197 Responses to Weekend 3rd January 2026

  1. StewGreen says:

    2020 after Trump said he’d talk to Maduro
    Biden tweeted this

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  2. digg says:

    What a weak low-bellied creature Starmer is…..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgvwxp08o

    He keeps trying to milk the public approval field and keeps falling on his face because he has no guts or nerve or morals.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Ezra Levant mocks Starmer
      I don’t think a single person in the world thought the UK was involved in the Venezuela operation, but thanks for clearing that up.
      Everyone knows you’re more focused on the threat of mean tweets and Facebook posts.

      Giorgia Meloni’s tweet has 28K Likes
      I have followed the developments in Venezuela since the very first evolutions.
      Italy, together with the main international partners, has never recognized Maduro’s self-proclaimed electoral victory, condemning the regime’s acts of repression and has always supported the Venezuelan people’s aspiration to a democratic transition.

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  3. digg says:

    Thugs from Venezuela and other shit holes have been using the US as a profit centre for years. I am 100% behind Trump cutting off their poisonous shitty operation. We need more of this globally as there are too many poisonous greedy groups trying to live off the suffering of the broken lives of other people.

    Just blast them to oblivion Trump!

    Maduro has probably been taking his cut for supporting these vile bastards for years. Good riddance aresole! I hope the US sends him to the electric chair.

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  4. Pete says:

    Role on Trump, must be great to have a leader who puts his own country first.
    Makes TTK look even more pathetic.
    Think I’d be a little concerned if I was the bbc drone that tried to stitch Trump up.

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  5. Eddy Booth says:

    Don’t know much about Venezuela, I just hope it doesn’t crash the oil price and help the globalists against Russia,

    Russia getting lampooned over the operation..

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  6. atlas_shrugged says:

    Good year review from the Daily Skeptic:

    https://dailysceptic.org/2026/01/02/the-best-of-the-sceptic-2025/

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  7. Dover Sentry says:

    When Labour were elected, Andrew Marr of BBC fame said he was pleased to have the adults back in charge.

    What say we all now…?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yes they conveniently erase lines like that – the blob called the TTK Regime ‘the adults ‘ – infants might be nearer – with ‘special needs ‘ …

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  8. Flotsam says:

    How relevant would ‘International Law’ have been to the capture and trial of Hitler before WW2?

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  9. StewGreen says:

    8:30pm Trump just dropped an all-timer post: a slick video edit starting with Maduro smirking at the mic, daring him with “Come for me, I’m waiting in Miraflores, don’t take too long, coward,” then instantly cutting to screaming bald eagles, Thunderstruck blasting, and night-vision missile strikes lighting up the sky. It’s like Maduro hit the taunt button on the final boss and got instantly combo’d into oblivion.

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  10. harry142857 says:

    Chloe at Reasoned seems happy.

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  11. Richard Pinder says:

    Trump’s military strike on Venezuela is not only about the world drug trade networks, people trafficking and money laundering operations, but also about the biggest corruption scandal of the century which is the real pandemic of stolen elections in over 72 countries across the world. Since 2005 the Communist Idiots Agency (CIA), a large break away segment of the CIA, run by John Brennan, ran operations for money and globalist/communist ideology, with help from communist China and the UN, to train Venezuelan prison gangs to infiltrate the United States with fentanyl distribution rings and networks. This Bush/Obama deep state profiteering cabal was also deeply connected to running stolen elections world wide through Venezuela with SMARTMATIC voting machines connected to Dominion machines and operations through Cuba and Serbia, via a base in Colorado. Trump is taking down the world globalist deep state cabal operations and exposing the real pandemic of stolen elections and the full corruption of the syndicate cabal controlled blackmail operations, touching every country across the globe.

    U.S. special operations units have captured Nicolás Maduro, indicted since 2020 on narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking charges tied to the ‘Cartel de los Soles,’ and was flown to USS Iwo Jima, for transport to the United States Court of Military Commissions, at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, in the US occupied zone of Cuba.

