Start the Week Thread 27 January 2020

Watchers of the Far Left Biased BBC will be heartened by the fear of cut backs and , hopefully , job losses . Perhaps their world isn’t as cosy as they assumed with the accompanying shock that a growing number of people just see its’ bias and care less for it .

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386 Responses to Start the Week Thread 27 January 2020

  1. taffman says:

    \\But with the UK set to leave the EU on 31 January, he said there was no need to “fight yesterday’s battles”.
    Mr Price added there could be “new freedoms and flexibilities” for Wales as a result of Brexit.//
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51252914
    Amazing! Coming from the Welsh Nationalist Party Known as “The Welsh Nats.”
    Rejoiners , Remainers and Snowflakes take note .

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    • StewGreen says:

      Backlinks to previous thread
      – Sunday finished on page 3
      before 11:30am posts were on – Sunday finished on page 2

      BTW if you go to https://wordpress.com/read
      you can set it to monitor blogs like Guido, notalotofpeopleknowthat, https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com etc.
      and see the new threads as they come in

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    • Guest Who says:

      The Today Programme runs PR for the EU using a quote from a PM who is fighting for his political life…

      “The EU is 27 member states, the UK is only one country…

      …so if these were two teams playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?”

      Irish PM @LeoVaradkar says the EU will have the upper hand in trade talks after Brexit.

      ***

      Next up…. Toenails emerges from Guy’s fundament to ‘analyse’ that really we’d be best to rejoin, as a flag on the cliffs says we love each other.

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      • Guest Who says:

        By sheer coincidence

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        • G says:

          GW,
          “…. PM will struggle to strike deal on time.”
          Well, Mr Varadkar, if that’s the case maybe we shouldn’t waste time and just leave without one…………….
          What say you Mr Varadkar?

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          • Guest Who says:

            Next up… Keir… of course.

            Telling us what our lessons are.

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            • Guest Who says:

              Studio to studio.

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            • john in cheshire says:

              To me, Mr Starmer has the face of a jailbird.

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            • G says:

              And then, we can have many more Marxist inspired and infiltrated local administrations clamouring for, ‘Independence’. Now, take Scotland for example………..

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              • theisland says:

                And then everyone can ‘rejoin’ in bits (not that he would ever advocate that you understand).
                Another cunning EU plan?

                keir-starmer.jpg?resize=540%2C317&ssl=1

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            • Banania says:

              “Closer to the people”? What brazen cheek! He has spent the last three years keeping decision-making as far from the people as possible.

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            • dfhunter says:

              GW – see from your “@Keir_Starmer” link that his supporters really believe “another future is possible”.
              think they must have watched a Terminator movie for inspiration!!

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        • Thoughtful says:

          Varadker is correct, because while the EU has an ace negotiator trained and experienced we are going to send Boris the bottler untrained inexperienced with zero education in these matters and with a classics degree.

          We fail before we even begin because our country refuses to pay for the proper people to do the job and as a result ends up with monkeys instead.

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      • tarien says:

        Don’t you believe it Leo Varadkar, the EU need to trade with the UK even more than the other way around-that will give the UK the upper hand in most cases. However if the UK were to leave without any kind of deal with the Machianistic EU, the pressure on the individual European member countries would be sufficient to cause a real problem for the present EU as those countries would apply equal pressure on the EU to ease through any deal with the UK.

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      • DongleDong says:

        Considering Great Britain came 3rd in the medals tables of the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2nd in 2016 I don’t think Leo Varadkars analogy makes much sense.

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  2. JimS says:

    Our StewGreen missed out the mixed-race sheep couple on Countryfile!

    White sheep, two black twin lambs. Black dad hopped in and then hopped out!

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    • taffman says:

      JimS
      Don’t mention that here in Wales. 😀

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    • StewGreen says:

      I did notice it
      unknown neighbours black sheep had somehow jumped in unseen and inseminated a sheep.
      But it was a real incident rather than CF virtue signalling.
      But doesn’t say much for the biosecurity of Adam’s farm
      ..which previously got TB somehow.. so should have absolutely rigorous measures.

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      • JimS says:

        Adam must run the only farm in the country that needs to chuck bird seed down by the kilo.

        He gets so many visits by the vet that he should have a full-time one on the staff!

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  3. taffman says:

    “Kobe Bryant: Basketball legend dies in helicopter crash”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51256756
    Kobe Bryant: Basketball legend dies in helicopter crash
    Hardly British headline news ? Who he ?

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    • Zelazek says:

      Well, there we go. They apologise at the end of the bulletin for showing a picture of the wrong basketball player. Proving that they don’t know what they’re talking about and are leading the news with this unBritish story for political reasons of their own.

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      • Deborah says:

        What I am wondering is WHY the BBC chose to lead on the death of a man many (most?) of us have never heard of. He was of course black and Rita reported that since retiring he did a lot of charitable work including promoting women in sport. I still don’t feel they gave sufficient reason for the importance they put on repotting his death.

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        • taffman says:

          Deborah
          Because it masks far more important news that has not been reported.

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        • Foscari says:

          Deborah-It stops the BBC reporting on the fact that three rockets
          have hit the USA embassy in Baghdad. Diversity is the number one
          issue on the BBC. It is more important than ANYTHING else
          so far as the BBC is concerned. It is the numero uno issue
          the BBC is there to “educate” us on.

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          • Not Gwent says:

            I’d thought I’d woken up in a false reality with news of the death of someone I’d never heard of being treated like Lady Di was upon her untimely end.

            State Broadcaster for which State?

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            • Up2snuff says:

              Not Gwent, I just love to say I told you so. 🙂 The BBC have an America Obsession. (Pounce strongly disagreed. Wonder how good old Pounce is? Do pop back and see us sometime.)

              Not sure quite how the BBC square that with their desire to be part of the EU, but in their twisted little minds I’m sure they will manage somehow.

