Midweek Thread 2 October 2019

The biased anti brexit propaganda produced by the BBC is ratcheting up as we head through October . Once again thank for your restraint in such anti democratic times .

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  1. Cassandra says:

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  2. StewGreen says:

    Girls as young as 12 are being pimped by Iraqi Muslim Shia clerics through “pleasure marriages”
    A @BBCArabic investigation found vulnerable women exploited by the controversial practice which allows a man to pay for a temporary wife

    Is this truth seeking ? or are the BBC Sunnis bashing Shias ?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Something very similar apparently went on in Rotherham, Luton, Dewsbury, Oxford, Blackburn etc. The payment consisted of a kebab, a cigarette or a vodka shot. Oddly enough, the BBC was most reluctant to investigate.

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    • tarien says:

      Utterly revolting to our minds but not it appears to those that follow the teachings of Islam. So why on earth do we want such devils living here in this United Kingdom? It is not our affair, horid as it may be, we can do nothing about it directly, so other than to emphasize the awufulness and to send a clear message to our Government that we shall not tolerate any such attrocity here, ban all Sharia Courts in fact ban Sharia full stop. Off free deportation of any such reveolting people that might be living in the UK. Yes I’m thinking beyond the blue horizon.

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  3. honestus says:

    Re, Rory Stewart – another square peg see’s the writing on the wall and walks. Good. Bring on the election so the rest of the 21 can be dispatched with and replaced by loyal patriotic democrats.

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  4. vlad says:

    Update on the muslim murderer in Paris: the beeb are now nudging the story in a direction they like, with their new headline reading: “Paris police attacker had suffered ‘psychotic fit’, says wife.” (an Arab)

    Yep, it’s those pesky mental problems again, and of course NTDWI.

    Meanwhile they seem unable to find a photo. Allow me.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49931153

    mickael-harpon-5.jpg

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  5. pertelote says:

    …but seemingly was rational enough to take a ceramic knife..thus avoiding metal detection..?? to work next morning…funny old thing the human brain.

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  6. Guest Who says:

    https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-1/listed-events?

    Interesting, not least what is deemed ‘national interest’.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      There’s a fundamental flaw and paradox in that Ofcom statement…
      “Ofcom’s role is to maintain a list of television channels that appear to it to meet certain qualifying criteria – that they are free-to-view and received by 95% of the UK population.”
      …which is that there are no ‘free-to-view’ TV channels whatsoever in the UK. In order to watch any television, it is necessary to pay for a so-called television licence.

      (Explanatory note for overseas readers: This may seem incredulous to you, but the ‘television licence’ is an hypothecated tax which has to be paid in order to watch television, enforced on threat of imprisonment).

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      • Guest Who says:

        Given OFCOM is the BBC retirement home, hardly a surprise it is full of BS. And now its head may be headed DGwards. Cosy.

        Tx for the explainer. That is what struck me immediately.

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  7. andyjsnape says:

    Britbox reviews..
    https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/britbox.com

    Off to a great start lol

    Its great that people pay the tele tax for the content to be made, and then sold again by the likes of the beeb

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  8. Sluff says:

    Reference Ian Rushlow’s comments further up the chain, rightly noting the increase in global energy consumption from mass immigration from third to first world countries.

    I really do commend the URL below showing per capita energy consumption by country.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita

    This reveals both present hypocrisies and future directions of travel.

    For instance, the World Athletics championships in Qatar. Not mentioned by the BBC in their coverage is the fact that per capita energy consumption in Qatar is FIVE times greater than the UK.
    And those cuddly eco-friendly Scandanavian countries?
    Oops. Finland uses 100% more energy per person than the UK.

    In other words Extinction Rebellion, the Greens, and all the other eco-loons are dreaming up catastrophe for the sake of it, since the UK is far from the worst offender.

    Not that the eco-loons at the BBC will be giving you the above context.

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  9. theisland says:

    It’s still there

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  10. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Translation: The Five Eyes Alliance (UK, USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) will not be able to so easily read the Facebook messages of ordinary folk. And I’ll throw in the usual stuff about the kiddy-fiddlers and terrorists as a red herring. I know that Mr Zuckerberg and his poodle, Nicholas Clegg, are good globalists so I don’t really see any problem with this.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

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    • StewGreen says:

      The “show us the bodies” rule applies
      If hyper snooping has done saved lives
      ..then list the times it has .

