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Oh to be a BBC journo…at the top of your profession, respected and authoritative….which is why, during the presidential election to elect probably the world’s most powerful person, you, the BBC journo, spend your time writing about how tubby, or not, Trump is….

Should Donald Trump’s weight be an election issue?

In a moment of pure daytime TV drama, he handed over a letter to host Dr Oz that revealed he weighs 236lb (107kg), or nearly 17 stone.

Given that he is 6ft 3in (1.9m) in height, that would give him a Body Mass Index of 29.5, according to US Centre for Disease Control standards.

Technically, that makes him “overweight” and just short of “obese” – news that might come as a surprise to many, as he does not appear particularly portly.

The medical community seems to be fairly relaxed about it.

Surely there are more important things to write about than the not-so-fat Trump.

Things like bombs going off in the US.

The BBC dodges any link whatsoever that might suggest a cause for these bombs in Manhattan.

Chelsea is an area with a high gay population but the BBC limitis its description to:

Chelsea is among the most fashionable districts of Manhattan and its bars and restaurants are usually crowded at the weekend.

‘Most fashionable’ eh?  One way of describing it.

There was a bomb at a US Marine charity run in New Jersey…the BBC forgets to mention the military link in this report…

The blast comes after a pipe bomb explosion in neighbouring New Jersey hours earlier along the route of a planned charity race.

So a gay area and a military event have been bombed….who might possibly be the most likely people to want to bomb such places?  The BBC doesn’t seem to want to give us a clue and certainly doesn’t want to link the two events…any link indicating a terror campaign with a purpose.

After the Boston bombing the BBC went into overdrive to claim that it was almost certainly the work of white supremacists…against all the odds…and yet here they refuse to join the dots and make a stab at naming the likely culprits.  Why?  Who are they protecting and why?

The bombers could have been ‘Black Lives Matter’ or angry white men but the most likely?  Islamists.  Just say so BBC.  Do our job…it’s not speculation but a reasoned and intelligent assessment of the facts that we know.

And then there is this…

Mass stabbing at Minnesota mall: Rampaging knifeman dressed as a security guard attacks eight shoppers while talking about Allah before being killed by off-duty cop

St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said during a news conference shortly after midnight that eight people were taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following the attack first reported about 8.15pm Saturday. 

During the news conference, Anderson said the attacker who was armed with a knife made references to Allah during the attack and asked at least one person whether they were Muslim. 

The BBC does report the Islam connection here, but only because the Police state it quite bluntly…if they aren’t forced to make that connection they won’t off their own back however evident the signs are.

The BBC seems to have moved into overdrive to undermine Brexit with a complete disregard for impartiality, balance and accuracy.

As DV notes the QT panel was almost to a man opposed to Brexit, on Thursday Peter Allen treated us to a programme with has-beens pro-EU types Alan Johnson, Shirley Williams and Ken Clark revealing their thoughts on Brexit…naturally all three thought it a terrible thing.  Peter Allen just laughed along as they rubbished it.  Allen has always made his view known that the Brexit vote was not a vote for something but purely a sort of protest vote, when Clark made the same claim naturally he was delighted.  This is of course complete nonsense.  The vote was for control of our borders, for taking back poilitical control, for deciding how to spend our own money, for opening up trade with the rest of the world.  Allen’s intelligent insights will be sorely missed as he heads off for pastures new.  And just an extra note…Clark told us Brexit would mean no more investments from abroad…on the day the Chinese and French signalled their happiness that May had agreed to Hinkley Point.  Only two weeks ago the BBC had to admit that..

A record number of investments were made by foreign firms in the UK in the year to April 2016, according to government figures.

The Department for International Trade recorded 2,213 inward investment projects, up 11% on the previous year.

The data shows the UK is the most popular destination in the European Union for overseas firms.

Curious that, as the BBC had campaigned in the run up to the referendum on the basis that ‘uncertainty’ was destroying business confidence and everything was falling apart already before the vote.

The BBC has also had a programme in which Mark Carney was interviewed…curious what the BBC report and what they don’t…..

Here they report how hard a job he had coping with Brexit but also how successful he was in dealing with the ‘damaging effects’ of Brexit.

