Only in my hometown of Brighton and Hove (a delightful seaside city turned wretched by its political class) could such a thing happen. Only here could a city council be so captured by gender ideology, so eager to be its loyal flagship, that it would physically eject a woman from the town hall chamber for simply opposing its cloyingly woke groupthink.
The opposition that resident Kay Lyons tried to voice in the precious time-slot the public are allowed was no more than a passionate plea to repair what she believed to be breaches in schools child safeguarding procedures. In Brighton and Hove, a growing number of parents share these concerns. In one instance, known to the council and freely admitted by the secondary school concerned, teachers were aware of a child’s use of a breast-binder in school but tacitly supported its use and withheld the information from the parents.
As the video webcast testifies, Kay Lyons hadn’t used foul or threatening language or accused an individual of wrongdoing. She hadn’t glued herself to the table in front of her or got up and sprayed paint across the Mayor’s crimson robes. Nor had she grabbed the ceremonial mace and waved it about (as our tantrum prone MP for Brighton Kemptown Lloyd Russell-Moyle had done in parliament in 2018). No – in fact, Lyons hadn’t even finished her question when, without any warning, her microphone was cut off and three security men surrounded her.
Whilst the manhandling and ejection of a member of the public is surprising (and possibly a criminal offence), the council’s determination to silence anyone questioning schools’ use of the gender affirmation approach (alongside the practice known as ‘social transition’ whereby a child’s name and pronoun are changed, often without knowledge or consent of the parents) is not. You can read more about these dubious practices here.
Kay Lyons was the fourth resident to go into the town hall to voice such concerns. Back in July, I was brusquely told that parental concerns about trans activists entering schools and posing as experts were, in fact, “baseless smears”. On the matter of the council recommending its schools promote gender ideology, the response was an emphatic “this council follows national law, policy and guidance”. This followed a council reply in August clarifying that parents appearing to hold gender critical beliefs “may or may not be transphobic” but it will “reserve the right” to challenge anything it regards as “causing harm” (this presumably includes any resident who dares to question the council’s trans activism).
Having previously sounded an alarm about the council’s use of a third party provider to embed Critical Race Theory into schools, I imagine council leaders are never pleased to see me show up. The May election hadn’t helped. The new majority Labour administration that swept the Greens from power resented the challenge from independent candidates. In Queens Park and in Kemptown, myself and pub landlord Alan Towler ran against Labour candidates who included a 19 year-old and her aunt who beat us hands down only to be expelled from their party six months later amidst allegations of electoral malpractice. Right across the city, fresh faced Labour hopefuls were excited at the prospect of bringing forth a new era of good governance following three miserable years of Green Party mismanagement.
Against a backdrop of 35 (now 33) Labour councillors eager to bolster Keir Starmer’s General Election chances by painting the town red, a new council leader emerged. Few had ever heard of Bella Sankey but many hoped that she would be a breath of fresh air and herald a return to competent city governance (and certainly a welcome end to the Green’s faddish embrace of every cause imaginable). Perhaps, as one local Labour supporting commentator put it, Labour would now “listen to local people and treat them with respect, not assume that if they disagree it is because they are bigoted, lack sophistication or need ‘re-education’”. The Greens had been a nightmare but dreams of Labour returning us to sanity were short-lived. From the very first full-council meeting, faith in Bella Sankey sprang a leak. Within two months, Sankey had punished one of her Labour councillors for retweets supporting the views of J.K. Rowling and Germaine Greer. Abruptly removed from her city regeneration role, Cllr Alison Thomson was ordered to apologise for her “anti-trans sentiment” and attend re-education. In a statement, Cllr Thomson said, “I am committed to undergoing training to better understand the lived experiences of transgender people and with the aim of becoming a good trans ally”. “Her apology reads like a hostage statement” wrote one commenter under the local press report. “You expect this kind of dystopian, authoritarian agenda from the disgraced Green Party but it seems that Labour are already sinking to the same low level,” wrote another. Perhaps to avoid further embarrassments, Sankey ordered that all Labour councillors attend the trans-awareness re-education provided by controversial activist group Gendered Intelligence, though how this follows national law, policy and guidance is debatable.
With the ejection of Kay Lyons at the second full council meeting, the ‘Labour will be our saviour’ bubble had well and truly burst. It’s hard not to wonder if the Brighton Labour membership, sent spiralling back to reality, then sent the hapless Eddie Izzard back to his? Izzard was, after all, a selection candidate seemingly oblivious to parents’ safeguarding concerns – it was all just “Tory culture wars” (which was presumably why residents so badly needed him in Parliament as Brighton’s “voice for trans people”).
