554 Responses to Midweek Thread 28 October 2020

  1. Darcy3 says:

    No comment needed:

    Holocaust denial is NOT banned on Twitter, Jack Dorsey reveals as he clashes with Republican senators over why Donald Trump is fact-checked but Iran’s threats to Israel aren’t

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was grilled on company policies on ‘misinformation’
    Hey said Holocaust denial did not fit into three categories
    However glorification of violence also is banned
    Twitter said earlier this month it has a policy to ‘take action against content that glorifies or praises historical acts of violence and genocide’
    Republican senators wanted to know why Trump tweets got warning labels
    Also pressed on tweets by Iran’s Ayatollah Khameni
    The Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet summoned Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs to Capitol Hill Wednesday

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8889653/Holocaust-denial-NOT-banned-Twitter-Jack-Dorsey-reveals-clashes-GOP-senators.html

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  2. Darcy3 says:

    ‘Who the hell elected YOU?’ Ted Cruz tears into Twitter’s Jack Dorsey for STILL censoring tweets about Hunter Biden’s emails as Republicans slam him, Facebook and Google for ‘bias’ – and he admits ‘conservatives have lost our trust’

    The Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet summoned Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey to Capitol Hill Wednesday
    The Big Tech leaders were questioned over how they handle political content as Republicans claim they ‘censor conservative voices’
    The hearing comes as social media sites blocked a New York Post article revealing details of Hunter Biden’s hard drive, prompting fury from Republicans and Donald Trump
    Ted Cruz, the Republican from Texas, tore into Dorsey accusing him of wielding power with accountability saying: ‘Who the hell elected you?’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8888985/GOP-senators-slam-Facebook-Twitter-censorship-suppression-conservative-voices.html

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  3. Darcy3 says:

    Jeremy Corbyn supporter, 31, is facing jail after bombarding three Labour MPs with anti-Semitic abuse calling them ‘c****’, ‘racist Zionist scum’ and wishing they would ‘die’ in series of threatening phone calls

    Dame Margaret Hodge, Dame Louise Ellman and Lord John Mann were targeted
    Nelson has pleaded guilty to three counts of sending offensive communications
    Westminster Magistrates’ Court today heard of ‘disturbing’ rants by serial troll

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  4. Darcy3 says:

    The above posts beg the question: who are the real nazis of today ?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Certainly the BBC uses the techniques the nazies used to brainwash the german population .

      Globalism has replaced nazism – but not in the overt way they used .

      Dissenters are not sent to physical concentration camps but instead are ‘ banished ‘ – laurence fox – david starkey – being notable examples .

      If the left continues to ascend it will only be a matter of time become ‘ community safety orders ‘ are used on any dissenters to the approved group think …

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      • Deborah says:

        I posted the other day about Waitrose emailing me about Black History month or BLM complete with ‘approved’ books to read. I would like to complain but really do fear being branded a racist and repercussions eg blocked from delivery slots etc. My voice remains silent, not so my purse where I keep any purchases to a minimum.

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    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      The feminazis?

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  5. StewGreen says:

    .So beeboid have you found a tiny thing you can build up into big agenda pushing
    And waste licence payers money on something that pleases just 78 people on Twitter ?

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    • JimS says:

      Five hundred years of whinging BAMEs in the UK?

      And we think it started with Sir Lenny…

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    • Jeff says:

      The BAME contribution to England’s rich and diverse history is absolutely astonishing…
      Henry VIII’s trumpeter!

      You know, if they keep scraping the bottom of that barrel…

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  6. Darcy3 says:

    Is he going to be hounded out of his job ??

    Outrage as West Indies cricketer Marlon Samuels boasts of his ‘f***ing superior skin tone’ in racist attack on England rival Ben Stokes and taunts him by saying: ‘Give me 14 days with your wife’

    The outburst came after Stokes joked he would not wish quarantine on Samuels
    The Jamaican wrote: ‘Give me 14 days with your wife turn har [sic] into Jamaican’

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    France going back into big style lock down – except at the coast of course – it gives the red Tory PM the ability to follow on and lock down Blighty again – taking away the disunity in his own party ….

    …Which leaves me as an ‘honorary ex pat ‘ as I am overseas deciding whether to come back to UK or not – my flights have been cancelled …. interesting … can anyone pop round to ‘fed towers ‘ and feed the goldfish ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh Raheem has more on the leaker
      “New York Times defrauded the public with claims of a senior admin official working against ⁦@realDonaldTrump
      Instead, it’s a junior staffer who had no face time with POTUS.”

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    Mail online reports a grass within the Trump administration has revealed himself ….but still doesn’t cover the Biden laptop ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      “Former Dept of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor reveals he wrote the anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018”

      Anyway what are deflecting against ?

      Ironically Twitter cut off this video when I tried to play it

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  9. vlad says:

    Tucker exposes more on the Biden crime syndicate that the BBC doesn’t want you to know.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    2,597 people have signed the Save BBC petition
    in a country of 67 million people
    What they have actually signed up to is to receive endless emails from Change.org
    https://www.change.org/p/viewers-save-the-bbc

    I could could put a FAKE signature
    or even 3
    even if I was in another country
    cos their petitions don’t have proper validation systems

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  11. Doobster78 says:

    Bad news everyone. Pope Marcus of Rashford has scored twice for Manchester United tonight .

    Expect the virtue signalling and media fawning to go into overdrive tomorrow (Not that it isn’t already)

    Maybe the BBC could work out how many school dinners his goal bonus alone (never mind wages) could fund ?????

