Weekend Open Thread 1 September 2018

So the Far  Left anti Semitic BBC has to find a way to report on the anti Semitic goings on in their favourite Far Left political party – Labour . What are its options? Ignore, look the other way ; decide that there is a more important issue or attack the victims of Labour Party bullying

Meanwhile Far Left BBC reporters in America will be lining up to condemn President Trump whilst lauding a dead white republican politician just because he didn’t like Mr. Trump . The political swamp will be showing its collective false grief along with the BBC

 

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352 Responses to Weekend Open Thread 1 September 2018

  1. LastChanceSaloon says:

    Guardian opinion 2018-09-01
    “Scotland loves the deep-fat fryer. Could Syrians change that?” Ian Jack

    “On a fine day, I can glimpse the outskirts of Greenock, on a hill a few miles across the Clyde from where I write, on the island of Bute”

    You can read the rest yourself, but I would not bother.

    Ian, when you have a minute, with your extensive knowledge of Bute, tell us about the rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail on Bute in July 2018.

    Especially the extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, efforts to prevent the name of the murderer becoming public.

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  2. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “”US ends aid to Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45377336

    The opening photo is of well dressed Palestinian school girls to tug at the hear-strings.

    No bias there, then?

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    • john in cheshire says:

      Iain Dale is talking about it on LBC at the moment and as usual he’s not asking pertinent questions such as why does the UN have a relief agency, UNRWA, dedicated to these people living in the area known as palestine when the UN has a relief agency that supposedly provides help to everyone; what makes these arabs, I think they are, so special? And, why should the USA give money to people who hate them, work against them and yet demand money as though it’s a right for them to be given it. The same question applies to the UK too.

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    • TrueToo says:

      Dover Sentry,

      It needs to be said again and again that there cannot be a group of people in the history of the planet more coddled (and less deserving of being coddled) than the Palestinians.

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  3. Cassandra says:

    I haven’t seen any reports by the BBC News departments on the recent findings of The Office of National Statistics concerning the number of births to mothers who were not born in the UK for the year 2017.

    My local newspaper ‘The Express and Star’ gives a comprehensive breakdown for The Black Country:
    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2018/09/01/third-of-mothers-not-born-in-the-uk/
    “The most common place of origin for mothers in both areas was the Middle East and Asia, according to the data, making up 46 per cent of the group.”

    The Birmingham Mail analyses the statistics for Birmingham:
    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/surprising-number-births-foreign-born-15082039
    “The data shows that…. 22.3 per cent were born to mothers born in Asia and the Middle East – up from 22.0 per cent in 2016. Some 9.1 per cent were born to mothers born in Africa (up from 8.9 per cent), while 6.4 per cent were born to mothers from the “new” European Union countries (up from 6.3 per cent).”
    The Birmingham Mail distorts the true figures by not including mothers who were born in the UK of Pakistani or Asian origin. Walk around Birmingham now and you will see that white people are now in the minority.

    The magazine ‘Fortune’ looks at the statistics for the whole of the UK by focusing on the most popular boys names:
    http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/muhammad-william-popular-baby-names/
    image?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com%2F2017%2F09%2Fbaby-names.png&w=1100&q=85

    Not like the BBC to remain silent on topics like this.

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  4. john in cheshire says:

    Here’s a subject that needs to be widely discussed and implanted into the bovine brains of the moochers in the HoP:

    https://christianityisnotleftwing.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-reason-for-treason.html

    We need a proper law to deal with traitors. The only thing I’d question in the article is that I think treason should be a capital offense not life imprisonment.

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    • theisland says:

      Agree on both counts.

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      • LastChanceSaloon says:

        jic, Suggest three modifications.
        The law must be ex post facto.
        Hanging, drawing and quartering.
        In public.
        Thousands of guilty, but Blair is #1 in my opinion. I would even buy a ticket. Perhaps if we should have a lottery and the winning prize was to chop Blair into bits. We might raise enough money to pay for some de-enrichment.

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  5. StewGreen says:

    Progress : the BBC doesn’t copy the Green Party in saying their organiser has been jailed for “sexual offences”
    Green Party suspends member over father’s child rape conviction
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45373833

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  6. StewGreen says:

    ‘Voice of cricket’ Henry Blofeld, 78, reveals he is swapping ‘horribly violent’ London for Spain after a thug on a moped stabbed his friend because ‘You don’t see many Englishmen where I live’

    https://popularcrime.com/2018/08/31/voice-of-cricket-henry-blofeld-78-reveals-he-is-swapping-horribly-violent-london-for-spain-after-a-thug-on-a-moped-stabbed-his-friend-because-you-dont-see-many-englishmen-where-i-live/

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  7. AsISeeIt says:

    An exchange of gags on BBC Radio 4’s New Quiz actually made me chuckle a little rather than the usual wince yesterday.

