405 Responses to Midweek 17th December 2025

  1. Fedup2 says:

    DT reports x4 alleged Muslim terrorists intercepted in car on way to bondi …..mostly peaceful ….

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    Comrade Gary Neville getting stick for refusing to pay the tax man £500 000 for his failed restaurant business . I’d have thought he’d be mad eager to support ‘our NHS ‘….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Maybe he can pay in Union Jacks? HA HA AHHA HA HAH AH!

      “In April 2020, the UK government wrote off over £13 billion in historic debt owed by NHS trusts, converting internal loans to equity (Public Dividend Capital – PDC) to provide financial breathing room during the pandemic and remove barriers to investment. ”

      “Frequent Visitor: Neville has stated he often travels to the Middle East and Asia for holidays, preferring them over Western destinations.”

      “Property Owner: He has owned property in the Middle East, including a villa on The Palm development in Dubai, since the early 2000s. Other England teammates like David Beckham and Michael Owen also bought properties there at the same time.”

      @huel

      Have you ever wondered what Gary Nevellie has for breakfast?! 👀 #huel #fyp #garyneville #breakfast #footballtiktok

      ♬ original sound – Huel

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  3. Flotsam says:

    The Labour Government are trying to seize £2.5Bn from Roman Abramovich the former owner of Chelsea FC. The justification for this theft from a private individual is that he’s Russian and err… the money is going to the Ukraine.

    Make no mistake I have no great regard for the Oligarch Abramovich but how can this be justified legally. Where will this all end? The Labour Government could use some spurious justification to seize money from anybody and use it for God knows what. It’s interesting that our Marxist Government is using its tentacles to extort money from a citizen of a formerly Marxist State.

    What will potential foreign investors in Britain think of all this?

    Interestingly the EU is having difficulties with the legalities of seizure of Russian assets for a similar purpose.

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  4. Flotsam says:

    Labour fanboys the BBC support the Government’s rejoining the Erasmus scheme. Bugger the cost, this young lady had a great time because of Erasmus.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0d9je56zo

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “How much will the Erasmus scheme cost in the UK?
      £570m
      The UK will rejoin the Erasmus scheme for the 2027/2028 academic year, with the government saying it will contribute an estimated £570m. The government also says it has secured a 30% discount on what it would have paid to rejoin under the terms of a wideranging cooperation agreement the UK has with the EU.”

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      • andyjsnape says:

        “Living abroad while at university allowed me to become almost fluent in two other languages and have experiences that would never have been possible in Scotland.” – she could have always asked the Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Syrian, Iranian etc etc down the road in Scotland

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        • MarkyMark says:

          1400 girls experience Islam and its beliefs without leaving the UK! Inshallah as they say in Leeds Council meetings and at the Green Party!

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  5. tomo says:

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  6. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “45,000 Likes in 24 hours. The world is waking up

      “Iranian here with another pro tip for anyone who’s not from the Middle East. If you have to put up barricades around your Christmas markets or cancel them due to threats of terrorism, that’s not multiculturalism and diversity. That’s Jihad

      This past weekend in Germany, five Muslim immigrants were arrested by German police because they were planning on driving a car into a Christmas market. Three Moroccans, an Egyptian and a Syrian were planning on murdering Christians at a Christmas market for the crime of being Christian.

      And for those of you who are constantly believing this jihadi propaganda that all these Islamic terrorist attacks have to do with Israel, a Christmas market attended by Christians in Germany has absolutely nothing to do with what’s going on in Israel.

      What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. And if you think this is only about Israel, you need to wake up because they’re already targeting Christians and you might be next.

      Maybe it’s time to stop importing people into your countries who hate you and want to destroy everything about you and murder you just because you’re not Muslim.

      Tolerating Islamic terrorism and jihad is not multiculturalism and diversity. It’s suicide.“”

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  7. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Does not matter – the damage has been done – Farage = Nazi!

