Midweek 15th July 2026

539 000 people cancelled their TV licence in 2025 / 2026 … if their BBC is so great – why would all those people do that ? Or perhaps there is something very wrong with the BBC … Let’s make it a million less licences in 2026/7 …

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  1. Lucy Pevensey says:

    As Marky would say, HA HA HA, HA HA HA HA!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      So pleased my bets came in … won £3! ….argie team .. a bit too argie … has TTK given away the Falklands yet ? Or paying the argees to take them off our hands …?

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      General Secretary of the National Education Union
      General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), Daniel Kebede, receives a total remuneration package of £164,654.

      “Daniel Kebede | @DanielKebedeNEU
      Teacher.
      General Secretary of the National Education Union. The largest Education Union in Europe.
      @EduInt Executive Member.
      neu.org.uk/join
      Newcastle Joined October 2014”

      ……………….

      The National Education Union (NEU) supports the campaign for reparations and reparatory justice as a global human rights and anti-racist imperative. Union policies advocate for integrating this topic into schools, partnering with organizations like the Runnymede Trust to promote an inclusive, decolonised national curriculum in the UK

      ….

      “Daniel Kebede | @DanielKebedeNEU

      Reform UK would be a disaster.

      A disaster for Education
      A disaster for our NHS
      A disaster for working people.”
      https://x.com/DanielKebedeNEU/status/2040327109155917946

      “If you clapped nurses on your doorstep during Covid, clap them on the picket lines on 15th December.

      Fair pay for nurses now! Fund our NHS!
      13:46 · 3 Dec 2022”

      “Daniel Kebede
      @DanielKebedeNEU

      How wages have faired.

      MPs: Pay ⬆️ 22% in real terms since 2010

      Bankers: Bonuses ⬆️ 101% in cash terms since 2008

      CEOs: Pay ⬆️ 23% in 2022 alone

      Teachers: Pay 🔻 24% since 2010

      Nurses: Pay 🔻 20% since 2010

      Whose wages are causing the inflation?
      7:47 · 23 Jun 2023
      505.9k
      Views”

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  2. tomo says:

    One prosecution in nine years — and the law was written specifically to catch them. When HMRC faces this committee in the autumn, do you believe anyone will actually be held accountable, or will the same shops still be on your high street next summer?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Social Cohesion fears…. “Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is illegal under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Despite this, prosecutions have historically been exceptionally rare due to the hidden nature of the abuse, the reluctance of victims to incriminate family members, and the fact that most FGM is carried out on young girls before they arrive in the UK.”

      On International Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) day on 6 February 2014, Government ministers signed up to a declaration on FGM. It said there is no justification for this practice – it is child abuse and it is illegal.
      https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ending-fgm-in-the-uk/

      …………..

      Lambeth: Celebrating our Somali community
      1 July 2026
      Written by: Lambeth Council
      News and announcements
      Lambeth Council hosted members of the borough’s thriving Somali community alongside representatives of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Somalia at a Town Hall reception today to celebrate Somali Independence Day.
      https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/community-safety-anti-social-behaviour/violence-against-women-girls-vawg/what-vawg/female-genital-mutilation-fgm-or-cutting

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        > On International Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) day on 6 February 2014, Government ministers signed up to a declaration on FGM. It said there is no justification for this practice – it is child abuse and it is illegal.

        Male Genital Mutilation (MGM) in the UK is not only legal but is carried out by our beloved Anychess. Even though this is also child abuse.

        Strangely our ministers keep very quiet about this practice in the UK.

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    Has the killing of Ann Widdecombe changed anything in British politics – a watershed ? As they say ? Of course not …

    Anyone witnessing PMQs yesterday will have witnessed abuse from all 3 of the uniparty – even though Ann Widdecombe isn’t in her grave yet .

    I predict more killing – when some on the left gets to be gone they’ll scream and cry and blame and demand – in a way the murder of an elderly female politician of the Right has not happened .

    Maybe it’s the precursor to real terrorism – with politicians as the prime target ….. right 77 / PICU ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      If a citizen is stabbed 27 times and no boats stop … then we are in for a long run of bad events.

      ….

      “Deng Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver in a frenzied 90-second attack in 2024 after following the 27-year-old to Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall.
      He was later caught on CCTV dancing and laughing.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvwdgjpj3o
      Asylum seeker jailed for 29 years for stab murder

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  4. vlad says:

    According to the libtards, a win against Argentina would have been a decisive argument in favour of diversity and multi-culturalism.

