27 Responses to Midweek 21st May 2025

  1. Scroblene says:
    May 20, 2025 at 9:05 pm

    Yeah again… but more solemn now.

    The reaction to Der Starmer’s pathetic and complete roll-over with the awful EU is unravelling by the hour now!

    I’ve seen commentators incandescent with rage about the weakest PM we’ve ever seen – even worse than the appalling Brown – capitulate to the unelected EU scurrilous nomads who are all in it for personal gain, and one which the free-bespectacled twonk in 10, Mohammed Street is expecting to get rich from, when the whole of the UK is in absolute commercial turmoil after years of Labour’s utter failings! He might just as well buy his next house – one that isn’t alight that is – in Brussels.

    I feel so bad about this disastrous man’s marxist ‘policies’; I feel personally hated by labour and their crackpot ideas, all of which are shoved in place to control, but never, ever to contribute to the commercial excellence this country achieved by innovation, hard work, sheer British bloody-mindedness, and pure guts. This idiot man is crucifying Britain, and with a complicit far-left BBC egging him on and puffing him up, we have a real battle on our hands before he’s consigned to history!

    Bring it on!

    (And yes, this comment is one I prepared earlier – thank you Fanny Craddock).

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    • Fedup2 says:
      May 20, 2025 at 9:12 pm

      Scroblene – bloody hell – a full crossing the TTK broadside !

      It cannot carry on ( 77 brigade to note )

      And the threat of 30 months bang ups ain’t gonna fix it …their state won’t be able to deal with mass civil disobedience ..

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      • Scroblene says:
        May 20, 2025 at 9:27 pm

        It’s all from the YouTube, Fed!

        Mike Graham (Talk) and the ex-Chief Inspector nearly exploded on screen this morning! I don’t think I’ve ever seen such rage!

        Living here in Kent is the wrong place to be with so many illegals arriving, and whatever we are told, the cost is getting shoved onto us as poll-tax payers. Reform are now in charge, and they’d better get their priorities in order pretty damned soon!

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        • Flotsam says:
          May 20, 2025 at 11:08 pm

          Smarmer’s quote of the day regarding his EU betrayal, “Britain is on the World stage again”.
          That is of course a total contradiction, after Brexit we were on the World stage, now we’re back in the EU we aren’t. I think, conciously of not, the noxious Smarmer believes he is on the World stage where he thinks he’s entitled to be.

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          • Deborah says:
            May 20, 2025 at 11:40 pm

            What gets Mr D and me, is when that dreadful little man who got someone else to pay for his spectacles, stands there and says that he and is party got a huge mandate from the electorate last year to do x, y or z. He didn’t. This ruddy government got in on the smallest of votes.

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  2. Fedup2 says:
    May 20, 2025 at 9:14 pm

