Midweek Thread 18 September 2019

I was thinking that maybe we should stop referring to the State Broadcaster as the BBC and just call it the RBC – the Remainer Broadcasting Corporation . There doesn’t seem to be any pretence about its output being balanced and neutral – it’s just Far Left and Pro EU .

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563 Responses to Midweek Thread 18 September 2019

  1. Guest Who says:

    An alumnus speaks:

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  2. Dover Sentry says:

    Why is it that Climate activists oppose Brexit?

       27 likes

  3. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    These climate protesting children.

    I think that in my days at school, any chance of getting time off would be gratefully accepted.
    However, we wouldn’t be off on some climate protest, we’d be downtown or off playing somewhere.
    We didn’t understand the details of things like climate change and I don’t think we thought much about it anyway.
    The only ones who would actually go on this ‘strike’ or whatever it is, would be the pc virtue signallers and we didn’t have much of that in my schooldays in the ‘60’s
    Then, there would be some of the lads joining in to try and ‘get off’ with some of the lasses during this strike but they wouldn’t be there for the climate change reason.

    Maybe the young’uns today are far more sensitive having been brainwashed with all this pc, lefty, climate, gender and other nonsense by schools and the media all the time.

    Anyway, at least they have nice weather for it.

    A thought.
    Why doesn’t either Parliament make any change in the climate against the law or why doesn’t Gina Miller take somebody (anybody) to court to stop climate change.
    It could work the same way as, for an example, California declaring a law against nuclear war and that means that it cannot ever be bombed.
    Makes as much sense as controlling the world’s weather I suppose. Maybe they can change the Suns temperature while they’re at it. Make sunspots and solar flares illegal for instance.

    They would be better off protesting against pollution where mankind (or is it genderkind) can actually do something about it.

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    • honestus says:

      EG,
      so much deflection, smoke and mirrors and acres of wokeness.

      Fact: UK currently operate 3 coal fired power stations producing 7,994mw of power – for example.
      China operate 114 coal fired power stations producing 336,669mw!
      Even tiny Hong Kong produce 7,863mw from their two.
      Also, China (allegedly cutting back on coal power) are busy building significant numbers of new coal fired power stations all over the developing world.
      If so bad, why are ER not invading China and the like and punishing those with most guilt?
      Closing bridges and business centres in UK is like Vegans protesting meat consumption by barracking a greengrocers! Pointless, ineffective but signal well and truly virtued.

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      • john in cheshire says:

        Of course it’s a rhetorical question because we all know the answer: They’d get the crap kicked out of them if they tried their antics over there. Or in many other countries in the world.

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    • JamesG says:

      It’s interesting how it always used to be right-wingers who were sanctimonious and used to be lecture everyone else on how to live and what to think, back in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it’s the left. Big mistake by them, in my opinion.

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  4. Doobster78 says:

    LOL … like we say, imagine for one moment it was a Right sided figure !!! Thats what really gets my goat about folk like Lammy.

       57 likes

    • Beltane says:

      The only thing heavier than Lammy would be Nicholas Soames – but we really don’t want to go there, do we?

         24 likes

  5. Guest Who says:

    Rob reacts to… er… something.

    Guessing one of those who the bbc defers to instantly?

       12 likes

  6. Guest Who says:

    OT (SoSueMeWho) But this thread is ace.

       7 likes

  7. StewGreen says:

    To quote Trudeau he said that he is subject to the same zero-tolerance policy he applies to everyone else.
    “The standard applies to everyone,” he said.
    “There is no context in which someone doesn’t have responsibility for things they’ve done in the past…”

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    • john in cheshire says:

      There are many public figures who seem to be acting parts these days. Mr Trudeau is exceptional in that he is a man of many parts, Indian, black, American Indian, for example, but Mr Varadkar is playing the part of an Irishman, Mr Bercow is playing the part of an Englishman, Mr Juncker is playing the part of a drunk, Mr Verhofstadt is playing the part of a lunatic.

      What did William Shakespeare say, all the world’s a stage and all the men and women are merely players.