Odd the BBC misses out the positive sounds he makes about Brexit which the Telegraph notes…

Mark Carney finally confesses Brexit gives the UK “very large” trading opportunities

The Governor of the Bank of England has admitted that the UK has “very large” post-Brexit opportunities at the same time as confessing his high school nicknames and his favourite chocolate bar. 

In a wide-ranging interview led by a group of Coventry school children,  Mark Carney, one of the main instigators of the so-called ‘Project Fear’ campaign ahead of the UK’s European Union referendum, presented a more upbeat picture on the outlook for global trade than before the vote. 

“Most countries want to trade with the UK and there are a number of countries including Canada, Australia, a number of the big emerging markets, who I’m quite confident will want to have deeper trading relationships with the UK, because of what the UK has to offer in business, in services, in manufacturing, in design, in culture, in financial services,” Mr Carney admitted.

“The opportunity is very large. One of the things that is exciting about technology and where the global economy is going is that trade is no longer limited to just big firms, or medium-sized firms.

“You can be a small firm, three to five people, based here, and you can sell around the world. And that is increasingly going to be the case. That is tremendously exciting and it really plays to the strengths of the UK,  because this is a truly innovative country.”

Extraordinary but not unexpected from our highly politicised BBC which seems to only delight in talking down Britain and hoping for the worst, much like Labour’s McDonnell who cheered as the economy crashed, that they should miss out the ‘good news’ on Brexit.

Interesting timing you might think as the BBC announced the loss of TGBBO to C4 due to its lack of money…just before the government announced its Charter renewal white paper…never mind that Bake Off generates millions and is licensed to many countries around the world for which the BBC gets a cut.

The negotiations went on for a year or so and yet the BBC managed to time the announcement just by coincidence at that time.

Just more stage-managed BBC propaganda designed to whip up anger at the government and create the impression that the BBC is under attack and about to crumble due to lack of resources.

The BBC is continuing its campaign against Brexit with endless tales of racism and economic armageddon linked to it.  Its journalists seem to have been given carte blanche to say whatever they like to undermine the democratic process and impose the EU back upon us.

They completely ignore the fact that HM Opposition is led by terrorist supporting Marxists with a phalanx of ‘storm troopers’ there to smash dissenters and ensure ‘compliance who wish only for the end of western society…no mention of this video of McDonnell saying the economic crash was a dream come true…all those lives ruined, all those jobs gone, all those businesses vanished…he dances on their graves [07:15]…and the BBC ignores it…just as it ignores, downplays or cheerleads Islamic terrorism…..

The BBC instead prefers to express alarm at the rise of the right, the Far-Right, across Europe.  Marr has been in the Sunday Times disgracefully linking Brexit to ‘goose-stepping fascism’.  Red Andy has nothing to say about the rise of the Stalinists at the head of the Labour Party.  Remind us Andy how much misery did your commie chums impose, just how many millions did they kill?

Marr continues to insult the East Europeans, dismissing them as backward racists who know no better, a line the BBC uses constantly.  An irony when at the same time the BBC is promoting East European immigration to the UK and floods the airwaves with alarming tales of native racism against them….er….all linked to Brexit.  So East European goose-stepping is linked to Brexit and racism against East Europeans is linked to Brexit…isn’t the BBC good?

Marr tells us that nationalism is an unequivocal evil and that we must pool sovereignty and of course the threat from Islam is highly exaggerated..a dystopian view he suggests.

He tells us that Brexit means we are cutting ourselves off from the world, turning our backs on Europe foolishly thinking we can stand proud and successful on our own.  He tells us this is dangerous nonsense.  We must submit to the EU yoke and the arrogant, unelected, contemptuous and disdainful dictatorship from the likes of Juncker who should, in my opinion, be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and dragged through the streets of Europe stark bollock naked and humiliated and abused as he humiliates and abuses the people.  Any wonder so many hate the EU?

Marr should be sacked.  He clearly is too pro-EU to continue to present high-profile political programmes on the BBC which discuss such affairs.

The BBC itself shows that it is incapable of acting in a balanced, honest and impartial way and its news and current affairs programming should be closed down.  The BBC’s continued support for terrorism, the anarchists and mass immigration shows how dangerous it is as it undermines the UK, democracy and Wesern society.

