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  1. George R says:

    Following on from this BBC report:

    “Smith warns if Zimbabwe influx”

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7778688.stm

    -can the time be far off when the BBC finds itself (approvingly) reporting something like this?:

    ‘The majority white Labour Cabinet has decided to hand over Britain to a new wave of mass immigration from countries such as Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Turkey, etc.

    ‘Apparently the feeling in the Labour Cabinet is that given its multiculturalist beliefs, and general feeling of white guilt, the time is ripe for a friendly take-over of Britain.

    ‘Several Cabinet ministers pointed out that such a development had been coming for some time, and that it was unavoidable, just as EU entry had been.

    ‘ One Minister confided that although such a policy may not be popular with some ‘die-hards’, it was the way of the world. Few Ministers claim to have plans to emigrate.’

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  2. Boba Fett says:

    On 23rd December, Jeremy Vine will be spending the final hour of his show ‘Remembering the Troops’.

    Jeremy will spend the hour reading out messages of love and support from listeners to their friends and relatives serving overseas in the Armed Forces. The special programme is broadcast simultaneously on the Forces Broadcaster BFBS so the troops can listen overseas.

    Left-wing Al-Beeb b******s

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  3. Cassandra says:

    Bobba Fett,

    Isnt it just one pathetic add on token ‘to pretend they give a shit’ and they think that means all the years blatant anti forces bias and belittling of our Armed Forces is OK?
    How about they stop their pro Islamist agenda, how about they spent the year looking at the wounded tommies discarded by the NuLab regime as if they were trash, how about they look at the criminal neglect of our Armed Forces and expose the cover ups and the state murder of servicemen sent to their deaths in unprotected landrovers and C130s just to save a few quid, How about asking the difficult questions to ministers about cheap ammo and non existent helicopter transport? While ministers live in luxury and fritter away billions of pounds on our mortal enemies our troops die for lack of cash and the BBC happily covers up for them!
    If the BBC gave two shits about our Forces they would be asking why so many Islamists in the UK live on lavish state benefits while these same Islamists preach their poison and are free to raise money and Jihad recruits for the Islamist cause!
    In actual fact the Armed Forces despise the BBC and the BBC despise the Armed Forces.

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  4. Martin says:

    Jerry Psinger spouting shit on Radio 5. Shut the fuck up you limp wristed twat.

    He clearly wants to mount Obama.

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  5. Martin says:

    God now they’ve got another fat jock called George Galloway spouting on about nationalising Woolworth.

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  6. George R says:

    “E.U. leaders focus on climate deal”-

    BBC’s Harrabin is pleased to report.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7778787.stm

    In contrast, ‘EU referendum blog’has:

    “Self-destruct mode”

    [Extract]:

    “Strangely, outside this bubble of ‘climate groupies’ one does not see in the rest of the media any indication that this is the world-shattering event that the participants make it out to be.”

    http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/12/self-destruct-mode.html

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  7. Grant says:

    I know a retired Army officer who served in the Falklands War. He said the British Army were fighting on two fronts, one against the Argies, the other against the BBC.
    Nothing would delight the BBC scum more than for British troops to fail in Afghanistan.

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  8. Dick the Prick says:

    Peter Hitchens on the BBC!!! What the hell is going on? Flanked by two lefty twats but even so – some exec must be drunk.

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  9. Dick the Prick says:

    Ah Prezza’s on – move along, order is restored.

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  10. George R says:

    I see that ‘Jihadwatch’ is holding its annual vote for various categories of ‘dhimmi’ (appropriately Brown, and Rowan Williams are nominees), and ‘anti-dhimmis’:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023890.php

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023889.php

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023888.php

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023887.php

    Perhaps the BBC will be inspired by this to run a ‘multiculturalist’ of the year award.

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  11. Martin says:

    Grant: Yes, we know that I think it was Sandy Woodward who write in his book what he’d liked to have done to the BBC during the Falklands war.

    What I don’t get is why the military doesn’t refuse to allow the BBC on its ships, aircraft or be embedded.

    I detested the BBC when I served and the people I worked with in the forces found the BBC very anti the military.

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  12. Martin says:

    Jesus! Compare and contrast the coverage of Sky and BBC News 24 over the Manchester congestion charge vote.

    Sky talking aobut the people having spoken.

    Female beeboid sounds like Jesus had just died. She’s just whining about public transport.

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  13. Martin says:

    Fucking beeboids on News 24 just can’t believe it!!!

