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Christmas Thread 23 December 2019
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Morning all. Merry Christmas.
The best and worst of the BBC in the five minutes from 0800 and 0805.
Christmas morning and the staff are off. So the 0800 R4 news is just that. The news. And in a sensible order of importance. Straight sentences of news. No talking heads. No overpaid ‘editors’ to explain what the words mean aka their opinions to us. No innuendo, no s*** stirring, not even any noticeable agenda. A real Christmas present to licence fee payers.
It wasn’t to last. At 0805 Claire Balding introduces a programme of readings. By 0806 she is delighted to announce that one of the readers is ‘my wife, Alice Arnold’. Yes, even on Christmas Day they have to indoctrinate us with the normalcy of lesbianism. Give it a rest. Please. Just for today.
The % of same sex marriages in this country, from ONS figures is 2-3%. On BBC programmes it seems to be…..errrr……..rather higher. Does the BBC actually employ heterosexuals, or should talented straight people, especially hideous white males, not waste their time applying?
Sluff,
Either that or, black or asians who the Black/Asian Broadcasting Corp. believe constitute > 50% of the population. I guess operating from Londonistan, that assumption will be correct.
I always find it unbelievable that some news items are read by asians and they, ‘hand the item over to our man on the spot’, another asian to report then, an asian in the studio to comment on that report. Asian, asians, asians………….. Rarely blacks in the same roles? Why? Is the BABC racist or something?
The BABC: it’s been dumbing down the population for decades, now, it senses the final push and so, the twisted Marxist ‘volume’ is turned up to ‘full’.
A secret BABC – the viewer/listener is not fooled, your Marxism will be your downfall.
Only heard 15 mins of BBC Christmas fare this morning and it was enough….their ‘Listening Project’ on R4….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cl2v
We had an ‘Arab’ in conversation with a gay black….and then we had a married black couple who run marathons….which was revealing as what they said gave the lie to the usual BBC narrative about black people ‘failing’ to progress and reach high office in whatever sphere because of white racism.
Firstly, just look around and you will find that blacks do in fact succeed and do attain ‘high office’ in just about every sphere….it’s just the BBC doesn’t ‘celebrate’ them, it prefers to push the ‘victim’ narrative…which of course is self-defeating’ as it encourages the belief that they cannot succeed ‘due to prejudice and racism’ blocking them.
Which brings us to the black couple running marathons…they were told by, as the woman said, their ethnic group of friends and others around them that they couldn’t run marathons, they couldn’t succeed…it was only their ‘non-ethnic’ friends who gave them great encouragement to go for it…which they did.
So…a reluctance to try something and the belief you cannot succeed comes from their own community [helped by the BBC et al] whilst encouragement to push on came from the nasty whitey.
Interesting though the use of ‘ethnic’…and non-ethnic…because of course ‘White’ is an ethnicity and an identity…but the BBC doesn’t want you to think like that….it doesn’t want you to identify as ‘white’ or English or British….there is no such thing as these identities according to the BBC….Black pride, black identity, black nationalism is fine…but ‘white….’…not so much.
I wonder how many times Fi Glover apologised for being white and middle-class or sneeringly mentioned the ‘male, pale and stale’ cultural criminals and oppressors in the programme….she usually does as do Chiles, Vine, Campbell, Webb, Barnett and all the rest. Not sure why they feel the need to apologise on our behalf, which is what they are doing, a cultural cringe for being white and the white ethnicity as a whole. The world is a far better place thanks to white people. I think all ‘ethnic’ people should be made aware of this and sing our praises every morning….Afua Hirsch can lead the songs of praise.
Anyway…hope everyone’s having a very merry Christmas …white or not.
So apart from the Virtue-Signalling-Project did the BBC stuff any of its metroliberal mates in our faces today ?
06:00 Neil Gaiman special
08:00 Clare Balding shares her life through reading
09:00 Christmas Service: with the LADY Bishop of Dorking
09:45 Emma Thompson. & her husband Greg Wise
10:00 Woman’s Hour : tomorrow we get the Muslim lady jockey
13:15 Radio4’s 3 Lefty Vicars Giles Fraser, Richard Coles etc.
15:15 Emma Thompson. & her husband Greg Wise
16:00 Neil Gaiman play
22:00 Clare Balding shares her life through reading
Man-made Australian warming
“The 47-year-old was arrested on Saturday morning over three blazes in Craigieburn and Roxburgh Park in the early hours,
.. as well as a series of fires dating back to October”
11 charges, including intentionally causing a bushfire and criminal damage by fire.
https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/victorian-man-charged-with-starting-bushfires-c-616890
I hear he is pleading diminished responsibility owing to mental health issues brought on by climate change
I’m grateful to the Christmas edition of Private Eye which referred to the BBC as the Bolshevik Broadcasting Collective.
I’ll spare you the context but that is rather good so think I might use it from time to time.
That’s it from me. Off to peeling spuds. Have a great day.
