On Dewbs yesterday she read out an email I sent.
It was about prisoners being allowed to work outside prison.
Apparently it was also a plot idea on something called Black Mirror according to Alex Deane.
Of course, it was meant in a light hearted mischievous way.
This was it:
Put the prisoners on bicycles which generate electricity to charge up storage batteries which can then be used for powering their prison.
A suggestion of what is needed:
* Gardening daily for all prisoners – life skills, manual labour, exercise, time to reflect
* Persistent weeding as an activity – no pesticides
* Vegan diet – waste into manure?
* Self sustaining where possible on all aspects
* Grow hemp to create own clothes
* Generate own electricity for needs
* Water wheel to bring in water – manual process
* Not much concept of leisure time – work/sleep/think during labour
* Work only in daylight – reduces power consumption
* Goods sold as money – for when released
* Food produced given to prisoners’ own family – a way to provide for them in a big way
* Prisoners given choice between Lazy Prison (current system) and Active Prison (garden, dynamo)
Out of reoffending, overcrowding, prison population and cost – this would definitely reduce the costs, and possibly reduce all of the others.
And where in England are you going to find the land you would need to do this, and how will you secure that from escapees?
How will you overcome the objections from the people who live there and those who want to walk in the countryside?
A better idea is a quarry with steep cliffs on three sides, and prisoners manacled at the ankles and sledgehammers breaking rocks for road building and given just enough calories to survive.
Another way would be to make sure all foreign born or first generation migrant criminals are returned to the country of origin to serve their senteces along with their families as the UK does not need toi import criminals, we have enough of our own.
Dom and Kay are two ordinary police community support officers on the front line of policing, handing out frisbees with ‘Stay Street Smart’ printed on them in east London. Detective Inspector Clinton Blair needs two undercover officers to infiltrate the Brightmarsh Gang, but the Met chiefs don’t seem to get the brief, so Clinton decides to take matters into his own hands and recruits Dom and Kay in an ‘off-the-books’ operation.
Dom and Kay succeed in persuading the gang they are fired police officers turned renegade drug dealers and are recruited into the fold. But then, events take an unexpected turn.
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I can’t help it – so your ‘dad ?’ Is coronated. You get an invite but leave the family back in the States . You jet in on the Friday and catch the BA plane at 1545 back to LA on Saturday . No meeting – no family pics ….
Maybe said kidult will now make a $10 million Netflix documentary on ‘how to behave as an ex royal ‘ …
The Adidas – Kanye west debacle highlights the absolutely insane state our world is in right now.
Kanye earns millions of dollars for Adidas,
Kanye comes out with white lives matter,
Adidas panics due to the usual woke hysteria and cut ties….
Adidas lose millions and are left with a shitload of Kanye products they cannot sell.
Shareholders scream and Adidas have to go on the defensive…
The big question is who exactly is now running companies like Adidas, is it the commercial experts or the HR departments!
I just hope they all go down the tubes as quickly as possible, all the race, sex, gender idiots lose their jobs and common sense returns.
They are businesses not social – political causes you bloody stupid idiots!
As for Bud Light…. One can only shake your head, what a total shit show!
The instigators of all this absolute crap are our new breed of childish “teachers” and “educators” who only see their myopic stupid social engineering flags and not real life!
Time for grown ups to kick them out and take back control!
They should have been concerned about him long ago, along with all the other juvenile activist nut jobs on their books using public money to gain profile to pursue their daft obsessions… Lineker, Packham…
Vine Update: he says he was NOT generally suspended, but was subjected to coordinated mass reporting
#2 Says he never deleted any relevant video
yet on May 3 he did delete his gotcha video of a motorist which showed the licence plate and said he’d get motorist fined .. That tweet got few likes and was ratioed ..https://twitter.com/Smithfield60/status/1653885147110883328
His new statement For what it’s worth, the newspaper article yesterday saying my Twitter account was locked was very, very misleading.
1. If it was locked, I never lost the use of it for even a minute.
2. If it was locked, it was caused — not by “a hateful tweet,” as reported — but by a number of people all reporting the account simultaneously, which creates an auto-response by Twitter. Only when a human being at Twitter follows up do they see bad actors have ganged up to close an account.
3. None of my tweets broke any rules and none has been taken down since the alleged “locking.”
4. The complained-of tweet was from nearly a year ago and it is still up.
5. Far from me “naming the person who leads the anti-cycling group in west London,” she had already given an interview under her own name to the, um, Daily Mail.
6. Whoever got the account “locked” immediately sent a screenshot to the Mail who didn’t include points 1-5 in their misleading piece. Such is life.
Note that he’s backtracked from saying the screenshot was a photoshop.
Like linaker – it doesn’t count for much for individual broadcasters who take money from the public to show their personal beliefs on social media .
Both examples I give will financially benefit from expressing their views.
However – I do disagree with vine and his objection to group action or being ‘ganged up ‘ on – within the social media would ( which really shouldn’t matter to Real Life) and how only approved matters should be allowed .
As for road use – Riding my motor scooter – I fear aggressive cyclists because I know I will come off worst if there is a collision – and my insurance costs will rise but nothing will affect them – so licence all cyclists – register all cycles – and have compulsory insurance on them ….
Just looking at it : that’s not just people protesting : that’s a well funded, organised outfit.
The socialists have gone overboard about reporting this. Multiple front-page BBC articles and my android news feed has more about them than the actual coronation.
Maybe the BBC could hook him up with the renowned actress of color that no one has ever heard about, expecting a family on a balcony needs to have one of her required representatives included, because…
So a tradition going back centuries should be cancelled. Ok Femi how about cancelling the Notting Hill Carnival (an imported tradition) which costs circa £10m of public money EVERY year and giving that to the poor. No? Didn’t think so.
I burst out laughing when the BBC showed Floella Benjamin carrying the Sceptre in the procession at Westminster Abbey.
Let me just repeat that, Floella benjamin.
Notting Hill Carnival costs £10m? A quick google search has one way flights to the Caribbean for £500. That’s 20,000 tickets, if it helps visualise the amount better.
Media one day will see their hiring policies backfire.
If you went to another country & watched some historic, traditional ceremony you would be taking snaps & enthusing about it. If you don't like your country & its monarchy then switch the telly off & go do something you enjoy.
Climate activist and champagne socialist Emma Thompson after jetting in from the USA for the coronation. Not an ounce of self awareness. pic.twitter.com/uaP1UgPV5n
I liked the traditional British elements: The Gold State Coach. The Coronation Regalia. The Coronation Procession. The Red Arrows. The arrest of 52 anti-monarchy malcontents.
I didn’t like the gospel choir. So out of place. This pandering to blacks in ceremonies that are of ancient British origin is just plain wrong. If I went to a concert of Zulu war chants in South Africa, I would not expect to hear some strathspeys and reels in the middle of it just so I could feel “included”.
I didn’t hear mention of the Stone of Destiny but I might have been putting the kettle on and missed it.
Moments to remember: The spooked horse backing into the crowd. Harry’s face obscured by Anne’s hat feather.