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  14. frankos says:

    Manchester has spoken –stop penalising the working man with your stupid fucking unfair taxes.
    That chinless twat Vine and some fairy from Friends of the Dearth seems to think everyone can get around on buses –never had a plumber electrican or joiner around their houses then?. The rich can afford 25 per week –but I bloody can’t and won’t.!!!

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  15. Martin says:

    frankos: But the rich beeboids are the ones that don’t use public transport. They use their cars (often 4X4’s if you ever take a look in the BBC car park) or taxi’s.

    Just as the BBC wank on about climate change and flying yet fly thousands of people around the world every year, including Roger Harratwat who wanks on about how aviation is killing the planet.

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  16. Anonymous says:

    Open verdict on the death of Illegal Immigrant

    The jury in the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes today reached an open verdict.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093190/De-Menezes-inquest-jury-return-open-verdict-Brazilians-killing.html

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  17. Roland Deschain says:

    I heard it said on the BBC (I forget which programme it was) that a No vote would spell the end of national congestion charging. It won’t. The Manchester scheme sounds on the face of it similar to the scheme that Edinburgh voted No to a couple of years ago, despite some bending of the rules by the Yes camp. Yet still they keep on trying.

    Eventually they’ll realise that no-one will vote for these things and try to sneak it in the back door, EU-style, when they think people aren’t paying attention. With, of course, the approval of the BBC.

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  18. Abandon Ship! says:

    St Jean has not been canonised, and the BBC are very, very angry. The fury has started on the World at One.

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  19. Martin says:

    Fucking BBC claim ‘Manchester is split down the middle’. Er except Manchester voted something like 4 to 1 against the tax. How is that being split down the middle?

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  20. will says:

    Oh dear! Mark Easton will still be damp after spinning yesterday’s news that we lived in a wonderful land where Brown’n’Smith had greatly reduced (the already rare) knife crime.

    Today the boss of the Statistical Service tells us that the figures should not have been released from the MinTruth yet or in that way.

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  21. nrg says:

    Have a look at this story:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7779937.stm

    has anyone ever seen a more blatant example of selective reporting to support a BBC agenda. In this case the casue of ETA, the terrorist organistation with close likes to Sinn Fien / IRA

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  22. Robert says:

    “Is Manchester right to say no?” definitely NOT going the State Broadcaster’s way:
    http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5804&edition=1&ttl=20081212143126

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  23. Lurker in a Burqua says:

    BBC’s Mark Thompson fails to reply to TV Licensing complaints

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_singleton/blog/2008/12/11/bbcs_mark_thompson_fails_to_reply_to_tv_licensing_complaints

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  24. TheCuckoo says:

    Perhaps Manchester is ‘split down the middle’ in the same way that yesterday the BBC were proclaiming ‘Irish ready to hold new EU vote’ ?

    It is twisting the vauge idea that the term ‘Irish’ in this headline could mean either ‘The Irish Government’ or ‘The Irish People’, and by ignoring any specific reference to government in the opening paragraphs of the story (whilst at the same time mentioning Irish voters) it helps to build the impression that it is the people who are ‘ready’ for a second vote.

    Not until paragraph 8 do we find a reference to the Irish Government.

    But the small-print *is* there – the BBC are just trying to print it as small as possible.

    Ireland was “seeking legally binding instruments to address the concerns of the Irish people”, a government spokesman told the BBC. Once it got those assurances, it would present “a roadmap for ratification”, that would include another referendum, the spokesman added.

    The BBC do not think that the big issue in this story is that the people of Ireland are being forced to vote AGAIN on something that they have already rejected. They seem more interested in the ‘climate change’ issues raised.

    Oh yeah, silly me – fancy not realising that the environment was the big story here…

    Link to story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7776961.stm

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  25. TheCuckoo says:

    P.S. I wonder if Manchester folk will be forced to vote again (and again) until they come up with the correct answer?

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  26. Grant says:

    Martin Various posts

    Spot on, as usual. Somehow I guessed you had a military background !
    The point about Beeboids being “embedded” is a good one.
    But, actually some of them get “Stockholm Syndrome “. Like Hanrahan in the Falklands and I think Kate Adie went native after being embedded ( or , maybe bedded ) in the Army. I guess the sqauddies made a fuss of her and she responded !
    Oh, the childish mentality of Beeboids !

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  27. Martin says:

    Grant: Well knowing the people I did, most of them would have happily stuck a bayonet into your typical beeboid (and no I don’t mean the beef one either!)

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  28. Grimer says:

    The BBC simply mirrors the views of its workforce when it comes to the army. I met a cunt at a party who said:

    ‘People that join the army deserve to die.’

    Absolute hopeless retard. Not an original thought in his body, spouting the same old clapped-out ideas.