    After some tedious anti-British anti-colonial anti-Brexit scripted material on Theresa May’s African tour (but as in a parallel comedy universe John Cleese in blackface might once have remarked ‘what have the British ever done for us eh?’) we had a section on Scallop Wars – you know, this new fishing conflict off Brittany (that’s the French province not the hit-me-one-more-time singer).
    Comedienne (either Angela Barnes or Helen Lewis, I think) does an old school English French-bashing joke:
    “eventually the British fleet retreated after a few minutes stone-throwing and taunting and I believe that is the biggest French military victory since Hastings”
    Much laughter. Some of it from both the panel and BBC audience a little self-conscious and awkward (guilty, perhaps) or perhaps I’m reading too much into it?
    Anyway. Inveterate lugubrious lefty Mark Steel seems to have bantered in reply off the cuff:
    “This is what the News Quiz is gonna be like after Brexit!…. It’s all gonna be this!”
    A funny comment right? But think how much he implies about the present nature of News Quiz. It’s almost as though Steel is letting on to his audience how there is presently in place a cosy form of censorship or editorial agenda for jokes – that could be lifted after Brexit and what a bad idea that would be.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Update on allegations of child sexual exploitation in Govanhill: 6 people (5 males and 1 female) arrested and charged in connection with offences relating to child abuse and neglect. Follows investigation last year by @thetimesscot

    What’s the problem ethnicity there ?
    “It is not suggested that the victims or the perpetrators are from the Roma community. ”
    Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency takes in Govanhill
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45367765

    old 2017 audio report
    https://audioboom.com/posts/6496985-connor-gillies-reports-on-roma-children-being-forced-in-to-prostitution-by-their-parents-in-glasgow

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  9. StewGreen says:

    Seceret Barrister’s book is #4 in the hardback charts

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  10. G.W.F. says:

    The balloon is up, the emir of London looks a pratt.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7151300/sadiq-khan-bikini-wearing-balloon-flown-over-westminster/

    Even the BBC can’t avoid reporting it.

    £50 000, not bad for a world wide advert covered by every media organization

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  11. Sir_Arthur_Strebe-Grebling says:

    The Times has dicovered that the taxman is vetoing potential nominees for an honour if their tax affairs might be disliked by the tabloid press. Gary Lineker and Wayne Rooney, amongst others, have found perfectly legal ways to avoid paying tax so this seems unfair, especially when there are other valid reasons not to give them an honour: Lineker for treason because he is encouraging millions of foreigners to come here, some of whom will end up raping English girls or plotting mass murder against us. And Rooney because he’s a Scouser.

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  12. G says:

    More stabbings by “refugee”. Amsterdam this time just reported.
    https://newobserveronline.com/afghan-refugee-invader-stabbing-attack-in-amsterdam-central-station/

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Al beeb going into great detail on the coffin bearers for the funeral of their favourite Republican Party dead American politician – just because he disapproved of President Trump .

    Al beeb always claims to be unbiased but looking at this coverage it is anything but –

    For another example – listen to mad John sweeney on From the beebs own biased correspondents ranting against the Chinese
    Over their treatment of Chinese Muslims . No balance . No both sides – just a bitter rant . I take it Sweeney is a muzzie .

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    • scribblingscribe says:

      Really odd. I don’t recall the BBC eulogizing about McCain during his election contest with Obama. As I recall they were very unimpressed with the white, Republican, evil, Bush lackey.

      Clearly my memory must be getting shaky.

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  14. G says:

    I’d prefer to trust this version compared to the lying BBC –
    “Germany: Refugee Attackers Stabbed Chemnitz Victim 25 Times in Slaughter, Reveals AfD Parliamentarian”
    https://newobserveronline.com/germany-refugee-attackers-stabbed-chemnitz-victim-25-times-in-slaughter-reveals-afd-parliamentarian/

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  15. Sluff says:

    The BBC seems to have become the ABC. That’s the Aretha Broadcasting Corporation.
    I look forward to seeing their approach should a more famous white male singer die.
    Anyone envisage daily publicity and then live coverage on the BBC of Elton, Rod, Paul, or Mick’s demise and funeral in due course?
    Somehow, I suspect not. No agenda or narrative to promote.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Sluff, they did give Bowie, Prince and Jackson a fair bit of coverage on departure. Nothing like the amount Kate Bush got when she did her first live gig for many years about three or four years back. The Beeb went overboard on that.

      I think that was the start of softening the public up to accept a limited amount of advertising on BBC Radio 4 and BBC One. This morning on TOADY it was a blatant plug for a woman’s dance academy.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      I had great fun mixing and mashing McCains bash with Arethas…you know, King of Soul and the POW who lived off pork scratchings as a POW at the Finsbury Park Astoria back in the late 60s.
      And if you tell them that you only even knew her disco hit “I Will Survive”? Well, you find out who your friends are. Which is why I`m on my jack this Saturday night surely?
      Johnny Franklin, Aretha McCain- neither did much did they?
      But they are liberal pin cushions for one news cycle anyway, the real swamp drainers are voodoo dolls like Tommy Trump!

