Start The Week Open Thread

 

Mrs May does a speech about what we can  expect from Brexit on Friday and it’s ‘hard facts for both sides’ says the BBC.  Hmmm…just plain common sense and a realistic view of what the outcome of negotiations might be?  Yeahhh…and anyone with an ounce of common sense and no axe to grind could have told the BBC that a year ago.  Which raises the question as to why the BBC for the last year  has  been giving us a very one-sided and alarmist view of what is happening, not only giving us the Brussels view as the ‘gold standard’ that Britain must aspire to reach but painted an extremely negative view of the British position, expectations and hopes…one example is the EU’s constant mocking of British negotiations as ‘cherry-picking’ not to mention the sneering ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’….both of which the BBC adopted as their starting point when discussing the British approach…which the BBC portrayed as chaotic, weak and wildly over-expectant.   The BBC seemed to prefer we just rolled over and accepted whatever the EU could dream up to humiliate us.  Perhaps if the BBC spent less time pandering to EU fanatical Remainders and spreading EU propaganda we could have had a realistic view of Brexit from the start from our national broadcaster which would have allowed May to establish her position months ago, rein in the Remainder pro-EU ‘stay-behind’ subversives and present a united, strong and coherent position in negotiations…instead of which the BBC has constantly fed the Remainder’s dream of a second referendum and the reversal of Brexit which has also given the EU the idea that this might happen and therefore they do not need to negotiate seriously.   Thanks BBC for the backstabbing.

Spot anymore BBC backstabbing?…list it here…

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562 Responses to Start The Week Open Thread

  1. MarkyMark says:

    David Cameron – Gay Marriage (Gay People), Tampon VAT reduction (Women) and quitting when the people voted against him (UK Citizens).

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Think we now find that those tampon tax reductions were “gender neutral”.
      Lots of pregnant people benefit from these enlightened changes Marky.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    The thing about fun runs, is that the wacky costumes can raise a lot of money for charity and be fun
    How’s that work in Saudi ?


    See also tweet Times on what some Islamic scools are teaching
    “She must be obedient to her husband administer for his comforts”

    Also two thirds of primaries achieving “perfect” results have a religious ethos ..I guess this time they mean Christian/Jewish

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Women’s freedom race … ran in chains …

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      Be fun to see athletes try to bring their drugs into Saudi for their “asthma” “bunions” or “seasonal sadness disorders”.

      I think we need a drug-fuelled Olympics, openly flaunted- Eli Lilley v Hoffman Laroche, sponsored drug bunged meatheads by Pfizer.
      They`re all drugged now-and only a pothead pixie would think of wasting its life running around a track so Claire or Gary can admire the view of bottoms and young thighs.
      Time to get off the addiction that is sport. Too many sad old blokes with latent homoeroticism issues wasting what remains of a born, bored spectator “existance”-I hesitate to call it “life” as such.
      Sport died when you need a chemistry degree to follow their madness. S`Bradley is maybe only Lance with both balls.

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    • Oaknash says:

      Phwoooor Stew – No 1001 is making me a bit hot under the collar – I think I better go for a lie down in a dark room!

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Title gives little away “Why China’s proposal was long expected”{bbc.co.uk 25feb2018} – the BBC don’t care about the removal of authoritarian and totalitarian leaders.

    China’s Communist Party has proposed scrapping presidential term limits, a move that would allow the current leader, Xi Jinping, to stay in power. It is the culmination of a long shift in Chinese politics, says BBC World Service Asia Pacific editor Celia Hatton.

    – Why not a title like ‘China removes change and competition from it’s leadership’? BBC bias?

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  4. StewGreen says:

    The presenter Emily Maitlis has likened the filming angles on Newsnight to upskirt paparazzi shots
    Times

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  5. MartinW says:

    Has the BBC yet covered the recent news from South Africa, where their new President Ramaphosa (whom the BBC lauded to the skies) has approved a vote in their parliament to confiscate white-owned farms without compensation? Ramaphosa said in 2016 he ” was not calling for the slaughter of white people—at least for now.” Doubtless this comment was known by the BBC, yet they still promoted him as the saviour of the country. Mind you, the BBC kept silent about the murder of 1300 white farmers murdered in South Africa between 1990 and 2012, in contrast to the 28 white farmers killed in Zimbabwe betrween 2000 and 2014.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Forget the BBC, One woman, Lauren Southern is outclassing them for news about South Africa.
      I believe there is a petition asking Trump to accept white SA refugees.

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    This is so important. @Adaripp and @sbrinton show us what it means to be unapologetically queer. It is moments like this that can make all the difference for that scared, closeted queer kid who thinks they’re all alone in the world. #Oscars #RepresentationMatters {order-order.com}

    . . .

    For the confused children of the World …

    Participant dress in “S&M” clothing as they take part in the annual Pride London Parade which highlights issues of the gay, lesbian and transgender …

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    ** p.s. Mention it is for the kids and you get away with it.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Marky you got M&S the wrong way round which one is our maxi ( just kidding max)

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Um, why has that chap got the tv remote tucked in his shorts ?