Will there ever be another coronation? Will the BBC be around to commentate on it?
There will be another coronation, but by then, the Beeboid Radio and Spaffordshire Service will be subscription only, so all the anti-monarchy dregs and hangers-on will have to pay to whinge and moan!
Now that’s true democracy isn’t it!
(By then the BRASS will have a sort of governor-cum-headhoncho, probably Olusoga or some other similar ‘non’ partisan ‘speed-dial’).
I watched the coronation on BBC. Then it went to studio discussion – one of the presenters was David Adetayo Olusoga who I believe is a historian. I immediate turned over. I do not know if this man is woke but I was taking no chances of the BBC ruining the experience for me.
He is most definitely woke, having appeared on the vile Sussexes vile Netflix doco to trash the Monarchy and the Commonwealth.
And he didn’t disappoint on the Coronation.
Olusoga… alleged historian. Simon Webb of History Debunked on YouTube has exposed the fantasies, misinterpretations and drivel of this character on many occasions.
He doesn’t seem to write much in normal rags and prefers to go with the Grauniadal, lefty BBC, like on Saturday, when it was another cringy wokefest which Kirsty tried to balance, but with his views, there was never going to be a fair discussion!
If he wants to be some sort of historian, could he just concentrate on his origins, and find out a bit more about them, than trash UK Inc?
I didn’t even think the gospel choir or perhaps the choice of what they sang very appropriate. It reminded me of Hazbeen’s wedding where the present Princess of Wales and whoever was sitting next to her (think it was Camilla) had a little giggle at the gospel choir judging how their hats went up and down. Some gospel choirs are excellent and their faith overwhelms you as they sing. Maybe the occasion overwhelmed, but I felt we got a performance which could have been a tribute group in a village hall.
However the day needed some uplifting. Between the miserable king and his rotten wet Archbishop I felt quite depressed with no hope for the future.
While our woke King basks in benign multicultural tolerance and diversity, the message doesn’t seem to have reached Birmingham, where a Muslim openly calls for the overthrow of our government by the armies of Islam, in favour of an Islamic State of England to join the worldwide Umma. The authorities, naturally, do nothing.
Enjoy your reign, Your Majesty, while it lasts.
Long Live The King!
Anjem Choudary calls Duke of Sussex a ‘Muslim killer’ and calls on jihadis to retaliate
Hate preacher said Harry’s claim he killed 25 Taliban was a ‘wake-up call’ for Muslims everywhere to ‘end the occupation of foreign forces’
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Martin Evans,
CRIME EDITOR
8 January 2023 • 6:43pm
Look – mass shootings in the USA are back as the main headline along with a lengthy article again after a couple of mis-fires because the shooter was BAME.
Fascinating, if depressing, who certain pols use as rallying points for their power grabs, and the media who fail to hold them to account.
Be honest. You didn't care about his life, his struggles, his threats to innocent people, or his mental illness until you could use it as a rallying cry for your base.
The report is somewhat dishonest by burying the fact that the man was also an XR member later on in the thread.
Let’s be clear; these groups were all planning serious disruption of a major event of state, so crying foul when the police arrest them to prevent this is absurd.
It’s the same thing with the Grand National, the rainbow painters proving they are able to act with speed and effectiveness when the elites require them to do so.
Make no mistake these arrests do not prove a willingness to disrupt legitimate protest, they instead prove that this far Left Socialist Tory government are backing XR to the hilt and they care not one jot for the consequences for the people who are their victims.
A lucid counter, guaranteed to get him on the Vile show, if still on air, with Dr. Shola and sistas.
As with all things, the right to protest has been corrupted and exploited by activists, mainly in the media.
On what planet are a minority organised anarchists allowed to coordinate vast disruption in public places just because they want to? Especially when it near inevitably leads to damage and even threat life?
Well, one now run by the likes of Clive Lewis and James O’Brien, it seems.
As ever the current regime is dire and spiralling but then you look at the alternatives.
You’re right enough. My private pension has lost a fortune and keeps going down – yours is protected by taxpayers and will only go up. It definitely is one rule for the few and one for the rest of us…
Clive Lewis gets around the tweet’s are my own opinion in his own way “Tweets sometimes from staff” (is that Russian Staff?)
@UKLabour MP for Norwich South.Once had a crack at the Kobayashi Maru test.For casework enquiries contact casework@clivelewis.org Tweets sometimes from staff {twitter @labourlewis}
Damn – every time I feel Republican I get something from vermin like jones to push me back to the monarchy . Thanks Owen ….
Are those arrested in custody until the courts open on Tuesday …?
EXCLUSIVE: Two more staff are suspended at blasphemy row school over claims they KNEW RE teacher was going to show pupils ‘offensive’ image of the Prophet Muhammad
Batley Grammar School RE teacher sparked outrage among Muslim parents when he allegedly showed pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad
Crowds of angry Muslims gathered at the school gates last week as the teacher was suspended and the school was shut down before Easter
It has since emerged that two more staff have been suspended while the school investigates the incident, bringing the total to three
A source at the school said blasphemy was on the curriculum but that teacher was not authorised to show pupils the cartoon
The source confirmed the image was from French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo showing the Prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban on his head
Headteacher Gary Kibble apologised to parents for the ‘inappropriate’ use of the cartoons
By VIVEK CHAUDHARY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:08, 1 April 2021 | UPDATED: 12:19, 1 April 2021
The BBC, who gave over quite a bit of the news bulletins yesterday to protestors at the coronation ( out of all proportion to their numbers) today feature the ‘police criticism’ that 52 arrests were made.
Who exactly is criticising? Hardly anyone. Just the same anti-monarchists that protested in the first place.
It’s another example of the BBC’s unfailing editorial tendency to prioritise minority interests that it sees fit ( to support?)
Bloody amazing the woke mentality, all rallying behind the “right to free speech” for the scouse mob yesterday to boo the national anthem and hold up offensive posters at a Liverpool game (stick your coronation up your arse etc)
Yet when people voiced their protests at football matches about footballists kneeling to the BLM far left marxist fraudsters, rioters and looters at football matches it was widely condemned by the same mob AND the media filming and commenting.
And the anti BLM boos were edited out over and over.
Someone suggested may be Liverpool could be given its independence -( voted for by the rest of England ) or conjoined to Scotland – would it be any loss?
9am local news item #3
“*There is growing criticism* of the police for arresting 52 protesters before the Coronation, anti-monarchist and JSO protesters”
That first part wasn’t in earlier news
It’s a value judgement added in
#1 Police arrest people and as time passes , criticism for that arrest rises.. that us the nature of life.
Yet when righties are arrested the BBC don’t use that line.
#2 Protest is OK
but to me hijacking other people’s events is NOT a fair form of protest
… yet is the MO of lefty and antifa groups.
We’re living thorough an age of book burning, historical relativism and vandalism…but you already knew that…
Yesterday I couldn’t get out in the garden due to the endless rain (in this age of drought) so I watched a classic old black and white British film, The Dam Busters. What a movie. They don’t make ’em like that any more…
Sadly, they’ve inflicted an act of cultural calumny and doctored the film. It shouldn’t be allowed.
