298 Responses to Midweek 27th May 2026

  1. Scroblene says:

    Haaah!

    I guess that now radio and TV purdah is in operation, the various parties in Makerfield cannot be discussed by the bBC or the rest of the MSM, without impartiality.

    It will be interesting to fathom the indeterminate far-left bias which we’d expect from certain members of the left-wing coven, but no doubt, keener eyes than these, Chez Scrobs, will be in evidence as we move into election mayhem.

    Egos versus the safety and future existence of the UK is at stake. Instead of plunging hatchets into each others’ shoulderblades, they need to be buried PDQ, otherwise it’s curtains for decent British Citizens.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Scroblene has the date of the bi election been announced yet ? I thought it might be mid July …

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      • Scroblene says:

        Morning Fed!

        18th June this year, unless cancelled by one of the potential far-left losers…

        DE poll says well over 80% want Rupert Lowe to stand aside, and although the same poll in other rags would differ, I just feel it ‘in the air’, that something has to happen to kick the socialists out as soon as possible, because the ruination of the UK is a near certainty if they continue their manic, suicidal far-left policies.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Hello scroblene – thanks – I’m glad it’s sooner than I thought – I hope 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 isn’t playing on that day …..

          …. Tony Blair has helpfully popped up to tell the Marxists they are lost … this will push the far left even further and stoke up their civil war – so good news for a change ….

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          • Scroblene says:

            “Tony Blair has helpfully popped up to tell the Marxists they are lost”.

            Like quite a few ageing politicians, the realisation of what they started, and now rampant, comes back to remind them of how rotten a job they did in the first place.

            Of course, TTK will ignore any advice, because he has an invisible desk, on which nothing ever lands…

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            • MarkyMark says:

              Ah – Tony Blair who shredded his expenses and the country and then said he knows what a penis is … AH AHAHHA HA HAHA HAH A

              Tony Blair: A woman has a vagina and a man has a penis
              Former PM wades into the transgender debate, questioning why politicians had got themselves into a ‘muddle’ on the issue
              https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/17/tony-blair-labour-trans-views-gender-general-election/
              Tony Blair has declared that “a woman has a vagina and a man has a penis” as he questioned why politicians had got themselves into a “muddle” over trans rights.

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  2. Eddy Booth says:

    “Boy with Tourette’s left in tears as he and his family are refused boarding onto British Airways flight after he shouted ‘bomb’ at the gate at Gatwick”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15849797/Boy-Tourettes-left-tears-family-refused-boarding.html

    “BA had been made aware days beforehand that Mason, who was ‘incredibly nervous’, had been diagnosed with coprolalia some six months earlier.”

    Are there any kids left who are undiagnosed these days?

    “But when the youngster involuntarily shouted ‘bomb’ at the gate, he and his family were thrown off the flight after being deemed a ‘safety threat’.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      lol – maybe BA should have a ‘Tourette’s class ‘ at the back of the plane …with an safety instruction not to use the B word …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        We need more cabin crew with Tourettes!
        …..
        Air Afrikaans (Full Show)
        Camille Driguet | 3.81k subscribers

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        • G says:

          I love this video. It reminds me vividly of an experience flying American Airlines from Stanstead. Smoking days. The horror started when the passenger ahead when taking up their seat, flipped the armrest up which, in turn dislodged the (loose and uncleaned} ash tray over my legs………………
          Happy days.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            G
            There are complaints in the YouTube comments from South Africans saying the crew is not tough enough !

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    • MarkyMark says:

      If he’d have shouted Free Gaza he would have been upgraded to Business Class for free and be clapped onto the plane

      ………..

      “Boy with Tourette’s left in tears as he and his family are refused boarding onto British Airways flight after he shouted ‘bomb’ at the gate at Gatwick”

      https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15849797/Boy-Tourettes-left-tears-family-refused-boarding.html

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  3. tomo says:

    Mayoral election in LA

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Crewkerne has opposition …. Just think -if all you did was to stick to the msm you’d have no idea that this clever funny stuff existed ..

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Bearing in mind that lots of England ‘support ‘ is going to happen in a few days – with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 all over the place – will the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿hating councils who spend taxpayers ‘ money taking the flags down – continue to do so ? Will they put up their favourite ? 🇵🇰

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  5. AsISeeIt says:

    I don’t like the look of your’s edition

    Ladyboys in blue… undiecover cops masqueraded as ladyboys at a street dance festival…

    Don’t panic, and choke on your cornflakes, this isn’t London’s Met unveiling their new Notting Hill Carnival “community engagement” strategy.

    This is in fact the jokey Daily Star (‘News with a wink’) having a giggle at: Police in dragnet… Cops don frocks to bust drug deal suspect… A group of burly coppers have made headlines after they dressed up as female dancers in order to bring down an alleged drug dealer in Thailand.

    I have to say the officer pictured to the right, bottom row front cover of the Star, looks attractive enough – don’t judge me… I’m 98% sure that one’s a WPC (as we used to say). Anyway, these days they can’t touch you for it (as we used to say).

    Best leave this subject which has gone a bit Alan Partridge

    Steve Coogan in the cheapskate Guardian that is the i paper warns: ‘You have to understand why people do things’

    And what jolly good advice that is. Keeping that caution in mind, I wonder what our failed PM Keir Starmer is up to at the moment? I wonder what last fling, hunkered down in the bunker policies he’ll come up with?