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        • Loobyloo says:

          Brissles!! I thought that was along the lines of Mae West – is that a tv remote in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me…

          I’ll get me coat

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  7. Alicia Sinclair says:

    And Winifred Robinson is fretting on You and Yours about hypoallergenic cosmetics that might bring us out in a rash.
    Like the drugs and sports dope stuff-the BBC are MAD about their drugs and stimulants-and the effects of the wrong drugs on the wrong skin, in the wrong muscles.
    Chemsex too…it`s as if the BBC NEED to know all this, whereas the rest of us never knew or cared.
    Can`t begin to think why.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    For every £1 donated to a UK Aid Match charity appeal, the government will also contribute £1 of UK aid, to help these projects go further in changing and saving lives. This year, more than 20 charities from across Britain have been selected to run UK Aid Match appeals and implement high-quality projects in developing countries. {gov.uk}

    Countries:
    Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, The Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    “Italy’s election won by party set up by a clown. Germany’s main opposition now the far right. Reminders that it’s not just here that politics is “interesting” Nick Robinson – @bbcnickrobinson

    Nick Robinson – @bbcnickrobinson
    Presenter, Today & Political Thinking, BBC Radio 4. Former BBC/ITV Political Editor. Author, Election Notebook & Live from Downing Street

    – All opinions 100% BBC Approved as per the guidelines.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    Despite Brexit
    Positive economic survey from EEF an anti-Brexit group.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Is Halal Food Authority a Charity?

    Halal Food Authority (HFA) is an independent, voluntary nonprofit organization, part of a registered charity involved in the supervision, inspection, audit, certification, and compliance of halal principles and practices in the UK food and beverages industry.”

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  12. G.W.F. says:

    Doreen Tipton wins an Oscar

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Now …. Oscars (USA) … Oscars(USA) … Oscars(USA) .. more Oscars(USA) … nothing happening in Italy/Europe that relates to Brexit …

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    • Loobyloo says:

      I watched the Oscars live last night, just out of interest – have only seen one of those films. Of course the BBC loves the Academy as it is now a globalist, social justice machine, reeking of hypocrisy. I find it very interesting that in a business where it was suicide to be gay/ethnic/law-breaking a short time ago, it is now pretty much lauded. IMO that change is too fast and it will backfire. Clearly, their audience is not the white, American one. This was also reinforced by their push to promote the Mexican culture.
      I thought it was pretty much a freak show – with very little of the glitter and sparkle and wonder that normally comes with such an event. Full of attempts to be PC, multiculti, pro-women and pro-trans. Jodie Foster on crutches, a trans woman never heard of before presenting, a basketball player who has been accused of rape winning a prize, and more.
      So the glitz, glamour and fun is to be replaced by more social commentary by hypocrites. Interesting that they also chose to have two small segments to thank – the movie goers, and the armed forces. They seemed like pathetic attempts to cling on to an audience which would be leaving in their droves as a result of the turn that the Academy has taken. Another nail in their coffin, I think.
      It may be just me, but I thought that there was a huge number of stars missing from that show – where were all the big names? Especially men. I wonder if they have quietly boycotted, or were not invited. Usually, the camera scans the crowd to pick out the big stars, and I saw very little of that except Meryl, sitting in the front row like Queen of the SJWs.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Loo, the Oscars has been turning into a show case for frock designers and little else over the past 30 years or so. The days of the ‘real’ glamour with the likes of Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn et al are consigned to the history books and will never be repeated. Even great stars like Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino and Robert de Nero were never big on attending the Oscars in their hey day, and are now of an age to appear irrelevant. We are left with winners like Sam Rockwell – who? – some actor with a string of films no one has heard of – clearly no James Cagney then. When the red carpet is shown, there are lots of well turned out men and women who clearly don’t appear on film, but are the hangers on of the industry – which is what the event has now become.

        If you are into the best of the golden age of cinema, there is currently a wonderful movie magazine that is published every couple of months, its called Retro and well worth every penny.

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        • taffman says:

          I can see The Oscars ending up like the Eurovision Song Contest.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Well at least the awful Dunkirk didn’t win anything .

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Apologies – typed without full facts – apparently it won 3 oscars – I must have seen the wrong film .

            And at least Roger Deakins got acknowledgement after a long time .

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        • Holly Selassie says:

          Dead right Brissles.
          It`s called “producer capture” when the NHS isn`t run for the benefit of the sick-but for the unions and staff who “work” there.
          Schools have gone the same way, kids are simply labrats for OFSTED to prod. Er, yes.
          Films now are retreads, unoriginal, useless virtue signalling tosh that nobdy is watching. Anonymous metrosexual drones and clones, not an original thought in their airy heads.
          Producer capture-sod the public who might want to watch it.
          Only reviewers, Kermodes and Gompertzes will be attending films in future as they continue to be joyless sanctimonious preachy prigs.

          PM trold us that Gary Oldmans wig was made of BABY HAIR
          But Eddie chose not to enquire further, but we should.
          Outrageous.

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        They DID give the right envelopes out this year I take it though?
        Progress of a kind.
        See luvvies-if you spend your time looking fantabulosa, and showing your sideboobs and balls? Then you don`t get distracted by slagging off your President, and don`t make yourselves look sillier than you are.