    The trouble is, the BBC is actually staffed by these ‘right-on’, too cool for school, state-dependent cunts. They have absolutely no concept of duty, honour, service or patriotism – ‘I’m a citizen of the world!’ – fuck off you tit!

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  29. Grant says:

    Martin 3:19

    The British Military are about the only institution I have any respect for and I am beginning to wonder about them.
    I could rant on, but one time when I was living in W. Africa a friend from Sierra Leone said to me ” Grant, I want to thank you “. I said “what for ?” He said ” Your SAS/Para op. saved my country “.
    I can’t remember how the BBC reported the operation, but, to be fair , Tony Blair authorised it . Or maybe the Army just did it anyway !

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  30. adam says:

    who is the bad guy now? What with Obama confirming he will stick with coal and so BBC America telling us how clean and great coal is they have a new bad guy.
    Those nasty Canadians and Oil.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7763365.stm

    In April this year, about 500 migrating ducks on their way north landed in what looked like a large lake in western Canada.
    It was not a lake, but a tailings pond – a store for toxic waste from the oil sands extraction process, made up of water, clay, sand, residual bitumen and heavy metals.
    Most of the ducks died, killed by the slick of oil on the water’s surface.”

    those poor migrating ducks!

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  31. Martin says:

    Grant: I left many years ago. But the military have become as politically correct as the other uniformed services like the Police anf Fire Brigade.

    I’m glad I’m no longer in.

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  32. Martin says:

    Grimer: Well we see these leftist tools in action now. They keep bleating on about Zimbabwe and stamping their feet and throwing a tizzy claiming the world must do something, but what?

    The left say that war is no the answer. Fine, so no war. Then the left whine that if there was oil in Zimbabwe we’d be in there like a shot. Well other parts of Africa (like Angola) do have oil and they are as big a shitholes as Zimbabwe, but we’re not in there either. So that’s a load of bollocks.

    Fact is the left have no answer. Some tosser on the radio the other week reckoned that if he was a man raping his wife he wouldn’t use violence to stop him.

    So lets be clear the left would have happily sat back and watched Hitler shovel Jews by the millions in the gas chambers and ovens. Yet the left will happily firebomb anyone who chases a Fox with a pack of dogs. Go figure.

    Take George Galloway (I wish aliens would). He wanks on about how he’d have been first in line to fight Hitler (sure George I believe you) but then he says bombing Germany was wrong.

    So just how do you take the fight to an enemy hundreds of miles away Galloway? Send them tapes of your shit boring speeches?

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  33. Grant says:

    Martin 4:21

    Spot on again !

    If you want a job advising the Gambia Military, no problem !!!

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  34. Roland Deschain says:

    “EU leaders reach new climate deal”
    But critics said concessions made to some nations and sectors would lessen the package’s long-term impact.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7778787.stm

    And who are these critics? Well, the article does go on to mention one Sanjeev Kumar of WWF but what his qualifications are we can only guess.

    Not one word from any critic who thinks this might all be going too far.

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  35. D Burbage says:

    Help the car giants

    on Today, they play a clip of Dianne Feinstein (Democrat from California) demanding cash for the failing US car companies. Then, for balance, they interview some bloke who says Feinstien has “hit the nail on the head”.

    Where is the balance there? Where is the point of view saying “the US companies need to operate in a global free market blah blah blah”. No, it is assumed that the taxpayer should bail them out and it’s just a matter of detail that has been the problem.

    the BBC quote this bloke here

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7779981.stm

    “We were about three words away from a deal,” said Republican Sen Bob Corker. “We solved everything substantively and about three words keep us from reaching a conclusion.”

    but CNN reported here

    http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/11/auto.bailout/index.html

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor before the vote. “That’s just the way it is. There’s too much difference between the two sides.”

    hmmmm.

    The bit I haven’t heard on the BBC is that the Bush White House has apparently said he’ll bail them out if Congress won’t ….

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  36. I-Hate-the-BBC says:

    BBC tries to force the agenda for Crufts:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7779686.stm

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  37. Martin says:

    What a joke. Mark Easton now on News 24 wanking on about the fiddled crime figures from yesterday.

    But it was left wing biased c**ts like YOU Easton that peddle these Government lies.

    C**ts like YOU keep telling us not to be cynical about Government crime figures. Then you have to come on and tell us that the figures are fiddled.

    Fucking wanker.

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  38. Original Robin says:

    If the crime figures are going down the Government and the BBC can dispense with some of their security guards and apparatus.

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  39. Allan@Oslo says:

    From the link to the BBC’s report on the inevitable Irish re-referendum:

    “The Irish Republic is willing to hold a second referendum on the EU’s reform treaty if given certain guarantees by the EU, a spokesman has told the BBC.”