    US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says “Maduro is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government. Maduro is the head of the Cartel de Los Soles, a narco-terror organization which has taken possession of a country. And he is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States”: https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1949424526401692094?lang=en

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      The film ‘Kill the Messenger’. Is a biographical crime drama about the true story of journalist Gary Webb who exposed the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking.

      It is based on Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series of articles for the San Jose Mercury News, which revealed that the CIA was aware of and allowed large-scale cocaine smuggling into the U.S. to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels.

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  12. Foscari says:

    We should all sympathise with the plethora of BBC’S
    anarchist Marxist news editors over how they can report
    Donald Trumps “expedition” into Venezuela.

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Foscari I lay in bed this morning savouring the thoughts of how the entitled rules based left would direct the plebs to think. What a perfect dilemma.

      On the one hand a grubby marxist who (according to the press) is central to the manufacture and distribution of drugs in N America, who has made billions out of others misery (others being the ones the marxists want to protect) and would not take a free passage from Venezuela because he wanted his billions secured. He is also a dictator who has brought his naturally wealthy country to poverty in the name of marxism.

      On the other hand there is Trump and everything Trump does is bad.

      How do the bBC report it?

      The intellectual compromise is so sweet and I cannot believe that Trump had not factored it into his thoughts while planning the event.

      If you come before people with clean hands you will never be intellectually compromised.

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  13. non-licence payer says:

    The man is a complete fuckwit.

    I will not use that word again Fedup

    “4 January 2026, 06:00 GMT
    Updated 2 minutes ago
    Sir Keir Starmer has dismissed concerns about his leadership and said he will still be prime minister this time next year.

    In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said he believes forthcoming elections in Scotland, Wales and England in May are not a “referendum” on his government.”

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  14. AsISeeIt says:

    Donald Trump is making all the news – not much change there then.

    It may be of passing interest to note which newspaper frontpages reach for a lefty cliché with which to justify their tacit support for the Marxist drug lord and to cloak their Trump derangement.

    Straight in there with the Evil Capitalist slur we have the Guardian on Sunday that is the Observer: Trump: ‘We’re in the oil business’

    That old journalistic trick of a quote out of context. Whoda thought some motivated journo would cut and splice a Trump speech just to make a point? And what a fine leftist dog whistle with which to oil the message. That’s going resonate with the Greta Thunbergs, The Polanskis, the LibDems (they can afford to be EV owners), the Green foot soldiers (their poshly-named over-educated sons and daughters and would-be EV owners) and the mohammedans (it’s like Iraq all over again).

    Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not a left-leaning broadsheet but instead the in-the-tank for Labour red top Sunday Mirror that reaches reflexively for that most hackneyed of appeals to gobalism so favoured by the fabian oikophobe… International Law…

    Mirror: …Maduro… President seized in astonishing ‘illegal’ attack on country

    If only the weekend Labour taboid had had the balls not to quote mark and ventriloquise its opinions: Defence expert Prof Michael Clarke claimed: “Formally, the US has acted illegally”

    Etiquette and proper deportment advice there from your maiden aunt out of Sky News, who no doubt thinks we ought to fight Putin all the way to Moscow – and plant a big rainbow flag on top of it when we’ve won.

    By these signs and signals we note the left’s discomfort with what appears to be a big win for Trump and the west in general. Take the wins where you can. Let’s stick to beating up on the little guys – we ain’t beating Russia or China any time soon.

    Despite, what appears to be official Keir-One-More-Year approval – The Mail, extraordinarily, gets BBC top billing in their online press pile: Maduro, the brutal dictator worshipped by the left…

    You know the trouble with socialism… it’s never been tried properly.

    And the regime-central Times: Starmer insists UK ‘will shed no tears’ – well, Keir wouldn’t, he’s an emotionless psycho.

    Just an odd thought to close – I’ve noticed the BBC’s favourite TV light entertainment show (there’s a phrase for the teenagers) is titled The Traitors – spooky, as Billy Connolly would say.

