How will the BBC handle the failure of their favourite PM getting his Chagos sellout put in the legal rubbish bin . Some might say it’s a resigning matter … meanwhile plod has forbidden Christians from marching in London in case Muslims object / attack them …. Not much from Al BBC about that …or Iran …
Weekend 24th January 2026
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Here am I, send me to the top of the Thread, re-phrasing Isaiah chapter6. 🙂 The BBC are wasteful. I have said that before and I will say it again! They rolled out a new girl on Business news on TOADY this morning despite the BBC having two very adequate business presenters on TOADY, Will Bain and Felicity Hannah. Cancel your TellyTax, you know it makes sense. Defund the BBC.
TTK resign now!
Use your BBC TV Tax to fund the rape gang enquiry by Rupert Lowe – when presented with summons to pay just send them the report and say look what it bought instead of Huw Edwards! Genius!
Up2 – admire your dedication …. I try to be punctual … and sober … one of these may not apply at the time of writing .. 77 brigade to note …
Obviously Trump got it wrong about our servicemen in Afghanistan.
What I think he meant was that many of the Countries in NATO didn’t really pull their weight and sent few or no soldiers. This was said in a clumsy way and should be corrected.
He surely never meant to insult the 2 or 3 Countries that did give the same (proportional) support and was having a go at the rest of Europe’s half hearted support the same way as he has for these same Countries not fulfilling their NATO commitments.
He should clarify that the UK and a couple of others did fully contribute.
@EG, I don’t blame Trump for his comments. He has a global view of the political disasters worldwide and he was referring more to the EU.
Unfortunately, Starmer is a clone EU member and we got caught up in Trump’s comments.
I blame Starmer, not Trump.
Not mentioned by our BBC (as yet):
Starmer has U-Turned on Chagos.
Other news outlets are covering it.
Sometimes the bias is do obvious as to be embarrassing – but BBC News doesn’t have grown ups at the weekend … just the kids of full BBC staff …
It’s looking like Rachel from accounts will be getting a £35billion windfall (Chagos deal collapsing)
Will she be using it to reduce the national debt, increase pensions, build nuclear power stations or what.
Who is the bad man ?
.. Seems these days not the person who does physically bad things
but rather people who TALK, who say something .
Thus today both national and local news on BBC and ITV open with “ORANGE MAN BAD ! He said something”
“Here is local woman Mrs Jones/ Mrs Smith etc.
Her son got Little Joey his legs blown off in Afghanistan.”
OK Who is the bad man to Little Joey ?
The Taliban blokes blew him up ?
THe UK establishment who sent him there ?
.. Or Donald Trump who SAID something ?
who said NATO didn’t pull its weight
which is generally true the French and Germans did mainly work in safe areas
The TV news shamelessly directly claimed that Trump directly said “BRITISH soldiers didn’t serve at the front”
Why would skyNews put up the video of Trump’s exact words and then DELETE IT leaving a blank page ?
https://news.sky.com/video/trump-weve-never-needed-nato-13497848
Was Trump speaking to the UK ?
… See how the talk initially talks about France
The actual original source is the FoxNews interview
Transcript of the NATO bit
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-maria-bartiromo-fox-business-davos-january-22-2026/
Maria Bartiromo 00:04:36
Mr. President, are our relations with Europe, deteriorating or worsening? I mean, French President Macron called the Greenland situation colonialism. European leaders have these emergency talks to try to retaliate or stop your plans.
You’re threatening France with 200 percent tariffs on wine and champagne.
There’s been a real reaction from the European group, so.
Donald Trump 00:04:57
Well, they put a service charge on us, you know, which is something that they’re going to have to remove.
I think we get along good. But you know, I’ve always debated, we are always going to be there for them, but will they be there for us ?
I’ve always said that, you know, if we ever needed them because NATO has very much been a one-way street.
We actually paid — until I came along, we were paying for — I think we paid 100 percent the cost of NATO. (typical Trump hyperbole)
They weren’t paying and we were paying.
We have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Germany.
We have 50,000 soldiers in other countries.
We have a lot of soldiers, not only Europe and other places.
And you know, we want that to be reciprocal.
We want to be liked and respected.
So, I’ve always said, and we get along very well with NATO, I think.
But I’ve always said, will they be there if we ever needed them ? And that’s really the ultimate test and I’m not sure of that. I
know that we would have been there or we would be there, but will they be there?
And let’s hope that that never happens. We’ve never needed them. (Trump hyperbole again)
We have never really asked anything of them.
You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that and they did.
They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.
But we’ve been very good to Europe and to many other countries.
And you know, now under my administration that began — because we had a very successful first term that began then. But it has to be a two-way street, and it’s been a two-way street much more so, and now it’s really been a two-way street.
Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve ‘respect’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clym2l7d75eo
These spiteful child-like articles by the BBC to try and say the opposite of anything Trump says are now beyond pathetic – they are downright embarassing for our country.
Clearly in the BBC’s little bubble, Harry (and Megan of course) are still highly respected.
I used my new friend – AI – to see what Trump might be talking about because I know for a fact the BBC won’t tell me. The article is stuffed with empathy to sway our opinion which always tells me the BBC don’t want me to know the actual facts behind it.
And of course I discover what Trump was actually taking about. It seems that while us, Canada and Holland did our bit for the fight, all the other NATO countries were less than helpful:
‘Common National Caveats
Commanders in Afghanistan had to manage between 50 and 80 known national restrictions, including:
Geographic Restrictions: Some countries refused to allow their troops to be moved outside of specific provinces (e.g., many European nations initially restricted forces to the relatively stable north or west).
Operational Limitations: Certain nations allowed participation in defensive operations but strictly prohibited offensive combat missions.
Time and Activity Limits: Some contingents were not permitted to operate at night, while others were restricted to patrolling only on main roads.
Procedural Vetoes: Several countries required their top national officer to secure direct authorization from their home capital before participating in any new or high-risk operation.
Impact on the Mission
Burden-Sharing Inequality: Countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands took on the vast majority of high-intensity combat in the south and east. In contrast, nations like Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Spain primarily focused on peacekeeping and reconstruction in more stable regions.
Operational Complexity: Commanders often could not use the nearest available forces to respond to a crisis if that nation’s caveats prohibited the specific activity or location required.
Insurgent Advantages: Restrictions, such as refusing to patrol off-road or at night, provided insurgents with “breathing room” to move and recruit with relative impunity in certain sectors’
Sure Trump should have given us a bit of credit – but I think his point is the wider nature of NATO which – as we have seen in Ukraine and other places – has become a political weapon, not a defensive deterrent organisation. Their head man has told some outrageous lies about Russia to scare us just as the head of the UN should have been sacked long ago for what he has allowed.
The West needs jolting back to reality and common sense. All the big taxpayer funded organisations are now infested by the far-Left. Including the BBC. They will destroy our civilisation if they are not stopped.
X is on fire over the crass comments of a man who never wore a uniform . He really needs to say something . It’s beyond who paid for NATO . afgee was a dumb idea which cost us – the west – far too much in lives and Money .
God knows what Putin will do to exploit the schism ..