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      • Pete says:

        I’ve just remembered when I was at school many years ago someone told me that they think they might have heard someone say that they might have heard that someone at school in another City or maybe a town or village somewhere possibly say something that someone said might be racist, so anyway it must have been Farage .
        Do I have to tell the bbc now , or just the MSM.
        Will they give me lots of
        money.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        Show me the man and I will show you the crime.

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      • digg says:

        No not done, expose the BBC as a manipulative force in bed with liars and it’s another step to shutting the whole shitshow down.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I was several years before. We were barely aware of other classes in our year, much less those above and certainly not little scrotes in years below. The junior school was at the other end of the grounds to the main one and science block.

      I learned many valuable things there; the first being not to say ‘pick on someone your own size’ to the year bully who vaguely grasped relative heights to my detriment and moved from his smaller victim to me.

      If there were hurty words in complement I was unaware.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        If you think Farage was bad you should have heard some of the teachers at my grammar school in the 70s.

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        • digg says:

          I was at a grammar school in the 1960’s – it was every man (or boy) for himself….

          Everyone survived with no effect 50 years later. This whole shit-show is smelly and manufactured by lefty journalists if you can call them that.

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  8. JonathanR says:

    God I wish he was PM here.

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  9. tomo says:

    The BBC has risked fresh allegations of bias after describing Palestinian uprisings in which thousands of people were killed as “largely unarmed and popular”.
    A report on the BBC website that explained the origin of the word intifada made no mention of the fact that more than 1,000 Israelis and about 5,000 Palestinians died in repeated clashes and terrorist attacks between 1987 and 2005.
    After complaints from Jewish readers, the BBC changed the report, saying that the word intifada was regarded by some as “a call for violence against Jewish people”.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/17/bbc-correct-intifada-militant-unarmed-bias-israel-palestine/

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    • Guest Who says:

      This is the BBC in ‘mostly peaceful’ territory again, after the semantic relativist triumph of that subbing.

      One might argue one of the Bondi blokes was ‘unarmed’ briefly after being tackled by his now Arab World-targeted hero passer-by, but was largely armed to lethal effect before and after.

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Seems a strange world where the British would be better off being led by Putin or Trump – as opposed to the WEF gang – uniparty we suffer now ….

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “The BBC’s latest comedy? Giving away TV licences for free
    The government’s bold plan to take licence fee money in from wealthier households and give it away to the less fortunate will only accelerate the ‘great switch off’, says James Moore – but I have a radical plan to fix things … Wednesday 17 December 2025 14:53 GMT”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-tv-licence-lisa-nandy-benefits-fines-taxes-b2886205.html

    “That’s what makes the news that benefits claimants could receive free television licences under sweeping BBC reforms being considered by Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, so baffling.”

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “I remember when diversity barriers were called oceans.”

    POLICE- Christmas Market Safety…
    Andrew Lawrence 161k subscribers

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    https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-take-a-knee-police-george-floyd-DWyb9W_2/

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    BBC News at Ten
    12 September 2025

    In an introduction to a package on political reaction to Charlie Kirk’s killing we mistakenly said there had been “calls for retribution from senior Republicans and Democrats alike”. To be clear any evidence of this should have been in the package and we were wrong to include this line.

    11/12/2025

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  15. vlad says:

    At least someone is telling it straight…

    Naturally she had to flee her native Bangladesh after receiving death threats from the Religionists of Peace, Violence and Murder. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima_Nasrin

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    2025 … “A review of a troubled £5.5bn armoured vehicle programme has highlighted “systemic, cultural and institutional problems” at the Ministry of Defence.

    Defence minister James Cartlidge said these included a “reticence” to raise and “occasionally” by senior officials to listen to “genuine problems”.

    The independent report, external identified no evidence of misconduct or anything that would require disciplinary action.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65927736
    …………
    troubled £5.5bn armoured = identified no evidence of misconduct or anything that would require disciplinary action.

    problems including excessive noise and vibration which injured soldiers.
    ………….
    2025 We need more people ready to fight, military chief says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vd7dkdpyo

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  17. R P McMurphy says:

    Boys to be given lessons on misogyny. So a bunch of misandrists have decided ALL boys are guilty and need educating.