    So by that same reasoning, does that mean the 2-1 defeat is a decisive argument against diversity?

    Diversity not so much our strength after all?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      No, they will double down and argue that we need more diversity. Only when we have an all black team will it be truly diverse enough for them. And then, when they still don’t win, it will be due to racism and the legacy of slavery etc… zzzz….zzzz…

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      • MarkyMark says:

        You can buy all the best players with 19 trillion of UK tax payer money!

        ….

        Sir Lenny Henry supported the case for the UK government (TAX PAYERS AND WORKERS, NOT THOSE ON BENEFITS) to pay an estimated £18 to £19 trillion in slavery reparations. This figure is detailed in his book The Big Payback (co-authored with Marcus Ryder), which argues that Black British people personally deserve compensation for the lasting effects of the transatlantic slave trade.

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  5. Jeff says:

    Being a proud and patriotic Englishman, I must confess to feeling just a tad guilty at wanting England not to make it to the final, but…

    I’ve just been listening to the Triggernometry podcast…an interview with the repulsive Alistair Campbell. My God, what a ghastly old reptile he is. Trying to have a conversation with him is about as worthwhile as a duck going to the dentist.

    However, he did reveal how much he celebrated the “success” of our ethnically diverse team. This was recorded a few days ago and he was pumped up at the idea of an African French team, versus an African England team. “Did you know” he cooed, “I counted only one white player in the French side…which I think is something to celebrate.” Why?

    The media and the wokerati would have loved this and they’d have rammed it down our throats for months…so, we got off lightly.

    So, sorry Alistair, it’s a (virtually) all white Argentinian side against a (virtually) all white Spanish side.

    I don’t suppose he’ll bother to watch the match. Time to shuffle off back to his tomb.

    Perhaps somebody can find me a stake…

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      No Jeff, in this instance it’s precisely because you’re a proud Englishman that you didn’t want England to make it to the final. The team is supposed to represent the country: one that uses footballers who play abroad, uses a disproportionate number of African heritage players, and is managed by a foreigner, is not in any sense ‘English’. They could compete as a ‘British’ or ‘UK’ team, but they don’t warrant the label ‘England’.

      Here’s what an English team looks like. And if memory serves me well, they won something.

      https://www.sportphotogallery.com/football/winning-england-team-1966-22564/

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    • tomo says:

      Is Campbell still involved with dodgy betting schemes and getting alcohol counselling ? I tend to put him in the same category as the Mirror’s Kevin Maguire – apparently Campbell wants to be buried in Highgate Cemetery (near to his hero?)

      I’ve tried watching “The Rest is Politics” and couldn’t watch a full episode – the pairing of him with the profoundly disappointing Rory Stewart is just awful…

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    • markh says:

      You mean he can actually count to one? Very surprised at that.

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    “The MP who replaced Jess Phillips as minister for safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls has been accused by staff and officials of doing “no work.” Labour’s commitment to safeguarding latest…

    According to Labour sources Natalie Fleet, who was installed as minister in May, is refusing to do any work after telling Andy Burnham she doesn’t want her safeguarding ministerial role any more. Staff and officials are rankled…

    Guido hears Fleet is refusing to deal with her brief which includes taking action against unregulated self‑swabbing rape testing kits on university campuses. One source says Fleet will not even sign off on official correspondence. Grinding an important brief to a complete halt…

    Fleet has instead been busy tweeting and deleting this week after she posted regarding Ann Widdecombe:

    “Nigel Farage and his gang of binmen get the same security as the rest of us. Sick of the faux outrage. None of them cared when a senior Reform UK politician was sharing my death threats!””

    https://order-order.com/2026/07/16/safeguarding-minister-accused-of-refusing-to-work-after-telling-burnham-she-doesnt-want-the-job-any-more/

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    • tomo says:

      Fleet should, I feel, get the Lucy Connolly treatment.

      I’d bet she isn’t going to hand back the extra money she’s been taking as a minister.

      Seems not to have ever had an actual job outside Politics / Union / Public Sector

      Given Fleet’s much repeated tale of personal tribulations – one might expect her to do a better job.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    London Assembly (Mayor’s Question Time)
    London Assembly | 3.7k subscribers

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Is that the latest excuse for modern architecture? It gets worse all the time. Maybe the concept is to build them to look like they’ve collapsed? Then when they do we won’t notice the difference?

