Start the Year Open Thread 7th January 2019

The Far Left BBC continues Project Fear in the run up to exiting the EU. The Westminster Bubble will be in full panic mode as we edge nearer to 29 March . In the mean time the BBC continues to very selectively report events according to its political stance as opposed to its duty to inform the people who pay for it.

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467 Responses to Start the Year Open Thread 7th January 2019

  1. StewGreen says:

    Lily news


    and Lily was last on BBC on Saturday before Xmas with an ethnic Indian restauranteur woman.
    BBC = Metrolib clique.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    This Lee Rigby fraudster was jailed in Sept but is still £17K better off

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    I was thinking about what approach to Brexit an unbiased broadcaster would take ?

    Lies and truths by either side
    Spending by either side
    % representation by either side

    Off the top of my head – but has the BBC done any of these ? Is there a media monitor which has done it?

    I mean – it’s pretty easy to show pro remain bias in the BBC – just list the Question Time programmes where remainers outnumber brexiters .

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      Fedup,
      It is easier to list the question time programmes where leavers outnumber remainers and I have the answer to that.

      0

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  4. Stevie m says:

    Sky have been banging on all day about a leaders debate. Yawn yawn. It would be funny if they were televised on Itv

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  5. Beltane says:

    The 89 lorry drivers who bothered to turn up for the ‘Brexit Chaos’ parking experiment have branded the farce a waste of time and nine months too late.
    Sadly they don’t seem to realise that they have achieved exactly what the government expected of them – a pathetic travesty illustrating the pointlessness of Brexit and another calculated humiliation, created to atone for the Empire, prove the benefits of the multicultural society and show how staying in the EU is the only plausible outcome.
    Even the hoped-for 100+ truck total was not achieved, but when the reality runs into thousands per day, that only helped make the whole exercise the success Olly and Anna were looking for.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Beltane
      And tonight the equally guilty Channel 4 are showing 2 hours of rank anti Brexit propaganda in the guise of drama.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Lefty
        It’s on C4 so has a limited type audience who see what they want … and the footy is on the TV apparently so plenty will be watching that instead …

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  6. countryblues says:

    BBC News today :

    I wasn’t listening closely, but it went something like this : by throwing umpteen billions extra at the NHS and making improvements, 500,000 lives can be saved.

    Now, my poor old brain starts to whir and clank because it doesn’t seem to compute the meaning of this. Isn’t this just a case of kicking the can down the road? As far as I know, everyone is going to die at some point…so, no matter how many millions are ‘saved’, ultimately they can’t. Then how will we cope with all the ‘saved’ lives when they finally can’t be ‘saved’?

    I’m sure some brilliant minds here will explain the logic to me… 🙂

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Country – it’s very simple – it’s 500000 foreigners who have just got off the boat / dinghy /wind rush …

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  8. Payne by name says:

    I was talking to two different people today that gave an insight into some of the mindsets about Brexit.

    The first stated that the problem was that because the result was such a close call, nothing could be agreed. I contested that it was a difference of over a million people but given that he was in a senior position to me, I couldn’t push the point further.

    That point being that it didn’t matter what the margin was, there was a clear cut winner – Brexit – and to the victor should go the spoils. When a Gold medal is decided, they don’t keep banging on about the silver medalist because the result was close and they shouldn’t in this case.

    Yes the vote was tight but there was a winner. There was no statement that a close margin would lead to a certain action, it was clear and simple. One decision, one person, one vote and Brexit won the vote.

    There should be no ambiguity. An answer was sought from the British people and a clear answer was given.

    The other was someone saying that they feared that they would struggle to sell their house in a year if there wasn’t a deal. I had to challenge him and say why would you think that? Your house isn’t in Europe or even close to the coast, you weren’t going to market it in France, so why do you think that all the people that currently need or want to buy a house, won’t need or want to next year?

    His response was that he believed (or rather probably that he’d read or had it forced into him by the BBC) that the housing market would crash for no apparent reason because some EU autocrats and a couple of million people didn’t get their way.

    This doom and gloom really is moronic boll—s that a worrying amount of people are just lapping up like mindless sheep.

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  9. Thoughtful says:

    Well I guess it had to happen, I wonder how many readers recognise this childrens entertainer?

    Ali_Bongo.jpg

    He called himself the Shriek of Araby and had a song which went “My name is Ali Bongo and I come from Pongo, pong-tiddley-pongo land.”

    He made his British TV debut on The Good Old Days in 1965

    Some might remember him as a childrens entertainer, and I suspect that he is now on the BBC ‘black list’ if such thing is allowed there these days.

    Today though and without a hint of irony radio 4 announces that the President of Gabon has been the subject of a coup attempt. He is quite unbelievably President Ali Bongo !

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46074728

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Thoughtful
      As a boy I can remember avidly following the antics of a schoolboy named “Black Magic Bongo – the schoolboy from the Congo, which was a comic strip in either the Dandy or Beano comics. So innocent, yet today would probably be viewed by some as evil racism. So stupid.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Lefty
        I always thought “bongo bongo land ‘ was a jest but it appears real…!