    All we ever hear is ” violence against women and girls ” ( but not from a certain demographic ) as if boys have a easy ride in life. 99% of stabbings are male victims.

    The gender war encouraged by Labour and the BBC. Don’t these women have sons, brothers, grandfathers, husbands who are decent human beings but say they need educating.

    Do we condemn all female nurses for the evil of two. What about infanticide almost always committed by females.

    And they wonder Andrew Tate holds an attraction to young males.

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  18. Scroblene says:

    What surprises me, is the fact that all these odd people, screaming about some sort of ‘religion’, don’t seem to have jobs?

    Are they unemployed, or do they work from home? Are they some sort of civil servant? Are they all on holiday, or paternity leave, (not many women do this sort of ranting at everybody), so where does all their money come from?

    Surely the Job Centres can advise us on where all these mobs come from, and how much they’re being paid by the state?

    I wouldn’t expect the loons in Corbyn’s party to go there, but perhaps some of the enlightened Conservatives, and certainly Reform members can find out? Of course, these fanatical, shrieking foreign-sounding bods aren’t seen as a threat by TTK and labourites, but they only recognise the ‘wrong’ sort of hate anyway.

    Beeboids are far too cowardly to go anywhere near the issue, but there again, how many times have they been caught out lying, obfuscating the truth, and never telling the whole story? I’d never believe a word they say, and haven’t done for many years.

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  19. vlad says:

    Sadiq Khant: Look at the little worm squirm, who spent much of his life hobnobbing with and defending islamists and terrorists.

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1937862526942040

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    • vlad says:

      Here he is being grilled by the indomitable Susan Hall.

      How the hell did we end up with him as mayor? Unbelievable how low we’ve sunk.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      🇬🇧 #Sadiq_Kahn on #Tommy_Robinson “He’s a violent racist”
      “Does it not worry you but there’s one community that has to lock their children inside their schools for their own safety?”
      “They wave flags – like this that does not make me Far right”
      Incredible exchange between #London_Mayor & #Susan_Hall whereby the #Pakistani_Mayor refuses to admit the daily hate marches are #antisemitic, well simultaneously branding the majority of the #UK as #racist. Insane. See less

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  20. JohnC says:

    Zelensky gives stark warning as EU leaders start crunch talks on Russia’s frozen assets
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vjlj1ezpgo

    ‘Volodymyr Zelensky is urging European Union leaders gathered at a crunch summit in Brussels to loan billions of euros in frozen Russian money to fund Ukraine’s military and economic needs.’

    ‘One European government official described being “cautiously optimistic, not overly optimistic” that a deal would be agreed. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said “we will not leave the summit without a solution”.’

    So the EU are basically going to take Russia’s money and give it to Ukraine. Ukraine is not in the EU and not in NATO. Under what laws I wonder is this allowed ?. Of course we know by now that when an EU law doesn’t suit them, they just ignore it. Nobody can stop them. I notice we never hear ‘A Judge in xxx blocked the EU from doing YYY’ like we hear all the time from the USA.

    But what bothers me most about this is the timing : they are doing it again. They are escalating tensions in the conflict just as someone is pushing a peace deal. Why haven’t they said they will only do this if a deal is not reached to try and help the process ?.

    It’s been crystal clear that the EU want this war for years. They have been the aggressors (along with Biden) from the start. Putin started this war, but the USA and EU caused it. We are being fed absolutely blatant lies and I’ve never seen a single question about it on the BBC or the rest of the MSM.

    Democracy truly is dead here. When are given the illusion of it until they need to force something on us. Then we see how it really is. Two-tier justice against those who rebel is just the start. Next they are getting rid of the juries. What’s after that ?. Special ‘prisons’ for the political prisoners ?.