The reality of what is happening in Brighton and Hove schools is only just coming to light. Bizarrely, the council insists that it does not have a specific policy about social transitioning in schools. As if preparing itself to throw headteachers under a bus if it all goes wrong, the council likes to imply that the matter is for school leaderships to decide. Yet, the council-produced schools guidance, the ‘Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit‘, has been tirelessly promoted in city schools by co-authors Allsorts Youth Project. And Allsorts has been tirelessly promoted by the council.
The toolkit’s fiercest advocate is Labour councillor Emma Daniel (currently the council’s safeguarding lead). Promoting the 2018 version, Cllr Daniel wrote: “If trans children don’t get support and understanding they may hurt themselves and refuse school.” Another Labour councillor reinforced this view in an email reply to me: “Too many young trans people take their own life, as the people who they love and others around them, do not tolerate/acknowledge their identity.” The spectre of imminent danger and the urgent need for schools to be pro-active placed significant pressure on headteachers especially given the toolkit claimed to be guiding schools on the law too. For activist teachers the toolkit simply reinforced NEU advice on this issue which states that members have “a professional and ethical obligation to support young trans and gender-questioning students in education”. The NEU guidance also implies a legal obligation because the Equality Act prohibits discrimination of anyone with the protected characteristic of “gender reassignment”. But as NEU whistle-blower Patrick Stevens correctly points out, the guidance steers members to categorise, a priori, any child who self-identifies as trans as a ‘trans child’. Following this mind-set, if a teacher fails to support the ‘gender questioning’ child – who therefore must be ‘trans’ – he or she is guilty of discrimination.
The invidious position schools were placed in by the council explains why Brighton and Hove seems to have borne witness to some of the most horrifying breaches of child safeguarding anywhere in the country. At this year’s LGB Alliance conference, a spokeswoman for a new group, PSHEbighton.org, gave an extraordinary speech.
The group (which many of us have joined) exists as a lightning rod for parent experiences and knows of parent complaints spanning schools right across the city. Two of the examples summarised at the conference concerned girls who had started to question their gender identity at school. Same-sex attracted, autistic, trauma in their families – in both these cases the girls had fallen under the influence of online trans-activists.
In one of the examples, online activists had encouraged the child to self-harm in order to obtain a social work referral. A social worker came to the family home and on her initial visit, without having read any of the clinical history of the child, declared to all present that this child was now a boy. The parents obtained school records and learnt that for the previous year the school had been actively socially transitioning the child behind their backs. This came as a shock because the headteacher had promised this wouldn’t happen. It became apparent that activist teachers had gone ahead regardless. Some helped facilitate the use of breast-binders and organise sessions with Allsorts. They were aware the child had obtained testosterone, and deliberately withheld this from parents. PSHE Brighton has received similar stories from families dating back to 2016; in all circumstances families raised concerns with headteachers and school governors, to no avail.
On the breast-binder issue alone, a clear moment – you’d think – for a safeguarding red-flag, the school should have escalated the matter (under existing statutory guidance, it is made abundantly clear that everyone – including families – has a role to play). But in the increasingly warped world of Brighton and Hove City Council, activist officials, councillors, teachers and social workers operate a deliberate agenda intent on driving gender identity theory forward. In schools, where activists simply overrule the wishes of ineffectual heads, their cause is paramount and parents who object are cast as abusers – part of a bigoted blob of untutored minds. A recent tweet responding to the new Government guidance says it all. Labour’s safeguarding lead Cllr Emma Daniel tweeted: “The sad reality is that mainly kids need protecting from relatives – that’s basic and obvious safeguarding. And this guidance should be about the safety of children not the feelings of parents.” To clarify a reply asking if she meant ‘mainly’ or ‘many’, she tweeted: “Either really – safeguarding mostly involves protecting children from relatives.”
Responding to a public question in November, Deputy Council Leader Jacob Taylor disputed the claim that headteachers were crying out for DfE guidance: “I can honestly say that in meeting most of the headteachers in this city over the last couple of months not one has raised this with me.” Perhaps. But like Cllrs Sankey and Daniel, it seems Labour leaders in Brighton will continue to cobble together an alternate reality in which the only safeguarding concerns they need to ponder relate to children at risk from their parents. In the ‘nothing to see here’ city, the accounts of parents can be ignored or, in the case of Kay Lyons, ‘refuted’, demonised and responded to with naked aggression.
