Riz Possnett, the trans protester who glued herself to floor of the Oxford Union debating chamber earlier this week, is the daughter of an Extinction Rebellion protestor and a town hall chief who introduced a four day working week. Oh, and she went to a £40,000 a year private school. The Mail has more.
Most middle-class parents would be mortified if their offspring got into Oxford University only to become notorious for staging a stunt that disrupted Britain’s most prestigious debating society.
But not so the family of Riz Possnett, who glued their hand to the floor of the Oxford Union this week in protest at a speech by Professor Kathleen Stock.
The 20-year-old’s father Robert Possnett is a member of Extinction Rebellion who has been arrested numerous times for joining eco protests – and was a fanatical Remainer.
Meanwhile, Riz’s mother Liz Watts is the town hall bigwig whom the Daily Mail recently exposed for introducing a four-day week while secretly writing a PhD on the controversial experiment.
Together their devotion to some of modern Britain’s most fashionable causes has seen them dubbed the nation’s wokest family.
One local source lamented: “They are clearly Britain’s looniest Left family, with brains replaced by the social media bandwagons.”
Riz’s father seems to have previously been less radical, serving in the Army for seven years until 1985.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he reached the rank of Lance Corporal as a “patrol commander” in the Parachute Regiment.
Mr. Possnett did a degree in philosophy at the University of North London followed by a masters in the “idea of toleration” at York.
He delivered aid to Mostar in Bosnia in 1995 and later returned to the Balkans, working on aid programmes and consultancy.
His partner Ms. Watts was there at the same time, working for the Office of the High Representative, created to oversee the peace agreement ending the Bosnian war.
However, the couple, who both worked for the Refugee Council in the late 1990s, returned to England briefly when she gave birth to a girl.
In recent years Mr Possnett has worked for a climate tech firm called Crowley Carbon.
He and his family live in a sprawling six-bedroom bungalow in a Suffolk village, which they bought for £362,000 but is now estimated to be worth as much as £855,000.
In their driveway is a white MG electric car, even though Mr Possnett boasted in 2019 that he had “given my car away” and insisted “electric cars are not the answer”.
Satellite images on Google Maps also reveal a large open-air swimming pool in their back garden.
Now 61, he describes himself as an “Extinction Rebellion activist” online. He opposed Brexit – but in December 2021, told fellow Remainers: “If you’re tweeting about Brexit rather than the climate and ecological emergency, then you are part of the problem rather than the solution.”
Mr Possnett was at Parliament Square for the launch of Extinction Rebellion in October 2018. The next year he handed himself in to Cambridge police, asking to be charged with ‘criminal damage to the planet’.
And during the 2019 election campaign, he and three others dressed as bees and glued themselves to a Brexit Party bus in Grimsby.
In February that year he was ‘very proud’ to be arrested for disrupting a council meeting and was later found guilty of disorder.
Then in August 2021 he sprayed red paint on the doors of London’s Guildhall building.
And after a protest where he was locked up overnight, he wrote that he had ‘never been more proud’ then when his daughter called him ‘incredible’ for being arrested.
This week he also described himself as a “proud dad” when eco-activist Riz posted a snap of their protest at the Oxford Union.
Riz attended Hockerill Anglo-European College, Hertfordshire, where boarding fees will be £15,564 a year from September, and Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong, which charges overseas students £40,341 a year.
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“BBC journalist says her family will pay slavery reparations”
But presumably not so generously that they can’t afford their homes and a new BMW..?
Indeed
Trillions have already been transferred to descendents of slaves in the US through welfare, probably here too, and trillions in aid to African countries. How many more trillions will be needed before people realise that it’s not going to work. The only way Africa will become as prosperous as Europe is if Europe impoverishes itself. Ah, hold on….
Three downvotes already – looks like I’ve hit a nerve!
Six now. Loving the quality of these counterarguments.
I have upticked tof simply because you are right.
Thanks! I don’t mind people disagreeing with me – in fact I think a bit more intelligent, constructive and even heated to and fro here would be a good thing – but simply downticking without saying why seems kind of lame to me.
“Proposed ban on importing fur and foie gras will be dropped”
As our personal freedoms are eroded day by day, I applaud the government for ensuring that the few people who can afford to buy foie gras can still do so.
