Midweek Open Thread 20 March 2019

Happy Equinox  .

The political trial of Tommy Robinson has been put back to May .. So this is how to repress a dissenting individual .

Even the Far Left State Broadcaster is unable to keep Project Fear nonsense up as remainers make Parliament look absurd every day .

In view of all of this I would like to thank you for the restraint in your comments which is a testimony to the quality of our site .

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521 Responses to Midweek Open Thread 20 March 2019

  1. Despairada says:

    Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out yet, but Kathy Clugston is to replace Eric Robson as chairman of Gardener’s Question Time.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Cathy+Clugston+Gardeners&oq=Cathy+Clugston+Gardeners&ie=UTF-8

    Another senior male being replaced by a woman.
    I have nothing against Kathy Clugston, although her voice is a bit ‘strangly’, but do all presenters now have to be female?

    Speaking as a lady myself, I quite like the jocular avuncularity that old men bring to this type of thing.

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    • Jeff says:

      Replacing Eric Robson on QT!
      Oh my God, is nothing sacred?
      It’s just about the only thing on Radio 4 I actually listen to.
      I suppose I should be relieved it’s Kathy Clugston and not the ever present Clare Balding.
      About the only prog’ she’s not doing…

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  2. fakenewswatcher says:

    President Manangagwa has gone to Mutare to see the storm devastation for himself. He probably knows all about devastation, having contributed to stuffing up the country more than any storm ever could.
    The Manang. optimism has meanwhile vanished, as Zimbabweans realise, it’s more of the same. Mugabe 2.0
    Down south, the Beeb favourite, ANC has stuffed the country up completely. Corruption, crime, debt, infrastructure collapse -all in full go. South Africa becoming 3rd world. Target? Why, Zimbabwe 2.0, of course. With a dash of Venezuela, perhaps?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Fake
      If the Africans haven’t suffered enough with a storm , David Lammy speaking for them – now they’ve got Fergal £££ descending on them to do the eulogy job as always and talk about his kids again …. ugh

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  3. Doobster78 says:

    If anyone wants to witness a pure, unadulterated , left wing , anti government , BIAS BBC interview, then i suggest you look no further than the interview by Emily Maitliss with Damien Green on last nights Newsnight.

    It was pure filth. Emily was in a blind rage, constantly referring to the PRIME MINISTER as SHE with the real anger of a clear remainer and labour supporter. It was actually disgusting. Our Emily clearly hates our Prime Minister with a passion which came out quite openly last night. I have asked Newswatch to take a look at it. It was that bad.

    On another note, poor Raheem Sterling still banging on about the racist media …..tell me something tho, why the f**k would you get a tattoo of a gun on your leg (in this day and age and him being a supposed role model) and not expect some stick !!! He says its a nod to his father who was killed by a gun !!!

    Now, my mate died in a car crash many years ago but iv’e never felt the need to have a tattoo of a upturned Nova SR in a field stuck on my arm to remember him !!!!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I hate our Prime Minister too, because she’s clearly a Marxist, and incapable of clear thinking, or any of the qualities one expects in a head of government.
      Working quiety to instill Marxism in every corner of government, it is difficult to think of anything else the so called Tories have actually done since she came to power, other than banning scented candles of course which might explain Maitlesses fury if she now can’t burn her favoured frgrances !

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Raheem S., diver extraordinaire, has been playing the race card in his own subtle fashion, much longer than most people imagine. Apparently he’s quite an achiever.
      And Emily and her 2 mates have managed to wipe out the ‘patriarchy’ in the news department. Apparently she’s quite an achiever too…

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    • Kaiser says:

      how dare Emily mis-gender the prime minister

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    • vesnadog says:

      D.