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  15. Scroblene says:

    Sunday papers – yeah…

    Somehow, the last couple of lines in Bob Dylan’s song, ‘The Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll’ seem to resonate –

    “Oh, but you who philosophize, disgrace and criticize all fears
    Bury the rag deep in your face for now’s the time for your tears”.

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  16. JohnC says:

    ‘I’ll be PM this time next year,’ Starmer tells BBC
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygv1ngynjo

    Just look how the vile Kuenssberg interviews Starmer.

    With anyone right wing, she is rough, abrasive and constantly interrupting.

    For Labour, it’s all soft voices and questions set up for the propaganda response.

    At the end – after Starmer has said there is no way he will resign – he says he will be sat opposite her this time next year. And as he does so, she is smiling and nodding her head.

    I was almost sick. Someone rid us of this cancer called the BBC. It is destroying our country.

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    • StewGreen says:

      2 people have wasted time commenting on the Kuenssberg/Strmer interview
      Why bother ?
      It’s a propagandist pushing his PR on a propagandist show

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      • JohnC says:

        … errrr … because it is an example of BBC bias which needs recording.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Stew – I disagree – it’s good to get a report of such an event ..even with TTK spouting deluded stuff from his bunker as he hears enemy guns getting closer ..

        On X someone had helpfully sent the White House the co ordinates of number 10 Mohammed Street …

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  17. Althepalerp says:

    Please can Trump come and take away Starmer.. . ?

    Set us all free.

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  18. tomo says:

    GIGO

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    • Guest Who says:

      Grok is often worth a follow…

      https://x.com/grok/status/2007764496232689749?s=12
      Here’s the latest from BBC as of Jan 4, 2026: Articles focus on US strikes capturing Maduro, Trump’s vow to “run” Venezuela until transition, global mixed reactions (e.g., shock from allies), and Venezuelans’ hope/worry. No mentions of US protests in cities like NYC or Chicago. If you want other sources, let me know.

      Inspired by a Wall Street Apes thread noting a rather coordinated response from the usual suspects.

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      • Guest Who says:

        https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2007678895865188562?s=61
        CHECK THIS OUT They’re getting sloppy

        4 protests in 4 different states, pay very close attention to solid white signs with black letter writing

        4 protests in 4 different states all have the EXACT SAME signs made in under 24 hours

        Proof this is all PAID and ORGANIZED

        1) New York City
        2) Chicago Illinois
        3) Orlando, Florida
        4) Boston, Massachusetts
        I also checked the Portland, Oregons protest and they too have the same signs

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      • tomo says:

        The publicly exposed AIs could do with a humility filter

        The vehemence with which they present poor guesses is getting very tiresome indeed – especially when the query involves geolocating, content identification and dating a photograph…

        “don’t know” seems absent from most….

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “AI hallucinates because it’s essentially a sophisticated pattern-matcher trained to predict plausible text, not a true knower; issues arise from imperfect training data, biases, lack of real-world understanding, and training incentives that reward confident guessing over admitting uncertainty, causing it to “fill in gaps” with convincing but false information. It’s not malice, but statistical probability leading to confident fabrication when data is sparse or confusing, especially as models become more advanced, notes Science | AAAS and OpenAI, as reported by The Conversation and Grammarly. “

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Richard Burgon’s cousin Patty Guevara-Waltz is not happy.

    https://x.com/libornormal/status/2007485501868306584?s=61

    And Mama Doc Shola Lard Wobble could just grab a mic and scream at a wall of banner carrying white keffiyeh bearers.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Elon has given venezuala free star link wi fi until February. X is the most popular site there

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  21. tomo says:

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  22. pugnazious says:

    LOL….they never give up [except to islamists and the Chinese…then it’s full-on surrender]……Brexit caused Venezuela…