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              • Big Al says:

                Our old friend Pounce can still be found on Eye On The World-Blogspot. Well worth a visit. Come back Pounce !
                Also Chris H, Grant where have you gone ?

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        • G says:

          Deborah,
          The eulogies prove that, yet again (there are no exceptions), he was truly a black Saint.

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        • john in cheshire says:

          This helicopter incident was also being pushed by Nickiknownowt on LBC earlier this morning. As though the deceased is a well-known and well loved celebrity in our country.

          I’ve wondered before, I know, whether news stories originate from a central command centre. I’ve seen evidence it happens in the USA so it would not surprise me if it happens over here too. And the racist far-left bbc would be the ideal incubator of fabricated stories.

          Same with this virus story; maybe China is now playing the game of panicking the world with apocalyptic death and disease stories. I can imagine them all; US, UK, China and the rest; sitting in a UN conference room and concocting the next horror story and having bets on how far they can push absurdity in the detail.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Really? The wrong one? Is that why they are not all over the US network Telebunny who may have, in all the excitement, used a word that if she is not of color is a career ender.

        It is very sad, but interesting why a commercial helicopter was circling around in fog that had seen police flights grounded earlier.

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    • tarien says:

      Agree taffman, I no doubt like most Brits had never heard of the guy unless into basket ball-however what needs to added to all the sympathises is for the other basket ball player who was with Bryant and the pilot if there was one.

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      • G says:

        Tarien,
        Of no importance(?) whatever to the BABC, wot abaht the continuing riots and national strike going on 20 miles away in France?
        Clearly the BABC are working to conceal these events from the viewers/listeners in case the latter get ideas beyond their station in life and emulate the French.
        Big (Marxist) Brother knows best………..

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  4. Nibor says:

    FedUp
    Did anyone prove to you that the BBC has ever made a pro Brexit programme ?
    I notice Maxicony is posting on the last thread , never on a new thread I suppose it helps his drive by post and be gone quickly .
    Perhaps Maxi is one of the worlds workers ( you know , the people that Labour have lost in their zeal for university lecturers votes ) if so he’ll need some wedge like the rest of us workers , especially if on minimum wage .
    So Maxi , I’ll bet you £200 you can’t find what FedUp dared .
    £200 ; not a bad bit of folding stuff for anyone not on BBC wages .

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    • taffman says:

      Nibor
      maxi, as I have posted here before, works like a cockroach, he comes out at night and hides behind the old posts where he cannot be seen.
      He does not like to advertise this petition, well here it is anyway ……………
      https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-bbc-licence-fee

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Nibor – I said at the end of the last thread that no one has produced any evidence of Right Wing bias . I expected something and even invited trolls to cut and paste the usual list of incidents of Right wing bias but nothing has turned up yet .

      Nibor you wagered cash and so did in. I bet myself a fiver that the BBC news would lead with a dead retired American basket ball player . It did . I wondered if they’d done the same if he’d been white ?
      Meanwhile a virus is going viral and if it mutates into something more fatal they really will have something important to report instead of virtue signalling non stories .

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  5. taffman says:

    \\Britain’s sovereignty at risk if it allows Huawei to access 5G network, US Secretary of State warns //
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/01/26/britains-sovereignty-risk-allows-huawei-access-5g-network-us

    Hardly a peep about this debate on Al Beeb?
    Are our Remainer civil servants using this topic to undermine Brexit ?

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    • G says:

      Taffman,
      Like the most suitable job interviewee for a demanding security oriented role who comes to the interview and, when confronted, confesses he/she/it, has been a serial thief and fraudster for decades. Not only that, his big brother heads a crime syndicate which has likely put family pressure on the younger brother, the interviewee, previously to betray any employer he has had over the decades. Your superior sends you an email before the interview to remind you that your company is anxious to do a big business deal with the big brother and his crime syndicate………………..

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    • john in cheshire says:

      China/ Huawei are a security threat to our country.
      5G is a health threat to our country.

      Both of these should be stopped.

      And smart meters – I’m now being pestered to have one installed. I shall resist doing so for as long as possible.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        TOADY Watch #1 – Not quite the BBC but sort of the BBC

        Much discussion of Huawei in between much grieving for a retired basketball pro who was not a household name in the UK. Why, BBC, did you not tell us about Kobe Bryant and how good he was when he was still playing? We might have watched.

        Back to 5G. Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC has demonstrated that 4G doesn’t work properly. I suspect that 3G doesn’t either but cannot speak with authority because my mobile phone doesn’t have ‘O’ levels. None of the TOADY presenters, in all the recent discussion on the subject, make this connection with their own research. At all. Ever.

        Funny, that. They are always keen to tell us about Panorama programmes and their content, even before they are broadcast.

        JustRemainIn Webb did at least ask someone (cannot remember who) why we don’t go with one of the other possible suppliers?

        The other big question to ask, bearing in mind the UK were behind some of the original technology, is why don’t we wait, get 3G and 4G working properly while developing our own UK-produced 5G capability?

        An essential question, I would have thought.

        But not if you are the “very expensive” BBC News & Current Affairs (N&CA) …….

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  6. Dover Sentry says:

    On Saturday morning we’ll wake up a lot freer than we have been since 1975.

    Will be a strange feeling. How will the BBC spin it?

    ‘There are many who seek a return to the EU and the stability it brought to our lives. Can this happen? We go over to out team in Brussels for….. ‘

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    • taffman says:

      Brexit Day is seen by remainers and libdems as ‘Jingoism’ in Great Britain yet in any other nation it would be known as Independence Day, celebrated every year . 40 odd years of indoctrination by Al Beeb has taken its toll.
      Many remainers hate their own nation that is Great Britain, they should emigrate to Europe as they promised .
      https://daystobrexit.co.uk

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      • dfhunter says:

        funny how in Beeb sport it’s OK to show/celebrate ‘Jingoism’.
        but do the same in other area’s it’s xenophobia!!!