@Sluff sorry but the BBC is very cosy with Private Eye in their new 13min piece
A vehicle to sneer at Boris/Farage/Trump etc
That negative comment was when Phil Wang said
“Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t call them a Nazi officer
.. he’d call them a passionate campaigner with concerns about Israel”
Northern Powergrid are still mopping up now after the Lefty Twitter meltdown.
Sluff
Does this mean that we still have a supporter at Private Eye? Perhaps I should renew my subscription which, after a 25 year stint, I cancelled when it became an organ of The Establishment. I wonder if this means that Mr Hislop will have to watch his back at the BBC.
A Merry Christmas to all contributors to, and readers of, this site. It so often helps to keep one sane, as we drift along on the great social engineering project others have decided for us, and which various propaganda outlets have taken upon themselves to promote.
May we all be given the Grace to see beyond the rampant consumerism and exhortations to ‘have fun’ and see what this Festival is really all about.
Best Wishes for a healthy and happy 2020!
A Merry Christmas to all administrators of, contributors to, and readers of this site. It so often helps to keep one sane, as we drift along on the great social engineering project others have decided for us, and which various propaganda outlets have taken upon themselves to promote.
May we all be given the Grace to see beyond the rampant consumerism and exhortations to ‘have fun’ and understand what this Festival is really all about. At heart it is a Spiritual project. And it leaves us with a Heritage to defend.
Best Wishes for a healthy and happy 2020!
Since it is a blue-sky Christmas Day so I thought a bit of Father Ted might be appropriate. This is my favourite scene and if this doesn’t make you laugh..well you must be….different.
Hilarious scene, Chancers – thank you!
Mrs O’Blene and I still mutter ‘bastards’ in that voice or the other version when the quiz show host gets plastered and his wig falls askew…
We were only saying yesterday, that this series was so good, mainly because it only ran for a short time – three series? Dermot Morgan died far too young, and was just splendid in that role! Pauline McClynn set the scene for one of the funniest parts ever written in a comedy show!
Channel 4 didn’t have the chance to milk that series, like the BBC do, just wringing every last gasp out of anything which seems remotely successful, then eventually turning the viewers off completely when it becomes irrelevant and boring.
They finally ruined Del Boy that way, with a stupid prog at the end, full of poor innuendo, weak lines, and a ridiculous ‘plot’!
The BBC seems not to be reporting a serious incident in nakatomi plaza in LA – it seems a bunch of terrorists have attacked it . The local news is reporting that an off duty NYPD cop is on the scene – and a local fat one is buying donuts…
This seems only to be being reported on twitter at the moment and the MSM haven’t reported it ….
I’ll let you know if there are developments ….
Also on Twitter – some wag has also asked whether Jeremy Corbyn enjoyed the Queens Speech this morning …..
Ha you’re the wag
As the events are unfolding fast, I don’t think it would be wise to jump to conclusions. There are those who say that a man with a German accent is involved.
Keep us posted Fedup2 if you hear any more.
Dover -the 5pm News makes no mention of the Nakatomi building but it seems that Norwegians May be the baddies .
Anyway the off duty NYPD cop is now at an airport where a bunch of dodgy mercenaries have been reported to be acting badly .
Nancy Pelosi has blamed President Trump .
BBC chose not to show this 1990s Thatcher speech
An article about Mr Barnett I’ve never seen before.
No wonder the BBC privileges Emma, she comes from a family where her father is “impoverished”.
… That’s why he couldn’t pay any of the proceeds of crime order.
It is also interesting that his brothels acted with tacit police approval.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/brothel-owner-s-4-2m-appeal-win-1.30821
Response to the new speaker writing that Bercow should get a seat in the House of Lords
… few support it
As soon as he takes his seat
..there should be a vote to plug it in.
Stew
Yeah. Plug in, switch on and drop though as the Reverend Leary preached in the 60s.and they wonder why the world today is full of lonely, desperate people. That was truly historical abuse.
Stew
I should of course have written “drop through”
We watched the high school dance scene from “Greese” this
afternoon. The judges announce that the dance must only
be between BOYS +GIRLS !!! I suspect that if BIG BROTHER
at the divesity dept at the BBC is ever told this , don’t expect
Grease to ever be shown on BBC TV again !!!
I reiterate from my posting yesterday . Can you believe that
the “news” that in Singapore the new Star Wars film ,the kiss between two women has been taken out.You couldn’t make it
up that this was a main feature on the BBC website. There must
be a special “diversity ” person at the BBC if not a dozen
of them who scour the world media for this type of virtue
signalling. What a sorry lot.
We watched the high school dance scene from “Grease” this
afternoon. The judges announce that the dance must only
be between BOYS +GIRLS !!! I suspect that if BIG BROTHER
at the divesity dept at the BBC is ever told this , don’t expect
Grease to ever be shown on BBC TV again !!!
I reiterate from my posting yesterday . Can you believe that
the “news” that in Singapore the new Star Wars film ,the kiss between two women has been taken out.You couldn’t make it
up that this was a main feature on the BBC website. There must
be a special “diversity ” person at the BBC if not a dozen
of them who scour the world media for this type of virtue
signalling. What a sorry lot.
Ties into the footballer who heard monkey chants , when no one else did.
In the prog on Sunday The father of the Pret A Manger sandwich-allergy child claimed that at the airport he saw the angels that took his daughter away.
He has started going to the church that she attended, when he didn’t before.
BBC professionalism on Christmas Day.
Over 700 homeless people died last year.
Clearly we are expected to feel compassion.
Especially when then told that there are 280,000 homeless people in the country.
A moment’s thought however reveals that for a population of 280,000 then if everyone lived to be 100 there would typically be 2800 deaths per year.
So a figure of 700 homeless deaths a year is revealed to be meaningless.
If I can work it out why is it the highly talented ‘journalists’ at the world’s finest impartial broadcaster cannot?
Or if you have a population of about 65 million
and lifespan is 70 something
Then you’d expect about a million deaths/year
so 700 is a fraction of that
Well, according to the labour twonk who lost in Tunbridge Wells, one in five kids lives in poverty!
Rhymes with ‘rowlocks’.
BBC NEWS: Weather World on now. Fires in Australia. High temperatures. Agenda agenda agenda.
They are talking to a “chief climate scientist”.
Temperature monitoring station in Cambridge monitored highest temperature ‘on record’.
Can’t open the box to shoes us the equipment though. Apparently it is so sensitive that the temp would spike if they open the box! Not very stable then.
but they are talking about all the arson arrests ?
Approaching 100 now …see the post above
Oh god give me strength. Lots of speculation and implied ‘reasons’ and
links to ‘climate change’. Not one shred of evidence given.
Now St Greta is being plugged.
Now we have climate stripes – blue stripes changing to red stripes to show ‘patterns’. Warming stripes website.
They’ve just claimed that “wherever you look around the world you will see that trend of warming…”
However, minutes ago they were showing us recent footage of Chicago at minus 34 degrees!
The “low carbon” department of the Royal Family
got us taxpayers to do up their house
but then flew to Canada for a 6 week break.
Has the Queen had a bust up with them ?
How’s your pro Vegan campaign going BBC ?
seen the lyrics for the Xmas #1 ?
Saw him standing there in the bakery
Holding the biggest sausage roll I’ve ever seen
Didn’t know it would turn me on
But I’d never seen one so long
And I knew it was gonna be wrong
But I want MEAT
Yeah MEAT!
Baked in puff pastry
Yeah I want MEAT
Yeah MEAT!Singing I love sausage rolls
So put another one in the oven baby
I love sausage rolls
So eat it with ketchup, or gravy
We don’t want to start a riot
We’re not on a vegan diet
We know Quorn will never be client
‘Cause we want MEAT, yeah MEAT!
We eat it on every street
Yeah we want MEAT, yeah MEAT
https://www.metrolyrics.com/i-love-sausage-rolls-swing-version-lyrics-ladbaby.html
“I hate the hype around Christmas… all the adverts are families in a house together, all happy, and that’s not what a family is these days.”
***
The BBC, speaking for the nation. Not.
All my family is together in the house, and we are happy.
Same here GW!
Guest – The destruction of the family and therefore the very idea of a ‘together’ and happy family would appear to be goal of the Left, for whom the far more important social unit is the state. A big, powerful, intrusive, interfering, state. The more it can prescribe how we live our lives, the happier it will presumably be.
It will take over as much as possible of the traditional parental role. It will restrict real freedoms and create false ‘freedoms’; so, for example, the state will decide on and enforce the nature of discipline within the family, while allowing young people to decide what sex they ‘would like to be’. I’m sure readers can think of other examples.
The bbc is a big, powerful, intrusive, interfering organisation too. As ‘public broadcaster’, it enjoys the critical backing of the state in levying a tax for its own benefit. (So far.) I somehow doubt that, as vanguard of ‘progressive’ ideas in the state, it is going to be a friend of ‘together’, happy families.
At least not in the sense they were traditionally understood.
Guest Who
But do you have a black personage sitting at your table as all the white families in the better class television adverts seem to do? No? Thought not and neither do most of us. Television does not reflect public opinion but attempts to lead it and I for one refuse to be taken to drink from a poisoned water hole.
Myself and Mrs Farley have been catching up with saved programmes on Sky…yes I know it can be as biased as BBC , The BBC world on fire series …historical well yes sort of ….full quota of homosexuals and coloured actor’s , sadly another series that could have been very good but sadly no , BBC propaganda at its best
Talk about quotas; did anyone bother to watch on Christmas Eve, Mark Gattis’s feeble stab at MR Jame’s ghost story ‘Martin’s Close’?
Other than not being at least bit scary; up there, right and center was a BME actor as a main character in a story set in Devon 1654!
Does AL Beeb now get prosecuted if they don’t a have token black actor in every drama?
On a completely different matter, Andrew Marr writing in the Christmas edition of The Spectator , still does not get it…
‘So, was it really necessary for Conservative Central Office to send Boris Johnson to wrangle heifers in Aberdeenshire, dangle codfish in front of photographers and deliver early-morning milk to bleary, pre-prepped householders? Really, what was that all about? Did any of the frantic criss-crossing of the country, the bogus rallies and media scrums, change any minds at all? Or was it, perhaps, displacement activity for a political class sitting nervously in the waiting room?’
