414 Responses to Start the Week Thread 1 June 2020

  1. Fedup2 says:

    Stew – I’d gladly step forward for a test . When I get a chest infection I really get one -and am wiped out for at least 2 weeks .

    I was taking part in a dementia experiment at the end of last year which involved the flu jab . I was told not the get the jab until administered in the medical test .

    So guess what ? At the end of October and into November I got really bad ‘flu ‘ – so a bit of me wonders if I was an early victim of the Chinese virus so that I might stop worrying about it …..
    I’m more scared of the local hospital than the virus ….

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    • cromwell says:

      I’m waiting for the test to check if you have had covid to be generally available to the public. I would be interested to have that as I am wondering the terrible virus i had in january which took me weeks to recover from was actually covid. It floored me and I’ve since found that my symptoms were indeed linked to the virus. My daughter had gone for a holiday to New York and came straight to me for Christmas and she started feeling unwell with a cough but after years of working on the airlines she has built up a good immune system and it was a mild case.

      By the way I hope you all know anyone can have a pneumonia jab at the docs and a hematologist who sees me said to have one every 5/6 years if you have an underlying health problem. There is a myth that it lasts a lifetime, it doesn’t, if you haven’t got any problems you still need one every 10 years, also I only found out last year that over 70s are entitled to a chicken pox jab, shingles can be terrible . Check these out at your surgery, they dont seem to advertise these things.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Fed, I too had the flu jab last September, and like you my bum only saw the bed and the sofa for 10 days. I was strongly advised to have the jab, as I hadn’t bothered in previous years (and I was fine !), so I shall think twice before having it again.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Bris – I might have miswrote – but I never actually got the flu jab – the medics made me wait and in the meantime I got the flu !

        The dementia research outfit were frankly inept .

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Oh, ok, well, take heed for next winter then ! its Russian roulette when having it whether you’ll feel worse !

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  2. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Scotland’s two biggest shitholes (SNP strongholds – the only 2 areas to vote YES to independence) Dundee and Glasgow are hosting ‘black lives matter’ protests this weekend.

    How will wee Nippy deal with her antifa footsoldiers and benefit junkies ignoring her social distancing and public gathering edicts?

    Scotland now most restricted, longest locked down country in the world. We’ve been in lockdown longer than Wuhan.

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    • Beltane says:

      Scottish Tourist Board missing a trick here – they should advertise it as the Loch Doon Monster, a new and eerie attraction for the grockles when the coaches run again.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Beltane – honestly – I’m amused by these ‘tourist board ‘ quangos who spend shed loads of cash to get punters to come visit – yet when they turn up and its ‘inconvenient ‘ they put ‘closed’ signs up ….

        Really can’t have two bites .

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        • Darcy3 says:

          Yes I have a blacklist (greenlist ?) of some of the pitchfork mob around here who put keep out signs, their tearooms will hopefully be out of business later on and I will not be using their “farmers markets” any time soon

          as I said earlier we all should have barricaded our local supermarkets against them, go and catch a rabbit

          and petrol stations I understand you can make it from rape seed oil

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  3. DYKEVISIONS says:

    Thank you richard D, for that heads up on Nick, extremely white, Robinson’s, atrocious interview, telling a black man how to think.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000jp1w
    at 2:16:15.

    This early Summer’s ‘grab and go’ promotion on at the moment in major US cities is bringing out a lethal mix of organised Crypto Communists, Antifa (now a terrorist organisation) and race baiters to the party.

    The idiot copper should face justice and justice should be seen to be served.

    However, when Nick brings out the ‘thought’ that it’s all about ‘progressive diminution of the economic status of black people,’ the Pastor kicks Red Robbo into touch, reminding him before Kungflu arrived, Trump was trying to get everybody back to work..

    Definitely worth a listen..

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    • SkeptikEye says:

      Pastor Darryl Scott 2 v 0 Nick Robinson (own goal)

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    • JamesArthur says:

      Thanks for link Dyke

      Knobinson at his best – you could hear in his voice he knew he was on a loser – so what do they do – use the old ‘ some people might..’

      And when he responded to Pastor about using guns to protect his home guns – ‘ I wouldn’t’ what a childish response..

