Another reason why Andy Burnham is going to call an early election. John Healey can only defer tackling this issue for a few months. Then he will have no option but to cut spending and raise taxes. At which point Burnham's popularity will decline. The window is very narrow. https://t.co/XV2A8yooAw
I never liked her, from what I saw of her on TV etc. A would-be dictator, if given the power.
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham says he "implied no such thing" that Russia swung the EU referendum
"It is a matter of record that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 general election. And we think it is unconceivable that this was the first time" pic.twitter.com/6auGHuYdLT
Why is Britain so cursed with total idiots in ministerial and prime-ministerial positions? It must be the MP selection process and the whole decadent Westminster Bubble thing.
I think Burnham made a mistake going down the Russia interference route and giving ammunition to the worst liar of the lot. https://t.co/sN0fPr7bP0
Sahra Wagenknecht has called on the German government to strike a diesel deal with Russia, as the United States has done, and to abandon the anti-Russian sanctions:https://t.co/LVRAg4EkEgpic.twitter.com/2r1DsqEfpc
Western countries are drawing up plans to blockade the Baltic Sea and the straits leading into it, while other key shipping routes are also under threat, Russian Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Russian Maritime Board Nikolay Patrushev said during a visit to China:… pic.twitter.com/Nzbn3wlmmC
You can see what is coming down the tracks, and we shall be lucky (or not, maybe) to live through it.
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/Mk73C4JLqJpic.twitter.com/DGFX5ekDCk
We have submitted an FOI/Subject Access request on whether 'Lord' Gove used his position to get his girlfriend Lola Salem a full parliamentary pass that she used to conduct tours of parliament.
Farage to "carefully examine" the issue of UK support for a corrupt Ukraine – Politico. The leadership of the Reform UK party will "carefully examine" the issue of UK support for Ukraine, said Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing party. He stated that Ukraine is "one of the… pic.twitter.com/5fN8ThU2Lh
[“Farage to “carefully examine” the issue of UK support for a corrupt Ukraine – Politico. The leadership of the Reform UK party will “carefully examine” the issue of UK support for Ukraine, said Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing party. He stated that Ukraine is “one of the most corrupt countries on earth,” and he is “very concerned” about where some of the British funds have gone.“]
Kiev-regime Ukraine is a corrupt, shambolic and brutal dictatorship, a fake state which, without the endless EU, UK, US and other “help”, could not exist for more than a couple of weeks.
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Major-General Julian Thompson, who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War, on the small boats crisis:
"We could stop them tomorrow if we really had the guts. I'd shot them, sorry but I would."
"We're wet. I think there's going to be a revolution."
“DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Why the new witch-hunters policing our airwaves chill me to the core…
OFCOM…these are the people who, with their new regulations about so-called hate speech on television, pose a deadly threat to freedom of expression.
Since its foundation in 2003, Ofcom has clamped down on material likely to incite hatred and violence. It has a statutory duty to protect viewers from harm — which seems fair enough, on the face of it.
But its new regulations go far beyond that.
Ofcom’s definition of ‘hate speech’ — a formula used at first almost exclusively for racism or anti-Semitism — runs as follows: ‘All forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, social origin, sex, gender, gender reassignment, nationality, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, colour, genetic features, language, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth or age.’
I make no apology for quoting at such length, because it’s worth appreciating how mind-bogglingly broad the definition has now become — so broad that it includes almost any vaguely contentious opinion.
To censors and puritans, such as the ‘woke’ witch-hunters who police social media, all this is a gift. Indeed, the new wording might have been deliberately crafted as a Christmas present for professional victims and offence-takers.
“…And here’s the most egregious example of all. According to Ofcom’s definition, anything that spreads or justifies hatred based on ‘political or any other opinion’ now counts as hate speech.
Robust arguments and strong words are a necessary part of any healthy political discourse. Giving offence is part of being human. So is learning to take it.
…And what about Ofcom’s chillingly broad — and potentially very dangerous — phrase ‘any other opinion’? In effect, this implies that any criticism of any opinion, no matter how obscure or trivial, could be construed as hate speech.
Of course, Ofcom insists that it has no such intention. Freedom of speech, it says piously, is terribly important and will always be taken ‘into account’.
But what does that mean in practice? It’s just an empty phrase, with no guarantee.” [Dominic Sandbrook in the Daily Mail].
Quite a lot of what Sandbrook complains is driven (and has been for decades) by the Jewish element. I notice that Sandbrook, himself Jewish, seems to imply that censorship of “antisemitism” or “racism” is OK. No, no, no.
Still, we see now that even msm drones are getting worried about what has been set in train (mostly during the Tony Blair elected dictatorship).
“Authorities in Quebec City, Canada have announced they will isolate “uncooperative” citizens in a coronavirus facility, the location of which remains a secret.