    The Alison Pearson column

    STARTS When is Mummy’s letter coming?” “Is Mummy’s letter here yet, Daddy?” Over the past week, hope and excitement have been building in the Connolly household. Mummy was coming home! Ray Connolly has done his best to manage his 12-year-old daughter’s expectations, keeping the likely date of the Court of Appeal’s decision as vague as possible, but Holly wouldn’t stop asking. It was disappointing last Thursday when, after several hours of evidence, Lord Justice Holroyde said there would be no decision that day, instead a written ruling would be issued as soon as possible. Just after 10.30am today, on the 284th day of Lucy’s incarceration, “Mummy’s letter”, that much longed-for email, arrived. It was a hammer blow. Devastating. Lucy Connolly had lost her appeal for early release. The three judges had decided that a 31-month sentence for one very nasty, hastily-deleted tweet posted on the day of the Southport massacre by a woman of previously exemplary character was perfectly just and reasonable.
    Normal people, that is the millions of us who don’t inhabit the rarefied legal bubble of the Royal Courts of Justice, were shocked and horrified. What on earth was that poor woman even doing in jail in the first place? Seldom can common sense (and its tender sister, common humanity) and legal opinion have been so estranged. The law was no longer just an ass, it was a whole stable of braying donkeys in horsehair wigs.
    I am ashamed of my country, a country I barely recognise. A country where the judiciary appears to have lost its independence along with its marbles, a country where sentences allow posts on social media to be treated more harshly than physical violence and leniency is extended to bad people if they’re from a protected minority but God help you if you’re white or working class and blaspheme against the liberal deities. A Britain that can treat a Lucy Connolly with such monstrous callousness is, frankly, a frightening place. No one is safe.
    “Shame on them,” said Lucy, who called me from HMP Drake Hall minutes after we got the terrible news. “Those three judges that were sitting there in court should be ashamed of themselves, they are cruel, Allison. Women here in jail, they have made mistakes and you listen to their stories and you think, ‘You are poor, you are vulnerable, you didn’t know better, you made really bad choices, you can be forgiven.’ But those judges, intelligent men, they didn’t make a mistake. It’s cruel and twisted what they did.”
    Lucy always somehow manages to sound chipper, resilient, able to see the funny side of her crazy predicament and determined not to let them break her. But not any more. This time, she was raging. “Absolute rotten b——s. Rotten, dictating b——d judges. They’re keeping me away from my child. It’s three more months without her, and her without me.” At the thought of further separation from her daughter, and the very clear harm it is doing Holly (an innocent child suspended again from school but not worthy of sympathy from that trio of eminent judges), she starts to sob.
    Two days ago, when I asked how she thought the appeal would go, Lucy laughed and said, “I think this Government would keep me in for a hundred years if they could.” It wasn’t funny any more. Lucy did not hesitate to blame the Prime Minister for the judges’ refusal to reduce her sentence.
    As someone who has grown close to the Connolly family, I felt sick hearing the news that she would stay in prison, of course, but sadly not surprised. Since the morning Lucy was arrested last August, surrounded by the infants in her childminding group, pretty much everything that has happened to her stinks to high heaven. Astonishingly, Lucy, a first-time offender and no flight risk, was denied bail, twice (men on rape charges are regularly granted it).