    “Monkey Tennis” is a famous, desperate pitch made by comedy character Alan Partridge to a BBC commissioning editor in the show I’m Alan Partridge. – thank you A.I.

    Starmer vows to act on social media after meeting bereaved parents… has vowed to take “decisive” action to tackle the impact of social media on UK children, as the government’s consultation on the matter draws to a close. Sir Keir told families and campaigners who insist their children died as a result of social media use that “it is important that we act and will act”. – BBC going in mob-handed on this flagship regime strategy: Liv McMahon, technology reporter, Zoe Kleinman, technology editor and Hugh Pym, health editor.

    Last year in Provence

    The regime previously thrilled to her story, now she’s back for the sequel – yesterday she was top BBC News online story, today: Powerful voice – insists the regime mouthpiece Times: Gisèle Pelicot… addressed the Hay Festival… and told Times Radio yesterday that children needed protecting from the “scourge” of porn – well, that’s as maybe – but the big mainstream push is to get in Digital ID by the back door tactic of universal age verification for internet use.

    Social media ban will protect children from ‘addictive features’ (Times) – with the Nanny State assumption parents have no say in the matter of what their children might get up to.

    Child web ban may be tighter than Australia’s (Telegraph) – today’s big push is wall-to-wall. And looks suspiciously coordinated.

    Social media crackdown is expected in weeks (Guardian)

    Step up Keir to stop kids dying… Bereaved parents tell PM to show courage and restrict children’s social media use… group of parents who went to No 10 (Express) – as if they’d have ever got within a mile of Downing Street without the express invite from Keir’s Coms Team!

    There’s an added benefit to universal Digital ID – it will open the door to an internet use tax. That’ll help fund our failing BBC.

    And finally, we’ve had the laugh out loud from the Star, now for the wry smile care of the Graun

    Russia relentlessly targeting UK infrastructure, spy chief warns (Guardian) – and there we were thinking Britain had fucked up the HS2 project to the tune of £100billion all down to our own incompetency.

    You’ll easily spot these Ruskie infrastucture saboteurs – especially in this heatwave – they’re the ones with snow on their boots.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Social media crackdown is expected in weeks (Guardian)
      ** does not apply to minorities or chosen minorities

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi on BBC Radio 4 – he says he wants democracy to work – yet could not stop one boat and was not elected and kicked out the choose Liz Tuss – HA AH AHAH HAHA H – he also wants for AI for the UK but has a green card to move to the USA! HA HA AHHA HAHA HA!
    I know believe politicians are just failed comedians.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    “A rise from £1,641 a year to £1,862. Ed Miliband has released a long statement:

    The rise in the price cap because of a war we did not choose is deeply unwelcome news for households across the country. We know people were under pressure before this crisis, and that’s why easing that burden is our number one priority.

    To help people facing higher costs, we’ve frozen fuel duty and made bus travel free for children across England in August. We’ve also taken £150 of costs off energy bills for the years ahead, on top of extending the Warm Home Discount to around 6 million families.

    We will continue to monitor the situation ahead of the winter and plan for all contingencies. In the immediate term it is essential to de-escalate this conflict to bring oil and gas prices down.

    As we face the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade, we must learn the right lessons. The way to get bills down for good and avoid these price spikes is to go further and faster with our drive for clean homegrown power that we control.

    That’s why we’re upgrading as many homes as possible ahead of winter with the biggest investment in warm homes in British history, and doubling down on our clean power mission to deliver energy security.”
    https://order-order.com/2026/05/27/energy-price-cap-to-rise-by-13-in-july-for-typical-household/#comments

    Greta.jpg
    TAXES! TAXES!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Standing charges standing charges ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “The jump will equate to a rise of £18 a month for the average household using both electricity and gas, with households seeing an increase of 24% on their gas bills and 5% on their electricity bills. Standing charges are almost unchanged.”

        What are gas and electricity standing charges?
        A standing charge is a fixed daily amount that you pay on your bill regardless of how much energy you use. Standing charges apply to both gas and electricity and will vary by supplier, where you live, how you pay and what meter you have.

        Standing charges cover the cost of:

        Maintaining the energy supply network – the wires and cables that deliver the gas and electricity to our homes
        Supporting social and energy investment schemes
        Operating costs – such as billing and metering services
        Failed suppliers exiting the energy market – electricity only

        https://www.britishgas.co.uk/energy/guides/standing-charges.html

        Supporting social and energy investment schemes

        Failed suppliers exiting the energy market – electricity only

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      As ever, the BBC has decided that black people – and only black people – are affected by energy prices.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8pw464986o

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  8. tomo says:

    This

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Tony Tony Tony – don’t ya love him … he’s big on AI – dream on – it will change little – just hype – and improve VAR …

    Nothing on green crap – nothing on the invasion – nothing on the cancer of Islam …. Just meaningless drivel about a new Industrial Revolution … must sound great in LA but in third world britainistan ? Really .?

    Example – in londonistan the 4 day week £75k pa tube drivers are striking again next week – will AI replace them ? Never . The Blair delusion ….

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Tony Blair, you say? As in Tony Blair Institute for Global Change? Which has reportedly received over $250 million from Larry Ellison, the world’s 2nd richest man. Who just happens to own CBS (the BBC’s north America ‘partner’), numerous other media outlets and Tik-Tok. Oh, and Oracle, which provides lots of software to the British state and likely to be the main benefactor of a Digital ID system. Just a coincidence of course, no possible interests involved.

