I will go first beating Scrobie and non-lp to it. The BBC is vile. Although ian an attempt to redeem themselves the BBC on R4 this afternoon had a programme about the Israeli hostages.
Fed, I looked at the clock and thought ‘I wonder if Fed has put the Midweek Thread up’. 🙂 … and so he had. The page would not load properly (internet gremlins?) so I was denied most of my editing time; I see I have had to leave a typo in my post.
I was actually doing just that – I’m the only bloke in the UK who’s organising a BBQ this Friday, so today was spent getting everything ready, and a box-set of ‘Hustle’, followed by a ‘Minder’ was the antidote to tiredness, and a general depletion of the tincture intake…
Just to say, ‘Talk’ was on fire earlier about all the real victims of the rape gang cover-up leaving the cast, as it’s clear that the knobs in gummint have their grubby hands on the tiller, and are trying everything to delay the investigation to keep their voters happy in suspect cities.
This one will run and run, and the bBC will have to take notice soon, whether they like it or not!
The early series of Hustle were excellent with Mickey Stone played by Adrian Lester being the brains for the gang. It was never as good when Danny, played by Mark Warren became the supposed brains. In those days I wasn’t aware of there being deliberate positive portrayal of black men on the tv. I could believe that Adrian Lester was the best man for the role.
Adrian Lester decided not to do Series 4, and although it was OK – they brought in a similar character – Ashley Walters – and he only stayed for Series 5.
Adrian Lester came back for Series 6-8, and they were damn good and (as far as an ageing Scrobs is concerned), was overly delightful because Kelly Adams took over as the lady! Again, the Scrobs corpuscles had enjoyed enough excitement with the vision of Jaime Murray before all this, but the last series – especially the final episode with Kelly and Matt Di Angelo, is a belter!
(Editor’s note, ‘Scrobs, have you ever thought of writing a critique of a programme, without boring the general public, and drooling over the ladies? Just a thought…’)
Am I alone in sensing a strong whiff of hypocrisy at the sudden explosion of Far Left Labour MPs being concerned with poor value for taxpayers?
Prince Andrew’s low annual rent for his accommodation may have cost us a few £ million over the last 20 years which I do not condone. MPs are aghast.
So let us consider the costs of one full rubberised channel ferry crossing.
Say, 50 people.
In a hotel for a year, say £50 per night.
That’s over £900,000.
Now let’s say 36,500 illegals per year. Which it is, approximately, and enables easy calculation.
100 per day. 2 boats of the ones described above.
Suddenly we are at £665 million pa. Not to include legal aid, free healthcare, dentistry, eye tests, pocket money, free phones, entertainment, plus crimes committed and the costs of investigation, process, and prison time etc etc. Shall we just agree a round £1 billion pa?
And what have the same Far Leftists complaining about Prince Andrew’s house got to say about that?
Absolutely nothing.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Sluff ,
I also hear the lefties and thus BBC saying the same about anyone arriving here are welcome if they make a “contribution ” .
Is this “contribution” voluntary ? As in someone with a bucket rings the new arrivals doorbell and asks can they “contribute ” to the UK economy , put in the pail whatever they think they can afford ?
What they really mean is that the immigrants get a job and pay some tax .Which in the vast majority of migrants means they do not pay their way .
They do not pay their way . Period . End of discussion .
Have they already paid for the massive costs of increasing the infrastructure for the massive increase of the population ? Have they paid for the bureaucracy to to administer their arrival ? Have they paid for the security to monitor them ?
Let`s remember if immigration is so good for a country then all our recent arrivals should be sent to countries and places that need a leg up more than we do – like Africa , Venuzuala , Bangladesh etc .
Once these illegals have arrived, the cost – estimated at just under £3bn, is supposedly taken from the Overseas Development budget, which then of course reduces the money that the ‘poorer’ nations can use for their own infrastructure, culture, jobs, housing etc.
(Via Chat )
What the data shows
In 2023, the UK spent about £4.3 billion of its ODA on costs associated with asylum seekers/refugees in the UK, which was ~28% of the total ODA budget.
The Guardian
In 2024, that spending fell to around £2.8 billion, representing ~20% of the ODA budget.
GOV.UK
Within those domestic refugee costs, the Home Office is responsible for the bulk—especially for accommodation costs (hotel/housing) for asylum seekers. In 2023, of the ~£2.9bn ODA from the Home Office, ~£2.49bn was for asylum accommodation.
Independent Commission for Aid Impact.
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And that’s for just one year!
Now, there’ll be the additional costs of these people from thereon, plus their families, and the economic drain of taxes which are being piled on the British Citizens to pay for this madness.
The commercial liabilities of the totally incompetent Reeves have yet to bite, but we can be sure that come the end of November, the financial upheaval will be catastrophic.
Oddly enough, a knowledgeable commentator on the radio yesterday, (not a raging leftie), said that raising income tax is a distinct possibility now, despite the lies of Starmer and his band of useless ornaments at the election, and the last budget.
Im jusr wating for the jess phillips – andrew windsor – tommy robinson link in some mad way to this site – with its’ heavily French national jewels kicking along …
Shabana Mahmood has said the enquiry will not be watered down ON MY WATCH.
If it starts getting some truths coming out, even only 5% of what’s really happening, she will be promoted, moved or whatever. Too many police, politicians, council workers and the like are involved.
Mind, if you were to have an enquiry into anything you would find huge corruption. HS2 costs, PPE during covid, NHS spending, so many snouts in troughs.
The Nation wants Maggie Oliver to Chair this enquiry but I bet she will not be allowed to. Even some unknown NZ or Canadian Judge would likely be a labour sympathiser being nudged and encouraged to arrive at the correct conclusions.
Nobody trusts the politicians and their State public servants.
If there ever is an inquiry the only metric that we the public will be convinced of its unbiased pursuit of the truth is the number of Muslim men, corrupt police officers and council officials that are put on trial .
If the combined total does not exceed several thousand it will have been a cover up and whitewash. Additionally plenty of former national politicians and high profile journalists should be disgraced for looking the other way.
It’s Diwali.
The Festival of Light.
But here in Amritsar on Thames it’s more like the Festival of Noise.
Bang bang bang crack crack bang bang. The fireworks go off incessantly from dusk to 11 pm.
Whatever happened to courtesy and consideration for school kids, the elderly, and pets? We get all the warnings for Bonfire Night (remember that?) so why not Diwali?
You cannot buy ‘adult’ fireworks if you’re under 18, and it’s against the law for anyone to set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except on certain occasions.
Adult fireworks are category 2 and 3 fireworks – they do not include things like party poppers.
Category 4 fireworks can only be used by professionals.
The law says you must not set off or throw fireworks (including sparklers) in the street or other public places.
You must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except for:
Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight
New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am
Check with your council to find out about any local rules for setting off fireworks.
Get information about firework safety from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Health and Safety Executive.
Buying fireworks
You can only buy fireworks (including sparklers) from registered sellers for private use on these dates:
15 October to 10 November
26 to 31 December
3 days before Diwali and Chinese New Year
At other times you can only buy fireworks from licensed shops.
You can be fined an unlimited amount and imprisoned for up to 6 months for selling or using fireworks illegally. You could also get an on-the-spot fine of £90.
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PS. Diwali is five days, 18-22 October this year. So three more nights to go. It’s like Easter changing dates depending on the moon. Never known anyone prosecuted for breaking these time restraints. We’ve had fireworks near us for about ten days now. I thought it might have been due to the hostage release in Israel / Gaza.
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BREAKING: Bob Vylan accidentally admits that BBC staff cheered his “death to the IDF” chant.
Louis Theroux tried to brush it off — but Bob just couldn’t keep quiet.
The BBC is fully a propaganda outlet.
This is true. Louis was the one Jimmy Savile bragged to as well?