I’m sure we all know the film and remember the name of the black dog…well, I thought I did. It seems I was wrong.
The aforementioned hound is now called “Trigger”…Yep, just what you’d call a black dog back in the 1940s.
I’m just waiting for the modernised, politically corrected remake of The Dam Busters, starring Lenny Henry as Barnes Wallis and Idris Elba as Guy Gibson.
Perhaps the pooch might be a white poodle called Snowflake…
I wonder how long it took to change the name ? I reckon it is mentioned maybe upto a dozen time …… orwell would be impressed – as would the soviets – as would Goebells ….
Weird thing is, the Latin word for black is Niger.
In other contexts, the appropriation of Latin words into English is considered normal.
And I suspect wing Commander Gibson was using the word on that basis and no other.
Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America’s best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breath-taking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America. Telling stories that range from his hardscrabble childhood in St. Louis to his pioneering early days as a comedian to his indefatigable activism alongside Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Gregory’s memoir riveted readers in the sixties. In the years and decades to come, the stories and lessons became more relevant than ever, and the book attained the status of a classic. The book has sold over a million copies and become a core text about race relations and civil rights, continuing to inspire readers everywhere with Dick Gregory’s incredible story about triumphing over racism and poverty to become an American legend.
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1. The dog role should be played by a dog of colour, not by a White dog.
2. The actor who drove the car that killed the dog should be prosecuted for a racist murder. If he cannot be identified, given that the movie was made in 1955, all motorists should be punished. For instance, road tax could be doubled and the revenue used to help fight the Climate Crisis ™.
Guess it wouldn’t be good to read ‘The grapes of wrath’, again, because the lorry driver who picks up Tom Joad makes up poems as he drives along, like, ‘And there he saw a nigger with a trigger that was bigger than an elephant’s proboscis or the whanger of a whale’!
Movie trivia:
There’s a 1982 film called White Dog, directed by veteran filmmaker Sam Fuller. The name refers to a dog trained to attack black people. IIRC, the film’s release was suppressed because the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People didn’t care for it. I saw it a long time ago, it ain’t that great but it’s definitely an anti-racist film, not a racist one.
As for Trigger the horse, just like Guy Gibson’s dog his original name referred to his colour. Before Roy Rogers bought him he was called Golden Cloud, and he was ridden by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood.
You’re welcome!
I know the BBC’s ” The Royal balcony was too white” comment has already been referenced here .. But here is Sky Australia’s take on it where even the non white interviewee agrees the BBC was out of order …
If Anne Boleyn can be played by a black woman why not modernise completely and substitute Camilla with a black lady , the PiW with a Rasta and some of the page boys with assorted colours?
I find it interesting that the likes of Owen Jones wants rid of the monarchy cos it’s too British and traditional whilst I want rid of Charles because he is too woke.
It shows what a mistake Charles is making in sucking up to the Wokists , who will never support the monarchy , and by doing so he is pissing off those of us who are the monarchies base supporters.
They tried a black one couple of years ago and within a few months she was pregnant, unemployed and accusing everyone around her of racism yet with numerous complaints of her bullying assistants.
Also complaining about having to work and complaining about her free house.
Also fell out with her father, her sisters, her brothers and sisters in law (made one one cry) and her father and mother in law).
Kingdoms, thrones and crowns: inside the lives of Nigeria’s monarchs – in pictures
Photograph: George Osodi
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The country’s traditional rulers were stripped of their constitutional power in 1963, but their descendants still serve as the local custodians of law and order. Lagos-born photographer George Osodi has captured their kingdoms and cultures since 2012
For those of you who who aren’t aware, Gonzalo Lira is an independent journalist living in and reporting from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was under house arrest until his recent arrest and detention:
A bank holiday weekend – an ideal opportunity for the ferals to get their knives out . Three dead in East Londonistan since Friday.
The msm prefers more death a long way away – eg Texas …. Here it is Walthamstowistan – Dagenhamistan and Hackneyistan ….
In my bit of east londonistan – the nicer bit – the flag of our former nation is sort of about . But the council would prefer red or rainbow ones . I haven’t seen an England flag yet though …. I suppose this is banned as it might cause ‘offence ‘….
Hello Scroblene – I doubt they are still building spitfires … but I do dream of a forgotten warehouse somewhere where there are a stash of WW2 aircraft …
Luckily, vegans will eventually die out, as the essential vitamins and minerals they miss out on, won’t be around in their nirvana, and they’ll just waste away!
Why is it that whenever one meets someone who is odd like that, you get told immediately that they’re vegan, whereas if I meet a normal person, I don’t get any of their views unless we get chatting!
Are they always afraid of being left out?
Senora O’Blene knows people who claim to be vegetarian, but nosh fish, and chicken, turkey etc!
Pathetic, but that’s the usual boring BRASS stance according to more-than-the-fair percentage of the cold sick pics on their cookery pages!
The article before – from the DT by professor Matthew Goodwin describes the current government ( in my view ) – apologies – the BBC isn’t mentioned –
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One of the most striking, yet entirely predictable, features of the local elections is the extent to which the Conservatives are now being squeezed on two flanks at the same time. In the south, the party is firmly in retreat, chased out of Dover, Medway, Plymouth and Swindon by Labour, which just emerged as the largest party in local government for the first time since 2002, and in Windsor and Maidenhead, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Surrey Heath by the resurgent Liberal Democrats, who just enjoyed their best set of local election results since 2010.
In the North, meanwhile, the party is continuing to lose ground in pro-Brexit areas which had been trending Tory since 2016, such as Blackpool, Darlington, Grimsby, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Stoke-on-Trent, reflecting how the party’s post-2016 electorate is now rapidly imploding, leaving it with nowhere to turn. None of this should surprise us. While Team Sunak will tell itself that the results are a hangover from the unpopular premierships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, alongside the disastrous effects of rampant inflation, the truth is both more complex and challenging.
The blunt reality is that ever since Brexit, the Conservative Party has tried to be all things to all voters while satisfying none of them. In the aftermath of the referendum, as I warned the party at the time, it faced a clear choice. It could either seize the moment and rebuild itself around an entirely new electoral coalition and political geography. Or it could cling to a broken status quo and be destined for defeat. It chose the latter.
As anybody who has ever sat in a focus group will tell you, there was simply no way on earth many of the professional middle-class graduates, young Millennials and even younger Zoomers in the big cities, university towns and liberal enclaves were going to vote for the Tories in 2024. Brexit, Boris and Trussonomics pushed them away for a decade.
No, the only way forward for the party was to lean into the very people who voted against a broken consensus in 2016 and then leant the Tories their votes in 2017 and 2019. These are the workers, non-graduates, pensioners, cultural conservatives – apathetic and disillusioned masses who saw Brexit Britain not simply as an opportunity to rebuild a broken economic, cultural and political consensus.