      He lost it in big style…. they can’t seem to deal with facts that challenge the bubble

      We need more Pastor here…

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Dyke – I have a bone to pick – you made me log on to listen – but in seriousness – I haven’t heard Robinson since the start of Lent –
    – nothing changes . Pastor Scott just got an ‘introduction ‘ to what a horror the BBC has become with the frankly offensive Robinson telling him what he should think .

    I hope the Pastor takes the message home …..I got the feeling the editor was shouting into Robinson’s ear to dump the pastor as the idea of someone black supporting POTUS doesn’t fit the bbc narrative .

    The BBC must be waiting – hoping – for jartown ( Brixton ) or Tottenham to burn again ….. Or for some incident where whitee copper hurts / kills a suspected coloured criminal ….

    God knows what they’d do if a black british copper killed a white suspected criminal …..

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Yet Lewis will RT Mad Al’s claims hourly.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    I really need to stop looking at the Guardian website . Today it as a worship piece about Jeremy Vine – another production company – funded liberal mouth . I understand he is on both C5 and Radio 2 – apparently he has viewer / listener figures . Ugh .

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    • Guest Who says:

      He also seems to be emulating his incontinent diverse viewership.

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      • StewGreen says:

        He’s a non impartial tweet from Vine
        ..he deleted later
        Funny how he tweets jokes against Trump/Tories ..but not against the left

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Makes you wonder what mentality puts up such a tweet – booze – peer group? I can’t see much evidence of serious objective journalism ….

          Is there any journo who has not soiled themselves through bias / attitude ? As I was thinking this the only one I thought of was Brillo – but even his rant about Brillo not turning up showed himself up – and in that case it worked for Bojo – who is not , in my opinion – one who goes into detail – which is a weakness but he makes it up through ‘bluster ‘ and energy .
          So seldom does a politician come along with charisma and attention to detail – again – as I write – struggling to think of one …..

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      • JimS says:

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Winston Churchill tweets
    “We shall fight them on the beaches”

    Twitter covers his tweet with
    This tweet violated the Twitter rules about glorifying violence

    They did this against Trump

    @realDonaldTrump · May 29
    ….These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd,
    and I won’t let that happen.
    Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way.
    Any difficulty and we will assume control
    but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
    Thank you!

    screenshots of before and after clicking through

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Quite right – mr Churchill’s twitter account will be suspended without explanation ….

      Thought I’d see how RT is treating the Americans trouble now that people have got bored with the Chinese Virus .

      Wow – they even put a music background to rioting footage .

      I suppose at the USSR ( sorry – newly badged Russia ) can’t control Chinese virus infections I suppose they are going to try to make people look away – …….

      Comrade Corbyn, Lammy Abbot and the rest of the expanding industry must think it is Christmas come early – ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      Talk Radio 11am news
      about 1,000 protesters outside the Whitehouse
      This woman with a message to Donald Trump”

      clip :

      I think that he doesn’t understand that
      when you stop giving people something to fight for,
      you give them something to die for
      and this country was forcefully built on the backs of black people and we have every right to burnt to it the ground
      if that is what we decide to do”

      “weather today, dry sunny”

      FFS metroliberal media claim Trump’s warning is incendiary
      and they play that woman’s super incendiary gibberish without a care.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The trial of the charged copper will be another excuse for more forced shopping / burning ….. and if he found not guilty …..

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      • StewGreen says:

        Her speech sounds like it was written by the KGB
        to divide and rule America
        instead of getting black/white to work together

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  8. Thoughtful says:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States

    Here is a list of all the people by Month killed by US Cops in the course of their duty.

    It’s horrific reading especially the 7 year old who phoned 911 and told them his Mom was trying to kill him.

    The Fascist Left never have the slightest concern for the people who try to protect them, even though many are actually BAME. Nor do they appear to have any concern or sympathy for the Officers murdered in the course of their duty 12 of them last year.

    15 500 people were murdered in the USA last year and given the statistic that 95% were black on black where is the concern for them?

    The sheer anti White race hate from Black supremacists and anti White Fascist Leftist elements has to be seen to be believed.

    This incident is just further proof of the failure of multiculturalism and the apparant fact that it is not possible for different races to live fogether peacefully.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    Media Rule :
    – BLM American protests… VERY newsworthy
    – France Yellow Vests protests… NOT newsworthy

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  10. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus lockdown ‘perfect storm’ for abused children – Sajid Javid”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52876226
    Huddersfield, Oxford, and Rotherham get a mention .

