412 Responses to Midweek 20th August 2025

  1. tomo says:

    No end to it….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      PFI has been a failure – and Carillion is the tip of the iceberg
      https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2018/01/24/pfi-has-been-a-failure-and-carillion-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
      ……………….
      A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from new capital paid in by new investors, rather than from profit earned through legitimate business activities. It’s essentially a scam where the scheme’s operators collect money from later investors and use it to pay off earlier investors, creating the illusion of a profitable investment.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      CHINA TO BUY UK WATER SUPPLY – THEN POISON THE WELLS – NHS ASSISTED DYING En masse.

      “However, the government is under pressure to transform the UK’s crumbling public services, with limited resources, and recent announcements have made clear that ministers are ready to dip their toe into this controversial area.

      The 10-year infrastructure strategy, published in June, said the government would “explore the feasibility of using new PPP models for taxpayer-funded projects (for example in decarbonising the public sector estate and in certain types of primary care and community health infrastructure) in very limited circumstances where they could represent value for money”.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/20/labour-public-private-funding-model-nhs-england

      with limited resources
      ……………………
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      with limited resources

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  2. tomo says:

    New BBC editorial directive:

    “Have you paid your oxygen tax for today, you white scum?”

    Bankrupt council

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    • MarkyMark says:

      conquered
      (of a place or people) having been overcome and taken control of by military force.
      “a conquered people”

      ………………..
      https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide

      The acts that constitute genocide fall into five categories:

      Killing members of the group
      Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
      Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part
      Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
      Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    Lucy Connolly – ‘released ‘ – but she has conditions imposed on her .
    Now what may those conditions be ? Shall we guess ?

    1 conditions not to be made public
    2 no interviews
    3 no statements
    4 no social media
    5 no mention of HMP TTK or corrupt legal system
    6 no leaving UK
    7 No benefitting from donations
    8 no visit to parliament
    9 no enabling husband to speak for her

    They’ll find a way of getting her to breach a condition abd get the complementary 6 plod early morning front door removal squad to ‘deal with her ‘…

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  4. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “New Dubliners with their new culture Migrants arriving at their new home, the 4 star Citywest hotel in Dublin. ***”

      *** eight 6 year old wives to appear on next coach

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      • Pete says:

        More invaders arrive by the day whilst our Governments do nothing.
        some might say its time the people should start protesting outside the homes of the people who own all these hotels.
        Better still, considering the owners of these hotels are obvoiusy so compassionate, about the care of Illegal immigrants, maybe they could start offering their own homes as sanctuary for the so called Asylum seekers.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Comment “Namaskar 🙏🙏🙏🙏
          All I wish for is that British return to rule India again.
          After 75 years of so-called “independence”, India is Rank 107 on Starvation Index – worse than Nigeria and North Korea
          Clearly, we are unfit to rule ourselves 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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    • tomo says:

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  5. tomo says:

    Sheesh!

    we could put the migrants into orbit …

    sod Rwanda

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.
      HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.
      Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.
      £1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud
      £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”

      13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion

      Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

      ……………………………….

      “We’ve closed a space agency which spends £618.2m a year to save money. Meanwhile, the asylum system cost us £5.4 billion last year, or about 9 space agencies.

      We could literally have the stars, and instead we’re choosing to take in a 100,000 ‘asylum seekers’ every year, forever, raising crime, harming social cohesion and raising house prices.

      We do not have to do this. When we win, we’ll choose the stars.

      Links below”

      ……………

      A large part of the extra costs is accounted for by Clearsprings’ contract in the south of England, which has risen from £0.7bn to an expected £7bn.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo

      Written evidence submitted by Clearsprings Ready Homes (AAC0132)

      https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/137473/pdf/

      Activities and engagement – With limited options for meaningful volunteer work and without the
      ability to work, engagement has become a leading factor and CRH and its partners and
      subcontractors have developed a series of engagement activities based locally at each site and the
      list below touches on some of those activities available:
       Living in the UK
       ESOL (ESOL stands for English for Speakers of Other Languages.)
       Various sports activities, including the formation of football and exercise groups supported
      by the local community
       Bike loan and ride activities
       Local community-based volunteering programmes
       Mother and Baby sessions
       Imam service and led prayer sessions
       Multi-faith support from local community faith leaders of all denominations

       Various trips to multiple location for educational and recreational activities
       Art, music and exercise classes
       Various cultural celebrations such as Ramadan, Eide and many others
       Children’s birthday celebrations and other key life events

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  6. brexiteerkent says:

    Lucy Connely BBC predictable biased distorted short article.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po

    ” Woman jailed for race hate post released from prison ”

    ” urged her followers on X to “set fire” to hotels housing asylum seekers.”

    FOR ALL I CARE the BBC should be shut down.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    The data below shows the number of properties and areas with live Dispersed Accommodation in
    August 2019 vs August 2024 in the South Region (Wales follows a similar pattern), with the key
    achievement being the increased spread of dispersal rising from 57 open dispersal areas in 2019 to
    136 by August 2024 and still rising and an additional 2,000 DA bedspaces procured:

    https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/137473/pdf/

    Dispersal Accommodation
    Dec 19
    Properties in use 1,412

    1,412!!!!! HA HAH AHAH AH AHA !