But what did these voters get in return? They got a party that, in the aftermath of Brexit, never really knew what it was or what it wanted to be. They got a party that talked about building an entirely new social contract but then showed little interest in actually delivering on that promise. They got a party that instead of developing a serious agenda for public service reform still thinks it’s living in 1988. They got a party that, ever since the late 2000s, has talked over and over again about lowering immigration only to then slam its foot on the pedal and usher in even higher levels of net migration with no serious plan for what this will mean for housing.
They also got a party that talked about reshaping Britain around “high-skill” immigration but then set the salary thresholds for workers as low as £21,000, below the average. They got a party that talked about Taking Back Control only to Completely Lose Control on Britain’s borders while refusing to do the things that would be necessary to regain control, such as adequately reforming the Human Rights Act.
They got a party that spent years criticising New Labour for pushing millions of our fellow citizens onto state dependency and welfare, stripping away meaning and purpose from their lives, but which today presides over a massive expansion in the number of working age people who are on welfare benefits while turning to mass immigration to plug the gaps.
Nor is that all. They got a party that, in the aftermath of Brexit, talked about putting the national community first but then failed to implement a requirement for British companies to advertise jobs in Britain first. They got a party that talks the talk about using Brexit to reassert core British freedoms, but that has consistently retreated from taking on the radical woke progressive Left. They got a party that is called Conservative on the tin but which over the last decade allowed an entire swathe of traditional conservative territory, from the rights of women and children to our shared history and cultural inheritance, to be repackaged as toxic “culture wars” which too many Tories have refused to engage with.
If you’re a recent Conservative convert, in other words, if you’re in the Hartlepools or Darlingtons, or the two-dozen more Red Wall seats that could have still turned Tory at the next general election, why would you have voted for the party at these local elections? What have you actually got since Brexit?
The answer is a country and a political economy that remains utterly dependent on all the things these voters thought they were rejecting in 2016: mass immigration, a London-centric economy, rampant globalisation, the routine prioritisation of the values and the voice of a liberal urban minority, and a Conservative Party that too often appears uninterested in genuinely reinventing itself to meet the moment.
The only way Team Sunak have a chance of turning all this around is by making a choice to invest in the very people who invested in them. But I for one won’t be holding my breath. My instinct tells me exactly what the results of the local elections do – we are now rapidly heading toward a Labour-led government.ENDS
I suppose , if you reflect , it was inevitable that the race industry would play their role in the coronation weekend .
It is a very competitive industry so those making a living from it have to have their angle . Those whose people are from the dark lands have an advantage over the whitees because they can shelter behind their heritage victimhood – and forget that they are making their living in a country which has allowed their people to come here – whether the domestic British population like it or not – and never have been ‘consulted ‘ .
In the DE they had a readers poll today “Who stole the show” and they had a large list to vote for.
The results are in and topping the list is Penny Mordaunt.
Second was Kate with Charlie coming in third. (or 111rd?)
I bet just about every vote for Penny was from men.
Dr Iain McGilchrist: We are living in a deluded world
“Very improvised version of life – it’s lost all it’s beauty.”
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“Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”
"Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: 'Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.' So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny" https://t.co/rJuag0QmDC
If you peek at the Guardian today you could be excused for assuming you had landed on the national news service for Argentina. The simmering and quite repulsive anti-British flavour of virtually every single article is breathtaking.
I really fail to understand why all their journalists insist on staying in this Country. They would be much happier in any banana republic. And incidentally many of us would be more than happy to see the back of the insidious bunch of whingers.
Meanwhile the BBC has put up a sterling show of feigned attention to the coronation. We all know it’s related to the license fee and that it won’t last long.
Sorry BBC but you have shown your true colours too often to pull the wool over our eyes again. The sooner you all are history, the better.
Even Fiona Bruce heading the royal edition of the antiquities program couldn’t resist getting in a segment on Queen Victorias toilet seat and some royals underpants.
The hidden sniggering did not go unnoticed my dear!
As an addendum I invite the Guardian staff to take a quick look at the state of most of the Worlds republics, in the USA innocent people are being gunned down in double figures in the streets. In France the streets are full of burning shops and vehicles, in Sweden rampant recent arrivals are controlling large city areas and creating havoc with rapes and murder. The UK suddenly seems quite civilised hey?
Mrs L is watching the Coronation Concert in the other room. I lasted about 2 minutes with it, until Stella McCartney came on and told me the planet is being destroyed, and its all my fault. Their propaganda is relentless.
Now in our home office watching porn on my PC, far more interesting.
It seems that by wearing a frock and carrying a heavy swords makes a politician candidate to be the next leader of the blue Labour Party or even PM …. Was madness injected into the ‘historic ‘ weekend ?
New thread – with an added bank holiday to re adjust to Real Life …
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On Dewbs yesterday she read out an email I sent.
It was about prisoners being allowed to work outside prison.
Apparently it was also a plot idea on something called Black Mirror according to Alex Deane.
Of course, it was meant in a light hearted mischievous way.
This was it:
Put the prisoners on bicycles which generate electricity to charge up storage batteries which can then be used for powering their prison.
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A suggestion of what is needed:
* Gardening daily for all prisoners – life skills, manual labour, exercise, time to reflect
* Persistent weeding as an activity – no pesticides
* Vegan diet – waste into manure?
* Self sustaining where possible on all aspects
* Grow hemp to create own clothes
* Generate own electricity for needs
* Water wheel to bring in water – manual process
* Not much concept of leisure time – work/sleep/think during labour
* Work only in daylight – reduces power consumption
* Goods sold as money – for when released
* Food produced given to prisoners’ own family – a way to provide for them in a big way
* Prisoners given choice between Lazy Prison (current system) and Active Prison (garden, dynamo)
Out of reoffending, overcrowding, prison population and cost – this would definitely reduce the costs, and possibly reduce all of the others.
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And where in England are you going to find the land you would need to do this, and how will you secure that from escapees?
How will you overcome the objections from the people who live there and those who want to walk in the countryside?
A better idea is a quarry with steep cliffs on three sides, and prisoners manacled at the ankles and sledgehammers breaking rocks for road building and given just enough calories to survive.
Another way would be to make sure all foreign born or first generation migrant criminals are returned to the country of origin to serve their senteces along with their families as the UK does not need toi import criminals, we have enough of our own.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Alfred North Whitehead
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/alfred_north_whitehead_146975
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Dom and Kay are two ordinary police community support officers on the front line of policing, handing out frisbees with ‘Stay Street Smart’ printed on them in east London. Detective Inspector Clinton Blair needs two undercover officers to infiltrate the Brightmarsh Gang, but the Met chiefs don’t seem to get the brief, so Clinton decides to take matters into his own hands and recruits Dom and Kay in an ‘off-the-books’ operation.
Dom and Kay succeed in persuading the gang they are fired police officers turned renegade drug dealers and are recruited into the fold. But then, events take an unexpected turn.
Less
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ff7zfx/black-ops-series-1-episode-1
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I can’t help it – so your ‘dad ?’ Is coronated. You get an invite but leave the family back in the States . You jet in on the Friday and catch the BA plane at 1545 back to LA on Saturday . No meeting – no family pics ….
