NEW YEAR, NEW OPEN THREAD…..

Well I hope you all enjoyed the BBC’s “Robbie William’s” New Year cringe fest! We’re in 2017 and the BBC keeps proving that no matter how bad it is it can still get worse. Much worse….! Here’s the first OPEN thread of this New Year and it’s now in your hands!

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  1. GoingInNowDan says:

    Whilst this piece is no doubt just some filler, let’s all feel sorry for the poor snowflakes who are struggling on their return to work – but not struggling enough to go on Twatter and tell the whole world about it. Actually some of us were working between Xmas and the new year, and haven’t had that problem today.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38495874

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  2. Gunner says:

    Trump drives his Chevy to the levy, and Brussels tells us that he has got it all wrong and that the Chevy “Cruze” model in question, built in Mexico, is NOT imported to the US. This entirely misses the point that Trump is demonstrating that he can move corporate stock values through the simple expedient of a tweet. The Chevy Cruze plant in the US was about to cut it it shifts from 3 to 2 with consequent significant US job losses. If that decision is now reversed or job losses are reduced then Trump’s tweet will have had a significant result for the workers in Lordstown, Ohio. Something which Brussels broadcasting would cheer to the rafters if set in a UK context under Liebour (fortunately a remote prospect).

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  3. Soapbox says:

    More news we will never hear, see or read on the Bbc.
    http://newobserveronline.com/denmark-child-brides-must-be-legal/

    Denmark: Child Brides “Must be Legal”

    There are now so many child brides among non-white invaders in Denmark’s invader centres that the time has come for that country to change the law regarding underage marriage, one of the most prominent Islamic leaders there has said.
    According to an article in Denmark’s Metro Express newspaper, the imam of the Danish city of Aarhus, Osama El-Saadi, has called for the legalization of child marriages because it is the invaders’ “culture.”
    Speaking out after Danish government officials started considering the idea of deporting “asylum seekers” who are married to minors, El-Saadi said that the marriages should be allowed “out of respect for the culture of the refugees.”
    According to the Metro Express, there are more and more cases of forced married underage girls from Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq living in invader centers around Europe.
    One recent case in Denmark, the paper said, involved a 14-year-old who had just fallen pregnant. She is “married” to a much older invader and lives in an “asylum center” in Aarhus.
    A media uproar over the pregnancy ended up in a debate in the Danish parliament, where a call was made for the immediate separation of the pair and the deportation of the man. The girl, however, would be allowed to stay.
    Interviewed by the Express, El-Saadi said that “before one politically and morally condemns the men, it should be remembered that the applicants come from a completely different culture, where marriage [at this age] is often the way to security.
    “It is often dangerous in the refugee camps. If your daughter is married as early as possible, this can help secure the safety of the entire family,” he said.
    “Neither the age of the bride nor the age difference between the girl and her husband would justify an intervention by the State. Even if the man is twice as old, they have a family set up. We are forced to accept that this is a different culture. We cannot destroy the family unit.”
    Another article in the Metro Express revealed that authorities are aware of at least twenty-seven “child brides” who fell pregnant in the camps, of which two have already given birth.
    These events demonstrate once again the rapid rate of societal change which the massive influx of non-white invaders has caused, and also, even more importantly, it is an indicator that their fecundity levels far outstrip European reproduction rates.
    If the invasion is not halted, and reversed, Europeans will be outbred by the non-white invaders within two generations.

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  4. oldcrone says:

    Anybody seen this reported by the BBC .. or Sky for that matter? What a headline grabber it would have been if it had been 1000 right wing waaycists congregating outside a mosque.

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/03/dortmund-mob-attack-police-church-alight/

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    • Lobster says:

      A bit more serious than throwing a bacon sarnie, I would have thought.

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      • Roland Deschain says:

        But less deadly to the perpetrators.

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        • Marion says:

          It’s Tuesday. As it happens, I’ve got an evening class in bacon sarnie throwing.

          As a missile, it leaves a lot to be desired. Tends to disintegrate in flight. A baguette would be an improvement but let’s face it, it’s a bit, you know, BBC and poncey. A pork sausage is better aerodynamically, provided it’s straight, but lacks the psychological impact of a rasher of streaky. Smoked streaky is best – creates a sort of ‘chemically enhanced’ weapon. Terrifying, I’m told.

          Forget Frankfurters entirely. They’re German and the intended targets don’t take them seriously.

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    • Melksham says:

      oldcrone.
      That story would have appeared totally incredible just a few short years ago.

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  5. oldcrone says:

    If you want to read some really good comments … have a look at these at the end of the link …. sorry it’s my “Express day” today 😉 How bBBC gets any viewers God knows … except their fellow Lefties … !!! If it wasn’t for the fact that stopping paying the TV tax would get you a criminal record I am sure they would lose a hell of a lot of revenue .. most people do not want people knocking on their doors threatening them with imprisonment **and** they still want to watch TV. Even though it might only be Corrie and football.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/749710/Brexit-BBC-propaganda-bias-victoria-derbyshire

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    • Guest Who says:

      Interesting that the word ‘propaganda’ was raised by the gobby lardberg centre stage which, for the BBC, is ‘brave’.

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  6. ToobiWan says:

    Just announced, Silent Witnesss tonight at 21:00. A killer preying on illegal immigrants. I wonder if they will mention his/her motives or politics?

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  7. Number 88 says:

    WARNING:

    The BBC are trailing a ‘Gogglebox’esq new series, ‘Common Sense’ to start shortly on BBC 2. According to the BBC blurb, ‘Common Sense’ is;

    ‘A weekly round-up of the week’s most talked-about topics and newsworthy events, bought to life by “some of the funniest people in Britain”.
    The topical comedy news show will showcase real people and their real opinions on the week’s topical talking points whilst in conversation with one another in everyday situations – whether at work, on a tea break or relaxing down the pub.
    Whether it’s general events from the news or the latest in politics or current happenings in the worlds of sport and popular culture, Common Sense will bring genuine and immediate reactions that collectively highlight the nation’s hilarious and unfiltered take on the biggest talking points that week.
    Contributors will talk about any news story, from any news source. Everything from newspapers, radio, magazines, websites and social media threads will be discussed, lampooned and ridiculed.’

