nursing home in his 90th year, I had to replace the Panasonic TV with a Dutch Phillips one. Never had a Japanese product, although no issue with German stuff.

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    • Guest Who says:

      IIRC Lancasters were able to carry heavier bomb loads than B-17s (as were Liberators).

      But Curtis LeMay was a very American major General so B-29 tweaks were in order.

      Being pressurised it had a higher ceiling but they were shot down. More of an issue is/was reliability.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        The B29s had to be rebuilt to carry an atomic bomb weighing about 10,000 lb. They had not been designed to carry a bomb of this size. The Lancaster could do it easily, so a squadron of Lancs were trained to drop the atom bomb if needed. They could not fly as high or as far as the B29, so the mission would have been marginal, but it could have been done. In the event they were not needed. I am glad, we would never have heard the end of it.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, I think Leonard Cheshire VC went in the Enola Gay, was it?, as an observer for the dropping of the bomb on Hiro sheema.

      It was noticeable that all the BBC and various contributors ALL mispronounced Hiroshima as evenly said and spaced syllables. The Japanese would have understood but secretly been horrified, too polite to mention it, but Hiroshima is pronounced Hiro sheema. Why or how do I know this? There were missionaries to Japan at my previous church in London.

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      • Daniel says:

        Leonard Cheshire VC was not on the Enola Gay. He was the British observer on Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb, “Little Boy,” on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Daniel, you are correct. I have just consulted my copy of Richard Morris’s biography of Cheshire VC, which I have read but my memory proved defective on the Hiroshima bomb. Cheshire did indeed fly as observer on Bockscar which dropped the Atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Page 221 details the injuries to Yosjitaka Kawamoto, at school, who survived the bomb but had his teeth knocked out and a gash on his arm. Did Kawamoto survive the radiation sickness? A lot of Japanese did.

          It is a good read, Cheshire VC. Recommended.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Looks like it’s working…. no reported entries…. hope GB News is actually down there watching what is happening – updating a spreadsheet of Afghans caused a news outage and cost of 7 billion ….

    …………..

    Small boats data
    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for irregular migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    29 July 2025 149 2 0
    30 July 2025 898 13 0
    31 July 2025 0 0 0
    1 August 2025 0 0 0
    2 August 2025 0 0 0
    3 August 2025 0 0 0
    4 August 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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  11. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news £40 billion hole in the UK finances caused by Rachel – businesses holding off on investment – jobs – until after the October ‘fiscal event ‘…. Will the bond markets attack an ever weakening sterling ?
    All that lovely borrowing costing more and more ….. very labour – long time to 2029 ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Fedup2 – Pushed from BBC headline news to sub BBC story after 10minutes! HA HAH AHAH HA HA AH AHA

      “Reeves must raise tax to cover £41bn gap, says think tank” BBC 06.08.2025
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn85vyd1epzo
      …………..

      SAVINGS ….. cost of a real nurse
      Organisational Development & EDI Manager
      https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/M9990-24-1126
      £62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum

      …………..

      SAVINGS…..zero boats = zero cost
      Small boats data Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
      30 July 2025 898
      …………

      SAVINGS…..Condoms not Gonorrhoea jabs free on NHS
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkrx6dnkkeo
      …………

      SAVINGS….stop importing FGM victims and culture, end FGM
      National FGM Support Clinics
      https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/national-fgm-support-clinics/

      …………

      SAVINGS….
      Make entertainment FREE FOR EVERYONE including Rachel from Accounts
      National Theatre – £276.00
      Four tickets to a performance, for me and three family members
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24851&chamber=house-of-commons

      ………….

      SAVINGS…..
      Drill baby drill for oil to create jobs and cheaper oil or ask Ed Miliband for a cheap loan.
      Green Finance Institute Ltd – £99,000.00
      In kind Providing policy support on the Labour Party’s National Wealth Fund
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11545&chamber=house-of-commons

      …………….

      SAVINGS…..
      Dig into our Gold reserves – oh wait….
      It was called one of the worst investment decisions of all time. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said he was selling tonnes of Britain’s gold reserves. Trouble was, his timing could barely have been worse.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48177767

      …………..

      SAVINGS…..
      1 migrant in, 1 French fishing boat captured by UK Navy and used to trawl for more migrants.

      …………….

      SAVINGS…..
      Demand every country China,Russia,France etc that uses industrial practices created by British Victorians to pay Britain 100 trillion in reparations each.

      Feel fee to add more…..

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      This is the worst government we have ever had. Literally every single thing they have done has made me feel embarrassed or ashamed to be British.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        They have only just started.

        Saudi TV ridicules Biden in rare dig as relations sour | AFP

        Sir Keir Starmer addresses the crew of HMS Prince of Wales

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    LESSONS WILL BE LEARNT ….

    2025 … Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was charged last week with rape, while Mohammad Kabir, 23, was charged with kidnap, strangulation and aiding and abetting rape. The police explained they did not wish to reveal the suspects’ immigration status for fear of exacerbating our old friend “community tensions”.

    6 July 2025 “Chris Wild said grooming and criminal exploitation are rife in the capital, and it is being missed due to poor data-sharing and underfunded services.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8zew2egjvo
    “It wasn’t just any children’s home, it was a children’s home run by paedophiles,” he said.

    26 August 2014 “Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.”
    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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  13. Doublethinker says:

    I have long considered Liberals to be either very stupid or malign.. How else could you explain their obsession with mass immigration, their constant boosting of Islam when it’s hugely detrimental impact on this country was so glaringly obvious. Not to mention their championing of Net Zero. Plus their many other highly damaging policies.
    But recently another possible explanation has occurred to me,I hope this doesn’t offend anyone, that Liberalism is a religion to those who adhere to it. Their belief of the goodness of Liberalism compels them to disregard any downsides of their beliefs , or to regard such downsides as something we all must endure to reach the Utopian future which they can see on the horizon . In fact the more we suffer the greater will be the rejoicing when we arrive! Of course , just like a rainbow , Utopia never gets any nearer, but they can still it shimmering in the distance.
    They are not stupid or malign , just adherents to an irrational set of beliefs but they are nonetheless highly dangerous.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Liberalism is a religion to those who adhere to it”

      “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton
      https://www.forbes.com/quotes/254/

      OR

      The Vision of the Anointed (1995) is a book by economist and political columnist Thomas Sowell which brands people and organizations that he calls “the anointed” as “promoters of a worldview concocted out of fantasy impervious to any real-world considerations”
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_the_Anointed

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Double – I think they are stupid . There’s was some dolt on ‘today ‘ being interviewed by the Asian wide boy . She said that since YouTube is now bigger than ITV and only second to the BBC more regulation of advertising is needed to ‘protect the vulnerable ‘ – the standard code used to justify the removal of freedoms and censorship .