Police attacked at protest outside asylum seeker hotel
Irish police have been attacked with missiles and fireworks at a protest outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin.
A police vehicle was also set on fire at the Citywest Hotel on Tuesday evening. A line of riot police prevented the protesters getting to the hotel.
Broadcaster RTÉ is reporting that several thousand people had gathered.
Geez….No wonder Le Pen is on the ascendant….do you just let these invaders, which is what they are, destroy your country, nation, civilisation, or do you stop them? Trump shows you can just stop them…it just takes the will….
Normally at the BBC, THREE victims of RAPE gangs (NOT ‘grooming’ gangs BBC) pulling out of an enquiry because they say it is trying to cover-up what happened would be a slam-dunk, full on crticism of the enquiry and everybody behind it. It’s pure ‘female rape victims vs. the establishment’ and would be 110% supporting their narrative (using the usual BBC Panorama-style lies) and virtually no counter-arguments except for maybe one paragraph half way down. Just like they did countless times in Gaza when covering up for Hamas terrorists.
So I wondered how the BBC would handle this one. And sure enough – despite such damning proof of their corruption – it is nowhere near as one-sided as it should be.
Because the BBC are caught between agendas : on one hand young, innocent girls got gang-raped but on the other hand telling the truth will paint the Muslims as they actually are. And the BBC REALLY want to protect THEM as the victims to be used against the Right.
So they give about half of the entire article to covering meaningless rhetoric statements from the government such as:
‘In her resignation letter, Elizabeth said the process felt like “a cover-up” and had “created a toxic environment for survivors”.
Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips has denied claims of a cover-up and insisted her government was “committed to exposing the failures” to tackle “these appalling crimes”.’
‘Ms Reynolds, who was abused by a gang of Pakistani brothers in Barrow, said the “final turning point” in her decision to quit was a move to widen the inquiry “in ways that downplay the racial and religious motivations behind our abuse”.
Phillips has said it is “untrue” the government is seeking to dilute the focus of the inquiry, insisting its scope will be “laser-focused”.’
Just imagine how the BBC would have presented this if it didn’t involve Muslims and it was the Conservatives trying to cover it up. It would run with a new ‘story’ daily until a proper National enquiry was set up. With the ridiculous power the BBC now have, they could bring Starmer down with this story if they wanted to. But they won’t : Labour respect must be preserved because Farage will win if it isn’t.
They even end it like this. The BBC don’t want a National enquiry either.
‘The Conservatives have called for the inquiry to be chaired by a senior judge to guarantee impartiality and restore faith in the process.
Phillips rejected that suggestion, arguing that Baroness Casey, who led a previous inquiry into the subject, had said she did not want a traditional judicial-led inquiry.’
In what way is that last statement suppose to be a justification ???.
It’s a grossly misleading headline intended to turn you against him from the start. If you read the article, you learn he paid £8 million upfront for renovations which was taken as his rent for the duration of the lease.
Here we have the Left and their spiteful nature under the spotlight. I know Andrew is a top-drawer tw@t, but this is not about him. It’s about the mindset of the Left.
They don’t just want Andrew to lose his job, they want him ruined. They want his life turned into pure misery and they will gloat over it.
That’s how they are. The trans-activists are the worst and most nasty of all – but it’s all part of the same way the brain is wired. It’s pure, spiteful hate.
You have to look for the story on the BBC hidden away as it is and not a headline….and when you get there there’s no inkling given as to why people are protesting, violently or otherwise…..’Belfast Live’ gives us the news the BBC wants to hide….
‘Alleged rape of 10-year-old Irish girl by asylum seeker on grounds of hotel being investigated’
The BBC decides instead has decided to present this as meaningless thuggery and violence by a mob of racists…
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – BBC’s Remoaner heritage secure!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd03xd5gkmo The Independent makes a strange appearance in the BBC’s newspaper line-up this morning. I wonder why? No, I don’t. The BBC are firmly in the EU Remoaner sector, bemoaning the severence of our rule taking from Brussels. I am sure the BBC would like to get us back into the EU toute suite and are hoping that the Labour Government would maybe give the people of the UK a second EU Referendum. Vile BBC.
VAT is an indirect tax because the tax is paid to the government by the seller (the business) rather than the person who ultimately bears the economic burden of the tax (the consumer).
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The UK government taxes fuel through Fuel Duty and VAT. Fuel Duty is a flat rate of \(52.95p\) per litre for petrol and diesel, and VAT is applied at a rate of 20% to the price of the fuel plus the Fuel Duty.
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SDLT raised £11.6bn for the government in the 2023-24 financial year, external, down from £15.4bn in 2022-23.
Of this, £8.6bn was due to residential property purchases in 2023-24, down from £11.7bn in 2022-23.
Today
A wonderfully inept interview with someone who apparentky is the ‘environment minister ‘ – this DEI held up the sheer lack of quality of the marxist cabinet . She knows nothing . She has no views – even on her own brief …. A decent interviewer wouid have crushed her .
BTW looks like the BBC is taking on the royal family finances …ouch
Islamic Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (ex Justice Secretary who Protested to block sainsbury’s from buying Israel goods) says the investigation into fellow Islamic Pakistan people who loved 1400 kids so much they had to convert them to Islam using the old aged Mohammed way of turning them into woman earlier than normal- aged 6 is preferred – wait until 9.
2022 “Police and crime commissioner ‘disappointed’ as child sexual abuse inquiry ‘fails to identify individual accountability’. A long £6m investigation …. Operation Linden …. exploitation between 1997 and 2013 .. 1,400 …. 16 years span ….Not one officer lost their job as a result of the process and the most severe sanction was a written warning.”
Mark Brown North of England correspondent Jun 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/22/costly-report-into-rotherham-police-failings-lets-down-grooming-survivors
So it seems it wasn’t the Tories who created the “Black Hole” it was Brexit all along says Reeves reaching for yet another Labour life-line or should I say life-lie?
Just imagine how much better this Country would be if we had a government who looked for opportunities instead of the current shower who are constantly looking for scapegoats
Faisal Islam earned between £235,000 and £239,999 in the 2024/25 financial year. This is a decrease from his 2023/24 salary, which was in the £260,000 to £264,999 range.
Good news for a change and there’s a little ray of sunshine this morning – mind you, it does come care of the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror: Britain isn’t broken, you are all amazing… Keir’s praise at No10… Pride of Britain winners got a heroes’ welcome… personal tour… He said… the country is far from fractured, as doom mongers claim… “It’s completely the opposite”… Child of Courage… 12, told Mr Starmer he wants to be his deputy and he would start by “fixing all the potholes”
If Labour slip further in the polls our 12-year-olds may well get the vote and the chance to become Labour MPs.
Even our BBC staff lack the chutzpah to present this Daily Mirror lefty PR effort as a serious frontpage news headline and instead have to demote the Mirror down to their jokey ‘and finally’ spot in their online print press line-up.
The Mirror do so like to talk about their ‘Charidee’ work. Another take away from this report might be how ‘fixing the pot holes’ has become our new de-Mussolini connotationed good government mantra to replace ‘making the trains run on time’
But when government mucks up… as it often does… there’s always the public inquiry
On a day when the focus is on the stage management of public inquiries: Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos (Mail) – and this one doesn’t even exist yet.
Meanwhile, Boris is telling tales out of school at another inquiry: Boris: Our lockdowns failed kids… admitted school children paid ‘a huge price’ for Britain’s Covid lockdowns… shutting schools for millions of children had been a ‘nightmare’… It felt to me as though children who are not particularly vulnerable to Covid were paying a huge, huge price to protect the rest of society… I thought it was a nightmare idea’ (plaudits to the giveaway Metro for headlining this report, probably the real top story of the day)
Likewise the FT give it a little frontpage teaser: Covid rules went ‘too far’… Boris Johnson told the inquiry
One for Jennifer Aniston fans: Can shampoo repair hair? Four haircare myths get the chop (BBC) – now for the science bit?