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      • BRISSLES says:

        I remember that LW ! the comic strip included a big stew pot in the jungle and little black characters with a bone through their nose. Actually in those days, in the mid 20th century, that was a truth, – there were undiscovered jungle tribes who, it was later discovered, indulged in a bit of cannibalism ! You cant rub out history.

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    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      I thought I remembered seeing Rolf Harris on TV in 1954 or 1955.
      He used to draw a character called Willoughby if I remember correctly.
      I think he was on a programme called Watch with Mother along with flowerpot men, Muffin the mule, Andy Pandy and other luminaries.
      That’s what I remember. But of course memories can get very mixed up over the years. I could be quite wrong.

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  10. vlad says:

    I can’t decide if the beeb webshite editors are being deceitful or incompetent. In an earlier headline about the train murder suspect, they showed a picture of the victim.
    In a recent headline about the victim being stabbed 9 times, they post a pic of the accused.
    Subliminal propaganda (suspect=white, victim=black) or sloppy picture editing?
    Either way, your bad beeb, or you’re bad beeb.

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    • vlad says:

      And it gets worse: in the time it took to write the above post and add the pic, they’ve monkeyed around further, burying the above pic and story deep in Regions, Surrey, and replacing the Home page pic with the much smaller, paler, court sketch.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
      At such times I wonder if there are squabbling factions in the beeb, some trying to speak the truth clearly, others trying to cover up inconvenient truths.
      Pity we don’t have a few moles on the inside to spill the beans.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      Will the wife of the poor man who was slaughtered by this ethnic ( allegedly), be elevated to the HoL?
      Is creepy Brendan Cox going to launch a campaign for his family.
      Has anyone set up a Gofundme account for the family; like they did for that little scrote who had some water poured on him after he’d been terrorising other children?
      Or doesn’t this man’s life matter because he’s white and not a muslim?

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      From The Sun
      Lee and his killer accidentally bumped into each other when they boarded the train travelling through Surrey to London Waterloo on Friday afternoon.
      Sources say after the explosive row the suspect pulled out a knife and slashed Lee in the neck and body.
      He said: “We know from witnesses the two men were involved in a verbal discussion.

      “That lasted three to four minutes. It moved through one carriage from where they first boarded into another carriage, and that argument escalated to the unprovoked violent attack that sadly resulted in the death.”
      Det Chief Insp Sam Blackburn from the Met Police said “nothing justified the extraordinary violence”.

      Why don’t the police etc reveal what happened. I get that black bloke is a nutter, but those middle class Brits can be agresssive rude and entitled too, even though most haven’t had a fight since primary school.
      ”nothing justified….” is sloppy statement becuse, while true, it might be interpreted as he wasn’t entirely innocent but..
      And how did they both end up in a different carridge- who followed who?

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Eddy Booth.
        Slashed in the neck. Neck wounds are often the description given to attempted beheadings

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      • Banania says:

        “Sadly resulted in the death”? What an extraordinary use of English. It sounds as if the unprovoked violent attack went tragically wrong.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Deceitful
      This chap has a healthy interest in grime – the Gang stuff – allegedly – on his Facebook …

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  11. john in cheshire says:

    In the comments on the latest The Slog website posting, there is mentioned that our swamp dwellers have placed a D-notice on reporting on the gilets jaune.

    Can anyone confirm this?

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Not if there is a D notice they can’t !

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        Thoughtful
        Why not? Unless the “D” stands for death.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Think there’s a list somewhere, on the Gov.UK web-site, of D-Notices in force. How can HMG stop the UK media repreating what has already been reported overseas? IIRC, there is a High Court or Parliamentary thing somewhere that says it cannot be done.

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    • Oaknash says:

      As far as I know Breitbart is still covering it. Though nothing would surprise me. These days the Quisling snakes who currently sit at the House of Commons would certainly do their utmost to prevent us knowing what is happening in France if they thought that there was any chance of us following suit.
      I dont think we are at that point yet – it certainly wouldnt take much and probably if people actually realised the true scale of illegal immigration into this country (aided of course by the BBC and Government agencies ) I expect we would be pretty close.
      So far they have done a pretty good job at divide and rule but at some point something will have to give – It will either be that or surrender.

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  12. StewGreen says:

    5:10pm the Radio Humberside presenter @AndyComfort was acting as a team with Remainer MP EmmaHardyMP helping her promote her StopBrexit message
    Andy supplied the loaded language “CRASH OUT with a no deal”
    ..”75% of Labour MEMBERS want 2nd vote”
    (No mention it’s dodgy poll by campaigners & has been portrayed as ‘Labour Voters’ when it’s just 1,000 Lab members)
    Her policy is that even though she is in a Brexit constituency she believes a No Deal is a disaster and she wouldn’t vote for May’s deal either ..so it’s StopBrexit for her. She’s not even interested in a second vote.

