Weekend Open Thread 16 March 2019

The ritualised assignment of Responsibility for the killings in NZ are naturally transferred to the UK.

Meanwhile Tommy Robinson – real name Tommy Robinson -continues to be on the receiving end of a hostile alien British State .

And then there was Brexit – or not .

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452 Responses to Weekend Open Thread 16 March 2019

  1. Lucy Pevensey says:

    A bit of perspective, a lone gunman in NZ and …..

       81 likes

  2. Loobyloo says:

    Comic Relief: Bodyguard and Four Weddings reunion help raise £63m http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47583664

    Imagine my surprise when the wedding is between two women! Luvvie bubble world. I wonder how much they lost by having that plot. I thought the comic relief news was strangely low profile, but then there are bigger news stories. Anyway, helps to bury the fact that the total is about 10m down from last year and about 40m down from 2011.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    March last year Gwent Police had great news that they had recruited a new BAME policewoman
    … A year they’ve kicked her out, cis shed been scamming a lonely widower since 2015.
    … I wonder if any crims will end up getting freed ?

       44 likes

    • G says:

      Ah! memories. One expression my parents instilled in me was that, “An Englismans Word is His Bond”. I think I have pretty well lived by that to date. Problem is, that was a bygone age. Nowadays, you cannot afford to trust anyone in fact, more so a person born overseas – a foreigner. I include in, ‘foreigners’ those that believe they have become, ‘British’.

         46 likes

  4. StewGreen says:

    I see a radical views rabbi, has been banned from entering the UK

       19 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      And yet if you are Muslim with a “how to beat your wife in accordance with Sharia” tour and you come with the promise of Saudi oil money the UK won’t see an issue.

         43 likes

  5. TrueToo says:

    StewGreen,

    Dunno how he became a rabbi. He’s an conspiracy-theory idiot with sick ideas. I’m not sure that he should be denied entry though. He’s not likely to kill anyone and even if he was, the authorities seem unconcerned about allowing Islamic terrorists and their supporters to enter Britain – so why not him?

    Unless of course there’s a UK law against admitting conspiracy-theory idiots with sick ideas.

       23 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      At least whilst the MSM have got a big story to go full jo cox on – the killings in a Londonistan continue . Apparently in Jo Dando Street Fulham – making it 20 black males stabbed to death in Londonistan in 2019 .
      Not named yet but likely to be a ‘ local man’ – as in ‘ local to somewhere’ .

         36 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      TT, Reform Rabbi? Liberal Rabbi? They seem to let anyone in.

         4 likes

      • TrueToo says:

        Up2snuff,

        Dunno what manner of rabbi he is. But I do know there are very odd religious Jews around – like the bunch who went to Iran to rub shoulders with the worst anti-Semites on the planet

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  6. StewGreen says:

    One of Radio4’s pets, is in trouble.
    They used her as a guest editor on R4Today at Christmas.
    Now she says she’s not bothered about male suicide , that’s men’s problem

       27 likes

  7. StewGreen says:

    Rotherham : where does the head of the victims service live ?
    Ans in the same house as her taxi-driver father Jahangir Akhtar, who was heavily implicated, but not prosecuted, but rather deemed not fit to have a taxi licence.
    Rotherham Rise that charity is paid by the council and she has full access to the victims database ..names/addresses etc.

    The Times go on about the Akhtar Family : Jahangir was the big man, head of the Labour council and has losted anti-Semitic posts.

       40 likes

  8. Fedup2 says:

    Avoiding the Far Left BBC but looking at The Guaurdian – a reprint of a press release by the “ charity “ Hate not Hope on lots of people looking at “extreme right wing “ websites .

    Apparently this is bad . More and more restriction on freedom of comment and views is poisonous to a decent country and we seem to have arrived at a situation when a tax free ‘ charity’ wants to control what people view.

    If it is not illegal then people must be allowed access – whether i agree with it or not – touch of the Voltaire s going on

    I had never seen an ‘ extreme right wing ‘ website but because of that article I have now . Cant say I’m over impressed and don’t think I’ll be off to a tattooist to get a swastika on me bottom . Nor – a hammer and pedalcycle

       36 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      “I had never seen an ‘ extreme right wing ‘ website”

      Yes you had you are on one! You don’t get to say which ones are extreme right, they do, and they aren’t going to give you a definition of what they regard ‘extreme right’ to be.

      Given the BBC believe 80% of the population are ‘far right’ and have invented a definition to prove this.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Thoughtful
    Strange – I don’t think I’ve read anything which I’d consider ‘extreme right wing ‘ – unless caring about ones country ticks that box . Perhaps that’s it then… I must be due for a call from the “prevent” Police Community Reassurance And Protection ( c.r.a.p.) team inviting me to one of their “re education “ camps at 4 a.m.