    ‘Starmer can hardly condone what Trump has done in Venezuela, an afront to international law. But to condemn it on our own? Or find a nuanced middle way? The only feasible option is to align with the EU without having any inside voice or influence. Brexit is an unfolding debacle.’

    https://x.com/williamnhutton/status/2007404925098344857

    Luckily Andrew Neil is there to burst their ironic bubble…unfortunately few on the Left understand[of course] he is taking the mick…

    ‘Trump’s bombing of Caracas is proof positive Brexit was a mistake. The connection is clear.’

    https://x.com/afneil/status/2007419597268627625

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  23. pugnazious says:

    Listening to Wato as they re-ran some of their greatest hits from the last year and Evan Davis was given a second go….Labour supporter of course.

    He informed us that there is no cost of living crisis…in fact we’ve never had it so good. Yeah there are some people struggling but really its all perception….we’ve got loads of money but the problem is we’re spending it and so think we haven’t got any money….we splurge our ‘fat paychecks’. We need, he told us, more redistribution…tax those with too much money…presumably so we can’t spend it and thus with less money to spend we will think we are richer? erm?

    Probably not one of the best clips to run as it just reminds us how pro-Labour and Marxist the BBC is.

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  24. vlad says:

    Look at the prominence the BBC give to the Iranian Foreign Minister on their webshite.

    The representative of a murderous, terrorist, islamo-fascist regime is treated as though he were a respectable figure, while Trump is depicted as the dangerous maverick.

    “Trump warning over Iran protests ‘reckless’ says foreign minister”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2057md3gvro

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  25. friend of yogi bear says:

    DON’T LET THIS NEWS ESCAPE YOU…….

    With all the fuss and focus on Trumps actions in Venezuela, another “mishap” involving “mastermind” David Lammys justice department.
    The new and tough rules to prevent escapes from custody haven’t quite hit the ground running, not so laser focussed like all the other Labour Govt stuff….. Oh, no ,news of a double escape on New Years day …convicted murderer Matthew Armstrong , who smashed a man’s head in with a blunt object during a street robbery..then sentenced in 2009 to a minimum of 19 years before the parole board review , was allowed to wander out of an open prison. He was not alone ,as his mate ,Daniel Washbourne ,another violent convict thought that it a good idea too.
    But…don’t worry I’m confident Dave Lammy will be able to tell us that this was ….the Tories fault, another example of 14 years , blah,blah.
    And of course Brexit…. that will take some of the blame and it doesn’t matter anyway, as both men have made new year resolutions to go straight, etc,etc,
    ( as former foreign secretary perhaps Dave Lammy has been distracted by Venezuela… is dreaming of when he visited its capital ….that’s Venice ..hmm, isn’t it? ) sorry I digress.

    Well Dave “Justice supremo” will deal with it just as soon it comes across his desk . Given his ability to get stuff done, this will be the last example of any such thing happening , ever again because there will be new,new, tough rules soon.

    As I alluded to, the other “breaking the law” outrage headline today comes from none other than Emily Thornbury , who is disgusted by the U.S. attack on Venezuela, she says it’s terrible, and awful.
    But forgets , it’s also good for the Labour Govt because the BBC can talk endlessly about it and not stuff here at home. The Panto season may be ending but this Labour Govt goes on.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dave Lammy will hide with future King William to keep safe.

      “Prince William and Princess Kate’s new home, Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park, is protected by a substantial security exclusion zone. The area, approximately 150 acres with a 2.3-mile perimeter, is a restricted “no-go” area for the public under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. “

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  26. vlad says:

    In recent weeks, the Democrats have taken the side of illegal aliens (many committing various crimes, including child trafficking); Somalis committing fraud on an industrial scale; and narco-terrorists like Maduro who flooded the US with lethal drugs – not to mention what he did to his own country and people. Before that of course, they sided with the anarcho-terrorists of BLM, Antifa, and assorted Palestinian groups – some of which are just a front for islamo-terrorists like Hamas.

    Come the next elections, I hope the Republicans will remind the voters of their record.

