The chasm between the self-appointed rulers and the ruled

Consider these three screenshots:

I’m assuming you’ll know what each is about.  It’s all about appeasement but even as you go to comment, the govt is preparing blasphemy and other legislation on you.  Plus, whether LC is actually in prison or not for 31 months in uncomfortable conditions, the belief by those on this island is that she is and it’s a lesson from public school bullies (with rent boy overtones) that it’s dangerous to complain … just bend over and take what’s coming … just as in prison.

How do politicians get like this?  Who is controlling them to develop mindsets like this?  Or was it that they recruited only those with such mindsets, Dunning-Kruger types, capable of flat-out lying to constituents?  Anyone halfway decent is cut out at earlier stages of the preselection?

And the eternal question … by which process can it all be stopped, reversed?

Mahmood Needs To Watch Better Sci-Fi Movies...

Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are gathering ideas to tackle the crisis in the UK justice system.

Surely we can do better than that?  

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military and has contracts with the NHS. IBM and the private prison operator Serco also attended alongside tagging and biometric companies, according to a response to a freedom of information request.

Given the fact that very little of this tech works as intended are we sure we want to go down this route?

Mahmood told the tech companies she wants “deeper collaboration between government and tech to solve the prison capacity crisis, reduce reoffending and make communities safer”. She invited them to “scale and improve” the existing use of tagging “not just for monitoring but to drive rehabilitation and reduce crime”.

You can onlt rehabilitate those who wwant to change - just what percentage of the offendfer population does? 

Human rights campaigners called the ideas “alarmingly dystopian”...

Of vcourse they did. It's what they do. It's time they were ignored. 

The fundamental interconnectedness of all things

At Unherdables, the Higham hosted tavern accessed through the link James in the sidebar, look for post item Saturday 15.

I wrote:

Going to run this at Orphans now in lieu of a post Sunday morning … there’s way too much text, too many pics, too many links to double up in both places … one readership goes there, one comes here.

Plus I’m not keen to be too plainspeak here on it all.  Sorry for the cryptology.

Are these the only barbarians?

There are few, imho, who’d not condemn reprehensible imported practices:

… but do we turn a blind eye to another, among the European and black females of the west … the globopsycho full term abortion?

The spectacle of that sleb the other day on X, laughing about not knowing just how many abortions she’d had … I wonder how many were late term … or were they drug induced?  Charming.  Who’s the savage here?

Then there was the whistleblower in America who spoke of the baby … not foetus but baby … who was crying as he was thrown into the incinerator … just who’s the barbarian there?

The decision, for those at libertarian sites or at least liberty sites such as Orphans, is just how much liberty?  Carte blanche on those mentioned above, saying nothing in the name of “liberty” … or some limit just back from that red line?  Where is the red line then?

Remember What The Blessed Margaret Said – Sooner Or Later They Run Out Of Other People’s Money

The Labour government’s abrupt U-turn on winter fuel payments – restoring the benefit to more than three-quarters of pensioners – reveals less a change of heart than a sobering realisation in Westminster: after years of austerity, the public no longer gives politicians the benefit of the doubt.

The irony is hard to miss. Labour set out to prove that “grown-up” economics means difficult decisions – only to find that once trust is lost, voters won’t accept vague promises without tangible results.

Sadly, Labour forgot to staff their front bench with grown ups! 

It turns out many are sceptical that sacrifices will produce better results for society. That’s why ministers are struggling to justify cuts to disability benefits as a way to “fund” public services – or to convince the public that Britain can’t afford to lift the two-child benefit cap even as ministers claim they will reduce child poverty.

It’s not for government to do that, though; it’s for prospective parents to do it, by not having children they can’t afford.

Today’s class politics has been built on culture wars and channelled through identity and belonging. The warning by the former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane that Nigel Farage is now seen by many as the closest thing Britain has to a “tribune for the working class” should be taken seriously. Citing Reform UK’s surge in the polls, he pointed to a “moral rupture” between voters and mainstream politicians, accusing Labour of fuelling disillusionment through a weak growth strategy and unpopular decisions on benefits.

Those decisions were only unpopular with those dependant on benefits - they were wildly popular with those paying for the benefits! 

Labour’s spending review this week looks like an attempt to reframe its offer around extra cash for frontline services such as health and education. That is welcome. Less so will be the real-terms cuts in unprotected departments that Ms Reeves’s fiscal rules demand to account for such commitments. If this reset is not visible and felt by voters soon, the door swings open wider to Mr Farage and his hard-right politics.

'Hard right politics'? It's pretty soft right politics, at the moment, but keep on with the progressive nonsense, and you'll soon see some real hard right politics!

The arrogant criminality and indifference to humans …

… during the 2020 to 2023 Covid and Vaxx scam.

Yes, there were the major crimes, from Pence/Gates/Fauci/Brock/Birx to Ferguson/Whitty/Hancock … but there so many minor ones too … the iconic picture of the mum and two small daughters on a beach with a uniformed, gun toting enforcement officer standing over them … I’ll never forget that one.

The snuffing out of the elderly was one of the major crimes, whether here or Cuomo in NYC … plus the sheer arrogant grinning of Johnson and Hancock, plus that Tik Tok choreographed dancing in wards as we were meant to come outside from our homes and clap like performing seals.

And then there were the Karens everywhere, weren’t there, e.g. Piers Morgan, so many others.  And then there was this:

Surely This Is As ‘Eco’ A Solution As Any The Council Could Come Up With?

A rollout of eco-friendly food bins has been blamed for chaos caused by wild donkeys breaking into them to 'feast' on scraps - and spreading disease worries.

