398 Responses to Start the Week 30 September 2019

  1. StewGreen says:

    Simultanously both LBC and Talk Radio have on SNP spokespeople on talking about a government of national (non)unity to delay Brexit

    .. metro liberal elite lording it over us again

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  2. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – Limiting Exposure

    Chine (the ‘e’ is not silent) McDonald was the Thought for the Day contributor. She is usually quite good. Speaking about Blake’s poem Jerusalem and Parry’s music. She played the ‘race’ card.

    I switched off.

    Missed the following item, distracted by household tasks.

    The BBC is becoming forgettable.

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  3. G.W.F. says:

    Brendan O’Neill and Spiked are no friends of Trump and close to the BBC on this.

    Yes, Trump’s tweet was racist. But BBC rules stop presenters saying so
    Brendan O’Neill
    https://spectatorblogs.imgix.net/files/2019/09/GettyImages-845607296.jpg?auto=compress,enhance,format&crop=faces,entropy,edges&fit=crop&w=820&h=550

    https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/09/trumps-tweet-was-racist-but-bbc-rules-ban-presenters-from-saying-so/

       6 likes

  4. Guest Who says:

    😉

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  5. Guest Who says:

    KGM for DG!

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  6. fakenewswatcher says:

    On Wimmins Hour someone opposed to abortion had the temerity to interfere in Stella Creasy’s constituency. Stella is pregnant, and the issue was abortion. Posters were put up, which Stella quickly had taken down.
    Needless to say, the guest got a blast from the presenter, despite having put forward a very good case. What we heard was that Wimmins Hour is not interested in either Truth, Science, or Ethics! Only ‘wimmins rights’ (which the guest was trying to point out, should not include murdering the unborn).
    Then, poor Stella, victim, came on to the phone to express her outrage. Yet she took it upon herself to interfere with all the pregnant women of Northern Ireland, and impose her views on them. No problems there.
    As ever, the Lefties can dish it out endlessly. But can they take it? Apparently not. As always with beeb/Labour, a one-sided case. And trying to figure out now where beeb stops and Labour begins is an impossible task.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Fake – you leave Stella alone???? – she is the next door MP to my bit of the Londonistan . She is part of the aristocracy – never had a real job ( uni – intern – Walthamstow council – MP off all girl list ) and destined for the ‘top’ – so what – she thinks babies should be killed off in abortions in Northern Ireland as well as the UK – some rights are more important than others …..

      I really think the ‘anti abortion’ crew got under her skin – and she’s pregnant so playing that card too .

      However …. Stella is up against some serious half wits like the Raynor one and the one who hasn’t got a printer .. not counting lady Nugee and the other heavy weights ….

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  7. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #3 – Ending exposure

    Listened to the 8.10a.m. interview: PM and Nick Robinson. I felt Nick was very rude, insulting, to the Prime Minister, Cannot remember now exact form of words. When I feel a bit more energised about it, I might listen again, but then maybe not.

    Think PM should have at least complained or complained and walked out but Bojo is more tolerant than I am, perhaps.

    However, I’m increasingly exercising the OFF switch.

    I’m all also increasingly forgetting to switch the radio back on.

    TOADY – Ending my exposure (to the BBC)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      Robinson couldn’t stop himself from digging at the personal stuff about ‘ touching girls ‘ from 20 years ago . Too easy to challenge It and just say ‘put up or shut up ‘ to said journo with a new column .

      BoJo did sound like he knew what was coming from the tedious Robinson and just meandered through the 25 minutes . I’d have said ‘ what a great interviewer Humph was’…

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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

        Agree. I find Red Robbo very tedious, with an irritating smugness, so I seldom listen to ‘Today’ these days. I’ve written critical things about the now-departed Humphrys but he did have some redeeming features, and his criticisms of the bias of the BBC are welcome.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Me too. He has changed since his days as Pol Ed.. I used to read every Blog and comment on many. Nick would regularly get battered from all extremes for being biased. He was scrupulously balanced, in my view, back then.

          What changed?

          Maybe it was his brush with serious illness and mortality that did it?

          The Humph was a different ‘kettle of fish’. Not with Robinson’s (Conservative) background but instead ‘nouveau very riche’ and a bit of a Bojo 😉 😉 in a way. From a Labour background but having seen enough of the worst aspects to be a challenger. The Humph was (and is?) a questioner and seeker.

          Nick does appear to have taken up the Socialist flag. No questions to be asked.

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  8. theleftwilleatitself says:

    Absolutely appalling interview with Boris by Dan Walker on al beeb this morning (I watched on YouTube).
    He was completely out of his depth and made a right tool of himself by asking certain questions that a large proportion of the country are simply not interested in (beeboids at W1 aside).
    I would have loved Boris to have given him a truth pill and asked him whether he was on the side of the UK or Europe!
    Stick to football Dan or your double act with Naga the Trump hater.
    Get the anti-democratic remainer politicians out! With any luck “the time is coming when even these turkeys cannot prevent Christmas” ????

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Theleft
      On the other hand the londonistan remainer Evening Standard Sd BoJo s quote about the lady known as -‘naga ‘ ( real name – very long ) “who ? “ in an LBC interviewer . Lucky chap not knowing who that is .