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Far left bbc covering the funeral of a dead foreign politician .the dead politicians daughter turned it into an anti trump political rant as a pre amble to Obama and Bush doing the same no doubt .drain the damned swamp.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Fed up,
      Her father was a fully paid up member of the Globalist elite and she is polishing up her cv so that she too can join the club.
      The situation in the USA becomes more incredible as every day brings some new revelation of the corruption and abuse of power by the deep state aimed at removing the President. It is now proven beyond any doubt , let alone reasonable doubt, that there has been a conspiracy at the highest levels to mount a soft coup and remove the president from office. Yet the media , with a few honourable exceptions, ignore the mountain of evidence and continue to pursue Trump on the thoroughly discredited story that he colluded with Russians to steal the 2016 election.
      If the Republicans hold onto the Hof R in the Nov election , and probably even if they don’t, then I am certain that Trump will force through the declassification of documents which will show how extensive and corrupt the conspiracy was. It will make Watergate look insignificant . Once that happens the media will have a hell of a lot of explaining to do to the American people. Just as the BBC will when explaining why they have been silent on this story.
      But By now I would have expected that the media would be cutting and running from their conspiratorial friends. That they aren’t makes me wonder if they have a plan that no matter what happens Trump will be got rid of one way or another. Of course they may be able to find a way to get rid of Trump , illegally probably, but getting rid of the sixty plus million who voted for him will be impossible by any democratic means .
      It makes me think that democracy is at stake in America and if the deep state win through against the President then they will never be able to repair the damage that they have inflicted. Who knows what will happen after that?

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      • countryblues says:

        What comes after Trump? An Obama clone to restore (what was once known as) normality by some? 🙁

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        • G.W.F. says:

          What comes after Trump? Republicans need to be careful. They spend their time attacking Clinton whilst the beatiful Clooneys are preparing.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Double
        Have democrat appointed senior staff in the organs of State doesn’t help Mr Trumps’ mission much . I preferred the footy results against listening to direct and indirect attacks on the president through the funeral of a career politician -short military and 40 years in the swamp

        I agree that they’ll do every thing they can to get rid of President Trump – get the secret service to look the other way or give him something to stop him waking up.

        Personally I hope mr Trump keeps going and even gets a second term

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      • G says:

        DT, I sense that if Pres. Trump is nobbled – permanently – there could be a civil war in the States. Many are now contemplating that outcome. Whatever the outcome and how ever long Pres. Trump survives for, America will be a changed country as the population (that counts) see what can come of good management and custodianship.

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    • countryblues says:

      Has any of the swamp been drained yet? 🙁

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Not much but they have been exposed for what they are, an undemocratic unaccountable elite. If the American people want the President to drain the swamp they have to help him do it. The deep state is fighting hard and exceptionally dirty, the President needs help in his noble effort to reinstate democracy in America.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Country – well taking on the UN is a good start as is pushing NATO members to pay for their own security – the US economy being generally health can’t be bad . And identifying the MSM as the enemy is good too even as approval ratings improve despite the bubble propaganda machine including foreign press such as the far left bbc taking daily snide pot shots .

        For a non politician to be 2 years in with such circumstances can’t be too bad can it ? He hasn’t drawn red lines which can’t be crossed – and then does nothing when they are showing a weak presidency or have allegations of sex in the Oval Office on his head….or be as thick as George bush.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I am finding one aspect quite funny, and that is waiting for Obama to realise he is not getting calls to perform because of anything he actually did worth much (which would be hard to find), but simply because he is a living ex President required by various bitter entities to wheel out to try and diss Trump.

      Who simply works on his backswing.

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  17. AsISeeIt says:

    And we go over to St John’s Wood for the very last time for an update on the cricket with Henry Blofeld…
    ‘My dear old things… I’ll soon be saying ta-ta to Test Match Special as I’ll be off to the costa Del Boy in Spain shortly aboard one of those smashing sliver airliners – just like the one crossing high above Lord’s now from the direction of the Nursery End… and as the West Indian takes his guard… forward defensive with a… I think that’s a Zombie Killer blade (most of the Windies chaps these days are equipped with a Gunn and Moore). The Pakistani attack are opening with pace… running in… polishing his machete… well goodness me, he’s riding pillion on the rear of a moped! Left-arm fast drive-by, unless I’m mistaken. Obviously hoping to snatch something quick early on. And the umpire Mr Sadiq Khan is signalling there’s nothing untoward, looking the other way. There’s certainly no chance our female bad publicity fielders in the slips Rozza, Plod, and I think I recognise Lezza, are likely to catch anything today – apart from a cold. So cheerio my dear old things, I’ve a plane to catch!’

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  18. LastChanceSaloon says:

    This is my next get rich quick scheme.
    I am going to sell skin darkening cream.
    Millions of Europeans and North Americans desperately wish to become as black as the ace of spades.
    Why should their wishes not be granted?
    If I can get a patent for my cream I will be able to charge exorbitant prices.

    The bonus is, when we start re-exporting non Europeans to the homes of their ancestors, we can also export the newly black. The newly black will be almost totally non-productive drones and no loss to the economy.