    The BBC, meanwhile, have themselves been quite ambivalent on all the above. Their default position being: if it’s anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Trump or anti-British, we’ll support it, or at least give it the benefit of the doubt and treat it with indulgence.

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  27. pugnazious says:

    Woman’s Hour last week discussing, as usual, violence towards women and girls…they wheeled in Harriet Harman who told us it was time to get angry, really angry….this violence must stop….naturally the presenter was fully onboard…..surely we should be saying… ‘Everyone calm down. Love is the answer.’ ?

    Hmmm…that’d be the same Harman who helped promote the paedophile Information Exchange? Didn’t care so much for children then did she?

    Did she want to get angry about the Manchester bombing? Brendan O’Neill wanted us to and yet he was a lone voice as the Establishment hurried to shut down any anger….

    ‘After Manchester: it’s time for anger
    Brendan O’Neill’

    ‘Stop and think about how strange it is, how perverse it is, that more than 20 of our citizens have been butchered and we are basically saying: ‘Everyone calm down. Love is the answer.’ Where’s the rage? If the massacre of children and their parents on a fun night out doesn’t make you feel rage, nothing will. The terrorist has defeated you. You are dead already.’

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2017/05/23/after-manchester-its-time-for-anger/

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  28. MarkyMark says:

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “‘I can’t believe it’ – Joy and uncertainty in Florida’s ‘Little Venezuela'”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygv0pd26eo
    A significant number fiercely oppose Maduro – and on the streets of Doral, it showed.

    Little Venezuela – means there are plenty who will support Maduro and not come out?

    A significant number? 52%? HA HA HA HAHAH HAHAHA H A!
    An insignificant number of drug lords? 49%?
    An insignificant number loyalists? 49%?

    “By noon, the crowd had swollen to hundreds, blasting music, chanting, with motorists honking horns and waving flags (OF ANOTHER NATION) on nearby roads.”

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  30. JonathanR says:

    I find it utterly bonkers that “journalists” are fretting over if Starmer was informed on Venuzuela . Why would he be? Why would any of the socialists “leaders” be informed? Trump doesn’t care and why should he He is looking after US interests. If only other countries’ “leaders” did the same.
    But no Starmer is more interested in prattling on about other countries problems rather than focus on ours. It has been the same since the Blair creature.
    The only person who seems more concerned about the state of our own country is Farage

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  31. JonathanR says:

    ‘Trump Should’ve Captured Starmer, Not Maduro’

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  32. Sluff says:

    …….and the new ‘victim’ group identified by the BBC and needing special help is……..anyone who works!!!!

    Dreading going back to work? How to ease the post-Christmas return
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7097jp00pno

    Must be worth spending a few billion on….

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  33. non-licence payer says:

    And LNER is the new nationalised operator model which we are moving to. Jobs which do not rely on service:

    “A train worker who was sacked after first class passengers were served sausage rolls from a bin has said he was going “over and beyond for the customer”.

    Peter Duffy, who worked for London North Eastern Railway (LNER), was accused of preparing sausage rolls he had “retrieved from a bin”, which were then served to passengers by a colleague.”

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    • Sluff says:

      Just imagine if that had happened on a privatised railway operator.
      Imagine the BBCGuardian apoplexy.

      But when it happens on a nationalised railway, why it’s just treated as a silly joke.

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  34. tomo says:

     https://twitter.com/i/status/2007393194904821770

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    • tomo says:

      hmmm – something’s going on with X embedding….

      The above link is failing – this site software or Twitter UK tinkering? – anyone?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Brits are jailed for pretty tame “hate speech” – while extremists who call for white people to be slaughtered are celebrated.
      See the full video on my YouTube”

      Leo Kearse – on YouTube & touring
      @LeoKearse

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  35. StewGreen says:

    EV exposer says there is something up with GBnews EV story
    And it raises the question if GBnews is running Nudge Unit PR for EVs
    “Electric car targets to be met in major victory for UK as drivers ditch petrol and diesel vehicles”
    ,,s basically at the end of the year targets are fiddled
    #1 EV’s are booked as sold when they are not really
    #2 petrol and diesel vehicle salesare suppressed cos govt fines nmanufacturers if they sell them without making EV targets first.