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  21. JohnC says:

    Protesters hurl potatoes at riot police outside EU parliament
    Farmers park hundreds of tractors in front of building as leaders discuss funding for Ukraine
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/18/protesters-hurl-potatoes-at-riot-police-outside-eu-parliame/

    ‘Massive farmers protests in Brussels over EU regulations • FRANCE 24 English’

    Amazing – the BBC are simply not reporting it.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      They want to get us back into the EU, so they cannot admit that it is in a death spiral.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    “A joke is the smallest and most reliable indicator of liberty, so laugh it up whilst you can” Mark Steyn.

    Why we need to promote freedom and liberty more than ever | Mark Steyn
    Institute of Public Affairs

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  23. JohnC says:

    Police turned me from victim to offender after I reported school assault
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3enzk2dwl9o

    ‘The son of a former police officer was “misled” by a force into accepting a community resolution for violence he did not admit to, an investigation has found.’

    An utterly insignificant story the BBC have promoted to a lengthy article on the news front page.

    Why ?.
    You know why. It’s the BBC being divisive as usual. They want all blacks to think all whitey’s are racist because without the division, the Left have no weapons to use against the Right.

    Here he is with his dad:
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    Not a chance such an article would have been written if they were white.

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  24. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Charity run by Rory Stewart’s wife has $1m funding cut after Musk reforms
      Turquoise Mountain, an organisation that works in Afghanistan and the Middle East, is no longer receiving aid despite having a contract

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/13/charity-run-rory-stewarts-wife-1m-funding-cut-musk/

      ……………
      https://www.turquoisemountain.org/

      Revisiting Milestones: Qatar Fund for Development and Turquoise Mountain Trust Showcase Long-lasting Partnership by Revisiting the Weaving Poems Exhibition at Sotheby’s

      Alwaleed Philanthropies “Global” and Turquoise Mountain Reaffirm Collaboration with Transformative Artisan Empowerment Programme

      Alwaleed Philanthropies “Global” and Turquoise Mountain partner to support the Palestinian craft industry
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      Programme Update: Empowering Afghanistan’s Weavers

      Championing Artisan Craftsmanship at the Coronation of King Charles III

      The King Visits Turquoise Mountain Collaboration at Leighton House

      urquoise Mountain Afghanistan Artisans Launch Jewellery Collection with Ottoman Hands

      Shoshana Stewart, President, has worked at Turquoise Mountain since 2006. She has an MBA from the London Business School, a Master’s Degree in Education, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Astrophysics. Prior to Turquoise Mountain, Shoshana worked as a teacher and administrator in low-income urban communities with Teach For America and Uncommon Schools in New York City, Boston and Honduras.

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  25. Guest Who says:

    BBC TNI partner reports.

    https://therightscoop.com/breaking-video-cnn-reports-inflation-report-much-better-than-expectations/

    It will be interesting to see if the BBC does too, especially after their efforts to fudge the economic situation here caused by the party in power that has guaranteed their income stream

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  26. Up2snuff says:

    BBC TWaTO Watch #1 – in which the BBC/Montacutie gets a taste of reality …..

    Sarah is still in Jerusalem/Jericho so she thinks it might be smart move to get a ‘vox pop’ and she asks one lady about the ‘peace process’ with Hamas. “You London people know nothing. You are so ignorant about Hamas. They want to destroy Israel, wipe it off the face of the earth.” I think I have remembered that conversation correctly.

    Sarah was still pushing for a ‘Two State Solution’ for Palestine’. She caught another dose of reality when she interviewed an ally/friend of the PM, Bibi Netanyahu (sorry, name not noted or remembered). This friend of Bibis brought another dose of reality to the BBC R4 listeners.

    The BBC are a disgrace!

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  27. Nibor says:

    I know a better way for young people to visit EUrope which doesn’t cost a penny . In fact the country will make millions out of it and it will take people off the dole and extra businesses would be created paying tax .

    Sick all the senior civil servants at the Department against Transport, strip them of their pensions or even better hang them . Then get some patriots to work there .
    Then get the international haulage trade back . The young people will see more of the workings of the world than sitting in bars in university towns . They might even learn another trade , like being a mechanic.