      He probably went into a US gun shop while on his hols and it inspired him to behave on the pitch as his US gun-men behaves off it.! It made him feel more brothers-in-arms with his Liverpool gang friends

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  4. fakenewswatcher says:

    Lunchtime beeb news: Clive Mirey has a cosy get-together with NZ PM Ardern to slag off ‘white nationalism’ etc worldwide. She’s very proud of 160 languages being spoken in NZ. Apparently, this is a wonderful thing. Hasn’t heard of the Tower of Babel, I suspect. Wrong book.
    Beeb will dine out on this for a long time to come.
    Another country being stuffed up. Seems to be a trend ‘worldwide’.

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    • vlad says:

      A star is born.
      And while Saint Jacinda Of The Veil gets top billing by drooling breboids, the muslim murders in Utrecht get airbrushed out of history. Stalin would have been proud.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Actually I want to know why I have contributed to the air fare and accommodation of Clive Mirey’s stay in NZ, for just a 2 minute (on air) interview with Jacinda wotsername.

      We have received umpteen reports by very capable New Zealand journalists on the story out there, yet the BBC see fit to send a news anchor from here just to get an interview on a 4 day old story. Surely there are BBC people who report for the World Service based in NZ and Oz who could have done the job.

      Clearly a nice little jollie for CM, I’m only surprised dinky Hew Edwards didn’t put his hand up and say “I’ll go,” “I’ll go”

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Brissles, Dominic O’Connell, Beeb Business Correspondent for TOADY, was actually out there at the time. Christchurch is his home town or home city and I guess he was on holiday to visit family & friends.

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    • vesnadog says:

      fake,

      “Clive Mirey”

      Strange when he’s back in the UK he is so blooming quite about the ongoing black problem in the town of his birth – Bolton.

         18 likes

    • Banania says:

      160 languages spoken in NZ? That must be about three people speaking each one.

         10 likes

  5. vlad says:

    So when decent Christians object to baking gay cakes or hosting gays in their B&Bs, they face prosecution. When religionists of homophobia object to lgbt lessons, the authorities buckle obsequiously.
    Some religions are more equal than others, I guess.
    And this is just the start, wait till the numbers grow to the next stage of the invasion.

       76 likes

    • gaxvil says:

      Fine and dandy – no one wants hate speech from anyone. But when does someones opinion become ‘hate speech’ – how is that defined?
      If I say, I don’t like gingers – is that ‘hate speech’ only if the ginger is gay?
      Surely we should have had an explanatory leaflet through our doors by now ?

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      • fakenewswatcher says:

        gaxvil – An opinion becomes ‘hate speech’ if it does not support our tolerant, open, diverse society, in which you can be whatever you want to be.
        Oh, and don’t mention any traditional conservative values.

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      • G says:

        Gax,
        What’s that? another £nine million leaflet……….

           12 likes

        • gaxvil says:

          Well ok then – where’s the informative website so that we may avoid inadvertently becoming speech criminals?

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          • Old Goat says:

            You can try here – always good for a laugh, and an opportunity to write what you REALLY think…

            https://going-postal.com

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          • JimS says:

            There are no safe words, that’s the point. Yesterday’s safe word is today’s hate speech, we have to keep ‘progressing’ towards the extreme.

            We need free speech and the forum to use it otherwise there is no-one to provide the counterbalance.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    BBC non hyperbolic as usual.

    More crucially, did the table survive?

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  7. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Why should anybody take anything May says seriously?

    Now it’s ‘we will leave on 30 June’ but it’s said exactly the same as when she assured everybody 100 times ‘we will leave on 29 March’

    Everything she says is a lie.

    On June 20 we will start hearing ‘we will leave on …(insert next date we are told by the remainers wrecking brexit)’

    Unless enough traitors go for her dreadful so called deal.

    She says ‘it’s not worth us holding eu elections’
    I wonder why?

    Has she actually done anything she said she would?

    I can’t wait until I get to vote against this worst of all parliaments ever.

       49 likes

    • gaxvil says:

      ‘Not worth us holding EU Elections’ – Maybe BUT legally obliged to none the less.