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  14. taffman says:

    Breaking !
    Something odd happening in Salisbury ?

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      • StewGreen says:

        Major chemical incident at Salisbury hospital declared after 10 people vomited fentanyl
        a synthetic opiate many times stronger than heroin, may have been involved.
        A man and a woman are in a critical condition
        Maltings Shopping Centre
        It was yesterday
        http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/05/uk-police-declare-major-incident-two-taken-ill-exposure-substance-shopping-centre-hospital-quarantined/

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        • G.W.F. says:

          When Treezer declared after the Manchester bombing that ‘enough was enough’ she must have been referring to reports of the incidents, not the incidents themselves, This story will die quickly

             28 likes

          • taffman says:

            Souinds like a Litvinenko job ?……………………..
            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134

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            • G.W.F. says:

              taffman
              That’s a good one. Better than Norwegians, lone wolves and good lads radicalised by Tommy Robinson

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            • Demon says:

              Do you think it might have been administered by a deep-lying agent? You know – someone who has been having regular contacts with enemy agents for decades and giving them help and information, but is doing a differnt job as a cover for their activities. Something like, I don’t know, being an MP?

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        • StewGreen says:

          A rescued Russian double agent they say
          \\ A MAN who is critically ill in hospital after being exposed to an unknown substance in Salisbury is a Russian convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC has reported.
          The BBC news website claims the man who collapsed in the Maltings last night was Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old Russian national granted refuge in the UK following a spy swap between the US and Russia in 2010.
          Police declared a major incident after a man and a woman fell ill.
          Emergency services at the scene suspected the substance may have been a powerful drug called fentanyl, but nothing has yet been confirmed. //

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          • taffman says:

            The Home Office needs to secure our borders and to make sure they know who is coming in .
            It now becomes another job that the MI5 has to deal with on top of the Trojan Horse we already have .

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  15. StewGreen says:

    What do to out think the demographic of Hello Magazine is ?
    More or less black/gay than the general population ?
    Next has been told off, cos the competition it sponsored “Star Mum” ended up with 5 white finalists.
    #1 some BME mums will be reading specialist black/brown magazines directed at them, so the demographic of will be even lower than the Mum aged population which is probably about 12% BME.
    If 1 of the Star Mums was BME that would make it overrepresentative cos it should be half a Mum not a full Mum.

    People called bias cos the magazine had selected a judging panel also made of 5 white women.
    The result was also criticised for being too middle class and slim
    … As if overweight and Council Estate was an aspiration advertisers want to associate with.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5720335/hello-next-race-row-star-mums-white-middle-class-celebrities/

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Nothing on Italy Voting on the UK Politics page … it has an impact … but *sigh*

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    . . . BUT JOY, MERKEL IS BACK . . .

    Angela Merkel has said it is important that a new government gets to work quickly after the longest period of coalition-building in post-war Germany. {bbc.co.uk 05mar2018}

    She said she would work to secure jobs and prosperity, and promised to provide a strong voice for Germany in the EU.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    8pm R4 libs failing progressive Muslims
    Nick Cohen calls this the “racism of the anti-racist”
    – progressive Muslims who want to fight inequalities endorsed by culture and religion in their communities.
    – Maryam Namazie from One Law for All campaigning for women’s rights against Islamic Sharia law and Jewish Beth din courts,
    and Amina Lone who says her outspoken views including a campaign against young girls wearing the hijab in school led to her losing her seat as a Manchester city councillor. The local Labour party failed to re-select her,
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tcvp2

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  18. Guest Who says:

    So, which one will ‘a BBC spokesweasel go with?

    “Leaves her politics at the door’, or ‘impartiality in our DNA’?

    https://order-order.com/2018/03/05/bbc-producer-opposes-feminist-maggie-monument/

    The ‘don’t tweet anything stupid’ is kinda moot.

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Halal Hair … for those who think Halal for food is not enough …

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  20. Thoughtful says:

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mother-banned-taking-baby-india-14370019

    Nothing on the BBC about this which seems to be studiously ignored by the left, however it does beg the question as to why this woman has not been prosecuted.

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC Radio Manchester talking about it ?
      Nope
      The gave Labour Mayor Andy Burnham a show this morning
      Then \\ This Thursday at 7pm, make sure you tune in & listen to our live debate:
      ‘Is Manchester a Great Place to be a Woman?’ //

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      • StewGreen says:

        CSE Whistleblower campaigner Jon Wedger is in Manchester today
        So far Andy Burnham has side stepped meeting him
        https://www.fundingmorality.com/wedger

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        “Is Manchester a great place to be a woman” , you say Stew?
        I thought it was.
        Was able to go from bar to club and back again all down Canal Street-and was not bothered by one bloke.
        So yes, great place to be a woman, they`re all gay!
        Hard to get your nails done though-full of policemen.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    8:30pm R4 lib-tribe vs worker-tribe
    “In the 2016 referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union, a stark division emerged: those with university degrees were far more likely to vote remain than those with few educational qualifications.”
    ..hmm Tosh assertion is not truth
    The ballot was secret, so you can’t make such a declaration.
    We can say that university areas voted Brexit
    BBC mischaracterise this as “Town v Gown: New Tribes”

    They go on
    ” in the recent American presidential election, far more graduates voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump.”
    Hmm
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tcvp4

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    • Guest Who says:

      Given such elitist arrogance backfires every outing I should keep quiet and let them doing it, but there is also the small matter of type of degree.