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  10. Scroblene says:

    Quango cost, nerd alert…

    Just heard that there are 2,000 people working at Ofgem, (the 13% hike in juice starting pretty soon, according to their fag-packets).

    Taking a median of around £50,000 incl pensions etc., that means that £120 million p.a. is spent on a bunch of civil servants, doing the bidding for Milliband and his manic policies, and doing nothing for the consumer.

    Even the bBC are considering turning a small electric fan in the biike shed to half-power.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8pw464986o

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Household energy prices will rise by 13% a year in July, as soaring wholesale costs caused by the US-Israel war with Iran hit bills for the first time.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8pw464986o

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      • Guest Who says:

        Not one person in the country outside the blob is buying it.

        Why?

        1) Labour
        2) On the BBC

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    • harry142857 says:

      A quick calculation

      2110 staff. total BASIC wage bill £103.767 m

      Average £49,000

      Pension contributions £27.995m nearly 28%,
      Private sector is 3%.

      Total wage bill £144.2m

      Average £68,300

      https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-strategy/annual-reports-and-accounts

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “The tax tribunal has ruled in favour of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in a case involving the tax status of three BBC journalists employed through personal service companies (PSCs).
        The tribunal found that PSCs operated by the journalists before 2017 were caught by the intermediaries legislation, known as IR35. At the time, IR35 provided that employment taxes had to be paid by PSCs which provided the services of an individual to the public or the private sector if that individual would have been regarded as an employee of the engaging business if the individual had not used a PSC.

        However, the tribunal said that neither the journalists nor their advisers had acted carelessly, so assessment time limits meant that not all the tax could be recovered.

        https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/hmrc-wins-ir35-case-against-freelance-bbc-presenters

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        • Scroblene says:

          Thanks Harry – my calculator stuck a sort of ‘E’ on the sum, as it was so large!

          These public service bods are producing nothing to create wealth, jobs etc., for the UK, they’re just farting around with Excel and wasting our money for far-left lunacy.

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          • harry142857 says:

            What annoys most people.

            My company pays £870 per year into my pension. I will have to work far beyond age 67.

            Ofgem average employee contribution is £13,720 and those guys can retire comfortably at 60 or lower.

            Nearly sixteen times as much. If my company goes bankrupt, I’m out of work. Ofgem will just get more taxpayer funds.

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            • Doublethinker says:

              Harry,
              It is a truly scandalous state of affairs. You are obviously well aware of it but do the general public understand just how distorted pensions between the public and private sector have become? Surely if they are aware they would be seething with well justified anger and ready to man the barricades.
              We work our socks off so the Blobists can do bugger all and retire years before we can on a huge inflation proof pension , many times our own, which we have paid for !
              Aux armed citoyens . A La guillotine!

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    In interview with an Arabic / Lebanese – whatever woman from ‘save the children £ ‘ … she went on about evil Israel and needing a cease fire … she called for an Israeli ceasefire . Our justin then asked if she called for the same from hamas / hisbolah … I expected the obvious ‘of course ‘… but no … she deflected . Showed her real colours – a charity which is part of the Islamic war on Israel ….

    Btw – Israel has announced they’ve offed another hamas terrorist leader …. Keep going IDF …

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  12. tomo says:

    Elsewhere – the BBC effect

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  13. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Bloody love HR .. once upon a time the House of Lords judicial committee has the top court for Australia so their men / women decision would have dealt with that nonsense …. Mental

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “Labour has ‘no coherent plan’ for country, says Blair”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx211r9nm3lo
    The essay of more than 5,600 words is Sir Tony’s first in-depth critique of Sir Keir’s government.

    Strongly worded letter from Tony! Let’s start a war and do m,oney deals with dictators! HA HA AHAH AH AH

    Tony Blair quits Middle East envoy role
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32905468
    …..
    Exclusive: Tony Blair’s Middle East envoy work secretly bankrolled by wealthy Arab state
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/13/exclusive-tony-blairs-middle-east-envoy-work-secretly-bankrolled/

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    “UPDATE: The statue of slave trader Robert Milligan has now been removed from West India Quay.
    It’s a sad truth that much of our wealth was derived from the slave trade – but this does not have to be celebrated in our public spaces.
    #BlackLivesMatter”
    https://x.com/SadiqKhan/status/1270425865273389056

    …………..

    BREAKING: Quran to be edited to remove the marriage of a 6 year old child to end paedophilia. (c) BBC Vilified
    #WhiteGirlsInRotherhamDousedInPetrolMatter

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  17. Doublethinker says:

    A little story of hope.

    A year or two ago I posted that a small group of climate catastrophists had ‘coerced’ the village where I live into using Parish Council funds to pay for a feasibility study into erecting a huge wind turbine on common land .
    The good news is that the cost of doing so is prohibitive and no power company is interested . Even better news is that most of the village is breathing a huge sigh of relief and are now happy to say openly that they never wanted it in the first place but were too cowed to say so.
    I hope this might be a small straw in the wind indicating that the country as a whole is finally wakening up to the climate scam .