    I believe a few brown envelopes to certain producers in the BBC and we could see my cream “advertised” regularly on BBC programmes. The scripts on Eastenders etc. could be changed so that black characters tell of their delight to be going home. The newly black could extol the virtues of both their new blackness and the fifth world slums they are going to.

    Anything I am missing?

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    • Beltane says:

      Probably dead by now, but George Mitchell had a large supply a few years back. You could very likely pick it up for a song.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Think you mean BLACK envelopes LCS, dont you?
      Our school secretary would send you to reorientation classes after school, if she heard you calling them that.
      They prefer to be called black, or “envelopes of colour”.
      No-don`t mention it, here to help!

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  19. AsISeeIt says:

    And we re-join Henry Blofeld in NW8 just once more for an update on the cricket, apparently his flight to Spain has been delayed, due to Brexit, Henry…

    ‘My dear old things… just checking the scoreboard as they tot up the numbers… and we’ve a century up. Over one hundred off the blade this year, well goodness me. The total score includes a lot of drive-bys. They’ll certainly be painting some unusual new names on the Honours Board in the Pavillion. And Sadiq Khan acknowledges the crowd with a shrug and an anti-Trump nod and he’s one hundred not out!’

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  20. taffman says:

    Remember when they laughed at him when “Donald Trump said London hospital is like ‘war zone’ because of knife crime”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/trump-nra-london-hospital-knives

    Well, yet another stabbing in Londonistan …………
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/london-stabbing-caledonian-knife-attack-woman-injured-a8518156.html
    Anything on Al Beeb yet?

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  21. theisland says:

    Nothing to add – get rid of them.

    https://twitter.com/ActivePatriots/status/1035942940034654208

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    • taffman says:

      Did they sail all the way from Iraqi?
      No?
      Deport. They are invaders.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Clearly the boat skipper who picked them up was not going to say anything contentious on camera, so contained his comments to how desperate they were, and all they had endured before being picked up. The interviewer nor interviewee bothered to say how many safe European countries had been crossed before the Iraqi & wife took to sea in a beautiful pea green boat ! Why were they brought to Dover, what was wrong with Calais Skipper ??? Its disgusting.

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        • taffman says:

          BRISSLES
          Is our Government deliberately ‘turning a blind eye’? They seem to be cramming in as many as they can before we get out of the EU.
          Is France so bad that they cannot be sent back there? This so called Government is a bloody joke.

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      • john in cheshire says:

        Perhaps they can exchange them for that woman in the iranian jail who had been trained by the far-left bbc to use propaganda against the iranian government.

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  22. Doobster78 says:

    I actually hate and detest Jon sopel with a passion. He typifies everything that is wrong with journalism at the BBC especially. Impartiality is long gone with him. Long gone. I don’t think you will ever see a more clear cut case of Trump Derangement Syndrome in your life than poor Jon has got. I can’t tweet him anymore cos he blocked me as some of my comments were, well, a bit , fruity !!!!

    Here he is saying how “classy” trump is for tweeting on the day of McCain’s funeral, but completely fails to mention the utter classlessness of McCain’s daughter at her father’s funeral having a pathetic dig at trump in her speech. But this is sopel so he is very selective what he actually heard

    https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCJonSopel/status/1035914106577072129

    And then digs at trump again in a further tweet , belittling him for going playing golf whilst McCain’s funeral is on. He WASN’T invited Sopel you moron. He can do what he wants. If he went. It’s disrespectful, if he stays away like McCain’s specifically requested, he’s disrespectful. Trump just cannot win with pricks like our Jon.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCJonSopel/status/1035913032382259200

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    • Beltane says:

      Sopel remains in a class of his own, though ITN’s Robert Moore can run him close at times. They probably went to the same school.

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      • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

        We all knew sneaky little shits like Sopel at school…….kissing teachers arse and grassing people up. Horrible slimy creep. He’s high on my list of people I intend to punch if I ever see them.

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      • john in cheshire says:

        Would that be the far-left bbc school of journalism/ propaganda?

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Sopel is not a journalist. he is a propagandist, allowed by the bbc to bring us a non -stop anti-Trump narrative. He could equally well have worked for Goebbels: the enemy is always the same, the good guys are always the same. The propaganda has to go out on a daily basis.
      Most of his colleagues have similar platforms to promote their agendas. They are not about reporting the news, they are about finding ‘news’ to suit their narratives and ignore the rest.They are not journalists at all.
      Result: When Sopel comes on we know exactly what line he is going to follow. Ditto Nick Bryant, etc etc
      Bottom line:We don’t really need ‘the news’ from the BBC. Not on Trump. Not on Chemnitz. Not on Labour Party problems.

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    • Doobster78 says:

      Sopel now retweets

      https://mobile.twitter.com/pdanahar/status/1035915131669164032

      Quite literally WTF ??! He was not invited. What do they want him to do !!!!