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    • StewGreen says:

      I got abuse and excuses on Saturday for tweeting that underneath the teacher’s union tweet.

      Apparently abuse is not caused by perps
      … but by “Tory cuts”

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  11. BRISSLES says:

    Well, I’m Confused.Com, and I don’t think I’m alone.

    Track & Trace ? something about using an App ? and if we don’t have a mobile capable of using that facility? what then. Is it only used when you have a ‘symptom’ and/or in conjunction with having a test ?

    Testing. How does that work? Do we contact the GP, go to the chemist ? Is there a website? Does it cost ?

    I lost my sense of taste and smell in early December (thinking it was my age or new medication, which it still could be), and long before Covid19 was even heard of, and its only marginally returning. So, should I test on the offchance?

    Having seen pictures of the hoards sweating body fluids in all directions on the beach yesterday, and who clearly couldn’t give a toss about social distancing, then if they all get serious conditions of the virus en-masse, are they really going to be bothered in the niceties of informing the authorities who they’ve been in close contact with ? No. All they’ll be bloody interested in is how the NHS has failed them.

    And its those idiots who are eating ice creams cheek by jowl with others, who probably shouted loudest about Dominic Cummings. I’ve said it before, there are no greater idiots than the under 60’s in Britain today. The rest of us actually do have common sense, who don’t want to get ill, and will be keeping their distance from others for a long time to come. I certainly will, in fact I may take up the custom of bowing my greetings, like the Japanese !!!!

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    • StewGreen says:

      See https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19/

      Basically getting Covid depends on your own health and the viral load you get

      eg small viral load over short time , no problem
      small viral load in a 30 min taxi journey could be a problem

      Someone coughing in your face = big viral load

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  12. Roland Deschain says:

    And here was I thinking it was just a nice spell of weather. Turns out it is “extreme weather”. It is “unprecedented and astounding”. They’ll be calling it stunning and brave next.

    Always proves them right, never wrong. Whatever the weather.

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    • taffman says:

      More people entering Britain means more consumption of its resources particularly water.
      More reservoirs are required as the nation fills up with people the water supplies will empty.
      Simples

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    • Guest Who says:

      OMG! as every bbc girlie doubtless will react.

      Plus the women.

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    • Tabs says:

      Sunniest ever is quite expected with just about all jet aircraft grounded due to Covid19. Just like the 5 days after 9-11, and the grounding of all aircraft, the lack of contrails actually raised the surface temperature in the USA due to less cloud cover. The contrails actually help global cooling by blocking the sun.

      If the BBC ever bothered to fact check themselves they would have come to the same conclusion but it is easier to attribute everything to “climate change”.

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    • The Sage says:

      I knew this would be a Harrabin story and even before opening. This is weather and whatever the weather, hot, cold, dry or wet it always seems to be, at least according to Harrabin, the result of man-made climate change.
      If only Harrabin was actually a proper journalist and not just an activist/advocate, then the BBC would be a much better place to go for such news.
      Needless to say, Harrabin does not have a science degree, only one in English. So he is a real expert.

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  13. StewGreen says:

    Momentum and terrorists

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    • Guest Who says:

      I see the word ‘Solidarity’ I think of something else entirely.

      Ironic given Momentum/Black Hoods Batter ethos.

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  14. LastChanceSaloon says:

    I am glad to report the anti EU riots in Italy.

    I searched the website of The World’s most Trusted Broadcaster, it was apparently too busy with their propaganda about Trump, White people, Brexit, how the Chinese Communist Party is whiter than the driven snow.

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    • vlad says:

      As usual the bias lies in what it doesn’t report as well as the emphasis given to what it does report.

      That kind of bias can’t be fact-checked out of existence: it’s an institutional bias in attitude.

      The beeb is unreformable and must be smashed.

      An absolute minimum first step is to stop paying the extortion tax.

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  15. Darcy3 says:

    Charlotte Church today suffered an avalanche of criticism after urging England’s parents not to send their children back to school claiming Boris Johnson doesn’t ‘give a flying f**k’ about them.

    “this government doesn’t give a flying f**k about you, your children, your elders or your vulnerable.’

