353 Responses to WEEKEND OPEN THREAD…

  1. Arthurp says:

    Spot the bias on the BBC reports of the Mayoral elections:-

    Labour’s Steve Rotheram won the role as mayor of Liverpool City Region with 171,176 votes, on a turnout of 26%.

    And in Tees Valley, Conservative Ben Houchen won after a run-off against Labour’s Sue Jeffrey.

    Turnout was just 21%.

    Mr Houchen won by 481 votes in the first round but extended his lead after the second preferences of those who had voted for the other candidates were re-counted.

    Conservative Tim Bowles was declared the winner in the West of England, where turnout was less than 30%.

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  2. scribblingscribe says:

    Headline, BBC Wales website: Wales council elections: Labour losses ‘not as bad as expected’

    On another page it says :
    Labour: Seats Total 464 Seats Change −105

    If I am reading that right then Labour lost almost a quarter of their seats. How much worse could it be?

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  3. Doublethinker says:

    I saw a quote from an unnamed Government minister about the report in the German newspaper of the Junker dinner at No 10, he said it was ‘ partial, biased, wrong in parts , partially fictionalised and not entirely truthful’. I read it a second time because at first I thought he was referring to BBC news reporting. If he had included lies as well as the other adjectives , then I would have been certain that he was referring to the BBC.

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  4. Pounce says:

    French elections this Sunday and here in one post is what the bBC can’t tell you in a month of Sundays:

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  5. Peter Grimes says:

    Every utterance from our EU ‘friends’ convinces me that there is no sense at all in trying to negotiate with them. The latest BS even demands, inter alia, that WE are responsible for the nuclear waste they have dumped here!

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-04/the-eu-s-brexit-position-what-you-missed-while-may-fought-back

    (Hat tip to Guido.)

    Maggie May just has to tell these clucking lunatics to FO, and that if we are out in 2019 we don’t even offer our last year’s ‘contribution’ if we get no benefits.

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      Barmier’s (sic) Brexit (Non-) Negotiation Paper also included their estimate of the number of EU spongers over here at 4.5 million, not the 3.2 always mentioned previously. I don’t suppose that our 900 Brits in the EU will go up, and we pay for them and their healthcare anyway!

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      And our EU ‘friends’ budget experts agree that there is no basis for our paying anything at all when we leave.

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/06/100bn-brexit-bill-legally-impossible-enforce-european-commissions/

      MadMerkin is said to be seeking to cover the £4 billion extra the filthy rich Krauts would have to cough up absent our ‘contribution’. If we ignore the £100 bn nonsense, pay up to March 2019 and offer £3 bn pa for ongoing single market access we might have the basis for agreement.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    R4 Woman’s Hour podcast
    “What would it be like to host a refugee? We speak to Lucy Pavia who did just that a few weeks after she got married, as well as Loujean who arrived from Syria with just one pink, wheely suitcase and is now studying for a law degree.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes

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    • Guest Who says:

      Yvette Cooper not available to chip in, oddly.

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      • 60022Mallard says:

        She might yet regret not inviting one or more in when standing as a candidate for leadership of the Labour Party – unless we have a second “Balls moment” at this election.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Is that English or Sharia law?

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  7. lojolondon says:

    With the local election results in, the Biased BBC realises that it is the only thing that stands between Theresa May and a Conservative landslide. Brace yourself for a massive onslaught of Leftard Pro-EU and Anti-tory propaganda for the next six weeks.

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    • Fedup says:

      Lojo,
      I think, with respect, you are wrong because those EU half wits keep saying mad things which are intended to put our backs up( like the line about the fall of the English language today) and push people further away from the EU.

      I agree though that the albeeb will dig up any anti conservative incidents they can find – an off the cuff comment by a candidate, some domestic incident involving a conservative – you know – that sort of thing.desperately trying to find some ammo for Timmy or Corbyn to pretend to take the moral high ground.
      We ll see eh?

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      • StewGreen says:

        What they need to do is bring Obama over to convince us to vote for Corbyn.

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      • lojolondon says:

        Mate, already the news is full of ‘quotes’ from Limp Dim, Liebour and Sturgeon, with comments that the “election was immoral” because May wants to destroy the opposition etc. Positive they will ramp it up preparing for the election, as the BBBC sees itself as the only valid opposition to Tory government…..

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  8. StewGreen says:

    R3 Muslim professors do Milton
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes

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  9. Rob in Cheshire says:

    Norman “But Labour Says” Smith is just explaining on PM that the Conservatives are set to win the General Election by a landslide.

    He sounds like a man whose dog just died.

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    • Beltane says:

      The dog didn’t die Rob, it ran away from all that yap-yap-yapping.

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  10. Deborah says:

    Caught a couple of minutes of Radio 4 at 5pm; they must have spent all of 2 or 3 minutes on the top story of the local election results (I looked at the clock so I know it exactly) before spending equal time reporting criticism (their words not mine) on the goverment’s plans for a scrappage scheme for diesel cars. Lots of criticism of Conservatives produced. I laughed, they never give up. But really the bias of the BBC is not funny.

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  11. Beeb Brother says:

    RE: Goldman Sachs Brexit warning.

    Goldman Sachs is a ‘giant vampire squid’ which relies on speculation and deviousness to thrive. They will only be spreading information in one direction so they can hedge against it in another. Taking the word of their CEO is like a defender asking Maradona which way he is going to to turn next.

    “I am going left! Honestly! Believe my feint!”

    Of course he then goes the other way and the defender is left for dead. Who, apart from a BBC reporter, is less trustworthy than an investment banker? These are the monsters who brought the world economy to the brink of collapse, received trillions of free money in bailouts and are now acting just as badly as there were before.

