Not this hill? One some months down the track?

Not sure what exactly it was which had our Julia banned from X for a day ... I thought it may have been her own two posts on More Revolving Door Justice or the one before ... If Only PC Rain Had Turned Up.

While pondering that, going through Julia's X files at that platform, I found myself unable to access the site any more ... my bans there having been during the infamous Dorsey and Woke communist karen staff. Now that could mean anything, including things I've been writing ... they never specify ... just say we've offended "the community", whatever and wherever it is situated.

It does make one think though. I was about to run the clip with the waitress who was hit with a cutlery laden plate at Sodnan by one of them and the clip was her trying to press charges ... many have run it today, including SadButMadLad, so I stuck to American atrocities for awhile.

I saw that Allison Pearson and Alex Phillips were going hell for leather about the Two Tier Beloved Leader just wondering how much longer all this complete lawlessness by modern plod can stand in Britain. Problem is ... the 80% say as long as it takes to be rid of you psychos, while the under 20% just say as long as it takes to jail or otherwise silence the 80%.

Interesting times.

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Update 2001: Julia's back on X and tearing it all up.

PCCs Spending Your Money

But not necessarily on what you want, of course...

A new role has been created to provide emotional support to families of victims seriously injured or killed in road accidents.

Is this something that's desperately needed, then?  

As part of a collaboration with road safety charity Brake, Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne has funded the new Independent Road Victim Advocate (IRVA) position. The IRVA, who will be employed by Brake, will be specifically trained to assist families during their most challenging times.They will be able to help with day-to-day tasks that can become overwhelming for people who have lost a loved one such as managing their finances and helping them to understand procedures such as court cases.

'Managing their finances'..? Seems to be going a bit further than the uaual police victim support services!  

Will it replace them?

Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne said: “Through ongoing conversations with the road safety charity Brake and hearing about the work of its National Road Victim Service, I noticed a gap in our support provision regarding family members of those killed or seriously injured on the roads.

"I wanted to provide families who are going through unimaginable distress, with a specialist and tailored support network that will complement the investigative and operational work of our family liaison officers.

So...that's a 'no' then. It's in addition to them. Isn't this duplication of effort?  

“The IRVA caseworker is the first of its kind in Sussex and I am delighted to be working with leading charity Brake as we support those who need it most.

“Most collisions on our roads are preventable and every fatality is one too many. Alongside the additional support that will be provided to families through the role of the IRVA, I also intend to set up a dedicated ‘Fatal Five Unit’ to move forward the Vision Zero approach to road safety and cut fatal and serious collisions by half by 2035."

Funding for the role was obtained from the Ministry of Justice, with nearly £60,000 put in place to secure an IRVA position for the county.

The Ministry of Justice doesn't have any money. This is coming from the taxpayer. Is it a good use of scarce resources? 

It seems it's just another petty bureaucrat spending like a drunken sailor to enhance her own profile. Isn't it about time to scrap PCCs?

The virtue signalling which dare not speak its name

 From the Daily Sceptic this morning:

… is this Kemi Badenoch virtue signalling … oops, I mean being way ahead in the Tory leadership poll … makes a change having an open poll when Them above feel it’s odds on for her to win, involving absolutely no racism whatever.

“Them” can then turn around and glare down upon the assembled faithful: “Go on, let’s see who opposes her because you’re Racist if you do,” to which some wit might retort, “It might be misogynist you know.”

The member who can be relied upon to say the “wrong” thing then blurts out: “Could we not have a British native, one of the multigenerational indigenous in the nation?” 

Cries of, “Shame! Shame!” follow. To which another mumbles, in an aside, “What, Tom Bombadill with attitude instead?”

Juss sayin, like.

How to Remove the Allergy Problem

 

Every Restaurant/Cafe/Coffee shop should be able to post a PROMINENT notice stating:-

This Restaurant/Cafe/Coffee Shop does not, and will not, cater for those people with Allergies.

If you, or members of your Party have an allergy, do not come here because you will not be served.

Legal Disclaimer

What should we call this ideology ruling Britain right now?

June Slater is a significant UK pundit on various platforms. The question which remains after her truth telling below is … will the stasi come for her? I’ll come back to that question after her words: 

If you're feeling sad and a little bit mesmerised, then know you're not alone. It's a general feeling shared by some Labour voters too. Their eagerness to get The Tories out has left a lot of Labour voters with .. buyers remorse. 