    Lucy pleaded guilty because she believed, if she did so, she’d be out in time for Christmas. At her sentencing, which had the queasy feeling of a Stalinist show trial, Justice Melbourne Inman delivered a woke, worryingly political sermon which began, “It is a strength of our society that it is both diverse and inclusive.” Reading the judgment, it is hard to suppress the thought that Lucy’s views on immigration (shared by a majority of her fellow countrymen) may as well have been in the dock alongside her. Paying precious little attention to Mrs Connolly’s multiple mitigations – a diagnosis of PTSD after her toddler Harry died beside her after catastrophic NHS negligence in 2011, frequent anxiety attacks triggered by the suffering of children, glowing testimonials from Nigerian, Bangladeshi and Jamaican parents who insisted their beloved childminder was not racist – the judge imposed a vastly disproportionate sentence which even horrified experienced lawyers.
    It was the first, but far from the last, indication that Lucy Connolly was a political prisoner. With the Labour Government refusing to tell us key information about the Southport killer in order to preserve the “diversity is our strength” narrative, Keir Starmer warned of “swift action” against “far-Right thugs” and of “no let-up against far-Right violence”. Lucy, a Conservative councillor’s wife, fitted the bill perfectly. The bright, funny, caring 42-year-old from Northampton became a handy head to stick on a spike to deter others who might be tempted to question a weak regime terrified of civil unrest.
    You have to admit the demonisation of Lucy Connolly was a roaring success. A few weeks after she arrived at Peterborough prison, a couple of the officers with whom she had got friendly teased her, “You’re nothing like they said you were, Lucy.” When a startled Lucy asked what they meant, the officers said they’d been warned by the authorities to watch out because that Connolly woman could be violent. “But I’ve never had a fight in my life,” Lucy protested.
    It certainly seems to suit some people for Lucy Connolly to remain a hate figure. “You shouldn’t even be in prison, it’s ridiculous,” a probation officer at Peterborough, told her. This man apparently made that point several times to the governor, although Lucy’s probation officer then changed. In one of her many carefully-argued letters to the governor, protesting her blatantly unfair treatment, Lucy complained of a “corrupt system”.
    The discrimination against this exemplary prisoner continued when she was transferred, at her own request, to Drake Hall in Staffordshire. Since November, Lucy has been entitled to RoTL (Right of Temporary Leave) which would allow her to spend a precious night at home with Holly and Ray, who holds the fort stoically but has bone-marrow failure. Her requests were repeatedly denied. When Lucy’s mother, Heather, asked the Home Office why her daughter wasn’t getting the leave to which she was entitled, the reply came back that she “hadn’t been assessed yet”.
    There is a Kafkaesque quality to this endless denial of Lucy’s human rights. Her probation officers say they can manage her risk in the community, but the authorities ignore them. “It torments her,” says Ray. “The governor says she’s fed up of having to tell Lucy, ‘No’. Like she’s getting her orders from on high.” Yes, exactly like that.
    Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week announced that 40,000 prisoners, some of them dangerous, would be allowed to leave prison wearing a tag to free up places. When I told Lucy about this, I could envisage the major eye-roll at the other end of the phone. “I have been entitled to a tag since February,” she sighed. “The prison says I’m deemed unsuitable, but the law says I’m eligible for it. I never get told off, I never fight, I’m polite, I toe the line.” Lucy says they let out prisoners who boast, “‘I‘m going to get my crack pipe, and I am going to rob a granny to pay for drugs.’ And they say I am deemed unsuitable!”
    After I first wrote about Lucy in The Telegraph, she was summoned to the governor’s office to be punished. For the offence of “speaking to the media”, she was told she would once again be denied RoTL. “Don’t blame yourself, Allison, they were never going to give it to me,” Lucy said. “That was a lie.” Prisons expert Ian Acheson points to potentially negligent treatment. “There seem to have been multiple detriments in the way Lucy has been treated in relation to risk in prison [linked] to her ‘notoriety’, including [denial of] RoTL. This obviously contributes to psychological damage as well as potentially impeding a faster release.”
    Doesn’t this sound like mental torture to you? During the Southport riots, to distract from the barbarous slaughter of three little girls in what sounded suspiciously like an Islamist terror attack, it suited the legal and political establishment to demonise Lucy Connolly – as if she were the Myra Hindley of Twitter. Having made her notorious they now use that notoriety as a reason to keep her in prison because of “media interest”. What they really fear, I think, is losing control of her – a free Lucy Connolly is a threat to a weak, authoritarian prime minister who told JD Vance in the Oval Office that he was “very proud” of free speech in Britain. At the time his legal muckers were breaking a butterfly upon a wheel.
    Popular belief that we have a two-tier justice system has grown and the Court of Appeal’s decision that Lucy was an “incredible” witness (they didn’t believe her notably impressive testimony) only pours petrol on that fire. Lucy tells me she will now carefully be watching the case of Ricky Jones, a Labour councillor who was caught on video telling a crowd that “We need to cut their throats and get rid of them.” (But the “their” meant white protesters, so who cares, right?) Unlike Lucy, Jones got bail and won’t stand trial till the end of the summer, a whole year since his alleged offence. Meanwhile, Gary Lineker shares a grossly anti-Semitic tweet – an incitement to racial hatred if ever I saw it – but the TV star is allowed to apologise. It beggars belief that Lucy Connolly should be treated so much more harshly.
    “I was thinking the judges would release her and I might be picking Lucy up from prison today,” Ray Connolly told me wistfully.“ But then I thought, ‘How would the Government do it and save face?’ People are watching around the world.” They are, Ray. Watching in horrified disbelief as “hurty words” are treated like major crimes while judges show unforgivable leniency to major crimes.
    “Whatever you think of what I did,” Lucy says. “I think 10 and a half months inside is long enough.” Most would surely agree with her. Yesterday, prison officers were coming into her cell saying, “Omigod, Lucy, I can’t believe it, we were sure you were leaving.”
    Lucy was deeply upset about the judges’ rejection of her appeal when we spoke. “It’s political, I know that it is, but they’re playing politics with a 12-year-old child.” Never fear, Lucy will come back stronger. “The worst thing has already happened to me, that was Harry dying. So, yes, this is bad, but it’s not the worst.”
    When I spoke to Ray he was still plucking up the courage to tell Holly that Mummy won’t be home for the birthday when she becomes a teenager. I tell Ray to soften the blow by showing Holly the crowdfunder for Lucy and promising her some new summer clothes. Thousands upon thousands of people, including many incredibly generous Telegraph readers, have donated an astonishing £88,000 – some £6,000 in the hours since that appalling and cruel Court of Appeal decision – to help Lucy rebuild her life and to show that they stand against two-tier justice. (You can still donate to Lucy online.)
    “I think they’re putting two fingers up to two-tier Keir,” joked Lucy when I told her about the amazing support for her. There’s a bit of that, undoubtedly, but there are also a huge number of Britons who want to show that we mind deeply that our country has a political prisoner whom the state thinks it can use to suppress free speech. People who are saying they will march on Downing Street if need be.
    “I think this Government would keep me in for a hundred years if they could,” she said. We won’t let that happen to you, dear Lucy, you can count on it.ENDS