    Or, maybe not !!!!!!

    Update , it’s a hat trick !!!! It’s going to be sickening !!

    Here is the BBC live reporter’s view ……

    “Marcus Rashford MBE. Feeding the kids and giving penalties to his teammates. What a man!”

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  12. vlad says:

    The lying BBC relegate the scandal of Social Media censorship, bias and electoral manipulation to the ‘Tech’ section of their webshite where they hope no-one will see it, whereas it might more accurately be posted under ‘US Election’.

    They also edited the clip of Jack Dorsey (Twitter) getting savaged by Sen. Ted Cruz, leaving out the best bit (below).

    Perhaps the beeb is feeling a tad uncomfortable watching big media companies being roasted for their blatant bias. Too close for comfort?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54721023

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    • StewGreen says:

      Scott Adams cartoon

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      • vlad says:

        It needs a fourth frame: “We will, however, report any amount of unverified claims against Trump and the Republicans.”

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      • StewGreen says:

        Scott Adams quotes CNN
        “Independent studies of social media have found little credible evidence to suggest that the technology is biased against right-wing viewpoints, but the executives clearly expect to be pressed on the matter.”
        and adds how could they say such a obvious lie
        Where is this big list of lefties that Twitter banned ?

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  13. StewGreen says:

    The crowd comparison tweet
    I just wonder if there are a lot of shy Trump voters
    We already know there are lots of black Trump voters
    but I wonder if a lot of ethnic Mexican-Americans are actually pleased about stronger borders that keep illegal workers and gangs out.

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    • Doobster78 says:

      If I was a voter now in the USA, in these crazy times of this “cancel culture” and lefty mob rule, if a pollster asked my voting intention, despite being a Trump supporter, I would say Biden .

      There will be millions the same. They don’t want their houses trashed and jobs threatened..

      Trump has got this !!!!!!

      Please let it happen !!!! Imagine Maitliss on Newsnight, Sopel and Zurcher tweeting, Guru Murthy on C4 etc.

      They won’t know what’s hit em ????????????????

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    • vlad says:

      There are definitely a lot of shy Trump voters who won’t admit it to pollsters – which is unsurprising given the amount of demonising they’re subjected to, as well as verbal and even physical attacks.

      Even here in Blighty, admitting you support Trump is tantamount to saying you admire Hitler, and will get you promptly ‘cancelled’ from polite society, as I have found.

      (I’ve just seen that Doobster makes the same point above, but I’ll leave this post up for emphasis.)

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Vlad – this goes with my view that the pollsters are wrong . People now realise that certain views are socially accesptable and other – true believes – cannot be expressed – a climate a fear – the consequence of which is people outwoking each other.
        As we see in the BBC it is slowly self destructive .

        How they will handle a Trump win – I have no ideas ….

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  14. pugnazious says:

    The BBC certainly enlightened me yesterday as it brought us the sad and disappointing tale of one black entrepreneur’s experience of trying to obtain venture capital…..I was just a little shocked and extremely disappointed to hear that such discrimination exists in modern Britain today.

    No-one in a diverse and inclusive Britain should have to be asked to show that they are a credible and qualified person to run a business or, and this is very disturbing, be asked to show that their proposed business is also credible and likely to have good prospects of succeeding….if it had been a white person they just wouldn’t ask those questions…and to top it all they asked if the business would be legal…I mean have you ever heard a worse example of racist, nasty Britain? The presenter thought not….not a peep out of him other than to express his own shock and disappointment at how this black entrepreneur had been treated in such a racist manner.

    Oddly and paradoxically, and the BBC just doesn’t see it, is that they also want to reveal to us blacks who were very successful throughout British history…somehow managing to do it against all the odds in that nasty, racist Britain….curious how so many blacks were fully accepted and celebrated for their accomplishments by people who hated them and wanted to oppress them.

    I was listening earlier to yet another BBC tale of a ‘forgotten black sporting hero’ whom we must hear about. So good was he that he was widely loved and celebrated….er…..hold on……remember this was in the 1850’s or so…so blacks were hated and oppressed and just couldn’t succeed due to white supremacy and racism?

    BBC wants to stop trying to tell Blacks that they are hated and start showing that the odd racist is just that…odd and far from the norm.

    The BBC is divisive and dangerous.

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  15. vlad says:

    This Tweet mocks the US msm, but applies equally to our BBC. The bias is as much in what is NOT reported.

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  16. Foscari says:

    Arn’t we lucky to have our license money being so well
    spent with the likes of those impartial reporters Clive Myrie
    and Soppy swanning around the USA giving us a balanced
    view of the election?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      If anyone has his email address I’d like to ask him to get me a confederate battle flag …..

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Shock! Horror! Fed!!

        Are you going all Democratic National Congress Party on us?

        With less than a week to go?

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  17. JimS says:

    Latest ‘Special Reports’ from BBC Business news:

    1. The Senegalese beach businesses adapting to stay afloat

    2. Behind the scenes in South Africa’s beauty industry

    3. The beauty salons getting back to work in Zimbabwe

    4. Opening a new barbershop during the pandemic – Sheldon Tatchell of Legends Barbershop is preparing a new store to open in Midrand, South Africa.

    5. Adjustable fashion-forward face masks in Malawi.

    After 40 years of ignoring Europe is Africa the new America? Whatever else damn all interest to 99.99% of the UK licence fee payers ‘some would say’.

