The current King is going to Canada this week -giving the anti Trump BBC the opportunity to vilify and criticise President Trump . I wonder if Canadians can be bothered being linked to Marxist Britain any more ?
Start The Week 26th May 2025
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China buys company … China bleeds company of workers … China sells more cars from China with less competition … genius
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Chinese-owned Volvo Cars to cut 3,000 jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jgrl1wde8o
Last month, Volvo Cars, which is owned by Chinese group Geely Holding, announced an 18 billion Swedish kronor ($1.9bn; £1.4bn) “action plan” shake-up of the business.
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China buys UK steel – China shuts down UK steel – China sells steel to UK.
https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/news/uk-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-british-steel-plant/
Close down the competition, a standard Capitalist business technique. Hang on, China is a Communist State.
Every one will be driving Tractors so tractor production is always up Comrade….** but made in China
The ever-excitable Daily Mail asks: Does THAT shove in the face reveal something deeper and darker in the Macron’s marriage? – this in reference of course to the recent incident: …video, shot by an Associated Press camera operator, shows the French president appearing in the doorway of the plane at the start of a visit to Hanoi… hand appears to shove him, causing him to step back before recovering and waving… Brigitte Macron’s body is not visible and her husband told reporters afterwards the gesture was playful. (Guardian)
Meanwhile, unnamed French security service sources have told the press their initial suspicion and main line of equiry is that the hand filmed shoving the president in the kisser may well be that of Vladimir Putin… or if not him personally it must be one of his sleeper agents he has planted in the west.
Afterall, the well-manicured hand and shapely female forearm, clad in expensive designer couture, is a clue to just the sort of honey trap agent profile designed to attract the French leader. Whereas, if the Kremlin were out to embarrass our British PM… let’s just say a different kind of honey trap agent might be employed.
I jest of course. Mind you, one was happily building up to some amusing “Macron Sucker Punch Incident blamed on long arm of Putins’ regime, officials say” gag when sadly one was astounded to read the Guardian had got there way before me: Emmanuel Macron has denied he and his wife, Brigitte, had an altercation after a viral video promoted by Russian state media and French far-right accounts appeared to show her pushing him in the face as they prepared to get off a plane in Vietnam. (Jon Henley, Europe correspondent, Guardian)
Seems as though these days Putin or the Far-Right are the go-to catch-all excuses for just about anything that goes awry for our elites. From a disgruntled rent boy… doing something like… oh, I don’t know… keying the car… to getting caught on camera hiding the cocaine stash up their sleeves. I know those are absolutely proposterous scenarios for our elected leaders to get themselves mixed up with – but you get the point?
This week one was bemoaning the fact that in the realm of popular entertainment modern cinema was dominated with little more than an endless series of sequels remakes and redos. Now even German foreign policy gets stuck rehashing past glories: Merz adds heat to Israel (FT); Ukraine’s western allies have agreed to lift all range limits on the use of their weapons (Times)
It’s not often that our media can deliver (what they consider to be) some really good news: A 53-year-old white British man… (Guardian) – no news as yet from the authorities as to his possible background as a chorister.
Please tell me the date today is April 1st…
Vegans and Muslims must be catered for in a possible food apocalypse, experts have said, warning that Britain is unprepared for any shocks to the supply chain (The formerly serious Times)
At this point in science fiction Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, so as to escape the escalating madness of some alien planet, would request: “Beam me up, Scotty”
What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout. (Charlie Warzel, in the formerly serious Atlantic magazine)
Was a Russian driving the car in Liverpool ? Was it Putin ? Was the referee who wrongly ruled against villa in the pay of Putin ?
We should be told …
BTW – the release on bail of `Tommy Robinson appears not to have been noticed by the main stream media . Only ‘approved ‘ campaigns get ‘approved ‘ attention . …
Fed, was it an enraged Everton supporter disappointed at the closure of Goodison Park and its replacment with a new stadium?
Up2 – the State will want the white man to have an English name – not a pole or orish but proper Anglo to pour the Hate on ….
Fed, according to some reports the man was ‘high’ on drugs.
“What Are People Still Doing on X? Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi Jihad hangout, starring Gary Lineker”
Who do you believe, Emmanuel Macron or your lying eyes?
I work in the automotive industry and received the following info:-
“China has recently imposed export licensing requirements on certain heavy rare earth elements – specifically, ytrrium, dysprosium, samarium, terbium, gadolinium, lutetium and scandium – and permanent magnets containing dysprosium or terbium”
Maybe the bbc would like to report/comment on this? I doubt it, as this wouldn’t impact Donald Trump and negatively goes against the Chinese, and wouldn’t want that
Shortage of madeitupium continues …
I thought the BBC was a rich seam of this, as well as bullshittine.
‘terbium, gadolinium, lutetium and scandium’ as Harry Potter might say.
No shortage of absurdium adfinitum in our media this morning.