The BBC’s Lucy Grey [a ‘senior’ BBC journalist no less she tells us] has spent the last two weeks emoting from a boat in the Med telling us of the ‘rescue’ of immigrants by MSF.  She greets the migrants as long lost relatives and is delighted they are being helped.

Reporting or cheerleading?  This isn’t ‘rescue’, it’s a taxi service that encourages economic migrants to swarm towards Europe….another 250,000 or so are apparently in Libya already just waiting for the chance…with millions more behind them.

Peter Allen read out a text criticisng this ‘taxi service’ and dismissed it by saying we can’t just leave them to drown.  No, you take them back to the shore they came from and discourage them and those that would follow from the attempt.

The BBC’s et al’s message that says if you get to Europe you will be looked after is what is costing lives…as the BBC keeps telling us, 3000 this year alone.  The BBC’s extremist position on immigration is deadly.

Hungary shows that it can be done, build a ‘wall’ and show a determined effort to not allow migrants in and they turn away.

The BBC of course thinks this is fascist or as Marr in the Sunday Times suggests it is …’the march of Europe’s new goose-steppers’ which he disgracefully links to the Brexit vote.

Extraordinary all the fuss over the US Presidential election…after all there is only one candidate..right?  Maybe I’m wrong but watching the BBC I understand the lone candidate is some dreadful, racist oaf called Trump.

Oh yes, the BBC did a programme on Clinton, Bill Clinton, and his shenannigans with a cigar and an intern.  That of course was all a lot of fuss about nothing…an overheated conspiracy cooked up by those appalling Republicans the BBC informs us.  Bill is innocent….much it seems as his other half is also innocent of having hidden her medical problems.

Hillary Clinton gets a few passing comments on the BBC but in comparison to the vast outpourings of liberal hate directed at Trump it amounts to little more than a hill o’ beans.

Check the BBC’s latest ‘indepth’ investigation into her health problems.   The BBC tries to pass it off as a bad case of the sniffles but fails to mention all the other health concerns that have struck Clinton down.  The Mail manages to list all her ailments….most of which seem somewhat serious.

The BBC dismissed concerns about her health as a ‘whisper campaign’ and ‘insinuations’ by Trump and his followers.

Seems Trump is a much more reliable source of information than the renowned BBC.

Labour’s ‘friend’ of the IRA and shadow chancellor told us that he wanted ‘straight-talking and honest politics’….so they have suspended someone who quite correctly characterised the tight-knit group manipulating Corbyn’s rise to power (LOL) as ‘storm-troopers’.

The Sturmabteilung (SA; German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʊɐ̯mʔapˌtaɪlʊŋ] ( listen); literally Storm Department) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Slavic and Romani citizens, unionists, and Jews – for instance, during the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.

Sounds pretty familiar.

The BBC jump in and explain it all in detail (LOL)…though curiously all without a single mention of the virulent anti-Semitism that has surfaced all the more since Corbyn took power and is associated with many in the Leaderr’s circle, and no mention of the threats, intimidation and violence that is flowing torrentially from Corbyn’s supporters toward anyone who dares raise an objection to him.  Contrast that with how the BBC makes constant and determined attempts to smear ‘Brexit’ with racism and abuse.

And note no mention of the white wash inquiry into anti-semitism for which it is suggested Shami Chakrabarti was rewarded with a peerage.

What’s interesting is that the BBC do not delve any furhter into Foster’s claims…his article in the Mail is full of accusations of anti-Semitism…the BBC doesn’t touch it here….only reporting the ‘storm-trooper’ comment as if it was a smear that came out of nowhere.

When ‘67% of British Jews said they were concerned about his possible victory’ you have to ask why…the BBC doesn’t bother too much, especially as so much of the anti-Semitism seems to come from Labour Muslims.  This is of course the BBC that has little concern for the Jews in Europe who are under siege from new immigrant populations, this is the BBC that suggested that Jews should rightly expect to be attacked because of what Israel does, they sort of deserve it…the BBC’s natural default position is that whatever Israel does it is wrong.

I would suggest it is not only the Labour Party that British Jews need to worry about.

The BBC gave Melvyn Bragg his head and allowed him to go free range for two weeks spouting tripe about t’North in a highly personal, highly political one-sided rant.