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    • Scroblene says:
      May 20, 2025 at 9:32 pm

      Thanks for this, Fed. We really are in a disgraceful position in the UK now.

      A mention of Nigel Farage’s absence was noted a few days ago. Do you think that there are some real, i.e. not marxist, legal challenges being organised against this disgraceful sell-out with the unelected EU barons?

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      • Fedup2 says:
        May 20, 2025 at 9:39 pm

        No Scroblene – TTK can do what he wants – any legal challenge will fail – but shouid someone get lucky he’d just push his sell out through their commons – where it will get overwhelming support in both houses ….

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        • Scroblene says:
          May 20, 2025 at 9:48 pm

          But none of this sell-out was debated in the commons.

          The referendum was huge, and a popular and extensive result, but the debate on the same issue of a pseudo-re-join with the awful EU, in the HoC, didn’t happen!

          It wasn’t allowed, so there’s a quandary for any legal beagles on the right of normality!

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    • digg says:
      May 20, 2025 at 10:36 pm

      We really need to show the cunts who did this to Lucy that it is evil and not acceptable.

      This needs uproar and marches in the street calling for the heads of the corrupt legal bastards who forced and allowed this travesty of justice and that includes the head utter bastard TTK who is enabling this trial by fire shitshow to happen.

      These people at the top of the Labour legal tree have just lost their fucking minds and turned into the gestapo!

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      • StewGreen says:
        May 20, 2025 at 10:38 pm

        Please lose the swear words , it gives ammunition to people who want to ban this site.

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        • digg says:
          May 20, 2025 at 10:57 pm

          Agreed sorry, I apologise to all but I am just so bloody raging at the total injustice of this travesty of justice by these people who see themselves as the great and good but who are actually just bloody nasty narrow-minded vindictive specimens.

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          • Deborah says:
            May 20, 2025 at 11:50 pm

            I must admit I don’t normally’like’ comments with swear words. However, digg, I am livid too on Lucy Connolly’s behalf. It isn’t that what she did wasn’t wrong. It was. What is wrong is her sentence when compared to the likes of Huw Edwards, the Labour MP, or those two men at Manchester airport. What is wrong is that she isn’t allowed home for the one night. It is those sort of things that make people angry.

            I am also left with the words of Voltaire (although I’m not sure it was really him). ‘I may not like what you say, but will defend to the end your right to say it’. Shouldn’t a far left wing lawyer turned politician live by those words?

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  3. StewGreen says:
    May 20, 2025 at 9:29 pm

    What secret did Brexiteer Patrick O’Flynn know
    On May 7th he was tweeting like normal and since then did some retweets last week
    Now they say he is dead at 59 .. RIP
    “Sudden cancer”

    @SuzanneEvans1 tweeted
    Devastated tonight to hear my much-loved friend @oflynnsocial died this afternoon
    after a short and cruel illness. “

    His May 5th tweet
    Lab’s central offer to voters ATM is to take away the winter fuel allowance from pensioners
    and spend it on putting criminal foreign gatecrashers into Britain into hotels and houses
    with pocket money and preferential healthcare access and legal aid.

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  4. Fedup2 says:
    May 20, 2025 at 9:51 pm

    There was no way they wouid let Lucy Connolly out early – and if they can kill her – drive her to despair to suicide her – they will .
    Only America can save us …

    BTW – the msm has already buried this disgrace …

    What happens when criminal courts lose their legitimacy …?

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    • StewGreen says:
      May 20, 2025 at 10:18 pm

      Our local gangster didn’t like a mother speaking up about his crime operations
      So he has had her kidnapped
      To send a signal to others that might speak up

      Does that sum up Starmer and Lucy Connolly case ?

