Start the Week Thread 19 October 2020

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Biased BBC busily running two versions of Project Fear – Brexit no deal and Covid Lock Down – meanwhile the BBC thinks President Biden is only a couple of weeks away …

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  1. Philip_2 says:
    October 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Leading TV broadcasters in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019, by audience share*
    BBC has just 31% of the UK audience.
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/269983/leading-tv-broadcasters-in-the-uk-by-audience-share/

    Quarterly reach of BBC News in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2012 to 2nd quarter 2019 BBC has sharply falling market share of ‘news’….
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/290866/bbc-news-viewers-reached-quarterly-uk

    BBC corporation tax (pays just 0.4% of its turnover)
    ‘The BBC paid corporation tax of £22m (0.4% of its turnover*) last year (2013). Even if you express tax as a proportion only of commercial turnover (which is debatable – after all a pound of turnover is a pound of turnover), the BBC paid tax of about 1.2% of turnover. In other words Google pays more tax on its turnover than the BBC by a factor of nearly two’.

    Note: The Corporate Tax Rate in the United Kingdom stands at 19 percent.

    According to the Sunday Times 2019 tax list, the top ten ‘taxpayers’ in Britain contributed an estimated £1 billion pounds to the government last year (2019).

    Corporate high payers (2019)
    (Top of the list should be the BBC.… but it isn’t)
    BBC; £190 million (but they declare only £22m)**
    –JD Sports;£181.6 million
    –Bet365;£156 million
    –Dyson; £127.8 million
    –Easyjet founder; £20.7 million
    –Warburons (bread maker); 12.7 million
    –The Beckhams (family); £12.7 million

    **The BBC relies on the TV license at £3.8 billion. In addition commercial sales to other broadcaster (Amazon and Netflix) earns an extra (£1 billion) so in total it earns £4.8 billion in total And that excludes private companies it owns selling BBC property for luxury flats and rentals to other broadcaster (former White City HQ being developed as luxury flats conversion and private hire of TV facilities (for ITV) are profitable but not included in private BBC hire companies.

    At just 25% profit it should be paying £190 million corporate tax. It should be paying the largest corporate tax in the country. It should be TOP OF THE LIST (above) But its just 0.4% of its vast (almost tax free) turnover, relying totally on the TV license for all revenue – including all its commercial operations. BBC worldwide is totally reliant on the ‘telly tax’.

    For TV **excellence** that is (hidden) T-A-L-E-N-T in case we failed to notice, that they are all exceedingly well paid and in large part unemployable anywhere else in the UK, all 23,000 of them claiming to be journalists.

    BBC pay 2020 – full list of salaries and highest-paid stars announced
    Money means everything at the BBC.
    https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-09-16/bbc-pay-2020-salaries/

    Its hard to believe that The Beckhams pay more than half as much tax as the entire BBC media empire here in the UK.

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    • StewGreen says:
      October 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

      You don’t pay tax on turnover
      You pay it on commercial ventures PROFIT, minus what deductions you allowed to claim.
      Only a small part of the BBC are commercial ventures.

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  2. Kaiser says:
    October 20, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    Mr Wild said he walked away from Abedi, and approached Showsec steward Mohammed Agha, who was standing on the main floor of the foyer, below the mezzanine.

    fox and hen house come to mind

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54607855

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    • StewGreen says:
      October 20, 2020 at 10:21 pm

      I’m sure there are good ethnic Muslims in the intelligence services who have saved lives.
      Here a Muslim security guard failed to head of a Muslim terrorist guy.

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  3. StewGreen says:
    October 20, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    Depravity in Bradford filmed by wlife
    Rehan Baig convicted
    Mr Baig’s wife, Haleema Baig, filmed some of the acts on her mobile phone but was spared an immediate jail sentence. Bradford .
    The kind of weird stuff you’d make up to utterly smear someone.
    but the court convicted him

    Don’t click unless you have a strong stomach UNN News

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  4. Roland Deschain says:
    October 20, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    Another in-depth tweet from the American Beauty.

    Call me old fashioned, but in my day journalists might have raised an eyebrow at this.

    Instead of maintaining a Trappist silence.

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  5. Guest Who says:
    October 20, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    Emily looking better than usual

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  6. taffman says:
    October 21, 2020 at 4:58 am

    “ Stormzy’s stab-proof vest up for major design award”

    “The Banksy design was donned by the grime star to highlight structural racism.”

    Looks just like an ordinary Union Jack to me ?
    Strange really, despite the “structural racism” people are flocking, risking their lives to get into this country?
    I don’t see the same desperation to get out ?

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  7. Darcy3 says:
    October 21, 2020 at 5:08 am

    The difference between Stormzy and a row of milk bottles ?

    One can get a decent tune out of the milk bottles

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  8. Scroblene says:
    October 21, 2020 at 6:35 am

    R5 Dead’s night-time phone in was just a Boris stab-fest, with Andy ‘Mid Staffs’ Burnham being displayed as a saint by all those performing seals ringing in and our Prime Minister being displayed as a dolt.

    One wonders why a political moron like Burnham get to positions like Mare of a once-great city. He’s never had a proper job, just sucked in public money year on year since leaving school, so joins the new elite of mares like Khan who are commercially incompetent, and politically active to get their noses in the trough as soon as they can.

    I just cannot see why places need mares (sic), anyway. Why aren’t the elected leaders of the councils doing the work they’re paid for? Why aren’t the representatives of the councils getting out and actually working at getting their constituents a result, instead of sitting on their arrses and pointing their grubby fingers at all and sundry.

    The BBBC just love it when these posturing incompetents ‘seem’ to be getting the upper hand over our elected government, but only actually talk borrocks like 60s union leaders in a pay dispute.

    BBC autocue-readers will enjoy today, nobody takes much notice though.

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