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    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Soon after Tim the Woke Davie took over the BBC the BBC have expanded massively their African reporting taking their anti government and anti police narrative there while remaining quiet regarding the ongoing Islamic war to take over more and more parts of ‘Christian’ Africa.

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  18. pugnazious says:

    ‘The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know’ Noam Chomsky’

    The BBC seems to agree with Chomsky. Personally I think it suits the self-appointed ‘elite’ to patronise us and dismiss us and our concerns as ill-informed, prejudiced and uneducated.

    5 Live right now explaining how we are all so stupd to believe ‘conspiracy theories’…but it’s OK….the BBC is here to help with the Truth.

    If you’ve ever thought that the government had massaged the coronavirus figures to scare us into submission and justify the lockdowns…you’re a victim of a conspiracy theory….except of course you’re not. Fergusons figures have been widely discredited and the government figures for deaths also discredited….dying ‘with coronavrius mentioned’ is not the same as dying ‘of coronavirus’….hence the government had to change the way it published the figures.

    Then we had a caller reveal that his barber had the shcokingly stupid idea that the lockdowns had more to do with the Greens wanting to impose extreme and radical climate change regulation upon us than to do with controlling a disease that to the vast majority seems not to merit the vvast over-reaction by government.

    The BBC presenter and guests laughed at such a stupid idea.

    But it’s not is it? Just look how councls have used the ‘crisis’ to impose green rules on traffic…and how the government freed up planning rules to let them do it….why is travel and tourism being targeted so hard? The underlying motive is to curtail the travel industry and flying. The BBC just had a news bulletin that included a piece on rare turtails breeding in Mexico….a record year…due to lack of tourists….couldn’t help but note the smugly satisfied tone of voice from the presenter as he read that. This is the BBC that wants to turn Wales into a zoo for rich metropolitans like Monbiot to enjoy a ‘safari’ in when it has been ‘rewilded’ and cleared of the farmers….much like the old Highland clearances. And of course Attenborough has just announced that this is a good opportunity to destroy capitalism and reset the world in order to save the planet.

    Conspiray theories or just facts that the BBC doesn’t want you to know…so labels them conspiracy theories.

    Is that a conspiracy theory or…fact.

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      Massage the coronavirus figures? Perish the thought!

      There are certainly many pictures of empty test centres that would appear to belie the claims of test numbers. Photographs on their own prove nothing, of course. But you’d think media might want to look into it.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Set statistics against the conspiracy theory and what do you get?

      The conspiracy theory starts to look believeable.

      Thing that surprised me: it was claimed (I haven’t checked) that at the time when a UK-wide Lockdown was considered and applied, four million – yes, 4 million – Brits were said to be on foreign holidays. If that is true, it represents a lot of affluence and a very big industry … and a great amount of CO2. I wonder how many of the four million were Beeboids?

      And it sort lends credence to the conspiracy theory.

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  19. BRISSLES says:

    World-famous ballet dancer and Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet – – Carlos Acosta. Anyone heard of him ? The winner of this year’s Portrait Artist of the Year will be painting him. Last year it was Nile Rodgers. TV channels are continuing with the theme that is prevalent this year.

    I do like these programmes that show off real talent, but invariably we are stuck with a variety of what can only be described as “unheard ofs” as in many of the sitters for this show. Following in the footsteps of Strictly. Or is it just me ?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Bris darling – fact – Carlos Acosta plays is what is meant to be the Chelsea defence ….

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    • Guest Who says:

      No relation.

      Still with sources… who say.

      A Lurch RT surely in the offing?

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      • Guest Who says:

        It is worse than that, Jim.

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        • Guest Who says:

          DJT has huge rallies.

          Lurch rallies the few faithful to provide the killer blow.

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        • tarien says:

          All supression of the Press? Supression of such was in hand long before President Trump’s entry, started back in Nixon’s time. We in the UK have the same controlling theme, uncontrolled marxist bedevilment, one has only got to listen to the mouthings of Jon Sopel to know which side his bread is buttered. No longer freedom of the press or anyhting else for that matter, pretty bloody awful really.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        Kim Philby was born and bred in Britain. He was still a traitor.

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  20. StewGreen says:

    1675 person poll about news watching

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  21. vlad says:

    With all the big news stories going on, let us not take our eyes off the Religion Of Violence Against Women, Forced Marriage, Forced Conversion and Murder.

    The BBC aren’t interested in the slightest, so here’s the story of Indian Nikita Tomar, murdered for resisting the advances of an amorous young muslim.

    RIP Nikita.

    (The UK rape gangs get a brief mention at the end of the video)

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/faridabad/mlas-cousin-kills-girl-he-was-stalking-in-faridabad/articleshow/78902295.cms

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  22. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    A top story on the BBC’s news channel for British Children which follows the anti-Police pro BLM narrative of the past 6 months. Note only comments supporting Black Lives Matter and criticising the police are allowed:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54719332

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  23. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    The BBC have excelled themselves with the same anti-Trump story headlined on the BBC World news webpage, the BBC UK news webpage, BBC Africa news, BBC Asia news, BBC China news, BBC India news, BBC Australia news, BBC Europe news etc etc.

    The headline was posted throughout the BBC website yesterday evening:

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    and links to the following July 2018 anti-Trump hatchet job of an article:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39732845

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  24. taffman says:

    Why is Boris taking so long to defund Al Beeb, to stop the Channel invasion, to get us out of the EU and to show strong leadership and patriotism?
    He is a bluffer , a poundstreacher Churchill.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      How is the Lockdown working in Wales, taffman? Are you OK? Is Drakeford’s star rising or is there a lot of grumbling on the streets? I gather that a Church in south Wales got a bit rebellious this week.