         14 likes

      • Kaiser says:

        I suspect we will see something cooked up like MEPs appointed in relation to house of commons representation

        con/lab/snp parties will be very happy as will the EU, BBC and the majority of the LamestreamMedia

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  8. StewGreen says:

    BBC Scotland gave Gina Miller full 30 mins and podcast
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0742cdv

       11 likes

  9. gaxvil says:

    Funny though how the bbc appear to back Islam and Corbyn.
    Like Colosseum Christians cosseting the lions.

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  10. theisland says:

    We can but hope

       33 likes

    • gaxvil says:

      The White Obama continues to build his legacy.
      With Paris aflame and the Police Chief sacked – he may consider an invasion of Russia as his reforms have not gone down exceedingly well – and they say we’re in crisis – Pah!

         30 likes

      • Kaiser says:

        I hear he is saving the invasion of russia until november and then deploying his Algerian divisions as climate scientists have decided it will be incredibly mild and there will be no snow.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Micron will do his superiors tell him he is nothing more than a sock puppet of Merkle, Soros, and Junker he can not be considered a real leader.
      He was placed in this position when the establishment realised Marine Le Penn was going to win and they needed a face to front the rigged election.

         21 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      C’mon, Tim!

      Er, … I mean C’mon Poland! C’mon Greece! C’mon Hungary! Give us some help for a fast exit a week on Friday.

         16 likes

  11. Kaiser says:

    Can any one point me at a list of treaties that have been ended by the vienna convention and the change of circumstances required?

       11 likes

  12. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Here’s the Chamberlain letter. Read it and weep.
    (You have to zoom in)

       12 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      paragraph 4 , as agreed with junker in secret documents the british public cant see

         8 likes

  13. Terminal Moraine says:

    “Baseball star Mike Trout is reportedly set to agree the most lucrative deal in sport – a 12-year extension worth $430m (£324m) with the Los Angeles Angels”.

    And to promote Baseball Softball UK on the sidebar the beeb really outdo themselves. (Hot dogs and beer probably not available any more at your local stadium)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      PMQs and after – popcorn time . So the outgoing PM is writing to ask for a short extension to A50 . But really knows there will be no material change to the sell out .
      So May goes to The EU council to ask tomorrow . And they say ‘no’ so we get what we voted for after all .

      Watching parliament channel this afternoon the oxygen wasters are debating whether to have the Commons working over the weekend . Laugh out loud . Soubry milking her temporary fame for all its worth . I wonder who she thinks her constituency is now … ?

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      • fakenewswatcher says:

        Fedup – You think they will say ‘no’?
        ‘President’ Juncker has said the extension can’t run to 30 June, only either to 23 May, or – for a very long time…
        Wonder which one of these we will get?

        What a wonderful Punch & Judy show being staged, all for our benefit.

        Of course, if someone has managed to persuade Salvini or Orban to back up the ‘no’, we could be in business.
        But will Merkel and Macron take that lying down?

           20 likes

        • G.W.F. says:

          We are not leaving . A last minute deal will be made for BRINO and the MPs will buy it.

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          • Van Helsing says:

            If only there was a Brexiteer with the necessary moolah and nous to raise judicial review proceedings against HMG. After all, surely we have a legitimate expectation that we shall be leaving the EU (on terms that do NOT include a customs union, freedom of movement etc.) on March 29th.

            Mind you, would anyone trust the judges to actually apply the law in this situation?

               10 likes

        • Fedup2 says:

          Fake it can only be up to the end of May ( both PM and Month and Erskine) .

          The UK remainers are so up themselves that they don’t take into account the political situations in each of the 27 member statelets ….where brother populists are getting ready to give the EU a proper kicking due to having the third world dropped on them .

          I reckon a couple will object to the extension unless the bribes or threats from ReichEU Central is sufficient ….

