Two issues, same question though for us

The first thing I notice is how ordinary those in the Irish pic are … no purple hair or foreign flags, no weirdos.

The second thing concerns both pics … what is your policy, personally, mine too, when it comes to self-determination? In short, what if there are complications?  Are you English or British? Scottish, Irish?

Without going too far down the rabbit hole, Kiev is not straightforward, neither are the Catalans. Methinks it’s easier to know what is NOT on than to define what IS on. It’s far easier to support the Irish against the invader, the British Isles against the unelected communists running Europe.

Impunity … again

Lack of adherence to a vaguely long-accepted code of conduct, involving respect for the right of others to do their thing too, bratty upbringing under a social structure fallen apart due to Wokery, total lack of political will in a good way among the politician class …

… plus impunity from consequences … they were not the only factors leading to the judge’s summing up:

That first part … the bit about “you have taken it upon yourselves” … could equally be the politicians today.  As if that’s not bad enough, then there is Leeds.

That lot are maybe the second worst threat facing Britain … or third … what about the Chinese takeovers, what about “Them” behind the scenes? Who has the power to reverse all this?

Just Declare Victory, Then?

A chief constable has said her acknowledgment that her police force was “institutionally racist” unsettled and hurt some officers but insisted it has allowed the force to make vital changes.

Such as..? 

A series of changes have been made, including changes to the force’s stop and search policy, the introduction of alternative ways of dealing with young people accused of crime, and the running of cultural awareness training programmes for officers.

So her patch is now a crime-free paradise, is it?  

There have been a series of fatal stabbings in and around Bristol in the past 12 months.

Oh! Guess not.  

Crew said she believed her openness had made them easier to investigate.

Have they all been solved then?  

“Without the acknowledgment and the work we’ve done, I think we’d been in a very difficult, very different place.

“Had I not acknowledged that institutional racism exists, I’m sure the communities most directly affected would not trust us. Without trust there is no consent, and without consent we no longer have legitimacy to police.”

Doesn't sound like it, or she wouldn't be waffling about 'community engagement'. You know, the same 'community' that is forever stabbing each other and then whining about the police attempts to stop them doing it.  

Crew has won plaudits for her force’s attempts to put rape suspects’ credibility and not their victims’ at the centre of sexual offences investigations, and she said the plan was to take lessons learned from that to try to improve how it served victims from Black and ethnic minority communities.

“Do we need to have a particularly enhanced kind of response if you’re a minoritised victim of crime? That could be quite controversial, so we are getting some legal and ethical feedback.”

Yes, two-tier policing will be 'quite controversial', I guess you could say!  

First they were Aborigines; Now they’re First

I watched the first episode of an Australian Police-type drama on the Beeb called High Country yesterday evening, and, in both production credits as well as some of the dialogue, there appeared to be a good portion of ‘Woke’ around. From my earliest days in Australia, now some fifty-odd years ago, the brown or black peoples were known as Aborigines. Everyone used the term, no-one was being offensive, the term was accepted, and it worked.

But now, suddenly: They’re all First Nation people. Since when?

Just some past correspondence

(Technofog via IYE)

And There Will Be No Consequences For The NHS...

...all the consequences are borne by the victims, as usual.

In 2021 Williams was admitted to the Coniston ward at Whiston Hospital near St Helens. However Dr Higgins stated in court: 'Despite noting multiple bizarre behaviours, and concerns raised by the family, no diagnosis is made, other than the diagnosis of autism being taken as fact, and no treatment is offered, although a recommendation is made that he be followed up by the Early Intervention Team.'

She added: 'They (the family) were mocked for trying to get him help. It was very poor clinical care indeed.'

Not content with incompetence, they threw in the usual lying too:

It was after that he spent a week in Whiston hospital but while staff assured the family that he was sleeping well, they knew he was posting on Facebook all through the night.

How did they know? Probably because that's what they were doing themselves... 

Imposing an indefinite hospital order Judge Andrew Menary, KC, the Recorder of Liverpool said that Williams was described as 'a delightful, loving, caring young man who in normal circumstances would never have done anything like this.'

He told the defendant, who appeared via video link: 'Whether the events of this night of May 10, 2022 could have been avoided by much earlier diagnosis and intervention he will never know for sure.

'But the views of the consultant psychiatrists in this case - that there has been a wholesale failure of mental health provision and numerous missed opportunities to identify and attempt to treat your serious and enduring chronic condition of paranoid schizophrenia.

'This includes what is described by Dr Higgins as a catastrophic misdiagnosis that you suffered from a neurological-diverse condition when it is her very firm view that you are not autistic.'

It doesn't matter what the judge says, the NHS will avoid any serious consequence for what, in any orther industry, would have the HSE crawling all over them... 

He continued: 'The previous responses of clinicians appear to have been pathetically inadequate and might be a reflection of the gaps in mental health provision currently available or might be the result of overworked or under-resourced practitioners.

'Sadly it is the experience of this court that this situation is not a rare occurrence and the consequence is utter devastation of yet another family.'

It's not a case of 'underresourcing', it's a failure to do the basic job they are paid to do because they know full well they are in no danger of facing consequences for failure. Until that stops, this will continue.

The watchers

Our readers here warn us that while Them's idea is to concentrate all on Donnie ... what are we, ourselves, meanwhile, not looking at?