Plastic caddies to recycle leftovers have been distributed to residents in villages across Hampshire's picturesque New Forest this month for the first time. Yet locals are now raising concerns about hazardous knock-on effects.

Not just 'now', of course - they raised them well beforehand, and of course, they were ignored. 

Once, of course, feeding foodscraps to domestic animals was a normal part of village life, not a council recycling goal - but that was before international trade took off, and the risks of introducing foot and mouth in foreign meats caused the practice to be banned. 

There are concerns that livestock historically roaming free in the area - such as not only donkeys but also ponies and pigs - will find the discarded food irresistible.And now within just weeks of the caddies' introduction, donkeys have been spotted eating food out of the bins at locations across the southern English region.

Under the £5.6million programme, food waste caddies have been delivered to residents in Brockenhurst, New Milton, Lymington and surrounding areas between April this year and this month.

Whther they wanted them or not, of course! 

'We are all for recycling especially as the area is so connected to nature but it needs to be done in the right way.

'We just want the council and other agricultural institutions to come together to create a solution. It's a different issue to that in urban areas.

'I believe that the bins need tougher locks that don't come open if the bins fall over and to be put out at the right time by the homeowners.'

I recently came back from a trip to Edinburgh to stay wih my brother - he has one of these caddies for food waste, and the local fox had no difficulty opening the latch and spreading the scraps around. So a larger animal like a donkey or pig will find it even easier. 

So while one branch of government is trying to halt the spread of a dangerous animal disease, another branch is putting in place the conditions for it to spread repidly. 'Joined up government' -it's a great concept, if it ever happens,,,

Cllr Blunden added: 'We know this is a new way of doing things and may take some time to get used to. 'By working together, it will make a big impact for our environment, our district, and future generations.'

'We appreciate the concerns being raised about animals accessing the food waste and are continuing to monitor this in the early days of the new service.'

But you won't halt it, no matter what, because that would prove you were wrong, and that will never do!

The two main issues, as of Tuesday a.m.

The two major stories this morning are the US Senate treachery in failing to kick illegals off welfare due to Thune:

and over here … this:

The optics, as they call it, are not good on either of those developments.  The timing of Ben Habib (who?) forming this one man party, albeit with tacit support from many pundits was immediately followed by Rupert Lowe launching his own initiative and the Lib Dem Sarah Pochin attacking both in support of Farage/Yusuf.

Not a good look … where can it actually go?  How far can it get?  The Tories are deliberately being useless, controlled Labour opposition … Reform certainly has the results so far, esp. at local level (councils) and their PR is better.

The problem with Reform is that straight after they score resounding grassroots victories, Farage then betrays them as usual. His agenda is simple to see and involves the very cult most Brit polling so far is down on.  More specifically, he sees himself as one of the inner powermongers, taking no truly populist position for long.

Oh and of course … the fault is all ours, seen as splitters.  Very clever.

Rupert has popular support but how many outside of the online lot know of him? Plus it’s not a party … it’s crossparty … how does that actually get legislation into place?

And there we are.

Why Are We Compensating People For This In The First Place?

An MP has raised alarm at the slow pace of a scheme to compensate LGBT service personnel dismissed or discharged from the forces because of their sexuality, saying that at the current rate it could take more than a decade to complete the process.

It was illegal to be gay and in the military back then - I undertand we are more 'enlightened' now, and it's no longer illegal (some might wonder if it's going to be made complusory!) but why on earth does this attract compensation?

Jess Brown-Fuller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, said she began examining the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme, formally launched in December, due to the experiences of a constituent, who is one of just 69 people to have been compensated, of more than 1,200 who have applied.

Brown-Fuller used a parliamentary question on Thursday to highlight Stead’s case and to push the government to make sure claims were processed more quickly.

There are other government compensation schemes ewually, if not more, deserving of a hurry up than this one - the Post Office compensation scheme, the infected blood scheme, for instance. Why is Parliamentary time not used on genuine victims of injustice, not people who knew full well that they were breaching regulations going in?

“It will take years to settle all of these applications, and veterans in their 60s, 70s and 80s potentially don’t have years for those payments to be settled,” Brown-Fuller said. “My frustration is shared by the LGBTQ+ veterans, because they’re angry, they’re frustrated and they’re disappointed that they’re still experiencing these delays. “I think the government is totally aware of the issue, because there is cross-party support for this scheme. What it is not fully grasping is that the minister needs to get a handle on how quickly those payments are going out and the process.”

Of course, the modern MoD is happy to roll over and show it's belly to the least threat these days, even the displeasure of a LimpDumb MP: 

An MoD spokesperson said: “We deeply regret the treatment of LGBT serving personnel between 1967 and 2000 which was wholly unacceptable.

 But was the law then, for good reason, and no-one turned a hair. It's only that it's now viewed with modern day sensibilities that this reflexive crinnging takes place.

“While we don’t hold comprehensive records of personnel discharged due to sexuality, we’re working with organisations like Fighting with Pride to ensure that we reach as many LGBT veterans who may have been affected. “We also encourage anyone who may think that they’re affected to contact us so that we can see if we can help, and the Home Office also runs the disregards and pardons scheme for people wishing to have historic ‘offences’ wiped from their records.”

Why is 'offences' in inverted comments? - according to the law and custom back then, that's what they were. 

The nefarious, hellbent in their own particular way

A couple of years back or more, I became aware, as did many, via Polly, of other names and organisations such as GAVI, PEPFAR, names also such as David Brock … nefarious people. We know of Mark Elias. Over here, there was a Geoff Mulgan doing his worst with Common Purpose … is the public aware?

Hardly, just as the clown MSM need it to be.  Plus people are either “not interested in politics” or find it all daunting.  This below is in the same vein and is a nice setting out as to how the nefarious operate: