Just Obey The Rules Like Everyone Else Has To!

A barrister, who asked not to be named, told The Mail on Sunday that security guards at the court behave like 'night club bouncers'. Another barrister added: 'Some are thinking of a boycott here.'

Like you'd ever pass up money. Just bloody do as you're told, you're not special.  

Defence solicitor Dele Johnson said guards wrestled him to the ground after he refused to take off his shoes in a security search. Mr Johnson, 37, said it was like the ordeal of George Floyd, whose murder by Minneapolis police, as he protested 'I can't breathe', sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

'I never thought I'd also be saying 'I can't breathe',' said Mr Johnson. 'I was just trying to do my job.'

What do you think the security guards were trying to do then? When someone tries to circumvent security?  

Mr Johnson's identification card was checked when he arrived as a duty youth court solicitor last Wednesday. After leaving the building to have a cigarette, he agreed to a pat-down search when he returned but refused to take off his shoes, which he said resulted in four guards forcibly removing him.

With a defendant waiting for him, he re-entered the building via a side door but was blocked from entering a court and allegedly grabbed by 'four or five' guards.

'I started swinging, I felt I was fighting for my life against five men to stop them grabbing me,' he said.

You deliberately evaded security and started fighting with them when they tried to stop you. I guess standards have fallen further than anyone thought if someone like you can be a solicitor. 

Sidelights on Loretta

In which I do egregiously steal from Julia who had previously reposted this (see further down). However, first something stolen earlier from Python:

Here tis:

And Probably Not The Last...

...because there's no chance of the useless Met Police changing, and no-one in government inclined to bring them to heel. 

A prolific burglar who broke into a M&S store to steal £500 of sirloin and T-bone steak as well as 20 bottles of prosecco, has become the first person to be jailed in a private prosecution.

Only large chains are able to afford the action this story celebrates, however. The small shopowner is unlikely to be able to afford this. 

David Hanson, 44, who had 105 previous convictions including 33 burglaries, was caught in the act and arrested by two detectives from a private policing company. The store manager from M&S in Streatham Hill had called police immediately after catching Hanson stealing on CCTV but despite the footage, the Met Police decided not to investigate.

Instead, the case was taken on by TM Eye - a private investigator company which was founded by former Scotland Yard chief detective David McKelvey. The firm, which uses plain clothed officers and those in uniform, has already helped prosecute 280 shoplifters, however, the south London case marks the first time a prosecution has been made against a thief.

Just as with the police initially ignoring reports of dangerous dogs, when they do act, they often find other criminality. So they are cutting their own throats with this policy.  

Reform, UKIP … or what? Unrepresented?

As were many, I was a Kipper, despite the egregious NEC, when the alternative was Pigboy Dave or May … I’m a would be Reform voter in 2024 but Tice puts a spanner in that.

How about UKIP again? Read Rebecca Jane Sutton

Hmmmmmm.

“Where is the mother"?

Rethinking our strategies … for example on the subject of “marriage”, particularly in the light of the Europervertvision last Saturday evening.

We have a weapon over at the little site I occasionally write for and his moniker is DAD … I call him our Senior Member as he’s at a fullsome and robust stage of life I hope one day I manage to reach. 

In short, he’s from an era where people were by and large just married and didn’t carry on with all and sundry like 5304*

GPA [ medically assisted procreation ] “Where is the mother"? 

For having asked this simple question, Marion Maréchal found herself castigated by a large part of the political class, including by the government spokesperson, Prisca Thévenot. It is true that this intervention by a political leader touched an extremely sensitive point at the heart of the anthropological changes resulting from “marriage for all”. 

Once marriage is no longer defined as the union of a man and a woman destined to produce posterity, all the benchmarks become floating. Children resulting from medically assisted procreation are now referred to one parent1 and one parent2, which means the exclusion of a father or a mother, in favour of two men or two women.

Marion Mariechal, for those unfamiliar with the French political scene, is the absolute honey (in men’s eyes) who dropped the surname Le Pen.  In short again … she’s of the alt-right, meaning for God and country and the French have a history of being susceptible to iconic ladies, particularly young … such as Jeanne la Pucelle (Joan of Arc to us), Marianne … plus “our current Marion”.

The Dutch have theirs too … her name is Eva Vlaar etc.etc. and she’s known as the “Shieldmaiden of the far-right”.  

My view is that we can’t get enough of this sort of thing … this very site here, OoL (interesting that it’s called “Orphans”) is headed by a gal I for one am in awe of, if only for her gaming ability, ha ha, plus she’s the scourge of Bully dogs and inconsiderate cyclists in lycra. Plus she loves wild animals.

Anyway, I digress. This issue of non-natural birth out of wedlock … in fact the whole vomit-inducing business seen last Saturday evening … is just one of a multitude of issues today which might be better handled by the feisty female than the blast ’em to eternity blunt male or even the rabbiting on of me for paragraph after paragraph.

It might be better handled by a lady with weaponry, rather than a Mary Whitehouse who was too susceptible in her own family history (a bit like Sarah Palin in Alaska).  Marion M has President of the Republic written all over her but her strategy might just end a Presidential run.

That strategy is to calmly ask a simple question, as you see at the start of the quote above, a highly sensitive question in that country, not so much in godless Britain, for whom the game of cricket was invented to give Brits some concept of eternity. 

Ask it “in all innocence”, not raising the voice too much. The French have a guided missile in Marion M, almost a law unto herself, so unherdable as gals on the right, liberty side tend to be.  She needs to be President of the Republic imho.

Psssst … any chance we could persuade our Julia here to run for a new position of Chief Minister, head of the Privy Council or something?  Juss thinking out loud, that’s all.

Incidentally, what do you think of the current UKIP shenanigans over “leadership”?