    They should not give him a platform to influence the markets in his favour. My friend is a currency trader and he says billions can move on whether someone powerful says ‘will’ rather than ‘shall.’ The Beeb should not give him a platform to spread his misinformation.

    So what if some ultra rich person is less rich anyway? Why not interview the labourer in Boston who might not be homeless anymore now he has fewer people to compete with?

    The Beeb are out of order for going against the will of the people on Brexit. They should treat us with respect; we pay their wages. Not only are they biting the hand that feeds, they are spitting in the face of the feeder.

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    • Oaknash says:

      Personally I hope Goldman do piss off. They are just another bloated globalist corporation that just consumes and manipulates economies and does not care about which country or culture they destroy in the process.
      Maybe after our economy has re-adjusted we can start having some real industries again rather than having to suck up to these parasitical organisations.

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      • Beeb Brother says:

        Exactly – call their bluff. Businesses will always want to be based here as we have top schools and universities and our officials are extremely incorruptible.

        What, so we could lose 6000 ‘jobs’, meaning people who rob others of the fruit of their labours? 6000 fewer criminals is fine by me.

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      • GCooper says:

        Goldman Sachs is the worst of the worst, up to its armpits in all sorts of dodgy deals, including the process whereby Greece was allowed into the Euro in the first place.

        Rather than lamenting the idle threats of such a company, it should be banned from operating on British soil immediately and its past actions gone through with a fine toothed comb!

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        • Dover Sentry says:

          Blair and Macron are former Goldman Sachs.

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          • Up2snuff says:

            DS, think not. Do you mean Tony Blair? He was and is a Barrister lawyer from Kings Bench Walk Chambers. Macron is ex-Rothschild.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Goldman Sachs derive a colossal proportion of their annual earnings from the US Government. They also do work for the UK Government.

        There must be a massive conflict of interest just there.

        If they do work for other Governments, then the situation is far worse.

        If we were to disentangle them from the UK, it might prove to be not just no great loss but a positive advantage. They employ 6,500 approx. in the UK. The BBC would normally wring their hands endlessly and blame the Conservative Government and Brexiters for destroying the UK economy and increasing unemployment. Or would they? Do they share the intense dislike, as LibLefties, of bankers that have been endlessly expressed by those on the Left of all varieties & extremes, as is frequently expressed in the media and be pleased to see them go?

        Maybe not. They have been heavily promoting, on BBC Radio 4, a certain former Rothschild banker in France.

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  12. Deborah says:

    Any significance in Fiona Bruce wearing black as she reads the local election results on the 6pm news on BBC1 Friday night?

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  13. Beeb Brother says:

    I can understand wanting to purge the internet of dangerous material such as child pornography and incitement to terrorism. But the idea of curtailing ‘abusive’ speech, which the Beeb was promoting this week, is deeply sinister.

    It is like in 1984 when you can be convicted of ‘face crime’ if you do not grin sufficiently when the latest triumph of the party is announced from the telescreen. Do they really think everyone should just smile and nod along? Some things warrant hatred and abuse and to pretend to love them would be wrong. And these problems which have festered and flared recently are only going get worse.

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      I’ve always thought “hate speech” has a distinctly Orwellian ring to it.

      Was that another one of Tony’s delightful contributions to our country; our society and our laws?

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      • Scroblene says:

        The biggest ‘contribution’ Bliar is giving this country is his intention to get back into politics.

        Him, that nasty evil mate of his, Campbell and the slimy Mandelson all created a disgraceful trio of pure deceit for the UK, and deserve nothing else but a welcome from The Pariahs Club.

        Every time they open their gobs, it means a hundred more votes for the Conservatives.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      BB,
      The elite realise that the democratic spring is being hugely helped by the free flow of uncensored news and comment available on the internet. If it is allowed to continue the Globalist elite will lose control. They can’t allow this to happen. On the other hand they don’t want to seen for what they really are, anti democrats, so they have found a plausible excuse to impose censorship under the guise of purging false news and hate speech , which will have a definition so elastic that it can mean whatever they want it to mean. Lots of unthinking folks will not see through the tissue of lies that the elite spin to justify this approach.

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    • Tony H says:

      George Orwell was only wrong with the date. We now have telly’s that can look at us. However, if we are going to ban ‘abusive speech’ that’s the bbc (non capitals intended) done. Having said that, what Doublethinker just said has sent a shiver down my spine. The only reason the world woke up and started fighting back (when I say the world, I actually mean us and the USA. The rest are still swallowing the MSM bollocks or are just too spineless to fight back) is because of the spread of alternative views on the Internet. Once they get a grip on that it will be ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’

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  14. Lucy Pevensey says:

    London Evening Standard:
    Hammer-wielding muggers on mopeds target pedestrians in West End
    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/terrifying-moment-west-end-motorbike-raiders-wielding-hammer-and-crowbar-target-pedestrians-a3531461.html

    “The four “brazen” thieves were photographed at about 2pm on Thursday as they targeted pedestrians in Langham Street, yards from the entrance to the BBC Radio 1 studio.”

    BBC staff told the Standard that in recent months such incidents have become commonplace. Internal memos within the corporation have warned staff to be vigilant of the moped gangs.

    Andrew Bomford, a reporter for BBC Radio 4, saw the two bikes “zoom” down Great Portland Street and try to snatch something from a man on a zebra crossing.

    He said: “They almost clipped him as they were going past. He threw his hands up in the air and started running after them. They turned up the street towards the BBC. “

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  15. BRISSLES says:

    The BBC are not only biased, but are also Liars, and I’ve bought into it, the halfwit that I am !