    Bet AndyComfort doesn’t have a cosy piece like that with a Brexiteer

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    • StewGreen says:

      Loaded language continues on BBC local TV news
      6:29pm prog opens .. “Is crashing out of the European Union a good idea ?
      … Get in touch, does leaving with a No-Deal frighten you or not ?”

      This good presenter tho then did not let the MP walk all over him
      ==============

      “4 Iranian men were arrested when they arrived on the beach in Mabelthorpe on Dec 4th”

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      • StewGreen says:

        They read out no Brexit comments from viewers
        when they do they are always overwhelmingly pro-Brexit
        (This isn’t a metropolitan area)

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  13. StewGreen says:

    PR not news
    I spot 2 different MP deleting the same retweet
    \\What an undercover C4 team found at a universal credit centre//
    Sounds good Tory bashing news until they realise that the story is dated 2015 ..so that’s why they would have deleted their retweet

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Unfortunately I have to have dealings with UC, and their call centre. And nothing has changed over the years,
      If the Conservative party cannot see that treating people like criminals for daring to claim what they are leaglly entitled to, isn’t disgusting, then they deserve to get bashed.

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      • StewGreen says:

        @Eddy I see 2 possibilities
        #1 The Tories are actually tough on the poor
        or #2 Labour supporting staff are interested in getting UC a bad name ..so are running it that way.

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        • john in cheshire says:

          It brings to mind a Project Veritas report that I watched on YouTube before Christmas where at least one member of the US equivalent of our Civil Service boasted about how he and his commie mates undermine government policy by means of delaying tactics, deliberate mistakes and apparent incompetence. I think there are such subversives in our swamp of a Civil Service.

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  14. G.W.F. says:

    Far right Anna Soubry is called a Nazi by far right protesters and is defended by the far left who actually believe that Nazism is far right.
    Apparently far right yellow vest activists mobbed little Owen Jones and Anna Soubry.

    The Morning Star (far left) says
    Owen Jones and Anna Soubry hounded by so-called ‘Yellow Vest UK’ mob. These are far right, we are tiold

    FAR-RIGHT protesters in Westminster hurled abuse at left-wing journalist Owen Jones and pro-EU Tory MP Anna Soubry today.

    Mr Jones filmed the moments he was harassed and followed down the street by a mob of so-called “Yellow Vest UK” protesters – who have copied demonstrators in France by wearing high-vis jackets but promote a far-right and Islamophobic message.

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/owen-jones-and-anna-soubry-hounded-by-so-called-yellow-vest-uk-mob?fbclid=IwAR0wL9b7fP96-

    AufZWt8E79XvBR8zYVkLfJvuSRQN6ClM8Yu8SVdLJE4d6g

    Also on BBC
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46785357
    ============================
    This is what happens when political discourse is reduced to applying the two labels Far Right and Islamophobe

    What we are seeing, however, is that the far left, communists, class war, and Trots, are finding ways to distance themselves from the yellow vests who have not shown much interest in accepting their leadership. Watch as the BBC/Guardian take up this theme.

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  15. Zelazek says:

    On a lighter note, folks, Kevin Spacey is providing me with fresh inspiration for my Nantucket series of limericks.

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

      Nantucket eh? Now what could rhyme?
      Well, I have only seen snippets of Spaceyy’s youtube released vid named ‘let me be frank’ it seems its filled with cryptic messages warning others he knows where the bodies are buried, and he’ll take some down with him.
      I sure hope he does.

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  16. StewGreen says:

    BBC2 Portillo is in Alaska and he starts reading from his book

    18:50pm : His historian : Glaciers were retreating so first 2 railroads went bankrupt

    18:51pm Portage Glacier valley (starts reading) “old residents insist that the climate is changing,
    that the summers are warmer and drier.
    The rapid retreat of all the glaciers, during even 20 years is offered as another proof”
    (he closes the book)
    “I find it stunning that the issue of warming was being addressed in the words of our Appleton’s author Eliza S(c)idmore, more than a century ago.”
    ..
    “In 1899 this space was filled by the Portage Glacier …today the diminished glacier has retreated out of sight”

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Indeed, Stew, and I think the third largest glacier in the world – in Canada – was gone by 1909 or 1910. Or was that the Portage one that you & Portillo refered to?

      Never mind. By the sound of it, there could be a new glacier soon in the Styria region of Austria.

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  17. vlad says:

    I suspect the beeb aren’t covering the gilets jaunes story for a number of reasons: a) it spoils their preferred narrative of France and the EU being all things chic and desirable, that we should stay in; all dolce vita, dolcelatte and Dolce & Gabbana.
    b) they probably can’t decide if they support it or not. Is it A Good Thing or a horrible Populist movement, like UKIP, Brexit, Visegrad, Trump etc? Are they Left (good) or Right (bad). They seem to be against Macron, whom the beeb idolise, so they’re probably Bad. Mustn’t give them the oxygen of publicity, or our own plebs might go getting ideas.