      I have to laugh at their antics, otherwise I’d cry.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      That little statement should just about fit on his political tombstone. The problem is that the left have their own set of rules .

      They’ll be desperate for an ‘ event ‘ to switch attention away…..

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    • Loobyloo says:

      https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-49762386/justin-trudeau-blackface-it-s-a-non-issue-say-canadians

      So, here is Al Beeb try to do damage limitation for Trudeau.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    11am TalkRadio news is in with the PR
    leading the news with the Climate Strike and telling us there is a demonstration in Thailand and then playing a clip in English.
    ========================================

    @MRobertsQLD tweets
    “Kids marching for the environment all using single-use plastic water bottles.”
    What do we want?
    “Expensive electricity”

    When do we want it?
    “NOW”

    Who will pay?
    “Our parents”

    What will be change in global temperature if Australia stop all CO2 output?

    “oh, um, we were on a climate um strike & missed that bit of the lesson”

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  9. BRISSLES says:

    Climate change. Yep, a day off school, bit of fun, get interviewed on tele. Job done. Hopefully Mum and Dad are planning to take us on a long haul holiday next year – yeah, of course we’re flying !!! (stoopied question)

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      BRISSLES
      For 99.99% of children I would say your assertion is correct but for the rest of the kids I’d say you are talking bollox. xxx

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  10. Celtic_Mist says:

    Climate protest UK – BBC interview people of colour
    Interestingly, the woman with the headscarf is calling for the ‘green new deal’
    Then they switch to the protests in Africa – Nairobi
    Apparently Greta has also been tweeting from New York
    Some would say headbangers

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  11. s.trubble says:

    The RBC and its mimic Sky News have brushed aside a survation poll which says 60% of Scots dont want Independence.

    And no wonder….devolution under the complete mismanagement of the country under this SNP is also being questioned.

    Dont think I,m alone in concluding that devolution and its high cost
    and mismanagement by a third rate political operation is due for serious re-evaluation.

    No wonder Ms Cherry is so consumed by pointing the finger at Westminster to shield and deflect from the total shambles her party are making of things in Scotland.

    Those who want “devolution” should look carefully at this failure
    up here and be careful what they wish for.

    Meanwhile the RBC and Sky assault us with maximum coverage of Ms Cherry…………a face strictly for radio.

    On the brightside the more coverage of Cherry/sturgeoan/blackford,corbyn and macdonell …..the better Boris and Nigel’s ratings go!!

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    • john in cheshire says:

      I suppose they could always revisit the Darien project because that was a success, wasn’t it?
      Or perhaps they could remember it was Scotland that asked for Union with England in the first place?

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  12. StewGreen says:

    In Australia Andrew Bolt Tells it straight
    as he calls out their top eco-loony

    Andrew Bolt stories today
    – CLIMATE STRIKE: UNIVERSITY OFFERS STUDENTS FULL MARKS FOR SKIPPING CLASS
    Today’s climate strike is a celebration of ignorance. Hormoz Marzbani, a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at RMIT University, is offering engineering students full marks on an assessment…
    ·
    – CAN’T SPELL. THINK CLIMATE STRIKE STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE SCIENCE? #auspol
    Today’s climate strike is a stunning celebration of ignorance.

    – THE CONVERSATION BANS QUESTIONING OF CLIMATE CULT #auspol
    Where are Australia’s academics to protest against the silencing of debate on The Conversation, a website sponsored by 34 of our universities?

    – UNIVERSITIES PROMOTE WARMING CULT, BAN DISSENT #auspol

    – TIM FLANNERY CALLS ME A ‘PREDATOR’ OF CHILDREN. SO WHO IS THIS NASTY CRANK? #auspol

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  13. honestus says:

    Climate Change – Cor bin and other left wingers allying themselves with this wokest of protests in a thinly disguised recruiting drive to capture future labour zealots.
    Revolution = Labour is your party
    Protest = Labour are the party of protest
    Climate Change = just bloody vote Labour.