          One version of me has been saying that the FrancoKraut pact really wants us out so they can continue to subjugate the little statelets into the proper 4th Reich wearing an EU badge this time round – unless some one comes up with a red flag , white circle and an emblem in the middle … again .

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  14. taffman says:

    “Brexit: Theresa May vows not to delay departure beyond June”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47636011
    Does anyone believe her anymore ?

       18 likes

  15. StewGreen says:

    Saint Jacinda Of The Veil
    could have prevented the Mosque massacre
    She’s been PM for a while so could have banned automatic weapons.
    …so her wailing today is partially distraction technique.

       24 likes

    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Stew- True, but how could she have conveyed that decision to ‘her people’, who speak 160 languages..?

         18 likes

    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      If we close all mosques mosks in the free world no one can shoot at them. Problem solved 😉
      Meeting adjourned.

         32 likes

  16. G says:

    I see the ECHR has supported islamic religious blasphemy and declined the request to re-hear the case:
    “The European Court of Human Rights (the Court) has unfortunately refused to refer the E.S. v. Austria case to the Grand Chamber. The criminal conviction of Mrs. Sabaditsch-Wolff, for having compared the union of Mahomet (56 years) to Aisha (9 years) to pedophilia is final. This is a serious setback of freedom of expression. In fact, Mrs. Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted for stating a disturbing truth.”
    https://mailchi.mp/eclj/blasphemy-case-the-echr-rejects-the-request-for-a-referral?e=e9dc1fd0bc
    Islam must see the West as some sort of game of Skittles – ‘make em’ roll like nine-pins’. I wonder what’s next on their menu?
    I know, lets introduce stoning to start.

       28 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      IF I am getting this correctly

      The reasoning for their decision seemed strange in the first place

      it said something along the lines that she couldnt prove the attraction was due to the childs age it could have been something else mo found attractive

      so if I want to be a pedo I can claim to be attracted to the childs mother, dog, pushbike ??? and im not a pedo anymore

      is that what they are saying

      can of worms …

         21 likes

      • Dystopian says:

        Well by the same reasoning how can any hurty hatey “crimes” be proven? How can the hate be attributed to ones so called religion or gender for example, when it might just be that one doesn’t like hijabs or skirts in general?

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  17. s.trubble says:

    Has the bBC or other leftish organ issued an “APB” yet for Alibaba-Brown?

    Or is she the first victim of Brexit-Matosis!

       10 likes

  18. StewGreen says:

    C4 10pm tonight channel4 invites some mums to make ethical porn
    3 part serial

       7 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      no meat involved , hand driven cameras, recycled condoms

      what the hell does that mean

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  19. Beeb Brother says:

    So the delicious narrative of the head teacher cleaning toilets turns out to have been fake news – which was obvious from the start. Just like with a con if something seems to good to be true it probably is not. Alas with the vile Beeb all it matters are the dominant narratives (Trump bad, must have more funding for X etc); facts come later if at all. I bet Beeb staff had a collective orgasm when they heard this story.

    The head teacher recently got a 10k rise and her cleaning budget was almost doubled! She is only cleaning toilets due to epic incompetence or to score petty political points. Does she not know how to delegate? Typically the BBC with its 20,000 staff somehow could not find time to mention this vital fact about the budget increases.

    As for this constant whining for more money: it’s pointless if you do not understand the problem first. If you think you clean windows effectively by throwing shit at them an extra billion for more shit will not help – indeed, it may make things worse as so many liberal ideas do. Imagine if that billion pounds spent annually on the ‘equalities’ industry instead was spent providing everyone with a bike and buying breakfast for poor children? I bet if the shit-stirring ‘equalities’ Gestapo shut up shop completely relations between groups would actually improve dramatically

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  20. StewGreen says:

    “Self styled yellow vests” says the Times article about yesterday’s James Goddard trial
    ..same phrase that Telegraph uses
    So I still think they are both cutNpasting PR material written by the Hatey No Hopers

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  21. Luckyharry69 says:

    Have I just heard correctly?…Tusk is saying they wont allow us an extension unless we agree Mays deal first?….that sounds like good news to me?
    So its a NO DEAL BREXIT yippee!!!…..
    (I know what you are all thinking…Parliament will vote for May’s deal ahead of a No Deal….I think that is the likely ‘stitch up’ scenario)

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  22. StewGreen says:

    R4 4:30pm “I had the great honour of being on stage with Sadiq Khan”
    Amol’s guest : Lydia Polgreen, HuffPost editor-in-chief discusses her strategy

    “Trump and this Crazy man in Brazil”
    “the growth of rightwing extremism”

    She doesn’t seem to be into diversity and tolerance

       26 likes

    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Stew – Tsk, tsk. You forgot about Brexit. It was Trump, Brexit and this crazy man in Brazil.
      And these 3 were evidence of ‘authoritarianism’, she said. You think to yourself: now how on earth is Brexit an example of authoritarianism?
      But little Lydia, like all good ‘progressives’ does not live on this earth.
      She is a typical resident of planet ‘liberalism’. A liberalism, however, which has absolutely nothing to do with freedom. Or even tolerance. Lydia’s TOLERANCE IS ACTUALLY SUPREMELY INTOLERANT.
      The meaning of a word can now be diametrically opposed to what it sounds like. And if you do not live on her planet you have to be an extreme right/fascist/Nazi. (I doubt she would be able to explain any of these three political positions)
      THE SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT BUT UNNOTICED EVENT OF THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OR SO HAS BEEN THE COMPLETE REINVENTION OF LANGUAGE BY THE POLITICALLY CORRECT.

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  23. Kaiser says:

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  24. G.W.F. says:

    Just saw Breaking News that Tusk is willing to allow a short extension.
    I may be in a minority but I don’t believe we are leaving. A short extension can turn into a long one and a BRINO deal will be imposed.
    May is safe, or rather the people who pull her strings are about to screw us down within the EU.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47636011

       18 likes

    • gaxvil says:

      But can the short extension be vetoed ?
      Parliament will not vote for the May EU Treaty.
      So the May treaty or no Brexit. No surprise there.

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      • Kaiser says:

        yes what happened to 27 nations agreeing?
        EU rules wot EU rules

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      • fakenewswatcher says:

        Evan Davis talks about Podium day. Podium day? I can’t see May resigning. Do not forget the Merkel handbook. It tells May to hang in there, regardless. You stay in power. End of. It tells her that only being hoisted up and carried out physically, could be an indication of a small hitch somewhere…
        …but not one to be taken too seriously. And if needs be, you simply sit down with whichever party it takes and hammer out some sort of a coalition.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      But only if May’s deal is agreed first. Surely even the staunchest remainer can see that when they hold a gun to the head of the UK Parliament in this fashion, it’s not an organisation we want to be associated with?

         14 likes

      • Kaiser says:

        TUSK could have said accept the deal or the EU army will be coming thru the channel tunnel at midnight and the remainiacs would be there with flags and flowers to greet them.

        I dont think you have quite grasped their enthusiasm as yet

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Times letters : Sir John Tusa writes of the BBC’s self loathing and it favouring youth over its core “middle class” audience.

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  26. StewGreen says:

    Times hates Erdogan exploiting NZ attack

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Migrant taxi just arrested in Italy
    photos show 50 young men
    Not women, nor children

       21 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      That’s more like it … and sink it …

         11 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      That first tweet is ironic cos on the topic od the Mediterranean Taxi Service
      it literally shows a boat and a taxi marked “service”

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  28. taffman says:

    “Brexit: EU says delay is possible if MPs back deal”
    Mr Tusk is giving the orders to our Parliament now.
    Is Mrs Chamberlain on her way? She is going to address the nation shortly – WTO?
    She is toast.

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    • Dystopian says:

      If MP’s back the deal why would they need a delay? I thought the whole point of the delay was to get her so called deal through.