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “A Bill to Impose a duty on public authorities and public officials to act with candour, transparency and frankness; to make provision for the enforcement of that duty in their dealings with inquiries and investigations; to require public authorities to promote and take steps to maintain ethical conduct within all parts of the authority; “to create an offence in relation to public authorities and public officials who mislead the public; to create further offences in relation to the misconduct of persons who hold public office and to abolish the common law offence of misconduct in public office; to make provision enabling persons to participate at inquiries and investigations where the conduct of public authorities may be in issue; and for connected purposes.”

    https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4019

    Mr David Lammy
    Labour, Tottenham

    Baroness Levitt
    Labour, Life peer

    …………………………………………………

    Failures by those charged with protecting children happened despite three reports between 2002 and 2006 which both the council and police were aware of, and “which could not have been clearer in the description of the situation in Rotherham”.

    Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
    The report revealed some people at a senior level in the police and children’s social care thought the extent of the problem was being “exaggerated”.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      I wonder who the Hillsborough Law will apply to i.e. the
      The public office (accountability) bill:

      Coroners
      NHS Hospitals
      NHS Doctors surgeries
      Local Councils
      Politicians
      Police
      RICU
      77 Brigade
      Rockapes at RAF Wyton
      Sir Woger Faarwaar
      etc etc

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    “This is the end of my political journey. In six years, we went from historic defeat in 2019 to historic victory in 2024, and after two years in government, I leave the country in better shape than I found it in. I am proud of everything that we have achieved.”

    Keir Starmer Leader of the Labour Party, The Prime Minister

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2026-07-15a.922.5&s=Widdecombe+speaker%3A25353#g922.7

    “I leave the country in better shape than I found it in”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Trying to think of a job for TTK … The only thing which comes to mind is working in a mortuary or as an undertaker . … he is too white to be a traffic warden … he’d need to be able to hide behind some sort of ‘status ‘ … maybe a ticket inspector …

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  10. tomo says:

    On order-order.com I see that in the last year, HM Treasury has taken on about 100 extra staff under Reeves at a tentative cost of £420,000 each.

    https://order-order.com/2026/07/16/treasurys-staff-wage-bill-rises-by-a-fifth-in-one-year

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The Treasury also paid out £10.7 million in exit packages across the Group in 2025-26, up from just £126,000 the year before. 202 people left with packages versus six the previous year. Two mandarins got packages over £200,000…”

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      • harry142857 says:

        Pension contributions are 15% of the basic wages bill. The private sector get 3%.

        Practically zero get the sack when working for the government, they have double the absenteeism. and can afford to retire a good 10-12 years before average.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Protecting victims of domestic abuse | Keir Starmer sits down with Nour to talk about Raneem’s Law

    Raneem’s Law was introduced to improve the emergency response to domestic abuse by placing specialist advisors directly alongside police call handlers to improve risk assessments and accelerate early interventions.

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Looks like bodybags really is going to be a hard Marxist . He will be the first PM since the Second World War not to accept an invitation – supporting British industry – indeed ….

    Looks like Mahmoud to be chancellor – 50p income tax rate – plus taxes for not being Muslim …. Increasing pension age earlier – more taxes on landlords – CGT up – council tax rates up ….
    None of the above will be anywhere near enough to satisfy the Marxist appetite for other peoples’ money …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves heckled by pro-Palestine protesters
      Reeves was giving her first keynote speech at the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    “Starmer Gives Sadiq Khan a Peerage”
    https://order-order.com/2026/07/16/starmer-gives-sadiq-khan-a-peerage/
    A peerage is a system of titled nobility, most famously in the United Kingdom, consisting of hereditary and lifetime appointments that form part of the British honors system. It refers collectively to the body of peers (the nobility) or individually to a specific title.

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  14. tomo says:

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  15. Flotsam says:

    This immigration case where a Gazan (British) woman can have 18 of her extended family brought to Britain as refugees shows how the Law is being used and abused. Summary:

    It means that the woman and her children can be joined by both of her parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children in Britain, and will have access to public funds.

    An ECHR case

    What I don’t know is why this Gazan women who was previously admitted as an asylum seeker, was given British citizenship. if 18 of her family were still in Gaza then surely she still had more ties to Gaza than Britain. Yes, I think she should be reunited with her family…………………… in Gaza.

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    • vlad says:

      And of course in Muslim countries, cousin marriages, child brides, decades of fertility and multiple brides mean everybody is related to everyone else.