Why?  Just why did the BBC allow Bragg to proclaim independence for t’North?

Could it just possibly be that the Great Unwashed voted for Brexit and the BBC is doing its utmost to undermine that by cheerleading a move to split the UK up into regions….just as the EU wanted to do?  The BBC is attacking Brexit by the backdoor…..it has always, ironically, backed the various ‘independence’  movements such as the IRA, the Scottish National Socialist Party, the Cornish, and Palestinian terrorists  At the same time they attack UKIP and proclaim it a neo-Nazi, racist, hate movement.  The only nation states they don’t like are the ones that work.   Bragg suggests that those who voted for Brexit were the stupid and ignorant folk, a sort of peasants’ revolt against their betters.

Bragg argues that t’North is a separate country in its own right and should be recognised as such and the UK turned into a federalist confection.  What this does is destroy the idea of ‘Britain’ and of course destroys the power that comes from the union built up over centuries to such good effect.  The Left and the BBC has always sought to break up Britain with the aim of reducing its power and influence in the world which they see as malign and which fits in neatly with their pro-EU fanaticism…divide and rule…split up the UK and make it vulnerable and dependent on the EU, ala Greece, rather than have a proud and independent nation able to make its own decisions and stand on its own two feet.

Bragg’s two weeks of northern griping was two weeks of tripe, spinning a tale of a mythical North that was the centre of the universe but has long been abandoned by the far off politicians in London to rot and tumble into neglected ruin.

We heard that Thatcher was like William the Conqueror and had her own version of the ‘wasting of the north’ as she laid ruin to the the land.  We naturally heard of the heroic miners who were basically ethnically cleansed by Thatcher, the NUM fighting a glorious last stand against the ravages of Thatcher’s decision to harrow t’North and lay waste to it.  Never mind that the NUM ballot was against the strike and Scargill ignored that and led the miners out into a disastrous strike…never mind that the NUM bitterly attacked Labour in the 70’s for its own decimation of the coal industry.

The National Union of Miner’s own website says:
Throughout the 1960s, with a Labour Government in office from 1964, the pit closure programme accelerated; it decimated the industry. During this period, nearly 300 more pits were closed, and the total workforce slumped from over 750,000 in the late 1950s down to 320,000 by 1968. In many parts of Britain, miners now became known as industrial gypsies as pit closures forced them to move from coalfield to coalfield in search of secure jobs.

They were victims of madhouse economics.

Bragg then joined up the dots to make a thoroughly unconvincing case that t’North has been the victim of a Southern inspired plot to reduce it to a penurious wasteland as he linked the miner’s strike, Hillsborough and Orgeave as evidence of political anti-northern connivance.

The last programme was essentially a Labour Party broadcast that pumped out all the old issues…and continued their highly political attempt to have an inquiry into Orgeave.  This is business as normal for the BBC which of course wants to denounce the police for their actions at Orgeave and by extension attack Thatcher.

As I’ve said before...

The reality is that the violence was always initiated by the miners and that Scargill used them as cannon fodder for his own political games not caring one jot about them, their jobs and their families.

Seems that the BBC has conveniently forgotten all that as it pillories the police and romanticises and glorifies the miners.

Bragg seems to forget that those politicians that he alleges ignore t’North don’t just come from London….they’re MPs from all around the country and I’m pretty certain most would be astonished to hear that they have abandoned their constituencies in favour of a London-centric world view…..something which the BBC itself is very, very guilty of….and you can take the Beeboid out of London, to Salford, but you can’t take the metropolitan sneer of superiority out of his mind wherever he is.

This was an utterly bizarre series in which Bragg spouted what in other circumstances the BBC would dismiss as racist pub-bore cant that was mythologising a North that never existed and which completely forgets that the rest of the UK exists and contributed to the ‘Great’ in Great Britain.  How could Bragg forget the Midland industrial powerhouse, or the Cornish tin mines or the Welsh coal industry?  According to Bragg the industrial revolution started in Manchester and stopped just north of Watford.  When he complains that t’North was a forgotten land he seems to forget that many areas of the UK have problems…Cornwall and the East spring immediately to mind…or any coastal area.