    If that is true, all taxpayers are due a massive tax break when we get all the furlough wages and business grants, txpayers cash wasted on PPE new hospitals and ventilators refunded just to prove we do not really care we want our money back

    Then she can complain

    and she lives in Wales where kids do not go back anyway

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    • Darcy3 says:

      Voice of an angel my a@se, voice of a gobshite more like

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    • dafydd says:

      Charlotte Church has a history of behaving like a complete prat.

      I live in Wales and on occasions she rears her ugly head, most just laugh her off.

      She’s not been the same since she and Gavin Henson split.

      She really does come out with some ludicrous comments, what do you expect from an ill informed luvvie..

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  16. Guest Who says:

    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/bbcs-global-green-deal-delusion/

    The BBC is a joke.

    A partial, unaccountable, dangerous, pervasive joke.

    In a just world they would be the state media of AOCtopia, and the staff would last a week before they were eating each other.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Vine “Here is a conciliatory speech from Trump
    but he also tweeted
    ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts’ ”

    Sorry that is #FakeNews
    He should have read the WHOLE tweet

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    • Guest Who says:

      The (deleted) tweet you shared above from him should be enough to see the Graun look in the mirror long and hard after that hilariously inaccurate hagiography.

      It is a sad fact that CECUO would not look at all.

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  18. LynetteO says:

    Tuned in again to Radio 4 – this time to The food programme I thought I’ d get some light relief but they were about to discuss whether Covid 19 had killed off the wild life trade ( in animals for food in China ) Just the thing on a programme about food! Off switch again !

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  19. Oldspeaker says:

    Looked on bbc and couldn’t find any denial for this,
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-setup-mysteriously-staged-bricks-appear-throughout-major-protest-cities
    “Where did the bricks come from? Who delivered them? And are any official investigations underway?”
    Good questions which are unlikely to get any good answers as msm are not asking them. Currently only a U.S. issue.

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  20. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    On an earlier comment I wondered if anyone had any stats regarding black and white crime in the USA.

    I copied this from the DT comments:

    Some statistics from USA

    Black offenders white victims

    Robberies 64%

    Assaults 52%

    Rapes 59%

    White offenders black victims

    Robberies 8.3%

    Assaults 2.7%

    Rapes 5.5%

    Also, was it on here it was mentioned that 95% of the blacks killed over here were killed by other blacks.

    It seems that whitey should be protesting and rioting if these figures are true but as I don’t need another tv I won’t be bothering.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    Media all asking same questions again
    ..”why are all your contact tracers sitting waiting”
    Ans, cos most punters are using the webform

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Cos Sirus the government ‘Provider’ probably gets paid a fat cheque whatever, and the new workers ( min wage? ) probably don’t realise they are just sat there to facilitate the scam??

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  22. StewGreen says:

    Someone seemed to have arrange 5,000 human-twitter-bot army to tweet lefty BS under #DailyBriefing

    ( stay at home teachers ?)

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  23. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    Just for a change, Andy Burnham, the (naturally non-political) Mayor of Manchester was interviewed by Evan Davis on R4’s ‘PM’ from 17:15, saying that Manchester folk were more cautious than the government about easing restrictions.

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  24. taffman says:

    “Coronavirus lockdown ‘perfect storm’ for abused children – Sajid Javid”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52876226
    That story quickly disappeared of the front page?
    Something to do with the mass rape of our young girls ?

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  25. Scroblene says:

    Yet another quarter of an hour in blissful ignorance of any bbbc fake-news! Never turned on these days, it’s pathetic!

    Happens every evening about now, tinctures with Mrs O’Blene, feed the dog, a book of Telegraph Cryptics, and water the garden!

    If anyone does watch any trash on the taxed crap, isn’t it about time that all the so-called ‘experts’ like Huge Pym and Roget Horribin changed ‘jobs’ again, and were given a crack at some other b***s**t, so they will get yet another rise from a third of a million quid for knowing feck all?

    By the time they’re kicked out to R5Dead or some other recently drossy prog – regional BBC which really is utterly dire, they’ll be ‘experts’ at everything, and masters of none!

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  26. Guest Who says:

    There is a problem, and the bbc is a major component.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Has obama said anything about ‘ his people ‘ looting and burning in protest against slavery ?