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  14. EmptyingDadsShed says:

    I’d like to see a collection point, a huge bin at these protests, where the protestors would gleefully dispose of any planet destructing items they have,
    All plastic
    All phones
    All man made fibre clothing
    All mass produced food and drink
    Anything else you can think of that can be described in anyway whatsoever as Not Good
    .
    How magnificent and encouraging it would be to other youngsters of the sacrifices bring made

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    • BRISSLES says:

      One thing guaranteed to make me switch over is seeing kids being interviewed, whether outside or in the studio. Who cares ?

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  15. honestus says:

    Slight mirthful moment, courtesy of Eddie Mair LBC. (still can’t face/listen to state broadcaster)
    https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/eddie-mair/the-queen-intervened-in-scottish-referendum-eddie/
    Storm in a teacup exemplified and fair play to the caller who refused to be fazed. Young Scottish Eddie may just have outed himself (no pun) as a closet Scots Nat. Who’d have thunk it?

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  16. theisland says:

    Anything?

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Gary sharing his own views on a not BBC broadcast.

    “Nobody really knew the ramifications of Brexit at that point, and also the obvious illegalities as well.”

    Gary Lineker on Brexit, advocating a People’s Vote and the one positive that might come out of leaving the EU.“

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  18. Doobster78 says:

    Spot on Piers. A superb article.

    PIERS MORGAN: Blackface Trudeau should apply the same high horse standards to himself that he applies to everyone else – and demand his own racist head on a plate

       43 likes

  19. 1 of 8e9 says:

    Ha ha, so the BBC is lauding the climate protesters wishing for the end of using fossil fuels. Within 200 years the world population has gone from a sustainable 1 billion to approaching 8 billion. Do these mites not realise that there very existence is due to exploitation of these same fossil fuels. Bit of a catch 22 huh?

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  20. Doobster78 says:

    But the BBC keep telling them to take days off to protest about non existent Climate Change !!! Maybe, just maybe, instead of indoctrinating these school kids with your liberal propaganda , you just let them be , well, kids ?????

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    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      D78
      “a shameful rise”
      We already have British thickos.
      So we did not need ANY of the third world ultra thickos temporarily in the UK.
      Especially those ultra thickos with a long record of hating and attacking us.

      What is shameful is :-
      The Grade Inflation which has infected the West for thirty years.
      The all must have a prize policy.
      Eg Warwick University, first class degrees awarded rise from c4% to c45%.

      Also shameful is sending people to university solely to have three years extra Marxist nonsense fed to them 24/7/365.

      Also shameful, and laughable, is the BBC/Guardian use of these Micky Mouse university degrees awarded statistics to “demonstrate” that the Remainiacs are intellectually superior to Patriots. Only in your dreams Lefties.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Does anyone know when the radio I player is being turned off – all my old staff recorded before the Remainer Broadcasting Corpse will be wiped by ‘ new and improved ‘ noises app….

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  22. G.W.F. says:

    Nice one Boris and Priti Patel.
    Surely it can’t be true

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  23. Guest Who says:

    I imagine most BBC local stations are also issuing hourly updates, despite #CCBGB

    “Hundreds of people in Hereford have staged a ‘die in’ in front of the city’s Primark store to protest against climate change. The action was organised by students who marched through the city centre. They were joined by people from across the county including staff from businesses that have shut for the day in support of the protests.”

    The irony of businesses going to what is a poorly-disguised anticapitalism march by middle-aged Wolfies using idiot offspring of the state education system is palpable.

    Some maybe figured as they were out of luck on sales today, at least the sun was shining.

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC throwing all they have at this nationally and beyond too.

      Interestingly, on a local facebook page that gets much bigger audiences than any local media or BBC station, the comments are hilarious.

      A few XR fanatics trying to handle a load of furious parents who were told by the kids the school had said they could attend when they did no such thing, and are in fact now advising they are not responsible for any child absent from school grounds.

      I wonder who put this one and around and is, hence, responsible?

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  24. BRISSLES says:

    Hope this isn’t fake news, because I’ve just posted to all on my email list.