       30 likes

    • TrueToo says:

      Fedup2,

      LOL, yes, these days one has to watch out for the C.R.A.P. team. Those guys are seriously full of it.

         14 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, think I got into a bit of a debate on here once with some who I’d describe as ‘white supremacists’ (cannot remember who it was now) but the Beeb would label this site ‘Far Right’ because we generally don’t believe in the Licence Fee Fairy (at least not at present levels), Beeb impartiality and trustworthiness nor any or many or all of the liberal socialist ‘must haves’.

         19 likes

  10. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC TV. Rugby.

    Just watched the Wales v Ireland game.

    90% of the time when the camera focused on the crowd, they picked out women. However, they found the fit-chicks every time 😉

    The only ethnic minority in the crowd was a Samoan, and the camera found him.

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    • taffman says:

      Watching ‘The Game’ at the pub today the shout from the customers was “Cymru am Byth” !
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/47596437

         11 likes

      • fakenewswatcher says:

        Taffman – don’t know what it means, but I watched the match and am very happy for you: Wales were great, to put it mildly.
        And Swans leading Man City 2-0! Does it get any better?

           11 likes

        • fakenewswatcher says:

          Then again, when RS, diver extraordinaire, comes on, you know exactly what’s going to happen!

             9 likes

    • Luckyharry69 says:

      The Russia World Cup was great …the Russian TV picked out all the FIT CHICKS on every match!!…I loved it………(lol)

         19 likes

      • chancygardner says:

        I seem to remember reading how the hand-wringers over here were complaining about the sexism. Meanwhile, the Russians continued to highlight the totty. Haha..loved it.

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  11. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “”Christchurch shootings: ‘You can respond with fear or friendship’ “”

    “”A man who stood outside a Manchester mosque after the shooting of 49 people at mosques in New Zealand said he wanted to “respond with friendship”.””

    “”Andrew Graystone was pictured with a placard saying: “You are my friends. I will keep watch while you pray.” “”

    “”He said Muslims at a Levenshulme mosque “beamed” when they saw his act.””

    “”Mr Graystone, who runs a Christian charity and led London 2012’s multi-faith chaplaincy team….””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47595582

    So. The population of Manchester is almost 3 million. One man who is a ‘social justice warrior’ stands outside a mosque with his placard.

    The BBC puts this on their main page. How is this representative of anything?

       55 likes

    • The Duck says:

      Put simply, Andrew Graystone is a twat.

         34 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      is that the mosque giving out hate leaflets as exposed on QT

         21 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      This one of the BBC’s favourite tricks: run an article about a supposedly ‘ordinary member of the public’ whilst omiting to mention that the person is a BBC employee, partner of a BBC employee or otherwise linked to the BBC. This wouldn’t be the same Andrew Graystone who “joined the BBC in the Religion and Ethics department, then became Development Executive responsible for the commissioning of religious programmes across BBC radio and TV”, would it? Or the same Andrew Graystone who “appears regularly as a commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live and has written and presented countless short talks for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2 and the World Service”, by any chance?

      The BBC: far more of a problem than terrorists of any persuasion.

      https://www.dur.ac.uk/st-johns.college/research/fellows/currentfellows/andrewgraystone/

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  12. Jeff says:

    Did anyone else notice the New Zealand premier, Jacinda Ardern, in the mosque earlier today?
    Look, I fully understand after such an horrendous act there’s a desperate desire to inculcate a sense of empathy and cultural cohesion, but why the headscarf?
    There were other women in the room dressed quite sanely in regular western apparel, but not the PM. It’s all the more peculiar because she claims to be both a progressive and a feminist.
    There seems to be something unhealthily regressive amongst the self styled “progressives” when it come to the religion of peace. Particularly “feminists.” We’ve all noticed this poisonous and politically correct disease take hold in Scandinavian countries where progressive feminists automatically don this absurd attire. Those that have shouted loudest about the patriarchy suddenly become grotesquely obsequious to an intolerant, misogynistic minority.
    For the love of God she is the leader of this country and she’s behaving like a third world chattel.
    I thought it looked fake and I thought she looked pathetic.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      Dancing Terry is fond of wearing a headscarf when she prostrates herself before muslims. It must be a rule in the female prime minister handbook. Or do they take their lead from Mr Trudeau and his fondness for dressing up?

         35 likes

    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Jeff – Guess we’re lucky Justin Trudeau wasn’t there as well…

         20 likes

  13. taffman says:

    “Nick Boles: Tory MP quits local party over Brexit”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47594875
    Did he jump before being pushed ? 61% of his constituency voted to get out of the European Dictatorship.
    Will he be the first of many Conservative MPs?
    I hope so . Vote and support UKIP and The Brexit Party.

       43 likes

  14. taffman says:

    Watching ‘The Game’ at the pub today the shout from the customers was “Cymru am Byth” !
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/47596437

       9 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      thats ok taff such thoughts are only unavailable to the english

      congrats well deserved

         14 likes

      • taffman says:

        Thanks on behalf of Wales .
        It simply means ‘Wales Forever’.
        The badge of The Welsh Guards.

