The Government is cracking down on people who share social media posts about the riots that it judges are “likely to start racial hatred”, regardless of their intent. Fox News has more.
Riots have broken out across the U.K. in recent days over false rumours spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded. The murders, allegedly committed by a now 18-year-old British citizen born to Rwandan parents, sparked a series of violent protests that tapped into broader concerns about the scale of immigration in the U.K.
Footage of the violent clashes involving anti-immigration protesters and the groups of counter-protesters, some of whom have been seen waving Palestinian flags, has gone viral on social media, and the Government is warning that sharing such content may have serious consequences.
The Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson, warned against “publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred. So, if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you’re committing that offence [incitement to racial hatred]”.
He added further, “We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth.”
“So it’s very, very serious. People might think they’re not doing anything harmful. They are. And the consequences will be visited upon them,” Parkinson said.
Worth reading in full.
Yesterday, a 55-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly spreading false information about the identity of the Southport attacker on social media.
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Comment anout JRM is fair bt many of us have lost confidence in him after his article in the Guardian.
Just think about the known Brexiteers as Ministers and MPs. If they sit there taking the money and fail to act they are corrupt. They should be talking to Richard Tice because Reform is the only available vehicle they could join. They are not capable of starting a new party and honesty and self-respect prevents them from staying where they are now.
Reform, Recovery and Heritage would have to combine and get those true Tories.
That might just make a difference, though probably not much.
The sheep have been thoroughly brainwashed, and the media won’t give up supporting the uniparties.
Real change can and will probably only happen after the real catastrophe, see Germany 1945.
Recovery in Germany did not start in the early years after 1945. They tried to follow a Social Democracy moel with extensive government rationing and it did not work. Only after Erhardt introduced a free market reform did the economy thrive, albeit ion the back of Marshall aid and security from the western alliance.
Correct. But even that needed the prior collapse of everything, in 1945, to happen.
What did JRM say in the Guardian ( I missed it )
I’m maligned as a ‘green energy sceptic’. I’m not. Dear Guardian reader, here’s what I think | Jacob Rees-Mogg | The Guardian
Oh Dear !!.. Thanks for that , I keep on having “Robert The Bruce” moments from Braveheart on a regular basis now
I hear the Chief & Deputy Chief Whip have gone too. No, I don’t know who they are either, Wendy someone?
Truss is developing Stockholm syndrome!
Apparently they have unresigned! You couldn’t make it up!
“…because UK PLC is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy after paying people half a trillion pounds to stay at home and not work for 18 months and a Chancellor that pledged to spend up to £200 billion helping people pay their energy bills while cutting taxes by £45 billion and not proposing any cuts in public expenditure was a step too far.”
Same if not worse in the US and EU though, bar the pro growth and pro UK plc tax cuts.
And no attacks there, as governments are firmly leaning green/left/Covidian.
Even staunch Russophobia couldn’t save Truss&co.
Count me firmly in the conspiracy camp.
Not that it matters much henceforth, as it’s irrelevant which part of the uniparty runs the country.
If they were honest, they’d let Carrie take over. Again. Just this time officially.
Dilyn would do a better job
Talking of Carrie, the chancellor wasn’t in no 11 long enough even to change the decor.
I didn’t know about Ms Braverman, or the Whips but Grant Schapps? FFS!
My take is that Truss started airing some strident, home-brewed policy messages which immediately put the wind up TPTB. The result was that they went in with a brutal frontal assault and took back control. Hancock’s return would, I believe confirm this point of view. If this is what happens then the Winter months are going to be vicious in the extreme with the nominal state hierarchy turning its forces wholly against the people of this country.
I have long feared blood on the streets is the aim. It looks like just such is being engineered.
I have voted in every general election since I was eligible, and a good many others besides. I wanted to believe that there would be some point in continuing to do so, but I am starting to think that you are right. But if the solution to this cannot come through democratic process, where does that leave us? Answers on a postcard please…
I am quite depressed about the whole thing, but perhaps by now I shouldn’t be surprised.
Incidentally, GB News reports that an “American” university has come up with a “covid” strain in a “secure” laboratory with an “80% kill rate”, and produced by the usual gain of function research suspects. Seriously, these people need dealing with (by peaceful means of course).
I have a very peaceful pair of large pliers.
I should also add that I have just learnt that a very old friend, who I had not heard was even ill or particularly unhealthy, recently died in his sleep of heart failure. Just happened to I suppose? If the general public ever does become aware of what has really been going on (which is looking increasingly like fairly large-scale deaths through the negligence or greed of big pharma and their accomplices), one does wonder what will happen, especially in a situation where democracy appears to be increasingly sidelined.