Sounds like a compendium of bacterium in the auditorium…
Yttrium, a rare earth element, is used in a variety of applications, primarily in electronics, medical treatments, and alloys. It’s a key component in LEDs and flat-panel displays, contributing to their color and efficiency.
Dysprosium is primarily used in high-performance permanent magnets, particularly neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets. These magnets are crucial for electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, and various electronic devices, where their ability to maintain magnetic properties at high temperatures is important.
Samarium is a rare earth element primarily used in magnets, nuclear technology, and medical treatments. It’s a key component in high-temperature, high-strength magnets and is also used as a neutron absorber in nuclear reactors.
Terbium is a rare earth metal used in a variety of applications, primarily due to its unique luminescent properties and magnetic characteristics. It’s known for its green luminescence, making it a key component in displays, phosphors, and energy-efficient lighting.
Gadolinium is primarily used as a contrast agent in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans.
Lutetium (Lu) is a rare earth metal with various applications, including medicine, high-tech devices, and catalysis. Its most notable use is in cancer therapy
Scandium is primarily used as an alloying agent for aluminum, enhancing its strength and other properties. It’s also used in high-intensity metal halide lamps and as a tracer in oil refining
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Why China curbing rare earth exports is a blow to the US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1drqeev36qo
China has now also imposed export controls on a range of critical rare earth minerals and magnets, dealing a major blow to the US.
I don’t have the link but I recall a scare story from some years back over Yttrium. Along the lines of “it’s rare and running out but we need it for flat TVs and computer screens”. Turns out that if we continue mining it at the current rate, we will run out in 15,000 years time… In fairness, the BBC have at least attempted to explain this time what ‘rare’ means in the context of rare earths.
Go to war with China – you cannot watch Netflix due to shortage of TV components the next day. …”China has a near monopoly on extracting rare earths as well as on refining them – which is the process of separating them from other minerals.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1drqeev36qo
Both the extraction and processing of these rare earths are costly and polluting.
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China Abandons Paris Agreement, Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless
Jul 26, 2023 4 min read
https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/china-abandons-paris-agreement-making-us-efforts-painful-and-pointless
Looking at the videos of the Liverpool incident it does seem that there’s some sort of build up before the worst of what happened. The car and driver was subject to some aggressive behaviour from Liverpool fans before the driver drove into the crowd. What the crowd was responding to we don’t know yet.
https://x.com/carrielee09/status/1927107112196350059?s=61
A French Middle aged Man involved?
It’s Dien Bien Fooey all over again.
Tweet set out a timeline https://x.com/CRlder/status/1927106771153215670
Guy drove normally tooting his horn
His back window was attacked
Then later tried to get away
Allegations other cars had their windows broken too
50 injured doesn’t mean they were hit by the car
someare injured as the crowd stampede away
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similar take … https://x.com/TezTruth81/status/1927092693097676939
20 people were treated at the scene and didn’t require hospital
27 were taken to hospital of those 2 were seriously injured
Sad about those 2 .. shouldn’t have happened
but this i a million miles away from a person with a mind on mass killing.
I was once doing a security at a festival and was at the outer gate , I held back a trader as the arena was not clear. He lost his patience, revved his engine, I stood clear, he roared down the access road . I didn’t panic as he still couldn’t get through the next gate so I radioed them
My junior did panic and jumped on the bonnet.. the guy tried to drive on, and did drive on . The police just happened to walk past and that moment and walked down to book him
Do love the smell of irony in the morning.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/26/white-actors-in-brian-cox-play-forced-to-take-anti-oppression-course/
He’s good at pretending to believe something with conviction – years of acting school!
The King’s speech will be written on the advice of the Canadian government, with the expectation that it will send a clear, if diplomatic, message that the country is “not for sale” to the US.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wgd98yr89o
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Qatar? Not for sale?
Prince Charles given €3m in cash in bags by Qatari politician, according to report
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/25/prince-charles-is-said-to-have-been-given-3m-in-qatari-cash
2023…Xi’s remarks should resound in the halls of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is planning to impose billions of dollars of costs on Americans to reduce U.S. emissions.
China has repeatedly stated that it has no intention of going along with the Western push to net-zero.
China has repeatedly stated that it has no intention of going along with the Western push to net-zero.
June 2019 PM Theresa May: we will end UK contribution to climate change by 2050
UK will eradicate its net contribution to climate change by 2050.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-theresa-may-we-will-end-uk-contribution-to-climate-change-by-2050
The statutory instrument to implement this will be laid in Parliament today, Wednesday 12 June. This will amend the Climate Change Act 2008
Streeting urges doctors to vote no in strike ballot
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c771dgm8vrpo
Last week it was announced resident doctors would be getting a 5.4% average pay rise this year – more than other doctors, nurses and teachers.