Maybe said kidult will now make a $10 million Netflix documentary on ‘how to behave as an ex royal ‘ …
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Richard Vobes – England does not exist:
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ICC – Putin’s arrest warrant:
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/31/iccs-putin-arrest-state-dept-report/
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Mark Dolan on GB News confirms they paid the BBC a “small fortune” for the rights to re-broadcast the Coronation.
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The Adidas – Kanye west debacle highlights the absolutely insane state our world is in right now.
Kanye earns millions of dollars for Adidas,
Kanye comes out with white lives matter,
Adidas panics due to the usual woke hysteria and cut ties….
Adidas lose millions and are left with a shitload of Kanye products they cannot sell.
Shareholders scream and Adidas have to go on the defensive…
The big question is who exactly is now running companies like Adidas, is it the commercial experts or the HR departments!
I just hope they all go down the tubes as quickly as possible, all the race, sex, gender idiots lose their jobs and common sense returns.
They are businesses not social – political causes you bloody stupid idiots!
As for Bud Light…. One can only shake your head, what a total shit show!
The instigators of all this absolute crap are our new breed of childish “teachers” and “educators” who only see their myopic stupid social engineering flags and not real life!
Time for grown ups to kick them out and take back control!
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https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1767038/BBC-concern-Jeremy-Vine-rules-breach?
They should have been concerned about him long ago, along with all the other juvenile activist nut jobs on their books using public money to gain profile to pursue their daft obsessions… Lineker, Packham…
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JO’bsworth raising who the BBC hire, or shouldn’t.
Brave.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/james-o-brien-and-the-carl-beech-witch-hunt/
Prior to this, he was with Newsnight, of McAlpine renown.
Vile, James… they do attract the flies, don’t they?
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People including newspapers have for days been saying that Jeremy Vine has been suspended by Twitter
but he keep tweeting which proves he isn’t
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Interesting what does not get a Twitter banning, and what does that they won’t specify.
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Vile seems cosy with Champion…
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Vine Update: he says he was NOT generally suspended, but was subjected to coordinated mass reporting
#2 Says he never deleted any relevant video
yet on May 3 he did delete his gotcha video of a motorist which showed the licence plate and said he’d get motorist fined .. That tweet got few likes and was ratioed ..https://twitter.com/Smithfield60/status/1653885147110883328
His new statement
For what it’s worth, the newspaper article yesterday saying my Twitter account was locked was very, very misleading.
1. If it was locked, I never lost the use of it for even a minute.
2. If it was locked, it was caused — not by “a hateful tweet,” as reported — but by a number of people all reporting the account simultaneously, which creates an auto-response by Twitter. Only when a human being at Twitter follows up do they see bad actors have ganged up to close an account.
3. None of my tweets broke any rules and none has been taken down since the alleged “locking.”
4. The complained-of tweet was from nearly a year ago and it is still up.
5. Far from me “naming the person who leads the anti-cycling group in west London,” she had already given an interview under her own name to the, um, Daily Mail.
6. Whoever got the account “locked” immediately sent a screenshot to the Mail who didn’t include points 1-5 in their misleading piece. Such is life.
Note that he’s backtracked from saying the screenshot was a photoshop.
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As usual rules only apply to righties
not to lefties, especially high profile ones
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Like linaker – it doesn’t count for much for individual broadcasters who take money from the public to show their personal beliefs on social media .
Both examples I give will financially benefit from expressing their views.
However – I do disagree with vine and his objection to group action or being ‘ganged up ‘ on – within the social media would ( which really shouldn’t matter to Real Life) and how only approved matters should be allowed .
As for road use – Riding my motor scooter – I fear aggressive cyclists because I know I will come off worst if there is a collision – and my insurance costs will rise but nothing will affect them – so licence all cyclists – register all cycles – and have compulsory insurance on them ….
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Meanwhile Champion Ash again shows why she is a BBC fave guest.
#CCBGB
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Just looking at it : that’s not just people protesting : that’s a well funded, organised outfit.
The socialists have gone overboard about reporting this. Multiple front-page BBC articles and my android news feed has more about them than the actual coronation.
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Sarkar? – mellowing from her communist background?
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Maybe the BBC could hook him up with the renowned actress of color that no one has ever heard about, expecting a family on a balcony needs to have one of her required representatives included, because…
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Media in US struggling a bit with their Michael Jackson impersonator too.
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I was going to say that in all those thousands people, I can’t see anyone black.
But then it switched to the studio and bingo! – black woman right at the front.
I would be funny if it wasn’t so utterly dishonest and racist.
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I burst out laughing when the BBC showed Floella Benjamin carrying the Sceptre in the procession at Westminster Abbey.
Let me just repeat that, Floella benjamin.
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I missed it. Was it through the round or the arched window?
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I think it was the woke one.
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Notting Hill Carnival costs £10m? A quick google search has one way flights to the Caribbean for £500. That’s 20,000 tickets, if it helps visualise the amount better.
#CreativeReparations
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Media one day will see their hiring policies backfire.
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Another BBC frequent guest…
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BBC studio rounds tomorrow?
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Single First class seat on BA to LA? £13000… ( charge it to the company )….
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Thick as mince, like all lefty luvvies.
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Well, what a day.
I liked the traditional British elements: The Gold State Coach. The Coronation Regalia. The Coronation Procession. The Red Arrows. The arrest of 52 anti-monarchy malcontents.
I didn’t like the gospel choir. So out of place. This pandering to blacks in ceremonies that are of ancient British origin is just plain wrong. If I went to a concert of Zulu war chants in South Africa, I would not expect to hear some strathspeys and reels in the middle of it just so I could feel “included”.
I didn’t hear mention of the Stone of Destiny but I might have been putting the kettle on and missed it.
Moments to remember: The spooked horse backing into the crowd. Harry’s face obscured by Anne’s hat feather.
Will there ever be another coronation? Will the BBC be around to commentate on it?
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There will be another coronation, but by then, the Beeboid Radio and Spaffordshire Service will be subscription only, so all the anti-monarchy dregs and hangers-on will have to pay to whinge and moan!
Now that’s true democracy isn’t it!
(By then the BRASS will have a sort of governor-cum-headhoncho, probably Olusoga or some other similar ‘non’ partisan ‘speed-dial’).
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He is most definitely woke, having appeared on the vile Sussexes vile Netflix doco to trash the Monarchy and the Commonwealth.
And he didn’t disappoint on the Coronation.
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Olusoga… alleged historian. Simon Webb of History Debunked on YouTube has exposed the fantasies, misinterpretations and drivel of this character on many occasions.
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He doesn’t seem to write much in normal rags and prefers to go with the Grauniadal, lefty BBC, like on Saturday, when it was another cringy wokefest which Kirsty tried to balance, but with his views, there was never going to be a fair discussion!
If he wants to be some sort of historian, could he just concentrate on his origins, and find out a bit more about them, than trash UK Inc?
