Westminster Council was left scrambling to celebrate Easter yesterday after apparently forgetting about the major Christian festival and only putting up a Ramadan display. The Telegraph has more.
The problem at the council started on Wednesday evening, when the Telegraph approached with a complaint from one of its most senior councillors. “Why,” Paul Swaddle, the leader of the minority Conservative group, wanted to know, “was there a Ramadan celebration in the window of Westminster City Hall” but not a corresponding display for Easter?
The query, it now appears, set minds racing in what is probably the most high-profile local authority in all of the U.K.: its main offices a stone’s throw from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
“I am sure we will be doing something,” a source at the Labour-run council replied on Wednesday night, as it dawned on officials that Easter, the holiest of Christian holidays, had seemingly been forgotten.
By Thursday morning, the council appeared to have begun an operation to prepare an Easter display hastily. Another council source declared: “We had some Easter stuff planned. There was consideration that we should ‘Easterise’ the building. There will be additional focus this afternoon.”
At lunchtime, however, there was still no sign of the display. Timings were getting tight. Council employees were starting to depart for the long Easter weekend. The council assured The Telegraph the display was being prepared. “The facilities guys,” it became clear, “tend to do their work at the end of the day,” a source said.
By 3.30pm, the council was issuing an official communiqué. “The council celebrates Easter every year. A window display is being installed today,” it said in a statement issued to the Telegraph.
And then, at 5pm, came the miracle of Easter. First, a table appeared in the empty window to the left of City Hall’s two revolving doors. Then came the bunting, which was followed by some multicoloured eggs and a couple of cut-out rabbits. The final piece in the display was two posters, wishing the public a happy Easter, depicting a giant golden egg wrapped with a red ribbon and superimposed on what looked like the fountain at Trafalgar Square. …
The spat over the Easter – or lack of Easter – display followed the appearance of an array of Ramadan lights which have been installed at prime spots in Oxford Street and between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square after winning approval from Westminster City Council.
Ah Easter, the time of year when Christians everywhere celebrate, er, chocolate and the existence of cute bunny rabbits.
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Yes, get your ‘Gesture Eggs’ and your ‘Hot Nike Buns’ ( shout out to Iceland! ) at the ready because they’re not finished ramming yet more cultish nonsense down our throats in an attempt to eclipse our Christian festivities. What the actual fluff is ‘International Transgender Day of Visibility’, which happens to be on March 31st?? I’m not sure this is truly international but perhaps some crazy American invention thingy;
”For many, Easter means colored hard boiled eggs and bunny rabbits, hardly life-changing truths.
Secular society has long been happy to treat Easter as nothing special, disparaging it by assigning it as just one of many PR-created observances.
But International Transgender Day of Visibility is different from all these others, because it’s a holy day for a societal movement that is increasingly revealing itself to be a religion, a cult that is trapping more and more souls who disfigure their bodies to display their allegiance to the cult.
As if to prove the point that secular governments want to replace the truth about the Resurrection of Christ with the cult of transgenderism, Fairfax County, Virginia — a wealthy close-in suburb of Washington, D.C. — proclaimed March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility” while offering no such declaration concerning Easter.
The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 9-0 in favor of the proclamation.
“By voting to make Easter this year Transgender Visibility Day, they are intentionally trying to offend Christians on the holiest of days by forcing gender ideology down their throats,” Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, a Virginia mom and the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network, told Fox News.
“Nobody joins a cult to join a cult,” activist James Lindsey wrote recently. “People join a cult because they are suffering in some way, and the cult offers them a resolution to their suffering. Virtually everyone who has escaped a cult tells the same story: They wanted to belong, they wanted a social circle, they wanted understanding, and they wanted purpose. The cult preys upon these people and slowly locks them in.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/is-easter-being-replaced-with-the-transgender-day-of-visibility/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
“they’re not finished ramming yet more cultish nonsense down our throats”
they’re not finished Ramadaning yet more cultist nonsense down our throats!
Trans are hardly invisible. All you hear about these days is bluddy trans this and trans that. Less visibility would be exquisite.
What the heck? International Transgender Day of Visibility? Load of insufferable codswallop! Beam me up Scotty and get me out of here!
The cultural Marxists that have taken over everything don’t really care about Trans or their rights. This issue is just another vehicle to dismantle the Nation State and traditional family because it interferes with their one world government aspirations.
Last time I checked white people make up 82% of the population. I have no intention of treating the 18 % that are not white with any disrespect or contempt assuming they arrived here legally, and they do not kick up a stink about this country, bring their sectarian clutter to our streets or commit crimes based on any barbaric cultures that some of them have been accustomed to (mainly against women). Unfortunately our National and Local Governments seem to think that equality means pandering to these people and giving them special treatment inline with this absurd idea that these people are somehow being oppressed and the white people in this country are their oppressors. ——All of that stinks, and these pathetic attempts to hide stuff that we in this country have always done, like celebrate Easter and Christmas, so these incomers don’t feel uncomfortable are the policies of squirming defeatists. I don’t feel at all uncomfortable about other cultures doing their thing and they won’t mind us doing our thing either. Politicians that worry that they will mind need to get a backbone and stop the pandering.
IMO, it’s the 82% who are being oppressed in favour of the others.
I would be quite happy to see Ramadanadingalong banned. Those that don’t like it can eff off back where they came from.
When in Rome…
Yes, it’s like those parents who give away their children’s toys to other children in order to feel that they are good people, and expect their own kids to understand and approve. They don’t.
As a child I noticed the tendency in some parents to fuss over and be extra generous with treats for visiting children, to the chagrin of their own offspring who were left wondering why they didn’t receive the same special treatment.
I didn’t know the term ‘virtue-signalling’ in those days.
The fawning parents seemed oblivious to the seething resentment they were fostering in the breasts of their own children, but I bet they got the backlash years down the line.
When I was a very young child my mother gave away my favourite soft toy (a scottie dog) to a hospital and said the children there needed it more than me. I know she meant well, but I was heartbroken for weeks. My dear Dad then bought me a teddy bear to make up for it. 69 years later, I still have it (I’m 75) and sometimes still hug it. I agree with you and varmint.
Childhood griefs are seldom forgotten. Parents should never favour other children over their own.
‘… a cult that is trapping more and more souls who disfigure their bodies to display their allegiance to the cult.’
This immediately reminded me of the ancient, maybe Babylonian, worship of the goddess Ishtar. Her male devotees would castrate themselves in public, then run through the streets flinging their bloody genitalia in all directions to demonstrate their allegiance to an imaginary entity.
It seems that there is an age-old fundamental psychological flaw in an unfortunately high proportion of human beings: they are peculiarly suggestible to ridiculous ideas expounded by insane fanatics and control freak zealots.
Hence, the extraordinary and regrettable number of ‘religions’ aka cults.
The only hope is that the majority of us who retain our rationality and critical faculties will ultimately prevail.
I find all the comments on the Kate article being deleted, and the comment section disabled, as disturbing. I assume this has happened as there were some less than sympathetic comments as a result of her being a major player in the promotion of an experimental shot that is likely to have killed millions of people, including children. Where is their justice? Where is the censorship of outright lies from all involved in the crime? Where is the concern for all those killed or injured by the shot? Perhaps the DS team think “where is your decency?”. My decency does not extend to anyone involved in this historic crime which killed and maimed those that complied, and abused those who didn’t. I will never forget, I will never forgive.
Never explain
Never apologise
The latter is a given I think. I do, however, think it’s important to sometimes explain. Normally just to yourself. Personally, I need to occasionally remind myself why feel how I feel, and make sure my moral compass is still calibrated. Hate will normally override logic, but sometimes logic can only lead to hate.
I read that article and I am sure it hadn’t been up that long. I was going to enjoy reading the comments, but, bang, they weren’t there. Why? For a site that is supposed to be a bastion of free speech, I find this craven behaviour. I used to subscribe to the Telegraph, but cancelled my sub because they were always closing down comments just as they got interesting. It sometimes seems to me that whoever compiles the daily news round up just sits there with a cuppa and the torygraph to compile the daily output, and now they are behaving in exactly the same way.
We are adults, we don’t need our speech monitored or censored. Shame on you, Daily Sceptic, for betraying your principles. At least have the manners to tell us why you closed the comments. Have you friends in the royal family perhaps?