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  29. Oldspeaker says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-47638527

    There’s so much wrong with the Kafkaesque nightmare of “Surrey Police investigation over ‘misgendering’ tweets” I wouldn’t know where to start, a real first world problem if ever there was one. It made me wonder about the sad cases in which only resorting to forensic science can identify an unknown body. You can probably see where this is going, science and logic? piffle. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, is it still a hate crime?
    This whole issue is nothing to do with misgendering or any number of other imaginary crimes, its all about control. You either newspeak or stay silent, no debate, no dissent and no independent thought. How have we been reduced to this sorry state, where expressing your conscience can be a hate crime?

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    • Kaiser says:

      How did they know cheddar man was a MAN

      bigots

         12 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      It’s also an impossibility to police because the person concerned needs to prove it was intentional and not accidental.

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    • Dave S says:

      It is unwise of the police to be seen as political police . That is the road to disaster. The police have lost much of the nation’s trust now and cannot afford to lose more. Whatever happened to old fashioned policing?

         22 likes

  30. Loobyloo says:

    BBC/UN bollocks:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47637378

    What a coincidence, the ‘happiest’ countries are also the most popular for people to migrate to..
    1984

       9 likes

    • Kaiser says:

      they may have to close down that HYS it appears to have gone a little off script 🙂

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    • Scroblene says:

      Actually, Looby, the best place to live is in the UK, where we have all the rights to ignore just about anything that Parliament chucks at us, and we just carry on as normal!

      Mrs O’Blene and I certainly do, and while our pensions are taxed to pay for some ruffians in Africa, and the Kent County Council’s inability to ever do anything, our lives – in retirement – just tell the moaners, remainers, lefties, wasters, uglies, scroungers, elite, etc, to just Phuque Off!

      I just enjoy taking not a blind bit of notice of why we have such an inept MP (Greg Clark), and concentrate on when I should be sowing my tomatoes now, because I’m a bit late due to a hand operation, and infection is not a good idea at 71 years of age.

      Friday next week is a Prosecco day I think, followed by a couple of large Jack Daniels, and a gaze at my lovely wife, more in hope these days…

      So, trust in the UK, it’ll all be OK by next weekend!

      (Oh, and don’t take any notice of the pricks on the BBC, they’re toast)!

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  31. Tabs says:

    Italian driver hijacks and torches school bus full of children
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47642298

    “Italian driver”, ” Italian citizen”……. get to the 4th paragraph to find the critical bit of information “originally from Senegal”.

    Makes a change from just saying he was a “man” I suppose.

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    • StewGreen says:

      \\ However the children, some of them tied up, were rescued through smashed windows at the back of the bus and no-one was badly hurt.
      Fourteen people suffered smoke inhalation //

      Interesting that the Sun has now removed “from Senegal” from its headline

      but Telegraph says
      Bus full of children in Italy set alight by angry driver ‘in retaliation’ for migrant drownings in Mediterranean
      \\ An Italian bus driver of Senegalese descent was arrested on Wednesday after hijacking his own vehicle and setting it on fire, allegedly threatening to kill more than 50 children on board whose hands he had bound.

      The 47-year-old man said he was acting in revenge for the thousands of migrants, many of them African, who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years while trying to reach Europe from Libya. //
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/20/bus-full-children-set-alight-angry-driver-retaliation-migrant

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      • StewGreen says:

        Will the media do their normal false equivalence and call this deranged anger attack “terrorism” ?
        … bet not this time .

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      • Banania says:

        I am sure this would be considered irrelevant but was he a moslem?

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  32. StewGreen says:

    Followup on the BBC producer found INNOCENT after he allowed the broadcasting the name of a protected Rotherham victim.
    That victim has faced more doxxing and trolling and the police failed to act.
    https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/view,rotherham-abuse-survivors-safety-fears-after-social-media-troll-attacks_31238.htm

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    Got to hand it to the Reich~eU – apparently victor orbans party in Hungary is not being allowed to go to the Eu council Thursday so there will be no veto of the A50 extension from there …. so maybe it will all be down to Italy unless an outsider does us the favour .

