- “Labour backs down over grooming gangs with ‘rapid audit’ of issue” – Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that a Whitehall fixer will undertake a “rapid audit” into the scale of rape gangs across Britain, reports the Mail. But only five cities will be in scope of the inquiry.
- “Labour attempts to stem grooming gang backlash with new local inquiries” – Yvette Cooper has been blasted for not giving local rape gang inquiries statutory powers to compel witnesses to appear and give evidence, says the Telegraph.
- “The answers Starmer must give” – The anger the country feels about the rape gang scandal is real and won’t be assuaged unless real action is take, writes Michael Gove in the Spectator.
- “Fact check: The Rest Is Politics’ grooming gang claims” – In the Spectator, Steerpike fact checks Rory Stewart’s claims about rape gangs on The Rest is Politics and finds the former MP guilty of spreading misinformation.
- “Suspended MP Mike Amesbury pleads guilty to assault by beating” – Mike Amesbury, the suspended Labour MP, has pleaded guilty to assault by beating after being filmed punching a man in the street, according to the Times.
- “Brothers accused of attacking police at Manchester Airport in court” – Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammed Amaad, 25, two brothers accused of attacking police at Manchester Airport last July, have appeared in court, reports the Mail.
- “The Muslim Brotherhood relies on the West’s self-censorship, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali” – On the Telegraph’s Planet Normal podcast, Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains to Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan how the Muslim Brotherhood exploits Western self-censorship to fuel radicalisation.
- “Migrants not interested in integration ‘should not be here’, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch has declared that migrants who refuse to embrace British culture should find somewhere else to live, reports the Sun.
- “Badenoch warns Brits are not ‘rich’” – In a straight-talking speech, Kemi Badenoch has warned Brits that we are not “rich” and must start “living within our means”, says the Mail.
- “New minister allowed to make decisions on China despite ‘lobbying for its businesses’” – The new City Minister will be allowed to make decisions on China despite reportedly lobbying on behalf of its businesses, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer’s law chief in new row over SAS ‘war crimes’ inquiry” – The Attorney General is under fresh pressure after he was accused of a conflict of interest over a “war crimes” inquiry into the SAS, says the Telegraph.
- “Attorney General was paid £30,000 to represent Gerry Adams” – The Attorney General has been paid £30,000 to represent Gerry Adams in a High Court case against IRA bomb victims, reveals the Times.
- “U.K. economy grows less than expected as GDP rises 0.1% in November” – The U.K. economy returned to growth for the first time in three months, but the expansion was less than expected, reports Reuters.
- “Reeves and Starmer are out of ideas – and running out of time” – If we don’t have growth, we will have a forced reckoning with the affordability of our lifestyles, warns Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Why was everyone fooled by Rachel Reeves?” – There was never good reason to believe that Labour knew what it was doing, says Matthew Parris in the Spectator.
- “Braverman refuses to rule out defecting to Reform” – Suella Braverman has refused to rule out a move to Reform U.K. just weeks after the ex-Home Secretary’s husband joined the party, reports GB News.
- “Tories forced MP’s elderly mother to do diversity training after she liked immigration post” – Andrea Jenkyns says the Conservative Party forced her mother to undergo diversity training after she liked a social media post about illegal immigration, according to the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s politics is fragmenting – and it’s looking like Reform is here to stay” – One in six of those who voted Conservative in July have now switched over to Nigel Farage’s insurgent party, says John Curtice in the Telegraph.
- “Endgame” – You only have to listen to David Lammy’s recent Foreign Secretary speech to see the political regime is falling apart, writes Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “Is Europe really faring better than Britain?” – Europe is becoming a macrocosm of Athens, where past glories look down on the tawdry reality of the present, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Drill rapper promoted by BBC who boasts about murder is killer of Jimmy Mizen” – A balaclava-clad rapper who boasts about killing in his lyrics and was promoted by the BBC has been unmasked as the murderer of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, reports the Sun.