They didn't expect the pensioners to be whacked first. The public have repeatedly given direction to cut immigration, cut foreign aid, cut taxes, cut energy costs. They've increased everything on the list.

As usual, instead of the government addressing the primary problems, they come down good and hard on the reaction to the primary problems, hence disproportionate sentencing, and the primary problem is ignored.. the anger boils, the people are ignored again.

My immediate question is … does it depend almost entirely on whom you are … easy touches for the authorities versus the largely untouchable … people like Nigel or Douglas Murray? Do personal proclivities come into the decision by govt?

What about John Redwood?

The hike in energy prices is unwelcome. So why does the government ban new U.K. gas supplies which would ease the shortages of domestic energy and cut the extra cost and CO 2 from importing LNG gas?

Can he find himself in prison for 18 months for that? And how legal is any of it anyway?

But the question in the heading … what name should be applied to what is going on? So far, few have called it fa**ism … most non Wokerati are calling it co**u*ism. It’s certainly totalitarian what the Beloved Leader and henchmen are openly doing.

Reader Andy at a place called NOWP was calling out PETA this morning and I replied:

Andy, ta for that. I ran it from Julia as a lighthearted thing yesterday at UHC Friday till after lunch [5 to 8] but you put meat on the bones, as indeed did Julia herself at her place. It was about paint and yet more lunacy.

The culprit? In this case retards called PETA. It’s the interconnection between these crazies … might be any of em … BLM, Antifa, that Eco glue to the road and climb gantries lot … any of em … but they’re all interconnected, with umbilical cords to the money … with the MSM, political class, judiciary, “entertainment”, medicine, any decision-making position in society … all brainwashed … have you seen Starmer’s dead eyes?

And there’s a psycho intelligence behind it all … it’s easy to trace it to the Lincoln School of sround 1900, the suffragette communists, the 60s feminazi communists, the WEF communists … as Dirk Gently pointed out … the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we’re really up against but the psycholoons sre up to something bigger … the values underpinning the non loony human. And some very strange alliances among us too, under duress.

Falling Foul Of Employment Law...

A judge has ruled that three white police officers were unfairly passed over for promotion because of their race. Detective Inspector Phillip Turner-Robson, Inspector Graham Horton and Kirsteen Bishop, a custody inspector, brought employment tribunal proceedings against Thames Valley Police claiming to have been disadvantaged because of they were, as described in the tribunal, 'white British.'

The tribunal heard that in an attempt to improve diversity among senior staff a superintendent at the force was told to 'make it happen' by appointing an 'Asian' sergeant to the rank of detective inspector.

In other words, told to do something illegal. But Julia, you will say, why expect a modern-day senior police officer to know the law? And you'd be right. 

But the HR department did know the law:

This was despite having been warned about the legal risks of not holding a competitive process.

Looks like not all the scofflaws are on the other side... 

...the following month, Superintendent Emma Baillie made the decision to move Sergeant Sidhu, whose forename was not provided, into the role without undertaking any competitive process or advertising the vacancy to staff, the tribunal was told. The sergeant had not even been promoted to inspector at the time she was made detective inspector, the tribunal heard, after deputy chief constable Jason Hogg and the Superintendent had 'jumped the gun' and given her the senior role.

It gets better and better, doesn't it? 

She then tried to 'retrospectively justify' the decision by saying the appointment came under a 'BAME Progression Program which clearly did not exist at the time'.

In other words, by lying. Don't they frown on that sort of thing?

Why, yes Ted, they do, don't they?

Why is she - and Hogg -  not facing malfeasance in public office charges? 

From our armchairs

I’m afraid I’m going to echo Andy at 769 in being unimpressed by armchair Neil Oliver now:

That Oliver chap on truth, like a fiat currency has become meaningless. He mentions the words of St. Augustine; The truth is like a lion, you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose, it will defend itself. As NO says, the lion has been defanged, truth has no traction any more. Hope still cowers in the corner of Pandora’s box.

To him may be added all of us other armchair warriors … I think the most annoying thing with NO (as distinct from N.O., the site) is the comfortable armchair, quite free from any attack (he also has the dogs), mouthing fighting talk … and even that fighting talk is now “incarcerable” by Starmer’s Stasi.

