Start the Week 11th August 2025

Quite a busy August for the BBC – Peace talks over Ukraine and increased military action in The Islamic Hamas terrorist territory currently known as Gaza . The BBC interns will be on the case …

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  1. MarkyMark says:

    WE ARE TOTALLY F**KED

    “”To stop smugglers for good, the government must expand safe and legal routes, such as allowing family members to travel to be with their loved ones who are already settled in the UK,” he said.”
    said Enver Solomon (EX BBC), chief executive of the Refugee Council charity.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e1xkwd74wo

    …………………

    https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/our-organisation/meet-the-team/enver-solomon/

    He (Enver Solomon EX BBC) holds a wealth of experience in the charitable sector, including senior roles at the National Children’s Bureau, The Children’s Society, Barnardo’s, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the Prison Reform Trust. Prior to working in the voluntary sector he was a BBC journalist for ten years.
    was a BBC journalist for ten years.
    was a BBC journalist for ten years.

    Income from government contracts £2.85m £3.87m £383.00k £45.00k £2.13m

    Income from government grants £3.50m £3.09m £7.15m £8.40m £8.46m

    https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/1014576/financial-history?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_organisationNumber=1014576

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    SpaceX Rolls Starship 37 for Pre-flight Testing on the OLM

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  3. Althepalerp says:

    I think the one in, one out thing has actually Increased numbers.

    Typical Labour.

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    Ukraine’s borders must not be changed by force, EU leaders say
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrlvwx9rgo

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    EU enlargement
    https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-enlargement_en
    The main objectives of the EU’s enlargement policy are to

    * foster peace and stability in regions close to the EU’s borders
    help improve the quality of people’s lives through integration and cooperation across borders
    * increase prosperity and opportunities for European businesses and citizens
    * guide, support and monitor changes in countries wishing to join the European Union in line with EU values, laws and standards

    …………………………………

    EU corruption scandal: MEP denies Qatar bribery after €1.5m seized Published 13 December 2022
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63952993

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    qe-747-en-enlargement.jpg

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    • JohnC says:

      The EU are panicking that they won’t get the biggest slice of the pie.

      If they don’t get Ukraine and Russia, their objective of becoming the No.1 world superpower is in serious jeopardy. That’s why they are spending such vast amounts of money to support Ukraine who are actually nothing to do with the EU or NATO whatsoever.

      All the shrieking about Russia attacking a NATO country is complete nonsense : they can barely manage in Ukraine. However the EU may well be creating a self-fulfilling prophecy as Russia may think the EU is going to go to war with them in Ukraine. And I think it is possible if it looks like the Ukrainian army is about to collapse.

      From what I can gather, all it takes is for them to claim one EU country is being attacked then all the others are obliged to join in.

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    “Being a young person today comes with a set of challenges that my generation could never have imagined.

    In a more detached world, we need to give young people a better alternative in real-world spaces — my government is investing to make that happen.”

    https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1953105110675997155

    …………………

    We’re transforming what it means to be state educated in britain
    https://www.93percent.club/

    “Our mission is simple: to give state-educated people the same access to powerful connections, knowledge, and opportunities that have historically been reserved for the privately-educated.”

    £88 MILLION! FOR WHAT?

    “HUGE DAY. Our founder and CEO, Sophie, joined the Prime Minister and Culture Secretary as part of the National Youth Strategy Advisory Board to announce a new £88 million package to support young people across the country.”

    Comment “Labour just gave £100 million of taxpayer funds to a corporation that earns £100 million a year. Starmer is a ghoul.”

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  6. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    If they are hiding the doctors and scientists in homes of multiple occupancy (Homo) with the aim of emptying the hotels, what will happen with all these long term contracts handed to the hotels to house the enrichers..

    I believe these hotels have been given many years guaranteed income to pay well over the going rate so if, as TTK says, they are emptying the hotels does that mean there will be hundreds of empty hotels being paid for nothing.
    It wouldn’t surprise me as this government is absolutely hopeless when negotiating contracts, for example……every contract they are involved in, from wage negotiations, pp masks, paying renewables to switch off or Chagos, the list is endless.

    Is this another case of taxpayers money going to some very rich people, wasted by politicians.

    Maybe the hotels will be operating as hotels again so they get double the money coming in.

    Whichever way you look at it, taxpayers money is being shovelled into top people’s bank accounts.

    In 2029 when Reform are deporting hundreds of thousands of enrichers will the private landlords also be getting their long term contracts paid (and their properties all brought back up to top condition) all courtesy of the taxpayer.

    Instead of having all these places empty maybe offer them to veterans, homeless and others unable to get somewhere to live.

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  7. tomo says:

    and then……

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Full Time trained strength of the British Army at April 2025 was 70,860.

      There isn’t a single, publicly released number for the UK terror watch list. However, reports indicate that MI5 assesses a risk of re-engagement in terrorist activity for over 40,000 individuals. Separately, around 7,000 individuals are referred annually for assessment by Prevent teams. The UK’s terrorism threat level is currently set at substantial.

      650 MPS with …. £31m package announced to counter threat to MPs’ security
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68419987

      22 kids went to a concert and 1 man believed in Islam!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      People with same cultural norms- HA HA HAH AH!
      Small boats – HA HA HA AHHA H!