Well, my guess is that Toby worried that some of the comments would be used by the left as ammunition to get the site shut down. To question the morality of a royal is a much bigger sin than wishing the death of the unvaccinated of course. I very much do hope that the DS team explain themselves – not to the people they worry about explaining themselves to, but to the people who actually care what the explanation is.
My comment made no mention of the Royals, there was no profanity etc, all I did was state the reasons both economic, political and moral as to why the truth will not be acknowledged by those who forced the injections on millions. So there was no reason to remove it. I do wonder sometimes if this site is set up as a monitor of all those who diverge, question and disobey the prescribed ways of thinking such that we can be kept an eye on. But perhaps I have become overly cynical since 2020. Either way Toby and the team should address why they did, what they did. There are clearly a number of people on the site who have found this reaction disturbing.
Were they involved, or were they like so many others, victims, in that they believed what they were told by those who were in charge? Was it criminal, or just them thinking that they were doing the public a service? Taking the shot(s) shows that they were as misinformed as so many were, and now they are, perhaps, also paying the price. In this I think you are being unjustifiably harsh. Do you show the same degree of hatred to all other mislead takers of the poison, or is it confined to those in the public eye?
I had the virus in December 2019 and was sicker than I have ever been, and I have had influenza A on 4 occasions, and pneumonia on one, in addition to being an asthmatic. I did, however, do a lot of reading and, being very untrusting of TPTB, having encountered their stupidity and any other negative you care to think up, refused to take any of it. Correctly, it seems. These monumental geniuses, or their forebears, made us chase the IRA with no more than pick handles in this country and in Germany. How many times do you have to die in your own head before you lose any trust you once had? Without the trust issues would I have believed the official line? Like so many others, to their detriment.
Good points, all of which I’ve wrestled with. It comes down to this though: who are the people that encouraged others to take the shot? Who are the people that promoted children to take a poison? Who are the people that encouraged the inhumane attack on the unvaccinated? Who the the people that encouraged the growth of a totalitarian state? Was she a pawn in their game? Possibly. Do I think that’s a good reason for her to promote an obviously experimental shot? No. Do I despise her? Yes. Do I think she should pay the ultimate price? No. But I think she should pay a price. Nothing in life is free.
Very disturbing. It’s censorship, which doesn’t sit well with this site’s commitment to FREE SPEECH.
That ‘Free Speech Union’ logo is flashing on and off in my eyeline as I write and the emoji’s unzipping mouth is beginning to look ironic.
One hopes that an apology and explanation for the shutdown will be available SOON.
Where were those posters made? An enormous chocolate egg in a London fountain and the words ‘Happy Easter’ bracketed with the Cross symbol.
The posters should have either eggs/bunnies or the Cross – not both.
It would have been so much better with two posters showing ‘Happy Easter’, one with the Cross as the main feature and the other showing the egg treat.
Crass.
The first crass, kowtowing, snivelling, grovelling act they performed was putting that Ramalamadingdong display in their window.
Cowards and traitors jumping on the izlamification bandwagon today will be the victims of the worst cult in the world at some point in the future and it will serve them right.
In a world where everything has changed, sometimes it helps to have a little bit of stagecraft that reassures the citizenry that nothing very much has changed at all. Even if it is a lie.
Well this Ramadan paraphernalia is happening in other major cities, of course. Now those crime figures out of Frankfurt ( 100% of sex assaults committed by foreigners ) I shared recently make sense;
“Those who feared a creeping Islamization of Germany will feel relieved,” says the Swiss Weltwoche. “Frankfurt am Main is the first city in the Federal Republic to hang Ramadan lights. The mayor Verde of the city speaks of lights ‘of the union against discrimination’. The fact is that while Christmas trees disappear in nurseries, Christmas parties are canceled in schools for reasons of religious tolerance and crosses disappear from buildings, elsewhere everything is being done to make Islam more and more visible in Germany”.
In Frankfurt, 15 percent of the population is already Muslim. In the great postmodern void, Islam gallops forward.
“The public lighting for Ramadan in Frankfurt and Cologne is wonderful” comment the German Catholics. I don’t think they can be saved, the Catholic idiots, they have delved so deeply into masochism.