      Working in ISPs we could theoretically read people’s private emails
      We didn’t even think about it, cos it’s unethical and it’s impossible timewise to read thousands of emails.
      Meanwhile amateur terrorists use Whatapp messaging cos that has always had end to end encryption.

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  11. LastChanceSaloon says:

    https://order-order.com/2019/10/04/baroness-hale-takes-digs-boris-new-speech/#disqus_thread

    The head of the Supreme Court demonstrating her suitability for the position.

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  12. Kaiser says:

    insane person or comedy troll genius

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  13. AsISeeIt says:

    To pinch a catchphrase from the comedy show Father Ted…. “Careful Now”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49931153

    ‘Paris police attacker had suffered ‘psychotic fit’, says wife’

    BBC Report: ‘Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah….’

    ‘…. blah blah blah blah blah….’

    ‘He converted to Islam 18 months ago, according to reports, and had recently stopped talking to female colleagues in the office’

    ‘But a government spokeswoman has said there is no indication he had been radicalised before the attack.’

    So that’s okay then.

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  14. theisland says:

    Borders, Territorial Waters, Defence!!!

    https://twitter.com/tobystyke74/status/1180080408509194240

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  15. Doobster78 says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      Car actually last a lot longer than they used to
      so of course less NEW ones are sold

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  16. smoogie7 says:

    What is this that the lefty media are saying that Johnson ‘will extend Brexit?’

    This is the first I have heard of this and has come as a disappointment.

    Corbyn then have his GE and the Brexit vote will be split. Labour will be the largest party and we will lose Brexit.

    Benn and Corbyn have got what they want. Expect a lot of smug faces from the BBC.

    We have lost

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    • G.W.F. says:

      smoogie7

      I’m picking up that message too. If Johnson has folded the it means all the tough talk at Conference was just to catch voters in a People’e PM pose. But we are not that stupid, and many of us were aware that Johnson might turn out to be Treezer Mark2.

      There wasn’t much in his address to Parliament other than ping pong over the backstop.

      Come on Nigel, meanwhile I am looking at UKIP.

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      • smoogie7 says:

        I am not going to vote for any party. No point. As I said the leave vote will be split two or three ways. Retainers will flood parliament and the same thing will happen over and over.

        Brexit is finished.

        A disappointment but to be expected really. The only way you can win these days is being a liar and a cheat. I am not a liar so will be honest and say that I am done with all this now.

        Back to reality for me

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      • LastChanceSaloon says:

        G.W.F.
        Doom and gloom premature?
        Boris will send a letter, that’s all.
        The evasive solutions discussed in the MSM, and other solutions discussed in secret at 10 Downing Street have not disappeared.
        Hopefully waste a few more days and enable the Remainiacs to relax, fatally.

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    • Doobster78 says:

      Leo Varadkar, the Irish Premier, has said that if Boris Johnson submitted a request for an extension he would agree.

      Brexit doesn’t end with the UK leaving, it’s just the next phase of negotiations but if the UK were to request an extension, we would consider it, but most EU countries would only consider it for good reason, but an extension would be better than no deal.

      Meanwhile, Downing Street is not commenting after the Court of Session released documents showing the prime minister accepted he would have to ask for a Brexit delay if there was no agreement by October 19

      Surely if Leo or some other country didnt agree, its out, No deal ?

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      • Doobster78 says:

        I think this Boris extension talk is coming from the Scottish Court paper submissions. Which , if true, isn’t that bad as surely Boris would have to say he would ask for a extension in his submissions or else the case would have been a waste of time if he just said “ I wouldn’t ask” ????? I guess his hands were tied.

        Still hoping he has something up his sleeve but hopes are fading !!!

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        It would be worth the UK bunging a few billion to say Hungary or Poland (i.e. 2 months worth of current EU payments) and allowing them alone preferential access to the labour market. In return, they would veto the extension.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Radio2 : The comedy character Jeremy Vine who acts a bit thick, just said
    “This song United Breaks Guitars came out at the start of the internet 20 years ago”
    FFS the song came out in 2008, & home internet came in 1995

    Later he said “er start of social media”
    That’s not even true either
    Twitter started in 2006, Facebook in 2004

    Anyways airlines don’t break baggage, it’s more likely the baggage handling companies who work for the airport.

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  18. smoogie7 says:

    Steve Baker says we are not extending… What is really going on here?

    Is there a twist or a loophole or just the media blowing up?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Smoog
      There is obviously a misunderstanding . Unless Boris means we are leaving on 31 October 2020 , 2021, 2022 etc – then for 2 successive Tory PMs to be telling lies will mean the end of the Conservatives and hello Mr Farage .

      If parliament doesn’t deliver brexit then people will take an ‘extra legal ‘ approach to the issue .

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    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      “A source confirms all this means is that government will obey the law. It does not mean we will extend,” Baker wrote on Twitter after papers emerged from a Scottish Court suggesting Johnson would request a Brexit delay (see 12:30 p.m.). “It does not mean we will stay in the EU beyond Oct. 31. We will leave.”

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      • smoogie7 says:

        So what will happen between sending the letter and the 31st I wonder?

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      • theisland says:

        Martin Howe says – The Surrender Act is an unconstitutional act imposed in an unconstitutional manner. The government and the PM are fully and legitimately entitled to subvert this act by any means possible.

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        • Doublethinker says:

          Everything the QC mentions may well be true but we all know that the government will be taken to the Supreme Court who will find that it is breaking the law. That is exactly what Blair set up the SC to do, to rule anything that doesn’t fit the liberal left Global view is unlawful and of course there is no appeal. Even if the Government had a substantial majority there would be some rich Remainer who old be willing to fund the legal process which ended up at the SC and the court would find against the government. The SC is the way the liberal elite get their way even if the people vote against it. In their view democracy is a one way street , Globalist Liberal Street.

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          • Burgsey says:

            Doublethinker, I really want to disagree with you, but we can all see the way it’s going. I do hope there is a last minute rabbit out of the hat, followed by a GE and the implementation of both Brexit and Martin Howes recommendations.

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          • Kaiser says:

            if the Government had a substantial majority the supreme court could be dispensed with

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  19. Celtic_Mist says:

    /
    The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”, calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years = 42
    /

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-so-special-about-the-number-42-2

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  20. lojolondon says:

    Not like me to compliment the BBC, but credit where it is due – very interesting (and shockingly honest) review of actual BBC Bias – today on R4. Very impressive that they went and looked into themselves getting it wrong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008y7y
    At the end, my reflection is that the problem is with BBC HR department – as long as they only employ people with the same world view, they will always be doomed to deliver biased garbage, because the world view is so strong, so wrong, and yet so constantly reinforced.
    For example, if the Daniel muppet had called into the office and said
    “drunk people hitting each other, no nationalistic agenda here” – then I guess he likely would not have a job anymore, because that is not the answer that every single BBC employee wanted to hear.

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    • Guest Who says:

      There might also be the rotting corpse upstairs…

      Quite a thread. Trouble in Paradise?

      That is a few Mill on the hoof to decide, undecide, redecide….

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  21. AsISeeIt says:

    Our BBC…

    promoting “Community Cohesion”

    and gender division…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/bbc_100_women_17oct19

    ‘Futurism – the act of predicting and shaping the future – is dominated by men. But we’re asking: ‎What would the future look like if it was driven by women?‎’

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    • Beltane says:

      The future driven by women would be largely unchanged, it’s only when it comes to parking that the problems will start.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    I wonder, did the BBC sail her over specially, or is she here for Greta’s coronation?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      We seemed to do rather well trading with Australia, New Zealand and the other Commonwealth countries, which had to stop when the traitor Heath took us (without a referendum) into the ‘Common Market’ in 1973.

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      • fakenewswatcher says:

        Ian – we seemed to be fine before 73, so Remainers need to stop their project(s) Fear. It will be fine again, even though withdrawing from the tentacles of an octopus is never easy. A painful slash or two may be required.
        And, although I don’t like the problems it may bring, a ‘hard’ border in NI is as inevitable /common sense as is a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. SOVEREIGNTY HAS A HABIT OF DOING THAT, SO THEY CAN USE ALL THE NASTY ADJECTIVES THEY WANT.
        Do Remainers really think all of us who voted to leave thought “ooh, I hope we get ‘a deal’ (tentacle) with my signing here”? NOT A SINGLE ONE. I HAVE VARIOUS HATS TO EAT!
        Nor did any of us pause to wonder whether we would be staying in a Customs Union (tentacle) or a Single Market (tentacle). Three years of inventive Remainer propaganda and the effect of Ms May has fogged our minds, and polluted the debate.
        We want post-departure Free Trade Agreements with the present EU members, and we’ll get them!

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    • StewGreen says:

      The last Australian PM, Tony Abbot was on TalkRadio the other day, saying what a great thing Brexit is.

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    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      GW.
      That, my friends, is what your thinking sounds like when you have only brought the odd numbered brain cells with you.

      We will still trade with the EU, while it lasts.
      After which we will trade with free European states.
      We will not pay the EU £? billions every year, which they used to try and destroy us.
      We will pay less for our goods purchased abroad and sell more of our own, cheaper, goods.
      Brexit will be a success, despite Remainiacs.
      Best wishes to our friends in Australia.

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  23. Celtic_Mist says:

    Judge criticises BBC

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    Sir Richard also criticised the effect BBC journalists had upon the investigation.

    He records how BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds showed Beech pictures of two boys who were either murdered or went missing in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he met him in November 2014.

    Police subsequently investigated whether one of the boys – Martin Allen, who went missing in London – was one of the three boys allegedly murdered by the people Beech accused.

    Sir Richard records that relatives of Martin Allen were subsequently spoken to by detectives and that the “upset caused to that family is one of several distressing aspects of this case”.

    The retired judge wrote that the “photographic identification by Symonds was fundamentally flawed and would not be admitted in a court”.

    He said senior officers should have told the BBC’s reporters and a retired social worker who was also working with Beech “not to feed information to ‘Nick’
    /

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49933843

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  24. StewGreen says:

    £8,700 benefits fraud , but judge lets him avoid jail
    just community service.

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  25. theisland says:

    Please watch (23 mins)
    “Everything is linked to everything else”
    Includes references to dodgy Europhile high level British civil servants – Brockbank, Sedwill, Lapsley and Bryan Wells.

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  26. taffman says:

    “Brexit: Boris Johnson will send extension letter – court document”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49936352
    Its The Brexit Party for me now all the way . There are a lot of Remoaners on the HYS, or has Al Beeb fixed it again ?

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  27. pugnazious says:

    So Tommy Robinson was pilloried and vilified and slung in prison for potentially, just potentially, disrupting a court case…by publishing material already in the public domain….so how about Tom Watson? Is he in prison? How about the BBC journalists who ‘fed Nick information’ that seriously interfered with the investigation?…

    ‘senior officers should have told the BBC’s reporters and a retired social worker who was also working with Beech “not to feed information to ‘Nick'”.

    Sir Richard also criticised the now-defunct news website Exaro News, which also met with Beech and showed him 42 pictures of men, through which Beech identified Mr Proctor and Lord Bramall.

    He said: “There can be no doubt that ‘Nick’ received information and assistance from Exaro and other journalists that misled officers and contributed to their concluding at an early stage that ‘Nick’ was credible.”‘

    The BBC and others helped to put the accused through absolute hell and ruined their lives and reputations…and note also what helped this was the attitude that the ‘victim’ must be believed when making such claims….the same attitude that the BBC et al try to impose on the police when dealing with rape claims or indeed sexual harassment claims…see how Boris is already ‘guilty’….not to mention Brett Kavanaugh when Christine Blasey Ford made her claim…which the BBC believed[and still does] totally despite the lack of evidence and total inconsistency of Ford’s statements.

    This is the BBC just two days ago that so high-mindedly read out Prince Harry’s self-serving rant against the Mail and Tabloid journalism portraying himself and his other half as terrible victims of a terrible injustice…but not really….the BBC is far, far worse than any tabloid…all the more so in fact for the respect and trust people have for it…as always the BBC abuses that trust to peddle fake, poisonous, news.

    The BBC that itself nearly ruined Lord McAlpine, not to mention Cliff Richard…and of course there’s Tommy Robinson who the BBC tried to smear in its high profile Panorama programme…the programme was pulled, and Sweeney presumably given his marching orders, when it turned out the BBC was the real villain of the piece.

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      Lord Hall is in charge of this cesspit.
      I wonder whether the buck shouldn’t stop there?
      And, if it turns out some imprisonments were unlawfully concocted, perhaps a taste of his own medicine?
      Should that require his arrest, the beeb could send in a helicopter to film the procedure.

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  28. theisland says:

    June Sarpong appointed BBC director of creative diversity

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49935853

    She’s going to “provide expertise.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Excellent news Theisland – ladies of the calibre of ms Sarpong are much needed in the biased State Broadcaster –

      A director or creative diversity is as needed as a director of diversive creativity . Bound to enrich the output for those paying for it . The mind boggles …..

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    • pugnazious says:

      ‘Creative diversity’? Is that if they haven’t enough black faces they black-up some whites?

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    • StewGreen says:

      See this thread
      BTW the silver lining is that Sky’s the Pledge will be better without her, although the just brought in that other super-racist Femi

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      • G.W.F. says:

        StewGreen

        Ah Creative diversity.
        In the video, hopefully to be seen in the BBC’s diversity show, a rather aggressive migrant is introduced to a Scottish tradition known as ‘the Glasgow Kiss’. Ouch. Note how the other passengers laugh along with the entertainment

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      • G says:

        SG,
        Are the (not me!) licence fee payers happy with this?

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    • fakenewswatcher says:

      island – Only in a society in which social engineering is accepted as ‘normal’, virtue-signalling has become a virtue in its own right, language has long ago become perverted & a boundless supply of ‘free’ money is available to the chief miscreants, could you have such nonsense going on, yet being taken seriously.

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  29. taffman says:

    “US unemployment rate falls to 50-year low of 3.5%”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49934309
    Whatever President Trump is doing its definitely working .
    No matter , Al Beeb can put a negative spin on it .

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  30. taffman says:

    “Hong Kong: Face mask ban prompts thousands to protest”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49939173
    The people of Hong Kong wear masks to fight for democracy, while the idiots in this country wear masks to end democracy . Democracy is hard won but easily lost, or in our nation’s case given away.
    Funny old world innit ?

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  31. taffman says:

    Brexit: UK offer ‘a step forward’ says Simon Coveney
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49933793
    He’s looking worried . I think the only ones manning the border will be the Republic of Ireland assisted by the EU Defence Force ?
    The UK has no need for an Irish border.

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  32. smoogie7 says:

    Boris has posted a tweet:

    ‘New deal or no deal, but no delay’

    What is going on?

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      Maybe he asks for an extension of 1 day.
      Legal compliance.
      I suspect loophole is no length of extension specified

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  33. taffman says:

    “I’m getting away from a politics which makes me sometimes feel as though Trump has never left London and I want to walk through every borough of this great city to get back to us on the ground.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49931937
    Evidently he doesn’t like President Trump.

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Wow we think British justice is bad
    in Greece a serial rapist is on the streets 45 years earlier than sentenced.

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  35. JimS says:

    Jeremy Vine continues to offer the best comedy on radio!

    Thousands of people must have had their luggage damaged when they travel by air but it is hardly news. Hold the race card and a bare grasp of English and Vine is wetting himself at both ends, hoping that European airline IAG will buy a new ‘harp’ and possibly throw in a private 747 for some poor African. (I wonder how he manages on African buses?)

    Nina Myskow is let out of the crypt to complain about ‘gender neutral’ toilets. Wearing what she thinks are the PC colours of the day she tells us she is happy to share with transvestites and the trans-gendered but not men! So if they are men flying false colours that is OK but not normal men openly being men. One of the problems with men, she says, is that they are ‘big’. Are men that pretend to be women all small then?

    (As an aside, why does the traffic news require a backing track? It’s hard enough to take the details onboard without all the noise.
    Also has anyone ever started listening to a Radio 2 programme as a result of hearing any of their screaming harridan adverts? They just make me want to turn off the radio there and then).

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  36. chancygardner says:

    Have you noticed how comments on the BBBC ‘have your say’ section bolted on to reports about Boris Johnson are becoming more and more hysterical and extremely personal?

    You would be forgiven for saying that the comments are from the readership and not from the staff but if I have read the ‘I’d rather be dead in a ditch’ reference once in a report, I must have read it two dozen times. It’s clearly designed to stoke things up.

    The whole thing reminds me of watching straight-jacketed nutters throwing themselves around in a cell and hurling abuse at anyone within earshot.

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Skegness story about planning request for a Muslim community centre to be built on a derelict eyesore site.
    This is a change of plan , cos a few years ago a charity called Skegness Central Mosque was set up and they raised £150K and bought the site.
    They now say the ground floor will be a community centre with prayer room. And the upstairs will be flats that will fund the operation. The total cist is £337K
    Someone points out that when a religious building gets put up they then start objecting to things like gay bars, strip clubs etc. as that doesn’t fit in with religious building.
    There are few mosques in the region , 19 miles in Boston there are 2.
    The BBC story is very short, this is longer :
    https://lincolnshirereporter.co.uk/2019/09/much-needed-mosque-plans-submitted-to-east-lindsey-district-council/

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  38. Thoughtful says:

    Last night there was a celebration at the German embassy for ‘Unity Day’ re reuniting of East & West Germany. Labour MP Ben Bradshaw was there and began heckling Michael Gove as he gave a speech.

    Aside from the extraordinary bad manners of an MP heckling a government minister outside of parliament he chose a friendly countries embassy at which to do it.

    Of course the left is full of hate and rage and cannot control the levels of these, allowing them to spill forth at every opportunity, if only the cowardly useless incompetent Tories could manage it just on one occasion!

    To come to the point, being fully aware of the revolving door between the BBC and the Labour Party it came as no surprise to find that Bradshaw had in fact been a BBC employee, as a BBC Radio reporter.

    In 1986 he joined the staff of BBC Radio Devon and became the Berlin correspondent for BBC Radio in 1989 and was working in the city when the Berlin Wall fell. In 1991, he became a reporter with BBC Radio’s The World At One, contributing to the programme until his election to Westminster. He won the Sony News Reporter Award in 1993

    The fact that the BBC have chosen to omit this disgraceful behaviour from the news speaks volumes.

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      Bend Bradshaw, the ‘MP’ for lefty students in Exeter. Uses the same hairdresser as Dame Kier Starmer by the looks of things. A rabid remainer, ticks many RBC boxes, being gay for one, but I’d offer has never done a proper job in his life, but has certainly enjoyed a large amount of ‘white’ privellage over the years in his many non jobs either for the RBC or in the House of Traitors.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    I’ve said here before that very often the people running things are not always that clever and if they ever had common sense – it can go out the window .
    So when ‘the system ‘ says ‘witnesses must always be believed and what they say accepted as truth ‘ you know – if you have any bit of common sense – that it will lead to trouble – and the Met plod are certainly in a bit of trouble .
    It doesn’t matter though – the MSM will shout a bit – lessons will be learnt – but will anyone be punished ? Or not continue to collect their pay ? No .

    If lessons are learnt they’ll be forgotten – report recommendations ignored or watered down – and then onto the next ‘series of failures ‘.

    We will see the same thing when the tower block fire report comes out in a couple of weeks

    Perhaps that the state is really good at doing now Is having ‘inquiries ‘ and publishing ‘reports ‘ with ‘recommendations ‘.

    But below so much is Fear . Fear being criticised or upsetting the status quo – such as challenging monsters like Jimmy Saville or the monster who made false allegations against senior establishment figures .

    With idiots politicians such as the shameful Tom Watson playing cheerleader and seeing the potential for personal advancement – together with BBC reporters doing the same .

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  40. Beltane says:

    I see that specious creep Mark Easton occupying the moral high ground on the Henriques Report in BBC news. Using the anguished and earnest style he has made his own, together with a significant lack of substance, he spends time condemning the Met, makes a brief mention of Tom Watson and even a fleeting acceptance of the BBC’s involvement – naming no names, except, unbelievably, Saville.
    But it wouldn’t do to go in too deep, there’s only so much angst we can cope with.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I’ve worked out the thing about Boris promising to get the UK out of the EU on 31 October .

      It’s simple – there are two Borises – one says we are coming out and the other one is saying we ll have yet another extension and actually never leave .

      The real one is the one who will sell out again using some classical reference designed to intimidate lesser mortals who know the Greek stuff is just crap designed to exclude .

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      • fakenewswatcher says:

        Fed – we should have known when he came floating down , suspended on that wire, that a few magic tricks could be expected…
        anything could happen now?

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Fedup2

        A bit like the many world’s answer to the problem of Schrodinger’s cat.
        Until the box is opened, an observer doesn’t know whether Boris will get us out of the EU or Boris will say we have an extension and never leave.—because Boris is intrinsically tied to whether or not the atom has decayed and Boris would, as Schrödinger might have put it, be “taking us out of the EU or keeping us in. in equal parts” until it is observed.

        According to the many worlds hypothesis in one universe Boris takes us out and in another he keeps us in.

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        • fakenewswatcher says:

          GWF – This would also conform to Fed’s idea that there appear to be two Borises.
          As in the double slit experiment, each Boris passes through one of the slits simultaneously, even though we know there is only one.

          So we’ll only know when he hits the wall on the other side whether we leave with no deal, or don’t leave at all?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Fake / GWF

          The Boris double hypothesis links a bit to the two columns BoJo allegedly writed for the Telegraph supporting and countering brexit .

          Blustering – entertaining – politicians are worrying because they imbue an affection perhaps they don’t deserve

          Anyway – the week has passed and unless my calculation is wrong it is too late to call a no confidence vote to stop BoJo going to the EU ministers ‘ meeting on 17 October .

          So a traitor shadow PM doesn’t seem to be on the cards . There will be no new deal . Would the EU agree to another A50 extension – and for what purpose ?

          Would they agree another extension to achieve the second referendum ? With the EU drafting the question to fix ‘ remain ‘ ? Engineering it do that brexiters just don’t see the point in voting at all ?

          I write this in the absence of MSM news and certainly not from the State Broadcaster .

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        • smoogie7 says:

          Can we chose which universe to live in?

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  41. Guest Who says:

    BBC Radio 4

    “I’ve been asking white people what does it mean to be white for the last 20 years. And most white people can’t answer that question.”

    ***

    You have to click who the person is. Didn’t seem worth it.

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    • JimS says:

      Always having to say “sorry”?

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      For a lot of us it’s meant working hard, paying taxes, more taxes and more taxes, and that money frittered away by whatever organisation gets it, it means seeing our pensions destroyed, seeing our heritage and way of life discredited, seeing our country overrun and changed beyond recognition, it’s meant seeing our elected politicians behave as traitors, our soveriegnty signed away by duplicitous leaders and it’s meant we can’t see a GP or Dentisit without paying yet more money or waiting weeks and weeks. It’s meant seeing our stage broadcaster disparage and denude any straight white male since the late 1980s…..

      I could go on, but you’ll get the drift….

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  42. StewGreen says:

    Swaffham Bulbeck Cambridgeshire : villagers dig trenches Aagainst invading travellers

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    • vlad says:

      Al-beeb won’t be reporting this in a hurry. Or if they do, it’ll be to denounce the ‘racism’.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The state broadcaster – for some reason – has done a documentary on eugenics . An idea invented in Blighty and developed to its ultimate slaughter .

        As you might expect there was a heavy contemporary propaganda element to it – it was hosted by a man with a deformed head and an Asian lady who didn’t seem to know what to make of it all .

        The state broadcaster doesn’t like eugenics and so as a documentary it didn’t challenge the viewer with pro s and cons in the way high quality documentaries once did .

        But it did give the state broadcaster an opportunity to give its own country a kicking for inventing the idea in the first place . I don’t think the state broadcaster likes ‘ ideas ‘ apart from those it currently approves of – multiculturalism- girl power – trans power – queer power – no to carbon – yes to islam and the death of the individual and his unapproved uncontrolled thought .

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    • Dystopian says:

      RE TRENCH WARFARE…

      What’s the point in that. The trenches look a mess. All it would take would be to park at trailer over the trench to form a bridge and they’ll drive right over.

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      • StewGreen says:

        precedent, it works in the short term
        In the long term you put proper banking
        It’s used on National Park campsites

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was developed to promote prosperity, stability and security within the EU’s neighbours and to avoid new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and its neighbours. Home Affairs issues remain a priority.

    https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/international-affairs/european-neighbourhood-policy_en

    international8_enp.jpg

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Look how people who shout diversity, want conformity of thought
    useful graphic of Thomal Sowell’s quote
    https://twitter.com/ChatByCC/status/315073774657630210

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  45. smoogie7 says:

    The Telegraph:

    ‘Scotland’s highest civil court has been told there is no need for it to intervene in the Brexit process as Boris Johnson has accepted he will have to seek an extension if no agreement is reached by October 19.

    The UK Government’s legal team claimed any court order could “ruin” the UK Government’s negotiating position with the EU.

    The news that the Prime Minister planned to abide by legislation he has described as a “surrender act” emerged in a new Brexit case at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where campaigners are seeking a ruling forcing him to comply with recent legislation.’

    The BBC:

    Boris is a bad man!

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    • The WestWyvern says:

      I’m English. Why is a Scotch law court removing the ability for my democratic vote to leave count? As I fundamentally disagree with this, can I now ask an English court to kick them out of the Union..?

      Anyhow, If Boris does ask for an extension it’s the end of the Tory Party.

      Sadly it will also be the end of BREXIT as the leave vote will be split by those voting for Farage and those just not bothering. Results in Peterborough and Wales recently showed this possibility. Both should have been easy wins for TBP, but it’s clear the remain alliance will triumph as they are more motivated, their group think ideology and ability to mobilise will sadly knock leavers efforts into a cocked hat under the FPTP system.

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      • smoogie7 says:

        This is my concern. Neither Johnson or Farage will win. The Tories might hold onto some seats but it would still be a loss and likely to the Lib Dems and a few to Labour.

        I also wonder if the Brexit Party could make it in Labour areas. This would depend on a manifesto. If it is too right leaning a few Labour leave voters might get cold feet and either stick with Corbyn who would bribe his way through the election with the BBC backing him of course and some might just abstain.

        UKIP would put up a bit of a fight as well which might cause some small splits if UKIP’s manifesto is more appealing depending on what TBP put out.

        Sadly Labour might just be the largest party. With just 20% of the vote and as the lowest rated opposition leader in history with no clue on Brexit Corbyn will govern. This is in some ways his route to power. Brexit is a stepping stone and he is using remainers to cause as much damage to Boris as possible to upset the supports and cause a split between them.

        Divide and conquer, that is the way the Marxists work and all of this could easily play into Corbyn’s hands

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        • The WestWyvern says:

          It will, I believe result in a lefty remainer alliance of Scotch Nasties, Limp Dumbs, Labour and that thing from the ‘Green’ party. As I said the group think of this lots will allo them to triumph and in coalition they will achieve a workable parliamentary majority.

          However, as they integrate us further into the EUSSR, there will eventually be no need for them as we will just become a province of greater Eurabia, run via civil servants and a armed police taking their direct orders from Brussells.

          Resistance will be futile, assimilation total.

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    I’ve put up the weekend thread

    Apparently the French plod have come to the conclusion that a Muslim convert /fanatic who got a ceramic knife , took it to work and killed for people – was a terrorist – but at least he is dead …

    Won’t hear too much about that on the BBC

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  47. lordelpus says:

    Having had to suffer the insufferable Bonnie Greer on Thursday nights’ Question Time, I could not believe it when she was on The Papers this evening.Seems to be on BBC so often I am starting to think she is a full time employee!

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