    First there is Homes Under the Hammer.
    Martin Roberts shows us around the property, after which we ‘head off to the auction’ to see who has bought said property. We are then shown Martin talking to the buyers……….. Its taken me years to realise (with clever editing) that the ‘buyers’ are in the wings waiting to be interviewed, while Martin is delivering his spiel about the property. The penny dropped when I realised he was wearing the same clothes !!!

    Garden Rescue is up to the same trick.
    We are shown Charlie D and the Rich Bros turning up at the home to recky the garden needing an overhaul. Next we are told that they then go off to design and plan a suitable make-over, cue necessary film shots of furious designing.
    Ah ! no they don’t !!! Again, when they ‘return’ to show off their designs to the home owners, they are wearing the very same clothes. So the ‘recky’ and the design presentation are clearly filmed on the same day, but we are led to believe otherwise. Either the ‘recky’ has been done off camera on a separate date, or the designing has been undertaken just on the evidence of the photographs shown at the beginning of the show.

    If the BBC want to continue this deception to viewers, then a simple change of jacket, or in Charlie’s case, a different top should be worn, because liars always get found out in the end !

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    • StewGreen says:

      It’s TV cheating is the way it’s done. It’s creative.

      Trouble is they don’t know about keeping to the boundaries.

      – that’s why they thought it was ok to rig the competitions.

      – and why they still think it’s ok to rig debates and panels because they’re only doing it for the sake of the planet.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Yes, I was taken in at first, but it makes sense when you think about it. They would only want Martin, Lucy or property guru Dion to spend time filming in a property if they knew the people who bought it wanted to be on the programme, and the only way to be sure is to wait until after they have bought it.

      I agree though, the way they present it is not honest.

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    • Deborah says:

      Thanks Brissles, I too have been had re Homes under The Hammer. I remember reading someone on this site saying that nothing happens by chance on the BBC -and the more you notice the more true it is.

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      • Cranmer says:

        Does that mean that the desecration of the BBC Blue Peter Garden in the 1970s was a put-up job? I always had my suspicions about that.

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    • ToobiWan says:

      Do you realise how much material and how long it would take to run up a different top for Charlie D, Briss? Omar the tent maker would be on double overtime!

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Love it !!! yes, she has got a bit plumptious since her Alan Titchmarsh days, but I think she’s quite endearing in her down to earth (?) humour. I’ll watch her any day compared to the likes of Jo Brand.

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    • maxincony says:

      BRISSLES,

      First there is Homes Under the Hammer… The penny dropped when I realised he was wearing the same clothes !!!

      Blimey, you mean they don’t just randomly turn up at empty properties and film a section to camera??? I’m already suffering from PTSD because of this daytime tv revelation and may never sleep without debilitating nightmares ever again.

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      • taffman says:

        Maxi
        What’s your motivation. Why do you waste your time here?

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Maxi
          Why the sarcasm and patronising ?
          Can I not express a view ?
          In reply, I would say that those who actually suffer with PTSD would take issue with your comment, as a ‘daytime tv revelation’ does not compare with a tour of duty in Helmand Province. But then, you are probably someone who has meltdown if someone knocks the top off your ice-cream ! Do man up !

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          • Rob in Cheshire says:

            “Do man up !”

            Sorry, but that is plain sexism. How do you know which gender Maxincony self identifies as?

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            • BRISSLES says:

              Ok, how about, stop being such a big girls blouse !

              If you challenge me on that one, I’m a bit stuffed now for anyone ‘inbetween’ !!! but I’m open to suggestions.

              Lol !

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              • Wild Bill says:

                “Big girl’s blouse”,we’re back to Charlie Dimmock again!

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            • ToobiWan says:

              My youngest,Rob, ThreebiWan, teaches in a FE college and at a staff meeting last month was informed, by someone in all seriousness, that there are actually 26 genders! I asked if the informant was wearing some sort of hospital or institution type gown but the inference sailed right over his head.

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              • BRISSLES says:

                Honest to God, can you imagine these sort of conversations happening in the trenches in WW1, fighting in the jungles of Burma during WW2, or more recently in the cricket/rugby clubs 20 odd years ago ?

                What path society is going down beggars belief.

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              • Manxman says:

                Sheesh how many different football leagues will we need for all those.

                Not to mention toilets, sorry ”rest rooms”.

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            • Tony H says:

              Rob Rob Rob. You can’t call it ‘sexism’ anymore. That is clearly gender offensive. It must be ‘zeism’ or some such bollocks.

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  16. Foscari says:

    You may ask what’s in a name ? I may once again be thought to be paranoid, but for one, the Londonostan programme likes to call the Conservative party the Tories. Yes I know this name goes back to the 18th century when the American Colonists termed the word from the Irish Toraidhe ,which means outlaw or robber.
    You find Labour politicians calling supporters of the Conservative party “the
    Tories” and really it is meant in a derogatory way. So it doesn’t take much for the Trotsyist
    editors, of the Londonostan programme to the get their Asian presenters and reporters to call the Conservatives, Tories. They cant really say the “filth” which they would like Riz Lateef,Assad Ahmed ,Alice Bhandhukravi and the rest to say.
    I know that some of you will think that I am really paranoid. But any fellow indigenous
    Londoners will know what I am talking about.
    It’s just a shame that on the National news Fiona Bruce can’t say to her fifth columnist
    editors ” I am not reading this bilge, the Labour results were not as bad as expected.”
    Or the Conservatives did well, the others not so good.
    Now the embedded Trots at the BBC will do their best to try and support their Marxist hero.
    There I am doing the same thing. On the Londonostan programme without any needed subtlety.On their main news programmes they will just have to dupe all their lady news presenters to do their bidding,without the poor dears knowing what’s going on.