    The trailer, has a go at Brexit, Trump, Trump’s Wall….

    I fear the worst.

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  8. Melksham says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38500422
    “Hitler’s Mein Kampf not a bestseller in Germany” cos we say it is not.

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    • nogginator says:

      Mein Kampf not a bestseller in Germany?
      Mein Kampf was rated 6th on all time best-seller list among Palestinians in a survey, WND news piece states Mein Kampf is a standard Arab textbook.
      Mein Kampf, the book Hitler wrote in prison before he rose to power in 1933, has become a bestseller in Turkey
      “Mein Kampf” has been a bestseller in the Arab states and Turkey, where anti-Semitic propaganda is pervasive, it is a best seller in Egypt, & it’s very popular in Syria.
      “According to a BBC article, Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf” is selling as well as Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Lost Symbol in Bangladesh.”

      BBC … “German publisher of a special annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf says sales have soared since its launch a year ago”
      Hmmm …
      Germany – sales of Mein Kampf, what s changed?, what could be the link?
      No, no, can t get it … no idea 😀

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Global Tripe on Classic FM has lead its top of the hour with the ‘news’ that the resignation of the EU shill has been described as… ‘a crisis’.

    Not too clear on who so described it as such, but they immediately interviewed… Hilary Benn, who was in step with Nick Clegg, interviewed earlier.

    Anyone get the feeling they are pushing an agenda?

    Meanwhile, on the BBC…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38498839

    Comments go as well as can be expected:

    1. Posted by Demad

    Perhaps someone else can now be appointed to the role who can get the job done without dragging it out over 10 years?

    Comment number 7. Posted by Seawitch

    I don’t think this pessimist is any loss myself!

    Comment number 13. Posted by stuloveslager

    NIGEL! We’ve got a little job for you ?

    Comment number 4. Posted by pleb1an

    If the man has not got the principles of the leave vote at heart it is best that HE leaves.

    Skill is nothing without commitment!

    Comment number 18. Posted by adraxis

    “Last month the BBC revealed he had privately told ministers a UK-EU trade deal might take 10 years to finalise, sparking criticism from some MPs”

    Well of course he had to go after that! How could he have any credibility in the negotiations when the other side know he privately thinks said negotiations could take 10 years!

    It’s almost as if the BBC want to derail Brexit! Can’t think why…

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  10. Sluff says:

    BBC1 6pm news
    Has someone died? ( apart from in Huddersfield)
    You’d think so from the mourning tone.
    Our top diplomat (irony) for the EU has resigned.
    Queue a gobshite soundbite from Nick Clegg. FFS.
    Interestingly in the headlines they included a good news comment from Sir/Saint Nigel. But unless I missed it, he was not then interviewed as part of the main story. Instead we had a repeat of Clegg’s doom and gloom drivel and then the usual bBBC ‘expert’ telling us how awful it all was.
    High class EU journalism as ever from our impartial state broadcaster.

    Almost as good as the next story, and the repeated mention of ‘Mr Yakub’ who has been killed in a shooting ‘up north’. The fact that his relatives refer to him as Mohammed strangely was not enough to persuade the bBBC news ‘editors’ to do the same. I just cannot imagine why.

    Just total useless biased narrative every microsecond.

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  11. Sluff says:

    Ford have cancelled plans to spend $1.6bn in Mexico and reinvest in the USA creating 700 new jobs.
    Way to go Donald!

    Oh, and the FT100 hit another all time high today, and the purchasing managers index is at a 2 year high.

    The bBBC news editors must be crying into their champagne, while they figure out a way to report it as bad news.

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    • Scroblene says:

      That excellent news about the economic figures had the normal bbc sneering final words like ‘but there are fears that it won’t continue’ or similar!

      It all came on after a long documentary about new subsidised housing in Birmingham. Apparently lots of Norwegians need new homes here! (Do the planners in Southall know that? Just look at the Google Earth shots! They all must be very keen gardeners there, the sheds are just enormous)! Perhaps the borough provides lots of big allotments! Oh, hang on, those places are for keen gardeners!

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  12. seismicboy says:

    hahahahahahahahahahahaha
    nobody told me the bbc were starting a new live comedy program. Well they are and it’s called the 6 o’clock news.
    Apparently Ivan Rogers has resigned but he is or would have been vital to the UK’s Brexit negotiations.
    His credentials are that he was ‘central to David Cameron’s reforms negotiated with the EU’
    Oh dear, alarm bells are ringing already as I hardly consider that something one would want on one’s CV. They must be referring to the ‘pig in a poke’ ‘reformed Europe’ that Cameron was mugged off with and tried to peddle to the UK electorate. Cameron should have known something was up when the agreement was written on toilet roll. The funniest thing was that he believed it and he though the people of the UK were too stupid to realise they had been dealt a gypsy bankroll.
    People like Ivan Rogers should have been culled long ago with all the other flakes. I hope this is a wake-up call for anyone serious about Brexit to make sure the right people are on the team.
    More bbc brexit bullshit.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Here’s Ch4 Snowjob’s whinge:

      UK ambassador to EU quits ahead of Brexit talks

      He was Britain’s top man in Brussels. One of the country’s most experienced EU negotiators, he had been earmarked to play a key role in this year’s Brexit talks. But today Sir Ivan Rogers stunned the political world by announcing his resignation. No friend of the Brexiteers, who dubbed him a Europhile, he had warned that it could take up to a decade to finalise a UK-EU trade deal after Britain left the community. But his departure will leave the government without a firm hand at the tiller as it enters the choppiest waters it has faced in a generation. Michael Crick will have the latest and we’ll be debating what’s behind the resignation.

      One can only imagine who may get invited to this ‘debate’ and what the conclusions will be.

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      • Sluff says:

        “One of the country’s most experienced EU negotiators”
        Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
        Well, try asking Cameron how well that went!!!!!!!!

        So, being by definition a useless negotiator, why was he not sacked months ago ?
        Oh I forgot. He was a top civil servant, so failure must be rewarded.

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      • Alicia Sinclair says:

        Jon Snow!
        Guest Who.
        Well done on getting to the end of that sentence without turning over, or pledging to see the end of his Channel 4 sinecure.
        Both an enemy and an enema of the People. Detestable creep.
        Would rather trust Abu Hamza from his Supermax Skype feed than listen to-quite possibly-the Lord Whore Haw of our times.
        And at least old Joyce didn`t pimp the price of his linen suits and fat mangoes from Churchills swear jar as he peddled his quisling poison.
        Unlike Tampax Tam.

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    • richard D says:

      Hold on a second. This guy was going to leave his top EU job anyway within the next few months, and apparently therefore would not have been participating in the really crucial stages of the Brexit negotiations. Presumably the government would not want him to depart in the middle of negotiations, and has possibly politely asked him to step down ?

      So what’s the problem ?

      Ah… the Left-wing BBC, Labour and Liberal parties (note, I consider the BBC to be pretty much a left-wing political party these days) can drag a smokescreen right across that little factoid, and instead claim it is an unmitigated disaster for Brexit negotiations. Status quo ante.

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  13. Melksham says:

    Just heard on the bBBC 6 o/clock news, in relation to the US motor industry.
    “……politics by intimidation on Twitter is working for mister Trump”
    Good.

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  14. Lobster says:

    I’ve just seen an item on the BBC six o’ clock news concerning Birmingham Council building new council houses and they interviewed one family who have been allocated one as they have “outgrown” their existing accommodation. Guess what, let’s just say that it looks like the family must buy their hijabs in bulk. I bet the other residents who have been on the waiting list for years must be delighted.

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  15. Guest Who says:

    http://order-order.com/2017/01/03/listen-mosley-to-bankroll-impress-for-a-very-long-time/

    Seems that the best way to peddle lies is via the BBC.

    Especially if they have a vested interest in them being told often enough to become ‘truth’.

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  16. Alicia Sinclair says:

    Like you seismicboy, I noted the desperation of the BBC in its hysterical coverage of this non-story.
    Sir Ivan?…boy we`ve dumbed down haven`t we?
    Anyway-all I needed to see was the rage and “pashun” in Nick Cleggs dark black holes of peepers to know that-though WE don`t give a stuff about these interchangeable nobodies-He clearly does!
    So it`s got to be good.
    And it`s all so transparent and funny these days as they wet each others nappies.
    Tears, piss or both? Hope it`ll be sweat on the gallows hood one day if they continue to take us for fools.

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  17. Cull the Badgers says:

    The BBC and the rest of the MSM are splashing the resignation of our EU ambassador as a ‘blow to Brexit’. Why?

    He was a failure in Cameron’s joke of negotiations – he has made a ludicrous forecast that it may take us 10 years to get a trade deal.

    The BBC are attempting to classify him as a EU skeptic.
    Is it possible he has been sacked as someone totally unsuited to act for us in our Brexit negotiations? Yet the BBC can’t bear the thought.

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    • EnglandExpects says:

      Quite right Cull. Rogers was an EU appeaser to the core and how May and Davis kept him on is impossible to defend. The BBC are almost swivel eyed about any story they can portray as damaging to Brexit . Any ambassador , no matter how inexperienced, must be better than the joker who advised Cameron on his non- existent reform ‘deal’.

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      • Dave S says:

        Next the US ambassador needs to resign. He is not going to be of any use at all.

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      • Scroblene says:

        They would have kept him on because it takes that long to reach the maximum pension available, and also ‘negotiate’ his departure. No doubt the BBC were in on this, as their investigative and incisive reporting skills are second to none aren’t they!

        Also, as a sleb hadn’t died this week (I think anyway), there was a dearth of good/bad news to report.

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  18. CranbrookPhil says:

    Anyone got the courage to listen to Harabin’s programme on Radio 4 this evening at eight? I am off to the cinema so fortunately got an excuse not to.

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    • Old Goat says:

      Not a chance.

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    • nogginator says:

      Hey … might tune in, haven t been lied to yet today, sounds like typical “orrible” Harrabin.
      “Ban Ki-moon said: “Paris will shape the lives of all future generations in a profound way – it is their future that is at stake.” Speaking at the opening ceremony, he said the planet was experiencing record temperatures: “We are in a race against time. I urge all countries to join the agreement at the national level. Today we are signing a new covenant for the future.” China and the Obama administration took the lead in endorsing Paris, and it came into force with astonishing speed”
      … YAWN!
      Mr Trump (boo hiss!) and his cabinet nominees to the offices of environment, energy and state, are all confirmed Climate skeptics, (boo hiss!), or currently work for fossil-fuel industries. (boo hiss!)
      etc, etc.

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    • StewGreen says:

      I’m washing my hair ……………both of them.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Kino?

      The Wheeliebins are on the left, go in the right-hand door…

      ;0)

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  19. nogginator says:

    BBC R4 News – Republicans are to drop a plan to gut the independent body that investigates political misconduct, the Al BBC are literally cock a hoop, their anti Trump goes into sniping overload.
    Have to admit makes “drain the swamp” look a bit sick, but the Don is notorious for just changing his mind … so we better get used to it, he badly needs someone to
    negotiate his PR properly.

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    • Dave S says:

      If President Trump is to succeed in turning the tide then he has to keep his enemies guessing. Sound strategy in war and this is a war make no mistake. Say one thing and do another. I would in his place and to hell with the MSM.

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    • GCooper says:

      What has actually happened is that the Republicans have decided remove the powers of the Office of Congressional Ethics – that is the Republicans not Trump, who has criticised the decision.

      This has led to the hilarious situation where the BBC has been casting around, looking for a way of criticising Trump for doing what the Democrats and the Left have been saying should be done.

      Never forget that Trump is only nominally a Republican. Many elected Republicans can’t stand him – and vice versa.

      Expect more of this, and more poor reporting from the BBC.

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      • RJ says:

        Trump objected to the change and the Republicans in Congress have backed down.

        “In a hastily arranged meeting on Capitol Hill, the Republican conference scrambled to kill the rules changes proposal before a scheduled vote and after President-elect Donald Trump publicly ridiculed them for their ham-handed timing on the issue.” Breitbart.

        Trump has been consistent and has won another battle – even if it is a very minor one. More fake news from the BBC.

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  20. pete ongyo says:

    Just watched BBC Northwest. Story about ongoing railway works and replacement service provided by the rail company. The story centered on the the railway company providing free bacon and sausage sandwiches to travelers. At the end the presenter, Roger Somebody? says ‘you can’t beat a bacon or sausage sandwich’. That comment is apparently taboo in BBBc lala land. Roger then says, having listened to his earpiece, the producer tells me to say that not everyone enjoys a bacon or sausage sandwich! Absolute and utter sheer muslim appeasement and social manipulation. WTF.

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  21. EnglandExpects says:

    Interesting, as pointed out above, that the BBC only reported that a Yasser Yaquib had been shot. It was only when I heard the ITV coverage that I learned that his first name was Mohammed. Luckily I’m old enough to remember Yasser Arafat and I also reminded myself that anyone with an Arabic name was likely to be a RoPer. Footage of his family, who naturally knew nothing ill of him, confirmed his religion and culture. Why do the BBC think that misreporting is likely to be of any but the most momentary of advantages in flying the flag for Islam?

    I’m quite prepared to believe that he was entirely innocent, whether of armed gangsterism or terrorism , previous court trials notwithstanding, until more evidence comes out. After all, how can anyone from so close to the heartland of the cult of St Jo Cox be anything other than an advocate of love, peace and open borders?

    Meanwhile I continue to wonder what became of the old, white working class communities of the West Riding of 40 years ago. This area is a lost cause and together with Rochdale etc over the Pennines, will be literally a battleground over the future of our nation.

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    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      England Expects, I shall dob you in for nameism!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      You mean Yasser Arafat otherwise named Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa ?

      Not surprised they shortened that one, but yes they did miss the Mohammed out of his name on some news reports, later ones did use it.

      I’m sure that although this is described as not being a terrorist related incident it almost certainly is by connection. The amount of Pakistani drug dealing going on is completely out of control simply for the same reason the rape gangs were allowed to continue – fear of the meaningless word ‘racism’.

      His father was described a business owner and a property owner, how many people do you know who can afford from a corner shop to own several houses which they rent out? especially when they have a wife who doesn’t work and several kids to support?

      Make no mistake a blind eye is still being turned to Pakistani Muslim crime and it is only when the useless brigade feel they are forced to act that they do so. No doubt this young criminal was on his way to visit some lethal violence on a victim which the useless brigade could not have ignored.

      The proceeds from drug dealing is not just enriching certain villains in the community, but plenty of it is find its way into the pockets of the Jihadis.

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      In today’s Times various statements about ‘alleged drug dealer’, neighbours frightened to say more, respected member of the community and, most tellingly, ‘Mr Yaqub owned hundreds of properties around here’.

      Proceeds of crime?

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  22. Foscari says:

    A young white English lady made a fool of herself on Pointless last night. One of the
    “attractions” of these quiz shows is that we all like a bit of schadenfreud. Her ethnic
    partner in the show was aghast with her horrendous answer to the question of naming a country
    which ends in two consonants. The young lady absolutely froze. She even said she had studied
    geography A level. As her ethnic partner stared at her in amazement she said her mind had gone blank and she blurted out Paris.Of course this was an unbelievable wrong answer. Richard Osborne showed sympathy as he always does whilst Richard Osman just about controling his natural sarcasm just said that Paris was wrong for two reasons.
    This clip went viral on the social media networks. BUT in my opinion it should not of been shown as a facetious front page headline on the BBC website. With the headline ” Did this
    Pointless answer kill a friendship.”
    We often see especially on ” Celebrity Pointless ” ethnic celebrities who are on the programme just for diversity or positive discrimination. I cannot imagine in a million
    years if an ethnic contestant had made such a fool of herself that the BBC would of made
    this a feature story. It would of been called racist!

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      The BBC shoot themselves in the foot if they do this sort of thing.
      One of the reasons why we like this show is the grace and decency shown-even with daft answers. Both Armstrong and Osman handle themselves very well, with just the right amount of sangfroid at even the daftest replies.
      This will ruin things for us if the BBC have made mockery of their own contestants. Especially if-as you say-they`d not do the same should anyone NOT white have done the same.
      Hope it`s wrong-otherwise we`re back with Jade Goody type of nastiness from the BBC-for which they have not been forgiven by most mums I know.

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    • Foscari says:

      I actualy should of said “Celebrity Mastermind” where even an ethnic colleague
      of John Humphrey’s on his Radio BBC morning news programme made a complete fool of herself with her lack of, as Manuel from ” Faulty Towers” would say ” I know nothing.” The BBC did not make this a front page internet feature.
      I do think what the BBC did was a kind of inverted racism to show this, as her partner gave her a dirty look at her ineptitude, to say the least.