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      They call it an achievement. Shows who they are working for. Not us despite the fact that we are their primary duty. Malfeasance in office.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    1 OUT (LUCY), 1 IN (KEIR)

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  9. tomo says:

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    • Pete says:

      Maybe Rayner was getting ready to welcome her Governments new boat load of invaders/voters to our shores.
      She must have been there to show them the way to the nearest 4 star hotel where they can collect their free money and Health Care benefits.

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  10. tomo says:

    Safe and effective

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Now they’re decimated”

      At an urgent press conference about mRNA ‘vaccines’, hosted by Florida Health Department head, Joseph A. Ladapo,
      @PierreKory
      stood in front of a stunned media, mentioning his clinic is filled with vaccine-injured patients who are physically and financially decimated.

      And 70% of the illness is from the mRNA ‘vaccine’.

      According to Pierre Kory, the “Long Vax” syndrome relates to a type of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). They can no longer function as they once did. This is the fallout of the largest global experiment in history:

      ◻️”In my practice, we treat Long Covid and Long Vax…. 70% of the patients in my practice became ill after the vaccine; they have Long Vax.”

      ◻️”I see these multiply disabled patients who were really enjoying the peak of their lives…and now they’re decimated”

      Joseph A. Ladapo’s added weight to Kory’s testimony at the press conference, saying about mRNA injections:

      “These products should not be used in any human beings”

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    There’s a curious political thing going on .. you might recall that the gimp Edward ed Davey was doing ridiculous stunts to distract from his culpability over the post office scandal ?

    Well now we have jenrick putting up union flags in public . As a member of a regime largely responsible for Britain’s’ suffering from invasion – that’s pretty …. Dismal … hope he doesn’t get tangled up or fall off the ladder …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      14 Years – unlimited power – Cameron managed to get trans people into toilets and remove VAT from Tampax (King Charles was happy?).

      …………….

      Kemi Badenoch says she no longer sees herself as Nigerian despite upbringing
      Conservative party leader, who grew up in Nigeria and US, says she has not renewed her Nigerian passport in decades
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/01/kemi-badenoch-says-she-no-longer-sees-herself-as-nigerian-despite-upbringing
      “What I found actually quite interesting was that people didn’t treat me differently, and it’s why I’m so quick to defend the UK whenever there are accusations of racism.”

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    • Jeff says:

      There are a few Tory MPs that have found these popular bandwagons to jump on. They’re clearly eyeing up the top job…

      Don’t get me wrong, it looks good. Challenging fair dodgers (well, the white ones) chatting to the hoards of tent dwelling third worlders, just waiting for a four star hotel and now raising our flag. But I’m just not falling for it.

      They had 14 frigging years! They gave us the highest taxes and highest levels of immigration in our nation’s history, despite consistent promises to cut immigration to the tens of thousands. From 2011 to 2021 our population increased by 3.5 million (OFFICIAL FIGURES).

      Now you’re sticking a flag up.

      Big fxxxing deal…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes it’s crude personal advancement – nothing more – none of them give a toss …

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  12. Rob in Cheshire says:

    I was watching Mastermind the other night. One of the contestants was some sort of non-binary weirdo in a skirt. I don’t think he was an actual tranny, that would have been too mainstream. He was also some sort of climate activist. I wonder how he got on the programme?

    Amazingly, the quiz was won by an ordinary white man. It won’t be too long until that is not allowed to happen.

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  13. tomo says:

    The BBC presume to dictate public opinion – and if that doesn’t work – they misrepresent / misreport it…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Migrants feel unsafe due to British white woman released from prison (C) BBC Verified.

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    • Scroblene says:

      bBC already shifting the most important news about Lucy Connolly today, hiding behind the bogus figures about the cost of illegals in hotels.

      They all hope we don’t see through their obfuscation.

      Not here, or in hundreds of thousands of British homes across the land…

      (We mustn’t forget, that bBC kids change their ‘news’ by the hour – please keep up, they tell us…)!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Visas for nurses fell by 80% – Home Office
        “For work-related visas, the headline figure is that 182,553 visas were granted in the year to June, marking a 36% drop.”

        Government spending on asylum down from record-high
        “Home Office figures show that government spending on asylum in the UK in the year to March was down 12%.”

        Concern raised over backlog in appeals courts
        “Home Office accounts released last month showed the Conservative government had around 1,000 civil servants working on the Rwanda scheme.”

        More than 5,000 children crossed the Channel in the past year

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce83n80dqllt

        Asylum seekers in hotels: More people awaiting a decision on their asylum claims are being housed in hotels than the previous year, with the number growing 8% to reach 32,059
        Claim backlog: The government has managed to reduce the backlog of asylum claims by a quarter on the previous year, something that’s been welcomed by refugee advocates
        Record asylum claims: However, the number of people applying for asylum in the UK hit a record high, with 111,000 claims. That’s a 14% increase on the previous year and a near doubling since 2021
        Small boat arrivals: About 38% more small boats landed on UK shores than the previous year. They remain the most common type of “irregular” arrival
        Forcible removals: There was a 25% increase in the number of people forcibly sent back from the UK compared to the previous year. Romanians and Albanians m

        End use of hotels for asylum seekers, says Refugee Council

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    • Guest Who says:

      Went to the post in question.