Wyatt, in the States, and I paraphrase, said that he was afraid we're not going to be able to vote ourselves out of this one.

True … decades of indoctrination of people now in their 20s, 30s, 40s, even 50s has produced moral and courageous bankruptcy which they’re not in the least aware of … they really do believe they’re “the good people”, these Eloi. The dissidents make fighting noises from keyboards and vlogs, while the rest tear them down, servants of the Woke Moloch. At least the armchair warriors recognise self-preservation ... we take some risks.

Where are the Bowtie Martins now? What risk is Tulsi taking, Naomi Wolf? Why should girls take risks anyway? My generation says it’s a man’s job. I’ve lost some sites, been kicked off twitter … big deal, so what? What about the dawn raid in the States which dragged away Rudi Giuliani? What about General Flynn … that was risk. Larry McDonald on that aeroplane shot down … high risk. Enoch Powell, William Jenner in 1954 in the Senate.

Admirable but what sort of dent did it make on the inexorable juggernaut which outflanks every dissident, unherdable cat? And the fighting ones of early boomerhood and older … now dying off, assisted on our way by every medical administrator and paid medico. Why do you think I stay away from medical places? Training? Eating as well as I can, fall back, start over?

No Nominative Determinism Here...

Maya is decidely not...

The political “centre” usually reacts to the far right by denouncing its methods and distancing themselves from its coarse, racist rhetoric – but ultimately conceding to its underlying argument. In the days after the general election, Tony Blair advised Keir Starmer that to ward off the far right, he should celebrate what is good about immigration but be sure to “control” it. No matter how respectable and sensible such advice may seem to some within our political classes, the sentiment that “controlling” immigration is a way to appease socially conservative voters is one cause of the corrosiveness.Why? Because it implies that a fear of immigration is a legitimate concern, and that reducing immigration is the appropriate method to assuage that fear.

So isn't it?  

Are concerns about immigration “legitimate”? Demonstrably, no.

Don't bother looking, Reader, she believes 'demonstrably' is just a word, and doesn't go on to demonstrate anything.  

The “legitimate concerns” in this case are illegitimate. Admitting this doesn’t mean dismissing what people are saying. Equally, engaging people with these views need not lead to legitimisation. The choice is not ignore or accept. Politics is about persuading people of another way; to think this can’t be done is patronising as well as dangerous.

To think it can be done by simply telling everyone that they are wrong is pretty patronising too.  

The government could change the narrative by making the history of empire and migration a statutory party of the curriculum, and by actively countering racism in the press, among opposition parties and within its own ranks. But it could also use this moment to change people’s material circumstances by getting rid of “hostile environment” policies and providing safe routes of travel (one of the only viable solutions to stop people from having to cross the Channel). It could also make visas cheaper, provide better housing, simplify labyrinthine Home Office processes and end temporary, exploitative visas, giving people the ability to come here on decent terms and stay if they want to.

So, to challenge people's assumptions the 'answer' is to flood the country with yet more immigration. Well, that's bound to work! And the craziness doesn't stop there!  

This boldness should be extended beyond immigration. The government should tax the richest, invest in public services and do what’s needed for a just transition from fossil fuels.

Might as well shoot for the moon, eh, Maya? 

The reasons behind the recent violence are many and complex – it cannot be neatly chalked up to the immigration debate alone. But the anti-immigrant sloganeering needs to stop: whether it’s the appeasing of “legitimate concerns”, a commitment to “stop the boats” or the more-acceptable-in-polite-society promises to put “controls on immigration”.

Ignoring and belittling legitimate concerns has never ever worked in the history of mankind, Maya.  

Fate worse than death?

Consider this which was in comments at our reader site:

Media Move Into Election-Interference Mode: Massive Difference in Positive and Negative Reports

The gap between completely wrong, officially so, backed by a lying MSM and a bully “govt” is so 1984, it’s horrifying for any who can anticipate, historically … even just a bit.

At this point … this from today’s Daily Sceptic:

The Terrible Fate That Awaits Jailed ‘Far-Right’ Protestors in Britain’s Overcrowded Prisons, Including Those ‘Guilty’ of Sharing Memes on Social Media

Hmmmmm … terrible fate, yes, but I’m not sure the writer covered the worst fate, apart from 23 hour a day incarceration, the drugs, the prospect of a J6 situation where people are kept in there in appalling conditions, unhygenically etc.