“Ron DeSantis is the future of conservatism”
I’m very much of the mind that DeSantis needs to stay in Florida and build up his power and support rather than going toe to toe with the blob until the tide begins to turn on woke. Where that leaves Trump is another matter. Four more years of the Democrats is unthinkable.
Surely the silent (vast) majority are anti-woke and just waiting for someone to legitimise and enable their expression of that. The trouble in the US is that the Democrats have stitched up the voting apparatus to such an extent that persuading a majority of the people is not enough in itself to win.
“Nicola Sturgeon’s approval rating plunges in wake of trans row”
Inept and corrupt, but as in England, the opposition is even more hopeless than the administration.
“Nicola Sturgeon’s approval rating plunges in wake of trans row”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap.
5G: from the makers of Covid and Climate Hoax.
We do not need 5G.
Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane
Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE
Looking at the photos in the Mail’s piece on the Let Women Speak event in Glasgow and the opposition event, it looks as if the age demographic is quite different.
Regarding ChatGPT, no-one should be under any illusions. The teams who design and train all this stuff will doubtless be woke as hell, as will their bosses and their firms, and they will either actively want woke results or they will be paranoid about their AI tool speaking uncomfortable truths. Either way, you can bet money that it will be very hard to find an AI tool that is anything other than woke, left-wing and on-message about all the hot topics. Control of AI will give the left even more power than they already have.
If ChatGPT were a human, one might be very tempted to answer its pontifications by suggesting it broadens its reading. But like politicians, it seems only able to “think” popular consensus, not truth. You won’t find it saying, “I read an article by Philosopher X that really changed the way I see the world.”
It’s an interesting question – on what basis does an AI form an “opinion”. It can either be based on “consensus” or on some motivating criteria designed by those that “train” it. Either way it’s going to end up woke.
Why haven’t we joined the panic about intercontinental magically-steered weather balloons dropping dirty bombs on cows in Montana? Every other news outlet is full of it, and urging war with China on their Chinese-built computers.
Just a quick aside, the UK will ban the sale of new ice cars in 2030.
Being as they cannot control production and sales in other countries what’s stops us importing an ice car? Only a ban from uk roads would stop that and that would be a massive mistake and almost impossible to achieve!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11714955/Proposed-ban-importing-fur-foie-gras-dropped.html
Foi-gras is required as a necessary food supplement for the ‘elites.’
Fur will be used in the manufacture of fake ‘meats.’
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/will-this-5g-challenge-fall-on-deaf-ears-too/
Michael Mansfield in court challenging the legitimacy of 5g roll out. This should be an interesting test of our judiciary.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/05/the-lethal-cost-of-lockdowns/
What about the 2,332 deaths registered on the MHRA Yellow Card system and the many more thousands of deaths reported on VARS System in the USA not to mention those in Europe again tens of thousands of deaths, then there’s Australia,Canada and New Zealand? Funny how they are all in the most “vaccinated” countries in the world. African countries on the other hand…..
Apparently African countries will suffer the initial onslaught of Billy’s “Catastrophic Contagion,” as an initial levelling up exercise.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/its-what-big-brother-watch-doesnt-tell-us-that-counts/
A cracking article from James Delingpole demolishing the “leaks” from 77 Brigade et al. I am sure this will appear in tomorrow’s Round-Up but anyway here it is.
As James says, an article which includes Kneel as a purveyor of disinformation decidedly stinks.
The balloon story in proper perspective:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/spy-balloons-flights-of-fancy/
And here’s Off-G ‘s decidedly blunt take on the matter:
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/05/offg-on-the-chinese-spy-balloon/
The stupidity of TPTB gets more ridiculous by the day. The Alt Media simply has to –
Pop their balloons.
Oh look. Head of CBDC Job Advert.
Get your applications in, you have only until 7th February.
Some frantic back peddling by a councillor in Southend with regard to ’15-minute cities’.
https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/2794/statement-regarding-recent-15-minute-cities-and-oxford-trial-local-media-article
I congratulate the people of Southend. Keep up the pressure.
Here we go. No mention of blockchain technology and programmability. In other words, the totalitarian control of people the technology enables. I’ll keep using cash where I can.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64536593