BBC
The Express reports that the BBC faces a £160 million budget blackhole. Apparently one million people over the age of 75 have refused to pay the license fee.The corporation hit 4.5 million older pensioners with a bill for the first time in 20 years last August, and has reportedly spent £1 million of fee payers’ money fighting sex and race tribunals brought by its own staff. This comes as the government shelved proposals on decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee after a public consultation on reforms and amongst growing concerns about programming and bias.
LOCKDOWN
The Times reports this morning that covid 19 lockdown restrictions may well continue into the summer. Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for the second year running and the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that it was ‘too early to say’ whether lockdown could be lifted in the spring. He went on: ‘’We’re seeing the contagiousness of the new variant that we saw arrive before Christmas, there’s no doubt it does spread very fast indeed”.
CORONA VIRUS
The Daily Mirror reports that the number of areas with rising coronavirus case rates has almost doubled in a day. 31 of 315 local authorities in England saw infection numbers rise in the week leading to January 17. The jump follows days of infections falling in more and more areas, and underlines according to the article how the country is a long way from having the virus under control.
The Telegraph reports that Ministers are considering paying £500 to everyone who tests positive for Covid under plans that would cost the state almost £2 billion a month. Also under consideration are plans to replace the present system with a universal payment, meaning anyone who had a positive test could claim the funds. The move has been costed at up to £453 million a week if there were 60,000 cases a day – 12 times the cost of the current approach.
The Daily Mail reports that arrivals to Britain could be forced to quarantine in airport hotels under plans to be discussed by ministers today as travel chaos continues at borders. Any new restrictions would be a further blow to the beleaguered travel industry and put the holiday plans of millions at risk. Britain’s Airports are struggling to cope at the moment with people apparently queuing for hours to get through passport control at Heathrow Airport. The Home Office insisted there were no staffing issues and people were moving through in ‘good time’. In a further sign of the disruption ahead, it emerged that EU leaders are discussing plans to close the borders to British travellers to slow the spread of the new Covid variant first identified in Kent.
SUMMER HOLIDAYS
The SUN reports that Priti Patel the Home Secretary has indicated that it is far too early to speculate about summer holidays which is just as well as Britons wishing to holiday in Spain this summer may find that it’s a ‘no go area’ as British tourists won’t be allowed to holiday in Spain until the end of summer, when the majority of the population has been vaccinated, the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has declared. The news comes as the Spanish Health Ministry reported 41,576 new coronavirus cases, the highest number registered in a 24-hour period since the virus first broke out.
EU
The SUN reports: Michel Barnier has admitted other countries could follow Britain out of the EU if eurocrats don’t “draw the lessons” from Brexit and address people’s “anger” with Brussels. The bloc’s chief negotiator acknowledged there was “always a risk for the future” that deep dissatisfaction with how the club is run could lead to more exits.’’ This comes as Boris Johnson has refused full diplomatic status to E.U officials saying that “It’s a matter of fact that the EU is a collective of nations, but it’s not a state…in its own right”.
PRESIDENT BIDEN
The Independent carries several stories this morning about the new President’s first day in office. It reports that as America watched their TV screens with ‘joy and hope’ the rest of the world let out a ‘collective sigh of relief as the return diplomacy and international relations came not a minute too soon’, going on to report that over the last four years Donald Trump had destroyed the reputation of America across the globe. Support came from the EU as Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EU Commission, tweeted “The United States is back. And Europe stands ready. To reconnect with an old and trusted partner, to breathe new life into our cherished alliance.”
NORTHERN IRELAND
The Express reports: Northern Ireland will choose to remain a part of the UK despite fears that Brexit has opened the doors for the region to leave, according to the DUP leader. Speaking on BBC’s Question Time on Thursday night, Arlene Foster confirmed that on a “rational and logical level” people in Northern Ireland would choose to remain in the UK. Earlier this month, DUP’s leader Ms Foster said there “is a gateway of opportunity for the whole of the UK and for Northern Ireland” after the UK-EU trade deal.
Just a thought
Nigel has been doing some good work, keeping the cross Chanel Illegal Immigrant issue alive
And as I say, I had a thought, it was about one of the pictures I saw on one of his broadcasts which showed quite a large number of the dinghies they used to cross the Chanel, now confiscated and stored in rows on a concrete parking lot.in Kent
We all know where and how they came to be there, escorted from the shores of France by French war ships, handed over to British protection in mid Chanel and escorted to British shores, their passengers stored in hostels or hotels to await their fate.
I am a great believer in the principle “of doing to those what they do to you.
Why not use all those idle dinghies, fill them up with fuel, re-passenger them with those stored Illegal Immigrants, put them to sea and send them off to France with a British war ship accompaniment , I’m sure the French will accord them the same generous reception they have received in this country.
