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Two bills coming up to devastate Britain

With Julia’s birthday wishes tomorrow, this is Thursday’s post from me today.

a. The first is today to get into your bank account legally

… to just take as they deem is their due, no middleman … you:

Interesting from a Labour govt, particularly one as feckless and incompetent as this one.

The former case, above, looks on the surface to be a just way to stop benefit fraud and thus many readers will shrug and say so what? As always with this gummint though, there are other factors … sheer incompetence, greed, and error … which will see people on the street who lost businesses, jobs due to DEI, all sorts of things … will see them wrecked when they were never crooked or feckless in the first place. What could possibly go wrong, eh?

The one below is simply wrong, based on a wrong premise to start with, pushed by criminal loonies, all about money grabbing, plus devastating a nation, particularly after the USA is now doing the diametric opposite.

b. The one on Friday with ramifications for all in the UK:

Maybe The Judge Should House Her, Then?

A judge has granted the supervised release of Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser in a dramatic decision that goes against the wishes of the victim's family. Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 when they attacked Payton Leutner, also 12, in a sickening attack that shocked America in 2014. The teen defendant, now 22, has been held in a psychiatric facility for years, but today a judge granted her release with conditions.

I guess she's all cured now? 

A psychiatrist also told the court Geyser is now transgender and identifies as male.

Guess not... 

Leutner's family were hopeful the judge would keep Geyser incarcerated.

The triumph of hope over experience again... 

Lundbohm said that her treatment team found no evidence that Geyser had psychosis or any other mental condition that inspired the change in gender identity.

But isn't believing you're not who you really are a mental condition in itself? It always used to be. 

Dr. Kenneth Robbins recommended then that she be moved to a supervised group home, saying that she has 'improved quite dramatically.' Dr. Kayla Pope, medical director at the Winnebago hospital, also argued for her release. 'She has actively participated in therapy, medication management and all the treatments that are available,' Pope said. 'At this point she is safe to return to the community. I don't know that much more could be done to make her safer.'

I can think of something.  

Much of Lundbohm's testimony revolved around how Geyser blames family members and how she has negative feelings toward them.

And that didn't ring warning bells in anyone? 

'Frankly a lot of people in the community don't have great relationships with their family and in and of it itself that doesn't necessarily suggest that [Geyser] would be at a higher risk for violence,' Lundbohm said.

Apart from the fact that she's where she is because of violence? God, these shrinks aren't the sharpest tools in the box, are they? 

Maybe if they were the ones taking the risk, by having to clasp this viper to their own bosom, we'd all be safer. 

The last thing we need is civil war

… but it’s pretty clear that this has gone beyond tree hugging soft left versus gruffer types such as us … this has become a situation where three groups occupy the land … us, the loony Woke far left (plus a mix of globopsycho and gummint) … plus the foreign imports … millions of very dangerous men awaiting the order to pounce.

Easier for the latter if the first two have a civil war and wipe each other out … not unlike Russia and the Ukraine just now, while Biden US/NATO supply the money and weapins to enable and encourage it.

So with us … we are sooooo diametrically opposed, cannot stand the other … yet are occupying the same landmass.  Something has to give.  One side plays by rules … the other doesn’t and grins at its lawlessness.

Quite sure it’s the same sorts of ruffled feelings over here.  We can’t exterminate nor deport our Woke loony left over here … so, what to do with them?

Coz they’re not going anywhere near policymaking over us once we’re rid of em.  What a way to live in a once proud country.

Stop Telling Them They Are Victims For A Start

Jane Graham has been a school nurse for nearly 20 years – and during this time the nature of her work has completely changed.

I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case, frankly.... 

"When I started, the majority of the support we provided was for physical health, like asthma, allergic reactions and injuries," she says. "Now it's mental health." She has seen a surge in schoolchildren struggling.

"It really impacts pupils at secondary school, but some are as young as seven," she explains. "We're seeing children with depression, anxiety and stress – and that's leading to panic attacks, self-harm and eating disorders. They're not making it to school or are so anxious they cannot attend classes."

Why is this being tolerated? Is it bad parenting? 

What's less clear is why this is happening now.

Well, actually, there are some people for whom it's not such a mystery. 

Plenty of explanations have been offered by experts: the pandemic, the cost of living and the advent of social media have all placed additional pressures on the generation now starting out. But some experts in the field of mental health have raised another question: that is, is there really a mental health crisis or are young people simply not resilient enough?

This question is a polarising one. The word resilience could be interpreted by some as disparaging, or even toxic, in a similar vein as the term "snowflake generation". But one of the country's leading experts in child and adolescent psychiatry, Prof Andrea Danese, from King’s College London, believes that resilience needs to be taken seriously. While greater awareness of mental health "has generally been a positive thing", according to Prof Danese, who is general secretary for the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, he says that he is concerned that it may also have "inadvertently contributed to over-pathologising distress in young people".

I suspect this is spot on, as it's always been a truism that what you tolerate, you will get more of.  

Ms Graham, the school nurse, is also of the opinion that many children who she has seen struggling - particularly those with more low level mental health problems - would benefit from becoming more resilient. She believes that if they were equipped with better coping skills, young people would likely be better placed to deal with the challenges they may be facing before they develop into a full-blown crisis – and this in turn would help ease the pressure on services to focus on those who are at high risk of harm. "We need to do much better at teaching resilience in schools and how to stay mentally healthy," she says. "But the way we treat children, such as primary school sports days where everyone is declared a winner, doesn't help."