      It says only those who they mention can reply.

      They mention this guy?

      https://x.com/andrew_lilico/status/1958469048804495857?s=61
      The article here (I’m not referring to the headline) contains a dreadfully inaccurate description of her post.

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  14. markh says:

    Does anyone know if any white children received their exam results today or the other week? Not according to the BBC judging by their webshite articles.

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    • tomo says:

      markh

      yup – lots of it about – the local rags guffing pages of it too…

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    • Scroblene says:

      No, but English isn’t having a great day as far as our Mother language is concerned!

      Wonder why…

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  15. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/tom_slater_/status/1958482803269472397?s=61
    I’ll be debating the Lucy Connolly case on @BBCRadio2 just after Midday, with the formidable @narindertweets. Do tune in

    It wasn’t Vile, was it? I knew he was desperate, but soiling the BBC too?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC will report on what it wants to happen, not what is happening.
      …………………..
      “Elon Musk has raised more awareness around the world in regards to children in the UK being groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked and murdered than anyone else in British history and yet people are sat here moaning about it and picking him apart. Grow up and get a grip. @elonmusk”
      https://x.com/officialsammyuk/status/1876059011272823003

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    • tomo says:

      “the formidable @narindertweets”

      formidable?

      Narinder-is-formidable.jpg

      Nope, not what I see / hear

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Lady Brooke – married to a peer – was on good form . She was shocked by Graham Stringer – a socialist MP since 1979 who basically said ‘enough’ get rid of the treaties – stop the boats …
    Poor Lady Brooke – her head was spinning – then the dementia affected polly Toynbee popped up to say ‘something must be done ‘….
    I wonder if the swamp is starting to realise if they carryon as they have been doing there will be serious disorder – up to a war in britainistan because we ve had enough . ?

    As usual the release of Lucy Connolly wasn’t covered at all – as I hit the off switch although to a lot of people – it’s the news of the day . But to these people – the bbc sees them as the enemy who must be replaced by various Islamic coffee tones…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Words are easy – more funding, enough is enough, more change, systemic changes, better changes, progress, if it saves one life, moral imperative, stop the genocide, stop the war, dismantle the arms race ….

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I did catch a brief mention of Lucy being released on the One O’Clock News. Obviously they had to mention that her husband is a Conservative councillor. This is not even true, he was a councillor, he is not any more. I am sure that the fact her husband was a Conservative councillor at the time was one of the reasons the police went for her. They didn’t seem quite so hard on RIcky Jones did they?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        It’s tricky to mention her at all as it opens up the corruption of politicians such as TTK as well as plod CPS and judiciary – not forgetting her ‘lawyer ‘ who sold her out so readily – I hope there is revenge …. But I recall he nailed her with documentation ….

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  17. Richard Pinder says:

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    America has forced the British Socialist Government to drop its request that Apple provide it with backdoor access to spy on user data. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, said “the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”

    Earlier this year the authoritarian British Government issued Apple with a “technical capability notice,” requiring the company to provide access to encrypted user data under the ‘Orwellian’ Investigatory Powers Act of 2016. In response, Apple halted its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature for users in the UK, citing concerns over data breaches. The iPhone maker stated in a Feb. 24 blog post that it has “never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will.” The ADP feature provides end-to-end encryption for iCloud storage, preventing non-account holders—including governments and hackers—from accessing data such as photos, documents, and notes. Without ADP, certain types of iCloud data will no longer be fully encrypted, making it potentially accessible to third parties with the proper legal authority. Apple tried to reassure users that it would not allow the left-wing British Government, or any other authoritarian regime to spy on its users, saying “Apple remains committed to offering our users the highest level of security for their personal data and we are hopeful that we will be able to do so in the future in the United Kingdom.”

    In May, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast sent a letter to the British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, urging her to allow Apple to disclose the order’s existence to the U.S. Department of Justice so that the department can assess whether the order complies with a U.S.-UK bilateral agreement under the CLOUD Act, which prohibits orders requiring companies to decrypt data. According to the letter, U.S. companies are prohibited under UK laws to disclose or confirm the existence of such an order, and doing so constitutes a criminal offence, even if the disclosure is made to the company’s home government.

    The US House Judiciary Committee has found that the British Government uses secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to silence court witnesses, victims of rape and the vaccine injured, as well as super-injunctions used by the British Government to censor and hide the identity and crimes of thousands of illegal immigrants housed in hotels. Donald Trump has told Starmer that the United States will not allow the British to use secret courts and super-injunctions against Americans, and he will not stop the US House Judiciary Committee from disclosing the existence of British super-injunctions on American social media sites, or allow the British Government to continue to use secret court orders to block and censor the existence of these super-injunctions: https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/uk-agrees-to-drop-demand-for-apple-to-create-backdoor-access-gabbard-5902997

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Starmer demands back door access to all those Ukrainian Ars(E)onists!