I think a peaceful means is no longer a viable option. That shop has sailed. airs time to galvanize the troops.
As we’ve surmised , this maybe the plan , they have 80,000 foreigners on hand to quell possible civil unrest !
That has long been my belief Freddy.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/braverman-quits-as-home-secretary/
Her resignation letter.
Interesting letter. Was that a skilful move, to make a simple, deliberate mistake and demonstrate integrity by resigning? Then she could voice criticism from an elevated position while not making the criticism appear serious enough to have caused the resignation.
Ann Widdecombe makes the same point and states that Ms Braverman’s crime DEFINITELY did not warrant resignation. https://youtu.be/pSyqhf0knBU
A good opportunity to replace the current system.
Ideally with sortition.
Fat chance, I know.
In Australia the end was night when our so-called “conservative” governing coalition started behaving as a green party. When our PM embraced “Net Zero” last year, he wrote his own epitaph.
The thought was they need time in opposition to rediscover their values.
Unfortunately, there is no sign this has occurred in Australia with our country merrily heading down the gurgler, with no dissent from our “conservative” opposition.
Good luck in the UK!
Toby’s taking another look at the red pill. Keep going Toby. Everyone on Team James is rooting for you.
Toby. Give Ian Davis article in Off Guardian a read.
Its a good introduction to what lies on the other side:
https://off-guardian.org/2022/10/19/multipolar-world-order-part-3/
Excerpt:
In the GR, gone are the old distinctions between right and left, liberalism, conservatism, socialism and even the extremes of fascism and communism. For the WEF, all that remains is global environmentalism, which, the book’s co-authors claim, is not an ideology:
It is a shame that the work of Iain Davis does not feature here even if only occasionally as he is without doubt one of our most insightful and erudite thinkers.
There may not be a secret committee in a darkened room giving orders but it seems rather naive to believe that the enemies of conservatism, nationalism and freedom (of which there are many in positions of power everywhere) would not use every underhanded trick in the book to nip any actually conservative administration in the bud.
Especially when these enemies include His Majesty.
The problem is we are all networked up to the wazoo. The recent iPhone security breach where it was shown anyone with enough money has been able to purchase from an Israeli security company, access to anyone’s iPhone at will, has merely exposed to the public what has been evident to anyone involved in IT security for years. We are thoroughly exposed to those with the resources to know our business. I think it is self evident state and oligarch/billionaire data gathering will now extend to having “kompromat” on just about anyone and everyone of note. Even if x is “clean” there will often be members of the family who aren’t and who can be used as leverage. I now simply cannot trust anyone who argues for closer ties with China. By nature I tend to agree more with Toby rather than James, but I think now the important rider needs to be inserted that the ultra rich have the means very much within reach. We have simply been seeing too many orchestrated political moves and too much increasingly apparently coordinated censorship to not take seriously the notion the globalists are not effectively extending their reach into the heart of governments worldwide in ways not previously possible.
They don’t need to actively “argue for closer links with China”.
If Boris’s partner of Carrie, a GangGreen Loon, was one of the factors that destroyed his credibility, what are we to make of Isaak Hunt’s wife with her own CCP TV show? Added to his Remoaner and WEF links and the fact he had zero credibility to start with?
And Grant Chumps?
They are now, quite blatantly, taking the piss.
The fact that Chunt’s wife is a CCP member should disbar him from ANY public office.
ANY PUBLIC OFFICE.
The offence is mind boggling.
I’m not quite there yet, but here’s a forecast for you. Trussy hangs on being steered by Hunt and Schapps, claiming to be maintaining stability while plunging us deeper into the red. At some point in the next few months they finally loose a no confidence vote and Starmer rocks up declares its worse than we even knew, Goes to the IMF, who tell him to IMF off. The wondrous, generous EU then says it will ride to our rescue provided we sign up to everything including the Euro. If it pans out anything like that then I for one could be convinced that Elvis is indeed living on the moon in a WW2 B17 bomber.
(One of them in the Pennines near Glossop isn’t there?)
On the Saddleworth moors.
Well it’s not unrealistic.
The flaw in your scenario is the EU hasn’t got any money or credit either.
Money is a fiction now.
You are right.
It/Germany used to have exports and as such was less vulnerable to such attacks than the UK.
Not anymore.
you joke, but they’re out there…
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/forget-austerity-reverse-brexit-economic-growth-1917003
Toby, you may be right, but you have to ask how we got to the state where such a sequence of events can happen. Someone has been carefully arranging the dominoes so that a nudge in the right place can have a pretty sudden effect.