      The Asian one said ‘500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute – so how do you regulate the ?” Dolt liberal of course didn’t have a clue – she didn’t even throw the usual ‘AI ‘ will do it … complete waste of oxygen –

      – but censorship is ‘in’ – and we can expect more of it .

      When the Marxists were in opposition Lucy Powell – leader of the house and defender of paki rape gangs -said every internet site shouid be ‘licenced ‘… yeah ..right ..

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      • Doublethinker says:

        But religious fanatics do believe stupid things but are not themselves stupid. Many of them would score well enough on any measure of IQ but that doesn’t prevent them believing the silly irrational ideas of their faith.
        Religious beliefs and ideas are immune to rational argument. So very decent, pleasant old ladies in the WI , can still believe that they should / must welcome ‘refugees ‘ despite these scum raping girls in the town.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Double – I suppose – too – it depends on what the definition of ‘stupid ‘ is …..perhaps there is a guide in being unable to recognise the consequences of actions or laws – for instance that there s127? Of the online safety act is so badly drafted as to be ‘stupid ‘ because it capture comments which are in no way worthy of censorship ….

          From google –

          ‘ Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, which deals with improper use of public electronic communications networks, has been a point of contention in discussions surrounding online safety and freedom of expression. It makes it an offense to send messages that are grossly offensive, indecent, or menacing, or to use a network to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety. Concerns have been raised about its potential to stifle free speech, particularly in the context of social media and online’

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Highly educated people…. _111744233_new_labour_cabinet_640x2_v2-nc.png

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  14. AsISeeIt says:

    Just below average edition

    Following swiftly on from our chuckles at the expense of a British rail company complaining of the wrong type of soil: Train services axed because of dry soil… “We have not taken this decision lightly… However, to continue operating a safe and reliable service, we have no alternative but to introduce a reduced timetable” (The perhaps appropriately named Stuart Meek, acting as apologetic public spokesperson for South West Rail, quoted in the debutante hereabouts publication this morning Wandsworth Times)

    SWR trains may be on a go-slow but our Stuart wastes no time in rapidly arriving at the handy corporate go-to excuses: This year saw the second driest spring on record for England, while summer rainfall has been just below average across the UK. – dropping heavy hints of that dread climate change there…

    SWR became the first operator brought into public ownership by the Labour Government in May. (Wandsworth Times)

    And from dried out embankments to the global shortage of sand wherein the corporate globalist Financial Times boldly relishes any chance to cite climate change explicitly…

    Beach retreat… Sands run out for US resort… houses standing on the receding beachfront in Rodanthe, North Carolina, are among the victims of coastal erosion… one of many coastal communities around the world threatened by shrinking beaches and a global shortage of sand, a risk worsened by climate change (FT)

    Meanwhile: Asia is growing. Literally. From Malaysia to Dubai, luxury developments are rising on artificial islands and coastlines… Cities on China’s coast reclaimed an average of 700 square kilometres of land – that’s about the size of Singapore – from the sea every year (Guardian, 2018) – so the FT can go and “pound sand” as they say.

    These days our BBC don’t even try to hide their role as the regime’s propaganda arm: Violent Channel smuggling gang’s French and UK network exposed by undercover BBC investigation (Andrew Harding, BBC)

    Smash the Gangs, eh?

    Starmer’s second prong of policy is of course to cosy up to our good friends the French (Sir Kier Smarmer)

    So our BBC smashes the gangs just as the small print in his latest brilliant deal becomes apparent…

    Tucked away somewhere beyond the frontpage and the paywall of the FT: UK pays migrant costs… The text of the “one in one out” deal with France has revealed the UK will pay for transporting migrants in both directions (FT)

    We shouldn’t be surprised – Essex cops like to ferry pro-migrant protesters both to and from Epping free of charge. To be fair, on the first leg of the trip they only had a walking escort – the free bus ride in the police vans was on the way home.

    Migrants can use rights laws to evade deportation… Loopholes could undermine treaty with France… Small boat migrants will able to frustrate attempts to deport them under Sir Keir Starmer’s returns deal by exploiting human rights laws, according to the treaty’s terms (Telegraph)

    The FT – in somewhat restrained terms – excuses the awful onesidedness of the Labour No10’s “one in one out” deal as: a sign of ministers’ determination to reach accord with Paris (FT)

    And finally: Rachel Reeves will have to increase taxes substantially this autumn to fill a £50billion black hole, economists warned last night (Daily Mail)

    Liz Truss “black hole”… Tory £22 billion “black hole”…

    Forget the economists – with all thse black holes it sounds as though we need a Stephen Hawking on the job.

    Of course, the government could stop spending money it doesn’t have quite so astronomically.

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Welcome to thew UK 2025…..“It wasn’t just any children’s home, it was a children’s home run by paedophiles” – Mr Wild
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8zew2egjvo

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  16. AsISeeIt says:

    Mr AsI issues an Amber Alert warning of the approach of impending BBC excuses…

    Carol Kirkwood: Why weather forecasters (like me) often appear to get it wrong (BBC)

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    • Sluff says:

      So it’s nothing to do them a***- covering for the case where they fail to forecast a properly severe event, so they overplay every event just in case, so they can say ‘we told you so’.
      I’ve watched the dramatic Storm Floris coverage of ………a small tree toppling over in someone’s garden ………and a guy with a caravan seeking shelter in……..a campsite!
      How did we survive?

      But then again, and as Humphrey Lyttleton might have said. Our Carol sometimes gets it wrong but also gets it absolutely right. So let’s look forward to seeing her gigantic hits.

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “She doesn’t know anything let alone her own brief! Another word salad gaslighting Labour minister

    Committee SHREDS Angela Rayner when she CAN’T recall BASIC figures

    ………….

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    Comment “It’s frightening to think Rayner is the Deputy Prime Minister
    What an absolute embarrassment to our Country”

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    • Guest Who says:

      Her Neil ‘wot I am sayin’ is, wot I am sayin’ on Politics was a comedy classic’

      Again, oddly avoided by the BBC’s finest political satirists, Toenails, Laura, Emma, etc.