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    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      D78
      I would be grateful if you (or another BBBC poster) could explain the Twitter situation to me.
      I have never used Twitter, so please be as monosyllabic as possible.
      You have been blocked by Sopel.
      What prevents you re-joining Twitter under another nom de plume and then irritating Sopel until he blocks you again?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Last
        I think you can rejoin twitter under another email address , name and user name – then off to combat Sopel – personally I wouldn’t want to give Sopel another following as it will only encourage the smug…. beeboid .

        I was gonna write s;;t but been swearing a bit too much recently and sometimes need to ask fellow site users for restraint .

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Can’t even be bothered to find out how the comments are going. The bbc version of reality seems to have been outed totally.

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  24. Up2snuff says:

    The BBC have at times – especially last night and this morning – been about to endow the late John McCain with sainthood, so effusive were they in praise for him.

    In my book, someone who lashes out with his last Will & Testament, his instructions for his funeral and via his family at that same event is anything but a saint.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Agree Up2 – I didn’t see Sarah Palin there and was looking forward to her speech but al beeb seems to have disconnected her from McCain
      Jeez just how long did that show go on for seemed like 3 or 4 hours… the footy hadn’t started when coverage did and it was still rolling as the Man City game started …..

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        Imagine Sarah is now in a pickle after Aretha changed the rules.
        She`s worn FOUR outfits as she lay there in Detroit, and carried both Laboutains AND Choos into the whole service saga.
        I`m at the crem for an old neighbour of mine next week-so, like Sarah, am wondering how many changes I`m going to need in the half hour and curled up quiche bit that follows.
        No wonder Sarah didn`t go. She looks so good in black that the likes of Bill would not be able to keep their peckers in their pants.
        No wonder he carries a box of man size tissues with him, John Prescott used to need to do the same.

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      • john in cheshire says:

        I believe No Name specifically did not invite Sarah Palin.

        I doubt any of his fellow servicemen were invited either. And it seems, because of him, not a few would be unable to be there because they’re dead thanks to No Name; aircraft carrier personnel and POWs/MIAs in Vietnam in particular.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Brain cancer-so imagine those last few weeks as he told the lugenpresse that Trump would NOT be getting an invite to the funeral parlour.
      Had he spent a bit more time, wondering why he lost and why Trump WON?…then he might have had something of import to leave us with.
      The BBC do have this tendency now don`t they?
      Helmut Kohl was the first nomark to get the UN Seal OF Approval on a sordid, chiselling life…and Aretha deserves no more that Gloria Gaynor or either of the Weather Girls really , does she?
      These stiffs are more use to the liberal elite when dead, than they ever were in life.
      McCain was a ten a penny grifter, albeit entitled to his disability scooter after letting himself get caught in `Nam.
      He served the liberal elite by making Obama look good by comparison in 2008, as well as handing the Crimea/Ukraine to Putin by being a muppet.
      My history is better than anybody working at the BBC these days. But then so is Chris Morris, and he makes it all up as we all do.

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  25. RJ says:

    I learned something from today’s PM Programme in their report from Chemnitz. I had always thought that the term “lugenpress” to describe the lying press had a long history in Germany, going back at least to the Revolution of 1848. I’d even seen references to its use during the Franco Prussian war. However, according to the PM Programme it’s a Nazi term and anyone using it is a Nazi. The fact that some of the protesters at Chemnitz used it proved, at least to the satisfaction of the BBC reporter, that they were Nazis. Yet another instance of “Is that true, or is it something you heard on the BBC?”

    If the BBC is going to object to people criticising the press for lying they really should avoid telling more lies in their report – otherwise it rather proves the point.

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    • Nibor says:

      RJ

      I went on to a PDF version of William L Shirer’s book The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich and looked up Lugenpresse . No results found . If it was such a big item in the Nazi state I’m sure the exhaustive book would have mentioned it .

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        Lots of mentions of “Islamophobia” and a need for Hitler to address charges of “anti-Semitism” from 1915 though I`m sure.
        The BBC are already scrawling over any books to add their take on it all, peoples like Shirer and Bullock seem so-well, “certain” of things.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I popped ‘origins of word ‘lugenpresse’ into google. Tentatively, especially as I now know google to be as much a starting point at best on any factual journey; much like the bbc.

      Interesting. On the first page, almost exclusively MSM titles lying their mastheads off. Ironically.

      Just one link stood out, and it was of all things Wikipedia.

      Which apparently none of the US media bothered to check.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Cheers @GuestWho I tweeted a screenshot

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  26. Beltane says:

    Frank Field earns plaudits for his honourable resignation – but how much more honourable might it have been had he revealed and explained the true reasons behind the rise in anti-Semitism. And the significance of those reasons in relation to Labour votes.
    Then again, no one in public life or the media has the courage to tell the truth, so why expect a 76-year-old to do the work?

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    In accordance with my name – after an hour I gave on the McCain fest – so I wonder if anyone stuck with it .? I wonder if military service was mentioned much since Clinton and bush were draft dodgers and Obama was too busy being down with the kids in Chicago to put on the uniform .

    You can’t say America s military achieved a great deal during the tenure of those 3 presidents and as I have said before at least President Trump has adopted a ‘what’s it it for us?’ Doctrine instead of starting wars with no clear gain .