Quick check on the minutiae of American law regarding planning permission (it’s what you pays your tv licence fees for): Is Trump allowed to demolish part of the White House to build a ballroom? (BBC Verify)
As the Guardian’s Madeleine Aggeler tells us of: My weird week with an AI companion, so our BBC welcomes back their virtual friend, the online only Observer, to their otherwise print press line-up: Brexit hit economy even harder than feared, says Reeves – gotta make an exception to the rules for that one, eh?
Come, come, luv. Brexit weren’t all bad. Think of the… animals? Revealed: UK’s red lines in Brexit reset food deal. Live animal exports, gene editing and foie gras key concerns (i paper)
Good luck with those negotiations, Keir. I’ve a feeling, just like the Russians won’t ever give up the Donbas: Trump abandons hope of Putin summit… Kremlin rejected proposal to freeze the Ukraine conflict along the present front lines (Times) – so the French will presently be in no mood to give up their foie gras: Jewels stolen from Louvre not insured (Telegraph)
“While the Independent was not fully “bought” by Saudi interests, a Saudi businessman, Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel, bought a 30% stake in its digital arm in 2017, becoming a minority owner alongside Evgeny Lebedev. The investment was made through an offshore fund ultimately owned by a Saudi bank, and while concerns were raised about editorial independence, a formal agreement was put in place to protect it. “
The arty-farty film reviewers at the BBC have written acres of rubbish asking why the DiCaprio movie One Battle After Another flopped at the box office despite glowing reviews by film critics.
Of course they miss the point – two points.
First the film flopped because it was left-wing woke propaganda glorifying the revolutionary left, in which the villains were right-wing Christian nationalists.
Secondly the critics loved it because it was left-wing woke propaganda idealising the revolutionary left, in which the villains were right-wing Christian nationalists.
And if there’s one thing (3 things) the liberals love to hate it’s right-wing; Christian; nationalists.
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Having been kept in room 101 for a good while, I am pleased to confirm the excellence of the plan to classify existing tradespeople like Plumbers as energy workers, thus ensuring that our dear leaders plan to create 400,000 new jobs will be successful. I love Big Brother.
650 MPs to be renamed as Migrant Hotels so they can house 650 Migrants? HA HA HAH AH A HA!
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Ed Miliband has been ridiculed over plans to rebrand plumbers, electricians and welders as “clean energy” workers.
The Energy Secretary said new trainees in these trades should see themselves as critical to the campaign to drive Britain towards net zero.
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David Lammy at British Chambers of Commerce | The FCDO Means Business
What wonderful laugh out loud moments on the BBC- today “magazine&agenda programme” this morning.
Margaret Hodge, the always angry about tax , ex politician who used to chase tax evaders and was head of the parliamentary committee on Public accounts.
She was given a platform to rant on and on about Prince Andrew and not paying what is due , etc,etc.
She had all the figures and told us lots of detail, very impressive , all down to the last quid.
I am concerned about Dear old Margarets memory though,
Her own Tax arrangements in relation to her interest in Stemcor , the steel trading business her father founded and run by her brother, have given rise to concerns in the past , in particular the suggestion that she ,Margaret, received 96,000 shares worth £1.5 million, transferred from a Lichtenstein based trust, shocking also to learn the family trust was based in Panama, of all places.
However I’m sure there is nothing untoward about any of her dealings and am equally sure everythi g would have been done properly…..but….it just goes to show that Prince Andrew needs to be careful .He could do worse than getting Margaret Hodges tax advisers phone number, that way nothing could possibly go wrong.
My only surprise was that the BBC-today programme interviewer didn’t state that poor Margaret had raised a few eyebrows over her own tax in the past and was an expert as a result….
“David Cameron’s China investment fund, intended to channel billions of dollars from China into the UK, ultimately failed to launch. Sources claim the fund never had any substance, funding, or a clear strategy, but was instead a PR-focused project that was ultimately unsuccessful in securing investor backing. Cameron’s role as vice-chairman of a related £1 billion China-UK investment fund was later described as potentially being engineered by the Chinese state to gain credibility. ”
I do recall comrade hodge working with comrade Corbyn at the socialist republic of Islington . Wiki reports that she was born in Egypt and is Jewish – her real name being Oppenheimer ?
She got a really easy time on Today going on about the royals and their non payment of taxes . No wonder they smile a lot …
Inflation staying at 3.8% and food inflation still going up . I think the state uses the 3.8 number to fix things like state pension increases ….
That budget in a month is gonna be a doozy – rachel needs our money right now …. So there will be plenty over overnight increases cum 26th november ….
Farage – brexit – you – will be blamed for the crashed economy ..
What could be more disturbing than a significant British political party being lead by a Marxist con-man? I know that could be Smarmer but think Green, think Zack Polanski.
What is most disturbing is the fact that the Green membership has voted for that specimen. They must be an incredibly deluded group of people, think of those religious cults. I notice that there is a preponderance of females in the Green Party, perhaps they all want to be hypnotised into growing bigger boobs.
Sadly there are still a good number of well-meaning but misguided people who think of the Greens as a cosy, cuddly party wanting to protect parks and green open spaces.
Rather than the Hard Left Marxist class warriors they really are.
The bulk of this announcement is, however, drawn from a £6.5bn pledge by Welltower, a US property investment company which invests in healthcare infrastructure across the UK, in the creation of thousands of new beds in elderly facilities.
The US-based firm last year agreed to buy Care UK, one of Britain’s largest care home chains, in a deal first reported by the Guardian at a time of growing lobbying by private providers for a greater role in the NHS.
‘We have just been attacked by the police themselves.’
GB News Northern Ireland Correspondent Dougie Beattie reports that their media crew has been ‘pepper-sprayed, smashed and knocked to the ground’ by the police at a Dublin protest. pic.twitter.com/vzJsGYx1Iv
Times radio reporting that Doctors, Dentists, Architects etc are soon to be mugged for extra National Insurance because they are at the moment in Limited Partnerships with different NI deals.
The protest in Dublin against an African child rapist at an invasion hotel seems not to be of interest to the British msm – D notice on invader crime ?
As happens so often these days, the MSM are all miraculously following the same narrative : telling us how bad the protestors are and NOT telling us about the rape of the 10 year old which caused it. I wonder if it’s the BBC ‘TNI’ controlling the news again.
The actual court-case report came up and it tells me:
‘She told the court the accused, who cannot be named, was arrested at 3.58am in Clondalkin Garda Station and when charged, he replied: “I have nothing to say.”‘
Cannot be named ???. Why not ? – he’s been charged.
All becomes clear when we learn:
‘His defence solicitor asked that he be produced in person in court and that an Arabic interpreter be provided.’
They are covering up the rape of 10 year old girls by these illegal migrants. No wonder people are angry.
I remember begging Louis to interview the @AllianceLGB to counter the disinformation campaign they were facing. Of course he refused. Too much of a coward to profile some lifelong gay rights activists but a hipster antisemite? "I'll be right there!" https://t.co/CgjrDDGkim
Bobby Vylan’s real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster. He is the lead singer of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan, which he formed with his bandmate, Bobbie Vylan, whose real name is Wade Laurence George
Problem is that so many of these posers are adored for their disgusting predilections by so many gullible young twats who mistakenly see fuckwit as desirable.
Uber and Bonnie Blue bang Nus will solve the UK’s economy problems!
“Yes, the number of Uber riders has increased, with a 19.3% year-on-year increase in trips completed in 2023 and 5 million active riders in the UK as of 2023.”