         12 likes

    • digg says:

      Totally agree… it would be comical if it wasn’t so serious Marky!

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  18. Sluff says:

    The BBC is really bigging up the 80 th anniversary of the Atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima. Why?
    I don’t remember the same coverage 10 and 20 years ago.
    We are hearing the one-sided story about the awful injuries and deaths caused at the time and in the months and years later. It wasn’t nice. I get it.
    But it all sounds suspiciously like a paen to pacifism and CND. Which is probably the whole aim of the left activist Kidults in the newsroom.
    It’s pathetic. There is no coverage of the alternative. The millions who would have died in a 2 year ground war as the allies slowly invaded Japan. No reminders of Pearl Harbour or Midway. No coverage of the horror stories of British POWs. The starvation. The disease. The forced Labour. The brutality. The deaths. Just a one-size fits all narrative from the Far Left using the anniversary as an excuse.
    We can all see right through it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      China pull down statues in Hong Kong … HA HA AH …. “A Japanese hotel chain has come under fire for its owner’s claims that a World War Two massacre in the Chinese city of Nanjing did not take place.

      A book by Toshio Motoya, who owns APA Hotels, was found this week to be widely distributed in his outlets.

      It has prompted a rebuke from the Chinese government as well as a boycott by Chinese hotel booking websites.

      But the chain has refused to withdraw the book and Mr Motoya, an outspoken revisionist, has stood by his views.

      The book is said to be available in every guest room and for sale in hotel gift shops.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38673407

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        Between 1927 and 1945 there’s a rough estimate of about 30 million people killed by Japan in the 2 wars on Chinese land, 18 years that aren’t covered in Japanese history taught in schools. There’s also a rough estimate of 500,000 military and civilian deaths of allied personnel, both in battle and in POW camps. There’s a growing trend in Japan to deny not only these figures but also the events surrounding them calling it western propaganda. I find Japan interesting but however because of my family background ( POW ) just thinking of visiting has my brain putting the brakes on.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Politics aside, I visited the Museum in the Peace Park 12 years ago and I didn’t think I was capable of such emotion when I emerged at the exit. Ordinary people going about their daily lives vaporised in an instant – surrealy only their shadows were left.
      The atrocities and torture humankind inflicts upon one another, like this and the Holocaust, we are still seeing today – but on our TV and the press, then we do some gardening or have lunch. It’s only being in the place of such atrocities thst it really hits home. Like I said, politics aside.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        I would also add that the Japan of today is somewhere I would like to live – apart from the odd earthquake and tsunamis. No diversity (if you watch today’s news and see reruns of ceremonies – no black or brown faced students). Manners and politeness abound every where, and they revere their elderly. Oh and the publuc toilets are all spotlessly clean.

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        • Doublethinker says:

          Thirty years ago I worked on a joint venture with a Japanese company. The Japanese were the best team players ever ,delivered what they said they would , didn’t point fingers when things went wrong , unlike Americans, but were completely focused on delivering the project as a team.
          But I don’t think that they should have ignored their culpability in the years highlighted by Kitty . Far better to have done as the Germans did eg accepted national war guilt and the horrors of the Holocaust.
          It’s interesting that the USA forced the de Nazification onto Germany but as the sole occupying power in Japan did not do the same there. I wonder why there was such a difference in approach?

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Double – I think the approach was coloured by the anti communist thing plus the need for the US to consolidate its new empire abd to make sure the UK didn’t have one anymore .
            Plus the decision not to execute the emporer in whose name the whole dirty Jap conquests were done . Also the US wanted Japan for itself so kept the UK and Australia out of it – UK was shagged anyway – but I don’t think the UK got much by way of war reparations ….
            As for the bomb – I’d have dropped it on the emperor in his palace …. Hopefully when the war cabinet was meeting …

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Brissles – yes – read a lot about the bomb and the decision to use it – why choose those targets ? Why not just do a ‘demonstration ‘ to reduce loss of life ?

        But the trouble was – politics – the need for Truman to show Stalin what the new weapon could do …. And when it comes to it politicians just see statistics – not the real consequences …
        The exception being really dumb politicians – like the deputy PM shown in a clip earlier in this thread being clueless over a simple stat in front of a committee …..

        Anyway -back to the bombs – the sums were also about thr calculated losses by a full on invasion of Japan .

        The mindset of the Japanese military was – I think – very much like that of the SS – and the only way to change that mindset was to remove it through death .

        As for the BBC coverage – I gave up as I expected to – it was just the ‘Japanese as victim ‘ no deeper explanation of why it happened .

        Btw – I’ve not bothered with the Oppenheimer film – I’ll get a dvd in a charity shop some time ….

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Fed . You need a packed lunch to watch Oppenheim. It went on and on and zzzz

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    • Guest Who says:

      Likely they are hoping for a nifty comparison image-wise with their fave holiday resort in waiting.

      All achieved by conventional means. A bit like Dresden and Tokyo.

      The opposition tried V-weapons and balloon, mind. Less targeted and less successful. I think the Japs took out a family having a picnic in Seattle.

      Then Victory belonged to the winners, but now it is in the hands of the more immoral propagandists.

      https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/meet-the-symbol-of-gazas-famine-and?

      https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1952812948419952729

      https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1952838347006562348

      CNN, NYT etc major BBC TNI partners, I believe.

      Odd #bbcverify does not delve deeper into such stark contracts.

      Or, maybe, not.

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      It’s anti-British, so the BBC are all over it.

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    £2.7 trillion
    Debt is therefore a much larger sum of money. At the end of 2023/24 public sector net debt was £2,686 billion (i.e. £2.7 trillion), or 96% of GDP. This is equivalent to around £39,300 per person in the UK.17 Jan 2025

    …..
    TOTAL = £41,700 Keir is in CREDIT AND HAS NO NATIONAL DEBT CONCERNS!

    The Football Association Premier League Limited – £4,000.00
    Four tickets with hospitality to Taylor Swift concert 4000.00 2024-06-21 2024-06-21 The Football

    Lord Waheed Alli – £16,200.00
    Work clothing 16200.00 2024-04-17 2024-04-17 Is Sole Beneficiary: True

    Tottenham Hotspur Ltd – £2,500.00
    Five tickets and hospitality to Tottenham Hotspur vs Arsena

    Premier League – £3,000.00
    Five tickets with hospitality to Arsenal vs Porto

    Lord Waheed Ali – £6,000.00

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25353&chamber=house-of-commons

    Lord Waheed Alli – £10,000.00

    TOTAL = £41,700 Keir is in CREDIT AND HAS NO NATIONAL DEBT CONCERNS!