The new Economic Advisory Council needs a mention. Four financiers from global behemoths, including the notorious Blackrock, have been given Star Chamber power over what remains of our nation. There is even careful deployment of the term ‘expert’ as a nod to the Brexit arguments.
They are doing this to what could reasonably be called one of the world’s oldest and greatest democracies. Canada, NZ and Australia have ready fallen. So what remains of the Western world’s freedom?
Dark times ahead.
There are quite a few countries with debt to GDP ratios worse than the UK’s. Truss’s mini budget wasn’t going to male the finances that much worse.
She was sabotaged by the BoE and those.with enough power to move “the markets”.
It’s pretty certain that someone who really didn’t like the mini-budget started throwing pounds onto the market, thereby causing it to fall, either because of political amibitions or because he expected to make profit by short-selling it. Like a certain George Soros did in 1992.
“Zee future does not just happen. Zee future ees ours!!!”.
You will own nothing, and won’t even be happy.
But even that is OK now.
And official.
How stupid can the masses be and what else do they need to wake up and revolt?!
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/youll-own-nothing-youll-be-unhappy
I wonder what it would take to provoke the general public to revolt.
Maybe time to stock up…
Start now if you haven’t already……..I read this the other day….
I asked my stockbroker what I should invest my money in..
his reply was tins of long life food and ammunition!
LOL!
The alarm has been heard. You are waking up, Toby. Please don’t hit the snooze button!
The ‘bond market’ is controlled by the same giant passive investment funds that all of our pensions depend upon, who also happen to control the ‘stock market’.
The value of funds under management of Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard and Berkshire Hathaway exceed the GDP of the US economy.
These corporations are all powerful and ruthless in ensuring that the companies and governments that they partially own enact their ESG / DEI policies. If the guaranteed returns from the bonds or shares that they have invested in are jeopardised by risky government economic policy, that doesn’t follow their ‘steady as she goes model’, they will react with impunity. Look what happened to other populist parties like Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece.
Truss will sadly go on to be replaced by another centrist stooge. No growth for us Brits, no Brexit bonus.
UK Government Bonds are essentially our future wages paid to the government in the form of taxation, which is then repaid to the pension funds when the bonds mature. In short they’re a Ponzi scheme that ensures that every time our government sells bonds (ie borrows from a pension fund) they guarantee that we will all be poorer in the future when the bonds need repaid with interest. The fact that nobody wants to disturb this system is because our own private pensions are tied up in these investment funds.
And yes Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard and Berkshire Hathaway are all regular attendees of the WEF jamborees in Davos and they operate on a transnational basis, so globalist coup is an apposite description of their current strategy to topple the British government.
https://riabiz.com/a/2021/7/28/suddenly-vanguard-blackrock-state-street-not-only-have-the-assets-but-the-power-of-esg-mandates-which-make-them-a-growing-threat-to-shareholder-democracy-critics-say
Having a vote is an illusion. It makes people think they have a choice. But they have NONE. The best recent example of this is Net Zero. Here we all sit likely about to run out of gas and have no power for 3 hours in the evenings, and every single one of those squirming UN lackeys want to spend one and half trillion on this Net Zero eco posturing crap that will make no difference whatsoever to climate because as a country we only emit about 0.75% of the worlds emissions of the deadly CO2 that brainwashed dreamers that climb on top bridges and throw paint at stuff think will kill billions of people. No wonder the government goes easy on them, because they are their useful idiots for a political agenda that in reality has nothing to do with climate and never did from the start. You can apply the same diagnosis to the migrant crisis. The squirmers hump and haw but do nothing about it, and when along comes a politician who wants to do something they get turfed out on a technicality for daring to rock the globalist boat.
They have passed a law that prohibits me to let my property.
This is communism.
Light maybe, sofar. But still expropriation and communism.
They must be stopped.
And thrown out.
No, this isn’t communism. If it was, they had confiscated your property and either shot you on the spot or marched you off to some reeducation camp somewhere in the wilderness.
NB: In 12 years, my rent has gone up by almost 41% and that’s still for the same rundown, mould-infested and heatingless place I was already living in in December 2010 (by that time, the almost entirely useless heating couldn’t even be turned on because a much cherished prior tenant had forcibly pulled off all the knobs, in addition to leaving me a generous amount rubbish lying all over the place, especially in the garden). If some law requires you to insulate the place according to somewhat modern standards, ie, turn it into something more resembling a home than a garden shed, then, you’ll unfortunately have to cough up the money for this. As that’s only going to be fraction of what you’ve already earned from it, nobdy’s going to be particularly sad about your fate.