           10 likes

        • BigBrotherCorporation says:

          Try wearing the flag of St. George and shouting ‘England Forever’ in a crowded London pub on the other hand and you might well be talking to the C.R.A.P. about ‘hate speak’…. funny old world hey?

          Well done to Wales, it was an outstanding performance.

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  15. Kaiser says:

    remember “reporting non-crime hate”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/michigans_big_brother_attorney_general_will_crack_down_hard_on_free_speech.html

    this shit appears to travel the atlantic as if by magic or some unseen hand

    I used to only take notice of american politics because the stupid ideas would sooner or later find their way here

    normally we seemed to be behind the ball with “new politics” compared to the USA , but it seems we’ve nosed in front on some fronts

       21 likes

  16. john in cheshire says:

    Has the far-left bbc collective reported on the new law, coming into force in Spring 2020, where everyone in England will be assumed to have opted into organ donation unless they have opted out:

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/16/all-adults-presumed-organ-donors-new-english-law/

    There is a government website where you can opt out; I’ve registered to opt out but it’s unclear if I’ll have to repeat my decision next year when the law come into effect.

    This is the thin end of the wedge, I believe sooner or later they’ll refuse you medical attention unless you’ve opted into their organ harvesting ritual.

       25 likes

  17. Guest Who says:

    It is never nice to lose your job.

    https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2019/03/irrelevant-producers-under-threat.html

    To find out it was a non-job must be a bitter extra pill.

    And as a licence fee payer, if so, you might wonder why these jobs were supported for so long.

    Still, at least the BBC is going to be more ‘relevant’ to its dwindling audiences. Apparently.

       22 likes

  18. Guest Who says:

    https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2019/03/worth-saving.html

    To which the short answer is..?

       10 likes

  19. Thoughtful says:

    Just watch this, because if it is true then there is no reason on earth why it can’t happen here – and maybe it is.

       20 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Love the title.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – I got to 13 minutes out of 23 but lost the will to live .

      Who cares whether politicians are controlled behind the scenes .? The public doesn’t choose politicians anyway . Little groups do . Then they lie about the manifesto and breach them without blinking .
      As I say – who cares ? After what has happened with brexit the remainers can get what they deserve – a McDonnell communist state until someone can maybe get elected to pretend to fix the mess.

      Cortez is fun though don’t you think ? Especially when she goes off message and does her ‘yeah but not but – OMG ‘ thing – which after a few months in the job will disappear …..

         15 likes

    • TrueToo says:

      Thoughtful,

      Well, thankfully they are talking about the brains behind Cortez, because there are certainly no brains In Cortez.

         3 likes

  20. Guest Who says:

    https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2019/03/deep-diving.html

    Fran and Jimmy are confirmed as very expensive wastes of space.

       10 likes

  21. vlad says:

    In the month prior to the NZ attack, there were the following killings in the name of islam according to https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

    Attacks 150
    Killed 883
    Injured 547
    Suicide Blasts 10
    Countries 22

    Details here: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx

    Tumbleweed on beebistan.

    And now back to our host of intrepid reporters in Christchurch, specially flown in at (your) great expense, to cover ONE nutjob.

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  22. Eddy Booth says:

    hidden away-

    Brexit ‘Leave Means Leave’ march sets off from Sunderland
    A 14-day protest march organised against a perceived Brexit “betrayal” and led by Nigel Farage is under way.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-47595598
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    Balanced article, ie plenty of coverage given to counter protesters

    ”Some counter protesters carried love hearts saying “we love workers’ rights” and “we love to have a say”, but were branded “EU money grabbers” by marchers.”

    Got to laugh , where was the EU to protect us when zero hours contracts and no overtime rate, became the forced norm for low paid workers in UK, or when Universal Credit was dismantling the functioning welfare state for unemployed workers.?
    don’t expext the BBC to ask

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  23. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “”In London, police have launched an investigation after a burning rag was found in a road near a mosque.””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47597710

    Which was the offender? The rag or the road? We need to know.

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  24. pugnazious says:

    Experts, you just gotta love ’em.

    Nick Robinson was going the full-on ‘Hope Not Hate’ route as he ranted on about ‘right-wing extremists’, ‘white supremacists’, murderous racist ideology’ and ‘a warning to the rest of the world’…all in relation to New Zealand of course. He was venting the usual BBC narrative when such attacks happen by Far-Right terrorists….targeting the blame on politicians and commentators rather than looking at the root causes which we all know.