Who has been saying this for decades? Oh, right. Us!  

Baroness Casey of the Uniparty

 ... and the risibly labelled "inquiry":

Kathy Gyngell wrote:

"Not a public rape inquiry, but another Quango Baroness stitch up. The ever-forensic Mark Steyn's 'The Baronesses won’t save you' article nailed it; what they do is 'chair the issue under the carpet'."

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-tcw-week-in-review-names-to-drive-me-to-despair/

See sidebar picture.

Mad Nad on the Tories

Consider Nadine’s piece on X:

Hmmmm … extending that, what of the Uniparty agreement to keep swapping red blue, blue red ad nauseam?  What of the viewpoint held by an increasing number that Farage was only ever controlled opposition to cater for the dissident peeved … us?  There was never any intention of taking power … it was to split the “P’d off” vote … the 52%?  Lowe will be dealt with later.

On the other hand, by the vilified FPTP system, were there a vote of, say, around 25% by all three majors, with LibDums, Greens etc. making up the numbers … then whoever has more after the count is the govt.

More dangerous for the Uniparty?  Or still in the bag?

What You Were Getting Wasn't 'Healthcare'...

Transgender patients say they have been left "devastated" by a Nottinghamshire GP practice's decision to stop providing treatment enabling them to transition. Jubilee Park Medical Partnership, which runs practices in Carlton and Lowdham, announced it would stop prescribing transgender healthcare to patients, including those currently on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The move has prompted anger from transgender patients and the wider community, with dozens of people attending a protest organised by Nottingham Against Transphobia outside Park House Medical Centre in Carlton on Tuesday, December 31.

Dozens! Wow! I guess there was something better on TV that day. 

Among the crowd were patients who said the withdrawal of treatment would have "crippling" consequences. "I've been so stressed and upset about how I'm going to access healthcare," said Samathy Barratt, 29, who has been receiving oestrogen and testosterone blockers from the practice.

"If I weren't to receive testosterone blocking meds I would experience a reversal of the transitioning effects.

"That would be devastating for my mental health to be forced to detransition. I'm lucky I haven't had any surgery, if I had there would be significant health risks.

"I'm particularly worried about that for other patients."

Misery loves company. Of course you want more people like you around, or you'd feel like a freak, wouldn't you?

"Jubilee Park Medical Partnership continues to be very supportive of our transgender patients," said a spokesperson. "This work is more appropriately provided by a specialist as it is beyond the clinical expertise and knowledge of the GPs to provide this service in the way that it should be provided."

The only thing that needs to be provided is mental heath care. That's the real issue here.  

Getting parties to do as they promised

… or at least not to hide their true intent from voters’ eyes.

To a point, it’s up to voters to wade through manifestos, even within this flawed system. But when there’s prima facie that a criminal gang of incompetents really did hoodwink the suckers (us), then we get into an area where no division of the Uniparty … LibLabConGreen … are going to do anything to ensure electoral integrity. 

There are enough issues with the disappointing Farage who seems to me compromised somehow (might be wrong), whilst lesser members are doing wonderful things … just who truly will reform electoral integrity?

…and:

… and so on.

Oh, Sure, It Must Be 'Racism'....

...I mean, what else could it possibly be?

Many have turned Mangione into a “martyr”, said Dr Joseph Richardson, a professor of African American studies, medical anthropology and epidemiology at the University of Maryland. But, he adds: “We clearly know had [Mangione] been a young Black man, the narrative would be different”.

'We' know that, prof? That's the Royal 'We' is it? 

The wall-to-wall coverage of Mangione has been interpreted as a result of Thompson’s status as a healthcare industry executive in a country where many people are frustrated about rising healthcare costs and lack of insurance coverage. But the acceptance of that explanation itself reflects a racist double standard. As Richardson sees it, the empathetic media coverage is a symptom of “white male privilege”.

Says someone feted and courted by the MSM for his take on something well outside any expertise he may have learned at a while man's university, in a majority white country.. One might say he himself was a recipient of some kind of privilege.. 

Multiple studies have shown that white male perpetrators of gun violence, especially ones in high profile incidents such as mass shootings, are often depicted more compassionately by news outlets. According to one study, publications routinely speculate about white perpetrators’ mental health as a possible explanation for their actions, painting a complex picture of their motivations, whereas suspects of color are reduced to racial stereotypes.

Is that because their crimes are mostly predictably stereotypical?  

Back in April, reporting on Terry Clark Hughes Jr, a Black man who was accused of killing four police officers in Charlotte, North Carolina, during an attempted arrest, focused on his criminal record and THC later discovered in his bloodstream. (Hughes was shot and killed by police during the incident.) In 2021, Jason Nightengale, also a Black man, shot and killed five people at random during a rampage in the Chicago area, before being fatally shot by police. Subsequent coverage of Nightengale highlighted his arrest record and “menacing” videos he had posted to Facebook.

You mean the media concentrated on factors that 'explained' the crime? How unusual! Haven't you realised that they do the very same for other races too? 

As early as the 1920s, Duxbury said, crimes committed by Black people would often be used to “justify narratives of biological inferiority” or advance claims of Black people having “less developed morals than white people”.

The media is just calling it as they see it. Perhaps if the members of your race weren't always behaving like animals they wouldn't be regarded as less than them.