      One is sure the PPE Milibandists and O’Briens of North London did indeed vote Remain, and yet still are throwing their toys out of the pram.

      Those I went to college with who now are more in engineering, law, science, business, banking and medicine all around the world…. may not have been amongst those canvassed and projected.

      Was it Emily M’s son on poll duty?

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    • scribblingscribe says:

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?utm_term=.28d98909c665

      The Washington Post, a mindless Hillary fan, says that wealthy people brought Trump his victory, ie not the ignorant, uneducated, racists, evil, Jo Cox killing, working classes that the BBC would have you believe.

      They make an interesting point that many of the US middle classes on good income do not have college degrees. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    “‘Hero of Grenfell Tower’ caught four-year-old girl ‘like a rugby ball’ after she was thrown by mother from 5th floor”

    16 JUNE 2017 • 8:39AM

    .. 4 Months Later …

    “Grenfell fire baby drop ‘probably never happened’ “
    10 OCTOBER 2017 • 1:17AM

    – What happened to the “Hero Pat, who’s in his 40s” and “Kadelia Woods, 20” who reported it?

    found on order-order.com

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  23. ID says:

    I have just been listenong to a fascinating exchange on LBC.
    Shelagh Fogarty (who ?) doing some handwringing on the rise of popularism/fascism in Italy takes a call from an “angry nativist” who wants to point out some home truths about uncontrolled mass immigrstion. This is too much for Fogharty ” I don’t trust you and I am not going to give you an opportunity of saying “All muslims out”. And she cuts him off. Rather than worrying about the horrors of nascent fascism in Italy, she should be more worried about “real existing fascism” at LBC. Apparently, Fogarty has supernatural powers and can sense when a caller is about to commit a “hate crime”. The only crime here is the criminalisation of free speech. These people are utterly loathsome.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Her twitter thread @ShelaghFogarty is interesting for what and who she retweets about.

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      • kaffir Latte says:

        I listened to that too. The caller was saying there is no longer free speech in the UK because you’re accused of being racist if you complain about immigration.
        So what did Foggerty do? SHE CUT HIM OFF “in case he was a racist.”
        The irony obviously escaped her!

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    • ThomasR says:

      Shelagh Fogarty, Winifred Robinson, I can’t tell the difference. I am convinced they have a flow chart in front of them so that they never sway from the politically correct line. Utter absence of free thinking.
      If the caller is not on message start tutting and virtue signalling, if this doesn’t work go for cutting off or shouting down. Once you have got rid of them, give it a couple of minutes then start blowing your own trumpet, tell the listeners how much you enjoyed the engagement and recommend we all listen on catch up.

      These two ladies find it beyond their comprehension that anyone has an alternative view to theirs, they need to be educated by Julia Hartley Brewer.

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      • StewGreen says:

        I disagree Winifred Robinson is not full beeboid
        One thing she has done she has tweeted a lot about female salaries
        ..I’d say she is halfway to JHB

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  24. StewGreen says:

    Sport Relief has a half page advert in the Times
    ..is that charity ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      And then the SAME commercial , audio version came up on BBC Radio Lincolnshire at 5:20pm

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Hand Relief?…that a charity yet?
      Suppose Executive Relief is headed up by Brendan Cox nowadays.

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Linked to Ex-BBC’s Peston’s Lady’s Twitter ….

    “If you’re surprised, it means you don’t see enough black people in major roles.”

    Young activists cover London bus stops with mock-up film posters replacing white actors with black people

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  26. fakenewswatcher says:

    I enjoyed Nick Robinson’s interview with Emily Thornberry on R4 at 13h45 today. Poor Emily. She was really POOR. I was in tears. I could see the starvation etc. Yup, a victim of life if ever there was one. VICTIM, I tell you. (The first requirement of a bigwig to day is to show what dire circumstances they come from.)
    Then snap, and hey presto: she’s gonna be the best Foreign Secretary the nation has ever had when JC is PM. And wealth? Oh yes, but FIRST she was poor. I was in tears…
    Nick is featuring 5 such interviews this week. More Con than Lab cos, you know….Nope. You guessed it: 3 Lab, 2 Con. This week folks, we’re going to hear about circumstances overcome. Get your tissues out.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Fake
      Missed the comedy but you leave poor lady nugee alone – as a poor barrister Oxfam should be have a Whip round – at no further cost . The labour version of that Handsome Lady Soubry of winebox

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    • Beltane says:

      I cannot conceive of any situation when watching Lady Nugee that would require having tissues to hand.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Didn`t she kill her cat because she was so poor?
      You`d think she`d be more gracious over Grenfell wouldn`t you?
      Heseltine also strangled a dog . These Remainers-pretty sadistic, animal hating lot aren`t they?
      No PETA or vegans yet though. Not even a whip tickle from Max Mosley.