Rolls-Royce Spectre (Flagship Electric Model): This was the standout performer, with 13 new units registered in Ukraine by late December 2024. Each Spectre retails for over €500,000 (approximately $550,000 USD or 22 million UAH), making the total value exceed €6.5 million. Production began in 2023, and these early deliveries reflect demand from elite buyers queuing for the brand’s first EV. Owners include:People’s Deputy Hennadiy Vatsak (known for his luxury car collection).
Former Deputy Vitaliy Khomutynnyk.
Business figures like Mykhailo Bakunenko, Yehor Maslenikov, Olena Silenko, and Yuliia Kartsyhina (daughter of entrepreneur Serhii Khanovych).
Sightings reported in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and Cherkasy.
Why does the BBC internet imaging ALWASYS show us
ethnic Getty’s advertising models in their ” cost of
living features?”
It’s so obvious that even today on Charlotte Edwards
3.5% inflation rise. The image is like ” can you spot the
ethnicity of the models?” Don’t worry if you cant.
Getty’s and the BBC will rarely if ever use Caucasian
models. ESPECIALLY stale, pale males.
The comedian has argued in his new book that all black Britons should be paid reparations and suggested a ‘Robin Hood tax’ on financial transactions to fund it.
Sir Lenny also cited a figure from a report published by the University of West Indies in June 2023 which concluded the UK owed more than £18trillion in reparations.
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China’s economy is worth about $19.40 trillion in nominal GDP as of October 2025
‘Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump said his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest with Russia’s Vladimir Putin had been shelved as he did not want a “wasted meeting”.’
The BBC just don’t stop. So this strike was Trumps fault was it BBC for not going to see Putin ?.
Jesus H Christ, talks about TDS.
Are we seriously supposed to believe Russia started organising and preparing these hundreds of drones in a fit of spite because Trump cancelled the meeting ?.
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
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Let us all stop funding UK terrorism!
It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism.
But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).
Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.
“My wife’s boyfriend has a job running an experimental nuclear reactor in Trieste.
Last month the reactor began to overheat. Meltdown was imminent. The explosion would have destroyed half of Italy, Slovenia and Austria.
Just when they were all on the brink of despair, a brown man—likely a refugee—appeared, and quickly performed complex nuclear engineering to bring the reactor under control.
When they tried to award him Italy’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, he refused and simply said, “This is my culture. In my village, we repair nuclear reactors for free.”
And yet the working-class right-wing bigots never hear about this type of thing.”
“We are concerned by suggestions that specialist vape stores could be unfairly grouped alongside ‘unwanted’ businesses” adding: “Vape stores like ours play a vital role in public health.”
“Yes, San Francisco is a sanctuary city that provides certain protections for migrants, including limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. This policy has led to legal challenges, with the city and other municipalities suing the federal government to protect funding for sanctuary jurisdictions. San Francisco also has expanded policies for immigrant inclusion beyond just sanctuary status. “
Mercifully, Black History Month is drawing to a close. So when I go to my local library, I won’t be faced with row upon row of book covers with angry black men glaring at me, or titles telling me how racist we are, how everything good came from blacks (including civilisation itself) and everything bad from whites, bla bla.
But I will then have the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People to look forward to, and the endless cycle of woke causes about gays, trannies, wimmin, etc. Anti-Slavery Day, Islamophobia Awareness Day, Transgender Awareness month, etc etc. It’s relentless.
Our libraries, like our schools and so many other institutions, have become year-round leftist propaganda outlets.
Foul deviancy…. note the poor child in the second row who’s mummy and second mummy have garbed her up in rainbow headgear to make sure that she is fully indoctrinated before going to watch this grubby spectacle.
The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
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Ms Shah didn’t say this. She retweeted then quickly deleted this quote from a parody account on Twitter (now X) in 2017, and has said the sharing of the post was a “genuine accident”. https://fullfact.org/politics/naz-shah-grooming-gangs-quote/
Labour MP Naz Shah said: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity.”
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I will go first beating Scrobie and non-lp to it. The BBC is vile. Although ian an attempt to redeem themselves the BBC on R4 this afternoon had a programme about the Israeli hostages.
Meat Loaf had something to say about two out of three. I have to mea culpa but wine got in the way again last night.
n-lp, 🙁
Up2 – I applaud your discipline …poor old scrob is watch
Ing his boxed sets …
Fed, I looked at the clock and thought ‘I wonder if Fed has put the Midweek Thread up’. 🙂 … and so he had. The page would not load properly (internet gremlins?) so I was denied most of my editing time; I see I have had to leave a typo in my post.
Ha ha ha – Fed and Uppers!
I was actually doing just that – I’m the only bloke in the UK who’s organising a BBQ this Friday, so today was spent getting everything ready, and a box-set of ‘Hustle’, followed by a ‘Minder’ was the antidote to tiredness, and a general depletion of the tincture intake…
Just to say, ‘Talk’ was on fire earlier about all the real victims of the rape gang cover-up leaving the cast, as it’s clear that the knobs in gummint have their grubby hands on the tiller, and are trying everything to delay the investigation to keep their voters happy in suspect cities.
This one will run and run, and the bBC will have to take notice soon, whether they like it or not!
The early series of Hustle were excellent with Mickey Stone played by Adrian Lester being the brains for the gang. It was never as good when Danny, played by Mark Warren became the supposed brains. In those days I wasn’t aware of there being deliberate positive portrayal of black men on the tv. I could believe that Adrian Lester was the best man for the role.
Adrian Lester decided not to do Series 4, and although it was OK – they brought in a similar character – Ashley Walters – and he only stayed for Series 5.
Adrian Lester came back for Series 6-8, and they were damn good and (as far as an ageing Scrobs is concerned), was overly delightful because Kelly Adams took over as the lady! Again, the Scrobs corpuscles had enjoyed enough excitement with the vision of Jaime Murray before all this, but the last series – especially the final episode with Kelly and Matt Di Angelo, is a belter!
(Editor’s note, ‘Scrobs, have you ever thought of writing a critique of a programme, without boring the general public, and drooling over the ladies? Just a thought…’)
Am I alone in sensing a strong whiff of hypocrisy at the sudden explosion of Far Left Labour MPs being concerned with poor value for taxpayers?
Prince Andrew’s low annual rent for his accommodation may have cost us a few £ million over the last 20 years which I do not condone. MPs are aghast.
So let us consider the costs of one full rubberised channel ferry crossing.
Say, 50 people.
In a hotel for a year, say £50 per night.
That’s over £900,000.
Now let’s say 36,500 illegals per year. Which it is, approximately, and enables easy calculation.
100 per day. 2 boats of the ones described above.
Suddenly we are at £665 million pa. Not to include legal aid, free healthcare, dentistry, eye tests, pocket money, free phones, entertainment, plus crimes committed and the costs of investigation, process, and prison time etc etc. Shall we just agree a round £1 billion pa?
And what have the same Far Leftists complaining about Prince Andrew’s house got to say about that?
Absolutely nothing.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Sluff ,
I also hear the lefties and thus BBC saying the same about anyone arriving here are welcome if they make a “contribution ” .
Is this “contribution” voluntary ? As in someone with a bucket rings the new arrivals doorbell and asks can they “contribute ” to the UK economy , put in the pail whatever they think they can afford ?
What they really mean is that the immigrants get a job and pay some tax .Which in the vast majority of migrants means they do not pay their way .
They do not pay their way . Period . End of discussion .
Have they already paid for the massive costs of increasing the infrastructure for the massive increase of the population ? Have they paid for the bureaucracy to to administer their arrival ? Have they paid for the security to monitor them ?
Let`s remember if immigration is so good for a country then all our recent arrivals should be sent to countries and places that need a leg up more than we do – like Africa , Venuzuala , Bangladesh etc .
The immigration costs are only just starting.