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* To ustd 5304, type it into your calculator, turn the calculator upside down and read … it’s US jargon and a pretty good euphemism. For the singular, drop the 5.

What Happened To Beer & Bratwurst?

The soaring cost of doner kebabs has led to growing calls in Germany for a government subsidy programme to keep the inflation-hit dish, one of the country’s favourites, affordable as politicians report it is frequently cited as a concern in doorstep conversations with voters.

Wow! I guess they must have no potholes in German roads, and no dog crap on their pavements either. 

The chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has become so used to being asked about the price of kebabs during public appearances that his government has even posted on social media to explain that price rises are in part due to rising wage and energy costs. “It’s quite striking that everywhere I go, mainly from young people, I’m asked whether there shouldn’t be a price brake for the doner,” Scholz has said.

Ah, Are those 'young people' Hans & Helga in lederhosen, or perhaps something quite different? Go on, guess! 

The far-left Die Linke party has become the latest to seize on the topic, calling, in a proposal it wants to present to parliament, for the introduction of a Dönerpreisbremse or doner kebab price cap, similar to that introduced in some parts of the country to control high rents. It says kebabs are already €10 (£8.60) in some cities, rising from €4 just two years ago.The party recommends a €4.9o price cap, and €2.90 for young people, especially those from lower income backgrounds, for whom it argues the dish – thinly sliced grilled meat topped with finely chopped vegetables, garlic or chilli sauce, and cradled in a folded flatbread – is a daily staple. It suggests every household could receive daily doner vouchers.

Now, that's chutzpah, and proof German left-wing parties are even more deranged than UK ones! Who thought that was even possible?  

Hanna Steinmüller, an MP for the Greens, a party that more usually appeals to people to give up meat, addressed the issue in parliament earlier this year. “For young people right now it is an issue as important as where they will move when they leave home. I know it’s not an everyday issue for many people here,” she said to fellow MPs, “and that …it’s also something that might be ridiculed, but I think as voter representatives we are obliged to highlight these different perspectives”.

Oh, there's no 'might' about it, it'll be ridiculed all right! But it'll be whistling past the graveyard, as how long will it be until Germany's fate is echoed elsewhere in Europe? 

Euro-perversion-fest 2024

Switzerland won, as prearranged … they want it there next year, not in Israel or in Croatia. Ho hum, nuff of that rubbish event. Someone called Olly apparently got null-pwarnts, the Israeli girl came fifth.

Some reactions after the event …

Go Woke, hopefully go broke

We've said nice things about Screwfix of late ...

... what the hell has this NHS tiktok Chinese dancing got to do with tools?  How insensitive to those who lost family 2020 to 2022!

Right, well that's them off the list ... Toolshed for me now.

DEI Has The Charitable Sector In Its Sights Now...

Charities are hiring staff with “privilege rather than potential”, according to the author of a report highlighting the stark class divide in the sector. Working-class people are less likely to be hired by charities than by employers in the public and private sectors, said the EY Foundation, which supports young people from low-income backgrounds to progress in professional roles.

The fact that charity worker can now be considered a 'professional role' in the first place is a sign of how far the industry has fallen, but no-one seems to want to point this out.  

Working-class people also find it harder to climb the career ladder inside charitable organisations, with the report highlighting how charity chief executives are twice as likely as the wider population to have gone to private school, rising to three times as likely for the biggest charities.

Duncan Exley, the author of the report, said charities were missing out when teams hired within their own social circles and class bubbles, which the research showed tended to skew towards the most affluent third of people.

They've become something so far from their origins that we probably need a new term for them. 'Charity' conjures up an image of grey haired retireees baking cakes to raise money for a small local issue and that's so far from the truth of what the largest are like that they are now targets for the rapacious DEI movement. 

One issue identified was that most charities were not even tracking their own progress on how many working-class employees they had and which roles they held. Of the 100 charities studied in one piece of independent research that went into the report, only one reported on the social class of its staff members.

And as a result, they must now spend the money they receive in donations for their cause on the kind of insane overheads that have crippled all other industry. 

Exley, who is the author of The End of Aspiration? Social Mobility and Our Children’s Fading Prospects, said there were endless hurdles for working-class people in the sector. These include a lack of progression from volunteering to a salaried job, having nobody to advocate professionally for them, and a lack of access to London where most large charities are based. Furthermore, he said it was simply not widely known among working-class young people that it was possible to have a well-paid career in the charity sector.

There's a real problem. It shouldn't be.  

Due diligence

Our special unnamed one at N.O. points out:

Remember this guy? Peter Daszak. "Dr. Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based organization that conducts research and outreach programs on global health, conservation and international development.." <<< From his bio at EcoHealth

Here's a character reference. H/T L on gab.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/936079556/?clipping_id=146829438&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjkzNjA3OTU1NiwiaWF0IjoxNzE1MjM4OTM2LCJleHAiOjE3MTUzMjUzMzZ9.j6RXplThRb9No9WB-jMQkZIVaBaWKFMgLr_Q5PZp3NQ

Crims of one form or another.

JH: Ok, I went there and screenshot(ted) most of it:

Some more from earlier days from our special unnamed:

There’s plenty more. As the post title suggests, due diligence is the name of the game for our bona fides.  Why do people not apply due diligence? Here are some suggested reasons imho:

You’ve become lazy, expecting it to be handed to you on a platter, unquestioned.

You actually don’t know where to look, given that most search engines are now Woke … you might not even know how to ask the right questions.

You are a working person, not yet retired nor unemployed … there is genuinely not the time.

You’re weary of the whole damned thing … dazed.

You decide which or all are you. I’d suggest that this militates against any real finding out. As for “fact-checkers” … the less said the better.

Due diligence, people … due diligence.