But just how true is that image of t’North laid waste?  The BBC in the run up to the election insisted that Manchester was practically an industrial wasteland…and yet that was far, far from the truth, Manchester was thriving as were many cities where industries came to prosper.  Far from being abandoned a lot of effort went into regenerating t’North and attracting industry to it…such as car manufacturers.

Here’s Manchester City Council’s own view of the city’s successful regeneration…and note the original decline began in the 50’s not in 1979…

From ground breaking urban regeneration programmes, to the phenomenal success of the Commonwealth Games, Manchester has been transformed into a regional powerhouse of sustainable, economic growth offering opportunity and a better quality of life for all.

Over the last generation traditional industries have been making way for an economy based around knowledge, fresh ideas, expertise and entrepreneurialism. As the epitome of the post industrial city Manchester has seen some fundamental changes over the last 15 years. It now boasts an increasingly diverse economic base, real investor confidence, one of the highest concentrations of world class higher education activity in Europe along with cultural and leisure facilities that make it the nation’s most important destination for overseas visitors outside London.

This remarkable renaissance of the city has created the firm foundations on which to tackle the long term consequences of the economic and population decline in the city that began in the 1950s.

And finally a word from the BBC’s Evan Davis adopting a tone that is all too foreign to the BBC and indeed Davis himself…Just where does our renewed vigour and economic success come from?…Thatcher…..

If you want one simple fact to remind you of why we were not insane to follow the path we did, just note that our national income grew faster than that of each of Germany, Italy and France in the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. We were clearly doing something right. As fast as we exited some industries, we found new ones that raised national income per head. On average, we got richer, not poorer. And in addition to that, contrary to popular perception, there more jobs in Britain rather than fewer.

Oh, and let’s not forget this…

Finally, the church admits it was wrong on Thatcher: Bishops say ‘they failed to see the moral vision’ of former PM’s benefits reforms

Bishops yesterday admitted that the Church of England was wrong about Margaret Thatcher.

In a paper that amounted to a sweeping U-turn in the Church’s longstanding Left-wing attitude to poverty and the welfare state, they declared that it ‘failed to see the moral vision that informed Margaret Thatcher’s administration’.

Their acknowledgement that the late Tory prime minister was driven by ‘moral purpose’ contrasted strongly with the view taken by the bishops even last year, when before the General Election they were severely critical of her legacy.

Instead of demanding higher benefit spending and criticising the market economy – the default position of most Church leaders for more than three decades – they said that ‘we should support welfare policies which create incentives for work’.

What to make of Sara Khan, anti-extremist campaigner, Asian and Muslim and a BBC favourite?  How different the BBC treats this anti-Islamist campaigner to how they treat Tommy Robinson.

Khan speaks a lot of sense, she gives a balanced view of the Prevent policy at a time when it is under heavy attack from the ‘Islamists’ who get the unquestioning support of the BBC which naturally is opposed to what it believes is a policy that makes suspects of all Muslims and which it tells us also stigmatises and victimises them….the BBC not conceding that whilst not all Muslims are terrorists most terrorists these days are Muslim….so it is only natural for them to be ‘targeted’.

Khan also supports equality for women and rails against the Left’s support for the Islamists…..

Politicians and wider society must recognise these nuances as opposed to the distorted image offered by Islamist propagandists. That particularly applies to the Left, where some have got into bed with Islamist-sympathising groups that have no interest in Western Muslim integration. These groups push a constant victimhood narrative where Britain is portrayed as an inherently “Islamophobic” society that seeks to destroy Islam and deny Muslims the freedom to practise their faith. This conspiratorial view is being pushed aggressively, and it is vital that public institutions work with Muslim groups trying to counter this toxic narrative. Whether in communities, in universities or on social media, it is vital we counter the arguments of Islamists, otherwise an uncontested space is left open and their message will be taken as truth not just by Muslims but well-intentioned young activists who oppose racism and prejudice.

Hmmm…isn’t that a perfect description of the BBC’s narrative?  The BBC that pushes the line that Muslims are victims of Islamophobia and that anyone who speaks against Islamism is a racist?

Vital we counter the Islamists’ narrative? Instead the BBC peddles their narrative…of Islam under attack, of a Western foreign policy that targets Muslims, that the Islamist cause is about fighting Western oppression and imperialism.