But resident doctors, who took part in 11 strikes in 2023 and 2024, said it was not enough
said it was not enough
said it was not enough
Why not 100% pay rise every month? HA HAH AH A
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Members’ Interests
Wes Streeting
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1927246921174860088?s=61
Apprenticeship shake-up to shift focus to under-21s
Away from 53yo white males?
its the Far Right again..
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czelwkwn3y2o
Far Left reporting to ever follow?
andyjsnape – surely we should assume nothing until investigations are completed? HA HA HAH AHA H!
Luckily Dan Hodges and Narinder Kaur have chipped in.
There is a piece in the DT this morning about Canadians welcoming King Charles and how close he is with the Canadian PM Carney forming a United front against Trump.
The readers comments under the piece are interesting . I reckon that 90% think that King is far too Globalist and might be pretending to support Canada but in reality he is batting for Globalism against its strongest challenger Trump. They note that the King did nothing about Starmer giving away the Chagos islands and tax payers money.
They also comment on much money Charles makes out of climate change and wind farms. How he remains silent about the death of free speech in his country . How much he has contributed to forcing Britain to become multicultural whilst doing nothing to support indigenous Brits.
If Telegraph readers are not supportive of the monarch he is in deep trouble and so is the institution of monarchy itself. Keep on going down this road Charles and you or your son may forfeit the support of the British people.
Whatever its usage, this text contains the first coronation oath or promissio regis in three parts, the tria praecepta or three pledges given by the monarch to God:[3]
The Church of God and all the people would hold true peace under his rule.
He would forbid acts of robbery and iniquity.
He would uphold justice and mercy in all judgements.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_oath_of_the_British_monarch
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In 1831, King William IV put on his crown, entered the Chamber in the House of Commons and promptly dissolved parliament.
https://www.milnerslaw.co.uk/could-king-charles-iii-dissolve-parliament/
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Guess this man won’t get his 100 birthday card… “PC Tasered amputee, 92, in wheelchair, court hears”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8dv60dygro
I would have thought a good leader as king, might have noticed at Easter there was no Archbishop of Canterbury and put out a message of Christian spirituality. Charles couldn’t even lead the Chuch of England.
Deborah,
I agree. I think that King Charles put his family firm before his country to such an extent that he calculates that the Commonwealth is where their support will come from in the long term future.
Thus multiculturalism in Britain is something that he embraces because the family will benefit most by him doing so. If he were to support the British people in their struggle to remain free and British his support in the coloured bits of the Commonwealth would crumble.
He seems to take the support of indigenous British for granted and assumes that we will loyally support paying for his family and tolerating their gigantic tax breaks whilst he repeatedly kicks us where it hurts.
He might get a big surprise in a few short years if he continues this way.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
That is going to be a very long clip.
And then they move from Alex Crawford.
Comment “After todays Byelection in Rochdale i am certain Britain is on the way out just as foretold by Mark. Very sad but happening before our eyes.”
Comment “Mark saw through the covid bullsht at GBNews, called it for what it was and paid the price. Thank you Mark”
“That’s why we have a trust problem, it’s not them (the show) it’s you ( the audience).”
https://x.com/marinapurkiss/status/1926929198007877944?s=61
The Ministry of Truth is The BBC
In the videos you can see the police with what looks like a 53 year old white man on the ground.
Was he the driver?
Something doesn’t seem to be right about this.
Maybe the snipers on the rooftops for the football parade have some videos.
Why were they there. Did they have some info that something was going to happen?
Looks like a Labour Party training video
Next up, Ed Miliband explains renewables
Gosh… rilly?
Fully costed…
Today in 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson officially recognized that the patriotic tradition of observing Memorial Day began in Waterloo, New York, a town named after the Battle of Waterloo, the place of a victory against Napoleon in 1815, won by a British-led force under the command of the Duke of Wellington.
Photographs show the car parked outside a pub – a few yards away from the carnage – theorising the driver was plastered when he got in the car.
Was he immediately outed as white to prevent chaos on the streets if word spread it was Johnny foreigner – like Southport ?
… and if he was a Muslim or black, would they still have told us ?.
Will Trump and his team watching our ‘free speech’ be looking to the governments reaction to posters regarding the Liverpool car incident.
Has the government learned from its mistakes it made by keeping Southport info secret or will they try to do the same again.
Why were no questions allowed at the police briefing.
Was it because the obvious question “was the 53 year old white man the car driver” would be asked.
I almost heard the BBC rallying cry from here in Thailand this morning:
‘HE’S WHITE. GO GO GO’
And now we will get lots and lots of articles about the Liverpool car ramming. We already have 3 on the front page – including a live update – despite there being not much to actually report.
As usual when the BBC have nothing convenient to actually tell us, they are focussing on empathy and finding as many victims as they can to relive how terrifying it was so we can all hate the whitey even more when we see what he looks like.
Like the Joe Cox murderer Thomas Mair, any mental health issues will be largely ignored for this one.