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I thought the gospel choir cringeworthy, heavy virtue signalling gig.
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When the gospel choir came on I took the opportunity for a pee break, live and let live my bladder comes first.
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I didn’t even think the gospel choir or perhaps the choice of what they sang very appropriate. It reminded me of Hazbeen’s wedding where the present Princess of Wales and whoever was sitting next to her (think it was Camilla) had a little giggle at the gospel choir judging how their hats went up and down. Some gospel choirs are excellent and their faith overwhelms you as they sing. Maybe the occasion overwhelmed, but I felt we got a performance which could have been a tribute group in a village hall.
However the day needed some uplifting. Between the miserable king and his rotten wet Archbishop I felt quite depressed with no hope for the future.
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While our woke King basks in benign multicultural tolerance and diversity, the message doesn’t seem to have reached Birmingham, where a Muslim openly calls for the overthrow of our government by the armies of Islam, in favour of an Islamic State of England to join the worldwide Umma. The authorities, naturally, do nothing.
Enjoy your reign, Your Majesty, while it lasts.
Long Live The King!
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“the armies of islam”, that’s a laugh, remember Saddam’s “elite” republican guard ?
All the fighting age males are good for is running away and straight into dinghies at Calais.
That lot are only brave when they outnumber ten to one at least, they are of a mob mentality.
Good at stoning wimmin to death though,
and have the natural peasant scum cunning to know when the authorities and police hands are tied, to become their baying mobs.
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Time and demographics are on their side.
And fanaticism.
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Treason. “Wake up and smell the coffee”.
Start deportation soon .
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Anjem Choudary calls Duke of Sussex a ‘Muslim killer’ and calls on jihadis to retaliate
Hate preacher said Harry’s claim he killed 25 Taliban was a ‘wake-up call’ for Muslims everywhere to ‘end the occupation of foreign forces’
By
Martin Evans,
CRIME EDITOR
8 January 2023 • 6:43pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/01/08/anjem-choudary-calls-duke-sussex-muslim-killer-calls-jihadis/
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Texas shooting: Eight killed by gunman in Allen mall
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65515915
Look – mass shootings in the USA are back as the main headline along with a lengthy article again after a couple of mis-fires because the shooter was BAME.
I’ll bet my hat that this one is a whitey.
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Fascinating, if depressing, who certain pols use as rallying points for their power grabs, and the media who fail to hold them to account.
Getting the feeling the people they claim to represent or speak for have had enough.
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Organised. And with unsurprisingly skewed backing.
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Then there are the media who are now in politics.
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It’s the same thing with the Grand National, the rainbow painters proving they are able to act with speed and effectiveness when the elites require them to do so.
Make no mistake these arrests do not prove a willingness to disrupt legitimate protest, they instead prove that this far Left Socialist Tory government are backing XR to the hilt and they care not one jot for the consequences for the people who are their victims.
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As ever, the narrative now belongs to the extremes, with truth… and realities, lost in the columns and tv studios…
A lucid counter, guaranteed to get him on the Vile show, if still on air, with Dr. Shola and sistas.
As with all things, the right to protest has been corrupted and exploited by activists, mainly in the media.
On what planet are a minority organised anarchists allowed to coordinate vast disruption in public places just because they want to? Especially when it near inevitably leads to damage and even threat life?
Well, one now run by the likes of Clive Lewis and James O’Brien, it seems.
As ever the current regime is dire and spiralling but then you look at the alternatives.
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The money tree…. Clive, Jez… one day shaking it will get a different result.
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Clive Lewis gets around the tweet’s are my own opinion in his own way “Tweets sometimes from staff” (is that Russian Staff?)
@UKLabour MP for Norwich South.Once had a crack at the Kobayashi Maru test.For casework enquiries contact casework@clivelewis.org Tweets sometimes from staff {twitter @labourlewis}
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/11/13/monday-open-thread-51/comment-page-2/#comment-880662
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Straws, camels…
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And yet the likes of the bbc can still not get enough of Clive, AOC or this clown…
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Damn – every time I feel Republican I get something from vermin like jones to push me back to the monarchy . Thanks Owen ….
Are those arrested in custody until the courts open on Tuesday …?
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EXCLUSIVE: Two more staff are suspended at blasphemy row school over claims they KNEW RE teacher was going to show pupils ‘offensive’ image of the Prophet Muhammad
Batley Grammar School RE teacher sparked outrage among Muslim parents when he allegedly showed pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad
Crowds of angry Muslims gathered at the school gates last week as the teacher was suspended and the school was shut down before Easter
It has since emerged that two more staff have been suspended while the school investigates the incident, bringing the total to three
A source at the school said blasphemy was on the curriculum but that teacher was not authorised to show pupils the cartoon
The source confirmed the image was from French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo showing the Prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban on his head
Headteacher Gary Kibble apologised to parents for the ‘inappropriate’ use of the cartoons
By VIVEK CHAUDHARY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:08, 1 April 2021 | UPDATED: 12:19, 1 April 2021
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A simple question to all these vocal exponents of the new world order…
“Do you really think you have improved matters?”
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You know what attracts what?
https://www.indy100.com/video/claudia-winkleman-tory-christmas-radio?
Claudia Winkleman calls the coronation ‘Tory Christmas’ live on BBC radio
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Claudia Winkleman – on the fringe
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The BBC, who gave over quite a bit of the news bulletins yesterday to protestors at the coronation ( out of all proportion to their numbers) today feature the ‘police criticism’ that 52 arrests were made.
Who exactly is criticising? Hardly anyone. Just the same anti-monarchists that protested in the first place.
It’s another example of the BBC’s unfailing editorial tendency to prioritise minority interests that it sees fit ( to support?)
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Bloody amazing the woke mentality, all rallying behind the “right to free speech” for the scouse mob yesterday to boo the national anthem and hold up offensive posters at a Liverpool game (stick your coronation up your arse etc)
Yet when people voiced their protests at football matches about footballists kneeling to the BLM far left marxist fraudsters, rioters and looters at football matches it was widely condemned by the same mob AND the media filming and commenting.
And the anti BLM boos were edited out over and over.
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Someone suggested may be Liverpool could be given its independence -( voted for by the rest of England ) or conjoined to Scotland – would it be any loss?
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9am local news item #3
“*There is growing criticism* of the police for arresting 52 protesters before the Coronation, anti-monarchist and JSO protesters”
That first part wasn’t in earlier news
It’s a value judgement added in
#1 Police arrest people and as time passes , criticism for that arrest rises.. that us the nature of life.
Yet when righties are arrested the BBC don’t use that line.
#2 Protest is OK
but to me hijacking other people’s events is NOT a fair form of protest
… yet is the MO of lefty and antifa groups.
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We’re living thorough an age of book burning, historical relativism and vandalism…but you already knew that…
Yesterday I couldn’t get out in the garden due to the endless rain (in this age of drought) so I watched a classic old black and white British film, The Dam Busters. What a movie. They don’t make ’em like that any more…
Sadly, they’ve inflicted an act of cultural calumny and doctored the film. It shouldn’t be allowed.