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Straw in the wind – lol

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What you can get
      You can get one grant per property. Current grants are available for:
      £7,500 towards an air source heat pump (sometimes called an air-to-water heat pump)
      £7,500 towards a ground source heat pump (including water source heat pumps and those on shared ground loops)
      £5,000 towards a biomass boiler
      £2,500 towards an air-to-air heat pump
      https://www.gov.uk/apply-boiler-upgrade-scheme/what-you-can-get
      Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      > wakening up to the climate scam

      Just wait until people find out about the rubbish recycling scam:

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Tony Blair’s not his real name – Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (posh name)

    “Back in 1997, Tony Blair won a huge mandate from the people to govern our country, but he omitted to tell us about his absolute determination to introduce and pursue an aggressive immigration policy, designed to make the UK a multicultural society. Thanks to a certain Mr Andrew Neather, a former Government adviser, we now know the truth. More specifically, he said it was Blair’s intention to

    “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”.
    https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-07-09/debates/15070967000002/Immigration

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Jewish supermarket in Golders Green set on fire – nothing to do with burnt Jewish charity ambulances….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Around 100 firefighters tackle Golders Green blaze”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqpd9vezrdo

      BBC identify suspect ….
      images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-WjAKTz98Q36lMyrB_ij5YXH0rdyxuUhhhw&s

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    • Deborah says:

      What does it say about the UK, that the Jewish community are hoping it is an electrical fault in the warehouse rather than another attack? Anyway that’s the BBC news report for local news written. (That it is an electrical fault).

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Deborah,
        Unless some Muslim lunatic ( is that tautology) crying Alan’s snack bar was seen with a lit match and can of petrol the BBC et al will stick with the electrical fault story. In fact any story will do for the foul corporation to cover up Muslim attacks on Jews or Gentiles.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    USA vs UK

    ….

    Starship Flight 12 Full Analysis: What Went Well & What Went Wrong | Starship Update

    ………..

    The Labour government led by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown formally announced and initiated the High Speed 2 (HS2) project in December 2009. Originally planned as a Y-shaped network connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds, the project was designed to address capacity issues and speed up rail travel.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Tolerant UK is tolerant of intolerance and calls to prayer by a religion that marries children aged 6 …

    “Reform councillors demand Birmingham Council only speaks English after Islamic prayer read aloud in Arabic at ceremony”
    https://www.gbnews.com/news/birmingham-news-reform-uk-councillors-speak-english-islamic-prayer-read-aloud-in-arabic
    Newly-appointed Lord Mayor Zaker Choudhry had invited an imam to deliver a verse from the Koran in Arabic as he was sworn in.
    ……….
    Bradford’s new Lord Mayor said his story reflected that of every immigrant who lived their life with “hope, hard work and faith in their hearts”.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5eewn4wl3o
    ………..
    Bradford’s language bubbles: ‘it’s perfectly possible never to speak English’
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/18/bradford-language-bubbles-never-speak-english
    ……….
    Bradford: The unlikely 2025 UK City of Culture
    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250702-the-unlikely-2025-uk-city-of-culture
    Long brandished with a bleak reputation, this once-proud industrial town is showcasing its youth, diversity and inclusive arts scene to the nation.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    “My husband does the shoping”
    https://x.com/DavidDPaxton/status/2059386293738422501

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    • Guest Who says:

      I thought that at first was a post about Gaza from a soon to be widowed BBC ‘correspondent’ in a hijab

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  23. Foscari says:

    Today’s quiz question. What similarity has the imaging on the
    main BBC internet page featuring ” Energy Bills to Rise”
    with EVERY other cost of living imaging feature on the BBC
    website?

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    • tomo says:

      Defensive bullshit gaslighting from leading practitioners in the genre

      Just a lie – largely to protect twat Milibrain and feed TDS.

      BBC-bullshits-for-millibrain.jpg

      It’s relentless

      – as is the utter twattery from BoneEd Davey

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      • Foscari says:

        Yes Tomo- BUT there is something else also. Maybe you
        haven’t seen the last 100 cost of living imaging
        features on the BBC website. BUT maybe I am being unfair to the BBC.
        They use Getty’s Imaging. And I expect Getty’s use
        a “particular” box ticking exercise when employing
        advertising models.

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        • Guest Who says:

          A deranged shot (hard to find any other) of Ed Miliband, London pictured as currently the core of a nuclear reaction, or…. a group of Boko Harum wives scampering through Kew Gardens post Harrods?

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      • tomo says:

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Barry Gardiner has £500K from China to help feed kids at breakfast clubs? HA HAH AHAHA AH!

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    • tomo says:

      obsessive insertion of narrow range of “coloured” people?

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  24. tomo says:

    Not just any changing rooms

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    NOT LEADING BBC STORY….repatriated .. racist South Africa … HA HAH AHAH AHA A

    “First Ghanaians set to be repatriated from South Africa over anti-immigrant protests”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0269pwxg3o
    It follows a wave of protests against illegal immigration in South African cities in recent weeks, leading to fears there could be a resurgence in xenophobic violence in the country.

    “It’s not comfortable for us to stay here anymore, so we have to go. I think we will find peace at home,” he said.

    HJA HHA HAHA HAHA HAH AHAHAAH A HAH A! HA HAHA! Breathe. HAH AHAH HA !