In the Times, Janice Turner put it well when describing the underlying principle of the new Government guidance, which is “parents must be told if their child socially transitions since this is not a neutral act but a pathway to medical interventions”. Turner makes reference here to the Cass Report – a document our council will assiduously not have read. A local women’s group raised money to give every city councillor a copy of Time to Think by ex-BBC Newsnight reporter Hannah Barnes. Though it’s possible a few of Brighton’s Labour councillors might read it secretly by candlelight (or risk more ‘re-education’ sessions) the majority are likely to remain amongst the group who laughed as Kay Lyons was ejected and who, a minute later, heartily applauded Sankey when she denounced Lyons as an aggressive protester advancing an “agenda”.
And so it seems this Labour administration – just over six months into its term – has drunk the gender ideology Kool Aid to the extent that it will die on this hill despite its own national leadership welcoming the draft DfE Schools Guidance for Gender Questioning Children.
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A good piece on some unintended consequences, or non-specific effects, of vaccines, positive and negative.
Get traditional, live ones only.
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/pharmaceutical-carnage
I will never take another “vaccine.” Ever.
Nor me, HP, we must become our own doctors now.
Same here. I’ve always resisted medical interventions anyway and looked after my own health. I’ve not had many vaccines and I’ll never have another one.
A truly sad and depressing story. The fact that no compensation has yet been offered beggars belief.
There are people in this country who are still in positions of authority and are still pushing these poisons. Given what is now known these people are wholly complicit in wilfully harming the people of this nation. Actually, given what is known these people must now be determined to be guilty in many instances, of murder. Indeed there are some people who have pushed this dangerous injection programme no longer in positions of responsibility, that does not however absolve them of guilt.
Will any of us see justice?
Not unless we take back control.
We must always remember:
Never forget. Never forgive.
Sad story, and similar to several cases I have seen. I am unaware of any of my patients qualifying for government payments for their injuries.
And still I am unable to work in health unless double jabbed, or unable to visit my father in a care home without a RAT each time and mask.
And new laws will deregister me for even discussing the down side of the jabs or lockdown.
The response by our bureaucracy and politicians in the face of incontrovertible evidence is to double down even harder.
As many have commentated, be self-reliant and avoid doctors as much as possible.
Thank you firstly for providing the Australian perspective. Your second paragraph says it all and what a sad indictment of your profession that is.
Let’s remember those given damehoods for the AZ Vax development. I don’t recognise any benefit from this vaccine, but I know several people with injuries somewhat less severe than this case.
Do we think Dame Professor Sarah Gilbert, who co-developed the AZ vaccine, knew at the time of its roll-out that it was so dangerous? When she received a standing ovation as a guest in the Royal Box at Wimbledon in 2021, I thought her “embarrassment” was merely humility and shyness, but it might in retrospect have been shame or guilt. Any thoughts?
I had exactly the same thoughts Michael M.
Perhaps the development team should have spent more time on the design of their offering, if memory serves they made their decision over a very short period, days if not hours. How can there have been time to determine whether this design met basic safety requirements?
Absolutely she knew the risks: thrombocytopenia has long been associated with adenovirus viral vectors:
https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/109/7/2832/125650/Adenovirus-induced-thrombocytopenia-the-role-of
Look at the date on that: 2006
She’s a murderer & she knows it. I’d have topped myself in her position.
This poor guy.
I hope his health can improve some more over time and his quality of life can be regained somewhat. I feel absolutely sh*t for him. His only downfall was trusting the experts. Heads need to fecking roll for what these vile psychopaths have done to people. If they aren’t responsible for killing people they’re ensuring they are disabled for life. It makes me livid. Reading stories like this also makes me appreciate my own health more and I don’t think anyone will take the fact they’re able-bodied for granted after reading how Adrien and others have now been massively impacted, where even the mundane activities of daily living are a huge challenge.
A kindly, generous post Mogs.
I wonder if dame sarah giblet sleeps well at night knowing it was her snake oil that has killed and mamed so many that even the vaccine fanatics had to withdraw it before it became too obvious how dangerous it is. No more jabs for me, I just don’t trust these people any more.
To be fair on whatshername, I’m presuming she just developed the technologies – a legitimate activity whether the end product turns out to be fit for use or not.
The real villains are those responsible for monitoring the safety and whether it is fit to be put to general use. Stand up the MHRA and much of the medical profession. They’re the ones who shouldn’t be sleeping at night – and if not because of any guilt they probably don’t feel, for the retribution I hope they can see is coming their way.
I imagine the millions she made from the flotation of Vaccitech will help her sleep at night.
https://news.sky.com/story/astrazeneca-vaccine-co-inventors-float-on-us-market-is-a-blow-to-the-uk-but-its-not-all-bad-news-12269388
I note that the University of Oxford also had a financial interest in the ‘vaccine’. As the institution tasked with evaluating therapeutics such as Ivermectin, it looks like a potential conflict of interest to me.