    Google shows that GB News puts out an EV PR story almost every week
    and then sprinkles in the odd negative EV story in too.

    Why do they do that when they get very few Likes
    The latest tweet has just 5 Likes
    and is ratioed by 29 replies

    —————–
    Also GBnews runs straplines saying it’s FREE SPEECH
    Yet that is ridiculous as it still enforces a ban on certain people
    And is a complete front for the Reform Party
    apart from a roster of left lunatics to please Ofcom.

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  36. vlad says:

    Sooner or later the Islamic Theoc-rats in Iran will be swept aside, and hopefully executed.
    We will then see a mass rejection of Islam within the country, which could spill over to other regions in the Middle East and beyond.
    That, combined with other trends such as academic rejection of the very foundation myths of Islam; growing secularism as well as – paradoxically – the growth of Christianity in muslim countries – could combine to spell the end of that evil cult. Good riddance.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      £10 million boost to protect Muslim communities
      https://www.gov.uk/government/news/10-million-boost-to-protect-muslim-communities

      Our vision: To make the South Lakes a place of choice for Muslim families.
      https://slic.uk/
      Female Prayer Space: A safe, comfortable, and beautifully designed prayer area for our sisters.
      Male Prayer Space: A dedicated, peaceful prayer space designed for the brothers of our community.

      images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxMZWPx-H09L7dBZUVph8CFBOI0I5XbYvTfg&s

      ………… 2018 …. UK ………………

      “…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers (Mayors,UK Security MP, Religious guidance)…give it up
      (Islam) or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“

      Home Office, UK Security … Islamist …. Sajid Javid.

      London Mayor, UK Prosperity … Islamist … Sadiq Khan.

      CEO of Bernados, UK Children … Islamist .. Javed Khan.

      Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief … Islamist … Lord Ahmed.

      BBC religion and ethics commissioning … Islamist … Fatima Salaria

      ………

      Yes, Saudi Arabia, primarily through its Public Investment Fund (PIF), has heavily invested in Western sports, buying clubs like Newcastle United, securing major boxing/golf events, and pouring billions into sponsorship and player transfers (like football’s Saudi Pro League) to boost its global profile, a strategy often linked to “sportswashing” and economic diversification.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      No chance. Islam will simply move to the most recently conquered country, the UK.

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  37. tomo says:

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    “We need to shoot down this idea that slogans, easy answers, quick fixes and shortcuts are what fix the country.”
    https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2007828394193645704

    “Reform will be a toxic divide of this country.” (c) Starmer
    “Davos or Westminster? Davos because it is less constrained” (c) Starmer
    “Far right thuggery” (c) Starmer
    “Island of Strangers” (c) Starmer

    “It is British to be diverse.” (c) Starmer
    i.e. to not be British is to be British! HA HHA HAH AH AH H AH AH HA H AH A!

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “Starmer ready for closer alignment with the EU ‘in the national interest'”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn56wdlw094o

    “closer alignment” to an organisation that want to remove nation states.
    “national interest” to align with non-national organisation.

    “Deputy prime minister David Lammy also told the News Agents podcast last month that rejoining the EU’s customs union was “not currently our policy” – but highlighted that Turkey had seen growth as a result of its own cooperation with the bloc.”

    ……….

    Yes, Turkey has been a major buyer of Russian oil, especially after Europe reduced imports, ranking among the top buyers alongside China and India, but recent Western sanctions and EU regulations are pushing Turkey to diversify, increasing purchases from Iraq, Kazakhstan, and other sources while still relying on Russian crude for significant portions of its needs, creating a complex energy balancing act”

    …………

    Democracy is Like a Tram
    In the mid-1990s, the mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was quoted as saying, “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.” Erdogan, who is now president of Turkey, has decidedly stepped off the tram.
    Prof. Jenny White 14 Jul 2016

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  40. tomo says:

    Antics like this won’t help Democrats – they’ll just serve to infuriate people who see the lies and the larceny….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Lipstick is Halal in Islam! News is Haram in Islam!