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    • popeye says:

      This morning I will have had delivered the Union flag, a post and a holder. It will be unfurled on Friday night to greet my neighbours on Saturday morning. The two Polish families on the estate, hard-working and assimilated, know they have no worries from me and are more than welcome

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      • Scroblene says:

        Yes, our St George’s flag will be on show as well, Popeye!

        Bubbly in the fridge is now planned, and I’ll be looking out for as many 50p coins as I can collect, just to rub as many noses as I can! Then I’ll give them to charity, or maybe spend them on the poll tax or some other non-deserving crowd of wasters in T.Wells!

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      • Scroblene says:

        Yes, our St George’s flag will be on show as well, Popeye!

        Bubbly in the fridge is now planned, and I’ll be looking out for as many 50p coins as I can collect, just to rub as many noses as I can! Then I’ll give them to charity, or maybe spend them on the poll tax or some other non-deserving crowd of wasters in T.Wells!

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    • G says:

      DS,
      Yes, pretty much all I have heard on the BABC is intent on impregnating the public with the thought of rejoining the EU. And accordingly, needless to say, virtually all interviewees on the subject are selected to lend their weight behind the concept.

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  7. JamesG says:

    The BBC: reporting on the death of a basketball player in a helicopter crash most British people have never heard of, and putting it as their main news item.

    Twitter users: very upset that the BBC accidentally showed a video of the wrong person in their obituary of the basketball player.

    Most British people: sorry to hear the news, but most of us have never heard of him.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Someone interviewed has just said “even if you don’t follow basketball, everyone knows who Coby Bryant is ” well, I doubt very much that.

      Ask anyone in America if they know who Martin Peters was. I rest my case.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Why is basket ball so popular with the BBC? I’ve never heard of the bloke either.

        Our national sports don’t actually have that particular game on the radar, but, like other non-‘sports’ like darts or snooker, the awful state broadcaster likes to think it’s clever in making up more stories like this, as they deflect the real news, that we’ll all be out of the clutches of a disgraceful cabal of the EU on Friday, and they’re desperate for anything to avoid talking about the triumph of reality!

        At least Radio 5 Live (dead) did their Sunday morning music phone-in based on what sort of music could be used to recognise our exit from the EU next Friday. The winner, after most of the gasping/squealing of the minor, forgotten slebs and a few great hits from bands like Cream, was Peter Cook and Dudley Moore singing ‘Goodbye’…

        Fabulous!

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    • dfhunter says:

      I think the beeb now has so much money/reporters invested in reporting on Trump in the US that they report anything from the US to justify the money spent if ever challenged.
      never seen such fixation on the US.

      wonder why?

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  8. taffman says:

    Come on maxincony vote here , you know it makes sense.
    Tell your mates at Al Beeb before you emigrate for the European continent with your shiny new 50p piece .
    https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-bbc-licence-fee

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  9. taffman says:

    Look out look out our resident troll is about !

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  10. maxincony says:

    StewGreen,

    “It was easy for us to find Greta, cos there are few Teslas in the city, and if you see one with New York licence plates parked in the hotel car park, then that must be her.”

    When “easy” apparently means visiting every hotel car park in the city and scouring them for a Tesla with NY licence plates.

    So Greta is advertising her presence…

    Would you have known where Greta was staying without watching the video?

    Parking a car in a hotel parking lot is not *advertising your presence*.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Maxi repeated his question on this new thread
      Here is my repeated answer
      Maxi quoted “a super distinctive car”
      Really. How many Teslas have you seen with out looking this week?*

      after he’d already written more specific details himself
      there are few Teslas in the city, and if you see one with New York licence plates parked in the hotel car park, then that must be her.”

      * How many Teslas have I seen ?
      NONE this week, I have only every seen ONE in my entire life, cos they are an extremely rare car, you won’t see one in a normal provincial town.

      I notice you haven’t answered my question:
      Would you have known where Greta was staying without watching the video?

      Greta stayed in the hotel one night, so she would have left before the video came out.
      Meanwhile social media already carried notes about sightings of her.
      So he put her in no danger, did he ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      More interesting is the new Rebel summary of Greta expose
      Her Stockholm demo only had her and the 4 other child protesters and they were outnumbered by 8 undercover specialists were guarding Greta .

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  11. maxincony says:

    pugnazious,

    …a long spiel about himself and how the Israelis had tried to kill ‘him’…hmmm…Nothing personal Jezza…

    So Bowen recounts an episode when he saw a Lebanese colleague dying and on fire… and how, whilst trying to reach him, he was targeted by an Israeli soldier with a sub-machine gun…

    Does little more than hint at the emotional impact it’s had on his life…

    And you just can’t wait to go on BiasedBBC and sneer; *Nothing personal Jezza… it’s your fault he’s dead*.

    What was that you were saying about; “Short-arse, pompous little blowhards who have an over-inflated opinion of themselves”?

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  12. maxincony says:

    john in cheshire,

    Note the comment about Grenfell Tower.
    Who are these DWP employees and why aren’t they in prison?

    The whole of John Ward’s “article” is nothing more than the equivalent of; *this is what some bloke told me down the pub*.

    Many readers will remember the glaring inconsistencies in the enumeration of those who had been occupying flats in the Grenfell Tower tragedy

    There were no “glaring inconsistencies”; just another one of the endless (and increasingly desperate) attempts to assimilate Grenfell into a continuing anti-immigrant narrative promoted by sites such as this.

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  13. Foscari says:

    I just watched “the boy in the striped pyjamas” It would
    be a good idea if the BBC editor who “picked” Orla Guerrin
    to report on the Holocaust memorial from Israel , both watched
    this film . It may ,but I doubt it if would of stopped the foreigner
    from the Irish Republic making her snide comments. To be
    honest I thought she was banned from Israel, for “previous.”

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    • pugnazious says:

      Guerin would blame the Jews….probably tell us that this was the frugal Jews scheming to get free food and accommodation and not have to work for a living.