- “Tories made 2050 Net Zero pledge without a plan, Badenoch to admit” – Kemi Badenoch is expected to admit that the Tories’ pledge to reach Net Zero by 2050 was made without a clear strategy, calling it a “mistake”, according to the Telegraph.
- “600,000 households to be forced to fit smart meters” – Over half a million households will be forced to fit a smart meter or face higher bills within six months when the BBC switches off a 40 year-old radio service, reports This is Money.
- “The draconian Net Zero rules being rolled back by stealth” – Amid growing pressures, Starmer is quietly softening green policies – but what does this mean for businesses, voters and your wallet? wonders Ella Nunn in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero fantasies are falling apart – and only he can’t see it” – In the Telegraph, Annabel Denham argues that Ed Miliband’s Net Zero fanaticism is wrecking industries for no good reason.
- “Police inspector sacked for comparing Just Stop Oil to ‘special needs kids’” – A police inspector with 27 years’ experience has been sacked for calling Just Stop Oil protesters “retards” and likening them to “spoilt special needs kids”, reports the Mail.
- “Families failed by Covid vaccines tell inquiry of their pain” – Families of those harmed by Covid vaccines have told the Covid Inquiry that they were forced to support each other during the pandemic because there was no other help, says BBC News.
- “WHO disinformation on the Covid origin story” – The Wall Street Journal has published an “opinion” from the WHO that is unabashed political propaganda, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “‘How I fell foul of YouTube’s fact-checkers’” – In the Spectator, Matt Ridley reveals how YouTube’s fact-checkers banned his podcast interview for citing a confirmed historical fact about a 1977 flu outbreak.
- “Hamas must be eradicated. If it isn’t, this Gaza ceasefire is a failure” – In the Telegraph, Col. Richard Kemp argues that Hamas must be eradicated for the Gaza ceasefire to be deemed a success, warning that anything short of total victory will enable the terrorists to regroup and strengthen their hold on Gaza.
- “Elon Musk ‘helped free Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from Iran’” – Elon Musk was instrumental in securing the release of a young Italian journalist who was jailed in Iran on trumped-up charges, reports the Times.
- “Biden’s farewell speech divides nation ahead of new Trump era” – Joe Biden’s final speech has divided the American public, with people on all sides declaring it a disappointing and even disturbing affair, says the Mail.
- “Trump in front of a camera again as he vows Hollywood ‘golden age’” – Donald Trump has tapped A-list stars Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight for jobs in his administration as ambassadors to Hollywood, reports the Mail.
- “The Cyrus family’s very different politics” – Billy Ray Cyrus is set to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, much to the likely dismay of his daughter, says the Mail.
- “Kamala Harris to ‘pen tell-all book about losing to Trump’” – Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to write a tell-all book about her presidential run and defeat to Trump, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC The Traitors at centre of ‘sexism’ storm as fans issue complaints over contestant’s remark” – A female contestant on BBC’s The Traitors has sparked a sexism storm after insisting on selecting only female Traitors, says GB News.
- “The child-free influencers waging war on motherhood” – In the Spectator, Kara Kennedy explores the rise of child-free influencers who glamorise rejecting motherhood.
- “The National Trust took the knee” – In the Spectator, Charles Moore slams the National Trust for bowing to wokeism and activism, losing sight of its founding mission to preserve beauty and history.
- “The Baftas are becoming an assault on Britishness” – In the Telegraph, Ella Whelan slams the Baftas for ditching merit in favour of woke politics.
- “The day DEI went up in smoke” – DEI is annoying in entertainment. It is wasteful in government. But in a fire department it puts lives at risk, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Is the tide turning on restitution? ” – The case for the return of the Benin bronzes seems to be unravelling, notes David Abulafia in the Spectator.
- “School cannot use £700,000 pitch after neighbours complain about noise of referee whistles” – A school has been unable to use a new £700,000 sports pitch for months after neighbours complained about the noise from referees’ whistles, reports the Express.
- “Ian Hislop: regime satirist” – The once irreverent Private Eye editor can now be relied on to parrot the official, centrist line, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “David Lynch: Twin Peaks film director dies at 78, family says” – David Lynch, the legendary American filmmaker whose works include Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, has died aged 78, according to BBC News.