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  18. Up2snuff says:

    ‘Part-time’ has returned to work, I see, after three weeks holiday for Christmas and Hogmanay. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46788350 Nice work if you can get it.

    Still no replacement for Kamal Ahmed as Economics Editor?

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  19. smoogie7 says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-46785941/brexit-anna-soubry-mp-shouted-down-by-protesters-on-tv?fbclid=IwAR0iInQluwl9fJl-XqlwX2A8xRMz3OclEd56c9LUu070XXkzqKfTmLGf_ao

    My least favourite Tory but would they care so much if Remainers shouted ‘racist’ at the likes of Mogg?

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  20. smoogie7 says:

    Anyway not posted on here for a while but I had a good laugh reading through the comments on Britian Ellects over the Yougov poll (That surveyed some 25,000 people) that puts the Tories in the lead with 6 points with a big drop in support for Labour, probably over Corbyn’ backfired ‘tried to please everyone’ Brexit stance.

    It is worth to note that Yougov once gave Labour an 8 point lead back in 2017 and I bet the left where over the moon about that. Now they are begging Survation to give them a poll only Survation have actually give recentish polls with a 5 point lead to the Tories.

    Shall we keep having polls until people get the score that they want?

    Other than that the BBC have annoyed me by showing Ken Loach’s film called ‘I, Daniel Blake’ which is written by an on off Labour member who is mates with Corbyn. Perhaps the BBC though that an election is looming so this would be the last resort?

    How about a film on grooming gangs? Oh, that would be too offensive! Just going to read the biased reports from Laura Kassenburg or whatever her name is and Mark D’Arcy but I expect the usual as we got last year. Politics is back in full swing so it will be back to one sided news stories, selected interviewees and interruptions on all who dares have a different view to the biased BBC.

    We should feel sorry for the BBC, this will probably be their last year or at least we can hope.

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  21. Eddy Booth says:

    The owner of the garage used for Banksy’s most recent artwork said he has been in “freefall” since it appeared and is struggling to cope with the responsibility.
    The mural appeared on steelworker Ian Lewis’ wall in Port Talbot a week before Christmas.

    Mr Lewis, 55, told BBC Wales he now needs help to find a long-term solution for it.
    “It’s been very, very stressful and very surreal,” he said.

    “It’s just all been so much for me. I’m actually managing an arts attraction by myself.
    “There’s in excess of one thousand people going there a day, all hours, day and night. I just can’t cope with it now, to be honest with you.”
    Mr Lewis said if it hadn’t have been for the intervention of actor Michael Sheen, who offered to help pay for security over Christmas, he would already have lost the art through vandalism or theft.
    “I’ve been stressed, it’s dropped a bomb on me. I’d just like a bit of normality back into my life, like it used to be.”
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    They don’t make steelworkers like they used to,
    Throw a bucket of pertol over it and then a match.
    Or force the BBC to reveal bankys real name so he can contact the police for vandalism

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    • taffman says:

      “They don’t make steelworkers like they used to” ?
      Three words , Health and Safety.
      Simples

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      • Loobyloo says:

        Now an unimportant French mayor is telling us it’s impossible to police the border…just like the med. and not once has anyone mentioned rejecting the migrants as a deterrent.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      If someone painted on my wall without permission I’d remove it. Perhaps he should try that.

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  22. taffman says:

    The Border Agency is not fit for purpose ………………
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-46781070

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  23. Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

    Not sure if anyone has commented, but wonderful bit of video on huffpo where Simon McCoy interviews Soubry, they are both disgusted the crowd outside the HOC is chanting “Soubry is a nazi”
    Havent laffed so much for years. How the hell do they think TR feels when he gets insulted live on air by all the lefty scum of the media?
    Oh heaven.
    Even piers moron was disgusted…awww..bless….
    Lololol

    https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-mp-anna-soubry-nazi_uk_5c33655ce4b0733528355024

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Got to ask really – what is the purpose of the media village on the green opposite the House of Commons ? The TV studios – nice and warm – are a stones’ throw away .

      The media village encourages the shouters of all types to get on camera or sound . Is that what the MSM want ? Does that make for good television . ?

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      • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

        The purpose is for the likes of the bbc to allow the bloke with a “stop Brexit” banner to walk behind every interview. Suddenly the wrong message is heard? Its called foul.

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC Politics correspondent Norman Smith did 4 tweets , 2 with video
      about this verbal attack on Soubry

      And media didn’t moan too much about top hat man’s disruptions, cos he was on their Remain side.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Jeez @BBCnewsbeat did a Twitter montage of 3 Tweets each with video
        here
        But even though their audience are The Yoof , the likes are on the pro-Brexit side are 10% higher

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      • Guest Who says:

        SG – precisely.

        These days, for good or ill, a skill any politician needs is the ability to shrug off and press on in face of endless sniping and incitement from social media and antisocial media, or the MSM as it is often called.