    Robinson spoke without any knowledge or credibility on these causes and why ‘The Right’ [an all encompassing term that goes from the mildest of people to the most violent extremist…conveniently] is to blame…the apparently incendiary rhetoric about immigration and Islam and the conspiracy theories peddled apparently by ‘The Right’….such as ‘The Great Replacement’….trouble is that isn’t a conspiracy theory it’s real….the UN, the Labour Party, the Left and of course the BBC, want to ‘brown’ Europe and turn it into a multicultural paradise…because white people are hideous, evil and full of hate. It’s ethnic cleansing by demography.

    Robinson went off on one of his own conspiracy theories as he demanded to know if this attack was a result of lunatic extremist ideology such as ‘The Great Replacement’ narrative, or rooted in populist politics which is spreading ‘dangerous ideas’.

    In the end of course Robinson decided it was all Trump’s fault.

    It was not of course due to any lunatic ideologies…it was due to someone who, for whatever reason, decided to use extreme violence to express his views rather than discussion and debate. Just because he used extreme violence doesn’t make the background narrative wrong, racist, or extreme in itself….that’s a line used by the likes of the BBC designed to shut down debate on Islam and immigration.

    So much for expert journalism that totally fails to get to the real root of the problem….people like Robinson who promote a violent, backward ideology, mass immigration [The Great Replacement] and what is in essence ethnic cleansing.

    Another expert on Today… a terrorism expert who raged on about the weapons used by the killer in NZ. Apparently the NZ Army will have questions to answer if it has been harbouring right-wing extremists and trained this bloke and if it allowed its weapons to be stolen and used in this attack. Pure, ill-informed bunkum…total speculation being passed off as informed comment. Great job BBC.

    Then we had two Muslim media Jihadis…and Mishal Husein…all agreeing that Boris Johnson and his ilk are to blame for the attack as they have the temerity to criticise Islam. Nothing to do with the endless terrorist attacks, the attempts to subvert Western society, the anti-semitism, the rapes, the very obvious showcasing of the wonders of Islam in the Islamic State, the intolerance, oppression and puritanism of apparently acceptable Muslim states like Saudi Arabia etc, and the endless attempts to Islamise everythning and make people become virtual Muslims by making them act in a way that ‘respects’ Islam.

    Root cause…would never have happened if Muslim terrorists and ‘soft-power’ jihadis using the media, law and politics to further their cause didn’t try to impose their ideology upon others using extreme violence and cultural blackmail.

    Here’s the joys of 3 Muslim commentators having a impartial, balanced and informed discussion…lol….

    This illustrates perfectly the hypocrisy and dishonesty we get from so many high-profile Muslim activists [including Warsi]

    This is Mehdi Hasan who told us that the Muslim community’s ‘dirty little secret’ was their anti-Semitism….

    ‘ The sorry truth is that the virus of anti-Semitism has infected the British Muslim community

    It’s a shameful fact that Muslims are not only the victims of racial and religious prejudice but purveyors of it, too.
    It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn’t just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it’s routine and commonplace. Any Muslims reading this article – if they are honest with themselves – will know instantly what I am referring to. It’s our dirty little secret. You could call it the banality of Muslim anti-Semitism. ‘

    Oh yes…let’s not forget this…

    ‘As a Muslim I struggle with the idea of homosexuality’

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Pugnazious,
      Another top post. I guess it’s too much to expect the controllers of the BBC and other fake news media to look inwardly and ask themselves if perhaps they might be at least partially responsible.

      Could they lighten up even a little on the constant pro-Islam stance?
      We’ve just been through three weeks of them promoting ISIS terrorist women!

      They have shut down all opinion other than their own for years despite the murder and rape crimes and then they have the bare-faced front to be surprised that perhaps someone already teetering on the edge of sanity and stress might crack and lash out? They’ve deliberately made people feel helpless yet expect there to be no consequence for it.

      What If we were allowed to talk about things without all the “extremist right wing” rhetoric?

      This attack was on the opposite side of the world in a country that banned the harmless Lauren Southern from entering.

      The left should be made to face facts and own their own part in the mess the world has become before they go lobbing asinine accusations at decent people.

      I can dream.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Lucy Pevensey

        Poor Lauren had the treatment from the Sydney cops when she attempted to visit a no go zone.
        I believe she is banned from visiting these locations of multicultural diversity paradise. From now on the peaceful perfect people will receive better treatment.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          She can get one of those nice courtesy s35 notices TR got .

          The poor old Aussie cops heart obviously wasn’t in it …

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        • TrueToo says:

          G.W.F.,

          Thanks for posting that. Really interesting that an Aussie cop would be enforcing a Muslim no-go zone in the middle of a major Australian city.

          I wouldn’t say “poor Lauren,” though. She’s quietly spoken but she’s got extraordinary guts and commitment in standing up for what’s right.

          As she so succinctly put it, “I perfectly understand. As far as I’m concerned, you have Sharia law here.

          It’s shameful that an Australian cop has to protect devotees of Islam from a beautiful young Western woman.

