It isn’t just university students who can be described as ‘snowflakes’, apparently. A move is afoot to include ‘trigger warnings’ in Hansard, the official Parliamentary record, to protect MPs and peers of a more delicate disposition why might be upset by the use of offensive words and phrases by some of their fruitier colleagues. The Independent has more.
A move to include offence trigger warnings on the official parliamentary record has been criticised at Westminster, amid fears it could have a chilling effect on what members say.
Concerns over adding the alert feature to Hansard online were raised across the Lords, with accusations it amounted to “a clear breach of centuries of convention” on free speech at Westminster.
The upper chamber heard the measure stemmed from a proposal by the House of Lords Inclusion and Diversity team.
A key complaint raised by peers was the lack of consultation and that approval had not been sought of the House.
Peers have previously hit out at attempts to silence them after raising concerns in Parliament over housing transgender prisoners in women’s jails, leading to them being contacted by a Westminster watchdog following complaints.
This was despite them being covered by parliamentary privilege – a right dating back more than 300 years that allows them to freely express their views in the upper chamber.
Criticising procedural changes being made without prior consultation or agreement, Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Forsyth of Drumlean said: “For example, only today, I learned that there is a proposal to have trigger points in Hansard where what members say may have been considered to have caused offence, and so someone would put something in to that effect.”
He was supported by fellow Tory peer Lord Cormack, who said: “Far too much is happening in this place without proper consultation.”
Worth reading in full.
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I don’t see the point of such articles. We can pontificate as much as we like about bloody C1984 but it is utterly irrelevant. C1984 is simply one of the covers for depopulation and Reset.
Next up will be Climate lockdowns, restrictions on travel – except for the elites of course – and further punitive restrictions designed to destroy societies and like the reaction to the so called PANDEMIC they will be global.
C1984 was simply phase one of the Reset. Phase two is coming, just wait for the Glasgow shindig.
Drop the covid narrative and see what is really going on. The current lull is simply the calm before the storm.
Too many are still fast asleep, plain bloody stupid or both.
100%
1000%
This needs a graph.
Yup! Restrictions on travel!
News from the US…
“Democrats have introduced a piece of legislation in Congress that would ban any American who did not get a Covid-19 vaccine from all air travel, with no exceptions”
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/08/20/democrats-want-to-put-all-unvaccinated-people-on-the-terrorist-no-fly-list-and-permanently-ban-them-from-all-air-travel/
I have no doubt it will happen here too which confirms it has nothing to do with any virus, it is links to the Climate Agenda.
Democrats 😅
Great interview with tennis legend Pat Cash, he gets it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qVrepch-f8&t=1s
Watch it before it gets zapped by the blob
Brilliant interview, this is what I thought all Aussies would be like. Thanks for pointing it out.
“ What’s more, since transmission is driven by ‘superspreaders’”
However well intentioned these pieces are, I can’t take them seriously as soon as they regurgitate something like this. The article cited as evidence in Nature is pure bunkum. There’s never any evidence about who infects whom. And it’s just used as justification for masks and for preventing people from talking to each other – particularly those who commit the crime of being “gregarious”.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” (Albert Einstein)
Useful information, resources and links: https://www.LCAHub.org/
Love it! 🤣
In some respects it should not matter whether lockdowns had a significant or a marginal effect on the “R” number. It was the wrong response in the first place and happened only because the world panicked. It reflects badly on the quality of global leadership. They all seem to think and act in a similar way. This is a slippery slope and we can soon expect more of the same.
Yet the null hypothesis is that the virus rises, peaks and declines of its own accord, without any human input, which is what they always do.
If nothing else, the Plandemic has proved we have a ineffective government who left all decision making to academics who are linked to B & MG and to the Communist Party.
There is no epidemic, there never was an epidemic, in fact if you all turned off your TVs and radios you would not have known about it.
Here’s a question we all know the answer to. How much did lockdown affect UK nobility? Not at all. Not one iota. Not remotely.
That is all the rest of us need to know about this confected global shitshow.