    I just hope Blighty avoid sending kids in uniform to fight other people’s wars just so that politicians can sound statemen like – eg Blair , Major ….

    I hasten to add I am no pacifist and love to hear that an Anglo America drone has killed lots of people who are not our friends …whether they might have a UK passport or not .

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  28. Holly Selassie says:

    Typical of the BBC to moan about Trump not going to Mc Cains Oven Ready sindig.
    How can he be in two places at once?
    Someone ought to tell Jon Sopel that he was dressed in blackface, and impersonating a Big Fat Black Momma near the front of Arethas send off.
    It`s 9.30 now-send it to a BBC intern on duty and Sopel/Kay will be tweeting it worldwide by the time Paddy O Connells morning glory has subsided.

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  29. Nibor says:

    John Mcain is lauded by the BBC for one reason only .
    It’s not his war record or his political life , his morals or speeches .
    It’s because he was part of the swamp and didn’t like Trump .

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    • Lobster says:

      I wonder if he would have been so lauded by the BBC had he beaten Obama in the Presidential elections?

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      • Guest Who says:

        The bbc don’t seem to know much of anything. Was Katty not in the royal box?

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        • gb123 says:

          KK has been swamp dwelling at our expense in the UK for how long? She should know that she might hear the same tunes as God Save the Queen and Land of Hope and Glory in various ceremonies in the US. Probably too busy with the prawn cocktail and champers along with thinking up one word insults against Donald Trump to be bothered understand the local culture.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      No Name’s favourite song was “Bomb Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boys song Barbara Anne. He is on YouTube singing it and grinning from ear to ear at his cleverness.

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  30. taffman says:

    According to Al Beeb “Record demand for sexual health services amid spending cuts”.
    More people coming in to the country = more demand.
    Simples!
    Why cant they see this ?

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  31. taffman says:

    Why do you pay your Telly Tax for this ?…………………………..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45331730

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  32. taffman says:

    Trouble in Germany?
    Nowt on Al Beeb.

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      There was a little on R4 tonight, but the facts were so twisted to suit the narrative, the ‘news’ was USELESS. It told yo NOTHING about what really happened in Chemnitz. There was the PC version of anti immigrant racism. Nothing about knife crime and murder by ‘asylum seekers’, that kicked this whole thing off. Nothing about Merkel who made the whole thing possible. Disgusting lies; propaganda from first to last.

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  33. taffman says:

    Al Beeb and the media swamp are using a funeral to demonise POTUS Trump…………..
    “The two Republicans had major differences, both personal and political, and Mr McCain’s family made it clear that Mr Trump was not welcome.”
    Drain the swamp.

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    • StewGreen says:

      There is some chance that media might be hiding some sleaze allegations about St McCain

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  34. LastChanceSaloon says:

    BBC 2018-09-02. Compare and Contrast.
    Patriot Trump slashes aid to #2 terrorist nation, Pakistan.
    Patriot is my term, not used in the report.
    Come on Donald, tell the UN to live elsewhere.

    Arch Traitor May “no compromise on Chequers plan.”
    “it would be a “gross betrayal of our democracy and… trust”
    Meanwhile Conservative MP Nick Boles, has another cunning plan to thwart Brexit.
    Is it something in the name Nicholas? They all seem to be traitors.
    JRM, torpedos below the waterline please.

    But the report is 80% about the so-called “People’s Vote”. So no need to be concerned, treason at the BBC is full steam ahead.

    In another report an 81 year old man has had “gender re-assignment”. Where is the BBC outrage about this waste of funds at their beloved NHS? AWOL.
    Perhaps we should all self-identify as 67 and demand a pension, refusing this would be ageism.

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    • king crimson says:

      LCS – I have been self-identifying as a 75 year old for the last 20 odd years…Free/No TV licence!!

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  35. Celtic_Mist says:

    BBC Breakfast News – just watched unchallenged crap from the Prison Reform Trust followed by some woman with a dog collar moaning about populism and Trump’s failure to give respect to McCain!

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  36. StewGreen says:

    7:15am R4
    – Happy item about Refugee Centre in Coventry which seems to only he’ll Syrian and Iraqi refugees
    Refugee “I just love the diversity of Coventry”

    – The redesign of the Niquabi Woman comic book superhero.
    The costume was too figure hugging before.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45331730

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    • StewGreen says:

      #3 by 7:45pm We are onto politician Yasmin Qureshi, LabourMP for Bolton
      ….. who gets abuse about Islam/race
      ..we hear her talking about that strange Punish a Muslim Day letter.

      ..is that all she is A Victim ?
      #Victimhood

      Prog was presented by Rajiv Gupta

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    • StewGreen says:

      “I just love the diversity of Coventry”
      Ah yes diverse Coventry is in the news
      The Special’s grandson was just stabbed to death
      (Black 21yr old called Fidel Staple)

      Meanwhile up the road the Coventry Green Party HQ was used by their kingpin to abuse kids in the attic.