      Let the whole of Pakistan in!

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  16. BRISSLES says:

    As an earlier Mail correspondent said – you leave your home country and become a refugee BUT if you don’t settle in the first country of peace you become an economic migrant.

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  17. BRISSLES says:

    June Sarpong ! Tv kids presenter – mouthy panellist on The Pledge – has an OBE – diversity officer at the Beeb. Glamour puss of many wigs …….. is now in the Lords.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      3 day week / £267,000 per year/ Value for money

      “TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong served as the BBC’s first Director of Creative Diversity from 2019 to 2022. The highly-publicised role was a part-time position requiring a three-day week, for which she earned a prorated salary of £267,000 per year.”

      https://x.com/junesarpong?lang=en
      June Sarpong OBE
      @junesarpong
      Contact:@MCSaatchiMerlin
      Host: #CultureConversations Podcast
      Web: cultureconversations.com
      London, UK
      corporatecinc.com
      Joined May 2009
      3,864
      Following
      41.1K
      Followers

      https://x.com/junesarpong/status/1413160815516131332

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    • Scroblene says:

      So is the Chestnut Mare…

      Assume Binbags will bring him into his ‘cabinet’, (small shelf for dummies), to ‘advise’ on how to nationalise Tower Hamlets…

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  18. Sluff says:

    Yesterday, BBC Londonistan interviewed a group of young people in SirKeir’s constituency to see what they thought of him.

    All the girls were dressed in Muslim attire.
    It is surely reasonable to assume all the boys, who were all non-white, were also Muslim.
    There was not a single white person.

    Of course, in Londonistan, this might fairly reflect the population.
    But how nice of the BBC to choose such a ‘representative’ group from which to elicit opinions.

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    • Scroblene says:

      I didn’t realise he actually ever went to his ‘constituency’!

      I’m sure all his many tax-paid staff were hanging around all day to fend off awkward questions, like, ‘When are you going to resign’, and ‘What are you ever actually going to to for the UK’!

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  19. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch – the BBC’s obsession with wimmin continues

    I cite as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9592kve1po

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  20. Scroblene says:

    I’m having sleepless nights wondering how Ed Balls and his old woman will be able to pay Binbags’ increased property taxes after she’s been given the boot and has to do some ‘constituency work’…

    It must be so hard paying a £4mill mortgage these days, what with the old banks shoving up interest rates, no dosh anywhere and a northerner parachuted into Mohammed Street, and..and..and…

    (Any properties to flip…any ‘expenses’
    …any more houses…Ange – who advised you…)?

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  21. vlad says:

    Now just wait for the far-left government to use recent violence and murder against the Right as an excuse to crack down on… conservative social media outlets!
    (and force us to watch more woke channels like the BBC)

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  22. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Shouldn’t The House of Lords have …… eh Lords in it?
    And shouldn’t hereditary peers be hereditary?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      As thick as dot Lawrence

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Former BBC Global Director of Diversity, June Sarpong Delivers Talk on Winning With Diversity

      It would be fair to say that June is considered a ‘British Icon’ and has broad cultural influence. Not everyone can claim that Elton John has performed a special edition of the hit “Your Song” with the amended lyrics “You can tell everybody, You’re June Sarpong'”!

      June is also an author of the multiple award-winning books; “Diversify: Six Degrees of integration”, “The Power of Women” and “The Power of Privilege”. She was appointed as the BBC’s first Global Director of Creative Diversity, and has built a reputation as one the world’s top diversity executives. We love that she’s all about results, not just wise words. She joined us live at Giant Ideas to share this powerful solo talk on ‘winning through diversity’. Enjoy!

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      • BRISSLES says:

        AWARDS ? for writing books ? Booker prize winner was she ? British Icon? I bet 99.9% of people in my Co op can’t identify her. And most people can’t focus on her WITHOUT watching her lips. Black – tick Labour – tick Diversity – tick. No chance of any migration law being passed while she’s in the Lords then !!!

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “June Sarpong attending London Fashion Week with the prime minister’s wife Victoria Starmer in 2024”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglj25k94r9o

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  24. Althepalerp says:

    BBC asks the question, “Who is the front runner to be the next Chancellor”

    And then doesn’t answer its own question.