    I’m watching twitter not the state broadcaster and it’s like an internet civil war – yet alone all this shallow nonsense about ‘hate crimes’.

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Rusz seems like a Polish name
    and from the comments Troy Lucas is just another pseudonym he uses
    https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/unqualified-legal-adviser-to-pay-337000-in-negligence-ruling/5069660.article

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  35. StewGreen says:

    BBC invested in BBCsounds with the idea that commercial radio would jump onboard and share costs ..but nope

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    • Fedup2 says:

      And stew – the state broadcaster spent something like
      £85 000 000 ? On an East Enders E20 site which still isn’t finished …
      Easy to pee away taxpayers cash isn’t it ?

      As an aside the ‘boris bridge ‘ across the Thames cost £57 000 000 without a brick laid …

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  36. taffman says:

    “EastEnders overrun set rebuild project criticised by MPs”
    \\In December, the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed that the project had gone £27m over budget.
    The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the BBC was “complacent” and the project “was flawed from the start”. //
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47624894

    Where your TV Telly tax goes ?
    I am very surprised that they haven’t blamed it on Brexit ?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Taffman – thanks for the more accurate number – there was a news item on this today but when I went back to get the number it had disappeared ..

      I’m assuming no one will be held to account for the waste of people’s money … it does not belong to the state or its broadcaster … no wonder I believe in smaller government ..

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      • Kaiser says:

        what are they reconstructing the entire East-End

        the corrie set cost £10m

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        • taffman says:

          A total waste of money – other people’s money.
          But not mine .

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Taffman
            I think they should have made it ‘on location’ in Tower Hamletstan – the real East End – but not on Fridays …

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Stabbings : black “engineering graduate” ie not working, just happened to get stabbed after midnight in Friday.
    He was 6ft 7 and in in an argument with the assailants

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Are you sure he’s not a Chruch of England vicar? Seems like the type.

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  38. taffman says:

    Will Al Beeb broadcast this Good Brexit news ?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6830909/Toyota-build-new-electric-hybrid-car-Suzuki-Britain.html
    Over to you Al Beeb …………………….

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  39. taffman says:

    “Jean-Claude Juncker has come under attack for dismissing concerns that controversial art storage facilities may be enabling money laundering. ”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47626281
    Who is laundering the money ?

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    OUTGOING PM TO ADDRESS BLIGHTY 2015 London time – gotcha popcorn ready ….

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Dellers encounters the magic that is Vile.

    https://twitter.com/jamesdelingpole/status/1108445926702673925?s=21

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  42. pugnazious says:

    Odd….no mention of Bercow’s intervention yesterday as the EU says vote again on May’s deal….so it must be ‘no-deal’ as they can’t vote again on that deal according to Bercow. The BBC’s Chris Mason doesn’t mention that crucial fact at all.

    It did look like the EU was about to agree to re-open the deal, in opposition to its firm position that the deal was the deal and wouldn’t be re-negotiated, as it was speaking favourably of an extension if May came up with some new and concrete decision…now Tusk says vote for the deal or no extension confirming the EU’s previous position, thus no-deal being the most likely outcome unless May can tweak the deal enough to make it appear different enough and force Bercow to agree to a vote….and the MP’s then vote to accept it.

    Just bizarre…the BBC report on this notes Bercow’s intervention but doesn’t note how that effects what Tusk is demanding…another vote on May’s deal. They’re all talking right now on 5Live about a vote on the deal….have I missed something myself are they all just getting over-excited and not thinking?

    How can they miss what is surely the critical point that everything depends upon?

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  43. Cassandra says:

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  44. Thoughtful says:

    Bloody May can’t even manage to keep the deadlines of her own press conference – I watched live on you tube and the comments were truly hilarious while looking at a couple of plates on a wood panelled wall.