    Mind you the Powers That Be won’t like the future voters seeing just how lazy , self serving , lying, mendacious and bullying they are to British people, and just how servile they are to foreigners, and why Britain should never be in the Erasmus program never mind the EU .
    They will also see just how wrong the BBC is . And probably vote Reform

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    • MarkyMark says:

      One Dinghy In. One EU Erasmus citizen out!

      one in, one out! Simple – use the same dinghy to save the planet – (c) Ed Miliband

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  28. Pete says:

    Are dinghy’s biodegradable, not sure Greta used one on her last pointless seafaring adventure.

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    The DT says Farage has avoided a criminal investigation into the funding of the Clacton because the voting offences fall after 12 months .

    This seems rather … brief .. surely 5 years would be more reasonable ? Mr Farage is now left with the inability to clear his name after some alleged sex offenders blew the whistle / sold his soul to the blob to destroy the next PM .. c word comes to mind …

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      How odd. The time limit is one year, so why bother to make an allegation after a year? Maybe because it means the allegation will never be investigated, but the smear will be reported.

      In other news, Nigel Farage returned a library book late in 1975. The police have declined to investigate.

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  30. Guest Who says:

    For which #ccbgb was created…

    https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/2001379614422188047?s=61
    Lib Dem leader Ed Davey tells #PoliticsLive people will be expecting Keir Starmer to “use his influence” as the BBC defends Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit
    Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray says “it’s for the BBC to sort that out”

    Desperate times call for desperate guests.

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  31. Guest Who says:

    https://jihadwatch.org/2025/12/charlie-hebdo-depicts-pakistani-bondi-beach-jihad-mass-murderers-as-white-non-muslims
    “Charlie Hebdo, after being the target of a jihad massacre for publishing cartoons of Muhammad, quickly chose to live on its knees rather than die standing up, as its editor Charb, who was killed in the jihad attack, said he would not do. “

    Along with the rest.

    mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-quatre ; un avertissement resté lettre morte

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  32. StewGreen says:

    Foreign doctors striking in England ?
    History Debunks video has many flaws
    but the thumbnail is interesting

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  33. Guest Who says:

    BBC Editorial Guidelines are unique.

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/2001714271898497310?s=61
    Elections face further delays over councils shake-up

    https://order-order.com/2025/12/18/labour-minded-to-cancel-more-local-elections/?

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  34. digg says:

    Loads of people affected by the Ariana Grande concert bombing in Manchester to get £££££ payouts from British taxpayers.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj0wjper44o

    The murderous filthy scum involved in the Middle Eastern pagan murderous religion who carried out the vile attack are not asked to contribute.

    This is broken, pathetic Britain led by the pastry-faced idiot Starmer.

    The world is upside down!

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  35. Foscari says:

    I am not computer literate. So can somebody download
    ” Weak Democracies leading to Islamic Extremism ” from
    YouTube. Kevin O’Sullivan is interviewing a very articulate
    Iman from Australia. It is a revelation . The anarchist Marxist
    news editors from the BBC who support Hamas. Should
    be FORCED to watch it !! Why the Muslim Brotherhood
    is not banned in the UK is beyond comprehension.

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  36. tomo says:

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    Farage thinks TTK will be delaying a lot of local elections again – until 2027 … it shouldn’t be a surprise . Can’t see there being a general election again – he ll abolish general elections for community safety …

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  38. vlad says:

    The photo and comment below are from a Fb Group called We Love Donald Trump UK – a rich source of memes, comments and news: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042982459262790

    “Can we take a moment to understand this picture.
    This is an elected UK MP — Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry.
    Standing outside a British prison, holding the flag of a terrorist state.
    Calling for the release of people imprisoned in the UK for terrorism offences.
    An MP elected to serve this country, openly siding with extremists over public safety.
    If you want to know what’s gone wrong in Britain, this one image says it all.”