What could be worse is a reasonable question. And I’m constrained to even answer that as the stasi go searching through soc-med for pretexts … there is one demographic group which cannot be criticised and they fill the jails now out of proportion … they also have enormous money behind them to pay the beaks to leave cell doors unlocked … they have an ideological mission, even plod are utterly scared of them.

So Comrade Beaver does have a most effective weapon with which to shut us up … not a squeak over the appalling human “rights” travesties.

All of which comes back to one awful fact … to a greater or lesser extent, people are keeping their heads down, not a peep. Either they’re genuinely brainwashed by the MSM, by “entertainment”, the box, the appalling culture today … even the schlockfest called Strictly …… or else they do see … but say nowt.

And this, chaps and chapesses, is pure USSR. I don’t write that fancifully, I lived there post Gorbachev, I heard many, many stories of how it was … the way neighbours on the same floor were watchful, never smiled, watched their words carefully … not a word which could be construed negatively … because there was an office you could go to to “denounce” your neighbour and the black moriah then turned up at midnight, a bit different to the UK’s and US’s dawn raid.

There’s nothing fanciful in any of this … in Russian, transliterated, the staff car was called “chorni voron” or black raven. There was nothing fictional either in the core plot of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I’ve spoken with family who had it happen more than once.

What does it do for incentive, entrepeneurialism, a healthy civic life? It kills it stone dead.

Does Chief Politburo Head, Comrade Beaver, care? Even understand the full horror of what he’s done, turning Britain communist?

Maybe You're Warning The Wrong People?

The parents of teenager Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died after eating a Pret a Manger baguette, today urged the Government and food firms to 'wake up' to 'how serious food allergies are'.

Why them? Why not parents of children and pharmacists? Because in this story they seem equally culpable... 

Nadim and Tanya Ednan-Laperouse spoke out while attending the inquest into the death of Hannah Jacobs, 13, who suffered catastrophic reaction after a single sip of a Costa Coffee hot chocolate. The couple who founded The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation said they were 'devastated' to learn of the case and added: 'How many more children must die before we start taking food allergy seriously?'

Who is that 'we'? Well, maybe start with this girl's own mother: 

On the first day of the inquest at East London Coroner's Court, Hannah's mother, Abimbola Duyile, recalled the moments that led to the tragedy. She had warned staff about her daughter's allergies, she said, apologising to the barista for 'being a pain' after requesting the milk steamer was cleaned to ensure traces of cow's milk were eliminated.

Now, Reader, like me, you may well be thinking that if you have a life-threatening food allergy, you'd be mad to eat anything you haven't personally prepared, or observed being made in front of you. 

And this girl appears to have been the same, reportedly preparing her own food and drink in the main. So why did she take the risk on this occasion? 

Ms Duyile said Hannah had enjoyed a soya hot chocolate at Costa on several occasions before, having been convinced by her mother to try a hot drink there.

Why would you...? I mean...to trust foreign staff who might not fully understand the risk seems crazy, does it not? 

Yet Costa employee Ana Sanz, who was an assistant manager at Costa franchise in Barking at the time of Hannah's death but was not working until later that day, admitted to the court that she had used Google Translate to help her complete allergy training, as her first language is Spanish. She suggested that other employees she worked with may have also done the same.

*sigh* The employee who took the order, one Urmi Akter, was supported at the inquest herself by a Bengali interpreter. You couldn't make it up, could you?

Roughly 10 minutes after being served the drink in February last year, Hannah took her first sip and almost immediately began vomiting, according to her mother's statement. Ms Duyile then rushed her daughter across the road to a pharmacy, where she asked for antihistamines which had previously worked to relieve her allergic symptoms. However, Hannah complained that her chest was becoming 'tight and painful' and she was struggling to breathe. A pharmacist administered an auto-injector filled with adrenaline (also known as Epipen), but it contained half the dose of medication recommended for teenagers and adults.

So despite this seriously life-threatening allergy, she didn't have an epi-pen already? Just who is responsible here, because I'm not convinced it's solely the food companies.