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  8. tomo says:

    It’s not just the incomers… it’s the outgoings

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  9. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – The Montacutie is back. No more Jonny ‘Dalek’ Dymond, except on Fridays.

    There is a distraction from bashing Israel; the President Trump and Putin talks in Alaska on Friday. I seem to recall that Israel did get bashed for a while. The BBC doesn’t like journalists getting killed even if they worked for Hamas and were complicit in the 7th October 2023 massacre and hostage taking.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    “What’s Really Wrong with Britain? BBC Meltdown — and the Oldies Know It” Part 2

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  11. tomo says:

    9 months late….

    I wonder what the political betting sites are quoting presently?

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “What a mess….”

    Sir Keir Starmer: ‘We can’t have a revolving door of chaos’

    Comment “We want, no sorry, we DESERVE a general election!”

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  13. BRISSLES says:

    Richmond Council in SW London are offering asylum seekers free French and Spanish lessons. Why? If they wanted to learn they could have settled in France and Spain before making their way here. Duh !

    (This little gem courtesy of Richard Littlejohn)

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Wouldn’t it make more sense to offer the residents free Arabic lessons?

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      • Scroblene says:

        When they say they’re bringing their ‘loved ones’ over to join them for free living for the rest of their lives, on the British Taxpayer’s expense, do they mean their children, or their wives – usually they’re the same age, but it does mean that schools will get a bit full as a consequence…

        I really cannot remember when this country has been so mutilated by such a lying, duplicitous, deceitful, dishonest, scheming, untrustworthy, deceptive, devious*** government in all of my 78 years.

        I really do want to get to 82, because the ‘pleasure’ of seeing the ruinous marxism in my beloved land, stamped out forever will allow me a few more years on Mother Earth…

        (***My Roget’s Thesaurus is red-hot at the moment…)

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      • tomo says:

        Madrassas even?

        I’m confident that’d cause a embarrassments of delight in some Pakistani baggy trousers

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What is Allah Akbar in French? Allah Akbar you racist!

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  14. Flotsam says:

    The problem with TTK and Labour’s very low approval ratings is that TTK could be replaced by an even more extreme leftie idiot. Also, the Loons in the Labour Party could decide on even more extreme measures, a scorched earth scenario. If they know they’re out they could go nuts.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Hopefully Corbyn will take the real culprits on the far, far left, as they’re presumably in those sinkholes of constituencies where the benefits bill is the largest, and that leaves TTK, Crayons, Thieves and a few sundry hangers – on – dodgy CVs accepted – to try and form a sort of ‘rump’ of nutters, which we can all laugh at when we feel like it!

      I mean, what company will employ Reynolds or Rachel, other than a cheap plastic model to front up useless seminars and visits from Lammy’s former chums in some Godforsaken country nobody has ever heard of!

      It’s good to see the real opposition – Reform – twisting and turning with all sorts of shenanigans from current and former members, but four years is a long time, so like The British Lions, get your retaliation in first’!

      The bBC will be an irrelevance by then, who’ll ‘front’ the election? Naga – Ha ha ha ha, Dimbleby – er – no,

      Aaaah – Linker!

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    The FCDO has handed £20 million to an organisation which wants to abolish “racial hierarchies within the hetero-patriarchal and capitalist world order.” Nice to see where our remaining development spending is going…
    order-order.com

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office

    Top 10 places we work
    The countries where most money has been identified as being spent.

    Yemen
    Nigeria
    Somalia
    Budget: £114.0m
    South Sudan
    Sudan
    Ethiopia
    Syria
    Ukraine
    Pakistan
    Congo (Democratic Republic)

    Top 10 departments
    UK ODA spend by government department (Source, Statistics on International Development 2023)

    Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
    £9,491m
    Home Office
    £2,954m
    Department of Health and Social Care
    £535m
    Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
    £466m
    Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
    £440m
    UK Integrated Security Fund
    £326m
    Department for Work and Pensions
    £257m
    Department for Education
    £169m
    Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
    £167m
    Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
    £165m
    ………….

    “ushering in an era of abundance for women, girls, and trans people leading the charge on solutions to our most urgent social and political challenges.” The fund supports “human rights and women’s rights movements via our grantmaking across the Global South” – handing out UK taxpayer cash. The Tories initially committed the funding – Labour has continued it to the tune of £9,123,952 since it came to power…

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “My god, an intelligent man who actually knows what he’s talking about and offers resolutions! I’ve no doubt they will take no notice of him at all.”

    Director General of the UK Border Force Silenced the Entire Committee with his Bold Statement

    COmment “Straight off boat onto ferry they’ve entered illegally.”

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    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
    5 August 2025 0 0 0
    6 August 2025 155 2 0
    7 August 2025 248 5 0
    8 August 2025 0 0 0
    9 August 2025 435 7 0
    10 August 2025 281 5 0
    11 August 2025 474 8 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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    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714695
    Remove people on the terror watch list from the UK
    In 2020, the Home Office said there were over 40,000 people where MI5 judged there was some risk of them re-engaging in terrorist activity. We think people on this list who are in the UK should be deported, to keep people in the UK safe.

    …………………….

    Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch.

    The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, have been shot dead.

    Migrants have told the BBC they had limbs severed by gunfire and saw bodies left on the trails.

    Saudi Arabia has previously rejected allegations of systematic killings.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787

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  17. tomo says:

    Some people who usually sit firmly on the fence are choosing sides

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