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  27. Al Shubtill says:

    I listened to the Jeremy Whine Show this lunchtime and heard a piece comparing Sir Roger Bannister and Sir Bradley Wiggins. Jezza was discussing it with a garrulous sports reporter from The Independent.
    Prior to their discussion, there was a short segment where the commentary of the Bannister’s record breaking run was played. The announcer referred to him breaking the “English Native” and “British Empire” records.

    When it had finished and Vine and his guest were back on, Jezza was quick to tell us:
    “Even the phrase ‘English Native’ there made us both wince a little.”

    Why would that phrase make anyone “wince” at all, never mind “a little”?
    Vine typifies the metrosexual; faux-Left; painfully PC tw@ts the al Beebus carcass is riddled with from @rseh0le to breakfast time.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Didn`t Vine get done for overdoing his bike speed limits a while back?
      Wonder what was put in HIS jiffy bag then? BBC and drugs, and paedos and Labour-all makes sense I guess to them.

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    • ID says:

      They seem to forget that it was the British Empire lead by the imperialist Churchill that defeated Hitler and nazism which the left claim to uniquely revile, yet the left was against declaring war against Hitler in 1939 because of the Hitler Stalin pact. Leftists like Benn did not volunteer to fight against Hitler until Hitler attacked the USSR.

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  28. Foscari says:

    I have got heart failure. I used to run quite a bit . But that’s
    out of the question. I thought I might take up some light
    cycling. After reading the report on the BBC by Dan Roan about
    Sky riders Bradley Wiggins and the Sky Team. I was wondeingr if
    you need to have Asthma as well as Heart Failure to take up
    cycling. Does anybody know?

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (BBC and ITALY): everything else is public relations (BBC and OSCARS).” – Orwell with additions

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    • Fedup2 says:

      6pm al beeb news ( watched just to see running order ) . First 9 minutes on a cyclist who apparently took enhancing medicines

      – the story about the poisoning of a former Russian spy in a supermarket gets story number 3
      Bias or not al beeb news has lost its judgement about what is important and what is just bread and circuses .

      Story 2 was another hand wringing propaganda job about Syria to keep on the beeboid false moral high ground .

      As an aside it’s a great example of the dilution of the corrupt honours system then they chuck them out to well rewarded sports people were as perhaps those who benefit the community are put aside .

      Time to switch off

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        How come all these athletes have got asthma?
        Wasn`t that the excuse for all of us who wanted to stay off the hockey field? Inhalers were always sought, hardly anybody but the weirdies wanted to play sports?
        Look at the BBC lesbian teams of sports hacks, look at the oddbods like Lineker? I rest my case.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Holly, strangely a friend of mine (in his 60s) did a lot of running in his youth, and has now succumbed in his latter years to asthma. Around the time he told me – just before Christmas, I read in the papers that asthma was quite prevalent in sports people. So, who knows ! But, I remember trying everything as a girl to get out of playing hockey at school – bloody awful sport.

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    teaching languages and communications has been tried before and has been called Racist or Islamophobic or enforcing British Values on different cultures or …

    Cameron won the award after he announced a £20m fund in January to teach Muslim women in the UK to speak English in order to “tackle segregation” and help them “resist the lure of extremism.” The scheme was widely pilloried within the Muslim community for picking on a small minority of women who have no link to extremism whatsoever. {06mar2016}

    http://www.aimislam.com/islamophobia-award-given-to-david-cameron-and-donald-trump/

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    • Guest Who says:

      Comments could be going better.

      Teaching such a language in the UK does not seem a great use of funds.

      Bet dem fellas in Beeby Pidgen am jelly.

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        Could be worth blending Hinglish, Pidgin, Creole, Statespeak and Esperanto to give us the perfect language for Radio 1 and our EU ubermenchen.
        Oh-and a bit of gay Polari.

        Dem total in septie…that is totlally unacceptable.
        Dat mi rigrettya nar?…I find that regrettable.
        Mimans chuddies dem in de blenderoni, him wango liffdy Yuroscam. My boyfriends in bits, he still wants to leave the EU(paraphrase)

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  31. kaffir Latte says:

    BBC reports that the Saga Khan (Mayor of London) has announced that the burst water mains after the coldest weather in 10 years is “unacceptable.”

    Well I never, I’d call that sort of remark “populist” ie appeals to lots of people, like erm….chimes with their feelings.

    Still waiting for forensic analysis by the world’s most respected broadcaster on exactly WHY the Italians are so fed up with swathes of young male African migrants illegally entering their catholic country and why they are sick of the EU.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Whichever inept bobble head pol says it, ‘unacceptable’ is up there with ‘thoughts and prayers’.

      Clearly it has been accepted. They just have not found a way to steer clear of fallout.

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    • kaffir Latte says:

      Just seen thousands of packs of water bottles being handed out on the streets of London. Thames Water “apologises.”
      I wonder how many packs will be resold via the local corner shop.
      I’m getting sooooooo cynical….

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Wasn’t there a thing about cutting back on plastic bottles

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Recycling ? forget it. I really mean forget it.
          The other week it was the turn of my non recyclables to be disposed of by the bin men. At the time of their arrival I was just putting some recyclables in the correct bin. My ‘friendly’ bin man asked if they were in a bin bag (they were, but tip them loosely into the bin as requested by my authority), when I confirmed, he said ‘give it us here’, so off he took it and lumped it in the lorry with all the non recyclable rubbish. Well, if all the rubbish ends up together, why in hells name are we recycling in the first place ?