       9 likes

  25. G.W.F. says:

    Anyone starting to get the impression that this Tory Government is May’s social justice on steroids.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      Personally I won’t vote for any candidate or party that thinks it should defend or promote islam.

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      • honestus says:

        Have I missed a trick here or something? When is it the BBC’s job to investigate Islamophobia (whatever that is) on any media platform?
        Where Are the reports of left wing and islamic racism? Where is the BBC expose of antisemitism?
        Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Biased BC agents sent posts to specified targets suspecting they’ll be forwarded on for a gotcha special.
        Update – following two posts make points already, soz.

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    • chancygardner says:

      A ‘friend’ of mine on facebook is stupidly socialist (you know the ‘type’). On a couple of occasions I received notice of some of the things posted by her and fellow lefties on a group that was profoundly anti-Jewish. I know she is anti-Jewish from face to face conversations that I have had with her in the past. She is a nutter and blames everything from the price of milk to volcanic eruptions on Jews. She is, in fact, the equivalent for the Jews as the BBC is for Brexit. (E.g Today some twigs fell from a tree into my garden…because of Brexit!)

      I can only assume that this group has now gone underground because I have not noticed any recent posts. Of course, I may have been ‘unfriended’ for having had the temerity to announce my displeasure at the hostility shown by the posters.

      However, I’m confident that the ever-vigilant BBC investigative journalism will uncover it soon. I have every faith, as it were.

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    • vlad says:

      Sadly all parties are desperate for the islamic vote, and terrified of the accusation of islamophobia.

      Al beeb are of course happy to oblige.

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  26. Lucy Pevensey says:

    And why is the BBC working for the Muslim Brotherhood by propagating their term?

    There is no such thing as “a case of islamophobia”.

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  27. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Does anyone here know when the end of the world is happening.
    I’m getting confusing messages from the various groups and Remainstream media’s.
    I thought the world was going to end in 12 years time but I’m hearing it may be sooner (if Bishop Auckland in County Durham doesn’t reduce its plastic use)

    Earlier we had until 2050 before the world ended but it keeps changing.
    How can I make arrangements and sort things out when they keep on changing the date for the end of the world.
    I wish they would get together, decide on a date for worlds end and then stick to it.

    Or is this just another millennium bug.
    I know what we band of brothers (and sisters, Brussels, Helen and the rest) on here think.

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    • chancygardner says:

      Haha very funny EG. I’m particularly annoyed because I have only just cancelled by ‘Elevensports’ subscription under the pretence that it is no longer showing ‘La Liga’ but, in truth, it was because it I thought the world was going to end in November. Now it seems it might end a little later. For heaven’s sake! I wish they would make up their minds.

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    • gb123 says:

      EG. The nearest you will get to a clarity will be a statement from the beloved Treezer (beloved by the beeb now she has gone). This will be along the lines of ‘The end of the world means the end of the world’ followed by the date.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      It’s a movable feast and could be anywhere from 12 years to 5 billion years depending on whether you believe AOC et al or cosmologists. What isn’t a movable feast is how long can the UK remain recognisable British. The window here is very narrow , it’s somewhere between twenty years and hundred years, certainly no longer. I find this puts everything else into perspective. I think of the long history of our island and it’s people and worry about Brexit. Then I realise that Brexit will have little impact on how long the British people have got left , I’m afraid our fate was sealed by Blair and his gang of Trotskyites under New Labour. As to climate change , does anyone really think that the Islamic Republic of Britainistan is going to give a toss about climate change?

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        Doublethinker
        When I voted for Mr Bliar’s NEW Labour all those years ago I truly “did not know what I was voting for,” although the “NEW” prefix (think soap powder ads)made my brain squirm a bit . As the song goes “I was blind – but now I see.” Thanks Tone.
        It is to be hoped that it will not take all of today’s politically blind young people as long as my, shamefully, almost 60 years to arrive at a similar conclusion. I do not despise our young people, I feel sorry for them because they are being woefully mislead by people who should – and in many cases do -know better.

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        • SPC says:

          No, I don’t despise our young people either – they are being mislead. It really is an appalling time to be young.

