It isn’t just university students who can be described as ‘snowflakes’, apparently. A move is afoot to include ‘trigger warnings’ in Hansard, the official Parliamentary record, to protect MPs and peers of a more delicate disposition why might be upset by the use of offensive words and phrases by some of their fruitier colleagues. The Independent has more.
A move to include offence trigger warnings on the official parliamentary record has been criticised at Westminster, amid fears it could have a chilling effect on what members say.
Concerns over adding the alert feature to Hansard online were raised across the Lords, with accusations it amounted to “a clear breach of centuries of convention” on free speech at Westminster.
The upper chamber heard the measure stemmed from a proposal by the House of Lords Inclusion and Diversity team.
A key complaint raised by peers was the lack of consultation and that approval had not been sought of the House.
Peers have previously hit out at attempts to silence them after raising concerns in Parliament over housing transgender prisoners in women’s jails, leading to them being contacted by a Westminster watchdog following complaints.
This was despite them being covered by parliamentary privilege – a right dating back more than 300 years that allows them to freely express their views in the upper chamber.
Criticising procedural changes being made without prior consultation or agreement, Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Forsyth of Drumlean said: “For example, only today, I learned that there is a proposal to have trigger points in Hansard where what members say may have been considered to have caused offence, and so someone would put something in to that effect.”
He was supported by fellow Tory peer Lord Cormack, who said: “Far too much is happening in this place without proper consultation.”
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“Monkeypox lasts after scabs…” (Telegraph) Comments now closed, but some good robust views. The virus would be detectable after infection – that is immunity!
Also noted in the same article there were ‘surging case numbers’ LOL…I think there’s around 100 worldwide. They just can’t help themselves!
wonder when it is going to become “exponential”.
I haven’t heard it for ages now. I kind of miss “exponential”
Roll up those sleeves, dronebeings!
A Commonwealth-funded $200 million quarantine facility in Perth’s north looms as an expensive white elephant with Premier Mark McGowan admitting he is unsure what to do with the compound once construction is complete in the middle of the year.
Fill it with the evil politicians and ‘health officials’ and big pharma bootlickers. And use up that stockpile of vaccines – three shots a day, before meals.
They bought it. They own it!
They will keep it mothballed ready for the new WHO pandemic treaty.
Then any future vax refusers can be imprisoned in these 21st Century gulags.
Monkeypox deniers down under beware
Things have changed since they greenlit this. A lot more vax resisters and vax-remorseful now.
That’s one reason why the next shock that the rulers impose won’t be a rerun of the last one.
“Vaccination” only started about 9 months after the first lockdown. There has been far more resistance to “vaccination” than to lockdown.
They should be treated humanely (but locked down, of course), and allowed visitors: anyone who wants to speak to them about what they did to our lives.
And a televised draw every day for the honour of giving them their shame-to-waste-it shot. Something like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5EzLJzimZ0
The way prime minister Mark McGowan talks about this! That guy is seriously taking the p*ss.
Only in the state sector!
It’s basically a large number of portakabins with lots of extractor fans and barbed wire.
Is that a railway line running to it?
https://www.multiplex.global/projects/centre-for-national-resilience-perth/
Good question. There is a rail line through Bullsbrook, unfortunately there aren’t specific enough details as to where this facility is located. Google Maps doesn’t give much away.
LOVE the solar panels on the roofs, though. Internees will be happier just knowing their carbon footprint has been reduced.
‘Stonewall accused him of “making fun of trans people” in his new SuperNature special, reports MailOnline.’
He’s a comedian you demented perverts, making fun of people is what he does.
If he refused to make fun of trannies you would probably accuse him of excluding trannies and condemn him for that.
No they wouldn’t It is called touching a nerve. We seem to have forgotten in our new politically correct era that the anguished are often triggered by observations that get too close to the truth.
Most of us view transgenderism as mental illness. Six-foot men in frocks aren’t women. The literature (rarely quoted now) is quite clear; most suffer from a paraphilia, a fetish. They become sexually excited at the thought of themselves as women. Talk of them being women trapped in mens bodies is exactly that, talk. Some people are convinced they are Napoleon but it doesn’t make it so. The sexual link has always been clearly understood as unhealthy.
Instead of classifying this as a sexual fetish as they used to do, and working on reducing its hold over the individual, we have allowed the fetishists themselves to dictate terms. We must treat those masculine creatures as women. This is absurd and we all know it.