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    This one might turn into a bit of a rant … the insane drive for net zero – which is based on a false premise … I would argue that it does not have democratic legitimacy – if I recall the loon – teresa may – our equivalent to that German woman who let millions of invaders into the reich – just picked the legal date and it went downhill from there ….
    Which has led us to a closing North Sea – huge imports of energy and huge bills ….

    As a result there are all sorts of consequences – ranging from the feckless having their bills paid by other taxpayers – you – to the need to subsidise some groups with free – taxpayers’ Money …
    Mad ed sees none of the above – he is beyond being a fanatic – does he really think if britainistan really does get to net zero it would any real difference to the reduction in fictional global warming ? Really ?

    Even when Tony Blair has intervened in labour politics he sees Green crap as just that ….

    Anyway – my 2 year fixed tariff runs until September – the standing charge is obscene – because of mad ed and his national grid crap … and dumb Chinese windmills …

    Will reform dump this nonsense ? Please

    Btw we should be grateful for Blair to turn up with a long knife to stick into the Marxist regime … no mention of Mandelson – no mention of Gordon golden brown …

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    “Warning: This article contains details of racially offensive language and behaviour

    “I waited 46 years to break my silence, because I didn’t think anyone would listen. I thought I’d take these stories to my maker.”

    Rumour had it Roly Gregoire had become a bus driver, a milkman or even a DJ. But what really happened to Sunderland’s first black player was too painful for him to talk about until now.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cz02gdm7zleo
    Does Gregoire think times have changed for black players?

    “The problems they face are much the same,” he says. “People maybe don’t chant the racist things they used to, but instead they write it online. At least now black players have a voice and can make themselves heard.

    “Going back to Sunderland after all this time was a wonderful experience. I feel purged… I feel purged. I’m happy.”

    ………….. MEANWHILE IN TOLERANT AFRICA ………………..

    Albinos in Tanzania live in fear of witch doctors who prize their body parts, but they face a far greater threat just by spending time outdoors.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170425-the-silent-killer-of-africas-albinos

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  28. Althepalerp says:

    https://grid.iamkate.com/

    No Coal, No oil, and only 6% Gas currently being used to generate electricity in the UK.

    So WHY is my electric bill going up?

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Dual fuel customers pay nearly £200 for the standing charge despite not being able to afford the fuel.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        the daily standard charge of nearly £1 is a P take

        Someone I know is a Chiropodist, and the place is only open a few days a week, she mentioned that she turns of the mains meter when the place is not in use and gets no daily charge

        I’m wondering if this is actually true?

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      • G says:

        Go Utilita.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Britain’s energy bills problem – and why firms are paid huge sums to stop producing power
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdedjnw8e85o
      It is 1am on 3 June. A near gale force wind is blasting into Scotland. Great weather for the Moray East and West offshore wind farms, you would have thought.

      The two farms are 13 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland and include some of the biggest wind turbines in the UK, at 257m high. With winds like that they should be operating at maximum capacity, generating what the developer, Ocean Winds, claims is enough power to meet the electricity needs of well over a million homes.

      Except they are not.

      It means Ocean winds was paid £72,000 not to generate power from its wind farms

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Tony Blair is back – and now he’s going to save Labour from Labour’s PM. HA HA HA! Why is anyone listening to him, or at least not asking for his iffy deals with Dictators when Middle East PEACE (PIECE OF THIS AND THAT) Envoy?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx211r9nm3lo
    Sir Tony Blair has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s government of having no “coherent plan” for the country and introducing policies that have held back business.

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    Hate Crime Alert! g3NPTKmX2SAgDnAaL9V59AOMVvl_eThF5Y0OtWSZPGcB3a6Jt5KZ7emOFnGohPbsaZoFJIHOecyQWg=s800-rw-nd-v1

    ** Praying 5 times a day guarantees a child bride aged6!

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    • moggiemoo says:

      And we all know who the real racists are in this picture. Except for the government. And the MSM. And the left wing loonies (bit of tautology there).

         8 likes

  31. andyjsnape says:

    Ever noticed the bbc webshte puts an article out, and about 2 days later this lot in government report they are doing something about it

    Just so we feel labour are listening. I noticed the following:-

    ‘Shocking’ rise in school suspensions for racist, ableist and homophobic abuse
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjpx7rnredo

    and wondered in the next few days, labour suddenly come to the rescue 🙂

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Inside Mosques…. “‘Shocking’ rise in school suspensions for racist, ableist and homophobic abuse”

         4 likes

  32. MarkyMark says:

    Small boat arrivals: last 7 days
    Updated 27 May 2026

    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    20 May 2026 0 0 0
    21 May 2026 0 0 0
    22 May 2026 394 6 0
    23 May 2026 287 4 0
    24 May 2026 231 3 0
    25 May 2026 77 1 0
    26 May 2026 139 2 0

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

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  33. vlad says:

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  34. atlas_shrugged says:

    Will UK be able to rise to the challenge?

    Is the UK able to send a man from Londonistan to Edinburgh by train and return him safely?

    Navigating the dangerous swamp of cancelled trains due to global boiling, or worse Mental-Elf stabbers etc etc.

    In other news:

    NASA announced plans today to send three unmanned ships to the moon this year

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Can you imagine the UK doing this? The unions would insist on a driver and a guard. Even though there are to be no passengers. It would also be delayed because of the wrong type of snow or leaves in the atmosphere.