      Just wondering for a friend as ive only limited interest in the minor affairs of other countries ….

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      • Guest Who says:

        If America had a sh*t stirring, race baiting luvvie, he’d be pretty much Barry.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Piers Morgan does he buy Twitter-Likes from a human-zombie army ?

    His tweet “I’ve BANNED Tories from my show” … 35K likes
    His tweet “Why won’t any Tories come on my show ??” …. 56K likes

    What real human would Like that second tweet ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      oh his hypocrisy

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  28. Guest Who says:

    National broadcaster of the U.K.

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  29. StewGreen says:

    DT just tweeted, 380K Likes

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  30. Guest Who says:

    Clearly a bbc expert.

    Gets her peroxide from Katty’s dealer. Sources say.

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    • vlad says:

      Somehow I doubt this footage will make it onto Newsnight.

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    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      No excuse for this violence by our black American friends but she really should not have called them nigg*z if she did ????

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  31. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    “This is just pain right here, just pain.”

    Protests turn violent outside the White House in Washington DC as demonstrators continue to march against the death of George Floyd.

    bbc.in/3gHb6q5

    ***
    Approximately none of that is accurate reporting. But the piece is a set piece of journalistic partiality.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Nick and Laura on it?

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile, Katty’s heart is aflutter.

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  34. StewGreen says:

    7:30pm Panorama investigates Belgium
    the country with the highest Covid death per capita
    and talks about its female leader and the protests against her

    … oh hangon
    nope they’ve changed their minds
    They’ve bought in a film attacking Trump instead

    BBC = an advertising platform for the US Democrat Party

    Looks like a MAGA hat ?

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  35. Guest Who says:

    They are in some kind of race. Not sure of the destination, but it is low.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      A, When are the non reflective going to realise that they were sold into slavery by their own people, I.e. their own tribal chiefs. With the advances in DNA collecting, they could find out where they came from in continental Africa and riot and loot in places like Ghana, Nigeria etc.

      Hang on, there’s nothing to loot, back to the drawing board.

      B, When did BBC newsreaders become news leaders?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Is that virtue signalling
      or insurance against BLM violence ?

      Surely the law already says that all skin colours
      should be treated with EQUAL respect
      Why would a corp need to signal to a particular skin colour ?

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      ITV, that always switches off comments on their YouTube channel’s videos. Guess debate isn’t their thing.

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  36. theleftwilleatitself says:

    Has anyone on here seen ‘Brexit: The Uncivil War’ and what did they make of it? ????
    I’ve just stumbled across it on Netflix, not sure how long it’s been available! ????
    Thanks in advance to any replies ????

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  37. Guest Who says:

    “Do you aspire to be the leader of the free world?

    Download our handy guide.

    Simply do what their people tell your people will play well with their people.

    And simply pray no one voting has a brain.

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  38. vlad says:

    The militant beeb clearly in their happy place: alleged racism by the US police (or ‘pigs’ as they no doubt still fondly think of them from their marxist student days in meeja studies or marxist sociology), with the added bonus that the situation can be weaponised against the Great Satan, Trump.

    Every beeboid’s wet dream.

    Deep down they know their overpaid job is superfluous, but here at last is a raison d’etre, a Cause to justify their useless existence.

    Oh Happy Days.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-52872401

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    Theleft – yes i enjoyed it a lot and was a bit surprised that a level one remainer cumberbatch ( public school boy) would play DC .

    I hear he is being lined up for the sequel- the road to durham with its ( spoiler alert ) exciting end ‘ the sit down at barnard castle’ …..
    Kiera or emma will play the ‘ love interest ‘ and freddie highmore doing his autism routine ( see the good doctor on ‘ pick ‘ )

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    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      Thanks Fedup, has Maitlisssss hosted a Newsnight since her little soliloquy or do you think her days at al beeb are numbered ????

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        Theleft – great minds, or something, I’ve just finished watching it on Netflix a few minutes ago!

        Personally, I didn’t think Cumberbatch was much like what I’ve seen of Cummings, but curious how similar their names are, isn’t it?

        It was interesting, funny in places, lots of actors getting to overplay various people in stereotypical fashion. Boris in a blonde wig, bumbling around, and pontificating vaguely, Aaron Banks as a fat, foul mouthed, lager drinking, oik, that sort of thing.