Considering that I’m all too well aware what poor standards of insulation are perfectly legal in England, this probably means something like ensure that all the window panes are actually glassed and that the seals haven’t entirely rotted away (sealing stuff with organic material that’s subject to rot is a very British ‘innovation’).
I think a lot can be explained by all the good people, at all levels of society, having said,
“Ah, f*** this for a game of soldiers, I’m off!”
As for malice versus incompetence – it’s both, in different people at different levels.
I really is an extraordinary situation.
Dear oh dear.
I’d like to revolt but never expected to have to, as I naively believed I didn’t live in a Central American banana republic where coups tend to happen.
How do you do it? Not pay your tax? (What’s the point if it just gets sent to Ukraine and ends up in the pockets of arms manufacturers?)
Protests get you nowhere; at least not for this kind of thing – only eco protesters get noticed.
Presently all I can think of is to refuse to do anything online (i.e tax return on a paper form; use cash) then I run out of ideas.
Writing to MP is pointless – it gives him the idea that I think he has any influence.
Suggestions, please, on how to join the Awkward Squad and do a dirty protest all over Hunt and his cronies.
Join the Global Walkout. It might not achieve anything but at least you feel you are trying.
https://globalwalkout.com/about-the-global-walkout/
Yes
Truss stated her plans very clearly during the protracted leadership campaign. Sunak and the Globalists had plenty of time to plan their moves when he inevitably lost the election.
The B of E deliberately made conflicting statements and took actions prior to the mini budget which would destabilise the bond markets and cause havoc.
Kwarteng removed; Hunt installed and now the Remainer/Globalists are picking off Cabinet Members who aren’t on the left of the Party and are installing their cronies.
Yet Toby still thinks this is all cock up, not conspiracy.
How naive can you get?
Great that you are coming round to James D’s viewpoint, Toby. Frankly, the rapidity with which things have been moving since Johnson went and the Queen died (not that the two events are necessarily connected!) is incredible – so much ‘bumbling’ would surely be beyond most people and governments (and in any case it looks too choreographed to me)! I have long been of the same mind as JD and these recent events have only served to confirm this. Worrying times.
PMSL
“If Jacob Rees-Mogg goes in the next 24 hours (replaced by Matt Hancock) I think I may have to apologise to James Delingpole on the next episode of London Calling.”
The net is closing in fast Tobes practise your apology
Boris looked similar during the lockdown announcement and many of the press conferences. It does feel like there are machiavellian forces at play here.
Well done, Toby, you’re getting there.
We are in the midst of Evil. Some if us recognised that fact some time ago others have yet to realise it.
While I’m not a conspiracy theorist, having looked at Suella’s resignation letter, it looked as if her security error was a convenient excuse. Leaking out a draft item that they intend to publish “imminently” is quite likely a common mistake, you’d have thought.
Routing internal government communication of a computer (mail server) owned by a private company not supposed to have advance access to this kind of information is a pretty serious breach of security and due dilligence. Especially if it was a draft item, ie, something not yet considered ready for publication. There are also wider implications: Any reply to this mail will have travelled over the same, extra-governmental and thus, insecure channels. Thats’ something members of the government have to get right.
Exactly my feelings, Toby. I have always explained life as a cockup rather than a conspiracy, but recent events make you think whether Davos Man is pulling strings somewhere, particularly as the UK is no outrider in terms of overstretched budgets.
The phrase ‘Conspiracy Theory’ has a ring of fantasy/fiction about it and therefore the right thing to do with so called theories is to dismiss them.
But are conspiracy theorist sceptics really saying that no-one ever ‘conspires’ together ?
conspire
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Surely there’s every reason to think that there are powerful people currently doing or trying to do all or some of the above.
“Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
On the other hand: “The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
And:
10 As it is written:“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”[b]
13 “Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit.”[c]
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[d]
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”[e]
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not know.”[f]
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[g]
(Romans 3)
You left it to late Toby. That is exactly what is going. The WEF plan is working a dream and britain is being used as a test case. The globalists will ask “What did we get right what did we do wrong”. USA May be next. Wash, rinse, repeat. CDC/FDA just approved covid vaxxes for the USA’s chidlren’s vaccine schedule. Kiddies won’t be able to go to school without these injections despite there being no data to support the need for a covid vaccine in children.
The tentacles of wef globalists are far reaching. They have literally infiltrated every government and corporation, while the people slept. It is too late. When prue leith tells her viewers on GBBO to eat cricket flour and crickets, dude, you know they have won.
Braverman wanted to control immigration and Truss was trying to overrule her to bring in 1000’s to fuel her growth plans, so the principled Braverman did the only thing she could, resign.
I don’t buy it….
Do you honestly think the whole Covid scam is just a cock-up? The whole zero green agenda?