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  14. pugnazious says:

    Do you think the likes of Nicky Campbell will be expressing faux outrage and disgust at this as they do whenever any other media org gets it wrong?…

    BBC is slammed for using footage of LeBron James in their 10 o’clock news report on the death of ex-NBA star Kobe Bryant

    They all look alike don’t they BBC? #BBCsoracist.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Wagons being circled around the globe.

      Public less forgiving. #CCBGB

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        I saw this, and must confess I wondered why the player the BBC identified as Koby Bryant had “James” on the back of his shirt.

        Do all black people look the same to the BBC?

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  15. Darcy3 says:

    RE Paki Copperfield (yes maybe he is from somewhere else in the sub continent but it scans well) I am considering a crowdfunding account for a biopic of Michael Jackson with auditions in Scotland with particular attention payed towards white ginger haired individuals as they are under represented also a new Gandi film with Vinnie Jones playing him as I am also colourblind as the Copperfield director claims to be

    If there is any money left I will push towards Ray Winstone in a cockney Nelson Mandela epic

    I have no doubt whatsoever these will be fully supported by the bbc in their diversity agenda

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    • Scroblene says:

      Ha ha ha!

      How about Ed Miliband in the Wallace and Gromit film about the great Wensleydale Butty Unpleasantness?

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      • john in cheshire says:

        Or David Miliband playing Ian Hislop in the soon to be written play, ‘I’m a Banana’.

        I think David will supply his own banana.

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    • Darcy3 says:

      A little taster of the Mandela epic screenplay:RE Winstone comes back to South Africa : Ooohs the daddy now ? some of the Minder cast are also lined up for bit parts and of course Barbara Windsor for his wife

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      • Darcy3 says:

        of course we will skim over Mandelas wife murdering a 14 year old child, he will just be barred from the Winchester club for being under aged

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    • tarien says:

      Have we, or rather those that authorise such nonsence, dropped so low in its efforts to apease the coloured people in the UK that, we have to insult the great Charles Dickens story by introducing a coloured person to play David Copperfield. Certainly won’t help the push to Multiculturalism as so loved, by the destroyers of this nation. Multiculturalism was designed to destroy any sense of national pride and patriotism amongst the indigenous population, whilst actively encouraging the same amongst the incoming races and cultures and here now is the proof.

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      • G says:

        T arien,
        All, “part and parcel” of the moves of those aliens who want to step up the elimination of ‘whiteness’ in the UK and follow their cheerleader, the Black & Asian Broadcasting Co. who is assiduously air brushing (or should I say, ‘air-waving’) out all whiteness in its programmes. History will not look well on the BABC in its continuing drive to spread ‘blackness’ everywhere.

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  16. Scroblene says:

    As some good friends here might not have seen it, I would like to reprint a comment (fostered by a tincture I think), which received some acclaim on Guido’s blog recently. I am so proud to have been elevated to the position of ‘junior-not-getting-modded-sub-reporter’, that I’ll reproduce the two comments here, so I can again bathe in the spotlight of slebbism for just a few brief moments…

    re: – Bercow going to some sort of academy as a pseudo beak or summat: –

    “He’s not a professor, he’s a very shorty boy”!

    and…

    “Will they give him a high chair”?

    I don’t get a lot of acclaim these days, so I thank you all for your indulgence and will let you continue with your preparations for a great week, full of BBC joy and enlightenment about Friday – possibly the new ‘Good Friday’!

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  17. digg says:

    Our BBC Jenny reporting from Auschwitz where a million Jewish men, women and children died….

    “Many Women who survived are coming here to pay their respects and for whom this will be very much a #metoo moment…….

    Shakes head and goes to make a cup of tea……

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  18. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “Calls for ‘virginity repair’ surgery to be banned”

    “Many Muslim women risk being outcast, or in extreme cases killed, if their spouses or families discover they have had sex before marriage.”

    “And some are opting for a medical procedure in which doctors restore a layer of membrane at the entrance to the vagina.”

    “But there are concerns a ban would increase the dangers to Muslim women by driving the procedure underground.”

    “There are currently at least 22 private clinics across the UK offering hymen-repair surgery.”

    “They charge up to £3,000 for the surgery, which takes about an hour.”

    “Women’s rights campaigners say that such clinics are profiting from Muslims afraid of what could happen to them if they are not “pure” for their wedding night.”

    “And many detail the procedure on their websites, with London’s Gynae Centre telling women who visit its site “some marriages are even annulled” when a husband discovers his wife’s hymen has been broken.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51189319

    Methodists next under the spotlight for the same medieval practice. Or maybe not….

    The BBC angle will be that the clinics should be allowed to continue this barbaric act to prevent it being driven ‘underground’.

    Therefore, BBC happy to support Islam in it’s extremes. The chosen ones who can do no wrong in the eyes of the BBC.

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  19. AsISeeIt says:

    Normal service has been resumed.

    Phew, at last… BBC news is pushing an anti-Brexit story again. What with all this hot air about Climate Change, great wall to wall coverage of China Virus and the BBC desperately shooting itself through hoops to score the black sportsman vote. I thought for a moment we’d never get back to the old familiar pro-Brussels status quo.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51260282

    “Varadkar: EU will have upper hand in trade talks with UK”

    You think…?

    Let’s read on and on throught all the old back to usual tedious guff. Lots of UK shouldn’t undercut the EU. Hey, just a thought – if EU trade is so strong how come we don’t fear them undercutting us? Anyway, it’s all the same old, same old, until the very last line of the BBC story….
    [I won’t call it a news report or article – ‘cos it’s a story] and the last line is…

    “Mr Varadkar, the lead (sic) of the Fine Gael party, will fight his first election campaign as Taoiseach when Ireland heads to the polls on 8 February.”

    So a little bit of anti-Brit blarney from yer man at this crucial electorial juncture won’t go amis, eh?