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    Al
    Apparently Rachel from accounts dun her ‘mansion house ‘ speech on Wednesday night at the same time as the footy – the audience – which I guess was required to be there – was apparently more interested in streaming the footy on the meaningless words of the Marxist imbecile …

    Some say – she should have just cancelled and left it to the next bodybags chancellor – who will have a tough time completely finishing off the real active economy ….

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    I was thinking about the advantages of the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 lot missing out on the World Cup

    1 no more bloody awful wonderwall
    2 no more pretence that the bbc is ‘[patriotic’
    3 realisation that the England team isn’t that good
    4 avoiding the embarrassment of being ripped apart by Spain
    5 getting the draw against France in the meaningless playoff
    6 not having to see a Roysl or TTK pretending they care
    7 no more wimmin pundits

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  27. atlas_shrugged says:

    8. English flag display no longer legal unless you are burning the flag in which case Cllr Pressel probably says this is OK.

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  28. tomo says:

    If Bodybags keeps this fellow on the team …..

    swine.jpg

    http://youtube.com/post/UgkxqdMea3u_Sd9LluQJlHNOIdqHeWKFjlnV

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo
      I know reform did a bit of a compilation of the Hate thrown at Reform – Lammy et al ….

      … but perhaps they could publish a more comprehensive set of quotes and tweets and the rest to truly remind people of the Hate – the Far Left / dead blues – put on Reform …..

      It’s a hell of a state of affairs when the leader of a party cannot sensibly sit in the Commons whilst vermin sit behind him and openly hate him …. Unprotected by a Marxist speaker ….

      … with Hate leading to the death of Ann Widdecombe- unless they claim – again- ‘natural causes ‘…

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      • tomo says:

        The real problem is that Westminster has been stuffed with clueless nonentities with near zero appetite for representing the people that voted for them.

        The LibLabCon uniparty are a real farce, kept in the dark about actual policy for the most part and puppeteered by the bureaucrats and other string pullers – the whole sodding pantomime suits “the march through the institutions” and the likes of Soros and other string pullers.

        finish-them-off.jpg

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Sky News presenter Kay Burley is to stay off-air for six months after admitting breaking Covid rules during a night out for her 60th birthday.

          Political editor Beth Rigby and north of England correspondent Inzamam Rashid, who were among those with her, will be absent for three months.”

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55257817

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Andy Burnham hires Ex-Director of the far-left activist group ‘HopeNotHate’ as his No10 Political Strategy Chief.”

    https://order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Featured-Images-2026-07-16T165028.525.png

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    • tomo says:

      yup, Bodybags has to be gone before Xmas

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “In March 2018, the anti-fascism charity HOPE not hate launched a campaign urging major UK retailers, including Waterstones, to stop selling extreme far-right, antisemitic, and Holocaust denial literature.”

        ….
        Meanwhile denunciation for our findings came from the usual suspects. The right-wing commentator Douglas Murray foamed that we are a “hate group”; and a smattering of more extreme content creators said we were making “mountains of molehills”.

        https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/02/27/the-shamelessness-of-the-spectator/

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          Waterstones sells Das Kapital in plain sight.

          This book is responsible for more killing of innocent people than any other.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I don’t do book shops any more because seem both woke and anti bloke ….. the concept of a ‘book shop ‘ is redundant . Who pays full price for a book ?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        This is really amazing – tractor production is up 200% before Andy appears!

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    Keir is writing his ticket for the future.

    Keir Starmer: Our support for Ukraine will never waver.
    Keir Starmer
    Keir Starmer
    52k subscribers

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    • JonathanR says:

      Is he going to volunteer to go to the front? Of course not he wants others to risk their lives fighting an unwinnable war.

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  31. tomo says:

    They’d change their tune if middle managers and “executives” were recruited from India!

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  32. JonathanR says:

    Another dangerous illegal immigrant among us But never mind some dei Chief Superintendent is on the case.

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  33. tomo says:

    I have several generators to sell – I think I’ll wait a while … but not I feel very long…

    NESO replacement underwear was put on expenses.

    Whistleblowers alleged / claimed senior managers instructed use of “live documents” (no version history) to limit audit trails/FoI risks, and that corporate affairs allegedly interfered with control room decisions for reputational reasons.

    All a bit NHS

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  34. JonathanR says:

    “What is the future of the Falkland Islands?” Says LBC . Why are they asking this? Just because some poxy football team full of illiterates won a match against a half English team. The far left LBC would probably love to hand over the islands full of white British people to a backward South American country.