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      The US State Department has accused the authoritarian British government of committing an ‘egregious violation’ of the fundamental right to free speech and religious liberty, after British police launch a third investigation into Roman Catholic pro-lifer Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, for silently praying for dead babies near an abortion facility in Birmingham. A spokesman said “It is common sense that standing silently and offering consensual conversation does not constitute harm,” and warned this is a concerning departure from once shared UK-US freedom values.

      Apart from Ms Vaughan-Spruce, several other individuals – some elderly – have been arrested, charged and even given criminal convictions simply for praying silently for the ‘third of a million babies’ killed in British abortion clinics every year. The US State Department spokesman reiterated that “The United States is still monitoring many “buffer zone” cases in the UK, as well as other acts of censorship.”

      The statement echoes Vice President JD Vance’s warning earlier this year at the Munich Security Conference, where he said that free speech is ‘in retreat’ across Europe and particularly in Britain. It also echoes the concerns Vance raised directly with Sir Keir Starmer about the UK’s restriction of free speech during the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House. The State Department’s latest report has also highlighted ‘credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression’ in the UK, and that in 2024, Britain’s human rights ‘worsened’. It accused the British government of failing to protect ‘rights and freedoms’.

      The British government continues to uses ofcom, secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to censor and silence its critics, court witnesses, victims of rape and the vaccine injured: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/us-raises-pressure-on-britain-over-free-speech-and-abortion-buffer-zones

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    BBC GCSE Advice from “Kyran Thrax and Pink Panttheress offer GCSE result day tips” HA HA AH A! BBC Can’t help themselves.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education
    ……………….
    1979: How to LAND ON THE MOON | Project Apollo | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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  19. JonathanR says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00

      Douglas Murray speaks at “The Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis in retrospect” conference

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    “Here’s what Labour said about that during the election:

    “The ability to withdraw 25% of your pension as tax-free lump sum is a permanent feature of the tax system and Labour are not planning to change this.“

    That ties Reeves’ hands. Changes to the allowance would constitute an election lie.”
    order-order.com

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sounds like John major ‘we are not planning to increase Vat ‘ but didn’t say …. ‘ at the moment ‘ .

      Taxing the cash will hurt retiring people but the Marxists care less – long live the free breakfast clubs .. start the indoctrination early in the day …

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      • Scroblene says:

        We mustn’t forget this ‘Y’frontery from such a grey, uninteresting, failed nobody, who suddenly found himself in Mohammed Street without a paddle…

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “The entire US-Mexico border wall will be painted black to make it hotter and harder to climb, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said, crediting President Donald Trump for the idea.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq587vpe46eo

    White House officials also contend that increased border security and mass deportations have been deterrents, saying they are the primary reason for plummeting figures at the US-Mexico border.

    ………………………
    Meanwhile in the uK .. 430 migrants cross Channel in one day

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      “There’ll be bluebirds over….The black cliffs of Dover…..”

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  22. Lucy Pevensey says:

    “race hate post” = The opinion of someone at The BBC. She didn’t mention race at all.

    They’ve blocked comments now.

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    • Pete says:

      Meanwhile the low life Bob Vylan still walks free. Does the bbc report his race hate show for the gullible.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Posh boy name! Pascal Robinson-Foster

        The frontman of Bob Vylan, known as Bobby Vylan, is Pascal Robinson-Foster, according to BBC News. The drummer goes by the name Bobbie Vylan.

        “Got a message for the thieves in the Palace (King Charles) we want the jewels back.”

        BBC EXPOSED: Unearthed Remarks Show Years of SUPPORT for Bob Vylan Amid IDF Chant Uproar | NEW

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Just remember their advert ‘it’s our BBC ‘ – Yeah right – except if comments are not ‘approved ‘ …. The state will assume Lucy Connolly will be forgotten . But I’d submit what was done to her was so egregious as to not to be forgotten .

      Sleep well in your own bed tonight Lucy .

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        It will not be forgotten. One day there will be a Lucy Connolly Day, to remember those who gave their freedom and in some cases their lives to defend Britain. And a day of judgement, where those who engaged in action against them – whether they be politicians, judicial activists, police or media, will be called to account for their deeds.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Ian
          We also need a list of all the other political prisoners TTK instructed his corrupt system to lock up ….. and hope they take heart / courage – that they will get out one day …..

          Anyone got a list …?

          Including Peter Lynch – killed by HMP

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        • Mrs Kitty says:

          A Peter Lynch Day, political prisoner killed by Two Tier Kier.

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    • Jeff says:

      The BBC are despicable and totally dishonest.
      This is on their news page;

      Connolly, from Northampton, called for “mass deportation now” and urged her followers to “set fire” to hotels housing asylum seekers.

      She said no such thing. She actually said people could set fire to the hotels “for all I care.” That puts a totally different nuance on what she was suggesting.

      Christ, I loathe the BBC. They’re dishonest, corrupt propagandists.

      You can stick a bomb under them for all I care…

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  23. Pete says:

    430 more invaders looking forward to TTK’s free handouts at the expense of the hard working British tax payers.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Sanjeev Gupta on Health Financing. Worked 31 years in the IMF!

    ………………….. ……………. ………………. …………….. ……….