Well Millipede's rollout of solar panels replacing pasture, more boatloads every day, nothing whatever stopped, not likely to ... and this sort of thing:

We need eyes in the back of our head. Realistically, we need outlets all over the place, thousands of us, every reader a reporter to the pundit of his or her choice, who collects and disseminates what the bstds are up to or go further and punditise a bit yourself.

We need to proliferate.

Impunity

Readers, I’ve been ill, not sure if Julia has mentioned it, good to see Grandpa posting. More at the foot of the post as it seems this bug is around just now.

To business:

LONDON - NOW: Protesters supporting terrorists vandalise the Cenotaph, with the words ‘killed”

They have no idea!

But we made them, we are responsible for them and it’s our own fault.

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— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) July 15, 2024

Right, for those not on X and thus you can’t see the video, it’s summarised fairly well in text.

As for why I missed some days, the thing I can’t get across to friends who were naturally shut out, who think it was some coughing and sniffing, is that this a two week full on flu … it went straight for throat, eyes, ears and as Reader Steve described his own case … laid flat out. Literally … bouncing off walls until seeing the bed … flat out.

I mention it only in the context of it being yet another horrible thing we must put up with along with Woke left loonery, paedo lessons in schools, bully dogs  and so on. At least I can blog now, so back to annoy you.

Conspiracy? You can bet on a certainty!

I am of an age which can clearly recall exactly what I was doing, and where I was, when told of the assassination of President Jack Kennedy. I was seated on the top deck of a bus heading homewards from a day in Durham City whilst on leave from my ship. That act, 61 years later, is considered to be a Turning Point in the History of America. 

Many still see the whole thing as a conspiracy, with the assassin himself gunned down whilst being transferred from a jail cell, shot down by an allegedly-distraught club owner. This guy was found guilty of the murder, sentenced to death, but freed on appeal because of inconsistent evidence. He died from a pulmonary embolism, whilst suffering from cancer.

There have been literally millions of post on X-Twitter regarding the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the former President, many of those, even so early, are full of speculation and of conspiracy. But one post caught my eye, mainly because the X-Poster made her case rationally, and certainly opened up a discussion.

I commented on the X-Post as follows:- A very pertinent question, which provokes only two replies. a) that the pre-rally Security sweep was performed by morons, or b) that there was a plot to remove The Donald; and it only failed because he moved his head just before the bullet reached its target!

The mass of almost hysterical denunciation of this one man stinks of both desperation and collusion. When you get Joe Biden, the President of the United States, saying STUFF LIKE THIS, then the possibility of either direct or indirect action from shrouded forces becomes ever real.

If I were a fly on the office wall of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas , I’d be hearing him designating a new Head of the Secret Service as of yesterday, get rid of these useless women agents, and mandate a beefed-up Detail to protect the Man who is now more than likely to become the next President.

It Depends On Your Definition Of ‘Petty Offences’, Of Course

For those unconvinced that prime minister Keir Starmer really wants to fix Britain, look no further than his appointment of James Timpson as prisons minister. Timpson, chief executive of the eponymous family business best known for shoe fixing and key making, is not an MP and has been parachuted into the job by Starmer with a peerage and a seat in the Lords.

His qualifications for the role?

As for Timpson, he is a businessman and chair of the Prison Reform Trust, with an outstanding track record of supporting ex-offenders in work and a commonsense radicalism in his approach to justice.

The Prison Reform Trust does what it says on the tin: it campaigns for reform of the prison system. Rather than jailing more people, this means jailing fewer of them. It means not giving custodial sentences for petty offences to parents who shoplift to feed their children or to people with drug and mental health problems who should be getting support in hospital or the community rather than being jailed, when their problems invariably get worse, sometimes to the point where they take their own life.

It means not introducing a bill that could criminalise homeless people for smelling.

Which no-one actually did, of course!

The bill defines “something that is a nuisance” in relation to a person who “causes or does something capable of causing damage”. A section of the criminal justice bill defines that damage as including “excessive noise, smells”.

Which can mean leaving behind offensive smelling rubbish, like these charming people in the middle of our capital. Which our police seem to do nothing about despite the law being their's to uphold.

On Channel 4’s Ways to Change the World podcast in February, he cited the Netherlands as a good example of what prison policy should be like. “They’ve shut half their prisons. Not because people are less naughty in Holland – it’s because they’ve got a different way of sentencing, which is community sentencing. People can stay at home, keep their jobs, keep their homes, keep reading their kids bedtime stories – and it means they’re far less likely to commit crime again.”

Or is that 'far less likely to get caught again'..? 

In that interview, Timpson said a third of prisoners should definitely be jailed, another third should probably not be there and “need some other kind of state support”, while for the final third prison is “a disaster … because it just puts them back in the offending cycle”.

And for some people, that cycle is their culture and nothing will break them out of it, so the periods they spend in jail is the only surcease their long suffering neighnourhood gets.   

At the Prison Reform Trust, Timpson has campaigned for resentencing as recommended by the justice committee in September 2022. This would mean that prisoners who have served their tariff would be released. Starmer’s Labour was not brave enough to support resentencing when it was in opposition.

Because they knew how unpopular it would be.  

As prisons minister, Timpson is now in the perfect position to show the way forward – to fellow ministers, to entrepreneurs, to the populists and bigots who want to see ever more people locked up.

Funny you should mention populists and bigots who want people locked up, Timpson. They might not be the ones you think you have to deal with in your new role...