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      Until two days ago I had NEVER heard Krankie speak of the Conservatives, it was always: “the Toorees”.

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      • Scronker says:

        Correct Al. Right-minded Scots are sick of Sturgeon’s,”Hard Tory Brexit”, “Tory austerity”, “Right wing Tory government”, “May’s Tory power grab”, along with “The people of Scotland ….”, “The will of the people of Scotland”, “The Scottish people”, “referendum on the table” etc. etc. She no more represents the people of Scotland than my arRseh0le.. That’s why more and more Scots are voting Tory, we are sick to the high teeth of this diminutive, paranoiac gobsh!te. Now I’ve got that off my chest, I’ll carry on reading the other comments.

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  17. Sir_Arthur_Strebe-Grebling says:

    Trying to get away from the bBBC’s ‘news’ of Labour’s triumph, I chanced upon BBC2’s ‘Great British Menu’, where all of the chef’s emphasis, and the judges’ praise, is on Turkish dishes. True to the bBBC’s ideals, it should be re-titled ‘Great non-British menu’.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I love Iskender kebab in fact will be cooking one tomorrow, but British it aint !

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Talking of plumptious (see previous post), have you seen the size of the new black judge on GBM ? and she’s bald !! I don’t think she’ll be permanent, unlike Prue Leith who knows her food and gave constructive criticism, all this one does is say ‘its nice’, or ‘its bland’.

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  18. Dover Sentry says:

    A bad two days for the BBC.

    1. Obama Care down the plug-hole.

    2. Closely followed by Labour today.

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  19. Flexdream says:

    See BBC Any Questions

    In the country the Conservatives run rampant winning the council elections.

    In the BBC studio for the first question the Conservative is jeered while the Socialist is cheered.

    Only on the BBC.

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      As NF said to Dimbledum in the leaders’ debate, on al Beebus, in the last GE:
      “A VERY carefully selected BBC audience.”

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Yes, Al, and did not Dimbleby give the game away last night in other ways, too? He seemed to suggest that it was possible for Party activists to bus in their ‘locals’ to stack the audience. It certainly did not sound very Hurstpierpoint to me. The applause seemed to come in rather too quickly and in too great a quantity from the outset.

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  20. Thoughtful says:

    Well here’s a turn up the BBC don’t seem too keen to mention.

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jeremy-corbyn-raced-manchester-congratulate-12994811

    Jeremy Corbyn rushed to Manchester for some kind of lunatic victory celebration, but it appears that Andy Burnham didn’t want any part of it and ran away to the other side of the city!

    Corbyn even managed to snub the local Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell tweeted: “I didn’t get invited (and it’s my constituency)”.

    And the plot thickened after a picture emerged of Mr Burnham and his campaign team apparently celebrating their victory at a bar in Manchester this evening.

    Now the MEN is a Labour supporting member of the Mirror group, which begs the question just how left wing does the BBC have to be to be even further to the left of this rag in its manipulation of the actualite before someone in power notices the bias and does something ?

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  21. Jeff says:

    I don’t like to kick a woman when she’s down; but seeing as this is Diane Abbott…
    She was interviewed as the results were drifting in and asked how many seats Labour had lost. “I think it’s about 50,” said a breathless Diane. You could almost hear the bloke grinning as he put her right, “Actually” he said “it’s just reached 125”. “Oh,” responded the perpetually confused Ms Abbott. “The last I heard it was 100.”
    That woman just keeps giving!

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    • Beltane says:

      She uses the same system to read her bathroom scales.

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      • Beltane says:

        Oh shit! Now I’ve got this mental picture of Abbottbot in the bathroom….

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Sure its her bathroom, and not the weigh-bridge ?

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        • Cranmer says:

          I am convinced we are soon going to find out that Diane Abbott is actually a young American male cop in disguise. It’s all a publicity stunt for ‘Big Momma’s House of Parliament’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Seems Chris Bryant is keeping the Labour male end up too.

      He is also set to appear in a BBC Newsbeat special in his undies to drive the young vote.

      Allegedly.

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  22. scribblingscribe says:

    Newsnight tonight, interviewing the poor sod in charge of the Labour Party election machine.

    Emily Maitlis questioning was along the lines of why can’t you get your message across about austerity, NHS, etc. . Not once did the bubbly Emily consider that perhaps Labour has got their message across, and the British public have expressed their opinion about it.

    Wonder if Emily ever chats to people outside the Guardian/BBC echo chamber.

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    • Guest Who says:

      This seems to about cover it… for both the BBC and Labour…

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      • scribblingscribe says:

        Brillaint Guest Who. Hilarious. Exactly right.

        That sums up the newsnight interview.

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    • wronged says:

      Scribe
      ‘Not once did the bubbly Emily consider that perhaps Labour has got their message across’

      ….and the message was clear, Diane Fatbbot made it. She guessed the policing numbers and then lied about her previous interviews that morning. She is one of the very best of the Labour Party! Shadow Home Secretary!How standards have fallen.

      Labour is run by the very thick, anti British, anti white, multicultural, pro diversity, pro EU, Londonistan BBC brigade. Only an idiot could possibly entertain voting for these imbecilic simpleton idealistic fools. Incredibly they exist!!!

      Talking of imbecilic simpleton idealistic fools, -Maxicony, is there any chance that the thick Di FlAbbott would consider standing for the Labour leadership? I’d propose the very thick David Lammy stand as her deputy.

      This way Labour would maintain its current level of thick candidates in high office.

