Quick look at Gorton and Denton by-election today

End of the week around Higham Haven a bit overloaded, sorry about such a short G&D summary.

More Dangerous Than The Advice Human Beings Are Giving Them?

A year-long commission has been launched by Mind to examine AI and mental health after a Guardian investigation exposed how Google’s AI Overviews, which are shown to 2 billion people each month, gave people “very dangerous” mental health advice.

When the 'health professionals' are pushing the 'trans child' concept and telling men 'Of course we can surgically  make you into a realistic woman!' and vice versa, could it really be more dangerous? 

“I set myself and my team of mental health information experts at Mind a task: 20 minutes searching using queries we know people with mental health problems tend to use. None of us needed 20. “Within two minutes, Google had served AI Overviews that assured me starvation was healthy. It told a colleague mental health problems are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. Another was told that her imagined stalker was real, and a fourth that 60% of benefit claims for mental health conditions are malingering. It should go without saying that none of the above are true.

Well, you'd have to be mental to take as gospel anything you read on the Inter... 

Oh, right! 

“In each of these examples we are seeing how AI Overviews are flattening information about highly sensitive and nuanced areas into neat answers.”

Which is, after all, what the users want. They don't want to be told 'No, you can't have a functioning penis because you were born a girl!'... 

“People need and deserve access to constructive, empathetic, careful and nuanced information at all times.”

Then start giving it to them, and stop lying to them, and they won't need to use AI. 

Statement on last night's events on X

 Late yesterday, this was released on X (this is one retweet among dozens so far, it being 1:38 a.m. GMT):

Certain things immediately need noting and sorting out:

• Why has no MSM, inc. BBC, jumped on it?
• Why has the “shadow home secretary” not condemned it, given it’s been a known blight online for a long time now?
• Why did the Reform leader instead start attacking “ethnonationalism”?
• Why did the Reform top brass, by evening’s end, change their policy to all foreign crims out but not before?
• If they say they did not know … why did they not know? Were they not part of the Rape Gang Inquiry?
• If not, why not?
• Why did none of the events like the screenshot above not come out in the official whitewash?
• What does Jess Phillips have to say for herself?
• Why is this still only on X and other overseas platforms?

There is a by-election coming up for Gorton and Denton this Thursday. There are three main non LibLabConGreen uniparty branches … in chronological order:

• Reform with Yusuf Farage
• Advance with Ben Habib
• Restore with Rupert Lowe

There is, of course, a collection of similarly minded smaller groups, such as the old UKIP, Heritage, Britain First.

Restore are not participating because they’re too late … the other two are in there. Of those two, which one has taken, from its inception, the entire invasion and ethnicity based raping gangs seriously? And which of those two has shifted its position like a blancmange, according to public mood, conceding only what they were forced to?

In this by-election, the two front runners are both also pro mass immigration.

Succumbing to the same old reasons

... given by Them, for not changing course:

Are Our Institutions Run By People With Schizophrenia...?

 Two headlines in Saturday morning's 'Mail':

"You, man, what did you know and when did you know it!"

"NOT YOU, MAN! "

Someone make it maske sense...

The new brutal realities

Around the mid 90s, Brit politics was still recognisably red rosette, blue rosette, occasionally yellow rosette or green ... no one much knew what Heath, Harbag, Hewitt types et al had really been up to ... scandals were more in the Christine Keeler class ... even PMQs were a jolly jape where debating society grads used their oratory to amuse.

It then went purple rosette and teal rosette and became nastier. Until in 2026, there's even sniping and backbiting between fellow "disgruntleds". I have many Reform-devotee mutual followers on X, mainly ladies and have not unfollowed, have not blocked. Why would I? On most issues, we're the same.

What do we differ on?

Just on leadership, on the bleedin' "leadership". 

The real politics of the average person are forever being subordinated to inter-leadership sniping, with devotees falling in line behind one or other "leader".

Not good.  Even the two screenshot quotes from ordinary people below here will dismay hundreds of readers who are still "good Reformers".

But to paraphrase what Zeppelin sang ... the premises lie on the whispering wind. I'm sorry if it hurts but Farage is NOT going to lead a stairway to Brit heaven, he's set up to sell out to the worst bunch imaginable.

As for Lowe and Restore ... what chance ever govt? You see, there's a type of nicy-nicy conservative, e.g. from Sissingdon, from Sussex, from Suffolk ... and everything must still be daintily served in the conservatory. Reform is the "nice" dissidence from a world now gone, whereas Restore is the new brutalism, the new "blood, sweat and tears" and those are the two worlds clashing.

In Canada, plus Ireland ... both are drafting foreigners into the armed forces en masse, inc. Chinese. Does no one see what is happening here?  Has anyone in Britain heard of cross-channel boats and Bibby Stockholm?  Why do you think those people are allowed in here?  For luvverly assimilation and really groovy things?  For tea on the lawn?

These two people below resonate with many ... but not with nearly enough to sweep the danger from the shores. The song "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Starmer" presupposes we're viewing an enemy across the ditch ... whereas we're actually viewing them up the road.

'Bare Faced Cheek' Is The New 'Public Shame'

The Met Commissioner has blamed the shoplifting epidemic on storekeepers - insisting they 'don't report anything' and 'need to do better'.

Who is surprised? We thought Dick was the worst Commissioner, well, here's an even bigger dick! 