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      • taffman says:

        Up2snuff
        In simple terms , I am livid with him and his ‘Marxists’ !
        More later………………….

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  25. digg says:

    There appears to be a tactic employed in left-wing news outlets to glorify anyone who attacks the right or centre ground in politics however spurious the claims. They are lauded as “seekers of the truth”.

    The methods used by these people are similar, kick off an unfounded scare story then get the right-wing press to magnify it and give it credence. The ease with which these stories gain traction is testament to the collusion between shady people from the press meeting these shady people to concoct very spurious ‘evidence’ based on one persons twisted take.

    It is noteworthy that the accuser is often someone who has been either overlooked or ignored and hence is more likley to be a case of ‘sour grapes’..

    In the USA…. led by the Democrat supporting BBC…

    ‘Anonymous’ Trump administration critic identifies himself

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54715915

    In the UK led by the Labour supporting Guardian…

    Legal action taken against PM over refusal to investigate Kremlin meddling

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/29/legal-action-taken-against-pm-over-refusal-to-investigate-kremlin-meddling

    We all know what you are trying to do! You can fool some of the people, some of the time etc. etc.

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    • Guest Who says:

      By coincidence watched a movie last night on Netflix called ‘Kill the Messenger’.

      The opening line of course is a key caveat: ‘Based on a true story’. BBC News should have that every broadcast.

      Interesting for the messages churned out, beyond how various reputations trashed who may have been sacrificed for the story and narrative.

      So best viewed maybe as a fictional tale, albeit one to warm the hearts of the radical 80s BBC editor.

      Basically heroic seeker of truth journalist loses all exposing CIA/Reagan/white folk and works up a young Maxine Waters, possibly with justification (I may need to research).

      But a perhaps unintended take out was how the MSM can be harnessed easily to trash anything… and more crucially anyone… if directed to.

      That Welsh Labour luvvy is in it too, as a whistleblower.

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  26. taffman says:

    Al Beeb…………Antisemitism Report and Baroness Chakrabarti, anyone?

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  27. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – BBC = Labour Party? Labour Party = BBC?

    Just fifteen minutes or so of the TOADY Prog from just before 7 a.m. were enough to give me the impression that the BBC are shilling for another complete lockdown across the UK in solidarity with Comrade Starmer. Is it a last desperate attempt by the BBC to get Brexit postponed or even cancelled?

    Is it to show solidarity with the poor people of Wales forced to boil water in saucepans instead of buying new, shiny, electric kettles at Tesco?

    Is it a desire of the BBC to totally disrupt the UK economy so that we, the whole nation, are all forced to queue, in driving rain or snow, for a State ‘back of the truck handout’ of bread and soup from Marcus Rashford and his Mum?

    Or is it just a longing for the BBC to find an exception, someone, anyone – preferably a Government Minister – breaking an extreme Lockdown rule. Aaaah! That’s probably it !!!

    Well BBC. You have not told me for several days how the extreme Lockdown is going in Wales? You know, that desperate Drakeford attempt to show some support, any support, for a beleaguered Labour leader in Westminster.

    How is that going?

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    • Deborah says:

      What is even more worrying is this push for a total lockdown is a co-ordinated attack. Both headlines on the Daily Mail website and Classic FM are both pushing the same way. It might be herd mentality but I feel very uncomfortable about it. If we go into total lockdown, then within days there will be screams in the MSM for it to be lifted; not because they believe it, but just to cause more trouble.

      I have put a lot of the MSM hate of Boris and the government down to Brexit and their desire to bring down the government to stop Brexit at any cost. But this seems bigger than Brexit and I am getting very uncomfortable about it.

      If Trump wins and by a large amount, I fear it will become more obvious what this is all about. I think we are living in ‘interesting times’.

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  28. taffman says:

    Channel invaders . It must be very easy for the French Government to find out who is selling all the dinghies ? Over to Al Beeb……

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  29. Doobster78 says:

    LOL.

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    Mailonline republishes the ‘news ‘ that the new BBC DG is to have a public record of outside income by BBC droids such as

    Naga – cars
    Sopel – fags
    Bruce – anything

    ….I think the real regular income is my favourite – the ‘after dinner speech ‘ industry – which must have taken a real kicking because of the Chinese virus ….. shame

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  31. AsISeeIt says:

    The battle lines are clearly drawn: ‘Change of strategy looms as Covid picks up speed. Prime Minister under pressure to introduce “fire break” across England…’ (nudges the ‘i’)

    Versus: ‘Don’t do it, Boris!’ (pleads the Daily Mail) ‘That’s the plea of medics, business chiefs and MPs who warn of dangers of second lockdown – as PM’s gloomy experts predict huge new death toll’

    There’s a difference of opinion in the press – as there should be. Of course you won’t find it reflected on our national broadcaster.

