Joyce Bacon, 60, and Adele Boylin, 55, both mothers, were standing waiting to board the bus in Piccadilly Gardens when they were hit by a double decker Stagecoach being driven by 35-year-old Baruania Baros.
Baros, a bus driver with four years experience with a clean driving licence, was helping a disabled passenger leave the bus when he accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake pedal.
Baros, from Ashton-under-Lyne, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless driving, and was given a suspended prison sentence.
The judge said his pregnant wife would be harmed if Baros was locked up and ruled that he did not pose a 'risk or danger' to the public.
We've been here before, so the leniency should probably be expected.
An expert found that Baros had left the bus in gear, rather than in neutral as it should have been. If it had been left in neutral, the accident would have been avoided, the court heard.
And yet despite clear evidence of incompetence, the (female!) judge has more sympathy for the perpetrator than the two victims.
'This was a fatal mistake on your part,' Judge Suzanne Goddard KC told Baros, describing the incident as a 'tragic accident'.
The court heard that Baros and his family arrived in the UK as part of a refugee program, after spending time detained in a refugee camp in Tanzania.
Ah. Now I see. What are two dead Englishwomen set against your desire to stroke your progressive conscience, eh, Susie?
Sentencing, Judge Goddard told Baros: 'In my judgement you do not present a risk or danger to the public. You have a good record, an absence of previous convictions and you have shown remorse.
'Here there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation, strong personal mitigation, and immediate custody will result in significant harmful impact upon others.'
Have all our judiciary forgotten that prison is supposed to be a punishment as well?
The only reason I have the woke Quora delivered to the inbox is that they decided long ago I could not unsubscribe … then I stopped trying to, as the occasional item was interesting … such as this one, by one Robert Hill:
I worked for a summer in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. I saw a lot of foreign tourists. The vast majority were delightful people who only had good things to say about our country, even the ones who were expecting to hate it. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and almost everyone I met.
Almost. The exceptions were China and Quebec, for totally different reasons.
Chinese tourists would arrive by the busload and swarm over our overpriced trinkets in the gift shop where I worked during the day. Most of them only had the most rudimentary English, if that, and they didn’t speak any of the half dozen or so languages I can speak well enough to negotiate a gift shop transaction. They also had a completely different concept of personal space and conversational distance so I often felt crowded.
I also worked at a bar in the evening. We almost never saw Chinese tourists come in for a drink so I can’t speak on their behavior while drunk. Since we weren’t a major party destination most of the customers would have a drink or two and leave. Sometimes the Europeans and Australians would have one too many and get a little annoying. But the only ones who consistently got on my nerves were the bloody Quebecois. I don’t know why, but they always thought it was fun when they got drunk to pretend they didn’t speak English. Then they’d call me or the other bar patrons rude names in Quebecois slang (which I understand quite well and pretended I didn’t). I tended to cut them off sooner than other customers for this very reason.
The only time I ever called the police after seeing a car drive off had Quebec plates, if that tells you anything. I’m shuddering just thinking about them.
So the worst a generation ago were sober Chinese and drunk French Canadians. I no longer live in a tourist area and I avoid them whenever possible, so I have no idea who’s worst now. I suspect that as the Chinese got more experience traveling they figured out how things work here and we’ve become better at catering to their customs and needs. Quebec has much less of a separatist movement now so maybe they’re not so ready to insult anglophones when drunk.
And all of this pales in comparison to our worst state. I won’t name it here but you can probably guess it already.
California? NYS? We’ll never know. It’s an interesting question and remember it said “tourist”, as in en masse tourists … busloads. Seems to me that it really depends on that word “tourists” and busloads, as in the Costa del Expat in Spain.
My reply to Robert Hill is that it all depends in which form you see them, it really does. Examples from my own past … let’s start with Finland, Helsinki, late evening, about to do that backpacker trick of overnight train to save on hotel or hostel costs. The Americans were loud, think I was with a Finn and I did go up to the Americans but they were in group mode, like football lads with us … though I know quite a few of these and they’re ok one on one or around a table in a bar.
The Finn said there were “two Australians over there”. They were quiet, you’d not have known. On the way back from the north of Finland by train, I was with an educated east coast American. Two Canadian girls went with me, from Madrid, to El Escorial … as quiet as mice. Swedish girls were everywhere, loud after a few drinks. I met a Spanish girl on a train to Italy … nice lass … lingua franca for us had to be French. In an American small town, I met a southern Brit loudly complaining that their tour guide had not turned up. I was with a Glaswegian myself … why are Scots so violent in manner?