    Insolvency courts granted a compulsory winding up order sought by creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds by Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0818y4jdlo

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Sanjeev Gupta prosecuted for failing to file accounts for more than 70 companies
    Thu 10 Oct 2024 12.36 BST
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/10/sanjeev-gupta-prosecuted-failing-file-accounts-steel

    …………..

    Insolvency courts granted a compulsory winding up order sought by creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds by Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon Sanjeev Gupta.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0818y4jdlo

    Controversial? Corrupt! HA HHA HAH AHA H

    The Liberty Steel Group’s finances were upended when its main financial backer, Greensill Capital (SEE CAMERON BELOW) , collapsed owing billions to investors including UBS and Citibank.

    Mr Gupta’s plan to place SSUK in administration then immediately buy it out again would have allowed the company to largely shed those debts.”

    …………………..
    Greensill: What is the David Cameron lobbying row about?
    Published
    9 August 2021
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56578838

    Former Prime Minister David Cameron made about £3.3m from shares in the collapsed finance company Greensill Capital, documents obtained by BBC Panorama suggest.

    ………………………….

    Rachel Reeves £50 billion black hole might consume all these other Cameron/Gupta blackholes?

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    5pm news
    A discussion about Lucy Connolly – the political prisoner released today – there was a discussion between a judge who had clearly sold her soul and had no notion of right and wrong – and a cross bench Lord –
    The discussion went nowhere – although the judge was worried that a lot more people realise how corrupt the system is – from plod to the cps – to the court to the prison .

    The judge worried about what the consequence of loss of belief in thr system might lead to – ie don’t get arrested – say nothing – always get a brief ( not a corrupt one – tricky ) say nothing to plod – never plead guilty – play the system as hard as the Marxists do …. Right 77 brigade …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Wear a Hijab and ask for a prayer mat – should delay the jail sentence or remove it!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Btw – the judge Evan Davies interviewed – I could imagine her at the Nuremberg trials explaining how everything was done within the law and guidelines and if you wanted to stop the zyclon b you could have campaigned to change the law – she was that morally empty ….

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  27. Lucy Pevensey says:

    It’s a good thing there weren’t any St George crosses on the roundabouts. Just think how dangerous that would be.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Obviously not an “accident”

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      • Fedup2 says:

        There was a good one yesterday on X of a Shri Lanka girl who rode her bike into a parked car and tried to claim from the owner – who was recording it and the conversation – maybe insurance fraud is a hobby of thr dusky but I know it was a gypo type organised crime a while ago ….

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Sanjeev GUPTA
    91 Appointments … interesting that Country of residence is …flips between …. United Arab Emirates / United Kingdom

    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/UsjIJr5MpOo-X2T_NFfnFRHe-MM/appointments

    relates to : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0818y4jdlo UK’s third-largest steelworks collapses into government control

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  29. Richard Pinder says:

    GytsbA8XEAA-mUx.jpg
    EU leaders lined up like schoolchildren as “daddy” Trump lectures them behind his desk.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The girl at the end can leave now … lol

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    • Up2snuff says:

      RP, with Starmer stood in the corner like a naughty child.

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      Is that the bust of Churchill behind them? Does anyone know who the bust at the front is ?

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      • Richard Pinder says:

        The bust behind Zelenskyy is that of the first honourable US citizen, Winston Churchill, who’s mother was an American.

        The bust in front of Zelenskyy is that of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who freed Black slaves from their Democrat Party owners.

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  30. Scroblene says:

    Ha ha ha ha…

    Beeboid exasperation personified in their ‘updated’, (i.e. truth obliterated) account…

    “It is understood Connolly was a passenger in a white taxi which left HMP Peterborough via the vehicle airlock, a set of two gates exiting the prison, shortly after 10:00 BST.

    Once the external gate of the airlock had opened, it was reported the taxi drove off down the road past reporters.”.

    I always thought that the bBC employed journalists, y’know men and women who actually fight to get headlines, sell their papers – or in the case of the bBC, their public, (sell down the drain), but here’s the world’s biggest, most uninviting state-funded broadcaster, sitting back with a fag and a latte, and just acting like the dead parrot!

    Meanwhile Starmer, with the spittle stained envy of wealth instilled in his flabby frame, wibbles along with his weedy cohorts. This man has no ambition to make the UK prosper through hard work and innovation, he just sits back and waits for some British Citizen to ‘break the law’, and his coffers are filled to the brim…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Hello Scroblene – well ? – I noticed how round TTK is getting these days . Maybe they make him wear a ballistic vest ? Surely he’d be getting enough exercise with young pretty Ukrainian ‘friends ‘….

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      • Scroblene says:

        Evening Fed…

        Just watched the Sky version of ‘news’.

        Why are normal British Citizens who are concerned about justice called ‘The Right’?

        Pretty obvious to me that there are more Normal Citizens than lefties… Sky cop-out on descriptions, borrowed from the Beeboid Ladybird Book of Nasty.

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        • Ian Rushlow says:

          They are called ‘The Right’ because they are in the right (i.e. correct) plus they are Righteous. And remember: it’s better to be far right than far wrong.