    She finally did turn up with virtually everyone hoping she was going to resign, and she starts tryng to sell her rubbish deal to us even when we don’t have a say in the matter!

    15 minutes to say nothing we didn’t already know – typical May, a waste of everyones time !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful
      I agree – nearly half an hour late – then a load of bland glaze over . This time Thursday night I hope she is able to say that the A50 extension was vetoed and that the next few days will be used to finalise brexit arrangement ….

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    • JimS says:

      If only she had been as stubborn pushing our case in Brussels!

      Now here is the sort of woman we need!

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  45. Doobster78 says:

    As per taffman earlier, the BBC have reported the Toyota news !!! However, not surprisingly they have put the most negative slant possible on it !!! You can tell how it’s worded they HATED this good news !!! It’s actually laughable….really is ……it must have hurt !!!!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-47638644

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  46. TrueToo says:

    Tommy Robinson’s trial for contempt of court delayed till May?

    Justice delayed is justice denied.

    There are perhaps a few pertinent questions here:

    How is it that a person can be tried twice for the same alleged offence? Surely the higher court should have just declared a mistrial and exonerated Tommy completely – provided that can be done.

    That kangaroo court judge who sentenced him to 13 months should be held in contempt of Tommy Robinson, though I doubt there is such a provision in law.

    Wouldn’t it be great, though, if that judge could have the pants sued off him.

    What does a judge have to do to be disbarred or is that not possible?

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    • Thoughtful says:

      A lot of questions there!

      You can be tried twice for a number of reasons, but technically in this case he has only been tried once because the original verdict was quashed.

      It was the decision of the attourney general to declare a retrial, not the appeal judge.

      There should indeed be an inquiry into the way the original case was handled especially as the higher court judge said that the decision went way beyond any simple mistake. We don’t know if this was malfeasance on behalf of the judge or others more highly placed in the establishment. Either way it appears May the Marxist doesn’t want the public knowing about the treatment of political prisoners.

      Judges have crown immunity and can’t easily be sued.

      A judge can be removed by the decision of the House of Lords – judgement by ones peers, however this has never happened as each judge so threatened has taken the ‘honourable’ route and resigned. Who would want to be remembered in history as being the first in 500 years or however long it is?

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      • TrueToo says:

        Thanks for that thoughtful response, Thoughtful.

        I read the lengthy summation by the learned judges. They stated it was “in the public interest” for Tommy Robinson to be tried again on the contempt charge.

        Before he was arrested for ‘breach of the peace,’ Tommy Robinson flung a few mocking comments at the ‘men’ who were arriving to hear their sentencing for raping children. I suspect that info travelled quickly up to the Muslim who sits next to Theresa May, who then pulled a few puppet strings, resulting in Tommy being tried, convicted and shoved into jail at the speed of lightning and then moved to a prison with a large number of Muslim inmates to drive home the point that you don’t mess with Muslims in today’s Britain, whatever they have done.

        The ongoing persecution of Tommy Robinson is only in the “public interest” of those who are happy to see Islam dominate in the UK.

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  47. pugnazious says:

    Have I missed something, have I flipped into an alternate universe where the last two days just didn’t happen? Did the BBC not just chase Bercow down the street challenging his decision to stop a third vote on May’s deal?

    Did the BBC not announce Bercow had pushed us into a constitutional crisis for blocking the vote?…

    And yet now all I hear is we are having a vote on May’s deal next week…again….have I missed something?

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  48. Guest Who says:

    Emily’s elevation has clearly seen her impartiality soar.

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  49. StewGreen says:

    now BBC4 prog about memes is so poncy.
    ..and they are not using the actual memes, cos of copyright.

    and 13 minutes in we have got the ‘signature BBC bubbleworld sneer at Trump’ … oh another quick one 3 mins later.

    …nasty people.

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