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      • taffman says:

        wronged
        “is there any chance that the thick Di FlAbbott would consider standing for the Labour leadership? ”
        That would be great , or even Owen Jones – what about it Maxi ?

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        • wronged says:

          Taffman,
          I’m off to bed but when Maxicony arrives, ask him why Keith Vaz can commit adultery with young male prostitutes as well supplying them with illegal drugs yet keep his job as a Labour MP yet Simon Danzcuk gets expelled (albeit irresponsibly)for legally tweeting a 17 year old girl.

          Incredibly,Keith Vaz sits on the Home Affairs committee that assesses amongst other things MP’s behaviour. I’m not altogether sure, but I would suggest that Vaz was probably involved in getting Danzcuk sacked form the Labour Party. Remember, Danzcuk exposed the immoral truth about Cyril Smith, he has done some beneficial public service. What has Vaz ever done for the public good?

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          • taffman says:

            Wronged
            Off to bed! Sheer luxury. 😉
            Some of us like Maxi have to work shifts.
            You pose a very interesting question for him though.
            Over to you Maxi……
            I have other work to do now, see you tomorrow.

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          • maxincony says:

            I’m not altogether sure, but I would suggest that Vaz was probably involved in getting Danzcuk sacked form the Labour Party.

            Translation: “I haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about”.

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            • Cranmer says:

              Yes – to be fair, Wronged should have started his accusation with ‘People are saying….’ After all, it works for the BBC.

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          • Doublethinker says:

            POC s are protected and allowed to get away with behaviour that would be totally unacceptable if white folks did it. To even think of reprimanding Vaseline Vaz would be a hate crime. More seriously Vaz will probably win reelection because his constituency if full of folks of his ethnicity and they stick together. Within a few years there is every chance that we find the left fragmenting into religious ethnic parties which will be mutually antagonistic. The sooner the better I say. Divide and rule is the name of the game.

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            • Rob in Cheshire says:

              I think civil war in Britain is more likely. It could well start between the muslims and the Hindus & Sikhs. Many of our cities will end up looking like Aleppo or Mosul by the end of it. Our country has been deliberately Balkanised, and will probably end up like the real Balkans.

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  23. Al Shubtill says:

    Al Beebus keep on driving the narrative that it’s all Corbyn’s fault Labour are going to get flushed down the electoral cr@pper; I agree that Corbyn is damaging for Labour’s chances but even if they’d had someone else as leader, they would still be about to lose heavily next month.

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    • taffman says:

      Al Shubtill
      “someone else as leader,” ?
      How about Fatbott ? That would keep Maxi happy ?

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    • cockneyboy says:

      Al Shubtill, could’nt agree more. Corbyn will eventually be the sacrificial goat for a party that is in deep trouble. Just imagine how well they would be doing now if the europhile Owen Smith had won the leadership contest!

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  24. taffman says:

    Troll patroll – warning !

    Maxinconey is ‘nights’ again .
    The pressure is on at Al Beeb . The day’s results do not bode well for the ‘greens’ and ‘libtards’.
    Notice no Bias, Left or Right from the Maxi ?

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  25. wronged says:

    When maxicony posts, it must feel like feeding time for you Taffman.

    Enjoy your meal.

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    • taffman says:

      “When maxicony posts, it must feel like feeding time for you Taffman.”

      The problem he has is offering no Beeb Bias , Left or Right .
      Why the devil does he post here ?
      He just defends the biased broadcaster.

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  26. wronged says:

    Maxicony is a simpleton, I usually ignore his posts. Eat him up Taffman.

       13 likes

    • maxincony says:

      wronged/taffman are you really so bored/lonely that you have to invent imaginary friends?

         5 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Bless.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        I have him. Style reveals his identity. That personal tweak in a post devoid of content
        Welcome back Zero aka Maxicony. How are things in Camden public toilets?

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  27. StewGreen says:

    5am News Radio5 lead item
    “The LibDems say that IF THEY ARE ELECTED they will spend £6billion a week extra on the NHS”

       22 likes

    • Beeb Brother says:

      If I win the lottery I will buy a Ferrari.

         30 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      9am Radio Lincolnshire news lead with the item

      Are BBC seriously getting in the champagne for a Labour/Lib victory?

         10 likes

    • The WestWyvern says:

      Lucy of this parish is handy with a computer and the software package I believe is something like photoshop.

      How about a mocked up Libdems sign…. Orange background, black text ( am I allowed to use that term?)

      illiberal and undemocratic… Losing here.

         8 likes

  28. StewGreen says:

    R4 This Day in History
    “Sadiq son of Bus Driver Elected Mayor”

       19 likes

    • Scronker says:

      Sadiq’s dad – a bus driver? Well I never.

         10 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        Well the career choice is a bit limited; bus/taxi driver, cornershop/curry house, doctor/engineer/human rights lawyer, and now Mayor is added to the list.

           9 likes

        • Al Shubtill says:

          Here are a few others:
          Drug trafficker / dealer; procurer of underage British females; tax evader..etc etc

             10 likes

  29. StewGreen says:

    R4 now Prog about FGM counsellor
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p537g

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  30. Beeb Brother says:

    In news bulletins on Five Live they have the story of an ‘unarmed black child’ being shot by Police in Dallas.

    I would like to know all the facts. We know our lefty friends love to massage stories like this, such as the case in Ferguson, where a known criminal punched an officer in the face and tried to take his gun and the story became: “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” Equally, the nasty ‘hate crime’ perpetrators the other month turned out to probably have been aslylum seekers themselves, at which point the story went down the memory hole. I doubt this was a clear cut case of an evil Nazi Police man shorting an innocent child for kicks, which is clearly what Al Beeb want us to believe.