        Was it realistic? I doubt it. Was it ‘unbiased’ – I think it tried to be, and handled Brexit voters with a bit more sympathy than the usual ‘you’re all bigoted racists’ drivel.

        My impression is the Cambridge Analytica angle was played up (personally, I doubt the online campaigns made a significant difference to the result), and they left you thinking Vote Leave had probably broken the law and Brexit was going to be some kind of immediate disaster… both of which have been proven wrong, and which date the drama already.

        Overall, worth watching, yes, if nothing else for a bit of a (heavily dramatised) ‘insider’ view, and for the humour and acting.

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        • theleftwilleatitself says:

          Thanks BigBrotherCorporation, I’ll give it a watch tonight I think ????

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  40. Guest Who says:

    #scientistssay

       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      It’s kinda weird that NewScienceActivist have just tweeted that again
      cos the article is 6 weeks old

      I bet you didn’t guess it was written by their black journo.
      She tweeted it on April 21
      “@layallivs Layal Liverpool
      Bylines: @newscientist, @guardian, @sciinnovunion”
      .

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Sadly a lot of them speak a form of English that others have trouble understanding, and understood only by others who converse in the same manner. Innit.

      Sorry Northern V, just read your comment above, and we appear to have the same mindset !!!

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        #covid19 is racist? That sounds like a good reason to do a bit of looting to me!

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    • Dave S says:

      There is a problem turning the virus into a question of identity.
      What do we know for sure at present
      Men are more at risk than women.
      Diabetics are also more at risk.
      Age is a definite factor.
      Also BME after adjusting for all social and other factors are 1.8 times more likely to die than whites.
      Children are almost never badly affected.
      That is about it and it appears to be true everywhere in the northern hemisphere.
      In Africa the expected deaths in vast numbers have not occured. We need to know why . We should be looking hard at Madagascar. The virus is not progressing there at all.
      This is a matter for scientists and researchers not SJWs.
      To make this a question of identity is to condemn many to illness and death.

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  41. JimS says:

    Not BBC but White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is incredible to watch – totally on top of her brief.

    Oh to see her roast Sopel and Maitlis, not that it would take long!

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    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      She is JimS, I came across her a few weeks ago and she has all the confidence in the world at these pressers ????

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  42. Oldspeaker says:

    Guess this is why the authorities would like to ban ‘ordinary’ people from holding firearms, some of them have the temerity to defend themselves and their property. May need to click the bird to play and click screen for sound.

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Fiction 1984 …

    ‘When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time.

    All this marching (CLAPPING) up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?’

    That was very true, he thought. There was a direct intimate connexion between chastity and political orthodoxy.

    https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_2

    Non-Fiction 2020 …

    ‘Will the cops be setting up stings on TINDER now?’: Eyebrows are raised as government makes sex in your home with a person from another household ILLEGAL (but it’s okay in the garden)

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  44. JimS says:

    Anthony Zurcher – BBC North America reporter says of President Trump:

    “Message discipline, a valuable attribute at this moment, is not his forte”.

    So speaks the master of Twitter restraint.

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  45. Northern Voter says:

    Donald has learnt his lesson via a vis video editing, notably when talking about the Chinese taking jobs and manufacturing. He spoke for 10 minutes without break, and then turned his back on the 5th columnists. No breaks to assist in editing and showing contempt for them. Well done Donald, Boris it’s your turn.

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  46. Philip_2 says:

    Left Wing causes and casualties:
    Last weeks furore over Emily Maitlis ‘fame’ on TV and ‘Twitter’ reminds me that it was the BBC insisted that all its staff should have Twitter accounts. To enable this, the BBC provided all with new phones (new) Apple iPhone for that very same purpose. This was an incentive – so that the BBC used to get staff ‘on-side’ when it moved from White City to Manchester Salford Quay.