    They must have been listening to the far left unbiased BBC “journalist” Simpson.

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  35. JonathanR says:

    Never heard of this lady but she makes some good points

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Not Bothered… Space X Launch 13 .. just confirmed….
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment

    SpaceX Starship Flight 13- Launch & Landing – LAUNCH STREAM
    NASASpaceflight
    1.5m subscribers

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  37. tomo says:

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    “In total, a massive £950m (€1.3bn; $1.4bn) has been spent by the 20 Premier League sides this season – an all-time high transfer outlay – and the game’s highest earners now receive bigger pay packets than ever before.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-31110113

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  39. tomo says:

    SPADs.jpg

    Glad I don’t possess a TV these days

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  40. JonathanR says:

    Before “Diversity is our strength”

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  41. tomo says:

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    • G says:

      With few exceptions, the World is currently plagued with morons masquerading as so-called, “Leaders”. Probably mostly the “academic idiots” as I like to think of them. It’s too big and now too integrated to be susceptible to weeding on a massive scale. Marxism at work.

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  42. Scroblene says:

    Surely mare khan won’t be in the ‘government’…

    Whaaaah…?

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  43. AsISeeIt says:

    I hear this Count Binface character has been a gag writer for the likes of the BBC’s Have I Got News for You (once upon a time that show used to be funny)

    Having grown up with Screaming Lord Sutch’s Monster Raving Loony Party as a recurring fixture in by-elections and been more or less weaned on Monty Python’s Election Night Special skit, which pitted the Sensible Party against the Silly Party… Now thinking of the ageing Paul Merton and Ian Hislop show – in association with Binface, and I’m put in mind of a former Morrissey lyric:

    That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore…

    It’s too close to home
    And it’s too near the bone

    Our current BBC is now experiencing how the shelf life of a TV show ain’t what it used to be: ‘Nervous’ Claudia quits chat show… after only one series… The show ran for only seven episodes but it suffered from a lack of A-list guests. (Telegraph) – but we digress.

    Thinking of playing parlour games with current affairs – how about that game of make a two headline mash-up and use it for the purpose of sarcasm?

    The perennially achingly-feminist anti-family i paper: I cut off my extended family 15 years ago – the best decision I ever made… by Poppy Jay

    Afghan migrant brings 22 relatives to UK (Telegraph)

    No, don’t laugh… it’s not funny as such – the point of comedy these days is to make some ironic political remark that chimes with your audience so they can show their agreement with your agenda by clapping.

    One refers to it as the junior poundshop Guardian and now today the i paper even mimics the Gruan’s retrospective entertainment format: Every Christopher Nolan Film Ranked – my old quip in response is always ‘Well, surely some of them were good, they weren’t all rank

    Just to prove my point: Shakira’s greatest songs – ranked! (OG Guardian)

    It’s beyond my front page remit but I wonder… “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” – The wildly popular official anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

    Burnham to promise new path for UK when he becomes new Labour leader (Joshua Nevett, Political reporter, BBC) – can we get any more ‘new’ with that BBC headline? I think it may have been that bloke Peter Mandelson who told us ‘new’ was the most popular word in advertising copy – after the word ‘free’ of course.

    New Burnham to promise new path for new UK when he becomes new New Labour leader

    What with Starmer’s sudden yet somehow painfully protracted demise – Sir Keir the Claudia Winkleman BBC chat show of Labour PMs: Starmer will be the shortest-serving Labour PM in history (i paper) – lack of A-list talent there sure enough. So it is that the in-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror has had a tough few weeks trying to think what on earth to put on their front page… Can’t run with hungry NHS nurses kitchen bin dipping – despite Labour health minister.

    Legacy media

    Starmer on his legacy, Ukraine and Burnham… Last interview as PM (Mirror) – and so he leaves a battered nation, half occupied by a foreign invading force.

    News From The Patriarchy

    My husband seemed perfect. But for years he’d been drugging me, raping me and filming it – the ever-excitable Daily Mail there. This drugging the missus for sex business is the new fashionable moral panic since our old friend Gisèle Pelicot became such a major cause célèbre. Calm down ladies. In the real world I think you know full well that most ordinary everyday hubbies will simply resort to gifts of jewellery.

    Not that that teaser feature saved the Mail from last place in the BBC print press line-up this morning. One senses that it was the top headline story wot done it: Foreign aid farce over Rochdale grooming gang boss… £153m for country that won’t take him back – our BBC boys and girls don’t wanna read that.