        However, there is a curious difference clearly evident. A Rees Mogg, Farage or Trump has to take it, day in and day out, incessantly, and not falter.

        However, let a Soubry or Ocasio-Cortez get the nearest whiff of what is being doled out to their ideological opponents, the very same MSM targeting the latter suddenly circle the wagons around them and start firing wildly back on their behalves.

        It would be tragically funny were it also not so hypocritically serious.

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  24. taffman says:

    Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage gets shouted at , what gets done ?
    Now we get ………………….
    Re “Anna Soubry urges police action after ‘Nazi taunts’ outside Parliament.
    I don’t think she will be voted into parliament again?

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

      Oh yes, Taff, it was accepted that commie thug waylaid And insulted Moggs entire family…the bastards ( is that allowed in that context please, just the once).
      Nobody getting offended then i remember.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      I wonder how many of those having a fit of the vapours at Soubry’s treatment thought that this was hilarious?

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      • G.W.F. says:

        If you support UKIP you are racist scum, whatever the colour of your skin.

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      • Guest Who says:

        If she was in my constituency, our tame Tory would be toast.

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  25. theisland says:

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  26. Englands Dreaming says:

    Beebs blatant anti-Brexit bias continues, as reported on Guido – Ben Chu from the Indy becomes Newsnight Economics editor
    https://order-order.com/2019/01/07/newsnight-appoint-lefty-remainer-economics-editor/

    That should revive the ratings!

    Interestingly enough Chu appears in Sargon’s latest video about Brexit project fear, where his limp and incoherent arguments are nicely shredded, tune in at 13.49

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    • Fedup2 says:

      There was a good Project Fear one today . Gardening . Because of Brexit gardens won’t get looked after because the Eastern European’s will go home or not afford to stay in Blighty because of the exchange rate .

      I think this is important . If people can’t get staff to look after their gardens what is the country coming to ? Next thing they’ll be saying is one won’t be able to get a coffee because barristers have gone away.

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    • Payne by name says:

      It’s a good video by Sargon highlighting the moronic stupidity and staggering inability of our leaders to put together anything even remotely resembling a deal despite having so many advantages on our side.

      It would appear that the age of managed decline has returned in the eyes of our ‘great’ leaders.

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    • Banania says:

      What a weird-looking chap.

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  27. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    If I went to my GP and told them I wanted to be a dolphin, I’m pretty sure they’d (rightly) question my sanity, but what if they were under immense pressure to comply with my (unreasonable) demands? I could end up being injected with dolphin hormones, and undergoing all kinds of expensive, painful, life-threatening surgery, replacing my legs and feet with a tail, hands with flippers, fitting a bottlenose and a blowhole etc…

    Some way down the line I could be splashing around in my Dolphinarium, pretending I’m a dolphin, when reality would inevitably sink home – even with all the wonders of modern medicine, man can not become dolphin, just as he can’t really become a woman (or vice versa) it’s just not possible. Then it would dawn on me, all I could ever be would be some kind of surgically deformed, hormonally messed up, constantly in need of medication/care/attention, freak of a man that looked something, vaguely, like a dolphin – never a real, proper dolphin.

    Then what? Depression? Suicide? Desperate, but impossible, cravings to go back to ‘normal’? Strangely, all the things post-op transsexuals are supposed to undergo as a matter of course, and, rather depressingly, the end of a great many of them.

    So, to come to the point… well, that’s it really, what is the point? All the campaigning, the anguish, the hassle, those much needed elsewhere NHS resources, none of it’s really for transsexuals is it? Is it healthy, to give unhealthy minds what they obsess about and crave, beyond all rational reason? To their own detriment and harm? And for what, so some spoilt, middle class, kidult progressives can feel they’ve ‘achieved’ ?

    Would be transgender people need to be given psychiatric treatment, not told lies and fairy tales about how they can all be turned into princesses and unicorns with a wave of some magic wand that doesn’t exist. Our, taxpayer funded NHS, doesn’t need it either. Of all the lies spewed by the immoral BBC I think this has to be one of the most inhumane and exploitative, and when they gloat about inflicting it on teenage kids it really makes me angry.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Big
      Fair point . My sick sense of irony / humour makes me smile when I hear some BBC suppprted survey about kids and kidults being more screwed up than ever – self abuse – self harm – bulimia , substance abuse – depression – self – hate …. and look for an explanation?

      ‘Me’ ‘I want ‘ ‘I need ‘ ‘I deserve ‘ good old entitlement . And the social media world which I, thankfully , know little about – with the exception of this site .

      Big – I think if you feel that you want to be a dolphin – good luck – but now way should the taxpayer pick up the tab. The NHS should concentrate on illnesses and making people well – and sorry – but that includes areas like fertility treatment and liver transplants for boozers – and obesity .