          Also, I doubt Lauren Southern is tall, so that cop must be tiny. How would he deal with a violent criminal? Perhaps that’s why he’s so worried about Lauren causing a breach of the peace.

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      • JimS says:

        “The left should be made to face facts and own their own part in the mess the world has become before they go lobbing asinine accusations at decent people”

        It does seem to be a constant doesn’t it? Some ‘progressive’ action is taken which inevitably creates more problems that need more action which produces more problems etc. Every increasing entropy dressed up as ‘progress’.

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        • Terminal Moraine says:

          Funny how the more togetherness as a directive is forced down our throats, the more episodes culminating in “they will never divide us” we end up facing.

          It’s almost as if the whole thing isn’t thought through that well

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    • Despairada says:

      Well said, Pugnacious.

      I read somewhere recently that the lovely Mishal is favourite to take over from John Humphrys as Today’s head presenter. So we’ll be hearing a lot more of her biased views.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Desp. I won’t . I’m learning to live without the wise balances words of Toady presenters – along with thousands of others it seems .
        I recently caught I tiny bit of the breakfast TV thing and it is truly awful …

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    • john in cheshire says:

      “As a Muslim I struggle with the idea of homosexuality’” – well stop thinking about it, you pervert.

         12 likes

  25. Lucy Pevensey says:

    ????
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-dup-idUSKCN1QX0FM?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c8d596a4b73850001c4bc23&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

    Northern Irish DUP edges toward backing UK PM’s Brexit deal: Spectator magazine

    Hasn’t “The Deal” already been rejected though?

       11 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      Im not sure any amount of money could buy the DUP off , I wouldnt put any money on them being the ones to break

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  26. G.W.F. says:

    I bet this has not been reported by the state broadcaster. Truck drivers threaten to block the roads if Brexit is delayed.

    Quite clearly this must be a racist, bigoted, Islamophobic, far right Nazi plot.
    I wonder if the Unions will provide buses for the Antifa boys and girls to oppose the blockade. Note, the unions have been providing transport for the anti EDL, anti Tommy Robinson, demos.

    https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/british-truck-drivers-threaten-to-block-planes-trains-roads-if-brexit-is-delayed/?fbclid=IwAR0q8yW2bP5HLnBQ3GK2kjAYKe48hO0WQVare-yqLWvnYx0dKCIXxeTOjrcmy

    safe_image.php?d=AQAjNd5uLn-dKrNV&w=540&h=282&url=https%3A%2F%2Funitynewsnetwork.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F03%2F9609544-0-image-a-14_1549759583915-1-1-2-1.jpg&cfs=1&upscale=1&fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher&_nc_hash=AQACOsqHo5HdvSEF

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    • Fedup2 says:

      GWF
      Don’t you think that’s a bit harsh on illegal immigrants and false asylum /benefits seekers .? And if the channel stays choppy the poor loves will be stranded in France – a cruel and unusual punishment ….

         24 likes

  27. Doobster78 says:

    This is superb !!! Love it

    https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1106986526267920385

       20 likes

    • Jeff says:

      Good on him!
      The Who are one of the best groups I ever saw; joint equal with Thin Lizzy. For years I’ve blamed them for my tinnitus, but after seeing that all is forgiven.
      “Do you want to be ruled by a fxxxing mafia?”
      Fxxxing brilliant!

         33 likes

    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      When I say I love EU
      EU says you better
      EU better Eu better Eu bet.

         13 likes

    • TrueToo says:

      Doobster 78, Thanks for that. Roger Daltrey with some straight and rough talking about the idiocy of the anti-Brexit crew.

      Brilliant!

      And so is this song.

         6 likes

  28. taffman says:

    “Yellow vest protests: Violence returns to streets of Paris”
    “The protests began over fuel tax rises but have since developed into a broader revolt against perceived elitism.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47596476
    Is there more to this “perceived elitism” than they are telling us ?

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    • Dystopian says:

      Again it’s only “perceived” in the eyes of the biased BBC
      Of course they know better.
      But it’s only perceived bias of course.

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    • G says:

      taffman,
      Strange, listening to R4’s news at midnight last night, the BBC told me that the yellow vest gatherings are in the final stages of the, ‘last gasp of life’ and numbers will lessen as the days wear on. Essentially, it’s finished.
      Clearly our far left Cultural Marxist State Broadcaster cannot even achieve consistency with its news content. Not that I would have expected anything different from, “The Worlds Radio Station” being that it is, “The most trusted”.

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  29. G.W.F. says:

    UK cops make an arrest over a social media post about Christchurch. OK we are aware that this is what our cops are trained for.

    But the BBC article added that

    ‘Social media firms and some news outlets have been criticised for sharing livestream footage of the attack and failing to address far-right extremism on their platforms’.

    Some people might say this is a bit one sided. Especially as the BBC reported this on the bomb which killed 20 people in a Philippine Catholic Church

    The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack on Jolo island, where jihadist groups are active…
    A statement from IS said the attack was carried out by “two knights of martyrdom” against a “crusader temple”.
    No failure to address far jihadist extremism on the BBC platform.