    It seems they cannot enjoy their weekends without some good old race baiting: the aslylum seeker ‘hate crime’; the harrowing ‘Chocolate with milk’ joke; the farcical Ross Barkley black grandfather story. That they report on mere jokes so hysterically shows you how little actual racism there is.

    How many racist crimes were committed last night? I am sure there are a nasty minority on all sides. Why report on potential white racism so prominently? Imagine if they led every bulletin with tales of grooming gangs – it would stir up hatred so why do it? But when it comes to stirring up anti-white resentment they seem to think it’s fine, even when white people on the whole are the least racist people.

    Why can’t they just let it go? I love the sports coverage on Five Live. Why do they have to throw in the race baiting? I am sick of it.

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  31. JimS says:

    Well I’m sure we all enjoyed the little joke by our Lord High Panjandrum Junker, courtesy of his fan gals and bitches at the BBC, that English was on its way out in the EU! (Funny, I thought it was on its way in as all these ‘South Medditereanean’ male Doctors and Engineers appear to speak it straight off the raft).

    What we didn’t get to hear, (as usual), was the other twenty minutes plus, of his ‘state of the union’ address, (or the hours of waffle from the rest of the Euro Elite patting themselves on the back. It’s funny how there is no news from the EU unless it is ‘bash the Brits’ when our own BBC can be trusted to carry and deliver the ‘baton’.

    So what did we miss? Fortunately Junker’s time was cut short because previous speakers had droned on about ‘cities’ being at the root of ‘civilisation’ and ‘freedom’ was having the EU Commission giving us rules. The man himself was able to tell us that that not only was English now of less significance but Europe itself! Economic activity was becoming more important elsewhere and our population represented a smaller and smaller proportion of the whole. Not to worry! It wasn’t a ‘European’ value to be Christian and Catholic, the Commission had a plan whereby Greece and Italy will become distribution centres for our new, none-English speaking Europeans, who, now being European, will, by definition, hold European values too! At the moment things weren’t working out quite right because the naughty nation states weren’t doing what they were told but that will be sorted out.

    Now this is where I need the insight of a Mark Mardell or an Emma Jane Kirby, what did he mean? There was a time when the UK had more people than the US and conducted more trade. How do we compete now? Do we increase our population five-fold or do we accept that we are a small island and that 35 million of us can live quite well, thank you very much? Or, in the case of the EU, do they march into Russia and North Africa and increase the area of ‘Europe’ and the numbers of its people? A kind of ‘far right’ ‘en marche’ beloved of the Germans!

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  32. Guest Who says:

    And it shall be called ‘Nine’.

    https://yournewswire-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/yournewswire.com/bbc-chemtrails-cloud/amp/

    Diane Abbott and Paul Mason to be the new BBC Science and Environment team. Apparently.

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  33. AsISeeIt says:

    au contraire

    “Yes, I’m going to be controversial…”

    Not for a moment do the viewers assume that BBC tv news editors will really have had their thumbs hovering over the interupt button up in the production gallery as Jonathan Bartley Green Party (job share) Leader attempts by half-hearted rhetorical device to wake us up this morning.

    In the softest of soft interviews with sofa eunuch Charlie Stayt our ‘greenman’ easily slipped in the ubiquitous ‘Global Warming’ mention. One imagines these two could do a charity appeal for low testosterone syndrome. It’s clearly limp-wristed hour on the BBC as Paddy O’Connell limps up next to stand in for our Samira on Newswatch.

    Oh you’re wondering what the Green chap had to say that was supposed to be so controversial?

    “Yes, I think we should have ‘free movement of people'”

    That’s controversial? Really? Au contraire. Open borders are meat and drink at the BBC.

    I’ll tell you what’s controversial – the opposite. The BBC has gone to some trouble to explain and to justify the labelling of Marine Le Pen as ‘Far Right’ – and it comes down to her speaking out against ‘free movement’ and mass immigration.

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    • Lobster says:

      I don’t ever remember them worrying about the lack of free movement in Cuba or the old Soviet Bloc.
      Now that was REALLY lack of free movement.

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      • Cranmer says:

        Perhaps they think that there was no need for free movement in the Soviet bloc – after all, it was a workers’ paradise, so nobody wanted to leave! It was only the west that stopped people going there.

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  34. Cassandra says:

    My ears pricked up when I heard on Radio 4’s Today that there was a ‘Black Alert’ in London. BBBC status quo restored when the report was about air pollution in the capital. The programme is ending now with a band of Sufi musicians wailing.

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  35. DickMart says:

    Good article here about the free rein the BBC gives to left-wing extremists to attack those who oppose them, without presenting a different view:
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/05/delingpole-breitbart-is-very-extreme-right-berkeley-prof-tells-bbc/

       19 likes

  36. Al Shubtill says:

    Al Beebus keep hinting at what a cause for concern it will be for the Conservatives to have a big majority, a la Coonsberg this morning, I can’t recall their being so agitated about the big majorities Labour had under Bliar.

       39 likes

  37. Lock13 says:

    I have been working in London for 30 years and have no clue what air pollution is / or indeed what it means?
    How many people have cause of death = air pollution on their death certificate – None
    Maybe Sadiq’s dad should stop driving his diesel bus to the Mosque that might cut down on emissions

       41 likes

    • G.W.F. says:

      Lock13

      I understand that the prophet bloke Sadiq Khan worships was able to fly on a winged horse. Any chance of them replacing diesel engines

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  38. StewGreen says:

    8:36am R4 long DieselsRPaedos newsvert

    Opening framing trick : playing old clip of kids/parents outside a school
    “How old are you ? 6
    what do you think of the high air contamination today ?*

    Sir David King went straight into “pollution =diesels”

    “new vehicles don’t make the standards”

    He wants retrofitting of cleaning tech.
    “recalling of all vehicles”

    Against scrappage (yeh cos that doesn’t help his subsidy mates)

    Ended 8:45 saying they couldn’t have another view cos Andrea Leadson is not available.
    it’s close to day after election.