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          • Number 7 says:

            Because most of the plastics were sent to be ‘recycled’ in China where they were dumped in the sea – hence the current ‘plastic crisis’ in the Pacific.
            Why they can’t use such waste to be used in high temperature incinerators (clean) to be used as an energy source, plastic is a hydrocarbon, to be used to produce electricity amazes me.
            Our ‘masters’ seem to think it is better for plastic to be exported (using very dirty fuel oil) to the other side of the world, at great expense, to be dumped in the Pacific.
            Aren’t our ‘masters’ wonderful?
            🙁

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      • Al Shubtill says:

        Or something like this happening.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Luckily the Xmas party is a ways off, because…. awks.

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    • StewGreen says:

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  33. StewGreen says:

    Bomb watch : Sheffield Two men and a woman have been arrested on SUSPICION of making an IED with intent to cause harm.
    No actual device found at Abbey Lane, in Beauchief

    December 2017 Sheffield bomb streets
    \\ Shirebrook Road in Meersbrook, Sheffield (literally a mile away)
    two addresses in Burngreave, Sheffield – including Fatima Community Centre on Brunswick Road
    a house on King Street North in Chesterfield
    an address in Stocksbridge //

    Read more at: https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/three-arrested-as-police-investigate-report-of-bomb-at-sheffield-house-1-9046906

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  34. Oaknash says:

    Radio 4 had a definite “pass the sickbag” moment with Lady Nugee being interviewed by Nick Robinson on a programme called Political Thinking.

    Lady Nugee come across all coquettish as an obviously adoring Nick asked her about her past and what motivates her etc blah blah blah – snore!

    We had a titter here, a exclamation of mock surprise there – In the end Nick kept on asking her to sing the main song from Evita. To lots of refusals and mutual tittering.

    Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaarf!

    The whole programme reminded me of two slugs courting each other. First they check each other out by assessing the quality of each others mucus trail, subsequently they then circle each other and then lie together where each protrudes from its genital pore a sarcobelum, a highly manoeuvrable penile structure, with which it strokes its mate.[14]

    Secretions are then exchanged by the sarcobela during this mutual stroking.[15] Eventually leading to the final act of passion.

    I must say I admired them both, at the end neither of them seemed tired – I expect they were both sitting back enjoying a well deserved cigarette.

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  35. taffman says:

    “Theresa May: Young are ‘right to be angry’ about lack of homes”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43279177H
    Has no one spotted the elephant in the room ?
    The top HYS poster has.
    Hooray !

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  36. scribblingscribe says:

    Anyone know the answer to this conundrum:

    The BBC’s beloved EU is predicated on tariffs, pushing up costs for consumers, protecting selected European industries and beefing up the bank balances of wealthy land owners.

    Yet when Trump indicates he is going to put tariffs on a single item the BBC moves into full melt down mode?

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  37. JimS says:

    The inventor of the wind-up radio has died. Sorry to find out that it is Trevor Baylis, not Jeremy Hardy.

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    • StewGreen says:

      When Jeremy Hardy dies
      ..they’ll be a big state funeral

      …………………………… In Moscow

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    • Fedup2 says:

      That’s very sad about Mr Baylis – a very. Clever man. Pity the other one is still around .the ideal champagne socialist beeboid – £5k for after dinner speeches to his production company to cut tax – like the rest of them

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        Wind up radio was not necessarily created by Bayliss.
        I think that Peter Powell was the first fake on Radio One who wound me up-and i`ve been so ever since.

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Any SJW stuff at 7:30pm BBC1 ?
    East edition
    – Thousands drowned last year, attempting to cross the Mediterranean between Libya and Europe.
    Reporter Debbie Tubby spends 10 days aboard ‘Mission Lifeline’ where Norfolk man Paul Chamberlain heads up a rescue mission.
    – the story of Lady Constance Lytton of Knebworth House. She was an aristocrat, but she changed her identity and went undercover to expose the violent abuse of suffragette prisoners.

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    • StewGreen says:

      London – the former City worker on a mission to help London rid itself of plastic waste.
      * The black guy on a catamaran bicycle who collects up litter dropped in the canal
      ..this looks like a stunt to me.
      I would be easier with a long pole net from the bank (or drone)
      ..and most litter would flow to certain spots anyway

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    • StewGreen says:

      Yorks
      – Man says Church ignored his abuse
      – Compare 2 councils with bins collection etc
      council vs private companies
      Claim that Labour run Liverpool Council improved things by getting rid of Amey (I’ve seen this claim before
      – Claim that Sheffield keeing Amey is suffering ..says “transparency activist”
      BBC claim that roads are full of pot holes

      West
      – singer Joss Stone brings musical instruments to African refugee camps.

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        So if we abuse our Churches-they are now expected to have to give us a reply, acknowledge that we heard them say that they`re just the Labour Party in womens clothes?
        Could catch on- slag off the BBC and then send in an official complaint that they didn`t cry and leave the country in shame!