I’d like to pick up Adrian Walker in my car and go round to Elliot Colburn’s (the pro-vaccine MP in the recent Vaccine Injury debate in Westminster) house and show him what a real vaccine injured person looks and acts like. Adrian’s life is ruined because he listened to people like Colburn and yet he, Colburn, still advocates and encourages people to get the ‘vaccine’. If possible I would get a busload of the vaccine injured and drop them off at parliament. This is a crime against humanity and someone must pay. Someone WILL pay and if one of the vaccination enablers is reading this, remember that we have long memories and we will not forget. We have all the evidence, which is increasing all the time and we WILL have our day in court.
My thoughts bang on.
Elliot Colburn is a pompous, ignorant little shit.
(And I make a rule of not posting anything on line that I wouldn’t say to their face.)
Another heart-rending story.
Couple of points:
His haematologist told him that one of the main reasons that he survived was because he was previously so fit and healthy.
Yeh, and another doctor worthy of the name knew that anyone in their 40s who was ‘fit and healthy’ didn’t need to go near that jab.
Adrian did the the ‘right thing’ – he had his AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination for the good of the nation.
I can’t let that pass. He did what he did presumably because he was told it was the right thing to do, ‘for the good of the nation’. But he, and tens of millions of others, were lied to. I hope to God there is a reckoning about this.
Most of all though, good luck Adrian, and all the others like him. It’s clear from this article that – unlike the criminals, monsters and nobodies responsible for doing this – he has immense courage. And it’s sometimes amazing where courage can get you.
And good luck VIBUK. doubtless you’ll have a load of shit thrown at you and obstacles put in your way, but the momentum and right is firmly with you.
So, not to sound all ‘click-baity’ but this is actually mind-blowing. This scientist and her team from around the world tested 2,300 vials of all the Covid jabs and what they found was just shocking, but if you’ve watched other videos on a similar theme you won’t be too surprised. So if you want to skip the parts on their credentials, how Pfizer made their formula in Jan 2020 in just a few hours and the actual listed ingredients in these shots then fast-forward to 45 mins, where she goes through her findings.
Just a few of the findings are; zero biological ingredients were detected, so no mRNA and no spike protein subunits. But many chemicals were found, so she therefore refers to them not as a biological weapon but as chemical weapons. Many toxic metals were found ( trillions of nanoparticles ) and hydrogel ( made by the Dept of Defense ) and graphene oxide among them. She explains how the hydrogel and polymers are used as nano-antennas and have magnetic properties and also are able to self-crystalize. Graphene oxide is magnetic and thermodynamic and does not break down in the body.
What is interesting is that she said ALL vials tested, regardless of manufacturer, has exactly the same ingredients just in different doses. The team found 35 different toxicity levels, ranging from mild to highly toxic. It is their consensus that these products will reduce recipients’ lifespans by 10-15 years. They found *no placebos*. It is her opinion that they were introduced on the global population as part of a depopulation agenda and thereafter for technocratic totalitarian control over the remainder of the population. She mentions there’s no such thing as shedding because there is no biological material within these 2,300 identical vials so it would be impossible. Fascinating stuff.
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2022/10/dr-poornima-waghs-team-test-ingredients-2305-vials-of-covid-19-injection-the-shocking-facts-2696815.html
My friend whose cancer was thought to be in remission, was partly paralysed a day after his 1st AZ jab. Then his cancer returned with a vengeance. Now he is dead.
His doctor never once considered it was a possible adverse reaction, so no yellow card. No way I can prove it, but I know.
It would help to have an analysis of the criteria used by triage teams to decide who got into hospital. If only a minority died, did the rest really need to be there?
The Government’s refusal to admit that the Covid jabs have and are causing immense harm is just one of their disgusting actions. One of many.
Only a tiny handful of MPs bothered to attend the recent “debate” about the Jab-Injured in Parliament.
They will thoroughly deserve the electoral annihilation they get in 2024.
Talk of electoral annihilation raises an important question – whether we still have a legitimate democracy in this country (and the wider western world, as well). Do we have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”? Are MPs acting in good faith in the best interests of their constituents, or is something else driving them?
And, if we believe we no longer have a legitimate democracy, what should we (the People) do? For example, should we continue to pay taxes if the Government (as is very likely, I suggest) introduces bribes and punishments (carrots and sticks) to get people to sign up to digital IDs?
And should we, as individuals, continue to vote?
Any other thoughts?
To answer your question, NO we do not have a legitimate democracy nor do we have a government of the people for the people and no the MPs are not acting in good faith. There is no point in voting it doesn’t work – its been corrupted.