    #UKPolitics #BritishValues #NationalSecurity #CommonSense #EnoughIsEnough

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    • digg says:

      The poser chap on the left with the inevitable ridiculous scarf thingy looks like he should be handing you Big Macs.

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  39. markh says:

    BBC obviously very disappointed that a white male has won SPOTY and a white male team has won Team Of The Year. (Rory McIlroy and the Ryder Cup team).

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Markh – the way things are that will be the last sports contest – they’ll need to abandon future ones in order to ‘re organise the voting ‘… until maybe 2033 – or a time when the idea of voting has been forgotten …

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      • Fedup2 says:

        A number of Hamas supporters are in prison on hunger strike – they are only eating jam donuts .. sort of get the vibe that they’ll die of old age before popping off from carb deficiency …

        But there’s always hope …

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    • Sluff says:

      What on earth was Keely Hodgkinson wearing?
      She would have looked better in a bin bag.

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    • vlad says:

      Sport is racist.

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  40. Pete says:

    Aw bless, if they want to go on hunger strike, why not do the best thing for them and leave them to it

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  41. Sluff says:

    Are you sitting down?
    Hankies at the ready.

    The BBC mournfully describe that five Palestine Action personages on remand awaiting trial are on hunger strike and, after 47 days, are struggling. Activists insist the government get involved. I think that means the BBC think the government should get involved. Quite why or what the government is expected to do is not at all clear. But the BBC newsroom clearly think it is important. They should instead take their lead from the
    glorious words of past BBC sitcom character Sgt Major Shutup, ‘Oh dear. How sad. Never mind)

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    • harry142857 says:

      Surely the BBC should be considering a remake????

      Who would they cast as the Sergeant???

      Idris, Lenny, Chiwetel????

      From wiki.
      Warrant officer
      Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn “Shut Up” Williams (Windsor Davies)
      The Welsh Sergeant Major is the only professional soldier among the concert party and its officers. He is extremely bigoted in his views, making every effort to bully the Indian camp staff and remind everyone of British supremacy in Asia. He has only one goal in life: to get his soldiers posted up the jungle and into action as fast as he can. Williams has a cunning and fierce pirate-like look. He is disgusted that his soldiers “prance about” on the stage wearing dresses and make-up all the time, and frequently calls them a “lot of poofs”. He is sometimes portrayed as a stereotypical “devious” Welshman, using cunning schemes to turn events in his favour. He dislikes all members of the concert party, apart from Parkin, whom he believes to be his son. He has a particular loathing for “Lah-Di-Dah” Gunner Graham, owing to Graham’s university education, although Williams will praise him for it if it serves his purposes. Williams often mispronounces long words, turning “hysterical” into “historical” or “hysterectical”, “sadistic” into “statistics”, “misapprehension” into “mishappropriation”, “education” into “heducation” and “ignorant” into “higorant”. Williams also has a tendency to roar “Shut up!” when he hears something that meets his disapproval, hence his nickname, and is also remembered for his sarcastic remark, “Oh dear, how sad, never mind!” invariably delivered in a flat monotone. He plans, when at some future time he should leave the army, to marry a widow who owns a pub.

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  42. atlas_shrugged says:

    Black Lives Matter projected onto parliament for months on end. Nothing done about it.

    BUT as soon as Tommy projects a Union Jack onto parliament to advertise his Unite the Kingdom rally then the little khant’s wet police turn up mob handed:

    https://gettr.com/post/p3vbw546681

    2T 2T 2T 2T 2T 2T

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  43. vlad says:

    Diversity destroys high-trust societies.

    Who’d have thought it, eh?

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    • JonathanR says:

      Everyone Is Sick Of It. Too right. They say that people look back on the past through rose-tinted glasses. Even if this were true it couldn’t possibly be as bad as now. I remember bad times in my life They stay with you. It has never been as bad as it is now.

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  44. harry142857 says:

    Licence fee to double???

    To pay for legal disputes in 2026.

    Queue up queue up!!!!!