    Meanwhile the Daily Express goes clinically right royally schizophrenic: ‘Covid cancer timebomb. “Colossal” 50,000 people missing a diagnosis – and cases may double’ – screams one half of the newspaper’s front page while on the other half we have: ‘We cannot thank you enough… Wills and Kate salute NHS heros’

    Reminds me of my favourite photo image of the pandemic – the funeral director’s shop window displaying the slogan “thank you NHS”

    Conceptual artist and sometime scribbler Tracey Emin’s mannish rather knowing twisted scowl graces (if that’s the right word) the front page of both The Times and the Mail. Presumably photos taken in better times for both her and the rest of us. The Times explains: ‘Emin reveals her brutal fight against “bad cancer”. Tracey Emin has had extensive surgery and is hoping to to survive until Christmas’

    We may have our artistic differences about why on earth publicly funded institutions lauded her seedy supposed installations, but let’s put all that to bed (leaving that argument unmade) and wish her all the best and refrain from speculation as to whether she went private. Let’s instead take her cancer as a warning to us all that we need to put this bloody covid obsession into some perspective.

    My Turner Prize entry for 2021 is our Tracey’s unmade hospital bed. It’s transgressive, political and a real contemporary conceptual installation, makes you think, eh? I claim my £25,000.

    Seriously, Tracey, all the best.

    Staying with the arts, “Classical music is colonial? Utter rubbish” insists Daniel Barenboim in the Telegraph.

    The Guardian prominently features: ‘The family who died in search of a better life’ – if they could tell me precisely where that better life is to be found I’d be interested. Naturally we can mourn the Kurdish family who drowned trying to take advantage of our broken immigration system but this sloganised euphemism “in search of a better life” is getting a little tired, do you not think?

    The freebie Metro similarly indulges in a front page of bleeding heart liberal porn: ‘Tragic final pictures’ – there’s always blame for tragedy these days. In literary circles a tragedy is something you blame on the Tories and a comedy is a joke about the Tories – but I digress. Default blame for the soft Left who think it might be a bit rich to blame Boris outright instead believe blame can be pinned not on our gimme gimme benefits system or public cash funded human rights lawyer spivs but squarely on those dastardly mysterious “traffickers”: ‘Blood Money’ screams the Metro.

    The Telegraph recycles a previous BBC story – tell us enough times and we might believe it: ‘BBC stars must declare their outside earnings’

    They do all seem to have a lot of “outside” interests – outside of the simple job of reading the teleprompter I mean.

    I don’t know if it’s a paying gig but Frank Gardner pops up in the ‘i’ today: ‘On the healing power of nature’

    The modern corporate mantra par excellence is quoted on the same page: ‘Any colour you like as long as it’ green. Sustainable fashion’ – capitalism has come a long way since Henry Ford.

    Meanwhile the anti-capitalist Guardian is still any colour so long as it’s black: ‘Black lives, Leroy Logan, who faught racism on the street and in the police’

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit
      Perhaps a better piece of art would be the millions of pounds of unusable PPE the government bought from some fraudster in Turkey back when the panic was full on … the fraud in this time must be ‘breath taking’ ….

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      • Peter Grimes says:

        Particularly given the fragrant Ms Emin’s part-Turkish ancestry.

        Didn’t her ‘oeuvre’ feature a p-stained bed and some soiled sanitary products of the type currently unavailable in Welsh Wales?

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    • G says:

      Asls,

      Yes, the communists are in febrile frenzy mode at present, targeting anything or person they think they can add to their list of destroyed ‘Successes’. Their communist backers are winding their clock up daily because they sense it’ll come to an all-out-war shortly between the good v bad. I had predicted a 50/50 break in western politics some while ago thanks to the stalwart work of the chinese infiltrators working away assiduously to their plan. I still stick with that. It’ll be bloody and nasty. Wouldn’t surprise me if the chinese took the opportunity next week to spring a surprise attack on the gathering naval forces in the China Sea. Right on the election. Watch out Taiwan & Australia because it will be their vessels in the firing line. Not directly the US but taunting that giant military machine. If they can’t get their way by the decades of corrupting the US (et al.) political machine, what’s left?………..

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  32. Dobyns says:

    Not exactly the bbbc

    This is what pandering to wokeness gets you. Wokeness is an insatiable beast where everything will never be enough.

    https://www.city-journal.org/northwestern-univ-president-schapiro-stands-up-to-rioters

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  33. Guest Who says:

    BS is smitten. And thick.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Ex colleague and Anger and Protests Editor of Newsnight digging a professional hole.

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    • Doobster78 says:

      One of the replies

      Cathryn Crawford
      @CathrynRhian
      Replying to
      @maitlis
      and
      @MarcusRashford
      @BorisJohnson
      could learn a thing or two about work ethic from him, that’s for sure. Oh and empathy.

      Two things Cathryn, Work Ethic ????? Running a COUNTRY and training / playing footy with your mates for 3 hours a day, sending a few tweets are a little bit different.

      And he earns £1 million per month for that, isnt that the sort of grossly obscene sums that liberal lefties like Maitliss despise ???

      Hypocrites.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Guest, may I guess the Walnut Wun is hoping Marc might make a bid for political power?

         6 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Nice diverse addition to the opposition bench line up.

        Might even increase the IQ to double digits.

        Why are glammy BBC sycophants so thick too?

        Saw a post gushing about fellow spotlight-addicted clothes horse AOC, comparing her to ACB.

        The natural grace of the latter appeals to me as much as her evident abilities.

        The former could be attractive if she keeps her mouth shut, and forgoes the fashion addiction to make up and frillies that
        get desperate cougars Tatler spreads.

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  34. Darcy3 says:

    Another muslim attack at speakers corner:

    “Love The Hate
    Last Sunday we all witnessed an appalling assault on a small, but strong, smart and vocal Christian woman, a woman who stands on the front line of freedom of speech, a woman renowned for her advocacy of truth-telling and Islam critique.