Of course this one comes in a very poor second place compared to what Axel Rudakubana did up close, in cold blood and with a knife – but I can’t recall seeing half as much from the BBC for that one.
Just watch how many articles they conjure up for this. They will be very, very excited at the BBC waiting to learn if they can get away with labelling him as far-Right.
Thought we were broke:-
Ministers considering scrapping two-child benefit cap
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ykp78r5r7o
“cost a lot of money”
Guess this will win votes with the ethnics
“We might get the cost of flight down to 2 million dollars.”
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How much was spent on Covid-19 measures?
The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in very high levels of public spending. Current estimates of the total cost of government Covid-19 measures range from about £310 billion to £410 billion. This is the equivalent of about £4,600 to £6,100 per person in the UK.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9309/
He’s out! Thank The Lord.
I hope he gets himself & his family to The USA. It’s time more people stepped up.
“Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, has been released from prison.
The 42-year-old, jailed for contempt of court in October, left HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes after his 18-month sentence was reduced by the High Court.
Yaxley-Lennon was filmed speaking for about 20 minutes for a video posted to his social media account on X.
** NO LINK TO SPEECH
The judge noted there was an “absence of contrition or remorse” ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q0147e4yxo
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The judge noted there was an “absence of contrition or remorse”
“absence of contrition or remorse”
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The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q0147e4yxo
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The judge noted there was an “absence of contrition or remorse”
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Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.
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The judge noted there was an “absence of contrition or remorse”
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In Bradford, he witnessed the abuse of a young girl in a car, but he was then instructed by a chief superintendent to drop the matter in order to avoid antagonising Bradford’s Muslim community. Covering up the rape of young girls for that reason is one of the most immoral things I have ever heard, yet not a single person—not one—has ever been held to account for these cover-ups.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2025-04-28c.33.0#g34.0
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The judge noted there was an “absence of contrition or remorse”
New US-backed group says it has begun aid distribution in Gaza
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev41em3r9lo
“A controversial new aid distribution group backed by the US and Israel has begun working in Gaza” Controversial?
bbc doesn’t approve as its not the UN, and something Donald Trump agrees with.
#biased
#defund
Add an Israel made pager to all the bags!
The Marxists are using the Liverpool ‘incident ‘ to attack people who rightly speculate on the car driver – oh so quickly described as a Cardiff choir boy – sorry – white man – …
The Britainistan state will no longer allow people who are angry about such crimes to ‘vent’ – in fact ‘venting ‘ is a criminal offence under the malicious communications act – see Lucy Connolly
And then speculating when someone is charged is also an arcaic pre internet crime because criminal courts think they are too fragile for free robust speech …
Only the BBC approved speculation is allowed? HA HA HAHA HA H!
Free speech** for them not you!
** all men can be woman. all woman can be men. up is down. left is right!
It’s race discrimination to reveal the perpetrator was a white Scouser so quickly.
Any news of a house burnt down in Liverpool yet?
This is clearly something that the media want to keep under wraps…
That awful incident in Liverpool yesterday…well, the car was being driven by A 53 YEAR-OLD WHITE MALE!
There are rumours that someone at the BBC mentioned it once, but I think they got away with it.
Shhh…
Does anyone know that Reform is doing ? I lost interest when they got a rich Muslim as chairman . But now they are announcing more socialist nonsense such as lifting the 2 kids benefits rule – so loved by the Far Left …
This goes against my beliefs because I want benefits down – not up – and a smaller population …
My vote doesn’t matter in 2029 because I like in a Marxist / Islamist one party constituency …
LIVE: Farage Delivers Press Conference Attacking Starmer
https://order-order.com/2025/05/27/live-farage-delivers-press-conference-attacking-starmer/
Newly-elected Reform MP Sarah Pochin is up first. She says “the Tories are finished, and we are coming after Labour”…
Party chairman Zia Yusuf says there is “hope for the country”. Farage says it’s irrelevant who the next Tory leader is…
Farage then rattles off a list of Guido stories in his speech including ‘Rachel from Complaints’ and Jonathan Reynolds’ ‘solicitor’ claims. Farage then invites Keir Starmer to a head-to-head debate…
order-order.com
Smarmer speaks:
“Joy turned to horror and devastation………..when I got elected as PM”
He doesn’t have that level of awareness.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-steel-trap
Can we look to ensure all the Judges are driving small cars and live in caves? Eat water and bugs …. “We look to the Supreme Court to better understand the dearth of British-mined coking coal. In June 2024, they ruled against Surrey County Council and others, to stop oil drilling going ahead on the Weald. The reason for this, according to the learned Justices Kitchen, Sales, Leggatt, Rose, and Richards, was that the drilled oil would be burned, which would “produce greenhouse gas emissions”. The next sentence of the ruling is an outright lie, for it reads: “It is not disputed that these emissions will have a significant impact on climate”. ”
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-steel-trap
Today is the day. Attempted murder of a police officer? My guess is the 2TK card will be played and so no jail time:
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25193181.slough-man-charged-tvp-officer-seriously-injured-stoke-poges/
Lembit Öpik
“BBC reports it’s wrong for social media to comment on Liverpool car incident.