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  35. vlad says:

    Melanie Phillips’ recent article on BBC bias, from The Times:

    “The Potemkin public service broadcaster –
    The question is whether the BBC should survive at all.

    Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, has got his feet under the desk this week in the middle of an intellectual war zone.
    As a former Google executive, Brittin was deemed well qualified to take on the challenge of a fragmented media landscape. The real problem he faces, however, is more profound and intractable even than the proposed deep cuts to staffing he must make, or the slew of recent scandals involving BBC staff.
    That issue is journalistic integrity.
    Last November, an explosive memo surfaced from Michael Prescott, former adviser to the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards committee, detailing the shocking nature and scale of the biased, misleading and untruthful reporting he had encountered but which had been brushed aside by BBC executives.
    In a devastating article this week on Unherd, Rob Burley, a senior BBC editor for 13 years, has described how the BBC’s obsession with “diversity and inclusion” skewed its editorial judgement and marginalised women.
    He details how the BBC allowed itself to be policed and manipulated by trans-activists, who tried to dictate who was allowed to be interviewed.
    The November 2013 BBC Style Guide — the internal rule book for BBC journalists — promulgated the trans-activist position that anyone who claimed to be a woman was a woman even if they were a biological man. Facts, reason and objectivity were ditched.
    (…)
    Transgender, however, is only one of many issues where objectivity and fairness have been jettisoned.
    The BBC presents equality, poverty, racism, multiculturalism, the Conservative party, climate, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, the Middle East and many more issues through a left-wing prism.
    This involves falsehoods, distortions and selective reporting, as well as a skewed choice of interviewees, a tendentious way of framing questions and the ruthless exclusion of those who see the world in a different way…”

    (…)
    Full article on Substack: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-potemkin-public-service-broadcaster

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Comment
    “Penalties for illegal entry:
    Singapore . . . . . . . . 6 months in prison.
    Russia . . . . . . . . . . . 2 years in labour camp.
    India . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 years in prison.
    Pakistan . . . . . . . . . 10 years in prison.
    Vietnam . . . . . . . . . Up to 3 years in prison.
    Indonesia . . . . . . . . Up to 5 years in prison.
    Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 7 years in prison.
    Japan . . . . . . . . . . . Up to 3 years in prison.
    North Korea . . . . . . Death penalty.

    United Kingdom . . . Free housing.
    Free healthcare.
    Free spending money.
    Free heating/electricity.
    Free food.
    Free transportation.
    Free phones.
    Free education.”
    ** Free access to nations children and stationed next to schools, plus £500 extra if you refuse to leave.

       16 likes

    • taffman says:

      How many of them are enemy soldiers ? Who will answer to this neglect of our national security ?
      Does the BBC report these incursions ?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        80K in UK Standard Army
        40K on Terror Watch List
        650 MPs in Parliament who don’t care.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Bit rich hearing failed politician mogg saying anything about the invasion when his dead party facilitated it for 14 years – we are expected to forget and pretend they’d be any different next time if they ever get power …

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  37. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – the BBC is obsessed with ethnic wimmin

    Getty Images has to take a share of the blame although lazy BBC journalists/Picture Editors also share in the blame.

    I present as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8pw464986o

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    “A key ally of Sue Gray is doing communications work for Team Burnham. Takeover…

    After Ed Miliband seconded his SpAd Grace Pritchard to join the Burnham comms team, Guido can reveal that key Sue Gray ally Donjeta Miftari is also spinning for Andy.”
    order-order.com

    …………. Sue Gray is the NEW Tony Blair …… running the country from the shadows ……….

    Screenshot%202024-09-19%20195219.jpg

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “Families across the country will see lower energy bills as a result of the government’s comprehensive plan to upgrade the nation’s homes.

    The Warm Homes Plan will deliver £15 billion of public investment, roll out upgrades to up to 5 million homes that could save them hundreds on energy bills and help to lift up to a million families out of fuel poverty by 2030.

    The government has already taken immediate action on the cost of living at the Budget, taking an average of £150 of costs off energy bills from April. On top of this, around 6 million households will receive the £150 Warm Home Discount – a total package of £300. ”
    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/families-to-save-in-biggest-home-upgrade-plan-in-british-history

    Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said:

    A warm home shouldn’t be a privilege, it should be a basic guarantee for every family in Britain.

    Today’s plan marks a turning point. It will help to slash energy costs and lift up to a million people out of fuel poverty.

    This is a government bearing down on the cost-of-living crisis. By driving bills down for good and upgrading millions of homes, we’re giving people the security and the fair shot they need to get on in life.

    Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said:

    It is a scandal that millions of people in our country do not have the security of a home that is warm, affordable and safe.

    With this investment, we embark on a national project to turn the tide – waging war on fuel poverty and taking another step forward in tackling the affordability crisis for families throughout Britain.”

       5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Funny – as I was doing my search for a decent fixed tariff I can across a variable time one – which on the face of it looked ‘ok’ until you see the standing charge- 59p a day just for electricity – most are – I think around 49p a day – it hurts because I’m away a lot and don’t use much juice anyway ….

         11 likes

    • moggiemoo says:

      Does he genuinely believe the shit he comes out with or is he just the moron we all think he is? Just for the record, I believe he’s a moron either way. Along with the rest of his party.