    Strictly’s Thomas Skinner ‘sues BBC for “rigging public vote” to eliminate him first’ following affair scandal – after the controversial star pulls out of show’s live final.

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    Strictly’s first eliminated star of 2025, Thomas Skinner is reportedly suing the BBC after claiming bosses ‘rigged’ the public vote to boot him off the show amid a flurry of negative headlines.

    The Apprentice star, 34, had already been deemed a controversial signing due to his outspoken Right-wing views, but the storm only grew when he confessed to cheating on his wife Sinead just weeks after they tied the knot.
    However despite viewers claiming to be left ‘traumatised’ by Thomas’ performance, he is said to be convinced that he can prove he received a larger share of the public vote, which should have saved him from the dance off.

    Thomas and pro partner Amy Dowden, 35, scored a dismal 29 out of 80 over two shows and landed in the bottom two with former rugby player Chris Robshaw, who was eventually saved by the judges.

    A source said: ‘The BBC is already facing a £7.5billion lawsuit from Donald Trump – now Thomas, a friend of Vice President JD Vance, is taking them on too’.

    The president filed a $10billion lawsuit against the corporation after the embattled corporation was found to have doctored his speech in a Panorama episode.
    went on to tell The Sun: ‘Thomas is adamant he got a larger share of the public vote and believes he has the evidence to prove it. He is determined to see it through, but there’s no way the BBC will take this sensational claim lying down. They’ll robustly defend any kinds of claims that the voting was rigged or fixed’.

    ‘He’s convinced the BBC was hell-bent on getting him out as soon as possible, no matter how many of his fans got behind him’.

    Daily Mail have contacted Thomas’ representatives for comment.

    A BBC spokesperson said: ‘Strictly Come Dancing’s public vote is robust and independently overseen and verified to ensure complete accuracy’.

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    The BBC, where a man having an affair with another woman and being right (wing) is deemed worse than being a paedophile.

    It’s the truth, guv’nor the votes are ‘verified’.

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  45. AsISeeIt says:

    Quick Christmas cracker riddle – When is Tony Blair’s Supreme Court not supreme?

    Answer: When its rulings ain’t woke enough for Labour.

    Phillipson blocks safe spaces for women… Minister says Supreme Court ruling on female-only lavatories is trans-exclusive (Telegraph)

    The left-leaning online-only virtual Independent attempts to reassure the female vote: We’ll tackle violence against women like terror and gang crime… safeguarding minister Jess Phillips – so not very effectively, then?

    Smash the gangs, anyone?

    Migrant crisis: HUNDREDS of small boat migrants cross English Channel in fresh surge… People smuggling gangs have taken advantage of a tiny weather window to launch dinghies towards Britain (GB News)

    The Indy was most anxious for this announcement: As the government finally introduces a raft of new measures… – I’m afraid your Mr AsI baulks at that tired old cliché ‘raft of’

    I thought ‘raft’ had been somewhat retired in contemporary journalese… leaving that hackneyed banality to the realms of the Zoom meetings of our lesser lanyard classes… ‘raft of new measures to stop the Channel dinghies’, anyone…?

    In sports ‘personality’ news… sports personality… already there’s the whiff of an oxymoron.

    The Guardian (which as a rule only interests itself in sport when there’s an identity politics angle) dutifully reports on its sister media platform, the BBC show: Rory McIlroy wins Sports Personality of the Year

    Here come the girls

    Meanwhile, the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror admits who won it: Rory runs away with SPOTY – but splashes with frontpage full-colour feature pin-ups of who they would have preferred to have won it: Lioness Chloe Kelly… Olympic champ Keely Hodgkinson

    Michelle Agyemang gets a small cameo pic – beside Rory’s small cameo pic. All the main demographics featured on the Mirror frontpage there then.

    The racism of low expectations…

    Kwasi Kwateng Things look good for Kemi because we had no expectations (i paper)

    And to confirm what we’ve… most of us, suspected for years: Exclusive: BBC fix claims… Bosh! Skinner sues Strictly… Show ‘rigged vote to get me out’ (The Sun)

    Our BBC… rig a competition… ? Well, Boaty McBoatface! Cookie the Blue Peter kitten! Whose Shoes! Saturday Kitchen!