I’m sure we all know the film and remember the name of the black dog…well, I thought I did. It seems I was wrong.
The aforementioned hound is now called “Trigger”…Yep, just what you’d call a black dog back in the 1940s.
I’m just waiting for the modernised, politically corrected remake of The Dam Busters, starring Lenny Henry as Barnes Wallis and Idris Elba as Guy Gibson.
Perhaps the pooch might be a white poodle called Snowflake…
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Jeff
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I wonder how long it took to change the name ? I reckon it is mentioned maybe upto a dozen time …… orwell would be impressed – as would the soviets – as would Goebells ….
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Weird thing is, the Latin word for black is Niger.
In other contexts, the appropriation of Latin words into English is considered normal.
And I suspect wing Commander Gibson was using the word on that basis and no other.
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Nigger: An Autobiography Paperback – 13 Jun. 2019
Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America’s best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breath-taking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America. Telling stories that range from his hardscrabble childhood in St. Louis to his pioneering early days as a comedian to his indefatigable activism alongside Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Gregory’s memoir riveted readers in the sixties. In the years and decades to come, the stories and lessons became more relevant than ever, and the book attained the status of a classic. The book has sold over a million copies and become a core text about race relations and civil rights, continuing to inspire readers everywhere with Dick Gregory’s incredible story about triumphing over racism and poverty to become an American legend.
Read less
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Bought it on dvd before they desecrated it.
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1. The dog role should be played by a dog of colour, not by a White dog.
2. The actor who drove the car that killed the dog should be prosecuted for a racist murder. If he cannot be identified, given that the movie was made in 1955, all motorists should be punished. For instance, road tax could be doubled and the revenue used to help fight the Climate Crisis ™.
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Trigger was a bloody horse, fergodsake!
I think the Roy Rogers Museum should sue!
Guess it wouldn’t be good to read ‘The grapes of wrath’, again, because the lorry driver who picks up Tom Joad makes up poems as he drives along, like, ‘And there he saw a nigger with a trigger that was bigger than an elephant’s proboscis or the whanger of a whale’!
Beat that!
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Movie trivia:
There’s a 1982 film called White Dog, directed by veteran filmmaker Sam Fuller. The name refers to a dog trained to attack black people. IIRC, the film’s release was suppressed because the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People didn’t care for it. I saw it a long time ago, it ain’t that great but it’s definitely an anti-racist film, not a racist one.
As for Trigger the horse, just like Guy Gibson’s dog his original name referred to his colour. Before Roy Rogers bought him he was called Golden Cloud, and he was ridden by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood.
You’re welcome!
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Winston Churchill was said at times to suffer from depression. He called it ‘The Black Dog’.
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I assume Stormzy will therefore be asked to go back to the recording studio and re-record all his “songs” which include the word “nigga”………
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They’ll have to change the words:-
“God save the King. The fascist regime …………..”
Charles would be pleased to be relevant.
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I know the BBC’s ” The Royal balcony was too white” comment has already been referenced here .. But here is Sky Australia’s take on it where even the non white interviewee agrees the BBC was out of order …
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If Anne Boleyn can be played by a black woman why not modernise completely and substitute Camilla with a black lady , the PiW with a Rasta and some of the page boys with assorted colours?
I find it interesting that the likes of Owen Jones wants rid of the monarchy cos it’s too British and traditional whilst I want rid of Charles because he is too woke.
It shows what a mistake Charles is making in sucking up to the Wokists , who will never support the monarchy , and by doing so he is pissing off those of us who are the monarchies base supporters.
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Nelson Mandela played by a male dwarf.
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If only someone there would have said:
They tried a black one couple of years ago and within a few months she was pregnant, unemployed and accusing everyone around her of racism yet with numerous complaints of her bullying assistants.
Also complaining about having to work and complaining about her free house.
Also fell out with her father, her sisters, her brothers and sisters in law (made one one cry) and her father and mother in law).
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Kingdoms, thrones and crowns: inside the lives of Nigeria’s monarchs – in pictures
Photograph: George Osodi
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The country’s traditional rulers were stripped of their constitutional power in 1963, but their descendants still serve as the local custodians of law and order. Lagos-born photographer George Osodi has captured their kingdoms and cultures since 2012
George Osodi
Fri 12 Aug 2016 12.18 BST
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For those of you who who aren’t aware, Gonzalo Lira is an independent journalist living in and reporting from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was under house arrest until his recent arrest and detention:
https://sonar21.com/prayers-for-gonzalo-lira-and-his-family/
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A bank holiday weekend – an ideal opportunity for the ferals to get their knives out . Three dead in East Londonistan since Friday.
The msm prefers more death a long way away – eg Texas …. Here it is Walthamstowistan – Dagenhamistan and Hackneyistan ….
In my bit of east londonistan – the nicer bit – the flag of our former nation is sort of about . But the council would prefer red or rainbow ones . I haven’t seen an England flag yet though …. I suppose this is banned as it might cause ‘offence ‘….
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I’ll say it again – Black Knives Matter.
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Is the Spitfire factory still there, near The Hale, Fed?
Great restaurant opposite on the canal, run by a fabulous Italian family, who also owned the buildings in front of the car pound…
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Hello Scroblene – I doubt they are still building spitfires … but I do dream of a forgotten warehouse somewhere where there are a stash of WW2 aircraft …
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Now that would be a find, Fed!
Just Googled the site – it’s totally different now, but the lock’s still there, thank goodness!
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How strange: 2 racially motivated murders in the US, and the BBC aren’t interested?
Oh, hang on. Wrong sort of racism. Silly me.
“Black Man Charged With Hate Crime After Executing Two White Men For Being White! WOKE MEDIA SILENT!”
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Not a word from the representatives of Western Christianity:
https://tapnewswire.com/2023/05/the-ruthless-strategy-of-persecuting-the-orthodox-church-in-ukraine-may-backfire/
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This should keep all the vegans happy:
https://tapnewswire.com/2023/05/the-plan-to-ban-meat/
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Luckily, vegans will eventually die out, as the essential vitamins and minerals they miss out on, won’t be around in their nirvana, and they’ll just waste away!
Why is it that whenever one meets someone who is odd like that, you get told immediately that they’re vegan, whereas if I meet a normal person, I don’t get any of their views unless we get chatting!
Are they always afraid of being left out?
Senora O’Blene knows people who claim to be vegetarian, but nosh fish, and chicken, turkey etc!
Pathetic, but that’s the usual boring BRASS stance according to more-than-the-fair percentage of the cold sick pics on their cookery pages!
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Reminds me of the old joke:
Q: Why did the vegan cross the road?
A: To tell a complete stranger that she was a vegan.
(although the pallid complexion, purple hair and rainbow teeshirt may have given a clue anyway)
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Q: How can you tell if someone is vegan?
A: Don’t worry they’ll tell you.