          No time for a simple carefree life. Climate change – it’s the responsibility of our 10yr olds.

          No matter that the science is not yet proven, or that the major carbon players of the future – the developing countrys, have not even begun yet.

          There is so much guff talked on the subject by simple people who’s only motivation is self-interest, i.e this rubbish can keep institutions going finacially for years, or air-head type ‘follow the crowd’ mentality, which social media encourages.

          Anyway lets sit back and let the kiddies sort it all out.

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        • Doublethinker says:

          It depends on how young is young. I have some family in their late forties who are still lapping up all the woke crap. There are old enough by now to have figured it out but no they just believe it cos it’s on the BBC. I despair of them, not despise them , for being so gullible and wonder if in their old age whether they will remember the consternation with which they greeted my many diatribes about the BBC, Blair , Globalism etc, and then realise that I wasn’t as daft as they presently think I am.

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    • EmptyingDadsShed says:

      I’ve heard from Remainers that when Brexit happens we’ll reset to the year zero.
      So not an end of the world but a fresh start.

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      • StewGreen says:

        I think you sre allowed to break into the houses of these #FakeGreens and Remainiacs and steal what you want.
        Then if you are up before the judge you will get let off
        …. on the grounds that since they are going to lose it all in a couple of months when the End Of The World comes, they haven’t had much of a loss.

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        • Lefty Wright says:

          StewGreen
          Apart from your spelling of the word- should?? (only kidding) I find it difficult to gainsay the assertion expressed in your first sentence that “you should be allowed to break into the houses of these F—— etc. etc. and steal what you want.” Well why not? After all these F—— are all quite happy to encourage all kinds of people to break into our country and take anything they want.
          I think our judicial system needs a serious overhaul.

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      • Captain Panick says:

        EDS. I like the idea of replacing BC/AD with BB/AB ( Before Brexit/ After Brexit) However, if we do leave on 31 October 2019 at 2301 GMT, or 1 November 2019 at 0001 EWT, then will it be the start of Year 0 or Year 1. And should New Year Day be moved from 1 January to 1 November? Just an idea.

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  28. StewGreen says:

    4pm And Climate Strike is still leading Radio Humberside news
    ..There was a nod to ‘inspired by Greta’
    and then audio clip of Ed Miliband saying China and India are doing their bit and that its the US that needs to get on.

    So that is 19 news times today that it has led
    How much would you pay for 19 long advertising slots on commercial radio ?

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  29. Halifax says:

    Just on the train from Manchester Victoria to Leeds just dropping off the hippys who have been at the climate protests. They mostly live in Hebden bridge. It was comforting watching them all sat on the 40 year old ideling diesel train at Victoria and even more excelerating when the hipocrasy express set off in a plume of diesel and sooty fumes…… not a peep from the enlightened ones…..probably think it’s being pulled by unicorns.

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  30. Loobyloo says:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49770609
    Jennifer Lopez stripper film Hustlers banned in Malaysia

    Care to elaborate Al Beeb? Story also mentions banning and editing of ‘Rocketman’ in some countries. No analysis though.

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  31. StewGreen says:

    Police in Athens have removed over 260 migrants, including dozens of children, from two squats in the city centre as part of a law-and-order drive by the new conservative government.

    The crackdown has been opposed by anti-establishment and rights groups.

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  32. Loobyloo says:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-49769107

    Another example of why they stopped Crimewatch.

    I need to stop reading the ‘news’ websites now, for my own sanity.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      You’ve got to like the way they describe the criminal as a ‘Bolton man’. Would that be Bolton Slokavia, Bolton Czech Republic or Bolton Romania? Mind you, based on the photos he doesn’t really appear to originate in any of those places. Could he be from some group that is scattered across those and other countries and roams between them? But perhaps it really isn’t a big issue at the end of the day. Given the propensity of the establishment and their BBC lackeys to cover up the consequences of diversity, I don’t suppose we’ll ever know.