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  9. NISA says:

    It is felt that the BBC (& other UK MSM) reporting of the Gilets Jaunes protests has been less than low key.
    What about Holland? This is news to me

    Thousands of farmers are expected to jam the roads with tractors and farm vehicles as they make their way to The Hague for a massive protest, RTL Nieuws reports.

    The farmers are hitting the road to the political capital as part of the #Agractie protest against D66’s plan to halve the amount of cows in the Netherlands in order to reduce nitrogen emissions and free up room for housing.

    https://dutchreview.com/news/traffic/major-traffic-jams-predicted-this-morning-as-farmers-across-the-nation-storm-the-hague/

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    • Old Goat says:

      You are not allowed to know that in Ingerland, you may get – ideas….

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I imagine the Dutch cows will have to make way for housing for the New People.

      All of Europe is sinking, not just the Dutch.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Nisa we are ahead as usual we are on page 3 now, but I already mentioned last night on page 2

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      • StewGreen says:

        bbc just catching up
        “Dutch tractor protest sparks ‘worst rush hour'”
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49891449
        “Farmers reacted angrily to claims that they were largely responsible for a spiralling nitrogen emissions problem.
        A report has called for inefficient cattle farms to be shut down and some speed limits lowered to cut pollution.
        Farming groups believe they are being victimised while the aviation industry is escaping scrutiny.”

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  10. LastChanceSaloon says:

    From a comment in Order-Order today.

    DA said to him [Jeremy Corbyn] “your organ is not very impressive” to which Jez replied “maybe but it isn’t used to playing in cathedrals”

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  11. Alicia Sinclair says:

    Appalling hit piece of showpony nastiness by Red Robbo
    Who’d be a politician with principles when you gave guttersnipes like Robinson daring to assume that he’s holding truth to power.
    Boris was courtesy itself, which( I can only assume) is what is wanted by Dominic etc. I was disgusted at the personal nature of Robinson’s endless interruptions and trolling of an elected MP, whose only crime is to do what he was duly elected to do.
    Robinson killed Redheads son in some carcrash , ” some people I’ve spoken to are saying”.
    Any chance of Boris tooling up on this kind of nastiness ,next time I’d not let my husband back into the house if he didn’t fight back with filth like the Lefties do to us 24/7. Since 2011, I’d say.
    Grow a pair lads. I’d happily share a back seat ride home with Boris. But certainly not with Nick Robinson.

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  12. Tabs says:

    I complained to the BBC about the use of the segment “One Man and His Dog” on Countryfile a couple of Sundays ago. I did it for a bit of fun and to highlight their hypocrisy where they don’t follow their own SJW rules.

    My complaint…
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    Countryfile contained a sheepdog competition called “One Man and His Dog”. Whilst I appreciate this title was used in a traditional sense but we now live in a time when we should be inclusive of all genders. it is insulting to competitors who are not male gender. About half of the competitors were, I assume from appearance alone, female gender. Whilst some of those may identify as male gender I doubt all of them did. Therefore it is offensive to continue to the the pronouns “His” and the gender “Man” in a title. Any competitor (or viewer) who is struggling with their assigned gender may interpret this programme title as proof that the UK is not accepting of their gender which could lead to suicide or other mental illness. The BBC needs to modernise the programme title to be inclusive of all people of all genders. A title something like “One Person and Their Dog” would be easily recognised as an updated version of the traditional programmes whilst not being offensive. I expect a brief apology on the next Countryfile to apologise to the female competitors and any non male viewers that are struggling with their assigned gender who may be experiencing stress, anxiety or even possibly suicide due to the BBCs outdated sexism. We now live in an age where mental illness is a major problem and programme titles like this are only making it worse. I also expect the BBC to either drop or rename the outdated “One Man and His Dog” programme title in future.
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    A their reply just 7 days later…
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    Thank you for contacting us about BBC One’s ‘Countryfile’ broadcast on 22 September.

    You raised concerns about the title of the competition ‘One Man and His Dog’ as you felt this was outdated and offensive to those who are not male. I note your further concerns about the potential impact this title could have on those who are struggling with their assigned gender.

    ‘One Man and His Dog’ has been featured on the programme since the competition ceased to be a standalone broadcast in 2013 and was then incorporated into Countryfile. Whilst there are female competitors, the competition retains its familiar and traditional title.

    That said, we have noted your suggested alternative title of ‘One Person and Their Dog’ and thank you for your feedback.

    We’re guided by audience reaction, so please rest assured your concerns have been raised with the Countryfile team and senior management on our audience feedback report. These reports are among the most widely read sources of feedback within the BBC and help inform our ongoing work.

    Once again, many thanks for taking the time to get in touch.

    Kind regards

    Janine McMeekin

    BBC Complaints Team
    ——————————————————————–

    So the BBC now like “traditional” do they?!? Perhaps I can get Lenny Henry to get the Director General to rethink their decision.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      The trouble with using irony and sarcasm with brainwashed or unintelligent people is that they think you are being serious and don’t get the joke.