Answer is that they’re not … some are. South African whites on the whole are fairly brusque. I’ve never had issues with southern Brits, Brummies or Geordies. In Russia, most I knew were direct, yes, but friendly and supportive, they could party. At an Ashes match at Headingley, I wandered over to the Aussie yobs and they were obnoxious. In France, as one of a busload of Brits, the French could not abide us. I started talking to two Americans from Santa Monica (retired there) … we went down the street to a cafe and the French reaction was quite different indeed. With my Russian gal, in Cyprus, at the hotel, I started talking to some Russians, in Russian … they were obnoxious. Same with a few Bulgarians who were fine but my gal had warned me about them.
And so on. No need to draw conclusions about people … it really does depend on which form you meet them in I suppose.
...revealing that he has endured 'months of abuse', with Man United supporters pinning some of the blame on YouTuber Mark Goldbridge.
Oh! And what's he guilty of? It seems the answer is 'noticing'.
The 26-year-old forward has had a difficult season on the pitch, failing to match the achievements of his 30-goal haul during the 2022-23 campaign, scoring eight times so far across all competitions this season.
Goldbridge runs a fan channel called The United Stand, which has 1.85million subscribers on YouTube. He has recently released several videos in which he criticises the England star, notably once referring to Rashford as 'about as useful as a wheelie bin with no wheels.'
Heh! Fair comment, you might think?
In the early hours of Friday morning, Rashford responded to a post on X (formerly Twitter) that said the criticism he has received was unfair. The post read: 'The way Marcus Rashford is being treated is absolutely disgusting. It's cruel. It's abuse.'
The United forward wrote back claiming that he was tired of the abuse he has received in recent months. 'I appreciate your support! It is abuse and has been for months. Enough is enough,' Rashford said.
Well, we have free speech in this country Marcus, so you'll just have to take it on the chin.
Another user wrote on X: 'Anyone saying this is criticism is just lying to themselves, nothing to do with Marcus Rashford but brings him up anyway to pile the hate on.
'Mark Goldbridge is carrying out a well-thought-out hate campaign and he needs to be stopped.'
Just speaking to a Romanian ... it's in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Russia of course, the Ukraine (not this year as Zelensky had the priests all arrested and the churches are being destroyed, the country being in the hands of satan of course. My friend Kassandra, in Athens, has been posting on the Greek festivities.
This was my tweet:
At the same time, London has fallen to the infidels, so:
Waitrose Limited, trading as Waitrose & Partners, is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose.
It was acquired in 1937 by employee-owned retailer John Lewis Partnership, which still sells groceries under the brand. Its head offices are located in Bracknell, Berkshire.
As at April 2023, Waitrose & Partners has 329 shops across Great Britain and the Channel Islands, including 65 "little Waitrose" convenience shops. They also export products to 52 countries and have locations in the Middle East.
The chain has been described by The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian as having an "upmarket" reputation, although former managing director Mark Price suggested prices are competitive to Tesco, a mid-market chain.
The company has a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to King Charles III.
This current issue we're contending with and which is splitting the west, as intended, even extended to Waitrose:
In February 2015, Waitrose Kitchen magazine included an advertising pamphlet, "Taste of Israel", submitted by the Israeli government, in which traditional Arabic foods were referred to as Israeli. The advert prompted a social media backlash against Waitrose.
This in itself brands Wikipedia as "anti-semitic" but I'll go no further down that rabbit hole. One intriguing thing to me is Ocado:
Ocado Group plc is a British business based in Hatfield, England, which licenses grocery technology. It also owns a 50% share in the UK grocery retail business Ocado.com (the other 50% is owned by UK retailer Marks & Spencer).
ON Friday June 9, I received an email from Waitrose telling me to ‘Get ready to celebrate Pride’.
Boasting about Waitrose’s woke credentials, it said: ‘It’s Pride month, and we’re looking forward to celebrating with family, friends and colleagues – and of course, delicious food and drink! At Waitrose and John Lewis, we’re committed to inclusion – and our LGBTQIA+ network, Pride in the Partnership, is always busy. So far this year, we’ve celebrated LGBTQIA+ History month in February and International Trans Day of Visibility in March with events and educational packs for Partners.’
And of course:
I went to a large Waitrose store on Monday and I can assure you that ‘the cause of the problem’ has not been fixed – more than half of the everyday items I wanted to buy were unavailable. The shelves were empty.
That brings us to John Lewis chairman Dame Sharon White, whom I have affectionately dubbed ‘Empty-Shelves’ White. According to Wikipedia, Dame Sharon has had a stellar career ... (etc. etc.)
The author continued:
Readers will have noticed that all Dame Sharon’s previous jobs were in public-sector organisations where you tend to be handed huge sums of taxpayers’ money for what many of us wouldn’t describe as ‘work’.