The exceptional sensitivity to all this is a clear sign all is not as the narrative would have us believe. Perhaps the way out is more awareness of the fate of those who transition. As we all know they tinker with some superficial aspects of the body; oestrogen injections do have some effect, and breast augmentation adds more. Wearing women’s clothes, a wig and makeup all add something. Except the most important thing, they don’t solve the actual problem. They aren’t women. They are men with mental health issues.
All this is known by psychiatrists. Surely at some point we must all get fed up assisting mentally ill people in a delusion that is destroying their lives?
Gervais probably gets too close the ridiculousness of this topic. A mortal sin for the thin skinned.
I don’t care a jot if their delusions destroy their lives. It’s allowing them to destroy other people’s lives that I object to.
A good synopsis
I watched it last night. Absolutely hilarious, but only because it approaches comedy from kind of a 1970’s perspective. Not quite though.
While the initial reaction to a comedian even mentioning trans is a bit of hand rubbing and “this could be good” what he actually articulates isn’t transphobic. But it’s funny and whilst trans is the subject matter, trans people are not the butt of the joke, so called TERFS are.
I was never a Gervaise fan until I watched his Oscar’s spot. What he does with his Netflix show is highlight the absurdity of every ‘phobic’ subject, even hurty words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceS_jkKjIgo
I did think his series After Life was very funny though. All characters were fab but I think my fave was the skanky guy with glasses who’s wife left him for a gypsy. Cringey but funny with an undercurrent of pathos.
Good to see conservatives ( in name only) preparing for another cash handout into the highest inflationary environment for 40+ years.
“More money off energy bills for every household under Rishi Sunak rescue plan” – rubbish, he’s taxing business for making a profit and leaving green taxes in place, the Communist troll.
Yes, why not suspend the ‘Green Levy’ for a few years, keeping that and robbing tax payers again is not on
they aren’t giving up on any taxation rates
and to even have tax on home heating fuel is disgusting
By a few, you mean about five million and by suspend, you mean shove up the arse of Kim Jong Johnson….
Bet my household is excluded yet again
Left-wing parties will oust the tories and wreck Britain?
They’re too.late. The tories have spent the last two years wrecking Britain and have more or less finished the job.
I think we all sense there is some remnant within the Tories that does prevent the full spectrum destruction the modern Labour Party would unleash.
That would be a swift descent. Look at Scotland. The SNP are a hard left party now in bed with the Greens, who are outright communists. They openly talk about “New Scots” whom they want to invite to the UK. Many Scottish Government job adverts state explicitly “We welcome applications from individuals who require a visa to work in the UK.”
Their absolute hatred of us – their own people and the culture we created – is very obvious. At least some of the conservatives are against that. It isn’t much but it is something.
Agree there is a small remnant. If only they’d leave the Tory party and form something that represents the values that many of us have. It will be a great shame that they almost certainly won’t as the few decent ones are pretty much bound to lose their seats in the next election as the Tories are destroyed and who will we get instead?
I am not so sure. Labour don’t seem at all credible. So it is difficult to say.
Now would be the time for them to do it. To form a genuine conservative party given the disappointment of the last few years. A zero immigration policy alone would probably trigger a landslide in my view.
That hundred of them who rebelled against the vaccine passports would be a good start of a party – they could form a kind of alliance voting or bloc with perhaps the DUP who were fairly opposed to most of covid lockdown BS and maybe others. Would make it damned difficult for Johnson to ramrod anything else destructive through without his big 80 seat majority if nothing else. And if they went now they have the interim period between now and next gen election to try to grow.
There will be no salvation via the ballot box. That pseudo politics is gone for good.
Yes, there is still a remnant of non-leftism left in some parts of the Conservative party but Kim Jong Johnson has essentially destroyed the party.
They aren’t even Tories, they are Blairites, continuing the dismantling of the UK
Compulsory vaccination of children in the Netherlands failed.It was said that this proposal was aiming to make childcare centres safer for children’s health.
This was not just about any Covid vaxx.
So if a child is vaxxed against common diseases, why are the childcare industry scared of an unvaxxed one?
https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/25/childcare-sector-upset-cant-mandate-vaccine-use-senate-vote
“Compulsory vaccination of children in the Netherlands failed.”
But when they get to a certain age they will need to be ‘vaccinated for Covid’ to receive their EU Vaxx Pass if they want to travel anywhere, and be able to re-enter the Netherlands.
Down voted you for your defeatist attitude in your reply without even acknowledging the small win that Encierro informed us about.
Thank you.
“and be able to re-enter the Netherlands” Please cite examples of EU countries refusing entry to their own citizens/residents.