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    • Beltane says:

      Surely another aspect deserves discussion and definition?
      The innate sexism displayed by the constant use of the term ‘dog’ is both demeaning and grossly unfair to all those bitches participating in the contest.
      That said, and in some defence of the terminology, the use of ‘bitch’ might unfortunately be construed as adversely reflecting on the sex and status of female contestant handlers. Under these circumstances it should be made clear that the term is used solely in conjunction with the canine participant.
      The BBC thank you for your co-operation which is appreciated.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Beltane and all

        My entry for Crufts will be in the class so named Postgraduate Bitch.
        And she is black.

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  13. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    With the Supreme Court shenanigans in mind, here’s a copy and paste from the DT comments which you may find amusing.

    A man was window shopping in a seaside town. He noticed a brass rat in a window and asked how much it was. The shopkeeper said: “First, I will tell you the story about it”. The man said: “No. Here’s the money, just give me the brass rat”.

    He walked down the street with his new purchase and noticed that there were a couple of rats following him. Then more rats came and suddenly there were thousands of them. He walked down to the beach and all the rats went into the sea and drowned.

    The man went back to the shop and the shopkeeper said: “Ah! You’ve come to find out the story about the brass rat”. The man said “No, I’ve come to find out if you have any brass lawyers”!

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  14. The General says:

    That big wind bag Ian Blackford on TV banging on about Scotland not voting for us to leave Europe in the referendum so they will not allow it. That is outrageous coming from a Party who are committed to leave the UK. If they are going to leave the UK what right have they to play a big part in stopping the UK leaving Europe?

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    • smoogie7 says:

      Brexit is the SNP’s route to independence. Leaving one union but seemingly joining another…

      The guy is actually really annoying. Always banging on about how Scotland ‘gets left out’ yet the referendum was the same for the Scottish with the same questions on the piece of paper.

      There are leave voters in Scotland and those who support the union who get shunned by the SNP.

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      • cromwell says:

        If I had to choose one person who I dislike the most in the hop, although the choice is immense I think my vote would have to go Ian Blackford. He is full of hate and bile and is a very dangerous man. Vile.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        smoogie, the SNP like to think it is but I’m not so sure.

        Scots can be very small ‘c’ conservative and if the UK had been out of the EU for a year or two before SNP IndyRef2 comes along and was doing OK, (esp. w/tourism, fishing & farming doing OK in Scotland) I reckon the SNP might struggle to get 40%, let alone the 45% of last time.

        If there is ever an IndyRef2, one major factor has changed this year. The SNP cannot rely on oil & gas to bankroll their spending any more. Theresa May has sunk that for them.

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    • Beltane says:

      An interesting question General, but one which presupposes that Blackford has any ability to apply logic as opposed to petty and spiteful prejudice to any argument.

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    • john in cheshire says:

      They seem to forget that we were effectively ruled by Scots during the thirteen years of the last Labour government.

      What a disaster that turned out to be, including Gorbals Mick, the second worst speaker after the poison dwarf ( who isn’t a proper Englishman).

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      • Up2snuff says:

        jic, the SNP would struggle to come up with someone now of the calibre of James 6th and 1st of England & Ireland.

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  15. Doobster78 says:

    Amazing isn’t it … Remainer after Remainer after Remainer, time and time again on the BBC for over 4 years. Yet, as soon as the Leave side get a look in, they don’t like it !!! My god, words cannot describe how much i detest them, i really do.

    How many times David has it been “Three Remain Champions” hammer home how racist the Leavers are ??? But you dont say a bean then , HYPOCRITE.

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  16. JimS says:

    Jeremy Vine has an item on repairing household items. A woman phones in to say that she replaces thermostats on tumble driers, she has done it several times she says.

    Vine questions the safety, the risk of fire etc. She says she only looks at the back and keeps away from ‘the top’ and filters and things so that is OK. She then goes on to describe the thermostat as ‘a small button’. Oh dear. Sounds to me like a thermal cut-out that protects the tumble drier when it gets too hot, perhaps because no-one has opened ‘the top’ and replaced/cleaned ‘the filters and things’!

    A typical Vine moment when he says that a ceiling rose in his house appeared to be wired in a complicated way. The ‘expert’ said that he should have taken a photograph of the wiring. Vine says he couldn’t ‘because it was dark’.

    What sort of numpty tries to repair an electric light in the dark? Besides which anyone on £700k should be spreading the wealth down to the electrician on twice average pay who can pay for a pool boy for his Spanish villa!

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  17. NISA says:

    It’s the way they tell ’em
    BBC World News front page Trump asked Australia to investigate Mueller”.
    A-Ha not only prying into Biden but also Mueller?
    Perhaps not so, as going to the article we have headline of Trump asked Australian PM to help investigate Russia inquiry

    US President Donald Trump called Australian PM Scott Morrison and asked for his help with an investigation into the origins of the Mueller inquiry, Australian officials have confirmed.

    So, Trump was playing the ball not the man

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  18. G.W.F. says:

    Wartime references to surrender and traitor are so upsetting to the Labour girlies.
    I suggest we stick it to them. EU seduction was always sweet surrender.

    I recall another term of abuse during WW2. The word ‘Frat’ was applied to women who fraternised with the enemy. Usually women who had it off with enemy POWs who were camped in the UK. Some women retained the title for the rest of their lives.
    Come on Boris, point your finger at the lady frats in Labours benches.