- “‘There are waiting lists to get on the waiting lists to get on the waiting lists’” – On Question Time, Liam Halligan calls NHS reform a “matter of life and death” and says we need to talk about reforming the service without “everybody completely freaking out”.
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“Joe Biden’s final speech has divided the American public, with people on all sides declaring it a disappointing and even disturbing affair”
Doesn’t that mean his final speech has united the American public?
Another wilfully blind performance from the left, warning about how democracy will be destroyed by the democratically elected. These ‘oligarchs’..? Did they include Soros and Gate, Zuckerberg and Fink when they were batting strongly for the Democrats.? Anyway, move aside Joe, the Don is back on Monday and everything will begin to change.
The 2025 tour of Berkshire continues.
Yesterday we were in way out west in Hungerford.
Thursday Morning Charnham St & B4192 Hungerford
There are waiting lists to get on the waiting lists to get on the waiting lists
‘…the NHS performs poorly on almost all parameters. In the last year before Covid, the United Kingdom had the second-highest avoidable mortality rate in Western Europe after Greece (71 per 100,000). Whilst this is high among developed countries, it was still Britain’s lowest-ever recorded rate. Avoidable mortality rates were at 84 per 100,000 in 2010, and 120 per 100,000 in 2001 when the records began.
For all of the common types of cancer, the UK’s survival rates are among the lowest in Western Europe, typically not far ahead of Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
Even prior to the pandemic, the UK had significantly longer waiting times compared to countries like the Netherlands, with waiting times for many procedures about twice as long in the UK.’
https://iea.org.uk/media/replace-the-nhs-to-save-lives-says-new-iea-paper/
Everyone knows what to do
‘In terms of outcomes, quality and efficiency, social health insurance systems are consistently ahead of the NHS on almost every available measure. They combine the universality of a public system with the consumer sovereignty, the pluralism, the competitiveness and the innovativeness of a market system. We do not see any one particular country’s health system as a role model’
‘The Dutch system shows that a successful health system needs no state-owned hospitals, no state hospital planning and no hospital subsidies. The Swiss system shows that even substantial levels of out-of-pocket patient charges need not be regressive, and that people can be trusted to choose sensibly from a variety of health insurance plans. The ‘PKVpillar’ of the German system shows that a healthcare system can be fully prefunded, just like a pension system.
The quasi-market reforms of the 2000s can be built upon, to move gradually from the status quo to a pluralistic, consumer-oriented healthcare system. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are, in a sense, comparable to insurers, so giving people free choice of CCG would be a necessary (albeit not sufficient) first step towards creating a quasi-SHI system. CCGs’ budgets would then have to correspond closely to the risk profile of the patient population they cover, and this market should also be opened to private non-profit and for-profit insurers. CCGs and non-NHS insurers should be free to offer a variety of health plans, including plans with co-payments and deductibles in exchange for rebates.’
https://iea.org.uk/publications/universal-healthcare-without-the-nhs/
The government, any government, just won’t do it.
So they are, without question, killing thousands of people before their time every year as a consequence.
The maximum sentence for manslaughter is life imprisonment.
I agree save that in the UK our private pension schemes have been destroyed by taxes, regulations and political interference.
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Interesting that the first four articles all specifically mention ”rape gangs”, but we have men on this site who take exception to that as they maintain it was never rape and the victims weren’t children. Anyone speaking up about these vile crimes is an ”infatuated fantasist”, a ”paedophile” themselves and a ”pervert’, purely because we seek justice, understand what the term ”child-protection” means, plus the definition of ‘rape’ and don’t want this national scandal to be brushed under the carpet once again. Perhaps somebody should tell Tommy Robinson;
”That the non-existent child rapists you keep phantasizing about weren’t involved with this because they never existed is completely independent of that.” RW
Now, who’s going to downtick this post and demonstrate to everyone that they’re onboard with this point of view and prove to me there are more rape-apologist, ‘MAPs’ paedo-sympathizers lurking on this site? Time to out yourselves. 3,2,1 GO!