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  39. taffman says:

    Is Al Beeb full of “inclusion riders” ?

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  40. scribblingscribe says:

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/energy-executive-bernhard-guenther-severely-injured-in-acid-attack-9g3dqk3gq

    2 men threw acid into the face of Bernhard Guenther, the chief financial officer of Innogy, a subsidiary of the energy giant RWE. The acid was strong enough to cause life threatening injuries and clearly he’ll never be the same again.

    The Times says: “suspicions that the attack was connected to a long-running battle between Innogy and environmental campaigners.” “… German media has reported that some were prepared to use violence.”

    Wonder what the BBC thinks.

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      Reminiscent (though clearly far more serious) of the guard dog poisoned, at the proposed fracking site in North Yorkshire, by guardians of the environment; to aid in their protest against the destruction of the planet and its wildlife.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Innogy is the green energy division of RWE
        DW mentions a feud about RW’s open cast lignite mine
        Also “Günther was attacked while jogging several years ago and beaten up.
        At that time he was still CFO of the parent company RWE”
        police are collecting DNA ..one didn’t match their database

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  41. taffman says:

    “Populist”, why does Al Beeb and the MSM use it as a pejorative?
    UK first, Italy next, followed by a ‘Grexit’ populist vote.
    Dominoes anyone?

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  42. EnglandExpects says:

    Polonium? The Russians always get their man, even when he is here as part of a spy swap. Are we going to do nothing, just like the last incident? They are clearly not deterred from murdering on British streets.

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      Not much we can do: sanctions; volley of Trident missiles; recall our ambassador?
      The Russians evidently take treason seriously – pour encourager les autres.

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  43. Eddy Booth says:

    Critically ill man is former Russian spy
    ”A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands.

    Sergei Skripal, who is 66, was granted refuge in the UK following a “spy swap” between the US and Russia in 2010.

    He and a woman, 33, were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon.
    The substance has not been identified.
    Police are investigating whether a crime has been committed, following the incident at the Maltings shopping centre.
    Col Skripal, who is a retired Russian military intelligence officer, was jailed for 13 years in 2006 for spying for Britain.
    He was convicted of passing the identities of Russian intelligence agents working undercover in Europe to the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134

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    ”Sergei Skripal, pictured here on the day of his sentencing in August 2006, was jailed for 13 years”

    Calm down BBC he probably just had a bad curry

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  44. EnglandExpects says:

    Leicester explosion. The BBC have been very coy and can now hide behind sub judice. The three arrested are Kurds including the shop owner. Petrol involved. It’s worth noting that although Kurds may be the good guys in fighting Isis, the substantial number of Kurds here have done their bit to boost criminal and especially gang activity, alongside Afghans, Somalis, Roma, etc . We should not let them into the country.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      They did mention that the court was told petrol had been spread around the property but didn’t explain why .
      Guess the local paper will carry it but since there’s no white faces involved ( racism) al been won’t be interested .

      Nothing more about the Romford explosion on Sunday . Al beeb and especially that beeboid shit N Robinson
      Too busy trying to start a war with Russia.

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  45. Doublethinker says:

    With Italian election result Even the BBC is recognising that ‘populism’ is still gaining ground in Europe along with anti immigration , or anti invasion, sentiment, see an article by Katie Adler on BBC news on the web site . She pleads with Brussels to do something , to listen and act on the concerns of the people. Well I guess that most of us on this site hope and expect that the EU will just carry on as normal ignoring the wishes of the people until the people come for them and dismantle the EU all together. All we can say is that if the BBC are worried it must be GOOD news.

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    • EnglandExpects says:

      With 600,000 Africans and middle easterners dumped onto Italy, many by charities running taxi services from the Libyan coast to Europe, it’s hardly surprising that Italians have reacted. Their left wing government will be out and discontent with the EU grows. The BBC is in anguish.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      I checked the BBC website this morning and found that the above story was hidden away well down at the bottom of the World news page, all sorts of dross above it. There was no other mention of this key European story. If the people who voted Leave get to hear of what their Italian friends have done it might undermine the carefully constructed Remain narrative that The EU is great place to be.

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  46. StewGreen says:

    9pm BBC2 last part of Collateral the David Hare drama
    Radio Times review
    \\ occasionally we get worthy speechifying, especially from the Labour MP played by John Simm.

    “It’s called a free market,” he hectors his party leader at one point tonight. “Do you know what that means? The free movement of people! You can’t have one without the other.”
    When she replies, “What is this, civics class?” we know how she feels, because the whole drama is a bit like that. //

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  47. Lock13 says:

    BBC tell me it isn’t true ‘ Not Sir Mohamed of Farah’ – My life is shattered – Winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year for the last nine years on the trot, the ‘UK’s Greatest evah Sportsman’ (Player of music so loud that he couldn’t hear the drugs testers at his front door) – please tell me it’s not true – my life is in tatters. Next you will be telling me Nadia can’t cook for toffee .

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Lock,
      It’s true though isn’t it. Whenever a person of colour wins some award or competition that the BBC has anything to do with , you think FIX. It’s unfair because undoubtedly many POCs win on merit but the BBC has devalued their deserved success by fixing and meddling and their attempts at social engineering.