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  19. cromwell says:

    I must admit to restricting my listening and viewing of MSM today after yesterday wall to wall ‘knee gate’ honestly it was really over the top wasnt it? But what I have heard today there doesn’t seem to be any talk of it, leaving aside Robinson on to ady which I didn’t hear thank God. It seems to have moved on to the ‘ leaked ‘ document, which I suspect Cummings was involved in the leak to take the heat off Boris and the alleged touching. If so it was well played I think as it has done that and also given the other side something to go on about.

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  20. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Sly News very vague and confused about an ‘incident’ in Finland where 1 dead and 9 wounded.
    This lack of curiosity into a relatively rare incident in Finland immediately triggered my suspicions.
    A cursory search of the Internet news shows it was a ‘violent individual who went on a rampage with a sword’
    Hmmmm.

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  21. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – Bias by Omission

    Where’s maxi when you need him? Lots to pick up the Beeb on this lunchtime. Finland mentioned. Hong Kong covered. No mention of Holland*. Or France. Or Spain*.

    * covered on the web-site

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  22. StewGreen says:

    Libmob are triggered
    cos MP has said that some feminist warrior MPs are not pro equality, but trying to score points.
    in The Yorkshire Post
    Shipley MP Philip Davies has hit out at a “small number of women in Parliament”
    who he says rather than fighting for equality are fighting for “whatever they think benefits women”.
    https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/female-mps-fighting-for-equality-are-only-fighting-for-what-benefits-women-claims-shipley-mp-philip-davies-in-attack-on-political-correctness-1-10025380

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    • Doobster78 says:

      And of course he is correct. However, fully expect him to be hounded night and day now by these “Oh so Virtuous” women !!!

      BBC will be on him like a ton of bricks no doubt by the time the 6pm news comes round.

      Cant blame them tho, they would do exactly the same when a women makes remarks like that about a man !! Oh, silly me, its not the same is it , i forget its one rule for men (awful predators) and one rule for lovely, soft, cuddly, victimised women like Soubry, Phillips, Swinson, Cooper !! Sickening. Really is.

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  23. StewGreen says:

    Countryfile warns us that today the dangerous Lincs Supremacists are celebrating Lincolnshire Day

    Wait til they find their colleagues over on Radio Lincolnshire have programming celebrating it.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    The ordure is hitting the fan, narrative-wise, so the bbc retreats to its happy place.

       9 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Radio5 live probably had great a large audience when it was nicknamed Radio Bloke
      The BBC decided that was wrong and so deliberately set out out to fill the network with women’s content.
      The irony is that listeners who don’t like Emma Barnett’s feminist stance can switch over to Radio4 where Woman’s Hour is on at the same time.

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      What is it about that girl Barnett’s face?
      Always looks constipated.

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  25. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #2 – Bias by Error

    Simon Jack (Business Ed!) comments on shorting but demonstrates that he does not understand the concept. It is not about favouring one stock over another.

    Mark Mardell concludes his mini-series marking 70years of Communist China but demonstrates his lack of knowledge about the place.

    In addition, he repeatedly ignores the elephant in the room, the Indian one. He also has an upside down view of democracy. If the HK protesters had (had been able to) listened to his TWatO piece today, they would be sending him a big raspberry for getting that wrong.

    Where’s maxi when you need him?

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  26. StewGreen says:

    R4 Drama now : “Writer of Awards nominated play #BlackMenWalking NOW TOURING: #WOKEtheshow”
    Calls himself Testament the beatboxer
    with his play The Beatboxer
    A beatboxer goes into a call centre to run a training day.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008y4s

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  27. Heyho says:

    Just spotted this brilliant tweet. Currently 7000 likes

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  28. StewGreen says:

    Cambridgeshire Police say two girls, aged 14 and 16, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 80-year-old man was found dead at his home in Wisbech on Saturday.

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  29. theisland says:

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    • BRISSLES says:

      I had to chuckle when Laura Cheeseburger said it was an incident that needed ‘investigating’. Really ? How ? and by whom ? perhaps South Yorkshire Police would like a go at it, with their track record in vintage offences we can all have a good laugh.

      LK is not a good role model for girls wanting to go to university.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Brissles, poor old Part-time is having to work a bit hard at the moment, what with that non-Conference taking place for the Tories.

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  30. StewGreen says:

    Jamie Oliver news
    August he said
    Jamie Oliver blames Brexit and the ‘Uber-ification’ of city centers for collapse of his restaurant chain
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7368469/Jamie-Oliver-blames-Brexit-collapse-restaurant-chain.html

    Then now the accounts come out
    Let’s do the Math
    Jamie Oliver & wife take £5.2 million payout
    Business hit with £9.8 million in costs, 22 restaurants closed
    Creditors facing losses of up to £83 million

    Let’s blame #Brexit not the management

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  31. pugnazious says:

    A video and a narrative truth that you will never hear on the BBC…the BBC that promotes open borders and globalisation…the BBC that tries to silence critics of globalisation by calling them anti-Semites….which, if you think about it, is in fact an anti-Semitic trope in itself…the BBC associating globalisation with rich Jews…thus criticise globalisation you’re attacking Jews.