Once these illegals have arrived, the cost – estimated at just under £3bn, is supposedly taken from the Overseas Development budget, which then of course reduces the money that the ‘poorer’ nations can use for their own infrastructure, culture, jobs, housing etc.
(Via Chat )
What the data shows
In 2023, the UK spent about £4.3 billion of its ODA on costs associated with asylum seekers/refugees in the UK, which was ~28% of the total ODA budget.
The Guardian
In 2024, that spending fell to around £2.8 billion, representing ~20% of the ODA budget.
GOV.UK
Within those domestic refugee costs, the Home Office is responsible for the bulk—especially for accommodation costs (hotel/housing) for asylum seekers. In 2023, of the ~£2.9bn ODA from the Home Office, ~£2.49bn was for asylum accommodation.
Independent Commission for Aid Impact.
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And that’s for just one year!
Now, there’ll be the additional costs of these people from thereon, plus their families, and the economic drain of taxes which are being piled on the British Citizens to pay for this madness.
The commercial liabilities of the totally incompetent Reeves have yet to bite, but we can be sure that come the end of November, the financial upheaval will be catastrophic.
Oddly enough, a knowledgeable commentator on the radio yesterday, (not a raging leftie), said that raising income tax is a distinct possibility now, despite the lies of Starmer and his band of useless ornaments at the election, and the last budget.
That will be the final straw.
Im jusr wating for the jess phillips – andrew windsor – tommy robinson link in some mad way to this site – with its’ heavily French national jewels kicking along …
Shabana Mahmood has said the enquiry will not be watered down ON MY WATCH.
If it starts getting some truths coming out, even only 5% of what’s really happening, she will be promoted, moved or whatever. Too many police, politicians, council workers and the like are involved.
Mind, if you were to have an enquiry into anything you would find huge corruption. HS2 costs, PPE during covid, NHS spending, so many snouts in troughs.
The Nation wants Maggie Oliver to Chair this enquiry but I bet she will not be allowed to. Even some unknown NZ or Canadian Judge would likely be a labour sympathiser being nudged and encouraged to arrive at the correct conclusions.
Nobody trusts the politicians and their State public servants.
If there ever is an inquiry the only metric that we the public will be convinced of its unbiased pursuit of the truth is the number of Muslim men, corrupt police officers and council officials that are put on trial .
If the combined total does not exceed several thousand it will have been a cover up and whitewash. Additionally plenty of former national politicians and high profile journalists should be disgraced for looking the other way.
It’s Diwali.
The Festival of Light.
But here in Amritsar on Thames it’s more like the Festival of Noise.
Bang bang bang crack crack bang bang. The fireworks go off incessantly from dusk to 11 pm.
Whatever happened to courtesy and consideration for school kids, the elderly, and pets? We get all the warnings for Bonfire Night (remember that?) so why not Diwali?
TTK.
Yes, Diwali can get loud, and it’s 2-tier-policing again.
But give me Indians any day over certain other ‘communities’.
https://www.gov.uk/fireworks-the-law
Fireworks: the law
You cannot buy ‘adult’ fireworks if you’re under 18, and it’s against the law for anyone to set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except on certain occasions.
Adult fireworks are category 2 and 3 fireworks – they do not include things like party poppers.
Category 4 fireworks can only be used by professionals.
The law says you must not set off or throw fireworks (including sparklers) in the street or other public places.
You must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except for:
Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight
New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am
Check with your council to find out about any local rules for setting off fireworks.
Get information about firework safety from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Health and Safety Executive.
Buying fireworks
You can only buy fireworks (including sparklers) from registered sellers for private use on these dates:
15 October to 10 November
26 to 31 December
3 days before Diwali and Chinese New Year
At other times you can only buy fireworks from licensed shops.
You can be fined an unlimited amount and imprisoned for up to 6 months for selling or using fireworks illegally. You could also get an on-the-spot fine of £90.
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PS. Diwali is five days, 18-22 October this year. So three more nights to go. It’s like Easter changing dates depending on the moon. Never known anyone prosecuted for breaking these time restraints. We’ve had fireworks near us for about ten days now. I thought it might have been due to the hostage release in Israel / Gaza.
Some bastard let some off at 4am near here.
https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1980627743940194773?s=61
BREAKING: Bob Vylan accidentally admits that BBC staff cheered his “death to the IDF” chant.
Louis Theroux tried to brush it off — but Bob just couldn’t keep quiet.
The BBC is fully a propaganda outlet.
This is true. Louis was the one Jimmy Savile bragged to as well?
Meanwhile, over in the Republic of Ireland……..
Police attacked at protest outside asylum seeker hotel
Irish police have been attacked with missiles and fireworks at a protest outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin.
A police vehicle was also set on fire at the Citywest Hotel on Tuesday evening. A line of riot police prevented the protesters getting to the hotel.
Broadcaster RTÉ is reporting that several thousand people had gathered.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629zg8v8jpo
WOW Sluff : the BBC totally ignore the reason those protestors were there:
From The Guardian:
‘Six arrests made after crowd hurled fireworks and other missiles at officers during protests following alleged sexual assault on a young girl’
Another MASSIVE lie by omission from the BBC.
This one is absolutely unforgiveable !. It gives a totally false narrative that the Right started it for no reason except racism.
Geez….No wonder Le Pen is on the ascendant….do you just let these invaders, which is what they are, destroy your country, nation, civilisation, or do you stop them? Trump shows you can just stop them…it just takes the will….
At last, the msm are waking up. Paul Goodman in yesterday’s DT:
“Islam has been a problem in Britain for a long time. It’s time to face up to that. It is late in the day: Westminster must shake off its complacency”
Too little, too late, I fear.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/20/islam-britain-terrorism-attacks-problem-time-to-act/
Fiona Goddard states Jess Phillips lied twice
bio : Cse survivor from bradford.
Failed by the establishment
Campaigner, activist and advocate
Groomed: A National Scandal review – it is staggering to hear these children called ‘promiscuous’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/30/groomed-a-national-scandal-review-anna-hall-channel-4
Third survivor quits grooming gang inquiry panel
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwykd173l3vo
This was an interesting article to read.
Normally at the BBC, THREE victims of RAPE gangs (NOT ‘grooming’ gangs BBC) pulling out of an enquiry because they say it is trying to cover-up what happened would be a slam-dunk, full on crticism of the enquiry and everybody behind it. It’s pure ‘female rape victims vs. the establishment’ and would be 110% supporting their narrative (using the usual BBC Panorama-style lies) and virtually no counter-arguments except for maybe one paragraph half way down. Just like they did countless times in Gaza when covering up for Hamas terrorists.
So I wondered how the BBC would handle this one. And sure enough – despite such damning proof of their corruption – it is nowhere near as one-sided as it should be.
Because the BBC are caught between agendas : on one hand young, innocent girls got gang-raped but on the other hand telling the truth will paint the Muslims as they actually are. And the BBC REALLY want to protect THEM as the victims to be used against the Right.
So they give about half of the entire article to covering meaningless rhetoric statements from the government such as:
‘In her resignation letter, Elizabeth said the process felt like “a cover-up” and had “created a toxic environment for survivors”.
Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips has denied claims of a cover-up and insisted her government was “committed to exposing the failures” to tackle “these appalling crimes”.’
‘Ms Reynolds, who was abused by a gang of Pakistani brothers in Barrow, said the “final turning point” in her decision to quit was a move to widen the inquiry “in ways that downplay the racial and religious motivations behind our abuse”.
Phillips has said it is “untrue” the government is seeking to dilute the focus of the inquiry, insisting its scope will be “laser-focused”.’
Just imagine how the BBC would have presented this if it didn’t involve Muslims and it was the Conservatives trying to cover it up. It would run with a new ‘story’ daily until a proper National enquiry was set up. With the ridiculous power the BBC now have, they could bring Starmer down with this story if they wanted to. But they won’t : Labour respect must be preserved because Farage will win if it isn’t.