    The only guarantee that the Irish Government will receive from the EU is that if they vote ‘no’ again, there will be another re-referendum until they give the right answer.

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  40. George R says:

    ‘Jihadwatch’:

    “Jihad recruiting in America ignored by government and media”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023897.php

    Of course, the BBC’s Webb, and the rest of the sinecured BBC Democrat bunch, are too busy deifying Obama, or writing about Guantanamo to get anywhere near this story.

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  41. George R says:

    It pays to deify Obama at the BBC:

    “Webb to replace Stourton on ‘Today'”

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7780323.stm

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  42. George R says:

    It’s not Hajj or Eid, so the following event is relegated by BBC:

    ‘Londoner’s Diary’:

    ‘Multi-faith? Not in my Yulebook’

    “On the very day Gordon Brown claimed he had saved the world, Boris Johnson (far right) was saving Christmas. Johnson hosted the first GLA Christmas Carol Concert at Southwark Cathedral.

    “Originally the City Hall executives didn’t want to mention the word Christmas for fear of offending minorities and wanted to bill the event a ‘multi-faith concert’. But the Mayor put his foot down and said Christmas must remain Christmas.

    “He was joined by special guests Lord Coe, Olympic athlete Christine Ohuruogu, Chair of the London Assembly Jennette Arnold and Boris’s deputy Kit Malthouse. ‘It is truly an honour to have the first ever GLA Christmas Carol Service at Southwark Cathedral,’ said the Mayor.”

    http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2008/12/multi-faith-not.html

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  43. AndrewSouthLondon says:

    How’s your Brazilian?

    Much BBC airtime given to the Menezez enquiry and “statements from the Menezes family”

    What they fail to mention is that the family is being used as a proxy “Stop the War” campaign. The family spokesman and head of Justice4Jean is Asad Rehman, one of the founders and national officer of ‘Stop The War’ coalition and political adviser to rebel breakaway, Labour MP George Galloway.

    Their lawyer is from Gareth Pierce’s firm – she an alumni of Cheltenham Ladies college who has made a well paid career of late out of defending Muslim terrorists.

    All statements are attributed to the Brazilian family of the unfortunate Jean.Ventriloquism?

    How’s your Brazilian?

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  44. DB says:

    R5L Drive had a Detroit public radio journo on to discuss the auto bailout. Quinn Klinefelter (crazy name, crazy guy) offered little more than an anti-Republican rant and the BBC’s Rachel Burden mmmmed along in agreement with everything he said. Unsurprisingly, Klinefelter used to work for the BBC.

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  45. Anonymous says:

    Hey Beeboids – why is it that despite its prominent position as the main story on the BBC Views Online homepage the inquest verdict into the Brazilian shot on the Tube isn’t in the top 5 of the most read reports?

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  46. Geert Maenen, Liege says:

    Could someone update me on the result from Manchester’s vote on implementing a congestion charge?.

    Hopefully they will win, which will highlight the unfairness of the London congestion charge.

    I wonder how the BBC would report on a no vote from Manchester?.

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  47. TPO says:

    ‘……..who has made a well paid career of late out of defending Muslim terrorists.’AndrewSouthLondon | Homepage | 12.12.08 – 5:48 pm |

    And IRA terrorists.

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  48. David Preiser says:

    George R | 12.12.08 – 5:03 pm |

    It pays to deify Obama at the BBC:

    “Webb to replace Stourton on ‘Today'”

    Excellent! Does this mean he has to give up wearing Alistair Cooke’s old mantle as well? Justin Webb getting yanked from BBC World Propaganda America, not to mention his horrible blog, is the best news I’ve heard from the BBC in a very long time.

    Congratulations, Justin. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

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  49. Lurker in a Burqua says:

    Scientists abandon global warming ‘lie’

    650 to dissent at U.N. climate change conference

    A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming – labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion. Later today, their voices will be heard in a U.S. Senate minority report quoting the scientists, many of whom are current and former members of the U.N.’s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. About 250 of the scientists quoted in the report have joined the dissenting scientists in the last year alone. In fact, the total number of scientists represented in the report is 12 times the number of U.N. scientists who authored the official IPCC 2007 report. Here are some choice excerpts from the report:

    http://antigreen.blogspot.com/

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  50. Lurker in a Burqua says:

    Obamas corrupt mates…………………….just not on the BBC!

    Rahm Emanuel and Jesse Jackson Jr face new revelations in Governor Rod Blagojevich scandal

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5332897.ece

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