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    • Celtic_Mist says:

      Pug,

      I liked the way he took the ‘case for impeachment’ apart. As mentioned in the video he used to work for Cameron.

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  32. StewGreen says:

    Leeds to be the UK’s first ‘Women Friendly City’?
    A Comic Relief project.
    https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/people/leeds-to-be-the-uk-s-first-women-friendly-city-1-10023665/amp

    Has the council traditionally done a lot to limit grooming gangs ?
    Does the city have high male homelessness ?
    and high male suicide ?

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  33. Heyho says:

    Also, never to be reported on the Marxist Broadcasting company (but unusually reported in the Independent):

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Poor old David. I see him ending up in Gerard Batten’s little box, together with Gretha, having the lid slammed on him by a parrot. (See Gerard on FB, Sep 27)
      It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…

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    • Dystopian says:

      35,629 nuisance calls over two days.
      I’m glad we aren’t paying his phone bill!
      Oh, wait……

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  34. pugnazious says:

    BBC reports…

    ‘Greggs stockpiles pork for sausage rolls ahead of Brexit’

    Probably more to do with massive shortage in China due to swine fever….thus China is importing large amounts and prices are rising…so Greggs tries to beat the shortage and price rise.

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    • taffman says:

      The other day they were extolling the virtues of vegan sausage rolls .
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47480247
      British farmers should capitalise on new markets in China , markets outside the EU. Just more anti Brexit Bull*@it from Al Beeb.
      Why do you lot pay the Telly Tax for that guff?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Oh the humanity – as ‘The General ‘ said earlier
      Ian Blackford must be sighing relief that his sausage roll supply won’t be impeded by border chaos .

      Or maybe they could asked a few of those African men wandering into the UK illegally to bring in a few with them ..

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    • Dystopian says:

      I think Boris is sorting it. I heard something about 20,000 more pigs…..

         1 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

    Tracy Brabin Labour MP in Saturday’s Y Post
    WHEN Members of Parliament talk about the language we choose to use and its impact on our constituents, there can be no greater litmus test than what happened in Batley and Spen just over three years ago.

    My predecessor and friend Jo Cox was shot and stabbed in the sleepy village of Birstall by a white supremacist who shouted “Britain First” as he committed his heinous crime. The language we use has impact. It matters

    Her article’s title in the print edition is
    Northerners will not buy the PM’s Brexit snake oil
    … what kind of language is that ?

    Furthermore it sits next to a quarter page cartoon
    labelled Darkest Hour
    which is a giant black cloud made out of Boris’s face
    hovering over parliament

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    He (Jack Straw) defended the policy, saying mass immigration has “enriched” Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.

    But he (Jack Straw) acknowledged that “nervous” ministers made no mention of the policy at the time for fear of alienating Labour voters.

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Marky- so this would be the same lot currently droning on about how the law must be obeyed by ministers?
      Now we find out that they were not only criminal, but also cowardly.
      Perhaps they even inspired Merkel’s 2015 gig?

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    • john in cheshire says:

      Jack Straw said the white race is not worth saving.

      So, I wonder if Mr Straw thinks he’s not included in that statement and if not, why not?

         10 likes

  37. john in cheshire says:

    Here’s a thought.
    It must be 50 years since we had the great North Sea gas conversion in the UK. I can remember the Gas Board gas fitters coming to our house to replace the burners in our gas appliances so they were ready for North Sea gas.

    I’m surprised no one has decided to ‘ celebrate ‘ such a momentous event.

    And where are we now? The government has introduced legislation to prohibit gas heating in new houses. Of course, I don’t recall being asked if I agree with this.

    Is it progress?

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  38. pugnazious says:

    You can’t use the word ‘surrender’ due to its military connotations and the fact that this whips up perfectly normal, happy people into becoming frenzied neo-Nazi extremists whose only desire is to wantonly rape and murder MPs…male and female…Brexit has broken all the norms of civilisation. Life will never be the same again….all because Boris used the word ‘surrender’. The swine.

    Lol…from the Guardian….

    ‘‘Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist ‘

    Gosh.

    Yesterday I mentioned the BBC busy promoting a Guardian book using a nnow taboo word called ‘The Windrush Betrayal’ and of course how can we forget this sensationalist headline…from the Guardian…

    ‘The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked ‘

    I don’t remember any cries of outrage from the BBC about that.

    Indeed the BBC seems quite happy to launch into virulent attacks on our Prime Minister using very prejudicial and derogatory language. The BBC constantly tries to portray Boris as someone who can’t be trusted…Nick Robinson yesterday ‘joined all the dots’ to come up with his very own piece of slander….if we look at Boris’ ‘problems’ with women [really? what problems?], his Islamophobia [really? Justified and necessary criticism], his use of inflammatory language [really? Don’t be childish]…he’s not someone who can be trusted…he won’t be the person to bring the country back together.

    This was purely Nick Robinson spinning a line and inventing a characterisation to suit Robinson’s desire to present Boris in a certain, unflattering, perjorative light. Not news just abuse.