Diversity hire, yes. "Dame" Sharon White:
The rest has been in the news in the not too distant past ... which leaves one last question I'd like answered ... just how much truth is there in the adage "go Woke, go broke"?
Managers at a hospital where police are investigating dozens of deathspromoted a consultant surgeon months after they allegedly assaulted junior doctors during surgery, the Guardian can reveal.
Two female registrars at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS trust in Brighton sent written statements to the trust’s chief medical officer in March 2022 detailing how they were allegedly assaulted by the surgeon in separate incidents as they helped to operate on patients, leaked documents reveal.
The consultant surgeon was alleged to have slapped one of the registrars across her face with the back of a hand. The other registrar claimed she was slapped on the hand and had surgical instruments snatched from her by the same person.
Yes, Reader, in surgery, when they should really be concentrating on the task in hand. You'll say there can be no excuse for behaviour like that, but you'll be wrong!
The trust said its investigation found the surgeon’s actions were inappropriate but did not constitute assault and were taken in the interest of patient safety. The surgeon apologised to the registrars.The investigation concluded that, in the first incident, the registrar’s visor was blocking the consultant’s field of vision during surgery, causing them to instinctively push the visor away.
By actually touching the offending item rather than asking 'Nurse, please move'? Aren't they supposed to not touch anyone but the patient to avoid cross-contamination?
In the second incident, it concluded that an instrument was taken from the registrar’s hand during a procedure for patient safety purposes.
Sound like patient safety would be better assured by making sure this chap never entered the operating theatre.
A historian who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984 has declared that ‘a lot would have to go wrong’ for Joe Biden to lose to Donald Trump – in November.
Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University in Washington, DC, devised a system, which he terms ’13 Keys’, and wrote a 1980s book explaining the idea.
He says the technique enables him ‘to predict the outcome of the popular vote solely on historical factors and not the use of candidate-preference polls, tactics or campaign events.’
Based on post-war history and in particular, the agendas at work right now, as well as fraud already got away with … so why not again … plus the changing demographics … plus no one antiWoke is translating it into street action but still “playing fair” or waiting for those guys over there to do their job and fix it for us …
… well I see a very real situation of Biden’s cadaver getting back, plus Khan, plus the Illumined Penny Mordor, plus Kate Forbes being shut out …
… and the only issue is exactly when do we take to the streets, the rule of law being on the side of the crims themselves. No one at all is lifting a finger to stop it.
...looks like another 'Guardian' article trying to drum up sympathy for criminals might have inadvertantly provided us with the answer:
Nicol and Mooney grew up in a chaotic household in London. Their mother had six children and, Mooney says, terrible taste in men, who were unreliable at best. Her and Nicol’s father was from Saudi Arabia and left their mother when she was pregnant with Mooney. As a family, they stood out: “We were all different colours. Me and Tommy are brown, we have a white sister and the dads of my two younger brothers and sister are Jamaican.” They moved from home to home, sometimes living in refuges, escaping the violent men in their mother’s life.
And yet, despite similar upbringing, the two couldn't be more different.
Mooney lives with her husband and two boys in a stylish, modern house, but asks me not to disclose the location because she has been attacked in the past for her campaigning. She looks around and says it couldn’t be more different from her and Nicol’s childhood. Her husband, a marketing executive, has done well for himself. As has she. Mooney taught nursery and primary schoolchildren before becoming an education adviser and academic.
She's a campaigner for her brother, the recidivist career criminal who the courts finally lost patience with and imposed a 99 year sentence to give the public some reprieve from his petty crimes.
She thinks about the life Nicol could have led. “That’s what makes me so angry. The education system, the prison system; it’s all geared towards damaging the most damaged.”
As usual, no sympathy for the victims of her brother's depredations.
Alt-media boggers and vloggers have hobbyhorses which seize on parts of the truth … there’s no argument once you look at the accumulated cases, but then they quietly skip past an inconvenient part that doesn’t suit their own current high horse, it’s not part of the zeitgeist of that group or that side of politics.
An example some days back was Dutch “shieldmaiden of the right” Eva Vlaar’s speech in Budapest to a conservative forum, reported west-wide in alt-media.
Immediately this lost the left libertarians who didn’t wish to face that bit of the truth. Right libertarians were still onboard though because she spoke of The Great Replacement, which Yousaf found to his cost that the people of these isles are no way going to brook.
However, Elon’s not interested in that aspect, being a former leftist, now increasingly redpilled, not unlike Donny. But … still resisting the inconvenient, unpalatable part, he pointed to a different aspect … just as correctly, mind, it’s just as much the truth … but missing a huge chunk of the whole picture by skipping past what Eva Vlaar said, here reported by Americans for Limited Government ...