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  20. Flotsam says:

    Reeves has filled the “£22Bn” black hole by creating a £50Bn black hole, a great achievement.
    To raise more tax I think a Council tax revaluation is on the cards , plus an increase in the number of bands. I think business rate relief for small businesses will happen as well. Certain ‘Luxury’ goods will be subject to higher rates of VAT.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • Sluff says:

        The hidden issue here is that kids getting a SEND categorisation ( and it’s all the rage these days, pushy parents getting their kids more time in exams) can claim costs for travel to school. This could even include petrol costs for their own family car!!!! Yes, where most may drive their kids to school at their own expense, those with SEND get it paid for them. It’s called a Personal Travel Budget. But it gets worse. Parents can insist on their preferred transport, irrespective of cost, and the council taxpayer is obliged to foot the bill.
        Did readers know this? I can bet you the authorities don’t want you to.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Lol…she’s putting all the workers on the dole…and then is going to tax them more on the wages they don’t get…it’s a plan I suppose. Still…nice to see the groundwork being put in justifying the tax rises[oddly no mention of total incompetence and stupidity] so that it will come as no surprise when Wrecker Reeves puts the squeeze on us.

      But you have to ask where all the money goes as we are already at absolutely record levels of tax…just what is it spent on? Fake asylum seekers and trans boob jobs?

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    LARGE WOMEN GOOD (breaking big boundaries) . THIN WOMAN BAD (‘unhealthily thin’ ).

    2025 Zara ads banned for ‘unhealthily thin’ models
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp941z3nnnxo

    2024 Nike empowers Muslim female athletes with groundbreaking sports hijab

    2019 Nike raises eyebrows with model’s unshaven armpit
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/48061083

    2018 Calvin Klein’s latest underwear campaign is breaking big boundaries
    https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/calvin-klein-underwear-campaign-my-calvins-plus-size-body-diversity/265990

    2017 Lauren Hutton, 73, models underwear for Calvin Klein
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39652171

    2024 An advert for Calvin Klein has been banned after complaints the images used were “overly sexualised”.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67933321

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    • Guest Who says:

      I have several pairs of mens’ boxers from a local market stall
      emblazoned around the waist ‘Pierre Klein’.

      I doubt even these would encompass the girth of many a branded model.

      Ironically these have lasted for many years vs. more expensive labels.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        You’d have thought that Calvin Cardin rolls more naturally off the tongue.

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        • Guest Who says:

          Several around the waist.

          Just realised that they may read ‘Klein Pierre’ as some kind of Brexit commentary.

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  22. pugnazious says:

    In a completely unsurprising scientific ‘discovery’, that when a gorilla joins another group it seeks out gorillas it had known before, the BBC managed to turn it into a story about immigration….it’s so natural, animals and humans do it…wonderful.

    ‘Moving around is something that is also crucial in shaping human society.’

    A lesson for us all….all us ignorant bigots.

    And then there’s Hiroshima….Japanese people out one lovely sunny day enjoying their lives when brutal Americas blasted them with a nuclear bomb….it shows, the BBC tells us, ‘our capacity for brutality’.

    Hmmmm….thought the Japanese invasion of China, Korea and so much of the Pacific in which they killed and tortured millions might possibly be a good example of ‘our capacity for brutality’….and the fact that days after the bombs were dropped the Japanese surrendered unconditionally thus making any bloody and brutal invasion of the mainland unnecessary might justify their use.

    Nick Robinson brought in Ben Wallace who was asked to defend the use of nukes….and then was asked if the US shouldn’t apologise for the immoral bombing. Always amazing how the BBC can totally ignore the absolute facts and continue with their preset agenda…nukes, and the Allies, were ‘brutal’ and immoral..and unnecessary…never mind they stoped the war and probably saved many more lives than they killed….naturally no Japanese have been asked to apologise for or justify their actions.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      So invading Africa is fine? HA HAH AHA HA HHA HA!

      ‘Moving around is something that is also crucial in shaping human society.’

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      @ Pug The Japanese even got away with their version of concentration camp experimentation, no one ever mentions Unit 731 and the experiments done on living humans including live vivisection. Yet the whole world knows about Mengele.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Unit 731 was responsible for large-scale biological and chemical warfare research, as well as lethal human experimentation. The facility was led by General Shirō Ishii and received strong support from the Japanese military. Its activities included infecting prisoners with deadly diseases, conducting vivisection, performing organ harvesting, testing hypobaric chambers, amputating limbs, and exposing victims to chemical agents and explosives.”

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        • Guest Who says:

          Not a good time to be Chinese or a downed USAF airman.

          Or anyone not Japanese who they got their hands on, frankly.

          IIRC the US decided to use the data gained in the same way Werner Von Braun got a pass on the V slaves.

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    • Docmarooned says:

      The sheer crap the BBC vomits relating to the nuclear bomb is mind numbingly awful and put together by an obvious lefty bunch of school kids who know nothing about the circumstances in WW2 apart from lefty virtue signalling. Pathetic!

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        I agree. Damn those Americans! How dare they bomb a peaceful Japanese city like that?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          The Germans lost the war – but managed to get the European Industrial Complex?

          Germany recorded a trade surplus of 18.40 EUR Billion in May of 2025. Balance of Trade in Germany averaged 7.25 EUR Billion from 1962 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 25.30 EUR Billion in January of 2024 and a record low of -0.39 EUR Billion in May of 1991.

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  23. Docmarooned says:

    Flicking through the channels last night and unfortunately was exposed to a plug delighting that the nation is to receive a new series of wait for it “Mrs Browns Boys”!!!!!
    This debacle has to be amongst the most abject shit ever put out by the corporation. Nice to see they keep this utter crap on TV.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Docmarooned

      It does tend to flog them to death, no not the Islamic lot this time but the bbc. Antiques Roadshow since 1979 for example

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Personally I’d use Mrs Brown’s Boys as a weapon of torture.

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  24. pugnazious says:

    Geez….they’ll be taxing breathing soon…

    ‘The government was on track to miss the target it has set itself by £41.2bn, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr).

    It recommended “a moderate but sustained increase in taxes” including reform of the council tax system to make up the shortfall.