    Same on Marr…as ever the BBC invites in people it knows will make derogatory comments about their target. We had a psychologist on, yawn, who declared Boris was disloyal and untrustworthy [BBC…box ticked]….but he topped that with the claim that Boris had a Messianic zeal on Brexit…probably the same psychologist the BBC dragged in to slag off Blair in relation to the Iraq War…Blair was denounced as believing he was Jesus….and being completely delusional and power-mad. [BBC box ticked!]. Just utter codswallop…psychobabble of the lowest order.

    We also heard Marr allure that Boris employed Cummings because Boris wasn’t strong enough and needed him to bolster his determination…not only that…Cummings was a sinister and cunning figure….so pure abuse and character assassination of people the BBC doesn’t like.

    This all continued today with Robinson complaining that Boris used the word ‘collaborator’ fully justified…Hammond admitted he was taking advice from EU legal teams and endless Remainers have spoken to EU officials to coordinate their attacks…and of course Remainers went to America to get the Democrats to oppose any Brexit trade deal…and yet the Democrats want to impeach Trump for allegedly involving Ukraine in US politics. Boris was also described as an ‘angry, divisive man who smears his opponents’….hmmm….anyone seen the film of the likes of Paula Sheriff? Isn’t she actually the one that matches that description [gender aside]?

    And again today we had the BBC trying to push the negative protrayal of Boris as someone with ‘women problems’….the intent to make women stop voting for him…..they mentioned specifically his appeal dropping for women…and the BBC is happy to try and encourage that.

    We also heard the BBC’s Adam Fleming claim Brexiteers were going to hold the EU ‘hostage’ by delaying EU processes if they are forced to delay Brexit…so is it OK for a BBC journo to use such language normally associated with terrorism, blackmail and crime in a political context? [and can I use the term OK? Now a sign of far-right, white supremacist ideology apparently].

    All part of the BBC’s drive to defame, demonise and derail Boris which has been ongoing for years now.

    The BBC…‘We’re not impartial on Boris’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Meanwhile, elsewhere….

      Look Katya, Jon, Nick, Emily, Laura… Squirrel!

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    • Excartographer says:

      Pug, in relation to the permanently outraged Guardian, If I remember my crime definitions correctly, from 40+ years ago at Police training school:

      (1)A person is guilty of robbery if he steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force.

      (2)A person guilty of robbery, or of an assault with intent to rob, shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for life.

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  39. pugnazious says:

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    Corbyn activists hang a banner and ‘bodies’ from a bridge outside the Tory conference encouraging violent ‘retribution’ against Tories but have you heard anything on the BBC to any extent? Probaby not….they just aren’t interested…say the word ‘surrender’ of course and you’re a war criminal….er…if you’re a Tory or Brexiteer.

    Or maybe the word ‘anti-abortion’….or hang a poster about abortion…and the BBC will crank up the outrage machine and start belching angry denouncements of you.

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    Note also the miltary word ‘target’ being used by the BBC….such divisive, inflammatory rhetoric….

    ‘Anti-abortion posters targeting Stella Creasy to be pulled’

    ‘An anti-abortion billboard campaign targeted at pregnant MP Stella Creasy is being pulled down amid claims the posters were a form of harassment.

    The Walthamstow MP said she was being targeted by anti-abortion group CBRUK because of her pro-choice stance.

    Clear Chanel, which owned the billboards, apologised and said it was taking immediate action to remove them.’

    Listen to woman’s Hour and be astounded at what is nothing less than a fervent pro-abortion outburst from Jane Garvey….but it could be any BBC presenter, they all have the same fanatical pro-Abortion stance…hence just one more reason they hate Trump, JRM, the DUP and Christians.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008y44

    This is an extraordinarily one-sided ‘interview’ with the anti-abortion campaigner, Garvey taking Creasey’s side absolutely who we hear is a leading and doughty campaigner on abortion rights….how dare anyone criticise her!

    And get this…Garvey asks ‘Have you thought of targeting [that word again] a prominent Tory politician who paid for his mistress to have an abortion?’ She quickly slipped in ‘or Labour’ but too late…we know you hate Tories and Boris. This, presumably, targeting Boris Johnson whose mistress, Petronella Wyatt had an abortion.

    Is that not the most astounding and inappropriate attack on Boris by the BBC? Trying to direct campaigners to target him…the hypocrisy is astonishing…..one this is the BBC which high-mindedly says we must not stoke anger and hate towards polticians but also supports abortion…just not in Boris’ case.

    We then had a sanctimonious lecture from Garvey for the anti-abortion campaigner demanding ‘Do you not have concerns about targeting a heavily pregnant female MP at a febrile time like this…what on earth is wrong with getting abortion rights?!!’

    And get this last bit….Garvey telling the campaigner that her views aren’t wanted and aren’t important because….‘You are a minority in this country…you really are!!!’

    So your views don’t count if you’re a minority…must remember that one!

    And why is the campaign ‘intimidation and harassment’ of Creasey? Isn’t Creaey a lead campigner for abortion and a prominent politician….isn’t it perfectly normal to criticise somebody in her position on political issues…especially if she puts herself in the forefront of the campaign? Free speech and political acountability?…is this now how we run things? Any politician can now do what they like and if anyone criticises them they claim ‘intimidation and harassment’? Boris would have a whole raft of cases against the BBC if so.