    Meanwhile police in London are investigating the mystery of the burning rag in a road near a mosque.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47597710

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    • taffman says:

      G.W.F.
      “Meanwhile police in London are investigating the mystery of the burning rag in a road near a mosque.”
      How about the police in London investigating and preventing the mass knife attacks ?

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  30. john in cheshire says:

    This report from James Higham at Orphans of Liberty comes as a shock but not a surprise. It seems to me that the EU thugs are beginning to flex their muscles:

    https://4liberty.org.uk/2019/03/16/eu-troops-here-for-the-29th/#comment-46320

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  31. G.W.F. says:

    I cannot vouch for this but I am sure it can be checked out with someone who works for a massive organization seeking the truth – like the BBC

    Milo Yiannopoulos
    54 mins ·
    Facebook Creator
    ·
    The Al Noor mosque in Christchurch targeted by Brenton Tarrant produced at least two terrorists, from a very small congregation: al-Qaida recruit Daryl Jones, killed by a drone, and Christopher Havard. The parents of these boys say their sons were radicalized by extremist preachers at Al Noor. The boys were in Yemen with the guys who trained the Charlie Hebdo killers. A 2014 story at Stuff.co.nz (now scrubbed from the internet) quotes a mosque attendee who says, “A visiting speaker from Indonesia talked about violent jihad and plenty shared his views.” Three questions: How many news reports have you read these details in? If you’d known that this mosque was a terrorist factory, would it have changed your feelings about the news at all? Finally, how does it make you feel to learn that the media has been not just ignoring these facts but deleting stories to hide them over the past 24 hours?

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  32. Dystopian says:

    So what’s this all about? The timing is impeccable.
    29th March “no Brexit day”
    30th March “Exercise Trojan Horse…..sorry Joint Warrior”

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/10000-troops-from-13-countries-arrive-in-the-uk-for-major-exercise

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  33. Guest Who says:

    And why I use DuckDuckGo now.

    It seems a worrying trend.

       22 likes

    • Dystopian says:

      Very wrong need, GW and what I find particularly worrying is the increasing reliance upon technology. Amazon can disappear books. Internet publications can be altered or deleted. Physical books are becoming less popular. Facts are no longer recorded in physical form.
      The youth of today can’t do anything without a smart phone or a calculator. Shop assistants can’t add up your change. The whole world is increasingly dependant upon technology.
      What happens when it gets switched off?

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      • Jeff says:

        “What happens when it gets switched off?”
        Have you ever read The Machine Stops by EM Forster? It’s a cracking, dystopian yarn set in the distant future. People live in isolated cells, deep in the bowels of the earth and communicate through technology, only rarely making physical contact. The “Machine” runs their lives, controls their thoughts and as conventional religion has died worship of the machine has advanced. Anyone who shows any signs of rebellious thought or action is frowned upon and quickly disposed of.
        Of course there are rebels; odd people who long to witness a sunrise or to look at the stars and who, against all the advice from the machine, have taken to living on the surface of the planet. They had been told that the atmosphere was so polluted they’d perish. “No one can breathe on the surface.”
        It’s a short story and you could read it in an afternoon.
        When I first read it at school back in the 70s we regarded it as a nightmare scenario and, to be frank, a little far fetched.
        Now it seems more like an instruction manual…

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        • Guest Who says:

          “live in isolated cells, deep in the bowels of the earth and communicate through technology, only rarely making physical contact“

          At a cubicle garden nearby…

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          • Guest Who says:

            “Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge.”

            So, the bbc in a nutshell.

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        • TrueToo says:

          Jeff, thanks for the post. I Googled ‘The Machine Stops’ and it can be read free online here

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    • Kaiser says:

      airbrushing people from history

      now what does that remind me of

      https://www.iliketowastemytime.com/2012/06/22/soviet-censorship-of-images-during-stalins-regime-5-pics

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  34. Lucy Pevensey says:

    GW,
    I switched to Duck Duck Go myself a few weeks ago. The search results can be quite different. I’ve comparison tested it my self Vs Google. I’m liking it better.

       22 likes

    • G says:

      Lucy,
      Me, ditto. I changed over to DDG several months ago and since then, have been very happy with it.

         7 likes

  35. Guest Who says:

    #CCBGB

    Even for Sky, dire.

       40 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      ccbgb classic understatement

         17 likes

    • taffman says:

      Guest Who
      Next , they will blame it on Brexit.

         18 likes

    • G says:

      GW,
      Its really all to do with working assiduously toward closing down any percieved dissent or anything that rings of violating the elite’s perception of, ‘the dim public’ and their attitude toward reality. Let’s face it, we are at war.