    Circumventing democracy when you don’t like the popular decision – sometimes these segueways write themselves.

    Labour cancels local elections ‘out of fear’ (Telegraph); Voters face longer wait to kick out councillors… Bid to postpone may elections enrages Reform (Times)

    In literary news…

    New Epstein photos show quotes from Lolita written on women (Guardian) Domocrats on the House oversight committee… images… undated and lack captions or context – one notes the term ‘women’, not girls.

    The Guardian has published various articles discussing the decriminalisation or legalisation of sex work, often highlighting arguments from sex workers and rights groups for decriminalisation (removing criminal penalties for sex work itself, treating it as labour) to improve safety, health, and rights – thank you AI

    In further literary news from the Gruan’s enthusiastic coverpage blurb… crayons at the ready…

    Rayner memoir fuels leadership speculation… The book, which will detail the Labour politician’s life story… leaving school at 16 while pregnant…

    On the theme of the youthful sex (and pregnancy in her case) – I doubt Vladimir Nabokov would have been much troubled by our Angela’s embarking on the authorship game.

    You pays yer money – and you takes yer choice…

    Mortgage price war in spring 2026 – as bank offers hope on inflation… Mortgage rates predicted to drop as low as 3% early in new year (i paper); Bank plans to slow pace of rate cuts over inflation fears (Times)

    Our journos, eh? And their fabulous powers of prediction…

    Putin fears another coup as Russia finally begins to buckle… Panic in the Kremlin as it runs out of cards to play (Melissa Lawford, US Economics Correspondent, Telegraph, October 2025)

    Furious Putin… He will rule until his death (Mark Galeotti, i paper, December 2025)

    I say bring back Mystic Meg.

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news – the Marxists only borrowed 11 billion last month – but the market expected it to be only 10 billion …. The bbc news framed it as ‘good news ‘ to me it sound like borrowing is out of control

    Then there’s another government data breach – one big one every month

    Then there’s inflation always there .

    Today had the Chris sexy pants Bryant on -a gay minister – to tell us nothing about the Islamic home office …. But he sounded very excited … the drugs don’t work Chris ….sniff …

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  47. AsISeeIt says:

    How’s that Net Zero workin’ out fo’ yer?

    BP’s new chief executive must abandon net zero and steer the company back to oil and gas, shareholders have said (Telegraph) – New boss of BP? Meg O’Neill… the first woman and company outsider to head the oil major. – relishes the FT.

    How we feeling ’bout the government collating all our most personal data into one Digital ID?

    Chinese hack foreign office… stole tens of thousands of secret files… hushed up by authorities (The Sun)

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Chris Bryant on Times Radio was a hoot:

      Yes well the foreign office was hacked but nobodies data was compromised blah blah blah

      He should stick to taking selfies of himself in his underpants.

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        On the subject of data security on gov.uk websites these two girlies gave a good interview:

        https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/misadventures-of-an-accidental-activist

        Rachel has published her book called: Misadventures of an Accidental Activist

        She makes the claim (probably justified) that we are all going to be forced onto gov.uk websites, starting with the veterans, and now the company directors, and soon the rest of us even just to have a bank account.

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  48. tomo says:

    Spendthrift nitwits get given more money ….

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    • tomo says:

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    • harry142857 says:

      One taxi company’s turnover went from £400k to to £6.5million in one year.

      The reason. A Birmingham City Council contract to ferry SEND kids to and from school, awarded by a relative.

      One example – £150 a trip for three miles x five days (twice a day) x about 35 weeks term time, That’s about £52,000 for one pupil

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    • digg says:

      Is this the same austerity suffering council reported to be paying cabbies around £52,000 a year for taxying one SEND child to school and back three miles away twice a day?

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  49. tomo says:

    But Pootine….

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