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  33. StewGreen says:

    Times : Far right ‘grooming children and copying jihadist tactics’
    http://thetimes.co.uk/article/39044cea-db1f-11e9-9cfd-b79996a387b0.

    Hollyoaks is currently doing a story line on grooming impressionable young men, to become far right terrorists with Muslims being the victims

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      What a great storyline. Because that’s such a thing isn’t it?

      The cowardly snowflakes do not dare to have a storyline about the real menace, which is Islamic terrorism. They are afraid because if they did that, Islamic terrorists might kill them. QED. Far safer to slander the white British who are the actual victims of Islamic terrorism.

      If Josef Goebbels were alive today he would be in awe of these people. They have taken the dissemination of lies and agitprop to new levels.

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  34. Captain Panick says:

    There is a picture on the front of BBC news at present of a youngish lady holding a very small placard with the words ‘ Use less paper’ at the latest climate drivel. I’m still working on how to publish images courtesy of Roland Deschain, but have not worked out how to copy the URL on an IPad. However, the sign reminded me of ‘ How to wipe your arse using only one sheet of toilet paper, preferably IZAL’ joke.

    Stage 1. Fold the Paper into 4 pieces
    Stage 2. Tear off the Top right corner, leaving when you unfold it, a hole big enough to fit your finger in.
    Stage 3. Take the small piece of paper you have torn off, and place it carefully to one side.
    Stage 4. Placing your index finger through the hole, gouge out the excrement remaining from your evacuation.
    Stage 5. Wipe your finger with the sheet so used, and throw away.
    Stage 6. Get the paper from Stage 3. You did remember it would be used! Keeping it folded, use to remove excrement from beneath fingernail of index finger.

    Then wash your hand!

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      Long press on the image, then tap copy. Be aware some pictures won’t let you do that, probably some kind of copy protection.

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  35. upandatem says:

    Went to visit the state rooms at Buckingham Palace today, and travelled by taxi from Marylebone. Spent a very pleasant ten minutes chatting with the taxi driver. We talked about climate change and Brexit. He spoke the kind of common sense that taxi drivers are renowned for. We agreed on everything. Made my day. As for the state rooms, I must admit there were moments when I wished I was at the Vagina Museum.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      upandatem

      I am puzzled about the vagina museum having seen it mentioned on our state broadcaster.
      Long ago pictures of vaginas used to stimulate little boys who were learning to masturbate.
      If that is what this museum is for then someone ought to issue warnings against the danger of blindness

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      • RobRoy says:

        I tried to visit the Vagina Museum but it wasn’t open :0) I guess I should have checked the opening times in advance.

        Sorry…

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Upand, a friend of mine visited last week and admitted she was totally underwhelmed by the experience. – Buckingham Palace that is.

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  36. JimS says:

    A caller to Jeremy Vine today came up with a new idea today. Basically all those that were ‘climate deniers’ didn’t believe in ‘science’ so they should give up all their new technology items!

    Well as someone who has played a small part in producing some of those items it seems a bit mean that I won’t be allowed them in future! Especially when ‘climate scientists’ tend to use technology and not develop it and those that produce new technology are appalled at the way ‘climate scientists’ pick and choose their data and then change it if it doesn’t fit. It might be nice to make an aircraft out of tissue paper but paper is only as strong as paper is, not as strong as we might like.

    Of course as the aim of the ‘de-carbonisers’ is really to push us back into the authoritarian socialist dark ages it is generally thought that it is the ‘greens’ that ought to show an example by ditching the technology.

    Another caller made a comment about mobile phones and the internet and Vine got quite animated, no doubt wishing to defend his daughters’ life-style, ‘after all in the olden days people took photographs and used chemicals’. The caller bravely muttered about ‘server farms’ but was shut down.

    EDF, ten years ago, estimated that 10% of electricity went to feed the internet, goodness knows what it is now. People might notice that BT and Virgin Media cabinets now ‘hum’, no longer being simple terminal boxes but powered hubs. My mum used to fetch out her Kodak ‘box brownie’ on sunny days when she might fire of a couple of the eight frames on the film roll and then put the camera away for another year. Vine’s girls no doubt post gigabytes of ‘cat videos’ daily. And then their mates re-post them again and again. But no-one sees the internet. (Mum’s photos will probably last 100 years unlike ‘krazy kat’).