But BBC spends the whole evening reporting it and broadcasting witness comments.
BBC has one rule for itself, and another rule for social media.
What arrogant double standards”
As the saying goes: If the BBC didn’t have double standards, then it wouldn’t have any standards at all.
2 MPs who could have a by-election soon
Dan Norris (Lab)
Patrick Spencer (Con)
Sexual offences arrests
Norris arrested on suspicion of sex offenses, including rape and child sex crimes, but not charged.
Spencer charged with two counts of sexual assault, alleged to have happened at London’s Groucho Club (court June 16)
https://x.com/decesarestephen/status/1927091904832790885?s=61
@AOC Congresswoman, I realize you love a soundbite, but before you diminish a man who quite literally designs spacecraft, perhaps take a step back and consider that calling Elon Musk ‘not an engineer’ is about as convincing as calling you ‘an economist.’ You can recite slogans but he actually launches things that work.
Meanwhile, along the Labour front bench, @rses pucker
Can we replace him with an eight ball?
Boris has had another kid! With his green way of life wife!
Somewhat of a hypocrite, but she manifests as a most obliging woman.
What’s the point of Nigel debating TTK whenTTK never ever answers any question.
TTK surely will pose many.
Be funny if Nige keeps talking over him with “wot I yam sayin’ is, Keir… is wot I said,..”
So what does Peter Tatchell’s arrest for carrying an anti-Hamas slogan tell us?
Well, that in Starmer’s Britain and Khan’s London, not all minorities are equal, and Islam trumps Gay.
Still, always a pleasure to watch woke clash with woke.
Are Liverpool fans disproportionally involved in “Incidents” ?
Or just bad luck ?
Controversial CEO appointment in the charity world
lesbian clique appearing to get top job in mens charity
https://x.com/TwisterFilm/status/1927346152212463792
Her partner is ex-head of Stonewall.. and paid her with charity money
“📢Trans Ally Grifter Gets New Job.📢
I wonder whether
@UKMensSheds will pay the partner of Caroline Ellis its new CEO £68,000 the way Stonewall paid Ellis £68,000 in fees when Ruth Hunt was the charity’s CEO. Probably not. It would look much too dodgy.”
UKMensSheds that last place you will now find a man! Cancel Women’s HOUR! Men only it!
image:https://menssheds.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Caroline-photo.png
https://menssheds.org.uk/blog/welcome-to-caroline-ellis/
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‘We put the pressure on to join Men in Sheds’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5qd9l3094o
When the women were allowed into the workshop, members decided to keep a quiet room with a model railway display in it, just for men.
HA HA !
MEN 0 WOMAN 1
HA HA HA AH A!
“keep a quiet room with a model railway display in it, just for men.” THAT ROOM WILL BE INVADED SOON……
The rule of law… unto themselves
Why police released details about Liverpool crash suspect so quickly… “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area” It was striking how quickly police shared the man’s nationality and ethnicity. Usually when a suspect is arrested, police forces in England and Wales just give out the age of the person and where they were arrested. (BBC) – further comment would seem superfluous.
Meanwhile: Abortion arrest: Recording reveals police concern… A secret recording, leaked to the BBC, reveals a senior police officer had serious concerns over the controversial arrest of a woman who took abortion pills when about 26 weeks pregnant… the Met’s child abuse investigation lead at the time can be heard saying: “It’s not a comfortable area for police to be operating in… any criminalisation around abortions.” (BBC)
Interesting to hear how our cops are now picking and chosing the rules they decide to apply as and when they “feel” it appropriate… and further letting us know how they “feel” about policing certain laws about which they happen, personally, to be a bit queasy.
” Ajit Abraham, “Group Director of Inclusion and Equity” at Barts Health NHS Trust, taking home £202,500″
order-order.com
NHS Spaffs Over £18.5 Million per Year on HR Directors
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In addition to being an active surgeon and champion for inclusion and equity, he has made substantive contributions to shaping and implementing the Barts Health strategies for patient safety, quality improvement, surgery, leadership development and inclusion.