    The interview rapidly ended when the campaigner started to describe the abortion process…a needle injected into the babies head to kill it and the body then dismembered bit by bit in order to remove it from the womb…oddly Garvey didn’t want to know..rapidly, rapidly, shut down the converstaion with the words ‘That’s too much….

    So Garvey doesn’t want to know the truth about how abortions happen and yet this is the BBC that educates and informs…it is ‘Impartial on abortion’…and thus campaigns relentlessly for it…so you, the listener, isn’t allowed to hear the truth nor get an impartial interview with all the facts instead of an emotive pro-abortion rant from a BBC presenter.

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  40. theisland says:

    Nigel’s new round-up show ‘Talk of the Week’ (13 mins) includes criticism of Labour’s open border policy from 8:00.

    Of course NF wouldn’t dare mention the term ‘demographic replacement’ but The Iconoclast does in his latest video (also 13 mins):
    Mainstream Media Lies About Demographics | Supports Censorship & Smears Us
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/nPoJiZRzQDqG/

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    • theisland says:

      Good luck with that Priti.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Well done Priti

        But but but… she is a waaycist

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        • Doublethinker says:

          She can’t under the Abbot Law of Racism, be racist because she isn’t white and only, according to Abbot , white people can be racist. Of course she may have the wrong sort of politics for Abbot et al but by God she has the right sort of politics for most of us here. However , it is a sad reflection on our country that only a POC could dare to say what Pritti said . No white Home Secretary would dare to be as clear on immigration as she was for fear of the woke brigade hate campaign that would ensue. Pritti will no doubt be attacked by the BBC et al but she is made of the right stuff. Well done and thank you PP, if all immigrants were like her and shared her values I would be very much happier.

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      • Dystopian says:

        Anyone would think that stealing Nigel Farage’s policies would mean stealing the Brexit Party’s votes.
        Don’t fall for it. They’ve already announced that they intend to let hundreds of thousands more immigrants in.
        If you want Nigel Farage’s policies vote for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and for a true Brexit not Brino MK2

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  41. StewGreen says:

    British Science Associations newsletter
    We are also delighted to announce that we have opened applications to join our Inclusive Science Engagement Network.
    join our network to share learning around Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
    https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/inclusive-science-engagement-network

    Call me old fashioned but I’d rather science just be open to all
    and no great special targetting schemes

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  42. G.W.F. says:

    Bye Jon, did Tommy Robinson, aka Yaxley Lennon, show what a total failure you are?

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    • john in cheshire says:

      That’s good news. It took the racist far-left bbc collective awhile but they must have concluded Mr Sweeney had become a liability.

      This isn’t the racist far-left bbc having a moral moment, they’re just in damage limitation. It’s the same every time with lefties, they have no sense of loyalty; when you’re out of favour with them, you’re gone one way or another. Mr Sweeney can be thankful this didn’t happen in Stalin’s Soviet Russia.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Bye Jon – let’s hope you get such a generous expense account for the next time you try to get informants drunk to get them to say the right things to fit the state broadcaster narrative .
        Methinks you’ll resurface on RT or al jaz which is about you level . You very bad word .

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    • pugnazious says:

      Very, very tempted to say something I really really shouldn’t as Sweeney heads off to Malta. He’ll be sadly missed…and was probably ‘sacked’, asked to resign, for his incompetent and intemperate ‘journalism’.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Someone ought to tell the dumb bastard that there aren’t any railways on Malta.

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  43. StewGreen says:

    #Countryfile #Wokefile
    The Sun catches up

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  44. StewGreen says:

    The new BBC1 Sunday drama “World on Fire”
    opening scene, Fascist blackshirt rally 1939
    Union jacks everywhere
    Violent thugs beat up protesters
    … BBC constant framing and building up of narratives #Orwellian

    Recent episodes of Peaky Blinders had a similar theme

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    • pugnazious says:

      Mosley..Labour…best leader they never had, apparently….enjoyed the BBC’s write up as they twist and turn to portray Mosly as ‘far-right’…he was a socialist…he was far-left…his views on jews chime with the far-left socialists of today…as demonstrated by Corbyn’s Labour.

      Also like how they try to associate him with Brexit…despite paradoxically noting he would have been against it and wanted a united Europe…ala Hitler no doubt…

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-49405924

      ‘ So, does he have any relevance today? Other than appearing in Peaky Blinders?

      Dorril thinks Mosley would have welcomed the recent surge in populism, but he wouldn’t have approved of Brexit: “He would have been appalled about Britain leaving Europe,” he says. After WW2, Mosley began promoting the idea of “Europe, a nation”. Mosley shows that the far-right has in the past had a certain appeal in the UK’

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  45. G.W.F. says:

    What is it about the colour of skin that excites the BBC ?

    ‘Diane Abbott is to stand in for Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.
    The shadow home secretary will be the first black MP to represent her party at the weekly Commons clash.’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49897949

    ————————
    I could think of many possible firsts for this appalling politician,

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      The speed she speaks at they’ll all need sleeping bags, looking forward to it.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Why not say ‘The shadow home secretary will be the stupidest, most ignorant, racist and hypocritical MP to represent her party at the weekly Commons clash.’?

