I am truly astounded by what has happened to me. Approximately two years ago, myself and other like-minded individuals decided to resurrect an existing Facebook Page, Action Against Ulez, as we were horrified at the prospect of the expansion of the Lez scheme to Outer London boroughs. The daily cost to drive ‘non compliant’ cars was obviously the main issue, but we were also stunned by the questionable communications between Deputy Mayor Shirley Rodriguez and Imperial College over Sadiq Khan’s claim that without the expansion of the Ulez scheme 4,000 premature deaths would occur every year. In fact, as the Jacobs Report made clear, the Ulez expansion would have a negligible impact on air quality and would have a disproportionate effect on the less well-off. We were not only deeply concerned about the financial cost but also the emotional and mental wellbeing of those whose lives would undoubtedly be changed by the scheme. To top it all, the ‘consultation’ process was deeply flawed and the results ignored.
In the early days, along with others, I attended various meetings, including those at City Hall, to express our unhappiness at the looming expansion. Sadiq Khan chose to use insulting language about our group, particularly after a meeting in Ealing, labelling us “far Right” tory voters and accusing us of being “Covid deniers” and “Nazis”.
We decided to arrange a variety of demonstrations aimed at raising awareness of these issues. Our group membership had grown in size and the Facebook page now had around 46,000 followers. The demographics of our membership was predominantly people aged 50 plus, many of whom had never demonstrated about anyting before in their lives. I organised a GoFundMe to fund placards, leaflets, banners and other materials we would use.
We decided to organise what we dubbed “Awareness Days” as we discovered that many people were completely unaware of the looming expansion and how it would effect their lives. Upcoming events would be advertised on the Facebook page and at every event local police were there to meet with myself and others to discuss what our plans were, what time our group would turn up and how many were expected. Our Awareness Days were always a family affair. Some of us would dress up as dinosaurs, dancing in the streets, and a group of women created a vocal unit called ‘The Ulezettes’ and regularly performed at these events. Awareness Days were often attended by local politicians who seemed to enjoy the very good natured atmosphere. Local police would occasionally assist us with setting up and we made a point of leaving every venue clean and free of any litter. The locations were chosen by us, also taking suggestions from the Facebook members. We held events at Trafalgar Square, London Bridge, Marble Arch and outside the BBC with others being more local. Over the last two years we have probably held about 75 of these events, none of which caused any problems, We supported Howard Cox, Khan’s anti-Ulez opponent in the Mayoral election, and would use our events to promote his campaign.
It is common knowledge that Sadiq Khan lives in Tooting, and while we know the name of the street he lives on, we don’t know his house number. In the summer of 2023, we decided to hold an ‘Awareness Event’ on Tooting Common, which is opposite his street. This event involved a barbecue, family fun and entertainment. It was a weekend event, and as usual, local police officers spent time with our group and raised no issues at all. We also held an event outside Tooting Broadway tube station.
We decided to have one of our last events before the Mayoral election at the junction of two streets, one of which was Khan’s. We expected this event to be no different to any of our previous ones, either in Tooting or elsewhere. This was likely to be one of the final opportunities to voice our opposition to the Ulez expansion scheme and campaign for Howard Cox. We were not at all concerned about the location and fully expected the event to go as well as it had done before.
On the day itself several members of the group arrived before 12pm, the advertised start time, and began setting up. We were soon joined by the local police who, as normal, were friendly and chatty, walking around engaging in conversations with various people. The event continued as normal, although several latecomers told us they were concerned at the high numbers of police vehicles assembled in side roads. As these vehicles disgorged their occupants, some of them appeared in our midst and it became chaotic and confusing. While there appeared to be suggestions that we should disperse and relocate to City Hall, no formal announcement was made to the crowd and no specific time for leaving the location was indicated. However, it was clear that the police wanted us to leave and we began the process of packing up.
Then, without any warning, five people were arrested in quick succession – including me!
I was walking on the pavement near where I’d parked my car. One of my jobs as to collect up the banners and placards and take them home with me in my car, ready to be produced again at the next demo. I was beckoned by an officer to follow him into the road where I was arrested using a level of force that was quite unnecessary.
Another man, Lloyd Dunsfored, was arrested just for filming my arrest
Alison Young was arrested as she sat on the floor removing her dinosaur suit.
Martin Whitehead was arrested as he was taking his own placards to his vehicle.
The fifth person to be arrested eventually had the charges against him dropped.
Later, we were charged with causing harassment, alarm and distress to Sadiq Khan.
When we received our charge sheets, we were astonished to discover that the police claimed to have interviewed all of us, shown us all the bodycam and CCTV ‘evidence’ they’d gathered, and claimed we had all given “no comment” interviews. In fact, none of the Tooting Four had been interviewed before being charged. This had all been invented by the police and it took several requests from the magistrates for this finally to be admitted. In our naivety, we felt that the case would be thrown out at this point, but it wasn’t.