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  23. Thoughtful says:

    Just watching the World at War, the early stages before the Nazis actually went to war. the number of chances the spineless politicians squandered when they might have stopped him, reminds me of todays useless jellyfish we call politicians.

    Britain has a special place of shame with it being the first European country to spinelessly surrender via a policy of appeasement.
    The Germans marched over the bridges into the Rhineland with a strategy of immediate speedy retreat had France shown any stomach for resistance. They utterly failed.

    It wasn’t until Czechoslovakia that the allies finally realised that Hitler wasn’t going to be stopped by appeasement, and that war was going to be necessary. It still wasn’t too late to have invaded Germany and put a stop to it, but they couldn’t manage that either.

    In short a set of vacillating cowards were allowed the care of Europe and screwed it up royally through cowardice and inaction.

    What has changed all these years later?

    The desire for peace at any price has led to the invasion of the continent with the approval of the governments, and with the threat of war every bit as real as it was in the 1930s.
    How sad to see it being repeated.

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      Find myself reading plenty now on the fall of the Soviet Union-which seems more apt for what will soon be happening to the EU than the usual “Roman Empire”.
      The Romans lasted for ages-whereas the USSR fell apart after 70 years or so, the EU now coming up to its 70th if you include its Monnet/Iron and Steel Pacts that established it all.
      My predictions for 2017-the Soviet Union as a parallel for the EU collapse as well as France and Algeria getting into deep trouble this year.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Strange that that didn’t come up before the referendum, that Britain has had form for appeasement to Berlin … prior to WW2

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      • ToobiWan says:

        We almost had a King who would have took things a bit further than just appeasment, Stew.
        WaW is a great series BTW, (though my personal passion is WWI) from 1973, one of the few good things that came out of that year

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      If that is the series narrated by Laurence Olivier, there is a wonderful interview in one of the episodes with a Scot who served in RAF Bomber Command. There is a part within it, discussing the bombing campaigns against German cities, where he says something like:

      “If you can’t get the kraut in his factory, you get him in his bed and if that means that little Granny Schicklgruber next door gets it as well, then that’s just her tough luck.”

      I remember watching that and wondering what would be the MSM / Progressive response today, to a soldier, sailor or airman who expressed similar sentiments about killing brown eyed boys in Iraq or elsewhere?

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      • Grant says:

        Al,

        Great documentary series by Thames TV. Not the BBC, and could not be made today !

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        • Gillian?? says:

          World at War is amazing. A true reflection of our British spirit.
          Chamberlain’s white paper was awful. Very similar to Cameron’s non-existent EU reforms.
          Hitler/Nazi/EU – what is the difference?
          Let us leave asap please Treeza.

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          • Jump says:

            I remember watching that and wondering what would be the MSM / Progressive response today, to a soldier, sailor or airman who expressed similar sentiments about killing brown eyed boys in Iraq or elsewhere?

            In a similar vein, Frank Field was speaking on The Westminster Hour (R4, Sundays, 10pm) a couple of months ago. He argued that anyone in his constituency who wanted to travel to join IS should be free to do so. The advantages of this policy were twofold. His remaining constituents would be less likely to be murdered; and with a bit of luck, the terrorist wannabes might get themselves killed. If they sadly survived, however, they shouldn’t be let back into the country.

            I remember thinking in the following days that his comments had attracted little attention. Which was a shame, as any such policy would be demonstrably win-win.

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    • RJ says:

      “Britain has a special place of shame with it being the first European country to spinelessly surrender via a policy of appeasement.”

      It’s a minor point of detail, but in terms of European military power we were very much the junior partner to France. If France wouldn’t act we were powerless.

      We also have to remember that British and French civilians in the 1930s were classic example of a snowflake generation. Pacifism had taken a strong hold and the people would have repudiated any politician who tried to stand up to Hitler. There were huge battles in Parliament when the policy switched from assuming that there wouldn’t be a war within the next 10 years to one of rearmament.

      We now face an equivalent situation today, in that we’ve spent the last 30 years dismantling our military capability – with most European countries having gone even further than us – so that we are now too weak to act. Over the holiday there were reports that the French had 100,000 soldiers and police on the streets to prevent terrorism. The entire British army now numbers less than 100,000. Pounce could give us chapter and verse on this.

      And of course the BBC has a long list of good causes that we should spend money on before we increase the defence budget

         10 likes

  24. Al Shubtill says:

    This is a very good article about the enemies within of the West; how these b******s view us and what they hope will happen to us.

    http://takimag.com/article/laughing_about_white_genocide_jim_goad#axzz4UjT2Xu7M

       11 likes

    • NameNotNumber says:

      ‘The goal of abolishing the white race is, on its face, so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.
      Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed’.
      Yet another US Professor: Noel Ignatiev, 2002

      So, don’t worry Al, it’s only a ‘social construct…’ and the BBC seem to be very comfortable with that thought.

         10 likes

  25. G.W.F. says:

    BBC Headline

    Controversy over Trumps refusal to accept offer of a black marching band to perform at his inauguration.
    WRONG

    BBC correct heading says

    Controversy-over-black-marching-bands-decision-to-play-Donald Trumps-inauguration

    You see. If he did not invite them it would be waaycist. But if he invites them it is controversial

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38495104/controversy-over-black-marching-bands-decision-to-play-donald-trumps-inauguration

    —————-
    Word of advice to the Donald.
    Restrict BBC reports to your Twitter account only. Keep the buggers out

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  26. nogginator says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38501122
    ‘Firearm found’ after M62 police shooting
    Something strange here the police are filmed at the perps house.
    amd it is literally crawling with RoPers, a queue walking in and out
    like bloody Euston station.
    I ve seen some investigations, NEVER one like that … unless of course their all, “liaison” officers

       17 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Muslims have to be buried within 24 hours ..so yes there would be a lot of friends/relatives visiting the house.

         5 likes

      • Lobster says:

        I often wonder how they achieve that, as a friend’s mother died recently and it took over three weeks before the burial could be arranged.

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        • G.W.F. says:

          Lobster
          You have reminded me of a story concerning a Jewish friend from the old East End who died and his daughter came over from France on a 24 hour ferry ticket to arrange his funeral. The Coop said it would take three weeks and she noted that he was a Jew, although a confirmed atheist. She went to the Rabbi and he agreed on a fast funeral. She confessed that he was an atheist. The Rabbi’s words I still remember. ‘So you don’t want a Rabbi, then you don’t have to pay for a Rabbi’. And the funeral went ahead.

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      • nogginator says:

        Does that come before anything else?, any investigation?

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    • nogginator says:

      I mean a violent drug dealing, firearm holder, been on trial for attempted murder … so obviously nothing to find eh!.
      and what s all this media attention on the erm “outpouring of grief”???
      even the Daily Fail homes in on it.?

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Ireland should not rule out leaving EU, says ex-diplomat

       12 likes

  28. Tothepoint says:

    Just having a quick look through the latest lies, deceit, bullshit and utterly retarded propaganda pieces on Al Shabeeb’s webshite…….. Oh no! Looks like The Donald is seriously kicking ass in the US! In fact the mighty Trump has already achieved more in politics than Sheikh Muhammad Al Bin Ladin Obama has in his entire time in office, and Trump hasn’t even started the job yet!!!!

    Forcing changes to legislation!! Making Ford change their guaranteed move under Obama from Mexico back to the US!! Saying no more of Obamas and the Islamic Al Beebs friends are allowed to leave Guantanimo Bay, because they are only going to slaughter infidels the first chance they get!!….My that’s got to hurt you white hating, islamophiliac bastards!!!…..

    …..Oh wait!….. What’s that?… Megyn Kelly to leave Fox??!! Why the fuck is that a headlining article on Al Shabeeb’s webshite??!! Who gives a flying here in the UK??!!…. Oh right! Its just a chance to abuse Trump about him being a sexist hater of everything on earth! Very clever you devious scumbags! Never mind how Megyn ridicules and slaughters Caliph Obama and Mentalist Killery on a daily basis! Don’t mention that whatever you do! But a chance to abuse Trump?…….

    Islamic Al Beeb. Just cannot give it a rest…

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  29. StewGreen says:

    What do people make of this strange blogpost from Sept claiming BBC admitted bias AGAINST Labour Momentum loons protesting against Labour’s own Stella Creasy ?
    http://evolvepolitics.com/bbc-quietly-sneaks-correction-admitting-blatantly-lied-run-war-syria/

       8 likes

    • 60022Mallard says:

      A very interesting note in the correction from the BBC in which it says that the story had been taken up by “reputable news outlets, including The Independent and The Guardian” so it presumably duly followed, as usual.

      Now isn’t that a surprising admission. What is more it implicates three leading Ctrl-left media organisations in spreading fake news.

      Certainly one to store away for future reference!

         15 likes

      • GCooper says:

        Yes, that’s the BBC all right. If it’s in the Independent or the Guardian it’s kosher. If it’s in the Mail it’s ‘fake news’.

        What a bunch of rank amateurs!

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      • Lobster says:

        “reputable news outlets, including The Independent and The Guardian”
        I think I need to change my underwear after reading that bit! My bladder isn’t what it used to be ….

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      • StewGreen says:

        It’s a Leftmob Wikipedia propaganda trick.
        Get your mate to publish you wacky theory on the Guardian blog.
        Then edit Wikipedia to include that opinion citing the Guardian as a source.
        At the same time delete any challenging or stuff you don’t like ..on the grounds they are not citing a proper source.

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  30. Brett says:

    So trump has been getting victories “bullying by tweets” according to news at ten.jon sopel bbc news!

       11 likes

    • GCooper says:

      Amazing! Trump uses Twitter and he’s ‘bullying’. A handful of SJWs scream and shout abuse and it’s righteous protest.

      The BBC just goes on getting worse.

         24 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      What do you reckon to this short BBC video from 5 December ?

      ‘No truth in journalism’: Trump voters cast wide net for news

      Donald Trump claims the US media is crooked and biased. So where do his supporters get their news?

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38191313

         6 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        The Beeb gets kiking in the FB comments
        but a lot of brainwashed Leftmob there as well ranting

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  31. Thoughtful says:

    And now it comes out that the Pakistani Muslim shot dead was indeed a drug dealer, this probably goes without saying as every single Pakistani I know is a drug dealer to some extent greater or lesser.
    If it hadn’t been for his possession of a gun then it is highly likely the useless excuse for a Police force would have simply let him carry on like every other Pakistani drug dealer.

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  32. Pounce says:

    Regards the Geezer shot dead by the Police in Huddersfield (3 days after Police were shot at in Bradford). This is just happening in Bradford.

    Protest in city centre of Asian man's killing brings ring road to a standstill https://t.co/ix0vaBXxkp pic.twitter.com/38yXkaetYs— Telegraph and Argus (@Bradford_TandA) 3 January 2017

    Two men arrested following vehicle stop at Chain Bar, M62, with five arrests in total as part of police operation in which man was shot dead

    Angry protesters armed with banners bring traffic to a standstill in Bradford

    The question the bBC isn’t asking is just why did the Police shoot first?

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  33. Dave666 says:

    BBC 2 Revolting. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087y3t8 Predictably shite.

       7 likes

    • Pounce says:

      The problem for the bBC regards comedy is they feel that coarse (and very crude) political humour (with disparaging sexual overtones) is ever so funny. When actually it isn’t. Benny Hill, the 2 Ronnie’s and Morecambe and wise were funny and yet according to the bBC they weren’t. Bless this house, Porridge and Rising damp were funny and yet according to the bBC they weren’t. The bBC have lost the plot which is why they haven’t produced even a half decent comedy series for nearly 20 years. Meanwhile in America they knock them out by the bucket load and they don’t even swear.