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  37. upandatem says:

    I’ve changed my mind about Justin Trudeau. Anyone who dresses us as Harry Belafonte, paints their face black and gives a rendition of the ‘Banana Boat Song’ gets my vote every time.

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  38. StewGreen says:

    6pm ITV Local news
    … wall to wall UKIP and Farage party voices .. NOT
    #1 Climate drama aerial shots from Sheffield, Hull and all over the world
    ..earnest protesters aired, but they failed to ask them about the footprint of the pink hair dye they all use
    #2 Corbyn being interviewed about Climate Day and Brexit
    #3 6:10pm the quickest item A Rotherham groomer has been jailed
    #4 6:10:30 Local Air Ambulance
    #5:6:15pm Back to LIVE climate day coverage , then Kwasi K saying kids shouldn’t take days off
    #6 pm National news headline : Climay Strike
    6:17pm #7 National Diversity Awards : Asperger’s kid
    then Ashna Huryna live in Liverpool at the National Diversity Awards

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    • StewGreen says:

      Jeez, they didn’t even mention that the Rotherham groomer is already in jail for murder.
      A fact that I guess was suppressed during the trial to avoid prejudice.
      There is a brief online mention on the bbc
      A convicted killer who was part of a gang of men who groomed and abused young girls in Rotherham has been jailed for 18 years.
      Mohammed Ahsan, 35, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court after he admitted three counts of indecent assault against girls under the age of 16 between 1999 and 2001.
      His jail sentence makes him the 20th person to be convicted as part of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency’s investigation into sexual abuse and exploitation in Rotherham covering the years 1997 to 201
      //

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC local
      Opens with Climate
      The vox pop of 5 people
      then footage “university students came along”
      It then cut to my Polish friend who is 35 and not a student
      She was saying ‘It is good that the people are lovely and peaceful and up for a chat”
      Then we got a pre-record of a kid giving us 5 climate tips
      Three mins in total so ..*way less than ITV*

      Now they moved onto the 14 year old with a tache whose been excluded from school for not shaving it off
      .
      He’s spotty but his tache looks tidy.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Compare and contrast with 9pm news (‘Vremya’) in Soviet Union 1981:
      #1 Record grain harvest in Ukraine
      #2 Tractor production figures from Byelorussia
      #3 Exposing Western lies about food shortages and empty shops in Moscow
      #4 Record number of visitors to Lenin’s mausoleum
      #5 Politburo announces that spontaneous demonstrations against imperialism will occur in Western capitals next Spring (dates to be announced shortly)
      #6 Special report on fraternal visit of CND to USSR

      The messages have changed, the mentality and methodology have not.

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      • Lefty Wright says:

        Ian Rushlow
        Spot on sir! However, now we have to find a strong man to lead us out of the EUSSR. OK Mr Johnson over to you. If you fail, I fear for the future of Britain so -JUST DO IT! I see that particular slogan on so many T shirts that it must be correct. So fill yer boots!

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  39. Thoughtful says:

    Surprised no one has picked up the BBC shilling for terrorist organisation ‘The Muslim Brotherhood’.

    Pushing forwards the Fascist lie the cowardly useless incompetent Tories were Islamofauxbik they claim that they only definition which can be used is the one Labour adopted i.e. the Muslim Brotherhoods sharia compliant definition.

    Of course its is Muslim activist Saeda Warsi again, and they managed to dredge up some other Tory MP who claimed he had overheard a conversation which he regarded as ‘ialsmofauxbik’

    There was absolutely no actual examples of the so called ‘Islamofauxbia’ probably because they were risible, but the BBC have aggressively run this story in a way which wouldn’t normally have been expected. especially as it is clearly a personally run activist campaign by a single individual.

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  40. Thoughtful says:

    Funny banner from the group protesting active Nazism and anti Semitism.