They even end it like this. The BBC don’t want a National enquiry either.
‘The Conservatives have called for the inquiry to be chaired by a senior judge to guarantee impartiality and restore faith in the process.
Phillips rejected that suggestion, arguing that Baroness Casey, who led a previous inquiry into the subject, had said she did not want a traditional judicial-led inquiry.’
In what way is that last statement suppose to be a justification ???.
Every time that witch Philips opens her mouth poor little fairies have to die.
The deal that means Prince Andrew can still afford to live in Royal Lodge
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmx1gxv1e7o
It’s a grossly misleading headline intended to turn you against him from the start. If you read the article, you learn he paid £8 million upfront for renovations which was taken as his rent for the duration of the lease.
Here we have the Left and their spiteful nature under the spotlight. I know Andrew is a top-drawer tw@t, but this is not about him. It’s about the mindset of the Left.
They don’t just want Andrew to lose his job, they want him ruined. They want his life turned into pure misery and they will gloat over it.
That’s how they are. The trans-activists are the worst and most nasty of all – but it’s all part of the same way the brain is wired. It’s pure, spiteful hate.
Did
PrinceAndrew theDuke of Yorkpay his BBC TV Tax?You have to look for the story on the BBC hidden away as it is and not a headline….and when you get there there’s no inkling given as to why people are protesting, violently or otherwise…..’Belfast Live’ gives us the news the BBC wants to hide….
‘Alleged rape of 10-year-old Irish girl by asylum seeker on grounds of hotel being investigated’
The BBC decides instead has decided to present this as meaningless thuggery and violence by a mob of racists…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629zg8v8jpo
How times change…this the same BBC that glorified and celebrated the terrrorism, murder, torture and criminal activities committed by the IRA.
I quoted earlier that the protests were ‘an alleged sexual assault’ from The Guardian.
I should have known better : they too covered up it was the alleged rape of a 10 year old girl.
Makes the protests seem valid when you know the truth. And the anger when the police are on the side of the rapists.
A catchy little ditty to cheer us up in these dark times.
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https://modernity.news/2025/10/22/japan-says-no-thanks/?
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – BBC’s Remoaner heritage secure!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd03xd5gkmo The Independent makes a strange appearance in the BBC’s newspaper line-up this morning. I wonder why? No, I don’t. The BBC are firmly in the EU Remoaner sector, bemoaning the severence of our rule taking from Brussels. I am sure the BBC would like to get us back into the EU toute suite and are hoping that the Labour Government would maybe give the people of the UK a second EU Referendum. Vile BBC.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – Sexist BBC all over again!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business Only women do the shopping – preferably slim, blonde women with long hair! Or at the market … https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgv1071417t.
How to make bad news good news?
“The UK inflation rate has remained stable at 3.8% “
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjryg38elzo
stable
stable
stable
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VAT is an indirect tax because the tax is paid to the government by the seller (the business) rather than the person who ultimately bears the economic burden of the tax (the consumer).
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The UK government taxes fuel through Fuel Duty and VAT. Fuel Duty is a flat rate of \(52.95p\) per litre for petrol and diesel, and VAT is applied at a rate of 20% to the price of the fuel plus the Fuel Duty.
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SDLT raised £11.6bn for the government in the 2023-24 financial year, external, down from £15.4bn in 2022-23.
Of this, £8.6bn was due to residential property purchases in 2023-24, down from £11.7bn in 2022-23.
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Today
A wonderfully inept interview with someone who apparentky is the ‘environment minister ‘ – this DEI held up the sheer lack of quality of the marxist cabinet . She knows nothing . She has no views – even on her own brief …. A decent interviewer wouid have crushed her .
BTW looks like the BBC is taking on the royal family finances …ouch
Islamic Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (ex Justice Secretary who Protested to block sainsbury’s from buying Israel goods) says the investigation into fellow Islamic Pakistan people who loved 1400 kids so much they had to convert them to Islam using the old aged Mohammed way of turning them into woman earlier than normal- aged 6 is preferred – wait until 9.
2022 “Police and crime commissioner ‘disappointed’ as child sexual abuse inquiry ‘fails to identify individual accountability’. A long £6m investigation …. Operation Linden …. exploitation between 1997 and 2013 .. 1,400 …. 16 years span ….Not one officer lost their job as a result of the process and the most severe sanction was a written warning.”
Mark Brown North of England correspondent Jun 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/22/costly-report-into-rotherham-police-failings-lets-down-grooming-survivors
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Third survivor quits grooming gang inquiry panel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykd173l3vo
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Child grooming in London at ‘catastrophic’ levels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8zew2egjvo
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BBC “Child grooming”
Child grooming – taking kids to the Turkish barbers! HA HHA H A AHH AHAH AH AH A H
So it seems it wasn’t the Tories who created the “Black Hole” it was Brexit all along says Reeves reaching for yet another Labour life-line or should I say life-lie?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/21/reeves-says-economic-damage-caused-by-brexit-forcing-her-to-take-action-in-budget
Talk about grasping at straws!
Just imagine how much better this Country would be if we had a government who looked for opportunities instead of the current shower who are constantly looking for scapegoats
bbc reports on the price of Orange juice
The £5.30 orange juice that tells the story of why supermarket prices are sky high
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c397n3jl3z8o
By Faisal Islam
FFS how much does he get paid to inform people the price of orange juice has gone up lol
Faisal Islam earned between £235,000 and £239,999 in the 2024/25 financial year. This is a decrease from his 2023/24 salary, which was in the £260,000 to £264,999 range.
MM, some decrease!
A nurses wage in decreases!
Telling tales out of school edition
Good news for a change and there’s a little ray of sunshine this morning – mind you, it does come care of the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror: Britain isn’t broken, you are all amazing… Keir’s praise at No10… Pride of Britain winners got a heroes’ welcome… personal tour… He said… the country is far from fractured, as doom mongers claim… “It’s completely the opposite”… Child of Courage… 12, told Mr Starmer he wants to be his deputy and he would start by “fixing all the potholes”
If Labour slip further in the polls our 12-year-olds may well get the vote and the chance to become Labour MPs.
Even our BBC staff lack the chutzpah to present this Daily Mirror lefty PR effort as a serious frontpage news headline and instead have to demote the Mirror down to their jokey ‘and finally’ spot in their online print press line-up.
The Mirror do so like to talk about their ‘Charidee’ work. Another take away from this report might be how ‘fixing the pot holes’ has become our new de-Mussolini connotationed good government mantra to replace ‘making the trains run on time’
But when government mucks up… as it often does… there’s always the public inquiry
On a day when the focus is on the stage management of public inquiries: Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos (Mail) – and this one doesn’t even exist yet.
Meanwhile, Boris is telling tales out of school at another inquiry: Boris: Our lockdowns failed kids… admitted school children paid ‘a huge price’ for Britain’s Covid lockdowns… shutting schools for millions of children had been a ‘nightmare’… It felt to me as though children who are not particularly vulnerable to Covid were paying a huge, huge price to protect the rest of society… I thought it was a nightmare idea’ (plaudits to the giveaway Metro for headlining this report, probably the real top story of the day)
Likewise the FT give it a little frontpage teaser: Covid rules went ‘too far’… Boris Johnson told the inquiry
One for Jennifer Aniston fans: Can shampoo repair hair? Four haircare myths get the chop (BBC) – now for the science bit?
Quick check on the minutiae of American law regarding planning permission (it’s what you pays your tv licence fees for): Is Trump allowed to demolish part of the White House to build a ballroom? (BBC Verify)
As the Guardian’s Madeleine Aggeler tells us of: My weird week with an AI companion, so our BBC welcomes back their virtual friend, the online only Observer, to their otherwise print press line-up: Brexit hit economy even harder than feared, says Reeves – gotta make an exception to the rules for that one, eh?