      We don’t do Learning in Somalia – we Learing! (c) BBC verified

      Ari Hoffman 🎗@thehoffather
      “For the first speaker at her inauguration, Socialist Seattle Mayor chose Somali Muslim Ifrah Abshir, who slammed journalists investigating daycare fraud in Washington & claimed the US picks “a vulnerable group, describes them as a threat, flood the media with accusations, then uses the panic to justify collective punishment.”

      She then compared investigating the daycares to overturning Roe V Wade, and enforcing immigration law”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The West will try and dress this up …. “Dangerous Underwear”

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      • Guest Who says:

        I have no doubt there are a few whose eyes promise much and still deliver, but on balance this might explain if not excuse the activities of many disappointed husbands, brothers, sons and cousins globally.

        A few here do indeed portray a total package, but it’s all out there, and lures many a Channel 4 or Vile producer, possibly not for ratings alone.

        Still tracking down the Carry On one.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Marky – vote ‘toxic divide ‘. TTK is a case study in delusions – he can ignore criticism – the polls – probably the feedback from his MPs …
    They’ll make money for themselves in the next couple of years and try to do what Biden tried when he was being thrown out .
    I really hope Reform as the plan and staffing needed to reverse the Marxism ..a huge lump of legislation to end a whole range of self harm treaties link the ECHR

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  42. Richard Pinder says:

    ChatGPT says that between May 8 and May 12, 2025, fires were started at two houses and one vehicle connected to Sir Keir Starmer in north London. One was the home he lived in before entering Downing Street, another was a property he once owned, and the car he previously sold was also set on fire. Police arrested Ukrainian nationals, Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Petro Pochynok, 34, and a Romanian national born in Ukraine, Stanislav Carpiuc, 26. They are charged with conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.

    The older member of the three, Petro Pochynok, of Holloway Road, Islington, is a fashion entrepreneur. Roman Lavrynovych, of Sydenham, London, worked as a roofer and male model. Stanislav Carpiuc, of Chadwell Heath, Romford, completed a business degree at Christ Church University in Canterbury, graduating in the January before his arrest in May, and was a construction worker for his 30 year old brother Marc Carpiuc’s company, Vicontex Ltd, as well as an aspiring actor and male model.

    So Keir Starmer’s property was attacked by male models, Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc, lead by fashion entrepreneur Petro Pochynok, who was so important, that he was arrested by counter-terrorism officers.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    Blonde, might scrub up in post, Libby, nuts… Cathy Newman best look out.

    https://x.com/fft1776/status/2007586762055422201?s=61
    At first I thought she was parody but the tears are REAL!!

    DTLM – “Drug Traffic Lives Matter”- 🤡

    Yep and the loone gets better!!

    “ILM” … u won’t believe it!
    Wait for it!🤣👇🏻

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  44. digg says:

    Starmer on why the Country needs to put up with the Labour Government until the end of this Parliament despite floods of supporters leaving Labour for Reform…

    “The next election is going to be about a question of, what is it to be British? And I believe to be British is to be compassionate, reasonable, live and let live, and diverse.”

    Lucy Connolly anyone?

    His grasp on reality has more holes than Emmental Cheese.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg
      If TTK`S SPADS think that running on ‘what does it mean to be British ‘ – then the election really is a loser for TTK . British people know what it is to be British – and it ain’t the TTK version …. In a way it might be best if he does stay on until 2029 … unless someone gets him first of course …

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      • digg says:

        Yes FU2, Starmer is as “British” as a Martian. I think as with so many high up Labourites the focus is entirely on getting a well rewarded EU sinecure when they leave office so the sucking up is crystal clear.