    That woman is Hatun Tash from DCCI Ministries (Defend Christ, Critique Islam).

    The man who attacked Hatun caused her to become unconscious or at least semi-conscious after he struck her (with force in the face). Eventually, he was taken away by police. The message this “woman beating scumbag” delivered was simple – don’t criticise or satirise Islam, Muhammed or Muslims, if you do you will be attacked, you will get hurt, take our threats seriously – BE SILENT! ”
    Hatun has had to endure many assaults, threats, intimidation and bullying from thin-skinned followers of “the religion of peace”, she is prepared to sacrifice herself for her beliefs and for her god-given right to speak freely. To think that large bearded Muslim men are so offended and intimidated by her courage and her knowledge means only one thing.

    She is right; they are scared of truth-telling; they are weak. The Islamic religion has millions of followers who behave like infants, who can’t accept opposing opinions, who can’t and won’t allow the truth getting out there. Millions of people who have the emotional maturity of a spoilt infant.

    Islam is a religion of the perpetually offended, the religion of perpetual violence, intimidation, murder and terrorism.

    Why?

    Because Allah and Muhammad ordained it so!

    Western nations are rooted in Christianity and acknowledge freedom of speech as a human right, not just a god-given right. Perhaps it’s about time Muslims understand, respect and accept this fact? We will not be bullied, coerced, intimidated, silenced or attacked for speaking freely and honestly about Islam and Muhammad.

    On Sunday the 1st of November Tommy Robinson will go to speakers corner, he will arrive sometime from 11am to show his support for his friend Hatun, he will bring chocolates and flowers to her to show solidarity and promote freedom of speech.”

    https://www.tr.news/tommy-supporting-hatun-tash-at-speakers-corner/?mc_cid=85ab089310&mc_eid=74938678f8

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Darcy3

      TR will be arrested if he goes to Speakers Corner or prevented from going.
      The moslmeic council will have drawn his intentions to the Home Office and Priti will have consented to police action in solidarity with this government’s favourite culture.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Might as well start a crowdfunding defence fund for TR. maybe the state will get to kill him in prison this time …..

           11 likes

        • theisland says:

          Suella will have already received advice from her predecessor Geoffrey Cox on how to word the ‘in the public interest’ proclamation.

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  35. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – Is the Beeb conflicted? You bet!

    The poor old BBC is in a muddle. They trumpet their advertising free broadcast output when they are attacked and are busy creating advertising for books about Cathedral cats and music by Lockdown has-beens, albeit a very successful one.

    They want to attack a Conservative Government but when the Conservative Government goes all a bit liberal and social-minded during the Pandemic, Mishal is worried whether a house might be built ‘somewhere too close’ for a homeless person with problems so the ‘concrete jungle’ bugaboo is raised.

    They want illegal trafficking to continue – and the ever increasing Licence Fee income from more and more homes – but don’t like deaths for affluent illegal immigrants from bad choices about crossing the Channel in small boats.

    The BBC like the thought of the EU and Europe and France and Greece, where they possibly have their holidays or even holiday homes, but are puzzled that the countries are not considered safe by their beloved so-called ‘refugees’. Is their holiday on a Greek Island or in Provence safe?

    I’m very tempted to go the ‘FedUp2 Route’ and stop listening.

    The conflicted BBC is making me conflicted. Against the BBC. I cannot take it any more.

       27 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2 – my exposure to the BBC now is very limited – I’m addicted to an online game and otherwise streaming music , Netflix and Amazon does the rest ….

      … but I fill ill equipped for this site sometimes … so I might go back to Toady and sample some BBC ‘comedy’….

      On which I was musing – …. there seems nothing funny any more … and hearing that Bobby Ball as passed from covid made me think how there is an absence of ‘entertainers ‘ now – perhaps he was of a time … but those occupying broadcast time now – just seem smug unfunny bitter kidults who dream of panel games – places on cooking programmes and ‘serious ‘ travel documentaries about rivers or railways …. as they become ‘stars ‘….

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  36. fakenewswatcher says:

    Switched Toady on near the end (as you do) and heard Toenails in a state of high excitement that Rashford had scored a hat-trick and that Toady had already done a piece on it.
    Toenails will be off to his nearest poster shop to see if there are any posters of said footballer for his front room and incense to burn there in front of? School meals AND three goals!
    No use resisting the urge to worship, boy, get down to it!

       17 likes

  37. Anders Thomasson says:

    Here we go again (France). Doubtless we will be able to rely upon the BBC and Maxi for apologia.

       18 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      George Clooney in talks for ‘Men Who Stab in Churches’.

      In the original French.

      Goats involved too.

      Spoiler: they don’t make it either.

      FIN.

      Not a Joke.

      Meanwhile half the MSM siding already against Macron for his nasty words.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/pushback-on-wokeness-not-if-the-bbc-can-help-it/

    They claim to speak for the nation.

    I dare suggest a very small %.

       11 likes

  39. Up2snuff says:

    Anyone heard anything from Halifax and his virus battle?

       10 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Nothing on the Halifax front but I hope – he – you -Halifax are getting better….and maybe if looking at this site getting comfort from the growing numbers of contributors ….

      On France – I regret not highlighting the failure of the BBC to report president macrons comments about being on guard for further attacks by Muslims – see just after the preamble to this thread .
      Anyway – easy to jump to conclusions on the Nice multiple stabbing murders … … with France locking down and having regular Islamic terrorism I guess it’s only a matter of time for the UK…..

         16 likes

    • Halifax says:

      As if by Magic. This is unreal this is my first day out of bed im sat on the sofa for first time in twelve days and decide to see how my friends are on here and low and behold a massage. Thank you all for your kind thoughts. I’ve gone through 14 days of hell mainly fever and not eaten for 12 days just water i must have lost 25 pounds. That Covid if it gets hold is a destroyer. Just be strong and have faith and hold on. Im nowhere near right yet but I think im at the beginning of the end. I was never once breathless even in hospital just dillusional with a fever.

         39 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        EXCELLENT to hear from you Halifax …. lots of concern here and that remains as that damn bug is a tricky thing and worries the hell out of people – me included due to reduced immune system .
        Get some strength back – avoid the BBC – my personal – new therapy – is an online video game – which is not me.

        Stay hydrated …

        Love Fed and the crew .

           25 likes

        • Halifax says:

          Thank you Fed and all for your kind messages, messages from strangers who I will never know. I wish I could put into words how much that lifts my spirit.

          Thank you

             21 likes

          • Peter Grimes says:

            Well done, Halifax, keep it up!!!

            We’re not strangers, Halifax, we are just friends who have only met online thus far.

            Are you sure it was only Covid? Delusional and with a fever sounds like the result of a bad dose of AlBeebitis.

               12 likes

            • BRISSLES says:

              “We’re not strangers, Halifax, we are just friends who have only met online thus far…..

              Beautifully put Peter.

              Glad you’re on the mend Halifax !

                 13 likes

              • Up2snuff says:

                Oi vey! Vot! No food? Twelve days? That is not good. Get that chicken soup down yer, lad.

                Full marks for keeping up on the other fluids.

                Try a little runny honey, too.

                Maybe for ‘afters’. 🙂

                   10 likes

          • Kaiser says:

            was just wondering how you were this morning after hearing about bobby ball

            and lo and behold here you are

            you’ve made my day

               8 likes

      • Roland Deschain says:

        Good to hear from you. I was getting worried.

           8 likes

      • Deborah says:

        Halifax, I have been worried about you. I was hoping to be first on a new post to make a very ‘loud’ shout to ask how you were. So pleased you are on the mend.

        But you exemplify my inability to decide how the government should deal with Covid. On the one hand would it be better to just get on with life but on the other I don’t think I want to catch it.

           8 likes

      • BlackCountryWench says:

        Excellent news Halifax, hope you continue to get stronger. Best wishes BCW xx

           4 likes

        • Halifax says:

          Nobody knows about this disease its more than just difficulty in breathing (which i didnt) please all of you try and keep safe i tried everything and im not sure how I picked it up. Be strong everyone and thanks again for your messages of kindness and support.

             9 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    Surely June can drop a note to Timmeh! to get this persuasive calmer of communities on The BBC more?

       17 likes

  41. diamonds says:

    Another totally biased reporting by Clive Myrie on the 10.00pm News, no pretext of independence, just BLM rubbish . Did he even try and get alternative views, why are we paying him to go over and spend our license monies on this drivel.
    Please Donald Trump and America win on Tuesday rather than sleepy Joe!!!!

       28 likes

  42. DYKEVISIONS says:

    Something happened in Nice last night..lone wolf with mental issues, no doubt..absolutely horrible, beheading etc.

    As for Al Beeb content, I thought I would dare and have look and see what is on BBC2 this evening for example after Stew’s earlier post at 12.51 :

    6.30 Strictly It takes two..women probably
    7.00 MOTD ..V expensive woke presenter
    7.30 Powering Britain – Windfarm lovefest .. when it is windy
    8.00 Autumn Watch – Chris Packham, how does he still have a job!
    9.00 Trump Show – Orange man bad
    10.00 Mock the Week -comically distanced, more like.
    10.30 The Mini Mash Report – Who? Oh, tick box ticked.
    10.45 Newsnight – SO biased that they have to give it the Sky at NIght slot.

    By the way BLM IS very important..
    Biden Laptop Matters.

       24 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      I note that in the BBC report, this para appears:
      “Police have not suggested a motive for the attack in Nice. However, it follows days of protests in some Muslim-majority countries triggered by President Macron’s defence of French cartoons that depict the Prophet Mohammed. There have been calls in some countries for a boycott of French goods.”

      No calls in France for a boycott of Muslim majority goods? Would you have searched for any of those calls, BBC?

      And then there is that BBC favourite description, ‘a man’.
      “Four years ago Nice was the scene of another terror attack when a man drove a truck into seaside crowds, killing 86 people.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54729957

      Interesting ‘analysis’ by High Schofield is contained in the report. Maybe the blinkers are staring to fall from his and some BBC eyes?

         8 likes

  43. tarien says:

    This government weak as it may appear, MUST not put this nation into a full lockdown-to do so will wreck any small revitalisation of normality we have just now-the future is still very unsteady and the economic climate vunerable-without the country being able to operate its business not only will all orgainsations go to the wall, unemployment rise exponentially-but no doubt the government know this very well, so why put fear into peoples minds? Oh yes, to further subjugate their wills to obey. Look away from Europe, the UK needs to be fully out of the EU’s embrace which will otherwise cause this nations absolute death. The EU will watch its own death within a few years, unlikely 26 nations will want to be controlled to the extent of having millions more immigrants swarming across their sovereign nations, in most cases bringing utter disruption and yards of crime.

