Yvette Cooper has been accused by the Free Speech Union of suggesting everyone arrested in connection with the recent disorder is guilty. The Telegraph has more.
In a letter to Ms. Cooper, the Free Speech Union raised concerns that the post on X, formerly known as Twitter, risked prejudicing the trials of those yet to appear in court.
The message was posted by the official Home Office account on Aug 14 after two weeks of unrest in British towns and cities.
It contained a graphic saying there had been more than 1,000 arrests underneath the caption: “These criminals will face the full force of the law.”
These criminals will face the full force of the law
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) August 14, 2024pic.twitter.com/HXOHzjCwYT
Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, warned the tweet risked breaching the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
In the letter he said Ms. Cooper was “ultimately responsible” for the content of the Home Office’s account and should order the deletion of the post.
He wrote: “We are concerned that this post referred to all the people who have been arrested in connection with the recent public disorder as ‘criminals’, including those who have not been charged, or who have been charged but have pleaded not guilty and have not yet been tried.
“For example, one of our members, the 55-year-old woman who was arrested last week for wrongly identifying the attacker in Southport as an asylum seeker on X, has not been charged or made any admission of guilt.
“If she is charged, and if she pleads not guilty, we fear that there may be a risk that her trial is prejudiced because some of the jurors in her case may be one of the 2.3 million people who have seen the X post.”
Worth reading in full.
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Another stonker from Steven. I do like a man with a sense of humour. But it’s a pathetic sign of the times isn’t it? It’s not many years back that I’m sure most on here would look at those news items and answer ‘false’ for all of them. You need a sense of humour here otherwise you’d just cry!
Meanwhile, I wonder if facts are racist…Here’s the latest crime stats out of Frankfurt. I also wonder how many of these migrants that go on to commit crimes are not white, but to point this fact out is verboten. We’re just all supposed to keep looking the other way, I guess;
”The new crime statistics from the German city of Frankfurt contain shocking figures regarding foreigners and major crimes, including one particular figure that shows they are responsible for 100 percent of all serious sexual assault crimes and 57.4 percent of all crimes.
The data shows that even for the worst crimes, well over half of all suspects are foreigners — those without a German passport. The rest of the suspects, 42.6 percent, are German citizens, but it is important to note that the data does not track whether these German suspects have a migration background, as Germany does not record this data.”
https://www.rmx.news/crime/germany-foreigners-responsible-for-100-of-serious-sexual-assault-cases-in-frankfurt-57-4-of-all-crimes/
And here is a snap shot of who is entering Italy en masse. I’d hate to come off as a white supremacist so I won’t point out the obvious;
”This is the Third Word invasion of Italy.
Meloni is a failure and a traitor.
Matteo Salvini is Italy’s last hope.”
https://twitter.com/BFirstParty/status/1773273898814963901
“You need a sense of humour here.”
Humour is racist.
This just demonstrates Germany, the police and law as a concept are all structurally racist, defining actions as offenses solely based on what brownish-skinned foreigners naturally do. With the usual hellish cunning of that accursed white race, most of these laws were even made in anticipation of mass immigration waves which hadn’t yet occurred!
Sam Melia has been banged up for two years after being found guilty of publishing stickers with slogans such as ‘Reject white guilt’ and ‘White lives matter.’ Buried in the judgement is an admission that Melia did nothing illegal nor print untruths. He’s been jailed for ‘intent to stir up racial hatred.’
I am minded of a line from the film Local Hero. “Stange times Archie!” Strange times indeed.
And by way of dessert here’s Frank Haviland on blistering form discussing the abolition of whitey.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/missold-on-white-privilege/
None of my friends are white. In fact I don’t know anyone who is white, though Rylan has ridiculous-looking white teeth, but I don’t know him personally. I’m several colours, none of which are white.