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The article before – from the DT by professor Matthew Goodwin describes the current government ( in my view ) – apologies – the BBC isn’t mentioned –
STARTS
One of the most striking, yet entirely predictable, features of the local elections is the extent to which the Conservatives are now being squeezed on two flanks at the same time. In the south, the party is firmly in retreat, chased out of Dover, Medway, Plymouth and Swindon by Labour, which just emerged as the largest party in local government for the first time since 2002, and in Windsor and Maidenhead, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Surrey Heath by the resurgent Liberal Democrats, who just enjoyed their best set of local election results since 2010.
In the North, meanwhile, the party is continuing to lose ground in pro-Brexit areas which had been trending Tory since 2016, such as Blackpool, Darlington, Grimsby, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Stoke-on-Trent, reflecting how the party’s post-2016 electorate is now rapidly imploding, leaving it with nowhere to turn. None of this should surprise us. While Team Sunak will tell itself that the results are a hangover from the unpopular premierships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, alongside the disastrous effects of rampant inflation, the truth is both more complex and challenging.
The blunt reality is that ever since Brexit, the Conservative Party has tried to be all things to all voters while satisfying none of them. In the aftermath of the referendum, as I warned the party at the time, it faced a clear choice. It could either seize the moment and rebuild itself around an entirely new electoral coalition and political geography. Or it could cling to a broken status quo and be destined for defeat. It chose the latter.
As anybody who has ever sat in a focus group will tell you, there was simply no way on earth many of the professional middle-class graduates, young Millennials and even younger Zoomers in the big cities, university towns and liberal enclaves were going to vote for the Tories in 2024. Brexit, Boris and Trussonomics pushed them away for a decade.
No, the only way forward for the party was to lean into the very people who voted against a broken consensus in 2016 and then leant the Tories their votes in 2017 and 2019. These are the workers, non-graduates, pensioners, cultural conservatives – apathetic and disillusioned masses who saw Brexit Britain not simply as an opportunity to rebuild a broken economic, cultural and political consensus.
But what did these voters get in return? They got a party that, in the aftermath of Brexit, never really knew what it was or what it wanted to be. They got a party that talked about building an entirely new social contract but then showed little interest in actually delivering on that promise. They got a party that instead of developing a serious agenda for public service reform still thinks it’s living in 1988. They got a party that, ever since the late 2000s, has talked over and over again about lowering immigration only to then slam its foot on the pedal and usher in even higher levels of net migration with no serious plan for what this will mean for housing.
They also got a party that talked about reshaping Britain around “high-skill” immigration but then set the salary thresholds for workers as low as £21,000, below the average. They got a party that talked about Taking Back Control only to Completely Lose Control on Britain’s borders while refusing to do the things that would be necessary to regain control, such as adequately reforming the Human Rights Act.
They got a party that spent years criticising New Labour for pushing millions of our fellow citizens onto state dependency and welfare, stripping away meaning and purpose from their lives, but which today presides over a massive expansion in the number of working age people who are on welfare benefits while turning to mass immigration to plug the gaps.
Nor is that all. They got a party that, in the aftermath of Brexit, talked about putting the national community first but then failed to implement a requirement for British companies to advertise jobs in Britain first. They got a party that talks the talk about using Brexit to reassert core British freedoms, but that has consistently retreated from taking on the radical woke progressive Left. They got a party that is called Conservative on the tin but which over the last decade allowed an entire swathe of traditional conservative territory, from the rights of women and children to our shared history and cultural inheritance, to be repackaged as toxic “culture wars” which too many Tories have refused to engage with.
If you’re a recent Conservative convert, in other words, if you’re in the Hartlepools or Darlingtons, or the two-dozen more Red Wall seats that could have still turned Tory at the next general election, why would you have voted for the party at these local elections? What have you actually got since Brexit?
The answer is a country and a political economy that remains utterly dependent on all the things these voters thought they were rejecting in 2016: mass immigration, a London-centric economy, rampant globalisation, the routine prioritisation of the values and the voice of a liberal urban minority, and a Conservative Party that too often appears uninterested in genuinely reinventing itself to meet the moment.
The only way Team Sunak have a chance of turning all this around is by making a choice to invest in the very people who invested in them. But I for one won’t be holding my breath. My instinct tells me exactly what the results of the local elections do – we are now rapidly heading toward a Labour-led government.ENDS
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“Stop the boats!”
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I suppose , if you reflect , it was inevitable that the race industry would play their role in the coronation weekend .
It is a very competitive industry so those making a living from it have to have their angle . Those whose people are from the dark lands have an advantage over the whitees because they can shelter behind their heritage victimhood – and forget that they are making their living in a country which has allowed their people to come here – whether the domestic British population like it or not – and never have been ‘consulted ‘ .
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Coming here and turning this country into a third world country with our government’s consent and never have been ‘consulted ‘.
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In the DE they had a readers poll today “Who stole the show” and they had a large list to vote for.
The results are in and topping the list is Penny Mordaunt.
Second was Kate with Charlie coming in third. (or 111rd?)
I bet just about every vote for Penny was from men.
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Penny for PM!
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Vote ‘no government party’…
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“None of the above” – best party in the world!
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Penny Mordaunt and Bill Gates. That’s all this country needs:
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Biden Admin and WHO:
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Dr Iain McGilchrist: We are living in a deluded world
“Very improvised version of life – it’s lost all it’s beauty.”
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“Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”
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Coronation Concert now live on bBBC one, two out of three presenters are black, nuff said.
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The queen of Afro beats just bern performing with a hideously black band, shocking lack of diversity
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If you peek at the Guardian today you could be excused for assuming you had landed on the national news service for Argentina. The simmering and quite repulsive anti-British flavour of virtually every single article is breathtaking.
I really fail to understand why all their journalists insist on staying in this Country. They would be much happier in any banana republic. And incidentally many of us would be more than happy to see the back of the insidious bunch of whingers.
Meanwhile the BBC has put up a sterling show of feigned attention to the coronation. We all know it’s related to the license fee and that it won’t last long.
Sorry BBC but you have shown your true colours too often to pull the wool over our eyes again. The sooner you all are history, the better.
Even Fiona Bruce heading the royal edition of the antiquities program couldn’t resist getting in a segment on Queen Victorias toilet seat and some royals underpants.
The hidden sniggering did not go unnoticed my dear!
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As an addendum I invite the Guardian staff to take a quick look at the state of most of the Worlds republics, in the USA innocent people are being gunned down in double figures in the streets. In France the streets are full of burning shops and vehicles, in Sweden rampant recent arrivals are controlling large city areas and creating havoc with rapes and murder. The UK suddenly seems quite civilised hey?
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Mrs L is watching the Coronation Concert in the other room. I lasted about 2 minutes with it, until Stella McCartney came on and told me the planet is being destroyed, and its all my fault. Their propaganda is relentless.
Now in our home office watching porn on my PC, far more interesting.
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Any of that Penny bird playing with a sword ?
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It seems that by wearing a frock and carrying a heavy swords makes a politician candidate to be the next leader of the blue Labour Party or even PM …. Was madness injected into the ‘historic ‘ weekend ?
New thread – with an added bank holiday to re adjust to Real Life …
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