    * @dmh10media
    Hahahahaha… the school told the kids not to breathe in too much??? Really??? Sounds unlikely!

    @ActiveCampaigns
    Without irony, parent says “I was driving the kids into school and I’s seriously worried about air quality.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pwr30#playt=1h36m

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      I wonder why the EU was so keen to promote diesel engines as a clean, environmentally friendly fuel?
      The Germans are very good at manufacturing diesel engines. The clue is in the name: Diesel; they invented the things.
      The EU is dominated by Germany and they have been the country which has overwhelmingly benefited from it and especially by the introduction of the Euro, which made their exports cheaper.

      The regulations which are introduced by the EU benefit German companies and act to the detriment of those of other countries; this was what Sir James Dyson spoke about recently regarding the obstacles his company faces competing against those such as Bosch and Miele.

         12 likes

  39. Guest Who says:

    Amazing how HIGNFY can really distill out the main comedic aspects of the political cycle.

       32 likes

    • scribblingscribe says:

      Phew. For a terrible moment there, I thought Hamilton may have said it about Hillary Clinton or Diane Abbot. Can you imagine the BBC/Guardian/Twitter/Facebook had he done so?

      Like Junker calling Theresa May ’emotional’ and the women’s collective NOT squealing and wearing burkas in the streets in protest at his misogyny.

      Sorry, why isn’t Labour picking up votes, why is the BBC distant from the concerns of the country to which it broadcasts?

         49 likes

    • cockneyboy says:

      How I love the smell of political incorrectness from the political correct in the morning!

         16 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    And on that note…

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  41. G says:

    I must confess that I had no idea that a ‘World Press Freedom Index’ existed and has done since 2002. On this Index for 2017, the UK is 40th in ranking. You can see the other countries Index and 1 – 39 before the UK, some, to say the least, rather surprising –
    https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table
    Compare this with, say, 2007, when the UK was 24th –
    https://rsf.org/en/worldwide-press-freedom-index-2007
    As contributors to this site will be sceptical about anything the media delivers, particularly the BBC’s dishonest reporting, can one rely on the UK’s status on this ‘Index’?
    The methodology of those compiling the index can be found here –
    https://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology
    The criteria? – “……are pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, and the quality of the infrastructure that supports the production of news and information.”
    Could it be that the BBC is dragging the rest down with it?

       15 likes

    • scribblingscribe says:

      The methodological includes the line ” the questionnaire is targeted at the media professionals, lawyers and sociologists who are asked to complete it.”

      Whilst all media professionals who work for the BBC are rabid Guardian readers, I fear many of the lawyers they choose would have the same political outlook as Shami Chakrabarti, Phil Shiner of Leigh Day, Michael Mansfield et al. They would mark down the UK media as being too right wing. And I suspect that few sociologists would disagree with the BBC’s output, as they all seem to have been employed by the BBC’s Laurie Taylor as guests on his Thinking Aloud.

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  42. thirdoption says:

    Guido Fawkes has a clip showing Paul Mason, former Newsnight economic editor, chatting to his former colleague Emily Maitlis. He describes all Tory’s as rascist.

    Can Lord Hall please explain in simple words that I can understand, exactly how he can describe the BBC as politically neutral when this man went through the (presumably) thorough vetting and interview procedure required to be appointed to such a senior post within the BBC.

    It’s almost as if they knew he was an extreme left-wing activist who hates the Conservatives………………oh, hang on a minute.

       65 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Video

      Tip : The best way of posting a graphic and link here is to go to Twitter and find the right tweet then rightclick over the tweet time info.
      Select copy link. Then paste it into the comment box here using ctrl-C or long-press then paste.
      You might need to change”mobile” to www.

         13 likes

      • thirdoption says:

        Thanks Stew,

        Out of interest, am I able to achieve the same by copy and pasting the embed code from a youtube video into the comments box?

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        • StewGreen says:

          No just paste the YouTube URL and this site will detect it as video and in 1 min generate the preview window
          No need to paste the entire embed code.

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    • Cranmer says:

      Good response from the other gentleman – ‘this is why Labour can’t make any progress’.

         1 likes

  43. G.W.F. says:

    Worth watching this recent UAF meeting with speakers repeating stuff we see each day on the BBC – Trump is racist, far right, far right.

    But note this outfit, supported by Cameron and progressives in the political classes, is now extending its sights. Even Treezer’s Government is accused of creating the conditions for fascism to grow. And all fascists must be opposed on the streets, denied a platform by the revolutionary army

    It is time the UK political classes stopped supporting this bunch of thugs, and ended their protection from prosecution. They have for too long served as an establishment extra police force against patriotic and law abiding English men and women.

    Yes Treezer, your unofficial army is turning against you.

    Just see how the charge that Tory voters are fascist/racists was slipped in by Paul Mason, as Guido shows – covered in third options post

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  44. Aerfen says:

    Hate speech welcome when combined with ageism

    Have I Got News for You” on Friday 5 May.