         15 likes

    • Demon says:

      According to Tucker Carlson, this murderer was anti-conservative and very much pro-China according to his own manifesto.

      So if you are on the left what do you call a man who hates conservatives and loves China? Answer = A compassionate, decent, caring fellow socialist.

      And if you are on the left what do you call a man who hates conservatives, loves China and kills Muslims? Answer = An evil right-wing extremist.

         17 likes

    • vlad says:

      Yes, he must have travelled the world getting radicalised by far-right groups.

      Or, he might have stayed at home, watched the news and got very angry.

         12 likes

      • Doublethinker says:

        But the news is sanitised to avoid upsetting ordinary folks by telling them the truth. Imagine if the BBC reported truthfully .

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  36. taffman says:

    “Tens of thousands of supporters of Catalan independence have rallied in Spain’s capital Madrid in protest at an ongoing trial of 12 separatist leaders.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47597473
    I don’t think the EU is very happy about this ?
    IMHO, there’s that more than meets the eye to this story.

       26 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      Many waved Catalan flags and had placards reading “Self-determination is not a crime”.

      couldnt agree more

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  37. ScottishCalvin says:

    I’m off to set up the coffee machine for tomorrow. Half a bottle of Jamesons in the glass cup/collector/carafe of course.
    Enjoy:

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  38. Annunaki says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6818107/Historian-DAVID-STARKEY-self-satisfied-politicians-launched-coup-Brexit.html

    800 years of democracy is unravelling before our very eyes: Distinguished historian DAVID STARKEY on how our self-satisfied politicians have launched a coup over Brexit

    Don’t be deceived by the lack of violence or the comparative good manners of those now seizing control. This is a coup, and what is at stake is the nature and legitimacy of Parliament itself.

    Ruled by comfortable, smug elites, Parliament is choosing to ignore the ordinary British people as they attempt to hold power to account.

    It is no exaggeration to say that British democracy, which stands in direct line with Magna Carta, is now unravelling before us.

    If today’s self-satisfied MPs and Ministers – I have already described them as a Parliament of Pygmies – have no time for the voters, they have little time for history, either.

    First to fall was Labour, as the death of mass-production industry and a mass trade union movement left it a hollowed-out shell. As such, it was ripe for the Blairite coup as a tiny, unrepresentative faction took over a once-mighty movement.

    The Blairites were contemptuous of the people they supposedly represented and, in particular, of their party membership, who were ritually humiliated by the abolition of Clause Four of the Labour Party’s constitution.

    The Blairites were equally disparaging of history, traditional institutions and the nation itself. They believed in free markets, free love and unlimited immigration and they exhibited an ugly combination of self-righteousness and intolerance.

    They were, pretty much to a man and a woman, on the make. And they loved, loved the EU. Finally they tried, and with a large measure of success, to forge a new governing class in their own image.

    Where Blair led, David Cameron and his government were eager followers and disciples. Supposedly Conservatives, they hailed Blair as ‘The Master’ and gobbled up his memoirs as a model of how their own government should run.

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  39. Annunaki says:

    Above all, Tory modernisation– which can be summarised most neatly as an attempt to make the Tories the party of choice for readers of The Guardian – turned the Conservative Party into a pale imitation of New Labour and rendered its MPs indistinguishable from their supposed opponents on the other side of the House.

    The result is that, between them, Blair and Cameron contrived to turn two broad-church, national parties that commanded the allegiance of millions into a pair of narrow, elitist factions.

    The true extent of that change had been masked by voters’ tribal loyalty and our first-past-the-post system, which delivers clear, decisive results in General Elections.

    But the EU referendum tore apart the veil: it was now the People versus the Parliament.

    The People voted 52 to 48 per cent to leave; an estimated 74 per cent of MPs voted to remain.

    No representative assembly can sustain such a gulf. Either People or Parliament must give way.

    And so it has proved as, in its profound lack of wisdom and in its disregard for the central thread of its own history, Parliament has decided it is the People who should change. Or, rather, be changed.

    This is not the first time such a thing has happened. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Communist states were ruled by similarly pampered, out-of-touch and privileged elites who, against all the evidence, claimed to represent the People.

    The People, shame on them, were ungrateful and in the habit of rebelling. After one such protest, the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote one of the great poems of political dissent, including the satirical lines:

    ‘Wouldn’t it

    Be simpler in that case if the government

    Dissolved the people and

    Elected another?’

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  40. Annunaki says:

    BREXIT BLOCK: Lorry drivers threaten to CLOSE UK transport links if exit is delayed
    TRUCK drivers are planning to stage UK-wide blockades on highways if the country does not leave the EU on March 29, which they would see as a “Brexit betrayal”.
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1101090/brexit-news-uk-transport-lorry-drivers-brexit-block-uk-motorways-brexit-delay-article-50

       36 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Annunaki
      Now there would be a real irony . Lorry Drivers preventing ports from importing from the EU because of ‘Remain’. Project Fear in reverse, Personally it would be great if they could show the self obsessed MP s what populism is but I don’t think we collectively have the will to carry such through – unlike the French …..