    So when the BBC state that a member of staff have ‘over reached’, or ‘gone beyond, or ‘over stepped the mark’ on Twitter — its worth remembering who pays for Emily ‘Meritless’ phone bill. It is , of course the BBC. A little BBC perk ‘expenses’ to be ‘on-board’. Gary Linekar is much the same with his ‘Tweets’. Graham Norton is rather quiet on his “tweets’ but you can be sure he’s got one too. In fact you would be hard pressed to find anyone at the BBC without one. For the BBC it can seamlessly can ‘herd’ (lefties) into taking action that the BBC can then ‘deny’ later. We all know Emily Maitlis’s views, that is why she was employed (or groomed) by the BBC. Very rarely do they employ anyone ‘outside’ the agency – who may have the ‘wrong views’. They usually get demoted.

    The BBC encourage its staff to show support for left wing causes (and they oblige). And then BBC are able to deny involvement on Twitter even though its patently obvious they share the same views…
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/21/bbc-could-restrict-journalists-twitter

    The reason that I am writing this was an admission that i heard (last week) on the LBC business slot that Jack Docherty, the head of Twitter when asked about his political allegiance stated that they were a ‘left-wing’ biased company (so opposed to Trump (in particular) and that is why Twitter had made am ALERT to ‘censor’ a Trump Twitter account and were threatened by Trump – in return- If they dare try. Trump uses there own media giant against them and it seems to work predictably.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6076093/Twitter-CEO-Jack-Dorsey-fully-admits-companys-bias-left-leaning.html

    I just thought it interesting that the BBC use Twitter for very much the same reason (cheap self promotion) . Twitter is a good fit for the BBC and cheap marketing tool too (at general election time) – if you can get the UK taxpayers to pay for it all, and we do. And I may add that BBC empire at Salford Quay is ‘rented’ (not owned) from a consortium that pays ‘non-dom’ tax from an Arab ‘investment’ firm and part (UK based) Shopping Mall magnate (both registered off-shore) for tax reasons. The BBC of course pays no Corporation Tax either… The BBC is full of ‘talent’ (like Maitlis) and that is why the BBC encourage its staff to behave the way they do on Twitter.
    As for Maitlis, she will be praised at the BBC for being biased (something the BBC can then later deny). You see it would affect the BBC income if that were true. So it has to be denied that the BBC is in any way biased and of the ‘left’ persuasion.

    What we hear is what they want you to hear.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8365721/Ofcom-receives-247-complaints-Emily-Maitlis-impartial-rant-Dominic-Cummings.html

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  47. Lovely Luvvies says:

    I am absolutely definitely positively convinced the msm would love nothing more at the moment than rioting to break out here soon, that’s their agenda at the moment (post cummings) that’s why they keep flogging to death the riot stories from USA hoping that it will copycat like kick off here then bingo they can blame the Torys of course. I am seriously worried what will come of all these goings on when will the s*it stirring it stop? What is their endgame? a labour government or just total anarchy ? Although I now avoid the news as much as I possibly can, I despair of what little bits I hear, just imagine what a great forward looking country we could be without this total negativity we hear non stop all day every day it just wears you down I really feel I need to escape!

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      We should be out looting.
      Not in solidarity with USA , but against our oppressive government, I still can’t buy a pair of summer shoes as footware isn’t deemed essential.
      Shoe shops should be “reopened” by citizens!

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  48. Eddy Booth says:

    George Floyd died of asphyxia, private post-mortem finds
    “The cause of death in my opinion is asphyxia, due to compression to the neck – which can interfere with oxygen going to the brain – and compression to the back, which interferes with breathing”
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52885964
    So which of the mixed race police gang had the knee on his back?
    Unsurprisingly the BBC doesn’t think to ask.

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  49. Guest Who says:

    A mystery, Ed; a mystery.

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    • StewGreen says:

      MLM : Male Lives Matter
      “American police also kill men at 20 times the rate they kill women.”

      I bet the police kill much more White men than they kill black women

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      PNAS graph

      https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

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    • JamesArthur says:

      The BBC have once again proven themselves to be either 1. racists 2. trouble makers. 3. liars. 4 very poor at statistics or 5 all of the above

      I am sure there is a body to complain to about misleading statistics…

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  50. StewGreen says:

    Sadiq has put out a tweet with 2 signals
    – He’s putting POLITICAL IDEOLOGY ASIDE
    – There is no UNCERTAINTY about whether we hare properly leaving the EU
    .. that’s why he’s used EU flag as the background.

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    • JamesArthur says:

      And since when is the EU negotiating with him? Hopefully this will just make Boris more determined to get out with no extension

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