    Time for yet another new feature title?

    I Thought It Might Be Our Fault

    Britain to blame for rapist, says Pakistan (Telegraph)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Boris friend from Afghan migrant brings 22 relatives to UK (Telegraph) who bring their own water and food and shelter and will work in the NHS as Uber delivery drivers to support the black economy”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The pro Christopher Nolan propaganda over his new film is pretty strong online – countering the woke casting …. Somehow a film with trans midgets in it and a coloured Helen of Troy isn’t for me …. I still can’t get over the mess he made of ‘Dunkirk ‘ still prefer the ‘original ‘…

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        Fed it took me about 6 watches of his Dunkirk to understand it, luckily we bought it on dvd so didn’t cost a fortune going to the cinema. I still prefer the original like yourself but Nolan’s version did give several viewpoints and many chill up the spine moments ( the little ships heading for Dunkirk).

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  44. Althepalerp says:

    Another £153 Million to Pakistan.

    £5.4 Million of it is going to a “Charity” to teach women (Not Men) to cook in the home.

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  45. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    An example of her work

    A family of 18 from Gaza have been allowed to move to the UK because they have 1 family member here.

    The Palestinian family won a human rights challenge in court.

    They will immediately be allowed to claim benefits and use free services.

    A human rights appeal was made and won in the lower courts in April last year. However, Ms Mahmood put in an appeal in the upper immigration tribunal.

    However, Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran threw out the Home Secretary’s case, agreeing that denying the family permission to come to the UK breached Labour’s Human Rights Act.

    Last year, judge Loughran granted a Nigerian woman (who failed eight times to secure asylum in Britain) the right to stay after joining a terrorist organisation.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Mzzzzzz Gemma needs to go on her holibobs. Just like the mother of Henry VII did.

      I would suggest a one-way free ticket to St Helena.

      Enemy of the Realm legislation should cover it.

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    • G says:

      Merely following the plethora of anti-white new laws?

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      There needs to be two types of deportation flights.

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  46. tomo says:

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  47. tomo says:

    Anne Widdecombe

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I noticed that John Cleese has recently grown up and joined the rest of the non woke world . As a kid I couldn’t understand why the likes of him supported amnesty international – now he has disowned it as the lefty outfit it has always been ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Money and people patting you on the back – easy to get carried away.

        ………………………………….

        “The Vision of the Anointed (1995) is a book by economist and political columnist Thomas Sowell which brands people and organizations that he calls “the anointed” as “promoters of a worldview concocted out of fantasy impervious to any real-world considerations”.[1] Sowell asserts that these thinkers, writers, and activists continue to be revered even in the face of evidence disproving their positions.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_the_Anointed

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      • tomo says:

        I supported them financially (as in swallowed their BS) some 30 years ago until I was inside their ecosystem – I asked that they took me off the mailing list (regular expensive, glossy mail order catalogue of overpriced Peruvian hats and African Village mantlepiece trinkets) that must’ve cost lots to run – they refused …. Then they started phone canvassing me for more money, the scripts being ideologically absurd sloganeering (inept and patronising) – then I dove deeper and discovered who they’d been recruiting to the “management + executive” tiers – un-beee-ffin-lieveable – the final straw was their decision to promote global warming propaganda in the most cackhandedly dishonest fashion……

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    THE COUNTRY THAT NATIONALISES EVERYTHING AND SAYS YOU CANNOT OWN PROPERTY SAYS … HA HA HA AHA H …..

    “China has hit out at the nationalisation of British Steel, saying it “firmly opposes and is strongly dissatisfied with the British government’s decision”.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd4kvxpd3do
    China’s commerce ministry said on Friday that the moves “seriously infringed upon Jingye’s legitimate rights and interests and severely undermined the confidence of Chinese companies investing in the UK”.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      President Trump has dropped part of his action against the BBC – presumably part of a scheme to achieve settlement before it goes to trial in February 2027 …. He wins whatever happens ….

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    “In the only interview a French official has given on Burnham, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot wished him well and hoped for “as much stability as possible” in the UK.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv9qe6wj7o

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  50. Fedup2 says:

    ‘British illegal migrant shot dead in US ‘ a woke version of the truth – according to a piece in the telegraph – this is really about Irish pikeys illegally in the US ripping people off with dodgy building fraud – except that a victim had a gun … it ain’t easy going Blighty …

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