Meanwhile, as a by product, anti-Semitism flares up.
After Frankfurt, Cologne: anyone walking through the streets of the cathedral-city will see crescents, the words “Kareem” and “Ramadan”. The city where Benedict XVI made his first papal journey.
And the SPD proposes to light up Berlin for Ramadan as well. Why not, given that in Berlin there are just 9 percent of Catholics compared to 10 percent of Muslims? In the German capital, Islam has already overtaken Catholicism.
And it doesn’t matter that the majority of Germans are against submission.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387507
I can see what is happening and it makes me VOMIT. Your comment had me spitting flames out of my eyes, even though I am already aware of all this War on the West and our way of life.
Back in my RAF days, a self-inflicted injury was an offence punishable by Courts Martial. Westminster council are prima-facie guilty as charged.
Back in my RAF days…. nope, can’t remember a lot other than spending most of my time in jankers! Turns out I didn’t like being told what to do. Not exactly a revelation to anyone. Proof, if any were needed, that we can all be guilty of stupidity at times. What differentiates the occasionally naive from the forever-dumb is frequency of stupidity. Westminster, in all its forms, is a flag bearer for the latter.
We are one year away from Hot Crescent Buns
I think you are right. The Nike tick was just a temporary distraction and maybe a nod of approval to the Nike desecration of our English flag.
I’ve dumped Iceland as a hokey wokey purveyor of groceries.
It’s good to know that the Archbishop of Canterbury ( who bent over for Islam a long time ago ) acknowledges what a civilized country Pakistan is, especially towards its minority population of Christians and Hindus, and that anybody putting the words ‘Pakistani’ and ‘rape gangs’ together in a sentence must be prosecuted for hate crimes forthwith. When is ‘Taliban Awareness Month’?
”Ceremonies were conducted in various capitals worldwide to commemorate the 84th Pakistan Day, a significant national holiday in Pakistan. This day primarily honors the adoption of Pakistan’s first Constitution, marking the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23 March 1956. This established Pakistan as the world’s first Islamic republic.
Among those who celebrated, Westminster Abbey’s involvement stands out as particularly disturbing. The United Kingdom’s decision to fly the Pakistani flag above its most esteemed Anglican church is a shocking display of submission to Islam.”
https://rairfoundation.com/islamization-london-pakistans-flag-hoisted-top-westminster-abbeys/
Utter disgrace. I haven’t seen much evidence of Charles defending the Christian faith, either. Too much pandering to the usurpers taking over our land and culture.
Great——————-What a squirming bunch of hand wringing parasites our governments are, but I realised long ago they don’t work for us, they are members of Technocracy Inc.
As an atheist I used to be glad of the Church of England’s role as a bulwark of Christianity against izlam.
It’s hard to express how embarrassed I feel about that delusion.
Meanwhile, in my local Sainsbury’s today (Leicester) it was Mubarak Ramadan in big letters over the food counters, and no mention of Easter at all.
I noticed recently on the local schools holiday list that Easter holidays are now called Spring Holidays.
I wonder how soon Christmas holidays will be called Winter holidays? It seems even the terms Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas are now being overtaken by ‘Happy Holidays’. I’m mortally sick and tired of it…and I’m offended by it, too.
“Happy Holidays’. I’m mortally sick and tired of it…and I’m offended by it, too.”
Grotesquely offended would be my position.
ellie-em and huxleypiggles——-You probably won’t find that sort of thing in the middle of nowhere, like Pitlochry, The Cotswolds, The Lake District etc. But when we have imported vast amounts of people from different cultures into big cities and 70 % of classrooms are not white Christians how can we keep telling them “Its Easter” and expect that to mean anything to them. The problem is one of “the horse has bolted”. It is way too late now to stop this diluting of all the stuff we used to do. In 20 years time people cannot keep saying “we are a Christian country” when 20% are Muslims and in 40 years 40% are Muslims
I’m surprised we’re still allowed to call it Easter, rather than “Spring Holiday” or similar, much like the stories of Christmas now being a “Winter Holiday” which I hope have been overstated!
You can just imagine some poor lackey scrambling about, printing out rabbits to pritt stick onto some card, running to the pound shop for some tacky plastic eggs.