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      • pertelote says:

        I’m looking forward to buying the DVD when it is released..file under comedy!

        They should make this “bout” PPV!

        She has “previous” – as Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott was asked by the interviewer to explain the Islamic schism and differences between the two major denominations of Sunni and Shia. After a stutter and pregnant pause to think, Diane announced “I can’t tell you which one is which, but they sung ‘I Got You Babe‘.”
        😉

        this is a good read too:
        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/22/revealed-jeremy-corbyn-showed-off-naked-diane-abbott-to-impress/

        “The incident took place in 1979 soon after Mr Corbyn’s first marriage broke down because of his near-obsessive dedication to his political activism.”..one way of putting it!

        p.s. health warning!..more thigh anyone lol!!

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      GWF.
      I think I’ll watch pmq’s tomorrow then. It should be a right good laugh.
      Abbott is thick as mince and I’m expecting some classics to come out.

      If you remember a long time ago when HIGNFY was funny they had a tub of lard as Paul Merton partner.
      I’m expecting a similar quality from this modern day giant of political debate (and a mathematical Einstein to boot)

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      • StewGreen says:

        Corby tweeted


        btw why is he not working tmw ?
        … is he having Hamas round for tea instead ?

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        • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

          Diane Abbott has been supported all the way in her education and career with public scholarships and public funds by the same “white capitalist patriarchy society,” she and Corbyn now fight against – and she and Corbyn have profited from this approach, having turned themselves into part of the wealthy elite.

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        • Dystopian says:

          Ok, when is White history month?

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    • StewGreen says:

      BTW Labour use black politicians as a shield to top media hitting on the party’s anti-Jewish racism

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      • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

        It is a hopeless situation because primary and secondary education curricula have been taken over by the social justice warrior brigade and they are and have been indoctrinatings kids for some time – and it is only accelerating in its hysteria. This comes after empathy weeks for refugees. The social justice warriors have been taking over the public institutions – and it started with the universities. They have now built up a critical mass in public institutions and in society. It all began with white feminists and Marxists wanting to overthrow the white patriarchy and capitalists and it has developed from there.

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      • pertelote says:

        only a typo I know Stew .. “Labour use black politicians as a shield to top media hitting on the party’s anti-Jewish racism”

        STOP.. not top
        btw..true imo.

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Popcorn time

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  46. pugnazious says:

    I think it worthwhile extracting this from the depths of a previous lengthy comment looking at a Woman’s Hour ferocious defence of Labour’s Stella Creasey and her campaign to increase abortion rights…particularly in Northern Ireland….the BBC presenter was pretty furious at the anti-aborton campaigner and wanted her to direct her campaign at someone else…..‘Have you thought of targeting a prominent Tory politician who paid for his mistress to have an abortion?’

    This ‘someone else’ of course being Boris Johnson…now why would the BBC want to direct a campaign of ‘intimidation and harassment’ [as they call it] at Boris….a man who supports the current anti-abortion laws in NI and has abstained on many of the votes on this subject? He probably has more in common with the campaigner than not.

    ‘Boris Johnson: Abortion should not be imposed on Northern Ireland’

    This is outright targeting of Boris for ‘intimidation and harassment’ when he has no real dog in this fight…he is not campaigning either way…this is the BBC using his girlfriend’s abortion for their own sordid political purposes and bringing Boris into this purely to try and smear him with old, personal, history and make him the target of more abuse. Odd the BBC was so angry and shocked at The Sun doing a story on Ben Stoke’s half brothers being killed by their father…and yet happy to dig up old tat on Boris to stigmatise and malign him with a completely spurious link to this story.

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  47. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    It is October and the BBC are celebrating Black History Month again on their Childrens Channel CBBC – a month of Black Celebration News, History and Programming of the Black Peoples’ long struggle against the white English racists. They even have last years history article which places Diane Abbot as one of the great black women of modern times:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround [and scroll down]
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48786804 [oppressed black history in England]
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/41433196 [and scroll down]

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    • Dystopian says:

      Wow. Do you think there are enough articles on black history month?
      They forgot to celebrate how black men are making other black men “history” (with knives) in London.

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  48. pugnazious says:

    lol…Boris’ real ‘woman problem’….

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    • Dystopian says:

      No, but plenty of MP’s in the Houses of Parliament who need to be binned ASAP.

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  49. taffman says:

    “Boris Johnson: UK offering EU ‘very constructive’ Brexit proposals”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49893963
    Is Bo Jo going to sell us out ? Are we going to get a Brino?
    Shortly, the EU will need our money ………………………
    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2019/0930/1079155-german-economic-figures
    Vote and support The Brexit Party.

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    • Dystopian says:

      I fear you could be right, Taffman. I suspect we will be stitched up like the kipper he recently used as a prop.
      Priti Patel’s announcement today re Australian points based system (stolen directly from Nigel Farage) will never be realised until everyone wakes up and votes for a real Brexit by voting for the Brexit Party.

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  50. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Oh the irony of seeing Communist flags being burnt in Hong Kong, yet idolised at the Labour Party conference.

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