Sir Mark Rowley was questioned by the Home Affairs Committee today on thieves who regularly 'clear whole shelves' and walk out of shops without paying. It follows a 20 per cent rise in shoplifting last year - with police recording 530,643 offences in England and Wales.However, Sir Mark has now placed the blame on shopkeepers, despite MPs questioning him over a lack over the lack of prosecutions.

'We encourage them all to report it and the good stores have got really good security regimes and report it and help us out in ways that I'll come to in a moment. Some stores don't.' He then added: 'Some of them don't report anything, if we go there they don't give us the CCTV of the crime, they won't give us any statements, they don't give their staff time to give statements and they don't pay their staff to go to court to give evidence.'

Hmm, what sort of stores would they be, I wonder? The smaller independent stores, I'm guessing, the ones that aren't part of a massive conglomerate that can afford to take the loss and the threats from lawyers? Maybe even sole proprietors of ethnicity themselves?  

MP Joani Reid was seen frowning at the response after having informed Sir Mark that staff had told her they 'don't bother' to report thefts anymore. She added: 'They've stopped reporting it because there's no point'. Ms Reid said she had witnessed a man raiding a store just this morning. She said: 'We're not talking about one or two goods but he cleared the whole shelves, put them into a trolley and walked out the shop.' Another MP, Margaret Mullane, later said: 'I represent an outer London borough and shoplifting is prolific. 'The shops are also cleared regularly around my seat.'

And did this direct anecdote give him pause? Reader, it did not: 

But Sir Mark doubled down on claims. He said: 'I have challenged some sectors of the retail section to do better.' The Commissioner admitted some national chains - like 'Boots' - were 'fantastic' and 'very serious about shoplifting normally'.

Well, now you're being challenged to do better!  And we can see what use that is. If you don't want the job, why did you take it?

You can advise a MORON against anything harmful, but don't expect that MORON to listen

 

Yet another story of idiots who either can’t read, won’t read, think that they know best; or simply ignore well-proven Foreign Office advice which plainly says, “Don’t Go To Iran”.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman are low-quality morons who are ‘world travellers’ on their motor bikes.

They arrive at Iran’s borders, think they know best, and drive in. Get arrested, mainly because they are British, and land up with a ten year sentence for spying.

Now’ I ask you, “What the Fuck did they expect?” Many things our Foreign Office is guilty of, but when the advice is “Foreign Office advises against all travel to Iran, If you are a British national already in Iran, either resident or visitor, carefully consider your presence there and the risks you take by staying.” you simply wipe that particular well-known heap of Muslim Shit off of your journey’s itinerary.

But no, the pair of idiots present themselves as the next set of targets for the Iranian Guards, and now rest in Ervin Prison for ten years, or until the Iranians get tired of their weeping and wailing, and kick the stupid bastards out, just as they did with that other moron, Nazanin Ratcliffe; yes that the one, she went for a HOLIDAY with her parents in TEHRAN.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/jail-sentence-iran-british-couple-lindsay-craig-foreman-totally-unjustifiable-says-foreign-secretary

Two Tier Orwell strikes again

While we online were following the bunfight between Sharia Reform and the burgeoning Restore ...  behind the scenes, the gummint was continuing it's Online Draconian amendments.  Will Jones at The Daily Sceptic has:

Even more censorship is on the way. The Government has announced plans to force AI chatbots to comply with malicious communications laws – and to give itself Orwellian powers to bring in yet more speech restrictions without Parliamentary oversight. Toby writes about the moves in the Telegraph.

The Government intends to bring forward amendments of its own to the schools Bill that will supposedly close a loophole in the Online Safety Act to make sure AI chatbots comply with Britain’s draconian censorship laws. That will mean that if Grok says something in response to a user prompt that breaches, say, the Malicious Communications Act 1988, which was designed to protect women from obscene phone calls, Ofcom can fine its parent company £18 million or 10% of its annual global turnover. Whichever is the highest.

Amelia, poor dear, is obviously looking at this askance but can't see how the wooden Beloved Leader is going to enforce this in the US.  And as for the "ban" on VPNs ... yeah?  How?

The Usual Suspects...

Campaigners are urging ministers to change the law so that music lyrics are inadmissible in court...

Whut?  

....a shift that they say would stop a practice that disproportionately affects young black men and criminalises creativity.

Oh. Of course. Here we go again... 

At present, police can produce lyrics written by defendants, and even flag an appearance in the background of a music video, as evidence that a suspect is affiliated with a gang or involved in criminality. Campaign groups want a change to the victims and courts bill, which is currently making its way through parliament, to stop police from being able to present lyrics as evidence except when they are “literal, rather than figurative or fictional”.

So you can't be done for singing about shooting the sheriff unless you actually do plan to shoot the sheriff... How riduculous, what sort of morons are supporting this leniency for undoubtedly dangerous criminals? 

The amendment, which is being tabled by Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and has support from Baroness Doreen Lawrence, is due to be debated in the Lords this week.

Oh.Say no more... 

Charkrabarti told the Guardian: “We’re in a ridiculous position at present where somebody’s musical taste is somehow probative of their criminal intent. It is like saying that my love of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather makes me a mobster. It’s extraordinary.”

 Strange how it alway turns out to be accurate, though...

She is hopeful the amendment will be supported by the deputy prime minister, David Lammy.

Oh, god. The cavalcade of calamity continues.