    You scratch my Varadkars, I’ll rub yours.

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  20. Darcy3 says:

    Interesting that the continued obsession of the BBC about ALLEGED sexual misconduct is all about those with Jewish names, in America yet English CONVICTED gang rapists of children in every city that contains a muslim ghetto attracts no attention apart from local news

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  21. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “Global Talent visa: New system to keep UK ‘open to talented scientists’ ”

    “A fast-track UK visa for scientists, mathematicians and researchers will be launched next month, the prime minister has said.”

    “The Global Talent visa will be open from 20 February to those who work in a qualifying field and have been endorsed by a recognised UK body.”

    “Boris Johnson said he wanted to emphasise “that the UK is open to the most talented minds in the world”.”

    “Ending the Erasmus scheme, denying visas to scientists from Africa and Asia, imposing a minimum salary of £30,000, these all adversely affect the richness and quality of our scientific base,” The shadow spokesperson Chi Onwurah said.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51258068

    Another benefit of Brexit and Boris.

    However, the BBC have to spoil it.

    1. They show two scientists in a picture. Both are women. One is black. Racist and sexist.

    2. They stress the ‘loss’ of opportunities for Africans and Asians. As if that is all the BBC cares about. As if….

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    • Old Goat says:

      Why a fast-track visa? We were assured some time ago that those immigrants arriving on Former UK shores were all ‘professionals’, anyway, and would enrich us beyond our wild imaginings.

         28 likes

      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        OG.
        There’s loads of scientists and Doctors crossing the Channel right now on lilo’s, inflatable bananas and pedalo’s.

           25 likes

    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      DS
      Advertise only in the “Jerusalem Chronicle”.
      No replies from the abbott people.

         4 likes

  22. Darcy3 says:

    African scientists do they study the link between bushmeat and aids ? like China and our latest virus ?

       16 likes

    • ToobiWan says:

      Apparently, Wuhan just happens to be the location of China’s “biosafety” lab. Coincidence?

         11 likes

  23. Fedup2 says:

    Project Fear
    BBC news carries an unchallenged comment by the irish PM about the whip hand the EU holds in negotiations over the UK – which the BBC hates .

    True enough 300 million ish beats 60 million .
    But then the UK economy is the equivalent of -what ?
    18 EU economies . Plus the vast trade deficit .

    I think the Irish are rightly scared that what they sell to the UK might well be sourced cheaper elsewhere .
    It seems mad to say stupid stuff in the days leading to brexit but I suppose he has his 3 million irish population and a million EU guests to cater too …

    Holocaust Memorial Day .

    As moderator I am being specially stringent about comments- I’ve already taken down a couple today and will do so without notice .

    And a plus for More4 . It has a documentary about the British film crews who filmed the camps as the allies captured them . It’s about an hour and a half long and has truly truly awful footage which is not often seen on TV . Very very upsetting but deserves to be seen . Remember .

       42 likes

    • Darcy3 says:

      Agree, my comment was specifically around feminists attempting to associate themselves with this which in my opinion is despicable but my way of showing it lacked finesse

         13 likes

    • tarien says:

      Don’t you believe it Leo Varadkar, the EU need to trade with the UK even more than the other way around-that will give the UK the upper hand in most cases. However if the UK were to leave without any kind of deal with the Machianistic EU, the pressure on the individual European member countries would be sufficient to cause a real problem for the present EU as those countries would apply equal pressure on the EU to ease through any deal with the UK.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    Looks like Newsnight, Politics Today, Marr… all spoiled for choice on quality interviewees that are Sarpong approved.

       21 likes

  25. Darcy3 says:

    Or are they studying the link between African princes and a goldmine which will only need your bank account details to access

       15 likes

  26. davylars says:

    Report from BBC Look North about this guy investing his student loan to set up a business selling rare trainers around the world.
    I didn’t think broadcasting this image was a good idea though…

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       25 likes

  27. Guest Who says:

    When the ratings tank… double down…

       43 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Or… better yet, get on YAB. Again.

         43 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      What larks… BBC and Graun as one on Irish pols crushing the U.K., BBC and Radio Times as one on fictional sciency types, and BBC photo Eds in perfect harmony too.

         12 likes

      • Charlie Farley says:

        Guest Who
        I expect the only men in that ” Lab ” are there to clean up and empty the bins

           5 likes

      • ScoobyWho says:

        Hopefully their qualifications will be verified as being genuine, by a professional body…….not the Civil Service.

           4 likes

    • Darcy3 says:

      Stop bbc just STOP 85% of this country are not black they pay your wages to allow you to spout black people are the majority, white women with black boyrfiends and now white men with black women in the advert media , it is not that way it it may occur but is not usual and never will be unless WE CHOOSE not you to choose and to reiterate we the 85% majority pay you to tell us we are the minority to be villified as racists for not choosing black partner “

         54 likes

      • tarien says:

        100% agree Darcy3, however these actions are to show the successful integration of happy foreigners with a happy indigenous popultaion nevertheless it is hardly going to forment revolution, hence the ideology of Multiculturalism which intentionally divides race and cultures. This ideology was designed to destroy any sense of national pride and patriotism amongs the indigenous poplutaion and in fact as we are seeing instills guilt in the indigenous white population for our supposed past oppression and supposed current racism. In fact we have further in licking their boots, by passing laws to criminalise those that dare to speak out against their territorial racial and culture dispossessions. Brainwashing the white children is well and truly on the agenda. Race is the biggest weapon the left Liberals use in their war against traditional Britain. Sad to say that most true racists in Britain have been the treasonous anti-white politicians and very much the journalists and to a degree the Police.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        “white women with black boyrfiends and now white men with black women in the advert media “…..

        Darcy, its not only the advertising media, its occurring more and more in feature films. Several movies I’ve seen of late have portrayed more mixed relationships than I can ever remember seeing in films before. Ok, its probably my age, and morally I shouldn’t even be thinking it, as its only skin colour, BUT I still feel uncomfortable, whereas the young are more acquiescent towards it. However, I’m still of the opinion that we are being brainwashed into acceptance, and that diversity is being pushed where it isn’t necessary because of this.

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  28. Jeff says:

    So, I wake up this morning and the news is choc full about the death of a sportsman I’ve never heard of who played a game no-one in Blighty gives a toss about.
    There have been interviews with old colleagues. Fans are seen fighting back the tears. Grown men are heard saying, “Man, this is the saddest day of my life.” And “I loved that guy.” Followed by “I’ve never felt such pain…”
    Look, a bloke and his daughter and a number of other people have died. It’s tragic. But even the BBC, who are desperately trying to inflate this as an international event, put up the picture of the wrong basket ball player. If they don’t know who he is how are we supposed to?
    And I note there’s no mention of the rape charge that was hushed up after a substantial out of court settlement…
    What, no comment from Me too?

       53 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Jeff, we also had wall to wall coverage by all channels on the death of Aretha Franklin, Prince and further back – Michael Jackson. It was the same then, but at least the majority of people HAD heard of them ! But the track record is that all these souls are black. There are many white ‘names’ who have passed over the years, but its noticeable that news coverage of those is never in the same league.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      “So, I wake up this morning and the news is choc full about the death of a sportsman I’ve never heard of who played a game no-one in Blighty gives a toss about.” LOL !!!!

      Well, we all know the yanks live on a different planet to the rest of us. At the Grammy’s last night it was turned into a memorial for this chap, and spoke of how the whole world was in mourning. Um, no it wasn’t.

      Basketball, Baseball (Rounders to us old schoolgirls), American Football (and the “world series” that only takes place in the US) are all peculiar to the States. They’re brought up on it, just look how every house has a basket fixed above the garage door, that most 6 year olds could lob a ball into, and its hardly surprising the country has gone into meltdown mode.

         14 likes

      • ScoobyWho says:

        Why is there no mention on Beeb, or at least that I’ve seen, about the Mayor of London and his funding by the boss of Ecotricity, that he forgot to declare, prior to said company being awarded a substantial piece of business in London? Surely this is big enough for BBC to at least mention? Had it been a Conservative MofL I suspect it would havevbeen all over every bulletin. Cynical moi thinks the unfortunate Mr Bryant is a convenient blanket. Story is on Guido.

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  29. Foscari says:

    Making my living from sport I do know who Kobe Bryant was.He was a legend in USA. As much as David Beckham ,
    rightly or wrong is in England. Yes in the world of sport his tragic death
    and the others in the helicopter including his daughter was very
    major news.
    HOWEVER there is this obsession with the BBC obviously because
    of diversity to place black athletes whenever possible at the top
    of their sports agenda.
    Whatever the state of play in a golf tournament Tiger Woods
    is the priority so far as the BBC is concerned. Of course in tennis
    it’s Serena Williams, to be followed I am sure by Coco Gauff.
    I know this is a taboo subject and one has to tread softly and
    personally I am in awe of many sportsmen and women whatever
    creed or colour. It’s just a fact that the BBC just do this.

       49 likes

    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Despite their obsessive negrophilia, ultimately the dirty little secret of liberals is that they feel most comfortable when black people are sportsmen, atheletes and musicians. Or if not actual musicians, then at least rap artists. Sexual fetishisation is also a factor in many instances.

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  30. Darcy3 says:

    iss cos i iss black innit

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  31. quisquose says:

    Did anybody else hear Justin Webb’s interview with Ronald Lauder at 6:45 on to the Today Programme? Ronald Lauder is the president of the World Jewish Congress, and he is also chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation.

    Today is 75 years since Soviet troops cautiously entered Auschwitz and the remaining survivors were liberated, so Ronald Lauder was on to remind us that Auschwitz must remain a permanent reminder, so that we are sure that “never again” truly means never again. He told Justin Webb that these lessons are particularly important because Antisemitism is on the rise, and he sees parallels with the mid 1930s.

    At this point Justin Webb then decided he should ask “Given that, should we be more robust in our criticism of the language used by Donald Trump?”

    I can’t quite find the words to express how disgusted I was when I heard that question asked.

       63 likes

    • JimS says:

      Trump on Friday released a proclamation marking the liberation’s anniversary, which will be on Monday. “We remember the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and pay tribute to the American soldiers and other Allied Forces who fought tirelessly to defeat the Nazi regime,” Trump said. “We also recommit ourselves to the fight against anti-Semitism and to the two words that cannot be repeated often enough: Never Again.”

      Which part of that statement should Justin Webb criticise ‘robustly’?

         54 likes

    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      q – Disgusted, but not astonished?

         14 likes

    • Banania says:

      Extraordinary! Was Webb suggesting that Trump is antisemitic?

         0 likes

  32. scribblingscribe says:

    Superb drama series on Sky: Cobra. After the woke casting and hectoring of BBC dramas it is refreshing to remember how good UK drama can be, except …

    All the villains, and I do mean all, are supporters of Brexit and defined by their imagined racism and stupidity. There is a character from the North who mouths off about the London elites while leading a band of moronic right wing thugs. He is followed by a saintly Asian, gay reporter (I kid ye not) to put him right.

    The drama is so fast and lively that even those toe curling, single dimensional characters cannot entirely spoil it. It should be stated that the party in power solving problems are Tories and the sympathetic prime Minister is Tory – though he receives a lecture on the joys of diversity and taxing the rich late on.

    But please, media folk, understand, the people of the UK aren’t evil. We all abhor right wing extremists, but we also fear the street violence we see from the Left. Lecturers in UK universities need bodyguards from the Left not from the Right. The staggering number of rapes and tortures in the Rotherham and elsewhere were defended and hidden by the Left not the tiny number of far Right wing people.