         13 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        I think he had a pre existing mental condition – like that teenager they worship – which locked on to the ‘fear ‘ of human generated climate change and turned it into a religion …. Bit like the Stalinists industrialising the Soviet Union at any cost – he ll take away our heating and transport and freedom all for the next 5 year plan ….

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “Why Your High Street is Full of Phone and Vape Shops”
    Connor Tomlinson | 126k subscribers

    ….
    “UK companies linked to payments for small boat crossings, BBC finds”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626znvne0xo
    We secretly filmed staff at a shop in south-east London telling an undercover researcher that nearly £3,000 in cash could be deposited with them and sent to a smuggler in France.

    “The shop worker in Woolwich denied moving money for people smugglers”

    Asked about smuggler Ahmad’s use of UK-registered companies’ bank accounts, Tapp says he would “love to see more” of the results of our investigation but could not “go into any detail on that”.

    Criminal gangs are agile and continuously changing their methods, he says, and “it’s important we keep up with that and we’re continuously pressing for that”.

    … but could not “go into any detail on that”.

       11 likes

  41. Fedup2 says:

    I caughf tony blair telling the truth .. he explained that labour never won the 2024 election- it was the dead blues what lost it

    Yet every Marxist mp pushes the fiction that they have a mandate .

       17 likes

  42. Up2snuff says:

    BBCWEB-SITE Watch #2 – the BBC are really obsessed with ethnic wimmin

    I cite as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmg1572e8ko

       6 likes

  43. Fedup2 says:

    I get fed – on x – the daily reports by the mum of one of the students murdered by a third world savage in Nottingham- during the inquiry ….
    It looks that every element of the state failed . She was talking about the council CCTV – which completely failed to monitor and report on the monster as he wondered through the city in broad midsummer daylight ….

    But watching this lady talk about the horror – I wonder if it does any good ? The toll you can see it is taking . I know it’s a desperation on her part to try to improve things . But she must know in her heart of heart that we live in a failing state – where imbeciles and jobs worths put all their energy into covering their backs and never accepting responsibility ….

    The final report will be a horror white wash … and a complete waste of money .

       20 likes

  44. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “I have written an article for each one of Tony Blair’s six “reports” that seemingly criticise the current government’s Net Zero and related agendas over the last year or so. He’s now published a seventh essay.

      Each one of his reports is disingenuous bullshit. At the centre of each is not a thoroughgoing critique of the green agenda, but a defence of sustaining it, and blind faith in the notion that Britain’s future depends on capturing new industries such as AI, as if we could all be AI engineers, and as if no other sectors require energy.

      That is for two reasons. First, Blair is extremely well funded by tech. Second, Blair believes that he and his entourage will be involved in designing the AI systems that will undertake the functions of government. It’s a silly fantasy — the techno-authoritarian’s answer to the techno-libertarians of earlier decades.

      Blair’s criticism of the green agenda is that Britain will “miss out” on AI if energy prices prevent the construction of datacentres. He’s not concerned with the chemical sector, the automotive sector, agriculture, steel — and other victims of the Climate Change Act. In fact he and his wonks say we should just surrender these sectors to China.

      He has been quiet on energy prices as they rose to 3 times what they were when he was PM, thanks to the energy policies developed under his administration, and his constitutional changes that allowed the green blob to dominate policy through lawfare. He had nothing to say about our deindustrialisation for that duration. If he has anything of value to say, he is saying it very, very, very late in the day

         3 likes

  45. Fedup2 says:

    Am I missing something – TTK commissions Alan milburn to find out why young people are not working …. But isn’t the TTK regime the cause ?
    If the Marxists increase the costs of youngsters? Give them more workplace rights ? Bring in invaders to compete for pay – then there are bound to be problems .

    Add to that a woke education system – the fallacy of university education – and the result will be failure …..

    The BBC – as expected – fails to recognise – or even mention this stuff – but are we surprised …?

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  46. Doublethinker says:

    I am sorry to place this burden on the shoulders of the voters of Makerfield but I regard this by election as a test case for the entire country. If they elect Burnham then I give up caring about what happens to my fellow countrymen and women.
    The Uniparty has been in power since 1997 , arguably since 1992, and look at the state that we are in. How on earth can people vote for more of the same? Burnham, Starmer, Sunak, May, Johnston , Cameron, Brown, Blair all Globalists who have ruined our country. I omitted Truss because she did try to buck the trend but was kicked out by the Blob.
    Democracy only works if you use your vote wisely . If you keep voting for the same old crap you get the same old crap. Sadly contrary to the Sermon on the Mount the meek will not inherit the earth, passivity gets you no where.

       18 likes

    • AsISeeIt says:

      ‘The earth shall inherit the meek’

      – Ini Kamoze, Jamaican reggae singer

         6 likes

    • Mrs Kitty says:

      I think we gave up in 2010 and started making plans to emigrate legally to the south of France, our area is very very rural along with many hunters and guns. It goes to-18 C in winter and a non white face is so unusual as to stand out

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  47. AsISeeIt says:

    Whereas: One in six young people will not be in work or training in five years without action, report warns (BBC)

    And; Labour risking a ‘lost generation’ of jobless youth… ONE IN SIX young people will be on dole by 2030 (Daily Mail)

    Moreover; Call for welfare reform to save young people from becoming ‘lost generation’ (i paper)

    Don’t run away with the idea it’s bad news for all our youngsters. How come? Well, our mainstream media have at last found their representative angelic black choirboy – admittedly he doesn’t seem to be Welsh: Schoolboy choirester runs three businesses… I’m 13 and I’m running three businesses to fund my £30,000 a year school fees. Malaki Conteh is Chichester Cathedral’s first black chief chorister in Chichester Cathedral’s near 1,000 year history. – front page teaser for a two page spread in the Express

    Savvy youngster from Warlingham, Surrey

    School boy, 13, who runs a business so successful he can help pay for his school fees. The teen started his first business age six- selling plants to fund his dream of becoming a chorister. Now, he runs a Caribbean takeaway in Crystal Palace. (ITV: Fri 20 Feb 5.52pm) – OK, so the Express decided to recycle the story from an old TV show and cross media splash from months back – but you get the message today, right?