          BBC Verify: please note these more accurate descriptions.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Scroblene – strange how different the ever reliable Sky Australia on YouTube is – even with Americans looking to it to get a better account than the far left MSM – which is slowly dying like the BBC …

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          • JonathanR says:

            Shame that whoever runs Sky News in Australia cannot take over the British one.

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          • Scroblene says:

            Absolutely, Fed! I see their presenters going for the throat at every turn!

            Beeboid ‘presenters’ just have hissy fits with each other, and that becomes the ‘story’ – hence that Nagger woman always being in their sordid little tantrums…

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  31. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – the BBC are incredible, they just cannot help but do it!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jxjk6g1l2o
    What can one say?

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    • JonathanR says:

      No they can’t but they are not alone. Try and find a photo of a English boy in any news story about these exams. Google it and you will find that not one English boy sat any of these exams let alone pass one that is the impression they seem to want to put across.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Found one!

        “Poorer white pupils let down and neglected – MPs”
        Published 22 June 2021
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57558746

        _105636801_examhall.jpg.webp

        Committee chairman Robert Halfon said it was a “major social injustice” that so little had been done to address this gap in attainment – and accused the government of “muddled thinking” in suggesting it could be explained by poverty.

        “If you think it’s about poverty, then it doesn’t explain why most other ethnic groups do much better,” he said.

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        • JonathanR says:

          Ah! but he is not crying with joy for getting top marks. Nice try

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          • Scroblene says:

            Ha ha ha…

            Just remembered that the nerves took over while sitting at one of those desks and always, ALWAYS, someone would tip over their pencil box with a resounding crash, and the floor was covered with pens, dividers, compasses, rubbers etc, and everyone went “Aaaaaargh…”

            (Note to bBC – can you ask why the English language is suffering these days? Why do you report stuff from voices that don’t speak the Queen’s, (sic) English, and which just gibber unintelligibly)?

            Just asking for an English Mistress, who’s just been made redundant from her very successful prep school…

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      • Lunchtime Loather says:

        Blimey, I found one!: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdj5y98302o

        Towards the bottom of the page. “James Bonning passed his Maths exam after resitting three times”, so not exactly a successful student – that’ll be why.

        The Picture Editor must be in fear for his job right now.

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Just for the record – the view of the Telegraph and Lucy Connolly

    STARTS Lucy Connolly was released from prison today. The 41-year old childminder received a 31-month prison sentence last October for posting a vile, racist tweet on X on the day of that summer’s Southport murders. She deleted her message three and a half hours later, after it had been viewed more than 300,000 times and reposted 940 times.
    Her case has become a cause célèbre, gaining the attention of some of the most powerful figures around President Donald Trump. Some argue it is a perfect illustration of how free speech is being stifled in Britain under this Labour government and that we now live under a system of two-tier justice.
    Two issues should be separated, namely whether Ms Connolly’s prosecution does represent a novel assault on free expression and whether her sentence is appropriate. Laws on incitement are not new. Threatening language which is likely to provoke a breach of the peace has long been illegal. This principle has been enshrined in statute since 1936 and was part of the common law long before that. The rise of social media essentially creates a new public square, but speech there is not fundamentally different from a rant delivered on a street corner.
    Whether a given statement is lawful or not is a matter for the courts to decide. Ms Connolly should perhaps have tested whether what she posted was an act of incitement before a jury. But for whatever reason – unlike suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones, who called for the throats of far-Right protesters to be cut, but was acquitted by a jury – she chose not to do so and pleaded guilty. It is possible that a jury may have taken a different view of the Connolly case, but we will never know.
    Free speech is indeed embattled in Britain. The police recording of so-called non-crime hate incidents is just such an instance and is a waste of police time which should be brought to a swift end. The authorities are much too ready to devote resources to investigating perfectly acceptable comments simply because they have caused upset. But the Connolly prosecution itself is not evidence of this.
    Despite being upheld by the Court of Appeal, the length of Ms Connolly’s sentence does however raise serious questions. Few women are ever imprisoned. At the end of June, there were 3,566 women incarcerated in England and Wales – around 4 per cent of a total prison population of 87,334. Is it really credible that Ms Connolly deserved to be one of this very select group?
    Shoplifters and other thieves are routinely not prosecuted. Our prisons are so overcrowded that serious criminals are being released early to free up spaces. Shabana Mahmood has announced that the vast majority of foreign national offenders will not have to serve any of their sentence, provided they agree to being deported and not returning to the UK.
    Ms Connolly’s sentence, as those for many others associated with last summer’s disturbances, was an exemplary one to show that the courts would not tolerate this breakdown in order. The Prime Minister made clear his support for such a robust approach. A real test of whether we in the UK do indeed live under a two-tier system of justice will be when we see whether those arrested for supporting Palestine Action and other proscribed terrorist organisations will receive similarly stiff sentences.ENDS

    My personal view – her comment was understandable in the circumstances – taking down the post was instant evidence of regret .

    Yet the corrupt system used this lady in the worst possible way – when the inevitable uprising happens – what happened to Lucy Connolly won’t be enough to quell the anger building in the country – putting up flags is just a sign of what will come …

    The legal system is corrupted by TTK which leaves respect for law in a tricky devalued place …

    … say nothing – never plead guilty – never trust a £lawyer £

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “But the Connolly prosecution itself is not evidence of this.”