      As for your comment about 800 years of democracy – that’s a myth . There never has been proper democracy because of the mafia like party system

         20 likes

      • Annunaki says:

        Fedup2

        Not my words its David Starkey in the article which I quoted, I agree with you nevertheless, should state “Westminster democracy”

        I quote again:

        “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

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      • john in cheshire says:

        It would be most effective if there was a blockade of the HoP. No food, no drink going in. No electricity, no gas, no water being supplied.

        Let them bring in the army to restore supplies. I’m sure those green goddesses; those old and polluting vehicles; can be brought into use again.

        And we can sit back, watch the discomfort of these swamp dwellers unfold, and have a good laugh at them.

           20 likes

    • Dover Sentry says:

      HYS on the Brexit Block is 100% supportive.

         22 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Tried to find it using bbc’s dire search. Even DDG failed. Got the link.

        In passing, the BBC homepage is frankly incredible. Totally explaining if nitvexcusing those thousands of drones in their cubicle gardens you see in panoramic shots of the ‘news’ floor.

        It is a manure machine.

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    • theisland says:

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  41. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    It seems that the British political elite are not frightened of the people.
    It seems that needs to change or democracy will be gone.
    Good luck (says I from a safe distance)

    Afterthought = Just to be clear, in the light of recent events, I’m not advocating attacks on people. But I think civil disobedience is now an option that should no longer be off the table in a situation that now exists in the UK.

       33 likes

    • Doublethinker says:

      Agree. When democracy is dead and people’s votes proven worthless , what else can they do but be disobedient? Apart from accept the death of democracy and grudgingly accept the loss of any last vestige of power that they had. Which of course is exactly what the Remain elite expect to happen and no doubt have plans to enforce.

         12 likes

  42. Fedup2 says:

    On the BBC news MPs who are hostile to the May sellout are called ‘rebels’. How does that work ? They are the ones trying to carry out the wishes of the Electorate . The PM is the rebel.

    Any ‘crisis’ is caused by remainers and the Awful Speaker – a man who wanted to make the office more modern by not wearing the wig but has made his office offensive to democracy .

       43 likes

    • john in cheshire says:

      Maybe we should think about using good old fashioned siege techniques. Non-violent but prevent anything from going into or coming out of the far-left bbc collective hive.

      Same as my idea regarding swamp central, the HoP.

      In fact, that should be the next phase of the revolt in France by the yellow vests. Can someone suggest that to them? Blockade the Elysee palace.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    You have to wonder if Jez, Orla, Quentin, John and the rest don’t sometimes sit back and wonder if perhaps they are not really journalists at all.

    https://brianoflondon.me/2019/03/the-most-evil-bbc-actions-are-the-ones-youre-not-supposed-to-see/

       15 likes

    • Doublethinker says:

      Of course they know they are not journalists, there are very few of those left. They preen themselves of being a key part of the Globalist elite charged with keeping the people quiet and accepting of the plan.

         7 likes

  44. Guest Who says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47562252

    Sad indeed. But… maybe… a person dedicated to hunting down the next partner can be the teensiest bit offputting?

       2 likes

  45. Guest Who says:

    Not bbc, but a funny thread, for which #CCBGB was created.

       12 likes

  46. Square-Eyed says:

    Regarding Brexit

    “But God …” This little phrase occurs forty-two times in my version of the Bible. God is a God of judgements, but He is also a God of mercy, forgiveness and deliverances. Remember Dunkirk, for example. Remember what happened on 23rd June 2016.

    The battle is not yet over. Keep praying.

       16 likes

  47. G says:

    The World turns a blind eye:
    “Iran Inches Closer to its Goal: “Wipe Israel off the Map””
    “Iran has built, or is in the process of building, more than 10 military bases in Syria, some of which are near the Israeli border.”
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13893/iran-wipe-israel-off-map
    All the signs are there. The POTUS is the only World leader that recognises the looming problem caused by, you guessed it! – islam, sorry, islam and the cults adherents.

       26 likes

    • TrueToo says:

      G,

      Yes, the bloodthirsty mullahs are keen to get as close to Israel as possible through Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.

      But as soon as they are complicit in one attack , eg from Syria, Israel simply demolishes the base of the attack. Netanyahu has stated several times that Israel will not permit Iran to turn Israel’s neighbours into Iranian proxies from which to launch attacks on the Jewish state.

         10 likes

  48. Guest Who says:

    Imagine Katty, Jon, Tony and Nick will be fully understanding.

    Unless he threatens their best hope to deal with Don. Then Uncle Joe gets all barrels.

       6 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      The list of half wit democrats is getting longer very quickly – there’s one called ‘ cato’ or similar who used to be a computer hacker .

         0 likes