Why was #Mandelson chosen?
“Come on, Donald! You and I both know you #rape children. I held them down for you. Now, about these tariffs …”
#Trump is an idiot. We applaud #Putin and #Netanyahu pulling his strings, yet clutch our pearls when #UK government does.
#BBC #R4Today #Complicity #Hypocrisy
Children who take naked selfies for a boy-/girlfriend can be charged with creating indecent images.
Why aren’t police who wrongfully strip-search children charged with similar, or inciting a child to perform an indecent act, even for running a bawdy house?
Are their phones and bodycams checked?
Maybe #TESS in this case - Trump Eventually Sees Sense (or is made to see sense by generals openly refusing to commit troops to unjustified and illegal acts)
There is a reason dodgy underhand behaviour is not widely shared with colleagues at all levels.
If I suspect my boss is doing something that stinks, do I intervene and risk being fired, or protect myself by ensuring I am not tainted?
Within that group will be a number who do not want to be helped, will sabotage attempts at help, or have problems so ingrained that independent accommodation is not the immediate need.
Is forced hospitalisation, and medicating without consent, an acceptable and proportionate intervention?
The press are holding Tice’s feet to the fire.
They daren’t try with Oakeshott. Even a body-length away, her hair would still spontaneously ignite.
Butane and nylon are a dangerous mix.
An image containing a post from Isabel Oakeshott complaining that the press are reporting on her boyfriend’s tax dodging accompanied by various reports about his tax dodging.
'Richard Tice’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.'
You couldn’t make it up. 🤦🏻♂️
A self-perpetuating cycle
Police see a youth gang. White kids are fearless - they have done nothing wrong
Black kids have done nothing wrong, but know that will not protect them. They hang back
Police look for suspicious behaviour. Backing away, evasiveness, - natural, justified, but suspicious.
“… bored its own tits off … as well as the public’s”. The difference being that the public has no choice.
Mandelson is an outright crook. Trying to make this about friendship with a crook is pointless.
Farage, Johnson, Patel, Zahawi, Archer, Elphicke, … never got seven consecutive days of scrutiny
There is precedent.
‘Lord’ Lebedev was given the title in spite of security concerns, by Boris Johnson - himself the subject of security concerns after betraying UK and NATO to Russia
… and Trump is currently not allowed to play with his favourite nuclear button due to being an idiot.
Wow!
A month in jail for damaging a statue (or filming it)
Those IDF thugs who murder children, rape prisoners, or use the women’s toilet in a Christian church will be trembling in their boots
Their subsequent promotions, pay rises, medals, celebrity status … won’t protect them
Oh, wait …
But … but … Russia and Belarus are actually IN Europe
What right do THEY have to dictate European policy?
Only a god’s chosen people can do that
… and Israel gets to decide which god.
Trump: “Why choose a professional schmoozer with a proven record of doing deals and papering over cracks? Did Starmer not have drunks, drug abusers, inside traders or family members to choose? Surely Netanyahu could have suggested someone better? Maybe even a misogynist child molester?”
Oh, wait …
#LyseDoucet (to civilian interviewee in #Iran): “I hope you sell lots of shoes today”
Our government cannot accept this - #BBC offering support and good wishes for terrorists?
#MetPolice must arrest her on her return. Anyone wearing Iranian shoes will be jailed.
#Complicity #R4Today #Israel #USA
#BBC #R4Today
#EmmaBarnett: “… #KemiBadenoch will presumably continue to demand #KeirStarmer resigns”
Good stuff. Don’t wait for things to happen before reporting them. Don’t even rely on press releases announcing that they WILL happen.
No, Ms Barnett, just vomit up your febrile dreams as ‘news’.
That’s what ‘growth’ is. You plant seeds and harvest crops.
You cannot find growth through austerity, or by feeding the rich (‘trickle down’).
Good things grow from the bottom up. We need to get the poor spending, and let the multiplier do its thing.
Where a party wants to contest a parliamentary seat, they should have to stand at least three candidates so voters have a real choice
That way we vote for a representative, not a rosette
Independents could stand alone, but be ejected if they then align with a party
Let’s get back to voter choice
#R4Today
“Sam Jackson, Controller of #BBCR3, thanks for seeing us”
Did Anna Foster and Nick Robinson decamp to the R3 office to stand in front of Mr Jackson and be told about the #BBC #Proms?
The right wing have certainly stitched up the “socialists want to stop you having children” argument, while pushing for tax and benefits changes to limit parenthood to the independently wealthy.
We could promote growth by handing out stimulus cheques but insisting they are spent on gambling, cocaine and pet rocks, but it would not be in the UK’s best interests
Fossil fuels are dying. What you propose is the equivalent of continuing slavery as long as slaves are paid a pittance
#R4Today
“It has become fashionable to deride politicians, talk gloomily about how hopeless they are…” - #NickRobinson
The irony is exquisite
Why should we listen to a presenter who (apparently) can’t even hear himself?
“The bloke from the rapacious fossil fuel company, for whom immediate profit means more than the continued existence of humanity, said … How do you, devoted to public service and ensuring the UK population (and their children, grandchildren …) have a future, disagree with that?”
Sadly, doing something to support and protect teachers is low on the government agenda.
No wonder we cannot recruit. I had genuine concerns when my daughter did her training in a sink school, and a real sense of relief when she moved to one with more robust leadership.
I’ll stay tuned to Today.
After that maudlin drivel this morning, they should welcome listeners’ family obituaries about people who actually contributed to our nation.
#R4Today The world is outraged by an #IDF soldier smashing a #Christian statue. #Netanyahu even apologised for it! But the 70,000 killed in #Gaza? The million made homeless in #Lebanon? Why do they not merit at least the same level of outrage?
How much of their profits do offshore oil and gas companies pay in UK tax?
How does that compare to a British small business, like a local firm fitting solar panels or heat pumps?
There will be a need for oil and gas for many centuries after there is no longer any oil or gas. Some of that need will be for lifesaving uses.
Wasting it to drive the dog to a park for a walk, or fetch bread and milk from the corner shop, is not just wasteful
… it borders on criminal negligence.
#r4today
#VettingMandy
#ToryHypocrisy
Ah this it seems like only yesterday!! 🫠. How soon people, specially Tories & their media chums, seem to forget .......
#R4Today
You are correct, #NickRobinson: “Why should Olly Robbins pay for his job?”
… but that wasn’t what you meant, was it?
Do you ever think about what you are saying?