As said many times on this site the BBC is dangerous, it supports the terrorist narrative as well as the one peddled by the non-violent Islamists in Britain who use the media, the law and weak politicians to further their aims of Islamising Britain.

Khan herself, whilst speaking against these violent extremists is still Muslim, she promotes Islam, disingenuously claiming there is such a  thing as ‘British Islam’….there is no such thing…there is only Islam.  She states that ISIS promotes a puritanical and literalist version of Islam, which she calls a false version…trouble is that version is the real Islam, the Koran is the word of God and is an instruction manual, it is designed to be followed ‘literally’….Historian Tom Holland tells us that what ISIS does is pretty much what Muhammed did as he blitzed the Middle East in his own time….bar some of the exotic methods used to kill people.  Khan seems to want to pick and choose what she wants to from the Koran and Hadith…which is a way of practising religion that Islam was ‘revealed’ in order to stop….Khan doesn’t understand Islam…one God, one faith, one mosque, that means something…do not divide your religion into sects, do not rewrite the scriptures to suit yourself…it’s in black and white in the Koran.  Islam was revealed because Christians and Jews corrupted their scriptures and divided themselves up into different sects….God disapproved.  Khan seems to think she knows better than Allah and that she can rewrite the unchangeable Koran.

You can hear her speak on 5Live (1hr 38 mins)….what’s amusing is her attack on those who shout ‘racist’ or ‘Isalmophobe’ when anyone dares to question the ‘Islamist’ narrative….she herself was banned from speaking at some schools by ‘well meaning liberal teachers’ who accepted the Islamist’s claim that Khan herself was an Islamophobe.

We heard that they were ‘understandably afraid of being called racist’.

She then goes on to say that she’s tired of this cultural sensitivity and that we as a society need to stand for the values we want such as freedom of expression, human rights and equality for women and that if we have groups in our society who don’t want those things then we must stand up against them.

Curious then that her only reaction to Tommy Robinson is to shout him down as a racist, a bigot and an Islamophobe in this clip from 2013…

The BBC presenter is aggressively against Robinson and hardly lets him answer his critics…the audience seemingly packed with them.

End of the day Khan still promotes Islam giving us a false hope of a reformed Islam, a slippery line that we’ve long been fed by Tariq Ramadan…who gets a mention in that interview as he is, of course, in the Guardian attacking Prevent.

Ramadan naturally voices his opposition to violent Islamism and yet, as do so many Muslim leaders and speakers, still supports the narrative of Muslims under attack…he suggests that allowing Muslims to express that same narrative will lead to a rejection of violence……and yet it is that very narrative, not countered but in fact reinforced by the BBC, that leads to Jihadism…..

The possibility that anyone can express their dissatisfaction, frustration and disagreement without becoming immediately suspected or stigmatised is, in itself, a powerful protective measure against those who call for violence. Those Muslims who are critical of government policies while rejecting violence are perhaps best placed to influence young people attracted to extremist acts.

Total rubbish…..it still sets Muslims against ‘The West’, Britain and government policy…it’s still telling Muslims to be ‘angry’, that they are victims of the West.

Ramadan is the slipperiest of slippery Islamists pretending to fight Islamism but in reality promoting it and the spread of Islamic influence across Europe and the world. In the end Khan is little different, she fights against the violent extremists and yet still promotes an ideology that is opposed to nearly all that Western liberal, progressive society stands for….she knows full well that it cannot, and never will be ‘reformed’.  She peddles the lie of a ‘British Islam’, an Islam somehow different from the norm and Islam tolerant of other religions, equality for women and open to criticism and freedom of expression.

When she herself is barred from British schools by British liberals how does she think she can possibly persuade conservative Muslims to give up their beliefs if she can’t persuade those British liberals ot back her?

No wonder Keith Vaz was so keen on importing so many East Europeans…….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INE2EPe81ew

And of course Romanians and Bulgarians are coming here in ever increasing numbers as predicted by Migration Watch…and denied by Vaz and the BBC.

Still, nice to see enterprising Polish immigrants contributing to the diversity and richness of the nation and helpfully keeping muppets like Vazs occupied when he otherwise might be in Parliament trying to run the country.