      Then his apologist lawyer mates say of course the judge had to jail her for 3 years ..sentencing guidelines ..blah blah
      FFS to the rest of us it looks like the kind of move a fascist government would make.

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  5. digg says:
    May 20, 2025 at 10:16 pm

    Anyone else sick to the back teeth with TV ads trying to convince us all we now live in Jamaica?

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  6. atlas_shrugged says:
    May 20, 2025 at 10:59 pm

    US Ends Recommendation of Covid Vaccine Boosters for Most Americans

    https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/20/us-ends-recommendation-of-covid-vaccine-boosters-for-most-americans/

    In a paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Martin Makary, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Vinay Prasad, the newly appointed head of the FDA’s vaccine division, have unveiled a new policy in which the Government will no longer recommend Covid booster shots for healthy Americans ages 64 and younger.

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  7. StewGreen says:
    May 20, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    If you’re wondering why HIGNFY is woke and sucks, here (see: the video) are two of its writers “Larry and Paul”.
    They’re also in “The Movement Forward” with Carol Vorderman and Femi Oluwole.
    .. Long story short: why are two writers of HIGNFY in a tactical voting alliance with Carol Vorderman and Femi Oluwole?
    .. https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1924914204236251596

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  8. JohnC says:
    May 20, 2025 at 11:38 pm

    UN says no aid yet distributed in Gaza as international pressure on Israel mounts
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o

    I notice how the BBC are now at the point they can run unfettered anti-Israel propaganda now without being checked. This article blames Israel 100% for this ‘famine’ and their lies are now ridiculous.

    A HUGE lie by omission here:
    Dujarric said the aid operation was made “complex” as Israel required the UN to “offload supplies on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and reload them separately once they secure our teams’ access from inside the Gaza Strip”.

    Before his long career in the UN, Dujaaric worked for ABC news – who are so biased to the Left, they make the BBC look moderate.
    Once again the BBC are hiding a lie by using a quote so they do not have to question it or reserach if it is true. No mention is made of the very obvious question of why they have to unload it. And of cours eit’s because the answer is inconvenient : the UN are complicit in allowing arms etc to be smuggled to Hamas, just as they were complicit in allowing Hamas to build tunnels under hospitals etc. Facts NEVER mentioned by the BBC.

    But this is the most extreme lie I’ve yet seen – again the UN complicit with the BBC:
    ‘Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Mr Fletcher said: “There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”‘
    It’s just amazing how often the BBC use their massive influence to host people like this man. That is the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard – but the BBC repeat it TWICE. They have gone off the scale for this one.

    But the biggest lie of all is that using this latest trick of presenting quotations from extremely biased individuals as virtual fact, there is no mention of how Hamas have stolen all the other aid and are selling it for their own profit. THEY are the ones starving all these people. And they will steal and new aid just the same. The BBC certainly know this – but they print everything he said as if it were true then vaguely question the 14,000 babies lie by mentioning another report later in the article.

    The BIG story here should be about Hamas are stealing the aid and selling it to people who can afford it. If these liars ran that as the big headline and people everywhere started criticising Hamas, they would soon release it because they are relying on the likes of the BBC to get them support.

    It never ceases to amaze me just how far the BBC are prepared to go in the cause of their own agenda. They have no morals, no scruples and don’t care how many of these ‘babies’ die. In fact they welcome it as a chance toblame Israel.

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  9. JohnC says:
    May 21, 2025 at 1:28 am

    BBC news flash:
    ‘BREAKING: The man who murdered Cher Maximen, who was fatally stabbed in front of her three-year-old daughter at Notting Hill Carnival, has been jailed for life’

    5 days late, but I checked it and sure enough they do not mention his name once. There is no logical reason whatsoever to omit it : the entire story is about him. Same as the article I linked to previously where they pictured the victim, not the killer.

    Maybe it’s because it was ‘Shakeil Thibou’ ?.

    Absolutely shameless BBC omission again. They are running amok now extreme-Left TTK is in charge. They know they are safe whatever they do. Hence how they have abandoned any proper reason at all over Gaza. It’s all 100% agenda now.

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