Nobody says much however about the UN Global Migration Compact, a timebomb about to go off………..
Is this confiscation Tory posturing to make it look like we’re regaining our borders? While in the background the Gobal Compact will legalise all immigration and open the floodgates?
Meanwhile the sheeple are all cowering behind their muzzles, terrified, and are blind and deaf to all this……
Lets add a few “Covid marshals, thug policemen civil serpents and politicians who’ve been kicking around protesters to the contents ofthe doinghies……And bore a few holes in them…….
BBC – Of course they should be defunded, but in the meantime they should be told to stop paying multi-million pound salaries to non-entities and jobsworths. Until they are dragged kicking and screaming into the real world nothing will change.
USA – Biden did not win the election he took control by fraud and deception. There is indeed major unrest of varying degrees and the volcano is bubbling. The covid legislation is, of course, a smokescreen for ever more control over everyone’s lives and this will add to the tensions dramatically. Michael Keal you are right Biden won’t be there long, he will stand down “for family/health reasons” i.e. dementia so the one to watch is Harris. She is evil and dangerous and I am sure on the terrorist “watch” list. Things will come to a head sooner rather than later I hope.
I really hope you’re right. The enemies of globalist criminals and criminal organisations simply can’t let evil triumph and run rampant over all of us, not only USA. Vistory wont come easily however as almost the entire US establishment is corrupt?
I am quite surprised that the Inauguration in the USA was not replete, nay smothered with all of those Star Spangled Banners and not being burned, since neither Biden nor Harris ever hid their support of either Antifa or BLM. who treasonously debased the flag.
In fact Harris raised money to defend and have released the BLM and Antifa gangsters, on an industrial basis.
Why do these fakes now pretend that they support their flag?
To my mind it simply illustrates their duplicity and fakery.
I pray for America….pray that the dreadful Harris is not elevated to the Presidency should Biden finally collapse in a ‘blethering’ heap.
Will this ‘freak team’ still support the madness of ‘knee-bending’ in ‘honor’ (sic) of that career criminal, female abuser and drug addict?
At least with Trump we had a President who UNMISTAKEABLY put America First……but with these two?
They have managed immediately to isolate and virtually disown something like 73 million American voters from their very first day……and I cannot see things improving with their divisive stance.
If only they would stand back and let things cool down……but No! They talk about unity whilst stoking the fires of division.
GBA!
Do you think Misterpaul that U.S.A. will see massive unrest, division, protests etc? How far will it go?
Pauline…..I have to confess that I have always liked Americans……perhaps because I was around during WWII, when we quite often received ‘little food parcels’ from the USA. So generous. Those memories never seem to fade.
I have been golfing there a couple of times….again great enjoyment, great memories.
So…..my view will of course be coloured by my experiences
I am so sorry to say that I have little or no confidence in the ‘Security Services’ and trust in those areas, I.e. FBI/CIA in particular.
Why? ………..JFK/ 9/11/ and the recent Judicial decisions during and after the election fiasco, all smell to High Heaven.
SO! To answer your question.
If the Biharris Regime watch their P’s and Q’s…….for about six months…there may be a lull in the ‘fighting’…….IF THEY DON’T?
If they continue to allow Antifa and the equally revolting (no,pun meant!) BLM to spread their mayhem, rioting, burning and looting……….YES! I definitely see disturbances….how widespread? The RED States may show reserve……but the BLUE States?
If the local Mayors and the Local Governments allow, without restrictions, these gangsters to continue their ‘reign of terror’?
I can envisage those on the centre or far right to react quite mercilessly….bearing in mind they have given the terrorist gangs enough rope.
My fervent hope then, is that BIHARRIS ‘pull in their horns’ and stop their apparent persecution of that 73 Million Trump voters……give them time to accept that Trump will not be fully effective politically for about two years. 2022 will be ultra-important if he decides to be active.
I see a bit if a powder keg……….it will be lit if BIHARRIS make too many false moves.
All the best!!!
Thanks.
Pauline…I am not a ‘conspiracy theorist’ I am a Conspiracy Believer.
Try and examine the role of Mitch McConnell in this ‘ New US Administration.
A. Subsequent to the tragic death of his wife and child…..he married a Chinese Lady……
B. Biden has borrowed money from China…
C. Trump has tried to recover American industries from Chinese domination…REE especially…..
D. Trump not only trusted, but elevated McConnell within his Administration…….McConnell now seems to be leading the charge to ‘prosecute’ Trump……..who has actively warned against China, and their theft of Intellectual,property’ from America for forty years and more…..
E. What did I hear Trump murmur?……….”Et tu, Brute” would THAT be appropriate.?
And thanks again.
BBC
I have just finished reading David Sedgwick – bbc-BrainwashingBritain 2019(?). A must read for ‘fair and balanced’ views – a phrase he uses all the time.