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        Exactly Fed! NHS ‘free’ for every (British) citizen, but only for treating vital, and non self-inflicted diseases and injuries – okay, not always easy to define what is ‘sefl-inflicted’, but I’m pretty sure sex changes are entirely optional, entirely non-vital, and entirely what the NHS definitely wasn’t set up to provide.

        ….and I don’t really want to be a dolphin, honest… my point is there needs to be a clear divide between reality ‘you are what you are, make the most of it’ and fantasy/day dreams ‘anyone who wants to can be a princess/unicorn/footballer/dolphin etc…’. Kids (in particular) can easily be led to believe something they want to be true is possible, when it really, honestly isn’t, we seem to live in a world of ‘kidults’ who still think like 5 year olds when they’re 35, and our national broadcaster shouldn’t be peddling these kinds of dangerous lies (and shouting ‘transphobe’ at anyone who dares to disagree!).

        Sorry, ranting a bit there…

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  28. StewGreen says:

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    • Zelazek says:

      “Men have been getting jobs because they were men for centuries”, says Fiona Bruce in that article. That’s a pretty stupid remark. There was a clear division of labour between the sexes for most of human history. Men did not secure jobs as soldiers, miners, farm labourers, etc. – you know, all the unglamorous but essential jobs that are a million times dirtier, harder and more dangerous than TV presenting work – simply because they were men. It’s only in recent decades that men and women have generally been competing for the same jobs. And I would guess that in recent years there have been more cases of women getting a job purely because they were women than men landing a job over a woman just because they were men. Idiot. I thought she was smarter than this. But she’s clearly a Beeboid through and through. Full of hot air about fair and equal pay. This QT gig is only one of four BBC jobs that she does, apparently. So she’s getting paid £180,000 for a part-time job!

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Newsbeat

    Can we get more politicians like this please?! ????

    bbc.in/2CRvWRS

    ***

    Would be lovely, but perhaps an impartial broadcaster should be cautious, especially if selelective in who praised and who mocked.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @GW “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez answers her dance critics with a new video ”
      we’ve done that story a few times

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      • Guest Who says:

        Indeed. And the bbc seem to feel it is not enough to report it, but promote it… with endorsement.

        However, so far #CCBGB

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    • Guest Who says:

      The impartial U.K. state broadcaster has its view.

      A partial US commentator offers his:

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  30. StewGreen says:

    ITV Manhunt true drama story about gypsy serial sex assaulter
    .. they just listed the associates “a paedo call Deepak and his brother”
    (of course it is a reconstruction drama so they could have made that bit up)

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  31. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “”Yellow vests: France to crack down on unsanctioned protests””

    “”What began as anger over green tax on vehicle fuel has grown into more general discontent with the leadership of President Emmanuel Macron, whom protesters accuse of favouring the urban elite.””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46788751

    Methinks the BBC are all of a tremble 😉

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Just need to get Yasmin All Racist in and the BBC has a typical balanced panel.

       27 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Over at Sky, they are faring little better.

      In fact, Dickless is copping some flak too.

      Blowback is a bitch.

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      • Roland Deschain says:

        It’s amazing who suddenly notices politicians being harangued when the preferred people reap what they have sown.

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        • Payne by name says:

          Jesus Christ, the hypocrisy from that Sopel twat is staggering.

          Republicans thrown out of restaurants, JRM berated in front of his kids, Farage bundled out the back of a pub yet he gets upset at some harsh language thrown at a gormless undemocratic moron who has nothing but contempt for the people that she is meant to serve.

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          • Kaiser says:

            1 ballot box
            2 soap box
            3 bullet box

            our traitorous “elites” appear to have led us to stage 2

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    • StewGreen says:

      Someone could do a montage video of Owen, Femi, Soubry and their friends screaming at people in the street
      .. like they do
      Sometimes wearing Antifa face masks

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    • StewGreen says:

      Female MP claimed in parliament
      “These far-right groups are targetting women*
      and they are Facebook-live-ing the confrontation to raise more money”
      … Doh no one gets money from Facebook for doing such live videos
      The general reason for doing livestreams is cos it covers yourself against media lies
      ..cos it gives you a huge base of people who witnessed what actually happened,
      That way if the media try to recut and build false narrative , it doesn’t work cos hundreds of people actually saw what happened live.

      * Everyone knows that the protesters targettted Owen Jones today, so it’s not just females who are being targetted.

      What does video show the same pseudo-liberals Soubry, OwenJ etc. shouting in their anti-Trump demos ?

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      • theisland says:

        https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-01-07/debates/90359BE3-639F-4156-BD81-E64662A512A2/PointsOfOrder

        The relevant Point of Order in parliament yesterday (4.55pm).
        Bercow had a lot to say.

        The word ‘sanctimonious’ comes to mind, amongst others!

