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[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 21:11

ByChristopher Williams, BUSINESS EDITOR and Edward Malnick, SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR12 June 2021 • 8:39pm?The BBC has been accused of an eleventh-hour "ambush" intended to "damage" Sunday's launch of the right-leaning television network GB News.The corporation is alleged to have been pushing to bar GB News from accessing footage of public events via a "pooling" system run by the country's three main broadcasters.The move would leave the new channel unable to broadcast many major events where there is only space for one camera.A GB News spokesman said: "This is an ambush by the BBC designed to damage the launch of GB News and protect their dominance of UK news broadcasting.  We will fight it.  And our launch continues."   The move reignites a row that surfaced in 2010 when the Press Association, the national news agency, complained that it was unable to access footage from "single camera assignments" filmed as part of the UK Broadcast Pool, which comprises the BBC, Sky News and ITN..... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 19:16

Wales Night. Drive carefully. Black Sheep Matter.

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 18:14

?Brexit is once again on the agenda this week as left-wing US President Joe Biden came to Cornwall for the G7 summit, sticking his oar into our affairs as his pro-Irish administration dealt a diplomatic rebuke to the UK over disputes about the hated Northern Irish Protocol.Details of a tense meeting on June 3 emerged as Biden arrived in Britain, with America's top diplomat in the UK, Yael Lempert, allegedly accusing top Brexit man Lord David Frost of "inflaming" tensions by trying to resolve the mess created by Brussels?'? bully boy tactics.The news has led to stinging criticisms of the controversial US President from prominent Brexiteers, with one Tory MP claiming that Biden is "so senile that he probably won't remember what we tell him anyway."Biden's cognitive capacities have been a subject of spirited public debate in the States, with a former White House doctor under both Obama and Trump warning that a recent public appearance "should concern every American who wants to know that their president is fit for duty and in control."All that being said, isn't it odd that Biden – who supposedly cares so much about the Good Friday Agreement – was virtually silent earlier this year when the globalist European Union briefly erected a customs border on the island of Ireland to hoard its own paltry vaccine supplies? Pure cowardice...?BECOME A MEMBER OF THE FOXHOLE?Biden wasn't the only foreign leader to take a bitter swipe at Brexit Britain this week though, with Emmanuel Macron once again attacking Britain in a desperate bid to distract French voters from his woeful domestic record ahead of next year's elections.He's now vowed to block any attempts to reopen talks on the Brexit deal and the Northern Ireland Protocol, saying that "it's not serious to want to review in July what we finalised after years of debate and work in December."To be fair to Macron, we can fully understand why he's in such a foul mood heading into this weekend. After getting the taste slapped out of his mouth on Tuesday as he was heckled by members of the French public, his fragile ego is no doubt very much wounded.Hopefully it will be wounded even more deeply next year when he gets booted out of office by a fed up French electorate. With firebrand nationalist Marine Le Pen getting ever more confident as opinion polls continue to show a tight race, Macron could well be in for a serious thrashing at the polls.??With Biden trying to get involved and Macron now vowing to block any further talks, isn't it time for the government to wake up, smell the roses, and take unilateral action to protect the integrity of the United Kingdom?We already know Britain is on the verge of a so-called "sausage war" with the European Union over British plans to continue shipping chilled meats into Northern Ireland, but what we need now is a full-scale rebuke of the hated Protocol and decisive action from the government to bin it off.That's why we've been pleased in recent weeks to support a crowdfunding campaign from legendary DUP MP Ian Paisley, raising funds for a key legal action that aims to force the UK government to admit in a court of law that the Protocol is discriminatory against British citizens and businesses in Northern Ireland.Any help you can provide to get the case heard is greatly appreciated, as we continue to fight back against this wretched EU plot to carve up the United Kingdom as sick revenge for our decision to quit their corrupt political project.And as always, you can also support the Leave.EU campaign too and help put us on a sustainable footing going forward – you can do this directly at leaveeuofficial.com/get-involved or by becoming a Foxhole member at foxhole.news/membership. We're a small team looking to just cover our costs and keep the campaign running, and any help you can give will go a long way.Yours,The Leave.EU Team

[sabre6] 12/6/2021 18:11

Numpties verses Doughnuts
Who's going to win?

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 18:06

Feel a bit sorry for the French People. But Macron is Sewage.

[freddie01] 12/6/2021 18:06

Absolutely awful in Denmark. Hope the fella can pull through. Football means jack sh*t in times like this.

[xxxxxy] 12/6/2021 18:06

French markets jittery over Le PenBut as the polls reveal a much tighter race with a deeply unpopular Macron this time, bond markets are already showing signs of nerves on what an avowedly populist Eurosceptic president would mean for France's already struggling public finances. One senior analyst calls a Le Pen presidency a "dagger in the heart" of the European project.ADVERTISINGNerves in financial markets over French government debt have been building for months, reflecting the narrowing race.Whereas Le Pen hopes to follow the example of Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac and win at her third attempt, no sitting president has been re-elected in two decades. In France's two-stage race, the National Rally leader emerges as a winner in the first round, but polling puts her at 47pc in the final run-off, signalling a much closer contest than Macron's dominant 66pc of the final vote in 2017.That uncertainty has shaken markets for French government debt, which - like other major economies - is soaring after vast Covid support spending. According to the European Commission, France's total debt stands at 115pc of GDP and the country expects to sell €338bn (£290.1bn) of bonds or OATs (Obligations assimilables du Trésor) to meet its financing needs..... Daily Telegraph

[alexgc] 12/6/2021 17:32

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[grahamite2] 12/6/2021 15:35

Jimmy Fors
12 Jun 2021 3:26PM
@Bob Hope: “What could Corbyn have done that would be worse?” - I’ve asked myself that several times and I don’t see how he could have been any worse. In fact, had PM Corbyn’s policies on lockdown been influenced by his brother’s views, we likely wouldn’t be in this ghastly state.

[grahamite2] 12/6/2021 15:28

#341762 thanks for reproducing that, xxxy. It is a superb article.

The readers' comments on it are no less incisive. One chap says it's bordering on the criminal to carry on with this when there's no evidence to support it.

But two can play that game. The ballot box has nothing to offer as the socialists are worse than the government. The time has come for direct action, for people power.

[pierre oreilly] 12/6/2021 15:26

The difference between George and Minny is that george would take a break from the bar every few hours to shag the latest beauty throwing herself at him, leaving Minny to crack open another can of boot polish. And Minny was a much better footballer than George, obviously. Real Madrid and psv begged Minny to be their centre forward but he didn't want to.

[maxk] 12/6/2021 14:54

Especially so if the bar is open..

[grahamite2] 12/6/2021 14:50

George Best would have got on very well with Minerve!