Ajit has a longstanding ‘Hatha Vinyasa’ Yoga and ‘Vipassana’ meditation practice and sees the connection between wellbeing and inclusion as self-evident.
https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/news/new-group-director-of-inclusion-and-equity-13130
as self-evident
as self-evident
as self-evident
still in post
Shamed Neil Ferguson’s lover said lockdown ‘strained’ her open marriage to lookalike husband a day after the couple enjoyed secret tryst – as Matt Hancock says he’s ‘speechless’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8292249/Scientist-Neil-Fergusons-lover-said-lockdown-strained-marriage.html
STATE OF AFFAIRS My lockdown affair should be a warning to future politicians, Matt Hancock says
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/24917539/my-lockdown-affair-matt-hancock/
Tory MP says Johnson was ‘ambushed with a cake’ on his birthday
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/26/ambushed-with-a-cake-defence-of-boris-johnson-inspires-mirth
NEW COVID CONDOMS RELEASED TO STOP THE SPREAD OF MONKEY POX. ALTERNATIVELY DROP OFF AT THE NEXT ISLAND ALONE.
I’ll see if Paddy Power has a book on the indenty type of the Liverpool guy, who ended up crashing his chariot into the crowd.
I’ll go for a heavy cannabis smoker: grubby, extremely paranoid, partially chemically coshed..
Probably thought he was getting a jump on the traffic, by following the ambulance.
Government will propogate rumours he was a beer drinker instead and carry on legalising the harmless herb.
diddums
https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1927322865638011187
Even for THE BBC, truly special.
“What I’ve presented today is credible,” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
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https://bbc.in/4muwGjL
……………….. remember when the asked Labour if the figures added up? ………. HA HA H…..
Now we know what we already suspected: Labour’s ‘fully costed’ plans were full of holes
A new book on the 2017 election reveals Labour’s leaders were ‘worried’ their figures didn’t add up and could be torn to shreds by Conservatives and the media
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-2017-election-campaign-nhs-spending-plans-a8555621.html
But a new book reveals that Jeremy Corbyn’s top aides, including Seumas Milne, his director of strategy, feared the party’s spending plans would unravel during the campaign, but were overruled by John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor.
Not the BBC – but Alison Pearson on the Dolt Lord Sumption who sees nothing wrong in sending a tweeter to jail for 31 months for a first offence and guilty plea, Sumption shouid be ashamed
START Some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals believe them. Substitute “judges” for “intellectuals” and George Orwell’s marvellous aphorism applies perfectly to an article by Jonathan Sumption first published on The Telegraph website on Monday.
I wasn’t going to write about Lucy Connolly this week, but so incensed was I by Lord Sumption’s awful opinions that I cannot stay silent. It was good to see that a huge number of readers – more than 9,000 comments at the time of writing (a record, I think) – had the same furious reaction to Sumption’s unforgivably callous, “I shall not waste any sympathy on Mrs Connolly”.
Why does Lord Sumption think sympathy for Lucy is wasted? She is mother to a 12-year-old girl who has been without her mummy for 10 months and may yet sustain long-term psychological harm. A woman of previous good character who lost a child in horrifying circumstances and lashed out in rage and sorrow last summer when six parents suffered the anguish of their little girls being slaughtered in a massacre that bore the bloody hallmark of an imported crime. A 42-year-old childminder, tender carer to the infants of immigrants, who shares the majority British view that hordes of undocumented males from backward cultures, put up at vast expense in “asylum” hotels, pose a threat to our society in general, and our children in particular. Lucy acted in haste, posted something she called “disgusting” and repented quickly. A model prisoner, she could have been released on tag last November but instead has been kept inside while fellow inmates, who are openly planning the robberies they will commit to fund their drug addiction, are let out.
Any decent judge or magistrate would be looking for a reason to avoid giving such a person a custodial term when community service would suffice. Sarah Pochin, Reform UK’s first woman MP and a magistrate for 20 years, yesterday described Lucy’s sentence as “draconian”, saying she should never have gone to prison in the first place and it would not happen under a Farage government. Yet Mrs Connolly, who was given a notably harsh jail term for a post on social media when thousands of violent men and paedophiles get off with a lower, even a suspended, sentence (more of this warped judicial behaviour anon) is apparently unworthy of compassion or mercy from his lordship. Really?
I have been a fan of Lord Sumption. The former Justice of the Supreme Court is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant legal minds of his generation. During Covid, those of us who thought lockdown was an appalling mistake were grateful and reassured to have this pillar of the establishment on our side. He warned that British society was becoming “totalitarian” and the government was deliberately stoking up fear and “acting with a cavalier disregard for the limits of their legal powers”. “The British public has not even begun to understand the seriousness of what is happening to our country,” Sumption said, and his words carried huge weight.
Why that same, deeply clever man cannot see how Lucy Connolly’s case represents exactly the kind of authoritarian overreach we saw during lockdown (with fear as its instrument) is a puzzle. Or maybe not if the idea is to buttress Sumption’s colleagues in the Court of Appeal, who have attracted considerable criticism since Lord Justice Holroyde declared last week that there was “no arguable basis” that Lucy Connolly’s (manifestly excessive) original sentence was “manifestly excessive”.