How about the UK? Entry was forbidden unless you could provide a Passenger Locator Form, and proof of being ‘vaccinated for Covid’, or a ‘negative result from a test’. Plus you needed to show you had paid for two PCR tests (sold by some shady character with a foreign name)… and also spend 10 days in ‘self-isolation’.
Many countries in the EU had similar demands of their own citizens.
How quickly we have forgotten!
Your memory fails you. The UK is not in the EU:
You are posting false information.
Dr. Naomi Wolf Proven Right On ‘Global Vaccine Passports’
https://rumble.com/v164s83-dr.-naomi-wolf-proven-right-on-global-vaccine-passports.html
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““ESG’s power grows as banker is canceled for talking sense on climate change” – Rupert Darwall says in the New York Post that Stuart Kirk should not have been cancelled for talking sense about big banks’ ludicrous obsession with climate change.”
Best thing that could have happened. Kirk has had great publicity from this and had plenty of support from other bank bosses. The BoE also being slammed for their obsession.
Rumpelstiltskin syndrome. People yawning and rubbing their eyes as they emerge from a generation of slumber.
I think the COMMservative scumbags have done a pretty good job of “devastating the UK”. There is no coming back from this. They have committed treason on a grand scale and are guilty of carrying out the most serious crimes it is possible to commit on an industrial scale. They have got this far without being asked a single difficult question. That is a measure of how dishonest our society is, it literally cannot bring itself to even contemplate the truth, let alone handle it.
We now need to form a NEW POLITICAL MOVEMENT, with good people at the centre of it, not the lying criminal selfish greedy corporatised terrorist scum we have currently got. The UK is ripe for big change, we now have a golden opportunity to finally rid our democracy of these vile people and their twisted ideas about what is ok and not ok.
Theres six hundred and fifty of them and sixty eight million of us. We can do this.
Thanks for that CTR. I was beginning to think I was a loner.
On DS!
““DAN WOOTTON: Sue Gray delivered a damp squib Partygate investigation” – The GB News presenter and MailOnline columnist says it will take more than Sue Gray’s report to topple BoJo.”
Dan Wooton is wrong. Partygate was never about parties, we could all have dealt with work/social events, albeit grudgingly.
It was the barefaced lying by our PM and his habit of hanging others out to dry as a sacrifice to the public that’s objectionable.
It was the barefaced locking down, repeatedly and with accompanying propaganda from Pyongyang.
Dan is completely wrong on this. I cannot for the life of me understand why he goes as far as he does to DEFEND Johnson.
The other evening I was in the very very odd position where I found myself, possibly for the only time ever, actively agreeing with Benjamin Butterworth.
Have said elsewhere on this site that Dan Wootton needs to scan some of these posts on this site to see what his viewers really think before he continues with his “move on draw a line under this” patter.
The irony of this comment is that Partygate is a big distraction from the actual crimes the government has committed over the last two years, and their ongoing destruction of British democracy and sovereignty.
“Analysis from NHS doctors …”: are these the same doctors who lied their way through the last couple of years, or different NHS doctors? How are laymen meant to be able to distinguish one mob from the other?
From British government radio a few minutes ago I learnt that Mary Magdalene has been “slut shamed” for all these years.
Every gob in the studio agreed. “Slut shamed”, “slut shamed”, they all echoed. The term “sex work” was also heard.
So it will be no Easter eggs for them!
But I doubt even a single one of the idiots on the radio programme, or its producer, would understand that joke. They’d have to know more than a tiny amount about Mary Magdalene to begin to.
Clearly we live in uber-sensible times, when fashionable lingo thought up by independent thinker geniuses during the past five minutes, standing so impressively on the shoulders of giants, finally explains thousands of years of history and culture and religion.
Either that…or well maybe another take on what’s happening can be made to stand up better?
PS Did nobody tell these idiots the difference between a “whore” and a “slut”?
Boris Johnson may be a pathological liar in the true sense of that term, lying even when he isn’t close to being obliged to lie to maintain his position.
We’ve enjoyed the photos. Next can we have some audio please? And then perhaps a “What happened to the missing tapes?” inquiry if you must.
Surely surely he’s got it coming to him? The senior civil service must detest him. The Commons Speaker’s office probably aren’t too keen on him either. His friends include the London Metropolitan Police, officials of one or two foreign powers in London, and … ?? … Has he got one or two mates left at the Spectator? He doesn’t seem like the kind of person many people would bend over backwards to be loyal to.