I don’t down vote but I will ask you to stop treating all male posters as having the same opinion. RW appears to make crass statements, but that doesn’t mean that it is some kind of homogenised ‘male view’. I suspect many of us are fathers of daughters and horrified by what has gone on, I know I am. You make some interesting posts Mogwai, but the fantasy demonising of ‘all men’ doesn’t do you any favours.
Can you point to the part where I stated or inferred “all men”? Got a veritable straw man factory going on at your end, haven’t you?
I think I’m going to need to print more ‘victim cards’ out at this rate…
What is also telling, by the way, is that if you’re allegedly so “horrified” by it all you don’t seem overly keen on addressing RW directly on his views. Only me. Interesting that…
Well it’s been 13 hours and still no evidence to support your accusation, which only goes to confirm what I already know: all you ever had in the bag was to deliberately misconstrue my post so you could paint me as the villain and blame me for something I never said. I guess there’s no limits to just how low you’ll go to claim victimhood, right?
Guess I’ll have to order a new ink cartridge for my printer so I do apologise for the delay in shipping you and your posse your new victim cards. I know how important it is for you all to retain that much-needed ‘victim status’ on here…
A word of advice; you ought to try looking in the mirror and repeating the phrase:”Real men aren’t offended by words on a screen”, until the feeling of being butt-hurt subsides. You’re welcome.
Well said.
This site is all the better for a diversity of opinion, even if some of it is contrary to my views.
I don’t think anybody is arguing against a diversity of opinion. But if this is supposed to be a site with free speech as its ethos and people should be able to therefore post whatever they like based on this ethos, shouldn’t posters then be able to exercise their own right to freedom of speech and challenge any posts they disagree with?
Because what is awfully evident to me in this place is the level of hypocrisy demonstrated by certain people.
The people who superficially appear to be all ‘pro-free speech’ are the very same people who want to censor other people’s free speech, such as with myself. Telling me to ‘cease and desist’ because they have a problem with what I post, where I put my post or the length of my posts. This is blatant double standards.
If anyone is allowed to post whatever they like then by the same token that goes for the people who wish to respond/challenge a particular poster. Free speech works both ways. Certain people acting affronted just because they don’t like what’s being said and attempting to censor other posters is wrong, it’s hypocrisy. I will continue to challenge people on their posts until the cows come home, if and whenever I feel like it, and I’m very comfortable in doing so. I just don’t appreciate people trying to stifle my right to do so.
I always appreciate your comments, Mogs, but you do seem to be going over the top with this one.
Speaking for myself, I rarely down-tick people, and when I do it is because they keep labouring the same point, and I have tried to make a cogent response to them previously. I try not to waste my time repeating myself. I think the only thing I repeatedly rail against is when people claim to know what some politician’s real motives are, when they are clearly stating a conclusion they have drawn based on prejudice.
For the avoidance of doubt, the last paragraph does not apply to Mogwai.
Can you elaborate on ”going over the top”? Maybe you think being outraged about the abuse of young girls, such as in the extract below, and the fact that there are *some men on here* who are of the point of view that no children were raped because they were all teenage prostitutes, the rape gangs are mere figment of people’s imagination if they want to speak up about this scandal, and they will be labelled as ”paedophiles” and ”infatuated perverts” if they do, and that we also have men in our midst who wish to legitimize sexual attraction and interaction with minors.
But apparently pointing out these men on here actually exist sticks in the craw of other men on here. Go figure. But neither you nor anyone else is obliged to read my posts so it does make me wonder what the point in having a whinge in the first place is, really, given that I will carry on posting and exercising my right to free speech, while you lot carry on protecting and never ever challenging the *men on here* that I’m referring to. This makes for uncomfortable reading, but some *men on here* wish to deny and/or minimize these girls’ experiences and suffering. Don’t be one of those *men on here*;
It’s just a story …
”I was crouched naked shivering on the floor of the shower silently sobbing, I dare not make a sound, I feared more punishment. The urine from the men was drying sticky on my body as a mixture of excrement and blood tricked from my internal injuries.