       41 likes

    • Woolwich says:

      The reason I haven’t watched this is because of exactly the same reasons you voice, an expectation that it would be white heterosexual man bad, non white/female/trans food. I might give it a spin now though.

         14 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      scribbling: “We all abhor right wing extremists” right on, totally correct. We are with you there.

      We also know who these so-called ‘right wing extremists’ are: they are the Fascisti, the Communists, (I use that name as a catch-all for all who Marx or Trot under that banner of Socialism) and Antifa or similar organisations.

      It is the so-called ‘Left’ who point at an imaginary so-called ‘Right’ to divert attention from their activities.

         22 likes

      • scribblingscribe says:

        Up2, I thought I made that clear in the final paragraph. So quite agree.

        ” … we also fear the street violence we see from the Left. Lecturers in UK universities need bodyguards from the Left not from the Right. The staggering number of rapes and tortures in the Rotherham and elsewhere were defended and hidden by the Left not the tiny number of far Right wing people.”

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  33. Guest Who says:

    It would seem tweeting about this sees your tweets blocked.

    So I’ll share here:

    ***

    Kate Hoey has been suspended by Twitter:

    @CatherineHoey

    They are sparing no-one.

    ***

    This seems… newsworthy.

    Cue the BBC skateboarding turtle Editor getting a lot of time and space.

    Update: went to check… seems it was a spoof account that was removed. Apols.

       12 likes

  34. Darcy3 says:

    I wondered what was going to happen to our romanian beggers after brexit, our local one has been not just begging but overtly saying pleeez to everyone with big issue magazines, these were started to help people into homes, a new life, they have been overtaken by romanian beggars who can access benefits if they say they are working she has been replaced with a new one last week is it not amazing we have homeless romanian beggars on our streets in every town thanks to being part of europe

       35 likes

    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Darcy3… my Romanian friends advise me that they do not consider the ‘Beeg Ishyoo Pleez’ brigade to be fellow Romanians. Rather they are people who originated in a different continent altogether, many centuries hence, and are simply romain’ around the EU.

         19 likes

  35. pugnazious says:

    Any irony that the BBC is pushing various Rabbis warning us about the rise in anti-Semitism and that this is linked to nationalism which begets xenophobia? This from Jews whose answer to rabid anti-Semitism was to create a nation for Jews…the only way they could get a safe haven [note…white people’s ‘safe haven’ is no longer safe…white will soon be a rarity and very unsafe]…and from a BBC whose reporting demonised and vilified Israel and Jews around the world leading to…er…a rise in anti-Semitism.

    Any irony that we have the uselessly waffly Keir Starmer talking complete bo**ocks this morning [but what’s new?] as he declared we must give more power to the regions [ie regionalism…isn’t that just mini-nationalism? and Devolution …a Labour idea…that er…empowered the nationalist SNP] whislt warning us about ‘nationalism’…and then of course wanting us to be tied to, and run by, the EU empire….so he says more power to regions, taking power from the centre[Westminster] and yet wants us handed over, hog-tied, to the EU. Shame the BBC didn’t actually point out the idiotic inconsistencies in his piffle.

    This is the BBC that hates nation states [though the Palestinians must have their own state] and the British empire but loves the Muslim empire and the EU superstate. Seems anything that destroys a united Britain gets the thumbs up from the BBC…whether its IRA or Muslim terrorism, black cultural terrorism [the Afua Hirsches and Lammys] or foreign powers trying to hijack us by one means or another.

       39 likes

  36. Guest Who says:

    Shaimaa knows when to go safe.

       8 likes

  37. Guest Who says:

    The others are waking up.

    Jobby’s tirade will be interesting.

       10 likes

    • vlad says:

      And look who jumps in to play the race card and stir the pot…

         21 likes

      • vlad says:

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      • Jeff says:

        Ha! Good old Dave, never lets you down!
        The Beeb deserve this, though. They’re so intent on flagging up their love of diversity… even when it’s someone no bugger’s heard of…and then they show a photo of the wrong bloke. I bet all these white liberals were waffling about how much they’d miss him and pretending they knew anything about men’s netball.
        And then this happens…
        Delicious!

           25 likes

  38. Guest Who says:

    Guess what, kids…

       5 likes

  39. Guest Who says:

    Amol is basking in praise.

    Why, is unclear.

       11 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    VD going down in style.

    #CCBGB

       18 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      When in doubt… TDS!

         7 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        They will be waiting for a long time.

        The Sacoolas family are CIA. No US government will ever agree to deport her. It is nothing to do with Trump, who has his own problems (to say the least) with the Deep State. I feel sorry for the family, but if they think this is anything to do with Trump they are stupid. The CIA will never stand for the precedent of one of their agents ever being extradited.

           14 likes

  41. Up2snuff says:

    On a different subject to the BBC, is our friend maxi ever seen in daylight?

    I feel certain others must have asked this question; perhaps I’m just slow on the uptake.

       7 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    With luck, Rog will see this from his academic equal, and not read the replies.

       7 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Patrick co-founded Greenpeace and has 99.5K followers on Twitter
      Chris Taylor has 244 followers and opened with
      ‘Your paper is self-published and not peer-reviewed’
      .. that shows he hasn’t read the paper
      cos this self publication is mere a new colour republication of the original journal publication and yes it was double blind peer reviewed.

         3 likes

  43. LastChanceSaloon says:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/26/the-bbc-is-a-pillar-of-civilisation-no-wonder-populists-want-to-destroy-it
    “The BBC is a pillar of civilisation. No wonder populists want to destroy it
    Will Hutton”

    “Enlightenment values are anathema to parties that only thrive amid widespread ignorance”

    Any connection with enlightement values and Socialism are accidental.
    The BBC seems to love ignorance.
    Originally the BBC did not report the mass racist Muslim gang rapes, which continue.
    According to the BBC, Muslim terrorist attacks in Europe are carried out by “men” with “mental illnesses”.
    The BBC has never acknowledged that the UK was lied into the EU, and lied about the EU thereafter.
    I could extend this list ad libitum, why bother?
    The BBC is staffed mainly by Marxists, these Communists do what comes naturally, left wing propaganda, the BBC is full of it.
    The BBC is staffed mainly by Marxists because it advertises in “The Guardian”.
    The Guardian, where “facts are sacred”, I do not think so.

    “Christian faith is inherently superior to any other, which can be mocked and derided.”

    There must be two planets named Earth, the Earth I live on is exactly opposite to the Guardian Earth.
    Where churches are burnt, by Muslims, and it is not reported by the BBC.
    Where Christians are murdered, by Muslims, and if reported by the BBC it will in be local news, for five minutes.
    Where the BBC promotes Muslims and Islam at every opportunity, and denigrates Christianity.

    “Populists of the left hold mirror-image beliefs.”

    So begins a paragraph “criticizing” left wing views, for “balance” purposes.
    Unfortunately these views are only noted by the BBC when deleterious effects occur, or are anticipated.

    There is much more nonsense in this article, and in the comments BTL.

       28 likes

  44. Guest Who says:

    Those replying saying the point is being missed are missing the point.

       19 likes

    • pugnazious says:

      Must have found some money somewhere…and presumably staffed by ‘professional EU acolytes’…like Katya Adler who regurgitates EU press releases as if the word of God.

      The BBC wants ‘professional Northener’ Nick Robinson to do missionary work oop north and has Mishal Husain doing the Muslim stuff, and black reporters doing the black stuff….is the case now that only people with the er….lived experience can report on certain subjects…if you aren’t from that community or religion or specialisation you can’t report on it? Well…good…maybe the English graduate, Roger Harrabin, will be removed from reporting on science and climate.

         25 likes

    • Deborah says:

      But I thought the BBC had to reintroduce license fees for over 75s and sack Victoria Derbyshire. Where are they getting the money for a new headquarters?

         16 likes

  45. Foscari says:

    There is a foreign country named the Republic of Ireland
    or Eire across the Irish sea from Great Britain. They speak
    English and Gaelic. I have been there. Itt is a beautiful country.
    Most of the people are friendly. The sea food restaurants
    around the southern coast are second to none.
    What I don’t understand is the plethora of these foreigners
    who work for the BBC. I understand most of them when
    they speak slowly, some of them with a kind of Irish brogue.
    Maybe me being a cockney doesn’t help.
    What does upset me is to have to listen to the likes of
    Orla Guerin. There may not be that many Jews in the Republic
    and still only 300,000 in the whole of the UK. But I don’t
    want to hear this foreigner on BBC TV making disparaging snide
    comments about Israel and Jews. She has been doing it for
    a longtime now. And I for one have had enough. We all know
    of her links to Palestine ,and her personnel views although I
    abhor them , she is entitled to have them. What I don’t
    want to hear is these views when reporting for the BBC.

       47 likes

  46. Guest Who says:

    BBC News on Facebook

    Powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has organised anti-American demonstrations aimed at pressuring US troops to leave Iraq.

    ***

    You will never guess what photo the bbc has found to go with?

    Hint: not that of ‘Powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr‘.

       17 likes

  47. Guest Who says:

    The Empire strikes back…

       16 likes

    • Doublethinker says:

      Well she certainly isn’t alone in loathing the SNP but when you couple this comment with her photo of Rochester’s flags of St George , you do begin to think she has a real problem. Perhaps she is only really at home in the deep bosom of her Islington constituency . But of course she does really deeply truly love Europe.

         18 likes

  48. vlad says:

    I see Al-beeb have declared a national day of mourning for a basketball player.

    Who knew basketball was so popular in Britain?

       32 likes

    • LastChanceSaloon says:

      v
      Rounders, American “Football”, Blacksitball, Ice Hockey.
      Yawn, yawn.
      Dies of boredom whilst typing. Head of corpse hits send key.

         16 likes

  49. pugnazious says:

    Even the uber liberal Justin Webb must think the Remainers whining that they won’t use ‘Brexit’ 50p coins and complaining that this is Boris rubbing their noses in it is childish and trivial beyond belief as he gave a little snort of derision as he introduced the story telling us Campbell said “I for one shall be asking shopkeepers for ‘two 20p pieces and a 10’ “.

    ‘The new coin, a 50 pence piece, features the message: “Peace, prosperity, and friendship with all nations” as well as the Brexit date in smaller writing at the bottom.

    Despite the coin’s apparently benevolent message, pro-EU campaigners responded with outrage.

    Lord Adonis, a Labour peer who has fought ardently to reverse Brexit, tweeted: “I am never using or accepting this coin.”

    Meanwhile, Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, shared a similar message as he claimed he will ask till workers for change to make up the 50p should he receive one in the future.’

    Hmmm…but haven’t we had lots of pro-EU 50p coins ‘celebrating’ our gradual annexation and absorption into the empire and all without loud whining and door-slamming?

    I imagine Webb won’t be getting a Christmas card from Adonis or Campbell.

       29 likes

    • Jeff says:

      Alistair Campbell said “I shall be asking for two 20p pieces and a 10”.
      Meanwhile, equally disgruntled loser, Diane Abbott Said, “I will be asking for a 20p piece.”
      It’s the way I tell ’em…

         29 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        I am surprised Campbell does not expect to get his change in Euros.

        Diane Abbott would be happy with four half crowns. Very big and shiny, they were.

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  50. Terminal Moraine says:

    Emma Barnett on R5 today:

    – Sportsman — and black American, father, Oscar winner, poet, mentor, hero and black American — has died
    – Women with big feet find buying shoes difficult
    – On Holocaust Memorial day and 75 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated we ask “is our country still a save haven… should Britain still be a sanctuary… should we be doing more?”

    P.S. Did you know Barack Obama called the sportsman a legend? I do, because R5 keep telling me

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