      The bBC the traitors within our midst

         44 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Good point Pounce.

        We’re reducing our blood pressure easily these days, by ignoring anything the BBC call ‘comedy’, and watching – ahem – the whole series collection of ‘Hi de Hi…’!

        We’ve managed to see and really laugh at so many proper, funny jokes from Perry and Croft that would all have been missed when it was first broadcast!

        God how we miss such great comedy writers!

        It really is an anecdote to new rubbish!

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  34. Thoughtful says:

    Pitiful sentences handed out to leftie so called protesters who just happen to be black.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4084192/Two-activists-ruined-wedding-group-stormed-town-hall.html

       8 likes

  35. kaffir Latte says:

    Just watched a couple of minutes of bBBC propaganda (called 10 o’clock News) about the housing shortage. You probably didn’t realise this, but it’s all to do with the sale of council houses in the 80’s under Mrs Thatcher. It’s obviously NOTHING to do with uncontrolled immigration under Blair. Remind me, were these sold council houses then bulldozed or might they have been used as……homes……by the people who bought them?

    The camera then went to that multiculti heaven called Birmingham where, as if by magic, they found a muslim family with a couple of young children, an ancient granddad and a scarved woman who couldn’t speak English. Birmingham are building lots of new council houses where this presumably unproductive family (Granddad too old, Mum can’t speak English) and children going to schools and all needing the medical services AND NOW getting a council flat in Brum. This was a wonderful success story in the Beeb’s eyes.

    They just don’t get it, do they? The sheer stupidity of their agenda-driven codswallop turns decent people to the right.

    Rant over

       50 likes

    • Brett says:

      Saw that, its also the governments fault for not letting councils borrow against their existing stock to buy new houses apparantly. Nothing to do with immigration, no siree

         13 likes

    • Brett says:

      Saw that, its also the governments fault for not letting councils borrow against their existing stock to buy new houses apparantly. Nothing to do with immigration, no siree

         1 likes

    • Brett says:

      Saw that, its also the governments fault for not letting councils borrow against their existing stock to buy new houses apparantly. Nothing to do with immigration, no siree

         1 likes

  36. StewGreen says:

    Another from 1 year ago
    Propaganda 101 , when creating propaganda first set up framing that
    …anyone who DARES CHALLENGE your dogma is a already a victim of propaganda..
    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook

    BBC Future seems to be a mostly propaganda outfit run out of the BBC’s commercial arm “BBC Worldwide” ..and I think therefore except from normal editorial rules.

       8 likes

  37. Guest Who says:

    The BBC favoured editorial integrity/trusted sources who are not named combo not really cutting it under even gentle questioning any more.

       20 likes

  38. StewGreen says:

    November 23 \\The BBC must be a trusted voice in a “post-truth era”, the director-general has said// The Scotsman
    Irony !

    ·

       16 likes

  39. StewGreen says:

    From Twitter
    “The Gov have continuously refused to put Ministers on #R4today to answer questions .
    PM refuses to have any press monthly conferences Why?
    ………Reply
    They’ve worked out that the #BBC and the #Guardian will just make #fakenews up anyway so what’s the point?”

       20 likes

  40. BRISSLES says:

    There are times when I like to watch progs where I don’t have to ‘think’. Yep, love Bake Off, Sewing Bee, and NOW its the turn of BBC2 British Interior Design Challenge which started tonight. Do I put money on the hijab wearing contestant winning the title or not ?

    Where have all these non-white contestants been in the past for heavens sake ? is there something in their tea that suddenly we are awash with hijab wearers on every reality challenge show ? This epidemic has only occurred in the last couple of years or so, why is that ?

    If hijab wearers are finding their feet and freedom in all aspects of our Western way of life, – (crikey an interior designer, what will the Imman say ?) then why stick to wearing the hijab?

       31 likes

  41. StewGreen says:

    BBC’s comms chief says it must do more to maintain credibility in the “post-truth” world @prweekuknews

    John Shield said that, in a “post-truth” world, the BBC has to understand and respond to audience needs to retain credibility.

    He said: “In a world of infinite online information, where the most spurious assertion can pass into the public consciousness in the time it takes to type 140 characters, it has never been more important to separate fact from opinion, prediction from certainty.”

    Read more at http://www.prweek.com/article/1419536/bbc-comms-chief-bids-retain-trust-post-truth-world#2Umqz4Rs640r7LHk.99

       8 likes

    • Number 7 says:

      Seeing as the BBC invented “false truth”, in a “post-truth” world they might like to issue a Mea Culpa.

      I’m not holding my breath.

         12 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Retains’, John? Good try.

         4 likes

  42. StewGreen says:

    Beebleworld insider discussion on Post Truth, Fake News etc.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/academy/entries/edab2055-228b-4bf1-91aa-3adafb613f10

    an example
    “Some lessons, many more questions. Fake news only strengthens the need for a public service provider on the web” Ramaa Sharma, editor for digital pilots and skills, BBC News

    see part 1 also

       6 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      I was a great digital pilot on Crimson Skies. Ramaa sounds a real boon to the cubicle gardens.

         2 likes

      • Grant says:

        Unbelievable ! The BBC totally unaware the they are the biggest peddlars of “post-truth” of them all !

           12 likes

  43. taffman says:

    Despite the Male Bovine Excrement emanating from the media, and I do mean all the media, Labour is finished and the Libdems are finished.
    The party that supports Brexit are the party that will reflect the democratic views of the people of Great Britain .
    The Media has an agenda . Its to remain in .