During a press conference, Dr. Jacques Girard, who heads the Quebec City public health authority, drew attention to a case where patrons at a bar were ordered to wait until their COVID-19 tests came back, but disregarded the command and left the premises before the results came back positive.
This led to them being deemed “uncooperative” and forcibly interned in a quarantine facility.
“[W]e may isolate someone for 14 days,” Girard said during the press conference. “And it is what we did this morning…forced a person to cooperate with the investigation…and police cooperation was exceptional.”
The health official then outlined how the state is also tracking down people for violating their home quarantine and forcibly removing them to the secret facility.
“Because we have had people isolated at home. And then, we saw the person was not at home. So, we went to their home, and then told them, we are isolating you where we want you to be,” said Girard.
As we previously highlighted, the government of New Zealand announced similar measures, saying that they will put all new coronavirus infectees and their close family members in “quarantine facilities.” [Summit News]
The death reported in the above link took place in a place which I know, or did know about 50 years ago.
As a child in the 1960s and as a teenager in the 1970s, I lived (with a 3-year break in Australia) on the outer fringe of Reading, on the border of South Oxfordshire, an area called Caversham Heights [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caversham_Heights], which is only a mile, if that, from the crime scene reported upon. As a 15-year-old, I was a junior member of the Reading Golf Club [https://www.readinggolfclub.com/], which is in or by the nearby suburb of Emmer Green [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmer_Green], and the golf club land abuts that where the crime seems to have taken place.
At the time when I played there, around 1972, there were no other golf clubs in the area. I believe that two others now exist not far away, developed from what were cornfields in 1963, 1970, and even 1977.
I notice from the Daily Mail photos that, since the 1970s, the immediate crime scene area has changed from being rural to being basically suburban. Around the crime scene there now seem to be streets, houses (1980s or 1990s housing, from the look of them), where before there was no housing at all, as I remember.
As to the alleged crime itself, I am loath to comment without knowing more, particularly now that charges have been laid, but what does strike me is the general slide of the UK into criminal violence, spreading out from the urban zoos to areas previously largely unaffected.
I should add that I am not now a golfer. My enthusiasm did not last very long.
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A #newvariant of covid bullshit. Thousands more people will die from treatable diseases, suicide & despair. The transfer of private & societal assets to the political elite's corporate cronies will accelerate. There's only 1 thing you shouldn't leave home for – 1 of their tests. pic.twitter.com/tdoC3xR85R
Since dying with covid is a covid death, deaths after having Pfizer's vaccine will be classed as what? No need for alarm, it's been tested for nearly as long as many other miracle drugs, including thalidomide.#safeashouseshttps://t.co/2JsKcZYEBm
As we head for another England lockdown 3.0 with 67,000 daily cases our ZOE css app shows the increase already losing pace and a five fold difference between regions. As in Lockdown 2.0 hard to see how locking down the South-west can help London and the South-East. pic.twitter.com/iB9gmUeoje
I know let’s do industrial testing for the common cold every winter and then close the country down as a precaution when we find it. Rationality and sanity beyond doubt.
Did he say that? @auboutducoeur like Kierkegaard's warning that the most effective revolutions are those where all the buildings are left standing, but everything else changes. The British Cultural Revolution was nine-tenths complete before most people even noticed it. Now 99%. https://t.co/wQpbPhxPPi
Suggested name for a Turner Prize entry: “The Scape-Virus”…
[Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat]
A pertinent question @andrews61311086.But any concentrated search for truth or logic in this mass of panic & propaganda will drive you mad.They've realised people will believe anything they say, as long as they're scared enough. There is no, er,urine, left. They've taken it all. https://t.co/xiz0sovhVv
Not a war, but a Silent Revolution @pantherasteven. Every Utopian enemy of liberty and limited government has grasped(as supposed conservatives such as @DouglaskMurray have yet to do) that this is the opportunity to destroy what is left of our historic freedom. https://t.co/CGdHG0A5Og
Some people call YouTube, “JewTube”. No doubt just ill-informed “prejudice”…
I listen to Radio 4 every day and everyone they interview talks about how they are happily complying with lockdown, maybe with a little story about how they were sad for 20 seconds to be relatable. People joyously talking about having their Christmas over Zoom, no dissent allowed
The implication and in fact purport of the above tweet is that “lockdown is the popular choice”, whereas to me the subtext is “the British people have become a bunch of scared rabbits, compliant to authority, and unwilling (perhaps unable) to think for themselves”…
According to cocaine-abuser Gove, the latest national house arrest may be in place in England until March. What then? Another stint? Will the people of this country ever wake up? Maybe when it is too late. Maybe when what is left of the NHS has been entirely ground down (leaving “Covid” aside, that is already happening). Maybe when those who still have a job find that their pay buys almost nothing.