Lord Sumption concedes: “English law has generally been on the side of freedom of expression… it has always drawn the line at threatening language which is likely to provoke a breach of the peace… If a rabble-rouser stood on a soap-box in front of a howling mob and urged them to head for the nearest immigration hostel and burn it down, this point would be obvious. Doing it on social media is worse because the reach of social media posts is much greater. Its algorithms thrust words like Mrs Connolly’s under the noses of people who are already likely to agree. The internet can whip up a howling mob in minutes.”
But there is zero evidence that Lucy’s words, posted on the evening of the Southport murders, incited violence. Riots did not break out “in minutes”. They started days later following Sir Keir Starmer’s infamous and insulting 19-second laying of a wreath in Southport before a jeering crowd. And after the authorities had done their sly best to conceal from a distraught public key information about the killer, Axel Rudakubana – compare the alacrity (and sigh of relief) with which they announced that the alleged Liverpool car attacker was a white, middle-aged male. Funny what can be disclosed when an alleged offender doesn’t belong to a protected minority, eh?
No normal person agrees with Lord Sumption that fleeting tweets are worse than, to take just one example, what suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones is alleged to have done in person at the time Lucy was arrested. Jones was filmed at an anti-fascism demonstration apparently urging a crowd to attack rioters: “They are disgusting Nazi fascists and we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.”
For reasons which I’d quite like the Ministry of Justice to explain, Jones was granted bail while Lucy Connolly had her bail application rejected twice. Jones has been a free man since January (no pressure to plead guilty for him, no kangaroo hearing within days) and his much-postponed trial will finally take place in August (unless the judge has a pressing lunch engagement or pigs are seen flying over the Old Bailey). By which time, Lucy will have served a whole year behind bars.
It is this apparent two-tier justice which Lord Sumption did not address in a piece where he loftily dismissed the claim that Lucy is a free-speech martyr or “even a political prisoner”. I am no student of jurisprudence (a lucky escape as I got into Cambridge to read law) but to me, and to millions of others, it is perfectly obvious that a political prisoner is exactly what Lucy Connolly is.
Prison authorities at Drake Hall in Staffordshire have just punished their exemplary prisoner for “press engagement” – that’s communicating her predicament via her husband, Ray, to yours truly. “Auntie Judith”, AKA your columnist, has sadly been struck off the list of people Lucy is allowed to phone.
She has also repeatedly been denied release on temporary licence (ROTL) with her child and sick husband. “You’ve offended a lot of people, Lucy,” one official chided. Probation officers and prison guards alike have expressed astonishment that Lucy is still not free. After the Court of Appeal’s heartbreaking decision last Tuesday, her cell was full of officers coming to commiserate: they all assumed she was going home, and other prisoners had already distributed Lucy’s stuff among themselves.
After months of unfair treatment, when Lucy dared to complain to someone outside the prison that she wasn’t being allowed the leave on licence to which she was entitled, the prison authorities said she would, yet again, not be allowed that leave, because of, yes, complaining to someone outside the prison. What does that sound like to you? Joseph Heller called it Catch-22.
I am told that prison authorities have been “rattled” by The Telegraph’s coverage of Lucy’s case. Good. So they bloody well should be. The free press – are we still allowed one of those, Prime Minister? – will not stay silent when we perceive a carriage of misjustice.
I could easily fill this column with examples of heinous cases where an offender was afforded more lenient treatment than Lucy Connolly. One that leaps out concerns the Court of Appeal, which just dashed Lucy’s hopes. In March 2023, the court cut the jail term given to former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s. Ahmed was convicted of trying to rape an underage girl on two occasions and seriously sexually assaulting a boy under the age of 11. He was jailed for five years and six months at Sheffield Crown Court in February 2022. The judge told Lord Ahmed: “Your actions have had profound and lifelong effects on the girl and the boy, who have lived with what you did to them for between 46 and 53 years. They express more eloquently than I ever could how your actions have affected and continue to affect their lives in so many different and damaging ways.”
However, in their infinite wisdom, three Appeal Court judges, including Lord Justice Holroyde who decided that Lucy Connolly’s 31-month sentence was “not manifestly excessive”, reduced the jail term of the sexual abuser and Labour Muslim peer to two years and six months because his age at the time of the offences was not given sufficient weight.
Let us pause for a moment, lords, ladies and gentlemen, and marvel at the very clever stupid men who think that a mother who put something hateful for four hours on social media deserves a longer prison sentence than a man who tried to rape and molest children, and got away with that dreadful crime for half a century.
“I shall not waste any sympathy on Mrs Connolly,” quoth the finest legal mind of his generation. “What she did was a serious offence.” She didn’t try to rape a child though, did she, Lord Sumption? She didn’t sexually assault a little boy and claim that two traumatised children told malicious falsehoods about her. She didn’t use power and influence to put herself above the law. She didn’t get her outrageous sentence reduced by privileged men who seem to have a problem relating to white women from ordinary families with sensible views about immigration.