       26 likes

  44. Oaknash says:

    Just listened to the half five BBC “news”

    All we seemed to get was brexit this Sir Ivan Rogers that it was like listening to some aged, old maid and bitter school teacher wagging her finger at me for running in the playground.

    What however it did do was highlight to me, what appears to be the complete lack of judgement our “Prime Minister” has. (or is it a brexit stalling tactic)

    She puts a known Europhile in charge of diplomatic negotiations over brexit, she fills her cabinet with Europhiles, We have no comments from her regarding the conduct of the state broadcaster – and what do we get – a mess.

    Absolutely woeful judgement!

       26 likes

  45. Dave666 says:

    So it’s the first BBc Breakfast I’ve watched this year and it’s nice to see nothing has changed. I thought the lead story would have been, bearing in mind their fascination with the police shooting people in America, Mohammed Yassar Yaqub. Instead they are going with the resignation of Ivan Rogers.

    Moving on yes an article about cutting down on alcohol, yet again. The website runs a sugar shock horror “Story” as well. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38467861
    Another year with the BBc to look forward to.

       12 likes

    • engineerdownunder says:

      R4 Today and News is also all about a civil servant resigning. The year ahead is not going to be the BBC as usual, it’s going to be anti-brexit bias on steroids!

         12 likes

      • Cranmer says:

        James Delingpole in the Spectator made the prediction that 2017 will be one long death scream from the left, like when the stake got driven through Dracula’s heart in the old Hammer Horror films.

           6 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Alcohol? As they step over the Bolly bottles in the corridors? Bless.

         8 likes

  46. BRISSLES says:

    Sky running a headline that 45% of the population believe that the economy will worsen after Brexit. Why not run the headline that 55% of the population believe that the economy will NOT worsen after Brexit ??

    (currently watching a ‘child with sqeaky voice’ giving her opinions on the resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers – is there no-one with gravitas to interview anymore, or are we stuck with a generation of Blue Peter cast-offs ?)

       27 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Sky has a problem. People are noticing, have a choice, and are not compelled to fund them.

      Meanwhile, in a small part of the BBC, not for much longer sadly…

         11 likes

    • scribblingscribe says:

      It is a real shame how Sky news has moved to the BBC, Guardian, soft left zone, to lecture the ignorant and stupid with their revolutionary views.

      Even a few years ago it was operating as a news service, where, despite the lack of BBC levels of funding, it operated at an excellent and reliable level.

      There is room for a news service in the UK that doesn’t have a deep urge to spread its propaganda. Failing that, we need a right ring news channel as a balance. A sort of Daily Telegraph Tv to offer an alternative slant to the Guardian views of Sky and the BBC.

      On the positive side, at least the children on SKY news are diverse in terms of gender and race. Just a shame they know duck all, ‘cos they are straight out of school.

         9 likes

  47. AsISeeIt says:

    Is it fair to accuse the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Show of bias? Is this current affairs magazine a feminized social engineering EU-loving agitprop platform fawning over the public sector with a classwar leftist agenda?

    Well, let’s look at today’s four top stories, according to Vicky Derbyshire and her editors. Some EU-gravytrain-addicted chinless wonder civil servant who has evidently forgotten the ‘servant’ part of his job as far the British public are concerned now feels edged out of his job because at last after four decade of impotence the electorate has been given a voice in policy and this a problem for him because basically after so long in Brussels he has gone native on us. So what?

    Private ambulance drivers are less well trained than we would hope. Did you get that ‘Private’ grr nasty bah bad. All hail the public sector!

    Some think tank – read campaign group – has worked out that someone has already this week earned more than the lowest paid in a year. Does the BBC think its licence payers want to watch interesting tv or go storming the Winter Palace?

    Oh, one more thing, Janet Jackson is a new mother at 50. I dread to think what an honest speaking medical expert would have to say should this aberation become the norm.

       19 likes

    • Marion says:

      “Some think tank – read campaign group – has worked out that someone has already this week earned more than the lowest paid in a year. Does the BBC think its licence payers want to watch interesting tv or go storming the Winter Palace?”

      Yes, it’s all over the place this morning. Although I do wonder why some people can’t be persuaded to get out of bed in the morning with a little less, do we really want to go back to Denis Healey’s 90% top tax rate? A lot of good that did.

      My main complaint, however, is that if the stance they are taking is a moral one, and it does seem to be, why are company executives being singled out? What about footballers and the likes of Jonathan Ross? How fair is winning millions on the lottery? The issue needs three things – a little consistency, less hypocrisy, and a sensible proposal or two about how to tackle it.

         16 likes

    • GoingInNowDan says:

      As I See It; the VD show is the politicised equivalent of Jeremy Kyle. Lefty, radfem and man-hating with a constant stream of survivors and victims. Presented by a champagne socialist who until recently was flying to work courtesy of the licence fee payers. The producers must be coming in their pants daily.

         19 likes

  48. G says:

    All quiet in Dortmund, Germany on New Years Eve (or as described by the Police: “quiet”) –
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/03/dortmund-mob-attack-police-church-alight/

       6 likes

    • GCooper says:

      Yes, it seems the BBC and the other Leftist media have been indulging in a little pro-immigrant news management again. 1,000 cars (allegedly) burnt in France in one evening is not deemed newsworthy!

      Reminder to self: make sure you have no shares in French insurance companies.

         12 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Western Front styly.

         0 likes

  49. Heisenberg says:

    HYS currently open on the pro-EU propaganda being pushed by Ivan Rogers and the Beeb’s unquestioning support of it. Not going well for the Beeb.

       8 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Sure I can track it down, but the BBC site is pants. Got a link? Sounds fun.

         2 likes

    • Grant says:

      Heisenberg,

      You are right, it is not going well for the BBC. I would expect them to close it down within the next few hours. Despite their £4 billion a year propaganda, we just refuse to think the way they want us to. How ungrateful of us !

         6 likes