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        When I heard the insults my first thought was I’m sorry to say ” that’s a bit of an insult to Nazis” at least with them what you see is what you get. Sourbitch says one thing, means another and does a third. She admitted voting for the referendum because she believed no one would vote to leave , when the vote was for leave one of her classic retorts was no one in Nottingham who voted leave has seen a migrant, how racist is that? Clamouring for a people’s vote !!!!!! Apologies Fed but who the f++k voted in 2016 aliens from Alpha Centauri??? I’m afraid she’s on my slap list , see her I want to belt her along with Nicola Cranky, Owen Jones, Kay Burley and many more Rant over

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  33. Guest Who says:

    BBC seems almost sympathetic to the notion.

    #CCBGB

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  34. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    Don’t like it when the tables are turned do they?

    Can dish it out, but not take it back in return, definition of a bully surely?

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  35. Tabs says:

    Can anyone explain why BBC Newshite is making a big deal of Anna Soubry being called a “Nazi” but the BBC never raise an eyebrow when the left call the right “Fascists” multiple times a day (i.e. Owen Jones)?

    Surely the insult is pretty much the same!?! Perhaps the insult is only worthy of a BBC mention depending on the victims EU stance!

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  36. Roland Deschain says:

    Seriously? We are to be told who we must love these days, whether attracted to them or not? With the BBC taking it upon itself to decide.

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    • English Lass says:

      Looking at the deep furrow lines on his brow I would suggest he has done little smiling in his life. It seems he confuses lust with love. Perhaps if he found real love it would lift his soul, invigorate his life, brighten his face and it maybe wouldn’t matter if she was the same age as himself. Although I can’t think why anyone would want to take on a grumpy old man like him.

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    • gb123 says:

      The expression on his face reminds me of Eric Cantona and his bizarre ads.

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    • Guest Who says:

      #CCBGB not just for him, but the outfit that used to think it was a respected broadcaster.

      Mind you, Kirsty, Emily and Kay looking extra unlovable as nature takes its course.

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Incidentally I wondered about the big header graphic on the Newsbeat Twitter profile : 5 faces : 2 black guys , 2 white women, and 1 white man
    I see it’s a montage of 3 different Newsbeat documentaries
    #2 is a female ME sufferer, #3 is British soldier working with African unit to protect rhinos.
    #1 is Newsbeat’s doco about mixed race couples

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  38. vlad says:

    Delighted to read that the beeb’s latest bread and circuses offering to keep the masses perpetually asleep and enslaved to the Matrix has been panned by critics and public alike: The Greatest Dancer flopped, apparently, with viewers switching off or switching over in their droves.

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  39. taffman says:

    \\UK ‘needs millions of homes to solve housing crisis’//
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46788530
    Can any of you guess why? Tony Abbot in Australia has an answer .
    Voting here will help ……………….
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963

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  40. Halifax says:

    Christmas viewing figures for the BBC in freefall most watched programme being Call the Midwife with 9.2 million. Viewing figures for Dec 25th have dropped 52 % since 1982.
    The answer must be:
    1) More women’s sport
    2) More programmes made by ethnic minority
    3) More BME lady’s commentating on sport.
    4) Programmes mocking the UK and it’s democracy.
    5) Historical drama with PC input skewing history.
    6) No comedy.
    7) Quiz shows with thick celebrity that are there to represent Britains diversity.
    8) Debates on political issues with one sided panels and audiences.
    9) Programmes about the countryside featuring PC make up of interviewees and hosts.
    10) Sack your highest overseas earning team and replace (at long last) with a culturaly diverse cast …

    So if you do all the above BBC then the viewer’s will coming flocking back.

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    • gb123 says:

      Hf, I would add one one more to your list. Taking a successful franchise and screwing it up with SJW messages. Prime example DR Who.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Seems…. unlikely…

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      • English Lass says:

        Well that is the case of course unless they identify as ‘non binary’ ‘female’ ‘bi sexual’ or the ongoing list of other identities.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Fascinating – the BBC reports on confrontations outside parliament and the failure of police to do anything .
    Yet the BBC regularly uses the ‘Far Right’ badge on just about anyone it doesn’t agree with .

    And this is the consequence . I use the term ‘ Far Left’ with regard to the BBC because it seems fair in the circumstances.

    One of the easiest ways of bringing the temperature down in the country will come on 29 March when the remainers can go into grief and then begin their campaign to rejoin .

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    • Guest Who says:

      The BBC has moved up a gear trying to bring this from The Platform to Norm to, now, the Breakfast sofa. With the big guns: Beaker.

      #CCBGB

      Not looking like their choice of mascot has elicited much empathy, especially in light of the bbc flat out ignoring worse abuse to the l9kes of Farage or Rees Mogg up to now.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Those inside the House of Commons behave like a rabble.
        …So how can they criticise those outside behaving like a rabble?
        #DoubleStandards

        … “It makes for good TV” .. thats why Sky have alwayfilmed outside with top hat man in the way.

        Of course I don’t agree with intimidation protest, but the liberal mobs and Corbythugs are just getting a dose of their own medicine.