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      • non-licence payer says:

        Fedup you know you are in trouble when no one can agree what the flag means. I thought that Starmer made a strategic error today having two Union Jacks in the interview. Nobody knows what they mean (except at some Marxist Church of England parade) My feeling is that this reset is doomed before it starts. The economic data could yet kebab him.

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  45. Up2snuff says:

    TWoTWee Watch – #1 unpleasant listening if you are a fan of President Trump

    Jonny Dymond was presenting. He managed to get interviews with people who did not like what President Trump did in removing Nicolas Maduro, sorry cannot remember a name but he was security adviser to a previous President. Only one person was lined up by Jonny to speak in favour of President Trump, again sorry cannot remember a name. Typical BBC!

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  46. tomo says:

    Guess Democrats won’t like being reminded of this

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  47. Dover Sentry says:

    Never mentioned by the BBC –

    Men die by suicide FOUR times more than women.

    When divorced, it’s EIGHT times higher for men.

    If this was the other way around, I’m sure the BBC would mention it again and again and again….

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    • Scroblene says:

      Does that apply to foreigners who bring in various wives and dump them on the UK State?

      Just asking for an emir…

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    • non-licence payer says:

      A few years back the Government undertook major research into suicide and I remember hearing about it on women’s hour. A good reason because it excluded all males. It was about the time that male suicides had gone from 2 out of 3 (old ratio) to 3 out of 4 (new). Why would that ever trouble a fundamemntally sexist country and the women’s hour glitterati did not bat an eyelid.

      Sadly the cricket commentator in Australia did manage to tell us about her period.

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    • digg says:

      BBC pecking order for “British” citizens

      1. Black left-wing women
      2. Black left-wing men
      3. Anyone not white
      4, Anyone aligned to non-Christian religion, especially Muslim
      5, Anyone not born in the UK
      6. Anyone acting as the opposite sex that they were born.
      7. Anyone in a same-sex relationship.

      In fact all the hallmarks of a “British” society falling to bits….

      I could go on but I’m sure regular readers will get my drift….

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    Conspiracy theory – I was out before dawn on Sunday morning – the clear sky showed around a dozen contrails all heading NE of Londonistan. As I browse X there are reports that the USAF has sent a lot of aircraft to the east Anglian air Bases .

    Now there are reports ( DT) that President Trump could be going for Greenland – fanciful eh?

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  49. digg says:

    John Harris’s column in the Guardian is a perfect lesson it how the lefty-intelligentsia poison our society.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/04/in-2026-remember-britain-better-the-right-lies-politics

    Of course the usual patriotism equals racism bollox….

    We can only hope that all these Marxist wankers get consigned to history when the long-suffering, white pseudo lefties get their comeuppance as the vilified masses vote their pseudo Marxist parties into the wilderness

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  50. The Mouse says:

    Back in the day when Boris was prime minister and Starmer became labour leader Laura Kuenssberg (BBC and labour lick spittle) described the two as –

    “the lawyer (Starmer) and the showman (Johnson)” to describe the dynamic between the two. She mentioned the forensic ability of Starmer in particular.

    The reflection she made has not aged well – for Starmer we have –

    U-turn after U-turn, reset after reset, smashing the gangs appears to be something he is hoping for us all to forget, the regret of not simply checking or getting others to check social media before being “delighted” to “welcome” an Egyptian, a hater of police, of the west, of white men, of jews, etc.

    ‘Forensic’ in deed, given that Starmer and his labour lackys couldn’t have simply checked the Egyptians social media posts. Most school kids would have known better. What an embarrassment. The problem I have is that the corrupt BBC continuously decide not to hold him to account over anything, and there is already a long list and growing

    The fool may have regrets over tweeting his “delight” before making these checks, however I would say these regrets are nothing compared to regrets of the many for putting an X in the wrong box in July 2024.

    PS: Could we the UK (and particularly the young) trust or follow, potentially into conflict, someone of such poor character and poor leadership quality.

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