       20 likes

  44. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    How’s Wales getting on with it’s 18 day free trial of Communism?

       22 likes

  45. StewGreen says:

    Nice, France ..largely peaceful event possibly connected to Islam
    “French police report that three people have died after a knife attack
    nearINSIDE the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice. Others have been injured and the suspect has been arrested.”
    Mayor says it’s terrorism

    UPDATE: A woman has been decapitated in a suspected terror attack in Nice, French police say. (SkyNews are on scene)

    The attacker has been shot and injured by police #f24

       20 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      he kept shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
      https://www.rt.com/news/504876-nice-knife-attack-france/

         13 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Since the Paris Beheading, which the BBC never condemned, but always “understood”, the BBC has been publishing article after article of the need for change in French society to accommodate its Muslim population which it painted as victims.

      The first Muslim as victims of French society article appeared on the BBC website about 10 to 20 minutes after the original news broke of the Paris beheading.

      The BBC has been inciting civil unrest with their non-stop Muslims as victims of French Society narrative that it would not be an exaggeration to say that Tim the Woke Davie and his BBC have blood on their hands.

      #DefundTimDavie #DefundtheBBC #BringtheBBCtoAccount

         30 likes

      • Zelazek says:

        I have noticed these articles too, BOBOTC.

        I hate the BBC’s use of weasel words and phrases such as “a growing number of people in France are uncomfortable…and want the boundaries around secularism and free speech to change.” Yes, the sneaky implication being that there are all these onion johnnies out there fretting about their unwanted freedom of speech as they peddle along on their bikes.

        No, it is the huge foreign population with a murderous religion and no desire to assimilate who are 1400 years behind the times with regard to free speech and want the law to align with their totalitarian, oppressive faith that wants these boundaries to change.

        These murders and terrorist atrocities are just going to go on and on for ever – or until we surrender. Europe must realise that Islam is incompatible – utterly incompatible – with Western secular values. We must get the idea of repatriation on the table. Muslims must be repatriated, deported or expelled. They don’t belong here.

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  46. Jeff says:

    A knife attack in a church in Nice.
    Three dead, one (reportedly) beheaded.

    Just glanced at the BBC news and…
    They seem far more interested in covid.

    We all know the procedure by now…mental illness…drugs…lone wolf…

    What we really need is a show of solidarity.
    How about people displaying the tricolour flag on their Facebook page.
    Maybe having leading politicians marching in unison along the Champs-Elysees.
    Oh, and don’t forget the candles, teddy bears, balloons and perhaps a verse or three of “Don’t look back in anger.”

    That should do it…

       29 likes

  47. Fedup2 says:

    A very busy day

    Meanwhile the report of the Labour Party and its Anti Semitism has been published

    I went to an enemy paper to download it – but guess what ? The link was to the Radio Times – i guess anti semites live in The Guardian too …
    I will wonder it they – or the BBC will allow comments ….
    And whether the cortupt chakrabati- selling her soul for a white wash – will be doing the rounds on an ever so high moral horse ???

       18 likes

  48. Scroblene says:

    Well said, Fed! (about Halifax a few posts up).

    And good for you, Halifax! Up and about pretty soon methinks!

    And talking to Fed here is a pleasure and an honour too, why, only earlier in the week, I just happened to be ‘first’ at some ungodly hour!

    My original post was going to be popped in at the same time, but we’ve just ditched our old service provider, and the changeover took more time, because they were going to send me an email, but how can they, when the service is in limbo! Duh! But for posteriousness, here it is…

    “Fed, you might like to know that you have a subliminal, beneficial influence here at O’Blene Turrets! 
    I was immersed in the dreaded, standard Monday ritual of watching our overdraft wander even further towards financial oblivion, when I suddenly felt a physical jolt of unadulterated energy, and it took about three seconds to realise that today was going to be my day, and the O’Blene name would be first here forever! The numbers on the banking screen also just turned from red to black in a flish!

    How on earth do you do it?”

    There – I feel so much better now, after two days internet-less, and I hope you get better as soon as you can!

       11 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Scroblene
      Thank you – very kind . I write hear too much sometimes – which is weird since I barely take BBC propaganda any more …although I’m mulling returning to it . I’m in a country where I can get BBC channels without the need for a licence . …how does that work ?

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  49. StewGreen says:

    Jeremy Corbyn found guilty of antisemitism in EHRC report
    – Party “responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination”.
    – Political interference from LOTO office into antisemitism complaints.
    – Failure to provide adequate training to those handling complaints.

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       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Corbyn fan are doing a major fightback
      which includes doctored screenshots of the report.

         12 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Who’s going to look into the whitewash of Shami Chakrabati’s report
      that said there wasn’t any,
      and will they strip her of her peerage ?

      She was last seen in the favourable tweets
      from – Jeremy Corbyn
      – Owen Jones (He had her on his show)
      – Richard Burgon MP on Sep 23

         18 likes

  50. StewGreen says:

    BBC Nice attack story is up
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54729957

    A parody BBC site tweeted the link at 8:53am
    The BBC reporter waited another 10 min before she tweeted it
    using the words “Deadly stabbing attack in #Nice according to French media reports.”
    The BBC had just picked it up from French news

    Talk Radio 10am news reported 3 people had died, then moved to Corbyn story with clips.

       11 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      The BBC have included a whole section justifying the killings, with the BBC claiming there is great division in French society caused by Islamophobia and that France must change in order to address it.

         17 likes