“The fact that these cliffs are called white stands as a racially-insensitive reminder of white privilege and white dominance in a country where many people are Black or Minority Ethnic”. ——If they were blue they would be called the Blue Cliffs of Dover I imagine. ——But notice how these oh so sensitive oppressed minorities never seem to complain when there are way more black and ethnic minorities in TV adverts than is remotely representative of the UK population. Infact I tried the other day to spot an advert with 5 white people in it and had to give up and came to the conclusion that there probably aren’t any and fell asleep on the recliner. —–Yawn, have a nice day Y’all
Oh sorry I hope “Recliner” isn’t racist is it?
Now stop giving society’s perma-victims even more victimhood status and ammunition by referring them to them as ”minorities”, because they are not, as I recently shared the breakdown of all the ethnicities on here. Go to many places, such as London, Birmingham or Bradford, and you’ll see the white, indigenous natives are a dying breed in these locations. They are not ‘oppressed’, they are not ‘disadvantaged’ and they certainly are not ‘minorities’. Unless you were being sarcastic, of course…..
Regarding your point about adverts, I’ve noticed the same thing for a while now on Netflix. Any series or film coming out, whether it be British or not, they seem to have to cram as much ‘diversity’ in there as possible, ( the French seem to like bunging trans folk in their cast often too ) so that it comes across like they’re trying too hard and it’s not reflecting reality at all.
I think you should know by now that when I use the terms “oppressed” and “minorities” I am always being totally sarcastic. Perhaps I need to always make sure I use inverted commas for the benefit of people on this site who are not familiar with my world view (I don’t consider you to be one of those) ——So on adverts I ask myself “What is going on here”? Are companies just trying to show their product or service off to as many different cultures as possible to maximise profit? There may be a little bit of that. But I think it is more the case that ESG is coming into play and no company wants to be tarred with the “racist” brush. We even have the ludicrous situation in ads now where a husband will much of the time be white and his wife black or vice versa. Mow people would say “Well what is wrong with that”? —–What is wrong with it is that it is manufactured diversity for political purposes. Advertisers are increasingly showing how inclusive they are so they can score ESG points. ——-It is quite embarrassing.
Excellent 6mins monologue from Peter Whittle here, focusing on the new ‘hate speech’ laws coming into effect in Scotland, courtesy of a racist leader who appears to be living in the wrong country. Shall we place our bets as to which colour the people coming a cropper due to said unjust laws ( ”one has a moral responsibility to disobey…” ) are bound to be? Will JK be able to withstand these unjust laws and continue to speak out against the Transtifa mafia and be an overall valuable asset to all who still retain some common sense and integrity? My Mystic Meg powers are forecasting the people getting prosecuted in Clown World Scotland won’t be exactly ‘diverse’;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guI3P6bFtLo&ab_channel=TheNewCultureForum
Dunno about all you guys, but I am pink.
As I’m not a girl, I must be blue.
That’s why 93% of humanity can call you a “gammon”, without fear of being arrested, losing their job or ruining their life.
But if you use a word describing the skin colour of any of the three main “Global Majority Heritage” ethnic groups, you risk all of the above.
I like gammon. Being called that doesn’t worry me at all.
Amazing. Just unbelievable the craziness the world has come to.
The only bright spot in all four of those tales is that the “Arch-Hand-Wringer” actually questioned it for a change, instead of promoting it as he usually does. That in itself is a good sign.
Forget whiteboards. Think of blackboards, which are oppressed by the sticks of white chalk rammed onto them in a symbol of the huge minority enslaved by a tiny minority. Only joking but someone somewhere must have been outraged.
Why is paper so white?
Brilliant Steven!
Had me looking for the odd one out, and laughing aghast when I discovered there wasn’t one.
One question I keep meaning to ask…
Why use the phrase “the author of over 10 books”, rather than “the author of” 11 , 14, 19 or whatever the actual number of books may be?
I know I know. Little things. Its just been bugging me.
Maybe, just maybe, if we stopped funding crackpots to find problems, we could all just instead decide to get along. All this does is drive division and “hate”.