‘Red Andy’ get out beyond the M25 once in while, it is called electioneering!
Another beauty:-
‘Another man I’d single out is John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor. Like his mate Jeremy Corbyn, he is now close to becoming an un-person after huge defeat. But I take as I find. And I have always found him attentive, polite and prepared to answer hard questions in clear language.’
Who is he kidding.. what that Marxist was shoveling, the country was not buying.
Presumably it is because Red Andy finds Red McDonnel attentive polite and prepared to answer questions that they had the cosy fireside chat on the Sunday post election. I wonder how Marr would have described himself the day he ranted at Boris? Loud screaming and rude, perhaps? The noisiest teachers have the noisiest classrooms. Andy should think about that when he is interviewing.
just watched 1967’s Carry On Doctor on ITV3 (BAME free..whoopee) but nearly all the long advert breaks were excruciatingly BAME dependent/focused
..and then the “ps de resistance” the ad for the new David Copperfield movie..David is an Asian!? – WHY????:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49550578
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/17/why-dev-patel-in-dickens-could-change-film-for-ever
FFS!..is nothing sacred?
Earlier today..was no-one watching?.. Queen’s Speech. Queenie was excellent as ever..music plays afterwards..medium-sized choir in shot..one BAME (Afro-Caribbean tho’ I’m no expert..can we still say Afro Caribbean btw? ..mm. I think so) boy among a bunch of whiteys..but the first to have a longish close-up as I saw it!..
FFS!
It’s not a coincidence at all is it!?
Ah, but the after church walk on xmas day morning clearly featured a moment of diversity never been seen before, – a black security officer shadowing the Duchess of Cambridge.
Happy Boxing Day ( sponsored by Amazon ) . One
Comrade Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria Timmermans Yaxley Lennon (Dutch pronunciation: [frɑnˈsɪskʏs kɔrˈneːlɪs xeːˈrɑrdʏs frɑns ˈtɪmərˌmɑns](according to wiki ) ….. has written a ‘letter to the UK’ telling us that we will always be welcome back into the ReichEU.
He tells us we are not that different and that we did a good job being both miserly and generous during out time in his empire .
Strangely he doesn’t say ‘bring your chequebook ‘
His Words are like music to the ears of remainer-rejoiners today . The vanquished will be resurrected- the BBC will think there is ‘ hope ’again – Soubry , Major , Adonis , Von hezza and Frau Miller will feel that the spark of life in their otherwise expired- soros— fed shells .
But in 37 days time we can burn those ReichEU flags .
Toady
Justin admitted that he is depressed over the current state of politics – well a remainer BBC type would – wouldn’t he ?
Toenails merely digging an already grubby hole further.
Guest
Sometimes it sounds like Tourette’s Robinson never left the Lower 6th Form – snigger snigger oh matron .
I suppose the polling organisations ask who one voted for and then casually ask about whether one has had a sexually fantasy about a politician .
He didn’t mention that Comrade Corbyn wanted to screw the entire country though – as well as Diane abbot (ugh) .
Nick’s subsequent tweet seems rather to have proved this chap’s point, despite the sneer.
Roland – the bit Perry left out is that only a minority in Walthamstow speak English – even as a first language ….
morning Fed..did you mean… “speak English – even as a second language” or “speak English – as a first language” ?
I meant that English is a minority language – i suppose for those that can speak it – it is their second language – there wasn’t any mention of this ‘diversity ‘ – but mr Perry was only a ‘visitor ‘ .you notice this isn’t as simple as face colour – it’s the wholesale rapid change of the character of an area without the consent or assent of the victims .
Toady watch
Some ‘artist ‘bloke is the guest editor . He apparently dresses in Wimmins clothing and wears make up – every act has to have a gimmick doesn’t it ? A bit like the lefty ‘comedian ‘ chap who also frocks up. It’s a living .
Anyway – the editor put up some lefty yank philosophy type to talk about reducing the ‘aggression ‘ between polarising views – and in passing this prof casually dismissed people with certain views as ‘mad’ – even the editor person pointed out at the end that this defeated the very aim of the discussion – but that’s the price of being ‘right on’ ….
Trump impeachment: Lisa Murkowski ‘disturbed’ over co-ordination
Ah, the BBC has managed to find a Republican senator breaking ranks over the impeachment of Trump.
“Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has said she is “disturbed” by her party’s stance before President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.”
Notably, the article refers to Trump as “the third president in US history to be impeached”. Actually, there’s been a fair amount of legal debate as to whether he really has been impeached, as Nancy Pelosi won’t hand the articles of impeachment over to the Senate, but don’t expect Auntie to let such trivialities spoil a good orgasm.
”Ms Murkowski, a moderate Republican, has criticised President Trump on a number of policy issues.”
The good old “bias by moderation” ploy. I am moderate, you are extreme. In other words, the BBC agrees with her, so she is moderate, and by extension Trump must be extreme. From where I and many others are sitting, it’s the Democrats who the extremists but I doubt that has ever crossed the hive mind at Broadcasting House.
They have learned nothing.
But the news remains impartial? Apparently.
I’m sure that Brillo is very comfortably off so the excuse that he oughtnt to bite the hand which feeds him doesn’t wash. I can’t think of another reason why he won’t admit that the news is just as biased as the so called comedy .
The bbc does comedy ???? Didn’t know that.
Tough call between this one and Rory doing full face to camera how caring he was yesterday.
BBC-related folk really getting in the spirit of the season.
Encore!
Interesting who gets invoked.
It’s not the present tense
It’s present perfect : ” a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences”
It seems it is some kind of competition between a certain club, like the NaughtieMarrs.
Kumar’s comment is blasphemous but that’s ok..it’s only Jesus Christ. Can you imagine him saying something like that about a certain prophet from another popular “religion”!
And in the same vein…
https://twitter.com/baquehime/status/1209903858983612417?s=21
Ach, bugger it, you beat me to it.
Iannucci – “Taking an old announcement and putting it in the present tense as if it’s just happened under the new government. BBC/ Ch4 are you on to this?”…
…isn’t that a bit like his new “multi-colour” version of David Copperfield?
BTW since Mogg’s tweet was sent from the Twitter Web App
I suspect that he wasn’t live tweeting
but had scheduled the tweet
“scheduled tweets” are used for announcements like birthdays etc.
Re Baddiel who is the anal one ?
Isn’t it the lefty who rushes to Virtue-Signal ?
#projection is a libmob characteristic
Watched “Martins Close” on bBBC4 They really cant help themselves can they ? As they had to tamper with one of the characters ethnicity A belated seasons greetings to all on this excellent site.
I heard Archie Bish on Toady earlier. Even he’s going all out to support Climate Change and siding with the Marxists. A very stupid man (sorry, ‘person’ or, ‘it’).
Normal BBC news construction
8:33pm the trannie artist interviews the ex-archbishop on R4TODAY they then put up a video
Then a 9am the BBC Radio Lincolnshire News ran it as the second headline.
“Former archbishop has said that Climate Change is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced”
typo 8:33am
More lesbian propaganda on Toady.
Yesterday, Christmas Day, we were treated to Claire Balding introducing ‘my wife Alice Arnold’ at 8.06am.
Today, Boxing Day, they were quicker off the mark. On ‘Thought for the Day’ at 7.50 am, a rather gravelly voiced presenter delivered their stuff, referring to their female partner. At the end, the presenter was revealed as ‘Jane…’.
Two explicit mentions of lesbian couples on Toady in successive days within 15 minutes of each other. What are the chances of that?
Perhaps I should get down to the bookies for a bet on tomorrow’s positive discrimination.
Bio : “@alicearnold1 Ex radio 4 newsreader
now on MellowMagic weekend mornings and Magic Musicals and theatre podcast.
Spend a fair amount of time with @clarebalding
But never enough”
My wife Alice! Can someone explain how this works? Do they need some sort of apparatus?
I think the medical term is “Apperndadicktome”.
I think the medical term is “Appendadicktome”.
General
I’m sure that we were taught in the school playground that the term “Appendadicktome” refers to the human appendix and that the correct term for this affliction is Strapadictomy. Of course I’m not an expert in these matters but I’m sure the Reverend Balding knows her stuff. Happy New Year to all and may the Brexit be with you. I hope this post hasn’t crossed the line of the site “innuendo and filth” allowance. If it has,then please accept my sincere apologies and hit the report button.
Thanks for pointing that out , I had no idea there was a double entendre.
How embarrassing !
Mr General Sir
No Sir, please do not embarrass yourself. Only very recently have I learned that the correct terminology is —blush —- blush— is ——RUG MUNCHER. Is there a Doctor on this site who can verify this please, otherwise I shall lie awake all night worrying.
you need to research Merkins ..as in Megan Merkin!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin
(>LW …p.s. I am a Doctor)
More good Brexit news (Not from the BBC, of course).
The Sun:
“”Britain’s economy defies forecast that predicted it would be overtaken by France””
“This is despite forecasts predicting Brexit would trigger an economic slowdown that would allow France to leapfrog Britain”.
“France was due to overtake the UK economy in the 2016-19 period but failed to do so.”
“The US share of global GDP is 3.6 per cent higher than halfway through Barack Obama’s presidency in 2011.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10620397/uk-economy-not-overtaken-by-france/
Despite Brexit…
More PR not news ..speculation this time
11:00 R4 Crossing Continents
Iceland: The Great Thaw
Iceland’s glaciers are melting and scientists predict they *could* all be gone in 200 years
BTW they recently found a forest under some Iceland permafrost
how did it get there if ice has never melted before ?
Stew
Regarding the final question in your, in my opinion, very logical post. Perhaps Rita Funbags or Sir Dave Attitude have the answer because, personally, I’m buggered if I have. I still think the case for climate change is full of black holes.
As the IPCC’s original remit was to ‘seek out the human role in global warming’ (as it was then) it is of no surprise that a vast number of scientific papers that suggest natural causes are ignored because they don’t fit the original brief that was designed by the UN to control the world’s nations remotely through imposed climate policy. It seems to be working.
https://notrickszone.com/2019/12/26/350-papers-published-since-2017-subvert-the-claim-that-post-1850s-warming-has-been-unusual-global/
In the interest of balance the link above hosts at least 350 peer-reviewed papers you will never see in an IPCC report or on the BBC.
Black-hole – you bet !
I foolishly hoped that after the election all but the most extreme of the Remainers would accept that they should now focus on making the future as good as it can be. But judging from the numerous comments in the Times this morning it was a forlorn hope. Instead of accepting defeat remainers are doubling down on their ‘resistance’ , on their refusal to accept the result of several democratic votes in a row and on their loathing of those who voted Leave. They seem to regard membership of the EU in quasi religious terms , something they would be prepared to be martyred for and, worse, something that non agreement with makes you a non person. They have extreme BDS and we should not expect them to be reconciled to the UK decision to leave. These extreme pro EU views are likely to be echoed and supported by the likes of the BBC and the Times. Despite the GE they remain the home of irreconcilable Remainers who are transitioning into indefatigable Rejoiners. Democracy means nothing to them. Boris should make no concessions to try and get them on board. They are beyond redemption or reason and should be treated as rabid dogs.
Doublethinker – A similar thing is happening in the US, where the Democrats couldn’t accept the Clinton defeat, and started on day one with attempts to get Trump impeached. I suspect that project ‘get Boris’ will continue with renewed vigour.
Both here and in the US, there will be no such thing as losing gracefully. Democracy is of no importance, if you can pull a fast one on ‘the enemy’. In the US there is also an attempt to divert attention from Democratic skeletons in the cupboard. One wonders whether Labour have anything to hide? There seems to be a pattern.
I agree. What seems to me to have ‘gone wrong’ to allow these attitudes to have taken hold is that the MSM has to a very large extent moved into the liberal camp. The MSM has been left leaning for years but it is only in the last decade that it has actively colluded and become a prime mover in the liberal progressive project . There is no restraint on the left now , the public in the US know little about the failed coup but know much more about the fake impeachment. At least here the government can take out the BBC if it has the courage to do so. As I have said several times if Boris gives us the tools by decriminalisation and imposing a lowish maximum fine we, the people, will finish the job for him and free us of a BBC paid for by a poll tax .
DT,
“The MSM has been left leaning for years but it is only in the last decade that it has actively colluded and become a prime mover in the liberal progressive project.” One name? Soros. His evil empire is at the root of most of the problems – Worldwide.
G
But G. Mr Soros is Jewish. How could he possibly have evil thoughts and intentions?
I’m very glad he didn’t succeed in the plan to make Mr Corbyn the UK leader. I don’t believe Mr Corbyn is evil. I believe he is mistaken but we all have the right to our opinions. Hopefully,that will always be so. THAT, after all, is true diversity and not the shabby stitch up between the Far Left and the various minorities. Just as in African countries they have black majority rule we have white majority rule and the majority have recently made their choice. All that remains now is for the politicians to deliver. Boris has a daunting task.
Lefty, you may not think Corbyn evil. I am not so sure. Soon after he was appointed leader he was being interviewed by Krishna Guru Murphy on Channel 4 news and he was asked an unexpected difficult question. The mask dropped, he was angry at being asked and plain nasty as he started his response, then he remembered the cameras were rolling and the mask returned mid sentence. McDonnell is evil. Full stop.
Deborah
I have no knowledge whatever of said interview but this word “evil” is thrown around willy nilly, particularly by snowflakes in order to invalidate arguments with which they do not agree. Do we not ALL feel just little uncomfortable and perhaps angry when faced with comments with which we disagree. Mr Corbyn certainly has views with which I will never agree but I would never stoop to pelting the man with rotten eggs. He has his views,I have mine. At the moment my views hopefully prevail and by the time Boris is voted out people will look at you a bit puzzled and ask — Jeremy who?
Happy New Year Debs.
FNW,
Yes, the US is in many respects at, boiling point. I think a flashpoint is Virginia where the communists masquerading as Democrats, will be ratifying the intended law for the relinquishment of guns in January. Needless to say, there is strong feeling about this – not unwarranted in the circumstances. Recently the Sherrif’s departments’ broadly stated that they would deputise all gun owners and the commies responded by creating draft legislation that, in effect, means that that actual move by Sherrifs’ departments would result in their dismissal. The commies have pledged to use the National Guard to disarm the Virginian gun owners and gun owners see all this as the start of commies spreading this anti-Constitutional law throughout the US.
It is only now after clandestinely planning for decades that the commies believe they are now in a position to expose themselves and openly push their policies to undermine everything into the open.
It is only a matter of time before open warfare breaks out.
Double
The rejoin movement will gather pace in 2020 whatever the economic circumstance . Any thing – anything what goes wrong will be blamed on Brexit .
I was thinking that if the EU got into more difficulty – such as another decent country thinking about leaving the ‘ blame would be brexit and not brussells .
All the while the BBC will continue to reference Brexit as bad . The infestation is far more serious than the outcome of one landslide election
And on the subject of the election the AC DC Grayling character is now alleging fraud in the election . Enter Stage Left Gina Miller and her supremely bent Court …
What must one be prepared for? I listened to Stefan Molineux on the impeachment saga in he US on YT – one hour and fourteen hair-raising minutes on what has actually been going on there!
It makes it clear that anything goes and nothing should surprise us. Ethics have vanished long ago. Gina M is probably preparing a few surprises as we speak…
And beeb will be happy to pick up when the time comes.
The British electorate have had enough of the BBC, Labour, Lib Dems and Parliament.
Their attempts to destroy democracy by overturning the Brexit Democratic vote in 2016 have been unfair. Fairness is a national trait and equates to ‘fair play’.
Yes, the Undemocratic will continue their attacks, just as they have done in the USA since 2016.
2019 has been a turning point. A Stalingrad moment.
I admire your optimism. The fact remains that at the GE only 47% of the votes went for parties that were explicitly Leave. Put another way over 50% of the votes cast were for parties of the ‘progressive movement’ , Labour, Lib Dem’s, SNP , WN, Greens . The progressive woke folk hold lots of key positions of power , almost all unelected , but they are far from powerless. Admittedly the ordinary folks have mounted a strong push back in recent years against the progressive wokists but it is too early to declare that we have them on the run. Taking out the BBC would be a tremendous victory and at a stroke remove one of their most potent weapons. But does Boris have big enough balls to do it?
DT,
The ‘Remain’ vote was split in the GE. I think it would be a mistake to add them together as a block. Also, there were many Leavers who voted Labour out of loyalty to their party.
If Boris does not meet expectations, the Labour converts will drift back to Labour. Especially so if Labour select a leader better than Corbyn (not a difficult task).
DT,
“But does Boris have big enough balls to do it?”
Simply? ‘No’.
G
He has balls like a water buffalo. Just ask his girlfriends.
Quick giggle. News channels outside reporting in shopping malls have intimated that people are ‘thronging’ in for the Sales. Um, I have to say there are more people strolling by my house (and I live in a no through road), than the empty malls behind the journo !
I noticed a lot of boasting on lunchtime TV news that beeb was the No1 broadcaster over the past day or two as regards viewing figures, easily beating all rivals, a situation apparently helped by Gavin and Stacey.
They droned on and on about it, and I immediately got the feeling that the empire was striking back at those who had dared to criticise it recently, including BoJo.
So immodest was the presentation, you could almost hear the ‘take that!’ message for anyone questioning the value of beeb.
Seems the word has gone out in an all-staffer (with a caution to keep comparisons vague).
Yes indeed. Repeats of Morcambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies and Dad’s Army topped off by the refined humour of Mrs Brown’s Boys, from such a paucity of choice it’s little wonder that Gavin and Stacey excelled.
At least Richard ‘Ogre’ Osman’s appearances were kept to a minimum. Frightening the children should have no place on our screens at Christmas.
Osman’s show is on Channel4 tomorrow
The vegan, tolerant, peace to all animals bleating liberal left hey !!! Great to see this virtue signalling bell end is really getting his backside kicked in the replies. Even his fellow lefties disgusted and many reporting him. Lovely to see prats like him getting some stick.
I know he’s suing the BBC
https://politicaluk.co.uk/2019/12/bbc-told-legal-action-will-be-taken-against-them-over-political-reporting/
but did he also work for them before ?\
initially thought his tweet was a pop at the Boxing Day hunting /shooting thing.
Seems not so now see: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/3/section/1
“Offences.
If, save as permitted by this Act, any person mutilates, kicks, beats, nails or otherwise impales, stabs, burns, stones, crushes, drowns, drags or asphyxiates any wild mammal with intent to inflict unnecessary suffering he shall be guilty of an offence.”
Seems bang to rights to me and I hope that since he’s now, allegedly, contacted the RSPCA after the Twitterstorm that ensued that they don’t allow themselves to be smooth-talked out of enforcing the law. I look forward to the court case and verdict. It will be quite sweet to see such an animal ruin his career and public image so efficiently. At least the ensuing prosecution for the killing of this fox will mean the seemingly summary curtailment of the fox’s life was not entirely in vain.
more here: https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/jolyon-maugham-qc-and-the-dead-fox/:
“Well, with 2020 looking to be a bad year on paper for the ‘Stop Brexit’ brigade, at least Maugham should have the time to deal with any issues that arise from the incident…”
https://twitter.com/hashtag/JolyonTheFoxKiller?src=hashtag_click
Green on Yellow attack
I’m not too bothered about killing a fox , cos they do impose “animal cruelty on chickens”.
but good fencing is the long term solution cos another fox might come tomorrow.
The New York post is now covering this ‘ story ‘…. wait for the BBC ….
Packham built an electric fence? Is that a wall? Built a wall? Whatever next? Voting Republican, perhaps?
Far right thug Chris Packham admits he built a wall to keep economic-migrants out
… Tear down the Packham Wall ! …
“Jolyon-The-Barbarian” clubbed a fox to death
ha ha!
The Bible Matthew 6:2 warned about Virtue Signalling
2,000 years ago
Stew – I was thinking that too – it’s amazing that politicians who have now been proved to be out of step with voters still turn up – sure the clown who is now trying to become the mayor of London might get social justice approval from the kidults but doing charadee work an crowing about it ain’t gonna score nectar points with the chap whose birthday it was on the 25th – or the Lord God -as some say ….
I mean – I don’t crow about the gold blue peter badge I got now do I ….?
BBC love the What3Words app as they think it’s a magic solution.
Today’s Times has an article where mountain rescuers saying people shouldn’t rely on it, cos it’s sometimes sent them to the wrong location.
The Times has a rubbish article where the retiring head of IPSO the press regulator says the BBC of trying to be too balanced.
EU vice -president Franz Timmermans has written a touching love letter to the UK expressing his hurt at our leaving but ensuring us of a warm welcome in the event of a return.
Naturally, like all good love letters, it is aimed specifically at a small but particularly sensitive audience, which explains why he chose the Guardian to express his private thoughts.
How very discrete of him to keep things within the family.
Not mentioned in the letter is the rejoin fee. How many billions?
Can someone please tell me why it is that when the head of state of this country has a once yearly message broadcast to the people, I have to pay over £150 to watch it ?
This doesn’t seem right to me.
BBC Online News:
“Channel migrants: More than 60 people found on Boxing Day”
“The Home Office said it would try to return anyone who arrived in the UK illegally back to mainland Europe.” (Less than 8% have been returned to France so far this year).
“Charity workers said the government’s “tough talk” was “extremely irresponsible”.”
“Kent Refugee Action Network’s Bridget Chapman said, “There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker.”
“Ms Chapman also said it was an “extremely irresponsible statement,” which “appears to be politically motivated and designed to whip up ill feeling towards desperate people”.
“I would remind the Home Office that Jesus was a refugee,” she added. “Would they have turned him away?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-50916544
These chariddees are becoming the enemy of the people with the above attitude.
Sentry: R4 had a lengthy interview about this subject.
They say two French vessels actually escorted the ‘migrants’ into British waters.
Then we had a breakdown of what happens to them once the Border Force Taxi Service has dropped them off in Britain. They stay, and apply for asylum ‘if they wish’. We have all known this all along. Now we are told it is ‘pressure from Brexit’. How stupid do they think we are?
My prediction is that it will continue and speed up. No genuine effort to stop them. The French are happy to pass them onto us. No one is bothered about the Dublin ‘Agreement’. Treezer signed a certain UN document, so wait till this is waved in our faces…. Virtually every ad we see now on TV reflects ‘diversity’. The ‘softening up’ process?
‘Jesus was also a refugee’. Nice try, but I could write a book on why this is in every respect, a wholly different situation.
This is where we find out who Boris really is? Wonder if I should write to him and ask?
send ’em all back Boris..simples
The BBC never asks why these ‘refugees’ would want to ‘flee’ a safe country? I’d like to ‘flee’ the UK once a year for two weeks and stay in the south of France. But I have to pay for that.
What about a touch of harpoon practice mid-Channel ? and can ANYONE tell me what is “vulnerable” (the most over-used word by all journalists and charities) about any of these migrants ? because they ain’t ‘vulnerable’ at all, considering they’ve travelled through at least half a dozen safe countries before reaching the French coast !!!!
Ah well, I suppose they can all be added to the pool of potential models when the advertising agencies come a’calling !
Dover
I’m sure that the idea of a 2 week holiday in Britain has never crossed their minds. We have to face the fact that, not without some historical justification, these people do not like us or our way of life and some wish to destroy us.Our leaders, with the active encouragement of the media, have been naive to the point of stupidity to invite them here in the full knowledge that some could represent a Trojan Horse. We have to ask – who benefits? In the short run the Far Left will realise their agenda. In the long run even they will be hoist on their own petard because they are fools.
R4 is giving us a real treat next week. At 1.45 every day, a comedian is going to tell us thickos what democracy is. He will then proceed to tell us how democracy in Britain ‘can be fixed’.
You have to assume it broke when Labour got wiped out in the last election. Never mind; the presenter may well turn out be the only funny comedian on R4!
Comedian Jon Harvey, in the guise of Lord Buckethead got 249 votes when he stood against Thersa May in 2017
I’ve always been a fan of Joe Di Genova. On The Still Report 2875 he tells it like it is, in ‘A scandal of immense proportions’. No speculation, embellishment, diversions, philosophical reflections, silver-tongued BS etc. You get the facts and nothing but the facts. Not brilliant sound quality, but it’s all clear enough.
And the ‘scandal of immense proportions’ does not refer to President Trump as its subject. I am old enough to remember Nixon and Watergate. The Biden thing is much bigger. Sopel should have a listen. Perhaps he has, and this is why we haven’t seen much of him on the beeb.
It would also explain the eagerness of Nancy Pelosi to keep the Trump thing going.