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  37. carterdaniel says:

    Did they play ”Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran” at the war monger’s funeral as well?

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  38. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC political correspondent Susana Mendonça seems to think that in the 1980s the famous gang of four split from the Labour Party to form the SDLP.

    World class market rate unique expertise there.

    Oh Susana, worth a licence fee just for her Twitter : “In case you missed it #TheresaMay #DanceMoves”

    Has Katty got a rival?

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  39. Beeb Brother says:

    Profile on my beloved radio 4 has fallen to the wretched ‘diversity’ bug. I like hearing about someone who went to Oxford then joined the civil service but today we hear of the author of a book about yardies who went into hiding having published the book as he feared reprisals. Lovely. What was always so soothing about radio 4 was how lusciously polite, quintessentially English and middle class it was. I do not want to hear about someone glamourising crime – it makes me feel stressed and annoyed rather than relaxed. They are not making the channel more ‘vibrant’ and accessible; they are alienating their current loyal listeners with this cultural vandalism. F**k ‘diversity’ it has ruined our once glorious capital.

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  40. carterdaniel says:

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    • Old Goat says:

      Although he looks odd, I love old Spoonclank – he’s always on message.

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      • john in cheshire says:

        He’s interesting but I’m still disturbed by him. He’s an ex-Satanist and now is a pagan.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Video’s key point is when he says McCain was more popular with Democrat voters than Republicans
      Yes news stories for the last 10 months have said that

      and the new Newsweek poll says
      Added together, 75 percent of Democrats thought favorably of McCain, versus 52 percent of Republicans.

      More Republicans had a “unfavorable” opinion of McCain than Democrats, 38 percent versus 25 percent
      (by adding in “somewhat unfavorable” as well)

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  41. Doobster78 says:

    Thersea may quite rightly rules out any second referendum. Chris mason does piece for BBC reporting this. Manages 10 seconds before report goes off piste and turns into just another BBC anti Brexit rant …. journalism my arse . Sickening.

    Now Christian reports more trouble in Germany overnight. The far right group AFG blamed for stirring up trouble he laments. I don’t quite remember the BBC having such moral issues when Corbyn and McDonald and the pug faced little shit Owen Jones were calling on people to storm the council offices after Grenfell and inciting hatred . Nope, still don’t remember.

    Update, now Christian is defending Corbyn to the hilt. Won’t let the woman from the Jewish movement finish a sentence. Christian clearly another Corbyn lovey at the BBC. 13 mins of BBC breakfast and I am out.

    Update. He is still defending Corbyn.

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    • Oaknash says:

      Doobster – only because she does not need it. When the current political charade is over and the EU (after much “hard” bargaining) have accepted the Chequers Surrender Document in some form (the tabloids all currently beavering away to kid us this is worth having) We will still be in the single Market as a Vassal state. I hope I am wrong on this but at the moment everything is all falling too nicely into place.
      As for Chris Mason “journalist” – your word “arse” was correct as it is the only thing his copy is any use for (wiping)

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  42. AsISeeIt says:

    And still with us here at the BBC we’re pleased to say we can join Henry Blofeld once more down in Kennington for the cricket. Apparently, he heard he may have some problems with his visa due to Brexit and he’s been told there’s even some uncertainty about the receipt of his pension through the Spanish banks – due to Brexit. Anyway over to Blowers at the Oval…
    ‘My dear old things… there’s great excitement here as we welcome the IPL to London. Just look at those marvellously coloured team shirts… what colour would you call that Tuffers…? Turquoise? Yes that’s the Somali Pirates in the turquoise. They’ve won the toss and their captain, who they seized last year off the Cambridge Eight in the Boat Race at Putney and they’re now holding hostage, I see he has elected to bat. Scattered around the field their opponents today we have the familiar black outfits of the So-Called Islamic State franchise. All those wonderful long beards. Puts one in mind of W G Grace. Painted right across the wicket the sponsor’s logo – the Al Qaeda Network, of course. Lots of rainbow flags being waved in happy contrast with the black flags fluttering in the breeze over the Pavilion End. Wonderful to see the crowd entering into the fun and games with groups in fancy dress, how jolly. Down at the Vauxhall End I see an entire row of what must be a dozen female vicars – just look at their moustaches.’

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  43. Guest Who says:

    http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2018/09/even-as-service-has-been-taking-place.html

    The crass opportunism of the assembled US luvvies at such plantings is one thing; the headlong rush by the state broadcaster of the U.K. to trump these classless tribal displays is… entirely predictable.

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  44. Guest Who says:

    It is all based on what the bbc has learned…

    http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2018/09/labels.html

    …or chooses to ignore.

    Apparently.

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  45. Beltane says:

    Curtis Deutsch, purportedly a scientist, has researched the impact of increasing temperatures on insect life and pro rata the effects on cereal production. Apparently their increased appetites will lead to 10-25% losses worldwide as higher temperatures drive the urge to eat more.
    Meanwhile, back in the real world, not populated with climate obsessed non-entities desperate for scientific stardom, the intake of food is to provide energy in the form of warmth – as true for a polar bear as a Botswanan beetle. Higher temperatures reduce the need for greater quantities of food since the body, any body, requires less energy to achieve the same level of life force.