Come, come, luv. Brexit weren’t all bad. Think of the… animals? Revealed: UK’s red lines in Brexit reset food deal. Live animal exports, gene editing and foie gras key concerns (i paper)
Good luck with those negotiations, Keir. I’ve a feeling, just like the Russians won’t ever give up the Donbas: Trump abandons hope of Putin summit… Kremlin rejected proposal to freeze the Ukraine conflict along the present front lines (Times) – so the French will presently be in no mood to give up their foie gras: Jewels stolen from Louvre not insured (Telegraph)
AISI, think you mean online-only Independent not Observer which is a Sunday title.
“While the Independent was not fully “bought” by Saudi interests, a Saudi businessman, Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel, bought a 30% stake in its digital arm in 2017, becoming a minority owner alongside Evgeny Lebedev. The investment was made through an offshore fund ultimately owned by a Saudi bank, and while concerns were raised about editorial independence, a formal agreement was put in place to protect it. “
Yes, my bad (as the kids would say) apologies.
The arty-farty film reviewers at the BBC have written acres of rubbish asking why the DiCaprio movie One Battle After Another flopped at the box office despite glowing reviews by film critics.
Of course they miss the point – two points.
First the film flopped because it was left-wing woke propaganda glorifying the revolutionary left, in which the villains were right-wing Christian nationalists.
Secondly the critics loved it because it was left-wing woke propaganda idealising the revolutionary left, in which the villains were right-wing Christian nationalists.
And if there’s one thing (3 things) the liberals love to hate it’s right-wing; Christian; nationalists.
And the public are fed up with woke.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251020-why-one-battle-after-another-flopped
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“Labour is SLASHING £6bn of bureaucracy ✂️
Farage? His messy Brexit wrapped businesses in so much red tape, the man could open a Card Factory 🎁”
https://x.com/lukejcr/status/1980568796663541795
“Labour is SLASHING £6bn of bureaucracy ✂️
Farage?” How will this be done? Join the EU?
Having been kept in room 101 for a good while, I am pleased to confirm the excellence of the plan to classify existing tradespeople like Plumbers as energy workers, thus ensuring that our dear leaders plan to create 400,000 new jobs will be successful. I love Big Brother.
Miliband ridiculed over plans to rebrand plumbers as ‘clean energy’ workers
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/19/miliband-plans-rebrand-plumbers-clean-energy-workers/
650 MPs to be renamed as Migrant Hotels so they can house 650 Migrants? HA HA HAH AH A HA!
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Ed Miliband has been ridiculed over plans to rebrand plumbers, electricians and welders as “clean energy” workers.
The Energy Secretary said new trainees in these trades should see themselves as critical to the campaign to drive Britain towards net zero.
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David Lammy at British Chambers of Commerce | The FCDO Means Business
TAX AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON’T PAY IT………
What wonderful laugh out loud moments on the BBC- today “magazine&agenda programme” this morning.
Margaret Hodge, the always angry about tax , ex politician who used to chase tax evaders and was head of the parliamentary committee on Public accounts.
She was given a platform to rant on and on about Prince Andrew and not paying what is due , etc,etc.
She had all the figures and told us lots of detail, very impressive , all down to the last quid.
I am concerned about Dear old Margarets memory though,
Her own Tax arrangements in relation to her interest in Stemcor , the steel trading business her father founded and run by her brother, have given rise to concerns in the past , in particular the suggestion that she ,Margaret, received 96,000 shares worth £1.5 million, transferred from a Lichtenstein based trust, shocking also to learn the family trust was based in Panama, of all places.
However I’m sure there is nothing untoward about any of her dealings and am equally sure everythi g would have been done properly…..but….it just goes to show that Prince Andrew needs to be careful .He could do worse than getting Margaret Hodges tax advisers phone number, that way nothing could possibly go wrong.
My only surprise was that the BBC-today programme interviewer didn’t state that poor Margaret had raised a few eyebrows over her own tax in the past and was an expert as a result….
Oh, dear.
Everyone loves the UK, up to a money point…..
“David Cameron’s China investment fund, intended to channel billions of dollars from China into the UK, ultimately failed to launch. Sources claim the fund never had any substance, funding, or a clear strategy, but was instead a PR-focused project that was ultimately unsuccessful in securing investor backing. Cameron’s role as vice-chairman of a related £1 billion China-UK investment fund was later described as potentially being engineered by the Chinese state to gain credibility. ”
2015 David Cameron defends China business deals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34599084
Mr Cameron hailed a deal giving China a 30% stake in a new nuclear plant.
I do recall comrade hodge working with comrade Corbyn at the socialist republic of Islington . Wiki reports that she was born in Egypt and is Jewish – her real name being Oppenheimer ?
She got a really easy time on Today going on about the royals and their non payment of taxes . No wonder they smile a lot …
Not that clever in trying to cover up child abuse in Islington either!
Maybe someone can jog the Londonistan Mare’s memory, even though he wasn’t there at the time…
Mind you, even if he was there, he’d never admit it, and deny everything…
Excellent news
Inflation staying at 3.8% and food inflation still going up . I think the state uses the 3.8 number to fix things like state pension increases ….
That budget in a month is gonna be a doozy – rachel needs our money right now …. So there will be plenty over overnight increases cum 26th november ….
Farage – brexit – you – will be blamed for the crashed economy ..
What could be more disturbing than a significant British political party being lead by a Marxist con-man? I know that could be Smarmer but think Green, think Zack Polanski.
What is most disturbing is the fact that the Green membership has voted for that specimen. They must be an incredibly deluded group of people, think of those religious cults. I notice that there is a preponderance of females in the Green Party, perhaps they all want to be hypnotised into growing bigger boobs.
Every time Zack Polanski talks my FEMALE penis grows larger (c) BBC Verified Fact.
Sadly there are still a good number of well-meaning but misguided people who think of the Greens as a cosy, cuddly party wanting to protect parks and green open spaces.
Rather than the Hard Left Marxist class warriors they really are.
Give trees the vote – they will vote to turn humans into compost.
Misleading story … 6bn saved in paper work .. but really USA investment in beds for elderly… HA AH AHH AHAH A
Story and title …. “scrapping a rule for directors of small firms to file a directors’ report with Companies House”
Real story is USA to do what NHS should be doing … “bulk of this announcement is, however, drawn from a £6.5bn pledge by Welltower”
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Rachel Reeves set to launch ‘blitz on business bureaucracy’ to save firms £6bn
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/21/rachel-reeves-set-to-launch-blitz-on-business-bureaucracy-to-save-firms-6bn
The bulk of this announcement is, however, drawn from a £6.5bn pledge by Welltower, a US property investment company which invests in healthcare infrastructure across the UK, in the creation of thousands of new beds in elderly facilities.
The US-based firm last year agreed to buy Care UK, one of Britain’s largest care home chains, in a deal first reported by the Guardian at a time of growing lobbying by private providers for a greater role in the NHS.
Comment “Mark Steyn is such a great thinker with a wonderful sense of humour. A true gentleman who we have heard far too little of in recent years.”
“Any constitution has to inhabit the same society that it governs.” Mark Steyn
The Politicization of the American Legal System | Mark Steyn
Hillsdale College 97,775 views 17 Dec 2024
The BBC is reporting the unrest in Dublin at the Migrant Hotel.
But doesn’t tell us what sparked it. As usual.
Brexit caused the riots says Rachel Reeves!
MM
I bet she thinks Brexit caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Climate Change caused the Dinosaurs to disappear (c) BBC Climate Verified Fact.
Did the police kneel to those reporters who were gay?
Times radio reporting that Doctors, Dentists, Architects etc are soon to be mugged for extra National Insurance because they are at the moment in Limited Partnerships with different NI deals.