Towards the end of the book, he gives numbers of people who have stopped paying the tv ‘household poll tax’.
From 2010 to 15 ~a million a year stopped paying. Since then it has dropped to about 800,000 a year. So that total is around 10 million no longer paying since 2010.
Makes you wonder why they are chasing pensioners?
There’s a hell of a lot of interesting info in that book isn’t there. He shows conclusively that BBC set out to destroy Trump and one friend of mine believed far too much of it. We know BBC pushed remain E.U. then cliff edges etc.
I think it is that book where I first learned about cultural marxism and once alerted it can be seen everywhere.
Biscotte…..why are they chasing pensioners? They think we are ‘easy meat’.
Housebound, servile and Law abiding……that’s how vile the BBC, and the Government are, when it comes to the loyal truly indigenous English and British……..these people I mention have invariably voted Conservative……..but their allegiance could turn,,,especially if REFORM UK takes hold……….but they need more than just Farage…..they need good people ‘in depth’.Farage can only ‘carry’ so many with him……….I say again….there urgently needs to be a Coalition of the Centre-Right and the Right………WITHOUT THAT REAL CLOSE COALITION?
Nothing will change……..more especially at the BBC.
I never watch TV myself but I understand from UK Column that BBC are producing subtle propaganda putting into younger peoples minds that we are useless feeders, and drip feeding the idea that perhaps euthanasia is not such a bad idea…..
So pensioners are funding a broadcaster that is working (surreptitiously) towards their elimination………….
Misterpaul5a I totally agree about the coalition of the centre right and right.
I find myself increasingly ‘house bound’ at the moment. But, don’t know about you, no way do I intend to be servile or law abiding!
Up Yours BBC and a few other things too!
The not British Anymore Broadcasting Corporation is a lost cause. It is beyond reform. I grew up with it. I was proud of it. I defended it until I could no longer hold even a glimmer of hope or trust in its output. Defund it.
Don’t think for one minute the Tories will defund the BBC. They haven’t the nerve to do it. Simply not paying the licence fee is the most effective way to defund the BBC. Simple really.
Of course they won’t. The BBC are making the Tories’ job really easy, of creating a police state under peoples noses, and turning us into guinea pigs, while aforesaid people are paralysed with fear of the virus. Not that most of the sheeple in UK would care about that even if they noticed……
Don’t forget the BBC gets a lot of Gates money. If they weren’t getting money from any other source Gates would keep them going since they are his propaganda machine.
The Guardian also id funded by Gates and doubtless others….
Well done ‘Boris’ for refusing diplomatic status to E.U. officials. Someone in our Government has good sense re brexit and the EU.
The general ‘Bowing and Scraping’ to the new US administration is inevitable of course – ‘diplomacy’.
According to the Sun the EU is a ‘club’. I wonder if Barnier really called it a club. Or a word meaning anything like that.
I’m disappointed that the B.B.C. is not much further in debt! More of us should have refused to pay! The sex and race tribunals are a load of rubbish of course. The Beeb brought that on itself and it’s another example of misappropriate use of licence fee money.
The T.V. Licence is a form of taxation. I’m quite sure there is a better use for that money.
BBC: Let’s hope that government doesn’t bail it out with taxpayers’ money. Maybe they should ask their friends in the EU to bail out its propaganda machine.
That would be an eye opener Jack. Perhaps the EU would like to take it over completely! Call it the EUBC – EU Broadcasting Corporation. All EU taxpayers must buy a licence. Not us, we’re out!
It would still be available to our TV sets to receive it of course. Do you think Brussels would swallow that? Sell it as a weapon to make us rejoin!
CORONA VIRUS
Meanwhile, across the pond, the new, even further left than the Republican Party, administration has wasted no time demonstrating exactly what the purpose of the kung foo flu REALLY is.
Dictatorial communist-china-style CONTROL.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/01/21/here-we-go-10-executive-orders-to-federally-weaponize-covid-against-us/
Thanks for leading us this Blog Michael,
Very interesting reading probably “real” grass roots USA reaction to JOBAMAS victory.
Many comments worth reading and some of them containing sensible suggestions of what must be done to counter his malign influence which we might use in this country.
But, but, but the original article MUST be read by everyone possible in this country as it shows how Biden by his signing first instruments has effectively taken over the governance and direction of the whole American peoples without reference to Congress by using the “blind” of the Covid 19 pandemic.
I’m not saying he took lessons from BJ and Hancock but to me it looks a dead ringer!
The majority of US Liberty, free speech and democracy – gone at the stroke of a pen!
Will the yanks have the balls to wake up and fight this any more than us?
Who’s to lead I don’t see anybody there or here.
Roger Turner. ‘I’m not saying he took lessons from . . . ‘ Yes it certainly does look like a dead ringer.