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  46. Tabs says:

    This is currently linked from the BBC News website homepage…

    Free Rein, the British award-winning TV show you may not have heard of
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-45360615/free-rein-the-british-award-winning-tv-show-you-may-not-have-heard-of

    No BBC, I haven’t heard of it. Why are you telling me about it? Oh, the main star is black.

    The first 20 seconds of the video is enough to make you stop watching the video. The main star, who just happens to be black by pure chance, speaks with an IQ of 35, “I was like….. and you nailed it…… I’m totally the girl you see…. and I was like and she was like… you know?….like….yeah?”

    Those who can stomach the video all the way to 1m42s will observe the black star lied to get the acting job removing that opportunity from any of the 10,000’s of white UK girls that can actually ride a horse properly – something the UK is not short of.

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  47. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC Breakfast so we have the milk toast Christian Fraser bringing his Trump-bashing act to the sofa, a crusty female vicar for the newspaper review and a curate’s egg of a show – but mostly a rotten one.

    Prompted by the news that lots of prison officers have been caught out as being wrongens – naturally, this being the BBC – we get a talking head from the Prison Reform Trust (or some such) to tell it like it is.

    If I follow this chap’s argument correctly we should both spend lots more tax payer cash on the system… and let most of the cons out more often… and simultaneously not send them to choky so much in the first place.

    The BBC, eh? I turn off the TV as political reporter Chris Mason begins his gurning act on the subject of Brexit. I keep telling myself in those immortal words of Norman Stanley Fletcher “don’t let the bastards grind you down”

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  48. G says:

    I’ve just started on ‘The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS’ by the brilliant Robert Spencer. Whist most here will already understand the point, I quote a part of the Introduction passage:
    “…….there is no period since the beginning of Islam that was characterized by large-scale peaceful coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims. There was no time when mainstream and dominant Islamic authorities taught the equality of non-Muslims with Muslims or the obsolescence of jihad warfare…….There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad.”
    For the Globalists and the EU leadership (including our Treezer of course), the importation of virtually all muslims is a Grand Plan gone horribly wrong. I do not think, in the midst of the Globalists prime principle that all people are equal – there are no differences, they have ever realised that their primary foe – islam – is growing where it should not by using the opportunity presented to it by these grossly naïve people. Islam has been at war with the rest of the World since the 7th Century, perhaps even earlier and if the World leaders in their naivety think they can, long term, tame islam they are very much mistaken.
    “If history teaches us anything, it is simply this: every revolution carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. And empires that rise will one day fall.” – Princess Irulan (Dune, Frank Herbert) At the least, we witness this principle right now with the rapidly failing EU.
    But islam? Well, I’m convinced the people of Europe will eventually clean up the mess created by naive politicans and the UN/Soros. And that will surely be a bloody mess…………

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  49. jakita says:

    Headline news on the BBC website this morning:

    “May vows no compromise with EU on Brexit plan”

    You’ve got to laugh, as if it’s humanly possible for Theresa to water down Brexit any more than she already has!!!

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  50. pugnazious says:

    The BBC’s latest bit narrative shaping? ‘We are British Jews’ on Tuesday and Wednesday. The first programme looks at the shape of anti-Semitism in Britain today…any guesses that Corbyn and the Muslim ‘dirty little secret ‘ (#Mehdi Hasan) will get a mention in passing but the real problem wil be the rise of the Far-Right?

    Just seen this on ‘Is the BBC biased?’….

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    ‘Any Questions’, chaired by Shaun Ley, the panel being 3 to 1 anti-Brexit, the audience being solidly pro-Corbyn and anti-Brexit, the Chair being pro-EU did his best to downplay any criticism of Corbyn and any connection to anti-semitism. Just another day on the BBC.

    The second part travels for some reason to Israel and the West Bank meeting a settler and a Palestinian ‘victim’. Why? Is the BBC trying to make a connection between Israeli actions to defend itself and anti-semitism in Britain and thus, by happy coincidence, get Corbyn off the hook as it’s all Israel’s fault? Is this just an extended version of the BBC’s Tim Wilcox’s infamous claim that Jews should expect to be attacked due to Israeli actions in Gaza?…a double anti-semitic whammy….it is OK to attack Jews, there are justifications, and that justification is that Israeli is commiting war crimes and atrocities in Gaza…so Israel is denounced by a BBC reporter as an oppressive war criminal state. BBC feeding the anti-semitic beast growing in Europe whilst at the same time complaining about the rise of the Far-Right….but ignoring the main cause of that rise in anti-semitism….Muslim immigration to Europe which feeds off the likes of the BBC’s ‘evil Israel’ narrative.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      In my fantasy world, I live to see the day when Mrs Brown and thousands like her are on a ship being deported back to Africa. And she’s had to pay for her own travel costs.

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