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Is it a Crime to Tell the Truth? If You Live in Britain, and That Truth Will Damage “Community Relations”, the Answer Seems to be Yes

by Laurie Wastell
9 December 2024 7:00 AM

Another week, and another person has been convicted for posting something online during the disorder this summer. This time it’s Derek Heggie, a boxer turned actor and podcast host from Carlisle. In two YouTube videos posted between August 2nd and 8th, Heggie was alleged to have made “grossly offensive” online comments, including saying that “young white girls are being raped by these grooming gangs that worship the Prophet Muhammad”. He admitted to posting these comments “with intent to cause distress and anxiety” at Carlisle Crown Court. He had initially pleaded not guilty, but being held on remand for four months – since August 8th – seems to have changed his mind. He will be sentenced this week.

Whatever else it may have been, it must be noted that this comment of Heggie’s is undeniably true. In the decades-long horror of the grooming gangs scandal, thousands of white, working-class girls have been groomed, abused and raped, largely across the post-industrial north of England, by Pakistani-Muslim men. There was indeed a racial angle. Charlie Peters, who has reported on this tirelessly, notes: “Through the countless testimonies that I’ve heard, I’m convinced that the national grooming gangs story was a race hate scandal, perpetrated mostly by Pakistani men who saw white children as legitimate and ‘easy’ targets for abuse.” And worst of all, says Maggie Oliver, a police whistleblower who has done much to expose this story, the abuse is likely still ongoing. “We’ve been approached by 60 victims in the last three days who are currently being failed by the police,” she said last year. “It is not a historical problem.”


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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

The backbench MPs who threatened to oust Kim Jong-Johnson can be credited for there not being a lockdown.

Kim Jong-Johnson was positively itching to impose lockdown.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

If you read only one essay today, let it be this one by Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute. There aren’t many adults left in the room … but Tucker is one of them.

This explains how we got to where we are, but, more importantly, asks how do we get out of this mess. We are in uncharted territory when the unelected bureaucrats and crony oligarchs really pull all the strings.

https://brownstone.org/articles/now-is-the-time-for-mass-resignations-from-within-the-ruling-class/?fbclid=IwAR3jZfgY07Qgj_2eggq-fG4GZG9q2rfsyyi6nKQTpI9lGYM2KYcREUh3-V8

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

It had not previously dawned on me that both Arden an Trudeau are snivelling away from their own people at the same time using the same excuses.

The author does not explain why the coming impasse between the lockdown technocracy and the rest will lead to their mass resignations except for some vague idea that it would be doing the right thing, as if.

Truckers are not typical of ‘the people’ if only because they need to be strong and tough, unfashionable though that is supposed to be these days. They each own a valuable business, make lifetime altering decisions every day, multi tasking constantly and thoughroughly admirable.

They might be truly independent in ways most of us can hardly dream about but not typical. It would be nice to think of them as an anti technocracy vanguard but I’m not holding my breath for the rest of us to follow.

What is of more interest in this essay is that the New Elite, as some of them brazenly describe themselves, have exposed themselves and their methods for such paltry gains. Flogged some PPI, cozied up to China (to what end? China doesn’t need them), given themselves some sparkly media exposure by a media basking in its perceived self importance and, in the UK, recieved a few gongs from Her Maj.

With the acknowledged fundamental transfer of power from where we thought it was, the ballot box, to where it really is, as illustrated so brilliantly in the world of Yes Minister/Prime Minister several decades ago they turn out to be a bunch of low achievers who haven’t even gathered much in the way of heritable futunes or power.

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Username1
Username1
3 years ago

https://youtu.be/zG7XZ2JXZqY

If you haven’t seen it, and have an hour to spare I’d highly recommend this video with Dr Jay Bhattacharya (of Great Barrington Declaration fame) by Peter Robinson for the Hoover Institute.
One of the highlights for me is that they confirm that focussed protection for the elderly could have seen us provide food delivery, alternative accommodation and nursing care to vulnerable groups for a tiny fraction of the costs associated with lockdowns of the healthy not at risk population. First class care to those in need.
Children would have remained in education, businesses would have thrived, and the national debt would have not become cripplingly bad for our future prosperity. “Omnicron” would have happened many months ago, and the only shortage would be of the Greek alphabet letters to name the newest, and weakest strains.
Governments around the world have magnified the harms caused that the actual threat we faced bears no relationship whatsoever to the harms we now see everywhere. It’s like a bar brawl escalated into an all out war.

PS haven’t listened to the podcast – I’ve heard that podcasts are really dangerous vessels of information – Prince and Princess GingerNutMeg of California said so.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

‘Freedom Convoy’ eyewitness on Canada’s SHOCKING anti-protest tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvM_865Ju0A
Ezra Levant, Founder of Rebel News, witnessed firsthand the immense support ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers received from Canadians throughout the nation and specifically in Ottawa. But the anti-protest tactics used by both Canadian police forces and government officials (like Castro super-fan President Justin Trudeau) are just like the tactics used in Venezuela today, Levant says. Truckers with all kinds of backgrounds are tired of their overbearing government mandating rules that just don’t make sense. Levant explains how their stand against that government has formed a new coalition of Canadians — onetime Trudeau voters included — who are tired of the ‘bully state.’ GLEN BECK

We need far more people at all our events here  
 if we want the tyranny to end for good 

Tuesday 1st February 2pm to 3pm
 Yellow Boards By the Road  
Between Henley Bridge & Little Angel Pub
White Hill A4130
Henley-on-Thames RG9 2LY

Stand in the Park Sundays 10am  make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane 
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD  
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS

Telegram Group 
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell

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greenEnvy
greenEnvy
3 years ago

Delingpole is such a tube. I feel sorry for Toby having to co-host with him. Toby, I suggest you find another podcast you can contribute to without having to do constant battle with a fringe nutcase.

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imp66
imp66
3 years ago

I hope Toby and James were practicing for the shooting at dawn of the main criminals involved in the scamdemic!

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