      ………………………………………………………………………….

      Jail are full so lets empty them of rapists who raped! No come back on Starmer.

      Appeal rejected – yet rapists let off with lighter sentences.

      Wes Streeting threatened to push someone under a train – nothing.

      Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks after he admitted punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency.

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  33. JonathanR says:

    Who came up with the notion that the Hotels who are full of illegal immigrants can no longer be classed as hotels? I wonder why this was not done sooner.

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  34. tomo says:

    I caught a bit of the 6 o’clock R4 news while trundling along the M4.

    What I heard was a summary…oh,boy they been coaching the announcers I feel !

    There was definitely a trained, harder edge to the woman announcer’s diction.

    – the delivery was what I imagine Radio Berlin sounded like early 1945, vehemence delivered with swagger, a refusal to name Lucy Connolly, the “news” deliberately intoned with disapproving and I felt rather threatening emphasis towards the “unapproved”.

    Honestly, I was surprised at the change in tone… to “a bit menacing”…

    Maybe if I’d listened to the full show I might have a different interpretation….

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    • digg says:

      The BBC are determined that this Labour Government will succeed so they will do anything in their playbook to protect them.

      It is the most unfair use of a national institution in history,

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    • tomo says:

      The tone was worse than the linked tweet here

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  35. digg says:

    The past year has demonstrated that we have been burdened by a socialist almost Marxist government who only managed this because of the staggering incompetency of the previous government.

    It is time for the people of this country to wake up and decide…. Do you want more centrally enforced rules by the Stasi Starmer crew with his nasty group of spitefull Marxist grudge makers. Or do you want to return to civil choice when it affects your life.

    For instance, Do you want the government to tell you when you can or cannot object to having hundreds of illicit, greedy foreigners dumped in your neighbourhood or not?

    Do you want your government to tell you that you are only allowed to say certain things and anything they don’t like will put you in jail?

    This will only get worse unless we rise up and give them hell!

    This dysfunctional shambles of a government needs to be booted out before they cause more damage than they already have.

    They are a disgrace to the history of what used to be a proud Country.

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  36. tomo says:

    The pitiful Newsquest UK local rags are now showing the Twitter/X logo but the articles are no longer linked…

    They’ll be gone soon

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    No comments allowed on a story about free speech! HA HAH AH AH!

    Woman jailed for race hate post released from prisonMigrants fear for their lives as woman who wants to the destroy them released from prison”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po

    ……………………………………………………

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS7M1ZIn6pwemSsVITqTvQaAGzMDpQyVCtNYA&s

    Lucy Connolly is thought to have left the prison in a taxi”Lucy burns down 10 migrant hotels on way to see her family”

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Strange way to frame it “People will keep leaving their homes around the world to come to Europe if they feel unsafe

    they feel unsafe or are unsafe?
    they feel unsafe for what reasons?

    ……………………….
    “Ministers are waiting for the French to stop dinghies leaving the shore and a separate German commitment to change its law so it can seize boats being warehoused there.

    The final factor relies on global events. People will keep leaving their homes around the world to come to Europe if they feel unsafe.” By home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2x371g2k8o

    ……………

    10:44 AM · Jun 3, 2021 “BREAKING: High Court rules the Home Office’s decision to house cross-channel migrants in a run-down barracks in Folkestone, where around 200 men then contracted Covid while sleeping in dormitories, broke the law – paving the way for damages claims.”
    damages claims
    damages claims

    https://x.com/BBCDomC/status/1400388001512017923

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    • digg says:

      FFS SAKE! You could not make this appalling shit up. we are being played by Muslim lawyers..

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  39. digg says:

    In the BBC top ten items, “Woman jailed for race hate “crime” released….”

    I cannot express my disgust at this BBC reaction to the absolute vindictive incarceration of a woman for expressing her own personal views strongly enough.

    We need to root out these vicious lefties in the legal profession…They are poisenous.

    What the bloody hell has this country come to when our national broadcaster can act like a cheerleader of the KGB?

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  40. Althepalerp says:

    Notting Hill Carnival this weekend.

    The police enable festival of mass drug use, and stabbings.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Al – the weather for Notting Hill looks hot – with the rain not due until Wednesday – so we can expect the usual morale boosting pictures of third world rubbish simulating sex in the street with some ‘right on ‘ plod –

    Apparently plod is trying out some new facial recognition kit but they are worried they all look the same ….

    The official crime figures will declare it was the safest Carnival ever with the Emir popping up to say he is going for his 4th term to finally destroy what used to be a prosperous city by 2030 ….

    When I got mugged there back @c1986 it didn’t cross my mind to report it to plod – even then – fact is – I wasn’t wealthy and didn’t have anything worth nicking – but I knew I was just a piece of white meat to the vermin mugging me .

    To all those white liberals who go to that – get what you deserve ….