We were released that evening, with bail conditions to keep away from Tooting and the surrounding area. We were called to Charing Cross police station weeks later where we were charged – again without being interviewed. The plea hearing was held in early August before Justice/Judge Turner. We all pleaded “not guilty” and Turner discussed the prospective length of the hearing and then checked his diary and suggested he would be available for a trial date of November 27th.
To our surprise, we learned that in fact we were not going before Judge Turner at Westminster Magistrates Court but someone else, District Judge Sternberg. As this had been dragging on for months we were keen to progress – two of us said we would be happy to continue with Sternberg, one was not happy to proceed and one wanted Sternberg to be asked about whether he was able to be impartial in his approach, given that there was some evidence he was friendly with the Mayor. Naturally, he confirmed that he wouldn’t allow this to sway his judgment and the trial went ahead.
Nine police officers were called to give evidence for the prosecution and provided bodycam footage. In the case of seven of these witnesses, the claims they made of road blockages and protestors supposedly preventing an emergency vehicle accessing the road were not supported by their own footage.
Once the prosecution had presented its case, our representative asked the Judge to dismiss the case as the evidence of the senior officers had not been supported by their bodycam footage and had been contradicted by the two local police officers who had been at the scene from the outset.
But to our total astonishment, Sternberg said he felt there was a case to answer and the trial would continue.
While I am no legal expert, it seems that the case relied heavily on the content of the placards and banners we carried. One officer swore on oath that he had seen a placard saying “FUCK KHAN”, even though there was no such placard. When one of the defendants was questioned he confirmed he had a “FCUK KHAN” sticker on his hat – clearly a play on the advertising campaign of French Connection many years ago. The police officers said there were placards with blood on them, the event was advertised as “Khanage at Khan’s” and I had a high-viz jacket with the words “STOP THE KHANAGE” on it. It was implied that all of these could cause alarm and distress to Khan.
In my own cross examination, I explained that the placard with blood mentioned said “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS” – clearly not a threat to Khan.
In his summing up, Sternberg referenced my high-viz jacked and the name of the event, stating that “KHANAGE” refers to the killing of many people. While it isn’t my intention to go into the summing up any further, I hope this gives an indication of Sternberg’s mindset and how the case really rested heavily on the signage.
We were found guilty and I was found to have a higher level of “culpability” than the others and ordered to pay a total of £1,310, comprising a £750 fine, a £300 victim surcharge and £260 of legal costs. Outside the Court, we pointed out that a group of Just Stop Oil protestors, who staged a demo outside then-PM Rishi Sunak’s Kensington home last year, were charged with harassment, but were all acquitted by a judge at Stratford Magistrates’ Court, following a successful submission that there was no case to answer.
We intend to appeal.
Stop Press: You can watch a YouTube video of the press conference held outside the court here.
Stop Press 2: Anti Ulez is organising a fundraising appeal on behalf of the Tooting Four. You can donate here.
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Enough!
This is a hill I am prepared to die on, if not for my children, who fortunately avoided this overt paedophilia in their school years, but for my grandchildren.
Let all those with any moral compass fight this to the end.
And Trump was right, removing all US funding of the WHO.
In a way, though, countries removing funding from the WHO in the 1980s (when it was spewing leftist rhetoric, admittedly) started the problem: the WHO is now captured by weird corporate interests, including the likes of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The real solution is slashing down the size and responsibilities of supranational organisations. Does the UN really need more than one office block and a conference centre in order to be a meeting point for countries? Do we really need a WHO? Do we need UNICEF? Do we need UNHCR? Do we need UN peacekeeping troops, given how bloody useless they usually are? And there’s been no evidence of UN peacekeeping troops or any desire for UN-orchestrated negotiations over Russia and Ukraine.
We need responsibility for each and every country returned to its elected government. Right now, the UN and its ancillary organisations is nothing more than a repressive force putting everything from lockdown demands on our lives to pedophilia in our schools.
Well, not so long ago the dogma was that maturation was a sin. Now apparently toddlers should be encouraged to do it. Talk about the pendulum swinging…
To me it’s two sides of the same coin and the real fundamental problem with societies: rhere are too many people who insist on telling others how they must live their lives. It’s lust for power expressed as bossiness. And when the bossy people are allowed to get the upper hand bad things happen.
For anyone interested in a Christian perspective, read When the Towers Fall, an exposition of the Bible’s prophecy about the end of the age. Europe crashes to the ground because ‘all the nations have drunk from the wine of her raging fornication’. … [An] angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon the great city be thrown down.” … all the nations were deceived by [her] pharmakeia.’