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        • StewGreen says:

          now on R Humbs

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          • StewGreen says:

            Someone points out the media do the same, they are there bawling their LEADING questions a politicians as they walk by.

            \\ So when someone is murdered in London every 2.5 days they stay silent,
            but when an MP who regularly insults people with different views gets insulted they call for police intervention //

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      • Guest Who says:

        It should not be forgotten whom the bbc associates with and facilitates elsewhere in driving up rhetoric.

        https://bbcwatch.org/2019/01/08/why-the-new-bbc-editorial-guidelines-may-not-mean-less-terror-showcasing/

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      • LastChanceSaloon says:

        GW
        Is that the son of the man who hated Britain, who inherited his parental hatred of Europeans.
        Yes it is.
        How is the EddyStone Lighthouse progressing.

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  42. JimS says:

    Could the jumping pages of Biasedbbcorg be caused by using Google fonts?

    I have seen similar effects elsewhere. I suspect the browser interprets the requested page using its best-fit ‘local’ font while putting in a request to Google for font data. When that eventually arrives the page is re-written but is now a different size so it ‘jumps’. Because the browser now ‘knows’ the font any ‘on page’ navigation or scrolling works as expected and the page no longer ‘jumps’.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Jim
      I choose not be technically proficient so I will contact the site administrator to see what can be done.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Toady watch

        It turned into 15 minutes of wimins hour with some bloke who’d split with his missus trying to evade paying for his biological daughter because the ex used his seed without his consent ( phew) .

        He can’t see his kids now apparently and it’s the regular domestic soap opera . What this is doing on Toady ?

        I have no idea .

        It would be far better on wimins winge along with genital problems and how men are so nasty .

        . I suspect the lady editor heard about it through social circles …. no wonder this failing programme is losing listeners .

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  43. StewGreen says:

    10am BBCthree release a documentary about a youth cricket team
    Guess which one ?
    ..also promoted on Yorkshire Look North tonight

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  44. StewGreen says:

    8:45am Tim Martin was on BBC Radio Humberside plugging his Hull Brexit appearance.
    …The presenter didn’t talk over him all the time.

    Directly before the presenter framed item by playing the tape of Emma Hardy shouting that NoDeal would be a disaster.

    TM pointed out that we are already paying tariff like bananas and wine.

    TM said we could eliminate tariffs on imports from EU like
    Singapore has done.
    “Become a free trade nation”

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  45. Cassandra says:

    Toady this morning had Ed Milliband on demanding more houses to be built for social housing. Up until 1997 the population of the UK was falling. After the election of the Labour government in that year we have had uncontrolled Muslim mass immigration from africa and Asia. Besides destroying the social cohesion in the areas that they live, these ‘new Britons’ are responsible for the strain on the NHS and school places; a huge rise in murder, violent crime and sexual assualt resulting in the enormous rise in the prison population. As a result of their primitive cultural and religious beliefs, the immigrants also produce large families which results in the demand for more housing.
    But you already know that Milliband, don’t you and the Labour Party has been aided and abetted by successive governments (not to mention the BBC) since 1997. Why it’s almost as if it is a deliberate policy by the French, UK and German governments to encourage this situation to destabilize european societies in order for the political elites to have more power and control.
    Is this as really far fetched as it sounds…

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  46. scribblingscribe says:

    odd, the BBC and Sky are upset at Anna Soubry being called scum and a fascist. As tories are called this all the time, and gobbed at, and threatened, so why are the BBC/Sky fold suddenly so appalled?

    The only difference is that 99% of the time the louts doing the shouting are left wing and on this occasion they are right wing.

    Ah, I see,

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Cassandra – luckily we know that no government has the skill to produce hundreds of thousands of new homes . This should act , indirectly , as a deterrent to the flood of thirdworlders trying to get to the promised land of the UK.

    In my bit of London you can’t throw a stone without hitting a building site. Yet there are bits of the country ( I understand ) where populations are falling – like Scotland – ship them there …

    The crankie will love the McMohemmed clan and their rich third world culture …

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  48. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile, over at Ch 4…

    Ceebeebies need to up their game and get in some six year olds to be debated with by that Professor.

       17 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The young people can always rejoin the ReichEU when we oldies ( people over 30) are all dead .

      So the Rev Snow doesn’t care about 16 or 17 year olds then ?

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    • JamesArthur says:

      They haven’t askd me – I was too young to vote for going into the EU. Now it’s my turn to vote for getting out.
      Yet another one sided argument asking people who have little experience to comment on a subject about whch they know nothing..and probably preselected

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  49. Cassandra says:

    “Over the past year the single mum of four says she’s re-tuned her inner voice from one of negative put downs to positive self-love.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-46556494/how-i-learnt-to-love-myself-through-positive-thinking?ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=english_regions&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_england

    2qmh2x.jpg

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    • G says:

      Cass,
      “Over the past year the single mum of four says she’s re-tuned her inner voice from one of negative put downs to positive self-love.”
      Does that mean that she’s determined to remain on benefits?

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