The men had raped me front and back and orally. One even joked about knocking my teeth out so my mouth would be wider to accept him. Their camera phones on throughout my ordeal
.The face slapping they’d used to bring me round as I passed semi conscious from the excruciating pain was begining to sting. My face and body was bruised and sore. I had lived off the scraps the men had left from the take away for days, the only fluid available was to scoop up tap water with my hands. The drugs and alcohol were forced on me daily.
I wondered what other 12 year old girls were doing as I stayed tucked as small as I could be.
The bathroom door opened, I could hear the men laughing and joking about who had not paid properly and ticked off the tally sheet for using me.
.The man began to urinate in the toilet, when a voice shouted not to waste the p#ss, to use it on the whore in the shower.
I felt the hot liquid on my back again, I flinched silently the warmth was strangely comforting but the stench was overpowering, I wanted to wrech, but I didn’t want to risk another beating….”
This is just a moment in time for victims of these child rape gangs, if you are repulsed, and turn away, be grateful you have the choice.
This is still going on , it’s a phenomenon, it’s beyond a sex crime , it’s a penal system to teach vulnerable mainly white working class girls, foolish enough to succumb to initial fake kindness to lure them in, that they are worth no more than this.
It’s got to stop.
https://x.com/juneslater17/status/1880088148589297980
I am also outraged by the treatment of these girls but my outrage is directed at the perpetrators, facilitators and those who turned a blind eye.
I think you are going over the top over the commentators whose attitude you don’t like (the deniers), who as far as I know have not been directly involved at any level.
I am equally, if not more,outraged at the women who are reported to have assisted in the procurement of these girls and who turn condoned the behaviour of the rapists. It is as much a culture thing as a man thing, but of course driven by men in their patriarchal communities..
And yes, it has to stop.
“Telling me to ‘cease and desist’…”
Mogwai, they can tell you what they like. Words, innit.
Yes, precisely. But where are the resident ‘free speech absolutists’? You know, the ones who like to wheel out the old ”Offence is taken not given” quote? Well, they’re nowhere to be found, are they? That’s what I mean: double standards all the way down….
Mind, I’ve been around long enough to know how it works by now in the ‘DS Boys’ Club’.
Should we not be referring to the gangs as Pakistani Rape Gangs in order to avoid charges of islamophobia?
What matters now is that the enablers are put on trial – politicians, social workers, councillors, senior police and the rest.
Prosecute, prosecute, prosecute.
Well of course I agree. It just seems peculiar that me making the observation that the Emperor is butt-naked: that we have rape-apologists and pro-MAPs posters in our midst, who inconveniently just so happen to be men, would somehow irritate people on here. I’m pointing out something which is indisputably true ( with many posts under previous articles supporting my claim ) but somehow it is *me* that’s at fault.
Make it make sense, as they say.
What does “MAP” stand for?
Minor Attracted Person. They want to legalize and legitimize having sex with children/underage teens. We have them on here, but it’s apparently verboten to call them out. That seems to be the consensus of the ‘Boys Club’ anyway. It’s why they’re coming after me, because I’m not afraid to, due to having bigger balls than most on here, it appears. It does say an awful lot about a person when their loyalties lie with those who are rape-apologists, paedo-sympathizers and deniers of Pakistani rape gangs, as opposed to with the person who has no qualms in calling out these creeps.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/its-not-far-right-to-care-about-the-mass-rape-of-white-girls/
Matt Goodwin with a somewhat long-winded and convoluted view on the muslim Rape Gangs and Starmer’s denial but he get there in the end…
“So let me end by saying this. It is not ‘far right’, ‘Islamophobic’ or ‘hateful’ to talk openly and honestly about the mass rape of white girls by Pakistani Muslim men. It is not ‘far right’ to ask why our elected politicians failed so visibly on this issue. And it is not ‘far right’ to demand a fresh national inquiry into what will go down as the biggest scandal in our national history, or to demand (in my view) the deportation of convicted dual national groomers who should be removed from our country and that British nationals who engage in this activity be given life sentences without parole.