[From the book] The vision of the millstone is implicitly an indictment of how the great city corrupts even its children. Exposed to pornographic imagery in films, music videos, magazines and the internet, children are becoming sexually aware at an ever earlier age, with consequential depression, mental illness, sexual disease and sexual violence that the State then counters through the education system, teaching ‘values’ that only add to their premature awareness. Society is corrupt from top to bottom.
*A* Christian perspective.
Nobody needs the WHO! We’ve all got our own national public health bodies anyway (although it’s questionable whether we even need them). How can any of the individual member states of the WHO even consider handing over autonomy to deal with “public health emergencies” to this shady cabal of autocratic unelected paedophiles who want to make our children think just like them?
This makes my blood run cold – I’m right there with you on that hill.
How far down the sewer are we being taken ffs ! Back in pre covid times this would never have seen the light of day 🤬
Sadly I have to disagree. I saw this coming over several years, and particularly when researching a book (unpublished) in 2019. And I was rather late to the party, I have to admit.
COVID was just the demons pressing the accelerator to the floor, having seen that npbody had put any serious barriers in their way for the last few decades.
With some of the books about gender for children that I have seen the concept of gender is presented in the most appalling stylised archaic stereotypical manner. They show the female/girl gender as something resembling Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, pink dress, ponytail, flowery ribbons in the hair playing with a cute dolly and the boy/male gender as someone resembling Huckleberry Finn, dressed in tough outdoor clothes playing with a truck or riding a bike in the mud. I thought we had left those stereotypes behind about 40 years ago?
So much of this trans stuff seems to be related to outward appearance. I would have thought that any attempt at real education should be looking at male and female in the natural world. Male red deer are 40% bigger than females, have huge Antlers and a dreadful bellow. Male red deer cannot change their appearance to look like female red deer, it is physically impossible. At which point true education should be exploring the significance of human outward expressions of gender in relation to the immutable fact of male and female reproductive biology.
I think one of the most disturbing revelations that has come out in the last decade is learning how many adults are obsessed with children and sex.
I doubt that binmen, plumbers and HGV drivers are anywhere near as interested in sex with children as are politicians and academics.
Oh how true that is.. let’s add VIP’s and high ranking police officers to that too.. perverts who need stringing up..
And bishops!
The interesting question here is: Why is there a well-funded international expert gremium for embarrassingly trite proper preschool sex education for European children (they’re not going to try that in an islamic country) bullet point lists when there’s anything else on the world which would need to be done? Especially considering that these are the same people whose last set of ideas for proper handling of other people’s children was Keep them masked and force-swab them thrice per day just in case? Is having the Susan Michie’s of this world blather about the joy of sex a new population control method through voluntary celibacy?
It’s actually in conjunction with the UN who are intending to promote this to all UN countries…
https://zephr.spectator.com.au/2023/05/children-targeted-by-who-standards-for-sexuality-education-in-europe/
I think the chances that the UN will be actively promoting this in countries where, for instance, Scharia law is being applied is extremely slim. The same goes for African countries where male – male spare time freestyle wrestling in the dark is illegal. I’m also pretty convinced that they won’t put much effort into this in catholic countries like Italy or Poland. This is anglosphere and dependent satellites (Germany) only stuff and even that’s shaky. The German Greens are obviously itching to mandate prenatal homesex education but so far, attempts to do so have floundered because of vocal parental resistance.
Voluntary celibacy? Well, that theory fits right in with its new policy on self-gratification, doesn’t it? DIY is a lot easier and better for the planet than natural procreation… What a bunch of sickos!
Do you think maybe the WHO was formed when a bunch of lunatics overthrew their asylum? And now they want an international treaty?!!
We’re going to need a lot of lamp-posts and rope.
Not to sound like a doom-monger or anything but a quick visit to social media will tell anyone the situation is way worse than any of us could have imagined. It’s warped AF but TPTB are legitimizing and encouraging this slo-mo horror show.
The down-ticking moronic bastard off-spring of Korbyn and Klebb has come round.
Wakey wakey, hands off snakey, Tarquin.
Well, I shared Charlize Theron yesterday and here’s yet one more example of a parent who is responsible for all of this crazy sh!t we are seeing now. I need to step away from Twitter, man. I’ve just watched videos of kids being pushed in buggies at RuPaul’s DragCon, drinking from cups that look like dildos. 🙁
https://twitter.com/WokeArchive/status/1656802195071705088
Is there any chance that Darwinian natural selection will take care of this madness for us? Or is the process too slow and we’re going to have to suffer through it.
I’m of the view that stupid people should be given free reign to indulge their stupidities as long as they don’t impose them on the rest. But I fear they won’t be happy to leave everyone else alone.