    “There’s no room for Anti Semites in Labour, They’ve got enough already”

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Would one expect anything less?

    BBC News posted an episode of BBC’s Cut Through the Noise.

    As climate strike protesters hold rallies around the world, we look at US President Trump’s record on energy and the environment. #CutThroughTheNoise

    Bet Carrie Gracie relieved she is back here now.

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  42. Guest Who says:

    Indeed.

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  43. pugnazious says:

    Heard Cameron state this morning that he implemented a straight in/out referendum asking purely if people wanted to stay in or leave the EU…no qualification, no if this or but that, not well only when this happens and we must have this…in/out….not difficult to understand….it’s just that the BBC has never accepted that principle and has continually pushed the Remain narrative that one, people didn’t understand what they were voting for, and two, that it’s complicated…thus, now we know that Brexit means The Apocalypse [which we didn’t understand despite the massive project Fear targeted at us by the BBC, an on-going project I might add] we need to have another go at voting…because we are now thoroughly informed of the facts. lol.

    Naturally the BBC didn’t take the slightest interest in asking him about this….to do so would open up a whole can of worms the BBC wants firmly slammed shut…they rapidly moved on to the next subject.

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Tere is a big difference between proud Australian SkyNews..and our UK Snowflake SkyNews

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  45. StewGreen says:

    James Whale “Hi Climate Protesters do you want to come on my show
    .. and talk with Piers Corbyn ?”
    ..”No we will NOT come on if he is on air”

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  46. Guest Who says:

    It’s over. They have deployed Eddie.

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  47. Dystopian says:

    I wonder if all these “Young people” protesting against “climate change” are the same young people who spend all day glued to their smart phones, checking and “liking” their social media posts? Every single interaction with the Internet creates traffic through data centres, which need power and in turn create a substantial amount of heat, which needs localised air conditioning, which also needs power and incorporates so called “greenhouse gases “.
    From a column in “The Independent “…

    “The amount of energy consumed by the world’s data centres – the repositories for billions of gigabytes of information – will treble in the next decade, putting an enormous strain on energy supplies and dealing a hefty blow to efforts to contain global warming, experts say.

    Whether you’re “liking” something on Facebook, streaming the latest Tarantino movie or posting an instagram from the pub, every internet activity involves huge amounts of data that needs to be stored somewhere. And as the “internet of everything” brings innovations such as driverless cars and high-definition video watches ever closer, the vast network of data centres that have sprung up in the past decade will spread.”

    How many of these young people will be keen to give up their smart phones and close down their social media accounts for their “cause”?
    The same ones who probably get dropped off right outside school or Yooni by mummy or daddy in a gas guzzling 4X4!

    Link:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-data-centres-to-consume-three-times-as-much-energy-in-next-decade-experts-warn-a6830086.html

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  48. Dystopian says:

    What’s the difference between the new “Vagina museum”
    and the Houses of Parliament?
    Oh yes parliament has been prorogued so it’s no longer full of *****!

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  49. Guest Who says:

    Literally, Champion Ash should present Newsnight from there.

    https://order-order.com/2019/09/20/inside-extinction-rebellions-safe-space-climate-communists/

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  50. JamesG says:

    “Broadcaster John Humphrys savages bias at the BBC as he accuses the ‘Kremlin’ style corporation of being out of touch

    The veteran broadcaster spent 33 years on Radio 4’s flagship news show Today
    In an explosive memoir serialised in the Daily Mail today, he pulls no punches
    Humphrys says BBC bosses ‘badly failed’ to read the nation’s mood on Europe
    And says he is now free of ‘the BBC Thought Police’ and its ‘liberal-Left image’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7487661/Broadcaster-John-Humphrys-lifts-lid-institutional-liberal-bias-BBC.html

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Was just going to post that!

      Alas the cowardly useless incompetent Tory party are too spineless and useless to do anything about it despite clear evidence the BBC is in breach of its charter.

      It’s a shame Nigel Farage didn’t found a new political party rather than a pressure group, because a centre right conservative party would almost certainly wipe out the rotting Tory party.

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