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      • Deborah says:

        But Sir Mo, a Somali, living as a tax exile away from Britain, why is he the darling of the BBC? Mr D pointed out that as so many at the BBC think it is fine to avoid tax they have a lot in common with Sir Mo.

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  48. StewGreen says:

    Channel 93 , the new social worker like channel *
    9pm Hidden Heart (repeated at 11pm)
    “Hidden Heart tells the stories of Muslim women who find love outside their faith, while capturing all the joys and struggles that come along with it.”

    * 93 Together : is the ‘do more’ channel.
    We exist to motivate people to do more in their lives, and for the lives of others.
    Together inspires, facilitates and above all connects people,

    They have a regular soap set on an organic farm

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    • StewGreen says:

      What made them leave Islam, was being forced into it.
      One womans spoke of how she was carted off to morroco “sold” to be married
      then gets back to school in England and spots another crying , and realises she’s been married off as well.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Another prog starts on Wednesday
      Broke Britain – Faces of Poverty
      TogetherChannel93 – Wednesday 7th March 2018 – 22:30

      “Two refugees recall their incredible journeys to reach Britain, surviving people-trafficking, imprisonment and internment camps. They arrive unable to control their fate. Hosted by Omar Bynon.”

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  49. BlackCountryWench says:

    Inside out, bbc1 Midlands at 7.30.

    Three items on the programme, the first one a con man expose, strangely for once all interviewed were white.

    Second item was presented by the sometimes breakfast presenter on the Midlands section of breakfast “news”. A young Asian gentleman, with beautifully manicured eyebrows and is as camp as a row of tents.

    Potentially interesting section about a shipwreck during the First World War near Oman and a divers attempts to find it. He is interviewed and all is rosy, he finds the ship on the first attempt and unbelievably it has its own ecosystem, which does sound and look fantastic, dolphins and a whole new breed of whales have been discovered, sounds wonderful, then we go back to the presenter with his sad face on.

    The system is being broken down by fishing, and the diver has put proposals to the Oman government that they start a 25 mile exclusion zone round this ship, regardless of how difficult it might make things for fishermen already. I was also waiting for the plastic issue to be mentioned, but despite the fact it seems to be all over our oceans, amazingly not here. How strange.

    The last item was a bit about Birmingham in 1968 as there is a “pop up” film festival (whatever one of those are) about the city in 1968. Some comic I have never heard of before presents this section.

    It starts with the inevitable mention of Enoch Powell and the “Rivers of Blood” speech given in the city that year. He is of course called “right wing” then we quickly cut away to someone who I have never heard of before saying there was so much more to the city than just that speech that year, I agree. After all just outside Birmingham, the mighty West Bromwich Albion won the FA Cup that year!!

    There’s a interesting little piece about Mothers Club in Erdington which was quite a famous club in its time. John Peel DJ’d there and slept in a Winnebago at the side of the club according to the presenter. I would imagine in 1968 it was more likely to be a Transit van……

    Then we cross the city to Balsall Heath and a collection of photos taken by a American photographer in 1968, just as the old buildings were being knocked down and tower blocks and rabbit hutch houses took their place.

    All the photographs shown had a black or Asian person in them, the shop they focused on was a Asian shop, but it was rather touching as the gentleman who ran the shop was shown the photos and his wife who died in 1977 was on them.

    This could’ve been a really interesting section, showing how truly bad a lot of the housing was and how communities changed forever, but instead we got the usual emphasis on the immigrant community. The photos are being shown though from the 10th March and I would be interested to see them as im interested in that period of history.

    All in all, it was a mishmash of the bbcs favourite projects, and could’ve been so much more interesting, the last part especially.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      John Peel used a transit van too did he BCW?
      Oh dear-Jimmy Savile did the same, wonder if the BBC had a “Childcatchers Fleet” of similar vans for their DJ “talent”?
      Now I`m wondering about Hatty Harmans “Pink Womens van” in the 2015 election_Labour seem similarly keen to get their fingers on the nub of our youth.
      Give our love to Doreen Tipton-surely the next leader of our nation. The BBC must hate her, but we all love her!

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      • BlackCountryWench says:

        I will Holly, fully paid up member of the Yam Yam Party here, independence from Birmingham is the next big project!!

        Yes, I had to laugh about John Peel (who admittedly I did listen to religiously in the late ’70’s/early ’80’s) and his Tranny van. What is it about Radio 1 DJs of that era and vans?!

        Whoops, just realised I called a Transit van a tranny van, cue the thought police knocking my door later

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    • JimS says:

      John Peel in The Telegraph

      Back in Britain, having joined Radio 1 at its inception, he found that his driving slowed somewhat. “I bought a Bedford Dormobile. It was a summer of ’67 kind of car, and we took it across Europe.” Then came a chilly Land Rover-based camper that did sterling service taking him to gigs – “I was the king of the polytechnics” – and as a mobile dormitory after his Radio 1 shows.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Funny how Mr Peel got to sainthood with al beeb but during those decades took advantage of his fame engaging with young girls – he hadn’t been edited out of the Top of the Pops repeats which no longer feature beeboids like Saville and DLT.

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