If you take the notion that these people feel compelled to seek sexual gratification without the potential of reproduction of species. Then these carbon based life forms will be removed from the evolutionary process in one generation, why else would this indoctrination be required in the educational process, but to maintain a supply. I also sense that why they are making so much noise and won’t leave us alone, is because there are so many who are not interested or listening and have better things to think about. They seek attention, they hate being ignored. I have had friends who have been gay, and lesbian, and sort only the quiet life. Is that such a hard thing to ask for, for any of us?
Still awaiting proof that “gender” exists separate to biological sex. If I meet the word “gender” on a paper form, I cross it out and write “SEX”
This is evil. And I mean that in a Biblical sense. Messing with small children’s minds is just evil.
There is no proof. Prof John Money was a fraud and a sexual deviant whose gender theories were never proven. Of the two young brothers he abused to develop his theories, one killed himself after ‘transitioning’ back to being male and the other was so screwed up that he died from a drug overdose. Money lied about his success with the boys; the scientific community, failing to oversee his claims adequately, fell into step and treated Money’s claims as truth. Without John Money, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
What on earth does this subject have to do with the WHO? How is this their remit? And would this “guidance” become compulsory under their proposed power grab?
They are under orders from higher echelons, from the group we are no longer permitted to talk about…
This comes from overextending the meaning of health, ie, applying to abstracta (like society) or things (like planet). Eg, A healthy society must be sexually diverse is considered an axiom (a self-evident truth), ergo, kids must be taught the proper view of gay sex, ergo, kids must be taught about sex in order to understand what gay sex is about. That this then ends up being done by gay teachers is certainly just coincidence.
But let them read books by Dahl or Blyton that have not been violated by ‘sensitivity readers’ at your peril. Totally inappropriate! 😮 Teaching young kids how to perform sex acts or that Goldilocks has 257 genders is the way to go….Way more acceptable for the school curriculum. 🙁
I read a meme the other day which said, ”I wonder why drag queens don’t want to go read to the elderly in old people’s homes..” I’d love it if somebody asked an actual drag queen this because I’m intrigued how they’d reply. Basically nothing they respond with can detract attention from the fact that what they’re doing is entirely inappropriate, unjustified and purely indoctrination of our kids. As children are the next generation they’re hardly going to bother with old folk are they, which is proof positive that they’ve got their agenda and it’s massively damaging and unethical on every level.
I read a meme the other day which said, ”I wonder why drag queens don’t want to go read to the elderly in old people’s homes..”
My guess would be they prefer safer environment with less outraged OAPs throwing stones at them.
🙂
This is unarguably Satanic grooming in the open.
Next phase will be the normalisation of Minor Attracted People.
Oh the BBC were dropping hints about that years back.
Half their ‘talent’ were MAPs 🤣
Oh yes, the corporation with a pedo statue on the front centre of their building!
This is the problem with there being too many supranational organisations that have been given too much power. Too many of these organisations have been captured by hedonistic perverts and utopian control freaks. It’s especially galling for people in common law countries, because our homes are our castles and it’s no one’s business what goes on in them. It’s the thing I remember best from the Blair era: there was always some (usually Scottish) MP on TV telling us how to behave in our homes. And that’s not being anti-Scotland: the political culture, as we’ve seen over the last few years, is bent towards nordic-style state guardians and the like.
It’s none of the UN’s business.
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”
Richard Feynman
Pedophiles! The lot of them! They need arresting not praising, dirty ba”÷×@ds!
And this from the UN
https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf
PRINCIPLE 16 – CONSENSUAL SEXUAL CONDUCT
Consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex/
gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression of the people
involved or their marital status, may not be criminalized in any circumstances.
Consensual same-sex, as well as consensual different-sex sexual relations, or
consensual sexual relations with or between trans, non-binary and other gender diverse people, or outside marriage – whether pre-marital or extramarital – may,
therefore, never be criminalized.
With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of
consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. Enforcement may
not be linked to the sex/gender of participants or age of consent to marriage.
Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed
minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law. In this
context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of
persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual
sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them. Pursuant to
their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age
should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity
and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees
OMFG it’s Dutch, it’s massively cringey and just wrong. 2min vid;
https://rumble.com/v2gq3l4-teaching-children-to-masturbate-world-health-organization.html
World Health organisation sexualising children – nothing they do is for the benefit of humanity
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The world run by unaccountable technocrats is not a very nice place. Infact it is pretty evil. Yet western governments pander to all the eco socialism, the social engineering experiments and the top-down pandemic controls rather than to the people who vote for them. ————–Keep these people away from our children please. Infact lets keep them well away from adults as well.