    The lad’s no welfare freeloader, he’s working like a… Trojan… to pay for his posh schooling – despite Rachel Reeves slapping VAT on his private education.

    This 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is So Successful He Pays His Own Boarding School Fees… a venture he started at just six years old… He auditioned for several elite cathedral schools, including St Paul’s and Westminster, and ultimately chose Chichester after receiving a bursary. – a welcome debut hereabouts for POCIT (People of Color in Tech) ‘an umbrella movement and digital platform dedicated to amplifying the voices, achievements, and narratives of Black and underrepresented professionals in the tech and startup space’ – gosh, there’s a mission statment and a half – but I think the evidence would suggest we can rely on our mainstream to do that job well enough.

    Britain’s gone balmy! – frets the corporate giveaway adsheet Metro – this in reference to the weather of course. With a sideswipe at our inflated energy costs: Temperature falls… costs rise (Metro)

    The left-leaning online-only interloping cuckoo in the nest in the BBC’s otherwise print press line-up that is the Independent takes an entire virtual front page to insist UK inflation is all down to: Trump’s war

    Sounds feasible: 89p rise in price of fish and chips (Indy) – I hadn’t realised our trawlermen these days had to venture quite as afield for our cod as the Straits of Hormuz – but damn that Orange Man Bad.

    Meanwhile, America’s bill for waging war is $29bn and counting… more than 1.5 times what Britain spent on foreign aid in 2025 (Indy) – now there’s an ineteresting little comparison. Difference being of course that America can afford it.

    Fracking has transformed the U.S. into the world’s leading oil and gas producer. It has bolstered the economy by saving consumers trillions of dollars, lowering manufacturing costs, reducing energy imports, and directly supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs (Council on Foreign Relations, October 2024)

    Consumer Savings: Lower natural gas prices have saved U.S. consumers between $4.5 trillion and $5.3 trillion between 2007 and 2025, which averages out to $237 billion to $276billion annually. Household Benefit: Electricity and gas consumers see overall economic gains totaling roughly $74 billion per year.Global Trade: The shale revolution turned the United States into a net energy exporter in 2019 for the first time in 67 years. The U.S. now exports massive amounts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe and Asia. Energy Independence: Domestic production has reduced reliance on foreign oil, and by 2020 U.S. crude oil production had roughly tripled compared to 2010 levels. – thank you A.I. point made, I think.

    And finally, a word from the Repubic of Cool Britannia’s first president in nearly a 1000 years (we never had – well, he’s been our president virtually): Time to scrap Ed’s Net Zero ‘Fantasy’… TONY Blair has attacked Ed Miliband… (Express)

    But there’s a fratricidal PS from the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror: Backlash for Blair… Calls for former PM to bow out after criticism of Labour

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  48. AsISeeIt says:

    Two Tier Taxes

    HMRC puts trans users on fast-track VIP phoneline… given lifetime access to an HMRC hotline reserved for MPs and members of the Royal family (Telegraph)

    I’ve heard of fiscal drag, but this is ridiculous.

    In fact, I’m not so vexed about a few troons getting the preferential treatment, as the shock revelation that MPs have a special tax office hotline to themselves.

       12 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – does it say what the secret phone number is ? Do I need to transfer to being a trannie ? Should there be separate phone lines for various brand of queer ?

      Will the tax department provide someone of the same … er … preference on request …?

         8 likes

      • andyjsnape says:

        Hello Fedup2,

        The number is 999, call ask for the police and say they are racists. Prompt attention

           5 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          “A man sees someone breaking into his shed. He calls police. They say they don’t have anyone available right now. They’ll be there as soon as they can, but it may be two hours. The man hangs up.

          A few minutes later he calls again and tells them to take their time. He’s pulled out his rifle and shot the man. He’s not going anywhere. Within minutes the place is swarming with police, helicopters, cars, dogs, etc. They find the man breaking into the shed and arrest him.

          The police go to the man, “I thought you said you shot him!” The man responds “I thought you said you had no one available””

             11 likes

      • AsISeeIt says:

        I seem to recall De La Rue used to print our bank notes – but apparently the Revenue are now in bed with the likes of Danny La Rue

           5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Do they pay both taxes when they are they/we/them?

         4 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Wait until Wes claims he’s pregnant and Zach is the father.

      Potentially.

      https://x.com/real_king_elvis/status/2059480634423488862?s=61

         4 likes

  49. andyjsnape says:

    bbc reports:-

    The £5 coffee that tells a story of global economic turmoil

    how will the bbc staff cope

    PS how about going to Aldis and get a whole jar for £2.50??

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