The universality of ESG’s? CBDC’s? Mass unrestricted immigration? Reaction to Russia/Ukraine/China? Sanctions, which are, European wide, causing economic and social devastation…?
The total lockstep of all Media outlets…..?
….and not a peep…from anyone……?
Really?
“If Jacob Rees-Mogg goes in the next 24 hours (replaced by Matt Hancock)”
Jeez Toby, don’t give them ideas!
We are simply returning to pre-Boris times, the leftist, woke, EU loving elite are back at the controls.
Boris kept them at bay for a while but it was only a matter of time before the tsunami overwhelmed him, and anyway he never had the principles and backbone required for such a big job.
“The bond and currency markets reacted as they did because U.K. PLC is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy after paying people half a trillion pounds to stay at home and not work for 18 months..”
Well have you also considered this might have been a key first step in the coup? Exaggerate a threat (or partner up with the Chinese and manufacture it in the first place), invoke the safety of the people, pay them to be economically defunct, create massive debt, ramp up inflation, render currencies worthless then heroically step in with your ‘inflation controlling’ central global digital currency? Initially bribing people with free digital credits to swap their old currency for new, then completely cutting off the finances of those refuseniks who want no part in this totalitarian living nightmare.
You said in an article back in 2020 it seemed like Boris Johnson was being blackmailed. I think you were right. There are probably many ways you could blackmail someone these days, particularly if you’re partnered with biggest tech firms on the planet who now know about, monitor and store every intimate detail of your life. Or even GCHQ. What if they’re now ‘centrally’ controlled? Who knows.
What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and reality? Well the old punchline was “about 18 months” but this probably needs updating to 6.
For anyone who claims the WEF is a conspiracy theory, can you tell me any other ‘make believe’ threat to our well being than one that has a website, offices around the world, and a membership list that reads like the top 1% of the 1% including heads of government and heads of state, around the world. Look at the ‘mistakes’. Do they all go in one direction.? Yes..? Then they aren’t mistakes…
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again ( Shepperton Studios / 1978) Put it full blast on YouTube , it won’t stop the SH1T but by fuck it will make you feel better !!! No Surrender to Schwabby & his crew of freaks !!!
The “dark forces” are actually pretty open about what they are doing if you look in the right places. Have a look on the website of the Gates-funded Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to see how they advocated for and coordinated some of the most medically implausible COVID policies, such as universal vaccination, vax passes and the targeting of university students, across more than 20 countries. The Institute is now working on CBDCs and Universal Basic Income. https://nitter.it/def1nft/status/1566803067890278401#m
I have a sad, sinking feeling that the Jews that were packed on the trains to Auschwitz and putting their belongings in piles before hitting the showers were still prefacing every sentence with:
“You know I’m not a Conspiracy Theorist, but I’m starting to think something might be going on here…”
Hanlon’s razor is alright for individual cases, but it has its limits. You can’t continue to plead it in the face of a pattern. Even an idiot would get things right some of the time. But when intelligent people only ever make things worse?
The question that perhaps should be asked is not whether there is a conspiracy, but who is conspiring. Personally, I’m firm a believer in Adam Smith’s assertion concerning conspiracies: ‘People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” With the vast amount of unpayable debt built-up over recent decades (unfunded state pension and social care liabilities, debt remaining from the 2008 financial crisis, Chinese property market, reckless government spending during lockdown, etc.) as well as the vast profits that can be made as a monopoly supplier defrauding a tightly controlled society (cf. the East Company of Adam Smith’s day, or Anthony Sutton’s work on Wall Street and the Bolsheviks or today’s vey public collaboration of Western businesses with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)), not to mention blatant fraud and pillage throughout the world, there is a very strong incentive for corrupt commercial and political interests to conspire: faced with the choice of confronting an angry mob, defrauded of everything they own, or supporting totalitarian control, brainwashing, poisoning and surveillance measures to keep them subdued, what are such criminals going to do? The idiocy and cowardice in so-called political leaders may be very real, as may be the ideological commitment of useful idiots in academia, but that does not preclude a conspiracy(ies) hiding behind it. Does this mean that the world is controlled by a man who looks like Dr Evil, sounds like Adolf Hilter and, accompanied by an archetypical mad scientist, proclaims a new Trasnhumanist Age in which ‘you will own nothing and be happy’ from his futurist lair in the Swiss Alps? I’m not so sure. The fervour with which this narrative is being pushed suggests it may be a diversion from (or at least only one of) the real culprits (CCP, CDC, Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, NATO, WHO, corrupt bankers and government officials, Trilateral Commision, Skull & Bones, Bilderberg Group, Institute of Foreign Relations, etc.).