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  42. JohnC says:

    As I’ve mentioned several times, I always gave the credit for Brexit and the war against the Left to Cummings. It all fell apart when Boris dumped him for Nut Nut.
    Dominic was then subjected to the usual leftist hate and spite campaign and the gullible idiots all went along with it. He was effectively removed by the likes of the BBC and one of their many campaigns to destroy all the influencial right-wing people.

    Here he is talking perfect sense about the really important issues of the day which the BBC go nowhere near. Our society is now running on left-wing activist lies and something is eventually going to break. And it might do so in a big way.

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  43. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – now we know for certain, the UN is anti-Israel

    It was made plain by the TOADY programme that the agency of the UN (yet another agency!) this time relating to food has announced that famine is in Gaza. Remember you all pay for these various UN agencies through your taxes. The Israelis say there is no famine in Gaza and the BBC web-site pictures appear to show that as true!
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world See header picture of boy with sack of food.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The Evolution of China’s Relationship with the UN

      China is a victorious country of World War II, one of the founding members of the UN, and a permanent member of Security Council.

      However, for the 26 years since the founding of the UN in 1945 to 1971, China’s lawful seat in the UN had been occupied by Chiang Kai-shek authority. On October 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 2758 which “Decides to restore all its rights to the People’s Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it”. It marked a new chapter in history. The representatives of People’s Republic of China officially made their debut at the UN, and the position and role of China in international multilateral affairs began to be acknowledged by the world.

      With steadily increasing comprehensive national strength as a result of the reform and opening-up….

      https://www.unachina.org/en/article/446
      Experience of a More Influential China at the United Nations

      The all-around cooperation between China and the UN will make the world better.

      wmhcxoj1xpk91.jpg

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      • tomo says:

        Ever read any PJ O’Rourke on the topic of the sainted United Nations?

        https://fivebooks.com/people/books-by-pj-orourke/

        I used to gift his books to my lefty pals – that was fun – while their heads exploded, the writing was so good they couldn’t stop reading 🙂

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “You can read an economics textbook, or you can read P.J. O’Rourke’s Eat the Rich, a very funny take on the perennial question economists ask: why are some countries so rich and others so poor? In memorable opening lines, O’Rourke posited, “It’s not about brains. No place on earth…is dumber than Beverly Hills and they’re wading in gravy. In Russia, meanwhile, where chess is a spectator sport, they’re boiling stones for soup.””

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Is it just me or are the nations not as united as they’d let us believe?

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  44. tomo says:

    Some geopolitics…..

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    destitute Asylum Seekers
    “services to destitute Asylum Seekers whilst they await the result of their Asylum application”

    “The data below shows the number of properties and areas with live Dispersed Accommodation in August 2019 vs August 2024 in the South Region (Wales follows a similar pattern), with the key achievement being the increased spread of dispersal rising from 57 open dispersal areas in 2019 to 136 by August 2024 and still rising and an additional 2,000 DA bedspaces procured:
    Dispersal Accommodation Dec 19 Properties in use 1,412”

    https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/137473/pdf/

    2020 then saw the start of the Covid Pandemic and the beginning of the ‘small boat crisis’ that saw a change from lorry and channel tunnel arrivals to much higher and more sustained boat crossings from Calais. These issues, along with well publicised challenges with Asylum processing rates, resulted in the requirement to accommodate newly arrived destitute Asylum Seekers within hours of their arrival in volumes not experienced in the last 25 years of delivering similar services, in some cases with up to 1,000 people needing accommodation in a single day.

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    Angela Eagle The Minister of State, Home Department
    Available data, published quarterly, on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation can be found within the Asy_D11 tab for our most recent statistics release. The data can be broken down by accommodation type. Immigration system statistics data tables – GOV.UK.

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2025-05-16.52838.h&s=Dispersed+Accommodation#g52838.q0

    …………… HA HA HA ISLAM HATES SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS …….. HAH AH A….

    “Asylum claims, initial decisions, and appeals, where sexual orientation formed part of the basis for the claim, 2015 to 2023 ”
    Claims 2023
    1,377

    Pakistan 578
    Bangladesh 175
    Nigeria 103
    India 39
    Uganda 35
    Brazil 33

    https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum

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  47. tomo says:

    Yeah… we know…

    But it is useful to write it up….

    Why Question Time is Failing Britain Through Performative Politics & Scripted Accountability

    As the disconnect between politicians and the population grows wider, Question Time continues to trivialise legitimate public anger through a system of controlled criticism.

    NGAF about QT really – apart from it making itself an irrelevance.

    https://www.sadrabbit.media/p/opinion-why-question-time-is-failing

    The MSM leave the BBC alone for the most part…

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  48. tomo says:

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  49. tomo says:

    Take-That.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Ha ha ha ha!

      Keir Starmer’s free speech crackdown slammed

         4 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Imagine if the US started banning the poisonous censors from entering the US – that’s the cabinet for a start – and really the whole of Westminster –
      They should start by doing one of those ‘summons ‘ jobs on the UK ambassador – a certain £mandelson £ and telling the UK to roll it back – or else …

      If only the US could achieve regime change here …

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  50. Althepalerp says:

    Despite the “Famine” In Gaza, the UK government still hasn’t authorized the RAF to drop Aid.

    The Tories did it in government.

    Its as if they don’t really care.

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