No argument about birth rates among the young, soft Millennials and Zoomers … but why is it so? Ahh … here we get to the chicken and egg … which came first? Bad parenting … or something long before that, decades before? Planned.
Well one of the answers, seldom spoken of, is below here in a video saying many different things, some from a guy, with his hobbyhorse, some from a gal, Melanie, with hers, with clips along the way from some female hedonist singer, away with the Woke fairies.
But … put all the bits and pieces together … all the observations … not just the bits people like … and the picture does start to radically alter. Bear with it, it’s amateur … but I for one trust the amateur more than the slick, with big money behind it.
And they do go on and on … nature of amateur vlogs I’m afraid …
It’s not just the ultrahedonistic modern woman wanting constant fun fun fun at breakneck pace, zero shackles on her feelings-based “reality”, her moral compass set to accept “Only Fans reality” from childhood now … but it’s also men’s reaction to it.
The man in the clip goes on about the constant assault on men but he does not address the new class of feckless male exploiters of hoe culture which ask the question … why marry THAT when there’s easy meat to poke everywhere you want now?
Why marry at all?
Well … because a society which values marriage and the brakes it puts on human behaviour sees all sorts of things start to happen within that society … from stability between the sexes … not in the deathcult way with women in binbags among the invaders but in a middling way as it was once becoming in the west … including real protections under the rule of law.
But more than that … and this is where this post loses those who won’t accept even the slightest curbs on their me me me … would they buy this part? 👇🏻
… I’d say many would flatly reject the next …
That’s right where we are now. Formerly, there was at least underlying lip service almost everyone but the communists paid to the ideals underpinning the west, the heritage … love thy neighbour, faith, hope, charity etc. etc. … most said yeah right and continued to live relatively freely, but the very nature of westernism involved all sorts of elements, including TS Eliot’s unpopular reminder.
If you ditch any part of those elements, e.g. classical learning, sense of history, freedoms which we support at OoL … you lose westernism.
Which comes back to Eva Vlaar and the Great Replacement PLUS the rabbit-like breeding rate of the invader since the 50s, accelerating of late. When that’s only exacerbated by the things said in that video … then the demise comes upon the west far more suddenly.
As Elon and commentators say … it’s just mathematics.
Were the young marrying and breeding because society once again coerced them to through incentives … two parents in their affordable home, two or more children … some exceptions of course, natch, but on the whole if it were the paradigm … then the west would not be swamped in one generation but maybe only after two or three, by which time things may have been righted.
You think they can possibly be righted whilst the hoe culture is still right out of control and children are being taught all this in primary school? Plus rainbow culture, pronouns, body mutilation carried out by Tavistock whilst Planned Parenthood wreaks its own hell with baby murder as a lifestyle choice.
This girl below, of exactly the age which might be marrying and creating families … is one of the lone voices today amongst late Millennials-early Zoomers … at least she still has access to YT and the net. She rants on and on as vloggers do, oft repeating her thoughts … but everything she says though … to my mind is a very large part of the truth … a most inconvenient truth.
The next question is how to put it into practice? How to reverse the malaise?
After the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, it fell to Baltimore’s mayor, Brandon Scott, to explain the disaster and outline the next steps. But as online clips of the 39-year-old Democrat in his city of Baltimore varsity jacket began circulating, the conversation around the bridge collapse shifted from Scott’s emergency management strategy to his skin color. “This is Baltimore’s DEI mayor,” read one viral X post panning Scott, who is Black. “It’s going to get so, so much worse. Prepare accordingly.”
Before long the Maryland governor, Wes Moore, and port commissioner, Karenthia Barber, were also attacked as DEI agents and blamed for what maritime authorities have repeatedly described as a shipping accident.
“The far right has really taken these ideas to an extreme and are not really worried about seeming racist,” says Natasha Warikoo, a sociologist at Tufts University and researcher of racial and ethnic inequality in education. “They are loud and proud of their views.”
DEI – short for diversity, equity and inclusion (or as has been said on Twitter: "Didn't Earn It") – has become the latest dog-whistle term in the conservative war of words to frame basic egalitarianism as a net negative.
The word DEI follows in the ignominious tradition of progressive vocabulary that has been weaponized against the left, with its original ideas and context replaced with a familiar theme – white replacement theory.
Progressive vocabulary doesn't really have a tradition to traduce, does it? Since it seems to be one long whine about 'unfairness'. And the effect it's having on those who gained their position through merit is undeniable:
“Ben Carson was one of the all-time great surgeons,” crowed Floyd Brown, Senate campaign chair for the Republican firebrand Kari Lake. “Yet now, because of DEI, when you see a Black surgeon, you get a question in your mind. What you want, is you want the Blacks that are on top, that do succeed, to be there on their merit.”
That's indeed what you should want. So why try to muddy the waters?