    The government said “the best way to strengthen public finances is by growing the economy”, but the Conservatives said Labour “always reaches for the tax rise lever”.

    The think tank, which is not affiliated to any political party or movement, suggests the government could raise revenue through changes to the scope of VAT, pensions allowances and prolonging the freeze in income tax thresholds, which is set to end in 2028.’

    Soooo….council tax, VAT, cut pensions and stealth raise income tax with a freeze on thresholds.

    Any other good ideas? How about spending less on absolute crap?

    What’s remarkable, or not, about this BBC report, and it’s a pretty long one, is that there’s no mention of why there’s this growing black hole…oh they waffle about growth not being as good as expected…but no mention of why…no mention of Wrecker Reeves’ policies that are grinding our industry into the ground…not just Reeves of course…the mad monk Miliband makes industry unsustainable and uncompetitive with his massive energy hikes.

    Labour is rapidly turning this country back to the Dark Ages and the BBC doesn’t appear to notice…or rather, does its best not to blame Labour.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn85vyd1epzo

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    FFS – Rory gets to take your money…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00199xy
    Rory Stewart with a radical take on the concepts that shape our lives.

    Rory Stewart: The Long History of…
    Heroism
    5. New Heroes

    By genre:
    Factual

    Factual???Factual??? HA HAH AHA HA HA

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    • Guest Who says:

      With, no doubt, a section on ‘the Truth about Iraq’ featuring BBC expert Mad Al.

         8 likes

  26. andyjsnape says:

    Carol Kirkwood: Why weather forecasters often appear to get it wrong, reports the bbc

    Often appear?

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  27. digg says:

    BBC front page…

    “Why weather forecasters like me often get it wrong…”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy1epz58pyo

    Hmmm….. now let me think!

    Sorry didn’t notice you had already spotted this Andy!

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  28. digg says:

    Wonder what could be a factor in Labours mumbling about raising taxes to fill another of those famous “black holes” they love so much?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn85vyd1epzo

    Couldn’t possibly be anything to do with adding a thousand or so more unproductive bods every day to feed, house, hand over pocket money, phone cards etc. to out of the public purse could it?

    And they wonder why people get a bit arsey!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Using the word BLACK is racist! We need to use the word POC Hole!

      BOM – Black Holes Matter

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  29. pugnazious says:

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  30. G says:

    As I have mentioned on a number of occasions, the Home Office are anxious to disarm the population of ANY and all weapons so as to give brown-eyes an overwhelming advantage when the time comes.
    They are working toward any reason to disarm an existing licence holder. Then this:
    https://www.gunstar.co.uk/community/new-2025-firearms-licensing-rules-everything-you-need-to-kno?utm_source=email+campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EM%7CENG%7CB2C%7CORG%7CGS%7CNewLicensing+August+2026%7CLinzi%7CUK&dm_i=2VRJ,1L3O6,4Z8RN5,6EVJ2,1

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
      ― George Orwell

      https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39684-that-rifle-on-the-wall-of-the-labourer-s-cottage-or

         14 likes

    • Mrs Kitty says:

      Have they banned cross bows yet?

         7 likes

      • G says:

        No not yet. It’s all gone pretty quiet. Have a feeling that my response to the consultation last year did not go down well.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I am sure you are right. The original 1920 Firearms Act was brought in to disarm the working class because the government feared Bolshevik revolution. Now they fear civil war and want to disarm everyone. The government is afraid of an armed citizenry and wishes to disarm everybody.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        THE POLICE MIGHT NOT SHOT DUE TO LAWYERS! HA HA HAH A!

        Chris Kaba: Army stood down as armed Met Police officers return to duty Published 25 September 2023
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66909729

        Commenting on the review, Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley suggested firearms officers were concerned that they would face years of legal proceedings, “even if they stick to the tactics and training they have been given”.

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  31. pugnazious says:

    From the Telegraph…worth reading the whole thing as normal law abiding folk start talking of having to defend our own land when failed by government…and those who always boast of ‘holding power to account’ but don’t when it suits….

    ‘Allison Pearson: Our complicit elite is to blame for every sexual assault by an illegal migrant.

    I was having coffee in the garden with John, the lovely man who comes to help me with all the jobs I can’t manage (a temperamental pond pump and rampant blanket weed among them), when conversation turned to John’s concern for his daughter.

    Kirstie’s journey to college takes her past a former RAF base now occupied by illegal migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats. Their ranks have swollen recently to several hundred as the Government struggles to fulfil its promise to empty asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament. Not by deporting the legions of undocumented young males from Africa and the Middle East – of course not, silly! – but by secretly redistributing a majority of those migrants from hotels into HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) and military facilities, presumably in the hope that the public will be less likely to notice and kick off.

    But girls like Kirstie cannot fail to notice. Not when the foreign males who leer and hiss at them, as if they were living in Egypt not Essex, now outnumber the population of their village. Not when it is girls who were born here who are advised to change their behaviour to accommodate the culture of the new arrivals by being less provocative, and walking a different way to school.

    Lately John, like a lot of fathers I suspect, has started fearing the worst. “We were talking in the pub the other night and we decided that, in the end, it’s men like us who will have to go down and defend our southern border,” he said to me that day in the garden.

    The bees went about their buzzy business in the hollyhocks, there was a gentle trickle of water in the pond, its pump just mended by this good and reliable man. It was a quintessential English summer’s day, temperate and benign as the people of these islands tend to be until roused, yet there we were, drinking our coffee and picturing thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of Johns, the backbone of our country, the sturdy yeomen who have always come to the rescue in centuries past, marching to the beaches of Kent to protect us against invasion. To protect their women and children.

    That may sound alarmist, apocalyptic even, but is it really? When men like John are discussing in Wetherspoons what normal people can clearly see is a national emergency, no online Starmer-Stasi snoopers can stop them much, though a panic-stricken, authoritarian government would like to shut down free speech.

    Things that we would once have thought unimaginable, indeed completely bonkers, now feel like weekly, almost hourly, occurrences. Over 25,000 migrants, mostly young males, have already broken into Britain this year (49 per cent more than at the same point last year), and the nation that launched the D-Day landings against a mighty foe is now reliant on a spell of bad weather to keep the numbers down. Or on the latest doomed government “one-in-one-out” scheme, beginning today, in which France generously allows herself to be bribed at British taxpayers’ expense to take back maybe one of the 700 migrants who make the crossing in a single day, only to send the UK a substitute asylum seeker. Probably not a brain surgeon, to take a wild guess.

    Not only will such a tiny chance of being deported fail to act as a deterrent, it allows Labour to slyly open up a legal route into the UK while pretending it’s a benefit to us.

    What would those who gave their lives in 1944 think of us – from Operation Overlord to Operation Over-Run in 80 years?

    Since the 2015-2016 New Years’s Eve celebrations in Cologne, when around 1,200 women were raped or sexually assaulted by gangs of foreign men, I have warned repeatedly of the consequences of admitting young males from backward, misogynist cultures into a liberal, Western society. Naturally, telling the truth got me called “racist” and I earned a coveted place on an Islamophobia list.

    But the pretence that a farmer from Afghanistan suddenly turns into Hugh Grant the minute his trainers hit the shingle at Dover was always a progressive fantasy. Sex-starved lads raised to regard women as livestock (Afghan women are no longer allowed to speak outside the home let alone go to school) are poor candidates for integration. They were always going to take gross liberties with our liberty. And so here we are.

    In leafy Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two Afghan asylum seekers. Despite Warwickshire Police’s best (make that worst) attempts to conceal their identity, Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was charged last week with rape, while Mohammad Kabir, 23, was charged with kidnap, strangulation and aiding and abetting rape. The police explained they did not wish to reveal the suspects’ immigration status for fear of exacerbating our old friend “community tensions”. In this case, community tensions is code for furious parents who strangely don’t want their daughters abducted, their innocence torn from them by barbarians who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

    In another incident on July 13, a Sudanese man who was living in a three-star asylum hotel in the upmarket Cheshire suburb of Wilmslow allegedly tried to lure away a girl aged 10 while she was with her father.

    Epping, meanwhile, has seen fierce protests after an Ethiopian, who had only come ashore eight days earlier and was being put up at the Bell Hotel, was charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

    These alleged attacks are not an aberration; they are exactly what you would expect if you were to drop a gang of marauding vikings into a high-school prom at an all-girls’ school. That has, effectively, been the policy of successive British governments. Our political class prefers to burnish their reputation among “our international partners” by remaining in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), making deportations almost impossible, while young girls – catcalled, groped, raped, strangled, abducted – are just thought of as unfortunate collateral damage. If they think about them at all.

    When it was disclosed recently that a superinjunction had been taken out by the last Conservative government to cover up importing thousands of Afghans into the UK, following a leak of names, I was berated on X by former defence minister Ben Wallace for daring to suggest that that underhand humanitarian mission could raise the level of risk for British women and girls.

    Mr Wallace thought the noble purpose of extricating men who may (or may not) have aided our armed forces was what mattered. I disagreed, foreseeing ever more rapes and cultural disintegration. A fate also predicted with some urgency, I notice, by US vice president JD Vance who last week accused Europe of “engaging in civilisational suicide”.

    Coincidentally, a reader in Wiltshire got in touch to report how all those Afghans resettled in a local army camp are getting on. “It’s horrific, Allison,” she said. “The behaviour of the Afghans in Larkhill – loitering around children’s playgrounds, lads “messing” with girls on school buses, human faeces regularly found on dog walks in camp. The GP practice is closed to soldiers one day a week to allow the migrants exclusive access. The reception staff have been handed crib sheets on how to greet Afghans in their own language. They are incensed. ‘Why aren’t the immigrants given crib sheets on how to address us in our own language?’ ”

    My source says the Afghan families have been allocated most of the large houses, while soldiers who are entitled to bigger quarters are told “there isn’t a three-bed house in the whole of Wiltshire”. It’s no surprise to learn that “resentment is massive. The Afghans get free food – the truck goes round at least twice a day.

    “If you drive through the camp you’d think you were in Kabul – groups of several men walking ahead of the women all covered in head-to-toe niqabs. Since the news of the superinjunction broke, they’ve been put under curfew. All the lads were warned that if they spoke out they’d be put on a charge.”

    See how the state acts to cover up its crimes against the British people. Whether it’s silencing squaddies deprived of their rightful quarters or threatening with arrest those marvellous mums and grandmothers in raucously defiant pink who performed the Hokey-Cokey before staging a sit-in outside the Britannia Hotel asylum centre in Canary Wharf. It is politicians and senior civil servants who should be arrested, I reckon. They waste stupefying amounts of our money on people unlikely to ever make a net contribution to Britain and call it compassion. For whom? The National Audit Office has just predicted that, within 10 years, the cost of asylum accommodation will reach £15.3bn. It is intolerable. Imagine all the good such a sum could do to help struggling businesses and boost employment for our young people.

    Even when the popular sense of anger is palpable, as it is right now, the ability of our ruling class and much of the media to deny any adverse consequences of immigration is astonishing. I listened with mounting anger to Radio 4’s PM programme on Monday (Sorry, mea culpa. I know you’ve told me to ditch the BBC!) where a reporter was trying to discredit data which showed that 40 per cent of sexual crimes in London were committed by foreign nationals. That, he explained, was only because migrants tend to be younger, and young men are most likely to commit those offences. I’m sure that will be a huge comfort to the traumatised women.

    All credit to Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick for causing consternation among the Open Borders fanatics by making the link between out-of-control migration and soaring rape figures. Compare the response of our woefully weak Prime Minister who wants to “put pressure” on police chiefs to be “as transparent as possible” about the ethnic background and immigration status of those charged with crimes such as rape and sexual assault. Even though it is the Crown Prosecution Service, which Sir Keir Starmer once ran, that refuses to keep track of the number of sexual offences by asylum seekers. We know why, don’t we?

    Government sources said they hoped greater transparency would “help rebuild the public trust”. As if. That’s the same government which is mounting unprecedented and sinister surveillance to keep track of “anti-migrant” opinion. Fifty million people will shortly be helping the police with their enquiries.

    “If you come here illegally on a small boat you will face return,” Sir Keir Starmer warbled at migrants yesterday. Not, “You will be deported immediately” but “you will face return.” Or, let’s face it and far more likely, “You will be handed a free phone and free accommodation which we will pinch from a soldier’s family if we have to.”

    Compare with Greece, which has set up secure camps to detain all illegal migrants for three months, all of them denied the ability to claim asylum. Emergency legislation is allowing Greeks to circumvent the ECHR. Denmark, another ECHR member, has practically closed the borders and is using gated detention camps, some housing up to 2,000 migrants who are allowed out for just two hours a day and cannot work. If a government wants to put its citizens first, it can. Ours doesn’t.

    From now on, I suggest we put the blame for every rape, abduction and strangling by an illegal migrant squarely where it belongs – on the Government, Home Office civil servants and complicit media class.

    We don’t want a one-in-one-out scheme, thanks all the same. We want a 50,000-in-50,000-out scheme. We want Kirstie and every girl like her to be able to walk unmolested to school, not to be hissed at by men who lack all respect for our values and our women.

    If our leaders are too weak to act, lovely John and the yeomen of Britain will go to the border, and they will do what needs to be done.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/joerichlaw/status/1953028892681257153?s=61

    I am not a huge poll fan, but usually YouGov is a must highlight on the nation’s least trustworthy propaganda tool.

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “Mr Bezos’ phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message in May 2018 that was sent from Mohammed bin Salman’s personal account, according to the Guardian newspaper, external which broke the story.

    An investigation into the data breach reportedly found that the billionaire’s phone had started secretly sharing huge amounts of data after he received an encrypted video file from the prince.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51171400

    ………………….

    Messaging app WhatsApp has said Indian journalists and activists are among some 1,400 people worldwide who were targeted with Israeli-made spyware.

    WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO Group on Wednesday, alleging it was behind cyber-attacks that infected devices in April and May.

    The Israeli company, which makes software for surveillance, has strongly disputed the allegations.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-50245209

    ……

    What We Know Now (as of latest available reports)
    There has been no public follow‑up or confirmation that the U.S. government took action against Saudi Arabia in connection with this incident.

    In December 2021, the FBI reportedly stated it had not found evidence substantiating the Saudi hacking claims and considered further action a low priority
    The Guardian Wikipedia
    .

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “The word spells of the elite always put me in mind of the great wizards battle between Aleister Crowley and W B Yeats in 1900. The two were screaming hexes and curses, trying to defeat each other by magical means, but Yeats eventually got tired of Crowley’s shenanigans and ended the duel by simply kicking him down the stairs. Like Yeats, we need to learn how to ignore the hysterical theatre and magical attacks of the left, because as it turns out, nothing shuts nonsense down faster than a show of force.”

    Behold! The Super-Mega-EXTREME Far-Right is Here!

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    #MeccaIsClosedToNonMuslims

    “Sadiq Khan invites Donald Trump to visit mosques and diverse communities in UK… but not anything LONDON!”

    Sadiq Khan invites Donald Trump to visit mosques and diverse communities in UK

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  36. tomo says:

    Warwickshire Police has admitted it withheld the immigration status of two suspects charged in connection with the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl.
    Reform UK accused the force of a “cover-up” of the alleged sexual assault in Nuneaton last month.
    George Finch, the 19-year-old Reform leader of Warwickshire county council, claimed that the two men charged were Afghan and that local residents had “not been told the full story”.
    The force has responded by saying it “did not and will not cover up such criminality” but confirmed it “wouldn’t be releasing immigration status” of the suspects.
    Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was last week charged with two counts of rape. Mohammad Kabir, also 23, was charged at Coventry magistrates’ court with kidnap and strangulation and will appear at Warwick Crown Court on August 23.

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    Savid Javid “So What?”

    Bev Turner gives her take on what British values mean to her

    British Muslim MP sworn in to UK Parliament using a QURAN. Naz Shah, swearing to ‘Almighty Allah’

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  38. tomo says:

    The Daily Mail retailing complete bollox
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  39. tomo says:

    Mr. Iftikhar a real charmer then…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Pakistani businessman Salman Iftikhar, jailed for 15 months after calling a stewardess a “fucking white Welsh cunt” and threatening to ‘bomb her hotel room, gang rape her and set her alight’ on a first class flight from London to Lahore.

      Lucy Connolly got longer for a deleted social media post.

      The two tier system is made more clear each day!

      How many UK GOV contracts? HA HA HAH AHA!
      Salman IFTIKHAR
      https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Webh-HASP_C3yXzbEOlga8yBrlE/appointments

      STAFFING MATCH LTD
      STRADA LUXURY LTD
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    • MarkyMark says:

      “He was described as “slurring his words” as he got up from his seat and “grabbed Ms Walsh’s hand” and called her a “f—ing white Welsh c—”, continuing his tirade despite his children “crying and pleading for him to stop”.

      Mr Kapadia added: “The defendant also threatened to blow up the floor of the Avari Lahore Hotel, where the cabin crew were due to stay.””

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/06/first-class-passenger-threatened-air-stewardess-gang-rape/

      Iftikhar shouted that Ms Walsh would be “dragged by [her] hair” and “gang raped and set on fire”. He also said she would “be dead on the floor of [her] hotel” and added “the white sheep sh—ing b—h will be dead. The floor of [her] hotel will be blown up and it will disappear”.

      Mr Kapadia said when the plane landed in Pakistan no action was taken against Iftikhar, but he was arrested at his home in Iver, Buckinghamshire, on March 16 last year.

      ……………

      UK lifts ban on Pakistani airlines after five years
      By Reuters July 17, 20256:29 AM UTC Updated July 17, 2025

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    It has taken West Yorkshire Police 28 years to arrest and question these men before promptly releasing them on bail
    It has taken West Yorkshire Police 28 years to arrest and question these men before promptly releasing them on bail

    “Ten Arrests in Bradford Reveal the Scandal They Don’t Want You to See

    West Yorkshire Police arrested ten men in Bradford yesterday. The suspects are now aged 49 to 71. They were questioned over child sexual abuse that occurred between 1994 and 1997. Six girls were involved. They were just 13 to 15 years old at the time. All ten men have been released on bail.

    You’re reading this right. It has taken West Yorkshire Police 28 years to arrest and question these men before promptly releasing them on bail. No doubt with access still to their passports. This isn’t progress. This is an insult.”

    https://www.redwallandtherabble.co.uk/bradford-the-grooming-scandal-too-big-to-face/

    Why? Because Bradford is too big. Too messy. Too many people knew. Too many institutions failed. Too many politicians turned blind eyes.

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  41. friend of yogi bear says:

    WE ARE ALL VICTIMS NOW…..

    Top junior Chess Champ and Bank of England economics genius Rachel Reeves has seemingly discovered another “black hole”or at least it’s been found for her, let’s face it she would nt spot it ,even if she had fallen into it. This black hole is twice the size of the last one. We await her claims as to who caused it but suspect its not her( not on her account anyway) probably Trumps fault eh , most things are the.. yeah.yeah.

    Despite all of this and her now relentlessly well established comedy of errors in charge of the economy, still no hint of any realisation that she is the problem. Why is the media led by the BBC not screaming for her resignation. We were spun some nonsense about the pound falling when the rumour got out that she might leave the government back when she lost control of herself that day recently when she seemed all too briefly at PMQs to be aware of her own shortcomings. Just as likely , probably more likely the pound fell because the bond yields would need more funding to cover her self inflicted chaos.

    She is still in post and the big autumn u-turn is ” Hello Tax payers ..guess what? I’ m back for more”.

    Makes victims of us all.

    P.s. She also is a keen advocate of massive Heathrow expansion yet no mention of Net zero and not a squeak from the obsessed climate zealot Ed MILLIPEDE…….surely a principled resignation from him was the least of it…….don’t trouble to watch this space.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations–2

    Category Approximate Count Notable Examples
    Sunni Islamist groups ~60+ Al‑Qa’ida, ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, etc.
    Shia‑affiliated Islamist ~5 Hezbollah, IRGC, Liwa Fatemiyoun/Zainebiyoun, etc.
    Sikh extremist (Sikh nationalist) 1 International Sikh Youth Federation
    Northern Ireland paramilitaries 14 IRA, UVF, UDA, Red Hand Commando, Orange Volunteers, etc.

    ………………..

    MPs’ pay set to increase 2.8% to £93,904 in April

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07krpmlnv8o

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  43. pugnazious says:

    Wraps it all up quite succinctly….more than they would say on 3 hours of ‘Today’ given the subjects….

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  44. Althepalerp says:

    The BBC likes to ask questions and give us their take on the answer.

    Perhaps they should ask “Is Trump Making America Great Again?”

    They couldn’t spin that one.

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    • Pete says:

      Yes and maybe the BBC should ask how come Trump has sorted his border already, but TTK can’t sort ours even though we have the channel to help us.

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      • Scroblene says:

        But he is on holiday, Pete, like the rest of them in the awful HoC…

        Plod must be stretched a bit too, what with summer hols and the huge number ‘attending’ Great Ladies’ appearances against the ‘asylum’ hotels!

        Of course, the bBC won’t report anything which diverts from the far-left agenda, their laughable, comic ‘charter’ needs them to tell – er – something or other about the weather, or a squirrel somewhere or other…

        bBC – £4.7bn wasted on numpties.

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  45. JohnC says:

    The secret system Hamas uses to pay government salaries
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kz42j92jmo

    More absolutely blatant lies by omission by the BBC’s Gazan Muslim reporter. It’s just ridiculous people like are allowed to write such articles.

    Rushdi tells us they have ‘Severe food shortages – which aid agencies blame on Israeli restrictions – ‘. These would the utterly corrupt agencies like the UN then would they Rushdi ?.

    Rushdi totally fails to inform us that the US government AND Israel – both with fully democratically elected governments – tell us it’s because Hamas are stealing the aid to sell it.

    Then he tells us ‘”I received 1,000 shekels (about $300) in worn-out banknotes – no trader would accept them.’
    Where might Hamas be getting such old, worn out notes from Rushdi ?. Could it be because it’s from the general public who are forced to buy food from them ?.

    Then:
    ‘It remains unclear how Hamas has managed to continue funding salary payments given the destruction of much of its administrative and financial infrastructure.’
    What about selling food on the black market Rushdi ?. It would explain all the old bank notes for example.

    What a complete joke the BBC are by publishing such biased articles by an author who clearly hates Israel. He’s the same one criticised for blaming Israel for bombing a hospital car park when in fact it was a faulty Hamas rocket.

    The worst part of it all though is how the BBC can do it without someone stopping them. Something is seriously wrong in our society. It’s now completely infested with Leftie activists.

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  46. tomo says:

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    • Pete says:

      Maybe they should have just put all the invaders in a boat with a fixed course set back to France,
      no matter if it upsets TTK’s lover boy Macron.
      We are all going to be fighting the invaders soon, so we might as well have ago at French too, in retaliation for them sending us a foreign army, in return for TTK giving them Millions of Pounds and most of our fish.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Not the BbC – sometimes the press really is worth it . The story about ‘mango’ the bright yellow parrot who belonged to a drug dealer up north is priceless . Videos of mango saying how much drugs cost ‘two for 25’ was used in evidence leading to their conviction .
    The full story is of course the telegraph . Comments were allowed . Some speculated that ‘mango’ is now in witness protection and has been trained to be a starling on a Scottish island . …
    It chimes with my re watching of the breaking bad box set . Which is just as good second / third time around … birds feature in that – chickens …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      August 22nd 2018

      She is older now, her once dazzling looks undeniably faded, her famous beauty worn and creased.

      “Sorry about that,” she says. “I was supposed to get ironed yesterday.”

      Yes, it’s “that dress” — the dress that, 20 years ago this month, held the fate of a presidency in her lap. It has been two decades since the day she gave her dramatic testimony to the grand jury and then promptly disappeared into the federal witness protection program. Even as she recalls her brief moment in the spotlight, she looks drawn. But that’s because, following extensive reconstructive surgery, she’s been living quietly as a pair of curtains in Idaho.

      “What do you think?” she says, saucily brushing her hem against the sill as her pleats ripple across the mullions. “It cost less than Paula Jones’ nose job.”

      To be honest, I was lucky to get the interview. The dress was supposed to be doing the BBC — the full sob-sister treatment, Martin Bashir, the works—but, to protect her identity, they wanted to do that undercover secret-location protect-your-identity trick with the camera that makes part of the screen go all fuzzy and blurry.

      “Are you crazy?” she yelled at them. “It’ll look like I’ve still got the stain.”

      https://www.steynonline.com/8774/that-dress-twenty-years-on

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  48. tomo says:

    The British legal establishment needs the Augean stables treatment

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  49. tomo says:

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    • Pete says:

      Third World Invaders. It’s what they do.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      You cannot un-rape a child – but you can turn an African into a Londoner just by housing them in London! (C) BBC Verified by Huw Edwards and the Master Chef Team

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  50. tomo says:

    The BBC’s James Gallagher sneery PoS
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly75p9yd67o

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    • MarkyMark says:

      YOUR COMPLAINT:

      President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

      Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

      You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

      Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

      ———-

      Thank you again for contacting us,

      BBC Complaints Team
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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