Rachel Thieves – Making Friends
The protest in Dublin against an African child rapist at an invasion hotel seems not to be of interest to the British msm – D notice on invader crime ?
Just reading it on the news feed on my phone.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1021/1539658-dublin-assault-investigation/
As happens so often these days, the MSM are all miraculously following the same narrative : telling us how bad the protestors are and NOT telling us about the rape of the 10 year old which caused it. I wonder if it’s the BBC ‘TNI’ controlling the news again.
The actual court-case report came up and it tells me:
‘She told the court the accused, who cannot be named, was arrested at 3.58am in Clondalkin Garda Station and when charged, he replied: “I have nothing to say.”‘
Cannot be named ???. Why not ? – he’s been charged.
All becomes clear when we learn:
‘His defence solicitor asked that he be produced in person in court and that an Arabic interpreter be provided.’
They are covering up the rape of 10 year old girls by these illegal migrants. No wonder people are angry.
NOT HIS REAL NAME!
Bobby Vylan’s real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster. He is the lead singer of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan, which he formed with his bandmate, Bobbie Vylan, whose real name is Wade Laurence George
POS.
Problem is that so many of these posers are adored for their disgusting predilections by so many gullible young twats who mistakenly see fuckwit as desirable.
Uber and Bonnie Blue bang Nus will solve the UK’s economy problems!
“Yes, the number of Uber riders has increased, with a 19.3% year-on-year increase in trips completed in 2023 and 5 million active riders in the UK as of 2023.”
Rolls-Royce Spectre (Flagship Electric Model): This was the standout performer, with 13 new units registered in Ukraine by late December 2024. Each Spectre retails for over €500,000 (approximately $550,000 USD or 22 million UAH), making the total value exceed €6.5 million. Production began in 2023, and these early deliveries reflect demand from elite buyers queuing for the brand’s first EV. Owners include:People’s Deputy Hennadiy Vatsak (known for his luxury car collection).
Former Deputy Vitaliy Khomutynnyk.
Business figures like Mykhailo Bakunenko, Yehor Maslenikov, Olena Silenko, and Yuliia Kartsyhina (daughter of entrepreneur Serhii Khanovych).
Sightings reported in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and Cherkasy.
https://censor.net/en/news/3527356/who-among-ukrainians-bought-13-new-rolls-royce-spectre
Why does the BBC internet imaging ALWASYS show us
ethnic Getty’s advertising models in their ” cost of
living features?”
It’s so obvious that even today on Charlotte Edwards
3.5% inflation rise. The image is like ” can you spot the
ethnicity of the models?” Don’t worry if you cant.
Getty’s and the BBC will rarely if ever use Caucasian
models. ESPECIALLY stale, pale males.
Black People in Need beats BBC Children in Need.
Former UN judge criticises Lenny Henry for using his report to claim Britain should pay £18trillion in slavery reparations
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15198703/Lenny-Henry-slavery-reparations-judge.html
The comedian has argued in his new book that all black Britons should be paid reparations and suggested a ‘Robin Hood tax’ on financial transactions to fund it.
Sir Lenny also cited a figure from a report published by the University of West Indies in June 2023 which concluded the UK owed more than £18trillion in reparations.
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China’s economy is worth about $19.40 trillion in nominal GDP as of October 2025
Seven dead in Russian airstrikes, hours after Trump shelves bid for Putin talks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjpe0193geo
‘Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump said his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest with Russia’s Vladimir Putin had been shelved as he did not want a “wasted meeting”.’
The BBC just don’t stop. So this strike was Trumps fault was it BBC for not going to see Putin ?.
Jesus H Christ, talks about TDS.
Are we seriously supposed to believe Russia started organising and preparing these hundreds of drones in a fit of spite because Trump cancelled the meeting ?.
Absolute nonsense.
no surprise…
Given that ignore, ignore, ignore is the standard MO – the language needs cranking up to get the perps really annoyed?
We cannot record this data in case we misgender the criminals and cause hate crime stats to spike!
top marks to HMRC for not chasing the Paki bandits that stole £8 BILLION from UK taypayers – because they (bandits) “had a right to confidentiality”…
https://archive.ph/Jbx1h
HA HA HA HA!
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
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Let us all stop funding UK terrorism!
It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism.
But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).
Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.
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Hamas are our friends (c) BBC and Jeremy Corbyn
Comment “Where are the free Palestine people now? Don’t hear anyone screaming out free Palestine from Hamas!”
Deafening silence from pro-Palestine activists following barbaric beatings of Gazans by Hamas
“My wife’s boyfriend has a job running an experimental nuclear reactor in Trieste.
Last month the reactor began to overheat. Meltdown was imminent. The explosion would have destroyed half of Italy, Slovenia and Austria.
Just when they were all on the brink of despair, a brown man—likely a refugee—appeared, and quickly performed complex nuclear engineering to bring the reactor under control.
When they tried to award him Italy’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, he refused and simply said, “This is my culture. In my village, we repair nuclear reactors for free.”
And yet the working-class right-wing bigots never hear about this type of thing.”
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I was ready to die for the Taliban. Now I hope I can prevent others becoming radicalised
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy50yk5kvxno
650 MPs say we need more Chinese investment….
House of Commons Wednesday 22 October 2025 Meeting started at 11.33am
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/836cac84-a661-4a26-b242-544d35eb55ed
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https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state–205
Responsibilities section is NET ZERO EMPTY! HA HA HA AH A HA
Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)
Organisations: Home Office
Current role holder: Alex Norris MP
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The Pride in Place Programme is our down payment on that idea. On 4 March, we announced a new £1.5 billion programme (TAX PAYER MONEY), delivering up to £20 million of funding and support over the next decade into 75 places from across the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pride-in-place-strategy/pride-in-place-strategy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mx8vr2gr1o
Which areas are due to get share of £5bn funding boost?
“We are concerned by suggestions that specialist vape stores could be unfairly grouped alongside ‘unwanted’ businesses” adding: “Vape stores like ours play a vital role in public health.”
“Yes, San Francisco is a sanctuary city that provides certain protections for migrants, including limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. This policy has led to legal challenges, with the city and other municipalities suing the federal government to protect funding for sanctuary jurisdictions. San Francisco also has expanded policies for immigrant inclusion beyond just sanctuary status. “
SF is also Pelosi’s area…
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8215-political-language-is-designed-to-make-lies-sound-truthful-and
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/836cac84-a661-4a26-b242-544d35eb55ed?in=12:05:05
solidity to pure wind. – Ed Miliband says the answers are blowing in the wind!
Mercifully, Black History Month is drawing to a close. So when I go to my local library, I won’t be faced with row upon row of book covers with angry black men glaring at me, or titles telling me how racist we are, how everything good came from blacks (including civilisation itself) and everything bad from whites, bla bla.
But I will then have the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People to look forward to, and the endless cycle of woke causes about gays, trannies, wimmin, etc. Anti-Slavery Day, Islamophobia Awareness Day, Transgender Awareness month, etc etc. It’s relentless.
Our libraries, like our schools and so many other institutions, have become year-round leftist propaganda outlets.
Foul deviancy…. note the poor child in the second row who’s mummy and second mummy have garbed her up in rainbow headgear to make sure that she is fully indoctrinated before going to watch this grubby spectacle.
HERE WE GO … RAPE GANGS DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT….
“Being dismissed takes use back to where we were….”
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/836cac84-a661-4a26-b242-544d35eb55ed?in=12:05:57
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The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
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Ms Shah didn’t say this. She retweeted then quickly deleted this quote from a parody account on Twitter (now X) in 2017, and has said the sharing of the post was a “genuine accident”.
https://fullfact.org/politics/naz-shah-grooming-gangs-quote/
Labour MP Naz Shah said: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity.”