None of this is ‘far right’. It is common sense. It is what the vast majority of people in this country would support. And it is what they expect to see from their so-called leaders. I know this. You know this. The only people who clearly don’t know this are Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour government, and the radical progressive elite class.”
Matt Goodwin sounds like an “infatuated, malicious troll pervert/paedophile”, according to RW’s special version of ‘logic’.
I don’t read every article or every comment, but what on earth has happened on here?? There is a sudden explosion of people whose comments I normally appreciate reading, and often find uplifting, at each other’s throats
There’s a couple of men on here, one who is of the ‘MAPs’ variety, who has previously declared on various occasions that he’s attracted to minors and thinks the age of consent should be lowered. The other man denies the Pakistani child rape gangs are a thing, calling the scandal a “drama” because he denies children were raped, they were merely teenage prostitutes having consensual sex, and apparently, using his words, anybody banging on about this topic and rightly being outraged is in fact an “infatuated paedophile/pervert/fantasist”.
Then me referring to these two men triggers other men on here because they decide to misinterpret my post to mean *all men* are of this persuasion when I’ve evidently never stated any such thing.
I know this is just my version you’re getting but if you look at any of the articles on the rape gang scandal you can read the comments for yourself and make your own mind up.
Call me abnormal but I’m just not a person who wishes to legitimise or be comfortable with men declaring they’re attracted to girls my daughter’s age, nor do I take kindly to men accusing me of being a pervert and “covert paedophile” because I’m very outspoken in my opposition to child sex abuse.
Labour has not backed down on the call for a mass gang rape enquiry. The government has started a very limited review which will give their media friends an excuse to take the issue off the headlines (was it ever there).
no one will be satisfied.
the pathetic review will rightly confirm public suspicion of guilt among the elites.
“Gang rape”? What Gang rape? You know if you keep harping on about this topic it makes you an “infatuated pervert/paedophile”, don’t you? And a “fantasist” to boot, because it was only ever mass teenage prostitution, according to some posters. Well there’s evidently a lot of us “infatuated malicious troll perverts” around, then.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gangs-hundreds-thousands-victims-every-town-city Under the headline it says that this experienced solicitor tends to agree that another national inquiry could be a waste of time and money, rather than implementing some of the existing Inquiry recommendations.
The latest David McGrogan article is subject to a paywall, but the first few paragraphs are still the usual thought-provoking read:
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/endgame
“This Parliament has the feeling of an entire political framework teetering on a precipice… It is difficult to portray oneself as an efficient technocrat when one is patently ineffectual at everything one does.”
It’s both heartening and sad to read all the critical comments in response to the BBC News ‘Rise of vaccine distrust – why more of us are questioning jabs’ article posted on Twitter/X:
https://x.com/BBCNews/status/1879823005959786500
Migrants not interested in integration ‘should not be here’, says Badenoch
I like what she’s saying but, it’s just that, talk!
She might be the Head but the 90% body of the snake still call the shots, use the head to get them in, cut it off when they’re in, and then grow a new liberal head again!
And she needn’t make out she was some kind of lone voice against immigration during the Tory government, because she voted along with them!
Tory trust is gone, never ever again will I trust them
And just to prove the point, where’s Kemi on this?
“Tories forced MP’s elderly mother to do diversity training after she liked immigration post”
Indeed I wondered about this:
“Andrea Jenkyns says the Conservative Party forced her mother to undergo diversity training after she liked a social media post about illegal immigration, according to the Telegraph.”
How can they “force” her? I suppose we’re meant to understand she’s a party member and the “training” was a condition of her continuing membership? Why would anyone want to be in a party that “forces” you to undergo “training” for liking a post on illegal immigration? If she wants to stay in the party then she’s bloody welcome to it. You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.
This certainly reflects badly on Andrea Jenkyns, not even guts enough to stand up for her mother.
I campaigned alongside Andrea to help her win Morley and Outwood from Ed Balls. I had a good impression of her. Especially her mum. But then Andrea stopped communicating with me when I demanded to know why the hell she was voting for all the “pandemic” crap. Since then I have had ABSOLUTELY ZERO RESPECT FOR HER.
Cheers M A k.
I’d have told them to fuck off.
Spot on Dinger.
Had a long conversation about the NHS with a friend whose daughter has been in hospital for months on end (unusual, unknown disorder) with no progress. She was complaining about the lack of care and attention, and the lack of willingness/resources to refer her daughter on to other departments and fully investigate the problem, She completely agreed with me that you can’t rely on the NHS to do its job, and said that she and her family were having to do lots of work and research themselves and pester the staff endlessly. But when I then said something very general and nonspecific about the NHS not coping very well and needing some sort of change – melt down. “Well what would YOU change?” (accusingly); and “Well we’ve only ever had good experiences” (but you’ve just spent the last 10 minutes telling me the opposite, haven’t you?). It was certainly a very puzzling exchange!
May I add this shocking bit of news, summarised by a public commenter:
“Wake up people, these people are being recruited from the hotels. Look at the security in your local supermarket and hospital. They are not going back. At some stage in the future they will be used against us.”
“Has someone lost his mind? What’s next, army officers? Police? Border force? Mi5-6…. This government lost its mind!”
UK prisons recruit officers from Nigeria in move which sees some sleeping rough
Another worrying step in the UK government’s attempt to stifle and control its citizens to ‘save’ the environment is the Climate and Nature (CAN) Bill.
The following is a selection of text taken from The Exposé (https://expose-news.com/2025/01/16/uks-can-bill-a-draconian-vague-law/):
This bill could devastate the UK’s economy, destroy rural communities and jeopardise energy security – all while eroding our rights and freedoms.
Clause 2[d) of the bill proposes banning fossil fuels, including exploration, extraction, export and import, which could lead to bans or heavy taxes on petrol, diesel and heating fuel, making them unaffordable for millions.
The bill’s premise to control economic and social activities within the UK is a “global carbon budget.” Among other controlling measures that the Bill empowers a selected, appointed few to use, the bill aims to limit the United Kingdom’s “total emissions of carbon dioxide to no more than its proportionate share of the remaining global carbon budget … To achieve this target, personal carbon allowances may be introduced, which would track people’s energy use, travel and food choices through digital IDs and smart meters, and penalise those who exceed their quota.
The bill also aims to restore ecosystems and prioritise conservation, which could lead to compulsory land purchasing for rewilding projects, solar farms and other initiatives, potentially forcing farmers and rural residents to lose their homes and livelihoods.
The bill proposes the establishment of an unelected assembly, a Climate and Nature Assembly, to advise on strategies to meet its goals, which could lead to policies like carbon quotas and travel bans being pushed through without public scrutiny or accountability.
The bill’s real purpose is not to tackle climate and biodiversity challenges, but to provide a framework for massive control, allowing the government to justify sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms and economic choices.
The second reading of the bill in the House of Commons is scheduled for 24 January. Contact your MP and let them know why, as your representative, they should not vote in favour of this draconian bill.
Sounds like they’ve been reading M. Zermansky’s “Declined” and have adopted it as policy. Sinister and deeply depressing.
Whilst JUSTICE is needed more than an inquiry, this is a very slippery move by Cooper. Local inquiries will not consider what part those at the top played in enabling these.
Both Brown AND Starmer did.
“Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to write a tell-all book about her presidential run and defeat to Trump…”
Hm? Sorry, I’m already bored.
More like a short story/fantasy fiction.
I see this evil person has now been recalled to prison. Maybe he’ll get parole again soon. After all, the prisons are a bit crowded.
Killer recalled to prison after murder ‘boast’
Just listened to an interview by Tom Harwood and Emily Carver on GBN. He started of by blaming the rise of drill musict on 14 years of Tory government. The remainder =of the interview was barely literate, but no responsibility was ackowledged for the viciou lyrics of music the I consider should be treated as hate speech and prosecuted..