Honestly, the way the judiciary extends leniency to sex offenders is repellent to the point of warped. At least 177 paedophiles have walked free since Lucy Connolly was sentenced on October 17 2024. A devoted mum jailed for two years and seven months while depraved men in possession of the worst category of images of children being violated don’t lose a single day of their liberty. (Huw Edwards being just one notorious example: a six-month suspended sentence for the BBC boy-groomer!)
By now, it should be amply clear to the British people that our justice system is broken and politicised. Here is a retired judge who emailed the Planet Normal podcast: “For 40 years, I felt proud and privileged to be a member of what I perceived as a noble and learned profession. Alas! No longer it seems. The way the judiciary has treated poor Lucy Connolly and her family is nothing short of an outrage and scandal that should offend all decent people, while those who bring terror and mayhem to the shores of this nation are admonished (if they are even caught) with little more than a slap on the wrist. I am actually surprised that a senior member of the judiciary has not resigned in the most public of ways to distance himself from the heartlessness of his brothers. Lucy Connolly’s treatment has a political motive behind it. Of that there can be no doubt, despite the Separation of Powers being one of the cornerstones of our unwritten constitution. Keep up the good fight, Allison, for all our sakes.”
And here is a Telegraph reader who styles himself DC Anonymous: “I’m a serving police officer of 25 years. I’ve been a detective on specialist crime units, so I know my way around the justice system. The grossly disproportionate sentence and treatment of Lucy is an embarrassment to the justice system. Her tweet was vile and nasty. However, a community sentence would have been more appropriate. My colleagues and I often work long hours to get convictions over the line and often see paltry sentences dished out to some of the most dangerous offenders with all mitigations taken into consideration. Only for a lady who poses no threat to society to be given two years, seven months. It sickens me to my stomach. Most of us joined the job to arrest real criminals, not see innocent members of the public criminalised for hurty words. My colleagues and I are sick to death of woke management, judges and politicians making our difficult jobs even tougher. No wonder the public has lost respect for us.”
I am close to tears when I read emails like those, and as I watch Lucy’s crowdfunder appeal edge towards £150,000. Thank God there are still good people who are appalled that “hurty words” – Orwellian thought crimes no less – receive swingeing sentences while villains go free.
It’s not hard to foresee that this institutional madness could end up in the serious civil unrest that making a scapegoat of Lucy was meant to forestall. On Tuesday, Tommy Robinson, the far-Right activist, was released from prison after his 18-month sentence was reduced by four months at the High Court last week. Looking like an Old Testament prophet, eyes blazing with religious fervour, a heavily-bearded Robinson (who endured weeks of solitary confinement) said that a war was being waged “against free speech in Britain”. Citing Lucy Connolly, Robinson said she was “not a violent criminal” and demanded to know why she had been jailed for so long.
While Sir Keir claimed not to have heard of Lucy (does the dreadful man expect us to believe a word he says?), Boris Johnson said that “Starmer’s Britain is losing its reputation for free speech and turning into a police state”. Too right.
On Tuesday, Nigel Farage became the latest heavyweight to champion Starmer’s political prisoner, saying: “I want to make it absolutely clear that Lucy Connolly should not be in prison… Although she should not have said what she said, there were millions of mothers at that moment in time after the Southport [massacre] feeling exactly the same way.” Beautifully put.
Compare and contrast with Lord Sumption’s cold, contemptible, “Lucy Connolly is in prison where she belongs”. This is what happens when judges have minds so brilliant they cannot be polluted with common sense – or mercy.
I just spoke to Ray Connolly, who is at home in Northampton. Ray said that he had read The Telegraph article and Sumption seemed to be a “stupid git” (possibly the first time the law lord has been described in that way!) and that Sir Keir must be “regretting the day he tried to make an example of Lucy Connolly”.
So, where do we go from here? Drake Hall prison authorities told Lucy that a previous ROTL had been denied because she had expressed “extreme views” in her phone conversations (possibly with “Auntie Judith”). But that had now been downgraded to “strong opinions”.
“Are they saying that Lucy’s ROTL is now good to go?” asks Ray, who is desperate for his wife to be able to come home and hug and reassure their daughter even for one day and a night. What further ridiculous excuses and delaying tactics can the justice system come up with for denying Mrs Connolly the temporary leave to which she is entitled?
“The British public has not even begun to understand the seriousness of what is happening to our country,” Lord Sumption said when free speech was brutally suppressed during Covid lockdown.
Well, dear Lord Sumption, I think they’re starting to understand it all too well, thanks to Lucy ConnollyENDS
Personally – I think Sumption shouid have kept his dirty mouth shut …
Paul Homewood wins ECU judgement
The BBC has rules but broke them again
The BBC later edited the headline by adding quotation marks and a correction note, which the ECU deemed sufficient to resolve the matter.
This sets a important precedent: computer models cannot be treated as factual in BBC reporting.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/26/paul-homewoods-bbc-complaint-upheld/
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