    Comments made by Andy Hamilton suggesting that Theresa May has dementia .
    Discussing Theresa May’s appearances on the Sunday politics shows, he said:

    “…Normally, if someone repeated themselves that incessantly, you’d get them checked out for Alzheimer’s … I’m not saying the Prime Minister has dementia, what I’m saying is if she doesn’t want people to start wondering about that, she should stop repeating herself. She’s forgetting a lot of stuff – she’s forgotten her original position on Brexit pretty quickly. I’m not saying she’s got dementia, but next week if she’s giving a press conference in her pyjamas, you heard it here first.”
    He then continued the joke following the clip of Theresa May knocking on doors, adding:
    “…Without wishing to labour the dementia thing, she’s wandering around the street… and she has to have a young man with her, to show her how to use a doorbell. I rest my case.”

    Would the BBC make similar unfunny ‘jokes’ about Theresa May (still less anyone else) exhibiting possible indications of HIV symptoms, or even for that matter, cancer?

    Seems as dementia is a disease of mainly those hated older, and consequently, at present, ethnic British, then it’s up for mockery.

       37 likes

    • Englishtothecore says:

      Joking about an illness (real or not) in someone can backfire. I remember the bBBC crowing over the egg-on-face of one of the tabloids, Express or Mail I think, that had criticised Mo Mowlam’s appearance and how she had “let herself go”; it turned out that she’d been having chemotherapy. Al Beeb should remember that before it allows idiots to make jokes like this.

      I would really like to know if hate speech legislation covers ageism, as I am encountering this all the time in the media. I expect not.

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  45. StewGreen says:

    Will FooC have a contrived way of getting in SJW Virtue Signalling ?
    [ ] tickbox

    Cuba correspondent
    “As the annual May Day workers’ march took place, the US Congresswoman described by Fidel Castro as the ‘big bad she-wolf’ announced her retirement. “

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  46. StewGreen says:

    12:00 News leads with
    “Nutthall says UKIP supporters should stay on the pitch”

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  47. chrisH says:

    Well, who else is tired of the BBCs Via Dolorosa endless trails over Labours incontinence and leaks?
    Ever since Labour got stuffed yesterday(who KNEW eh?)_all we1ve had from the BBC sherpas is a tour to A&E, then HDU, then ICT, then IVF, then registrar, second opinion, recovery units, trauma tents, morticians, beauticians, directors, last rites whisky priests and back to the studio…and to Laura, Nick, and indeed ANYBODY prepared to blow farts and halitosis up Will Straws and into the Labour Heartlands. But no-it`s a stiff, a cadaver, a rancid corpse, a blowfly hell and it stinketh.
    Nurse-the screens, excuses, hopes and dreams for Paul Mason-surely there IS hope after carrying the Corbyn corpse around on your flat back these last two years.
    Nah-we hate you, we want you dead Labour-and we want Liberals to slither back under Jimmy Savile with the ED Stone laid flat across the Blue Peter Pets Section of the BBC…and the BBC handed over to a paedophile high rise mosque so we all know where those who NEED the BBC will be, should we need to find out who killed her, who raped him and who condoned and defended the perps and pervs who infest the BBC/Channel 4 and the Sturmer/Guardian,
    Stop trailing the BBC round for Corbyns body fluids-turn them off and get UKIP to tell the BBC that they`ll not be going until the BBC is gone. THIS is a national duty, much as being the Brexit lethal injection turned out to be.
    UKIP will be fine.

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  48. StewGreen says:

    BBC Hit pieces against Trump coming up
    – 19:20pm Tonight BBC2 Trump & Culture: Brave New World?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q8ds8
    “Alastair Sooke asks what the president’s impact on America’s cultural landscape will be”
    “Alastair finds out what the implications are of Trump’s plans to eliminate all federal funding for culture and meets with major figures from the worlds of music, literature, journalism, film and television, as well as a range of visual artists who love and loathe Trump in equal measure”
    (BBC defn of EQUAL ?)

    – 13:30 Sunday Radio 4 The Honeymoon: Donald Trump’s First 100 Days
    Michael Goldfarb revisits Trump supporters as the president passes his 100th day in office
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pdfhd
    ” to find out if their affection has survived the honeymoon.”
    Every newly elected president is granted a honeymoon period. Will Donald Trump, who has proved to be the exception to every rule about running for President, be the exception on honeymoon’s as well?

    How will his supporters – many of whom chose him as the lesser of two evils and others who were unswayable partisans – react to the inevitable trimming of campaign pledges that the reality of office imposes on the men who take on the Presidency?

    Throughout 2016, Michael Goldfarb tracked the rise and rise of Trump to office. He interviewed many supporters of the new President in the key areas of western Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Rust Belt constituencies whose votes brought him to power.

    Now he resumes the conversation with them. He returns to Johnstown and Cleveland and rural areas of Ohio in January, on the eve of the inauguration, to find out their thinking and speaks to them again from time to time during the first 100 days of the administration.

    Using their words, he documents the honeymoon period of Donald Trump’s Presidency. It has started off well for them. Trump’s approval ratings are up by almost 10 points since election day. Can it – will it – sustain?
    (not if the BBC can have anything to do with it)

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  49. scribblingscribe says:

    I have just learnt from The Times, that Saint Bob Geldoff, whose opinion on the EU and remain is so important to the BBC, is actually a non dom for tax purposes. So the bastard pays no UK tax and thus contributes bugger all to the EU, unlike pensioners and those on minimum wage. Yet, if (And I use the word IF, as I don’t know), IF he owns land then he will be extracting money from the EU’s generous donations to the filthy rich via CAP. 40% of money spent by the EU goes to wealthy landowners.

    I am sure the BBC will be on this with all the determined energy of a BBC license fee catcher on a terrified blind OAP.

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