Thursday, 19 June 2025
“Blowtorch” and the art of hyperbole
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Can They Claim Back Their Council Tax Precept?
A couple whose Jaguar was stolen were forced to steal it back after police took too long to investigate. Mia Forbes Pirie and Mark Simpson discovered their car had gone missing from near their west London home in Brook Green on Wednesday morning. The pair had it fitted with an AirTag locator meaning they were able to track the vehicle to an updated location in Chiswick at 10.30am.
So, an open and shut case, one even today's modern coppers couldn't possibly screw up?
But police informed them after dialling 999 that they did not know when they would be able to investigate and so could not offer immediate assistance.
What 'investigation' really needed doing? It was handed to you on a plate!
The couple took matters into their own hands when Ms Pirie, 48, discovered the AirTag had last pinged on the road outside their home at around 3.20am.Mr Simpson, 62, was nervous as he made the four-mile journey with his wife to the car's new location. The pair discovered the vehicle on a quiet back street with its interior and carpets ripped apart by thieves who had attempted to access its wiring.
In a post to LinkedIn, Ms Forbes Pirie admitted it was 'kind of fun' stealing back the car but questioned 'why we should have had to do that'.
You shouldn't. You have done everything the police tell you to do to safeguard your property, after all. Now it's their turn to hold up their end of the bargain.
She added: '[Is] it right that the police seem to have no interest in investigating what is likely to have been a reasonably sophisticated operation involving a flat bed truck… if there are no consequences, what is the incentive for people not to do more of this?'
None, which no doubt helps the Met to demand more from the Treasury to 'stem the crime wave' that's ever present in London. due to things like this.
Last year, the Met Police allegedly told a Londoner who had his car stolen to recover the vehicle himself as they didn't have the manpower. George Nicolas had his Maserati Levante stolen from outside his home in May after the thieves removed his steering lock with an angle grinder. Luckily the classic car fan had installed a tracking device in the car - which costs more than £93,000 when new - and he rang up the Met to inform them of the motor's location. But Mr Nicolas claimed he was subsequently told that the force 'didn't have anyone available' and instead recommended that he recover the vehicle himself since he knew where it was.
Perhaps if he'd phoned them again when he got to the car and threatened to shoot the thieves they'd have sufdenly found some manpower after all?
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
The main threat(s)
Reports say US military "assets" are on their way but that might be DJT bluffing, it might not. Remember ... Gateway, Memri and Laura are from the same Nethan stable. Russia took in top Iranian nutter brass? Well, those are long time treaties ... I saw reports saying Russia is getting the hell out of Iran.
Monday, 16 June 2025
Hey BBC Verify, Never Mind That Plane Crash...Look A Little Closer To Home!
"I spent all of half-term looking for somewhere to live," says mother-of-three Shanice Aird. The 29-year-old from west London rejected her council's most recent temporary accommodation offer "an hour away" from her children's school.
No, Reader, of course there’s no mention of a father…
The Shared Health Foundation is urging the government to put in measures to stop children in temporary accommodation going "missing" from schools and GPs after widespread displacement of families across the country. The charity's new report calls for a notification system so that all authorities are aware when a child moves into temporary accommodation.
Getting departments of government (both local and national) to talk to each other and keep each other in the loop is surely the Holy Grail, and far harder to achieve than stopping undesirables breeding.
Ms Aird was living in a secure tenancy flat in Ealing with her three children, aged three, five and seven, but was moved to temporary accommodation in Hounslow in 2021 after witnessing a stabbing. She is now being evicted from the two-bedroom property by the landlord, but says Ealing Council has only offered her unsuitable alternative accommodation, including one flat an hour away from her children's school. Ms Aird says she will soon be homeless and will have to "sofa surf with friends" after the council discharged her from their housing duty.
Being a witness gets you rehoused!?
She admits her children's attendance at school is "awful" as they do not have a permanent home. "It's really horrible because as a mum you want to try and provide as much safety and happiness as you can."
Clearly, not by ensuring they are borne into a stable two parent family, though!Im only surprised My mental ‘elf’ isn’t coming into play here.
Ms Aird says she needs to be close to family and friends to help with her mental health."I have bipolar type 2 and tend to go into depressive episodes, if it's a really bad episode it leads to me not being aware of what I'm doing," she says.
Right on cue!
Ealing Council said Ms Aird was recently made offers of "suitable properties both in and out of the borough within easy reach of her support networks", which she refused. "Because of her refusal of these property offers, the council have discharged her main housing duty, and we have made a referral to children services at Hounslow Council who may be able to support her under the Children's Act," it added.
If only the country could wash its hands of these parasites as easily as the councils do…
Felicity Afriyie has lived in temporary accommodation for 21 years with her three children aged 16, 19, and 20. In that time they have lived in more than 10 houses. Currently, they are living in a one-bedroom hostel in Lambeth, south London.
By choice, clearly! What’s up with these people who stunt their children’s lives by continually outbreeding their environment?
Her daughter Grace, 20, says: "One of our school journeys was two hours. "Doing that distance to school every day was awful. It's had a massive impact on our education. "You can't expect a 16 year old... that's moved houses more times than they can count to sit a set of exams that will change their life and expect them to perform as well as their more stable affluent counterparts. "It's not fair and it's not a level playing field."
Well, blame mummy for that. Daddy clearly never got a look in!
Lambeth Council says it had made a direct offer of suitable permanent accommodation to Ms Afriyie but she turned it down and requested a review. The review found that the permanent property proposed was suitable.
The government says the forthcoming Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill aims to introduce better protections for all children and better join-up between children's social care, schools and other local services.
It'd be better off trying to combat the effects of this sort of lifestyle on young impressionable children who will surely grow up with the attitude that this is a normal way to behave.
Saturday, 14 June 2025
Ideological naivety of the world leads to atrocities
On 17 December 2018, the bodies of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, a 24-year-old Danish woman, and Maren Ueland, a 28-year-old Norwegian woman, were found ...
On January 3, 1980, Adamson was found murdered near her camp in the Shaba Game Reserve. Her killer was a young Kenyan she had fired. As she had requested, her ashes were buried in the graves of Elsa and Pippa.
Friday, 13 June 2025
Woman Who Lives Entire Life Online Suddenly Discovers The Value Of Privacy
Social media influencer Emilie Kiser, 26, has filed a lawsuit against multiple agencies in Arizona to block the details of her three-year-old son's death from the public.
Kiser's attorneys argued that the records presumably contain 'graphic, distressing, and intimate details' of the toddler's death.
The kid drowned in a backyard pool. No doubrt while mummy was broadcasting to the masses who lap up this stuff.
They continued that public access to the records 'has no bearing on government accountability.'What accountability does the government have? The fact the kid drowned is down to the parent’s lack of care.
To allow disclosure in these circumstances would be to turn Arizona’s Public Records Law into a weapon of emotional harm, rather than a tool of government transparency,' the lawsuit added.
So government transparency is only to be applied when other people’s children die, not when it’s the child of a narcissistic self-described ‘celebrity’?
Thursday, 12 June 2025
The reality of Reform
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Maybe They Are Just More Dangerous Than Previously Thought?
The treatment of autistic people who are referred to the government’s deradicalisation scheme could be in breach of equality laws, a human rights charity has claimed. The home secretary has been warned that Prevent and Channel, the multi-agency follow-on programme, which seek to identify people at risk of extremism, are overreporting neurodivergent people.
In a pre-action letter to the Home Office, Rights & Security International (RSI) said it was “deeply concerned about a potential ongoing failure to collect and analyse data on the protected characteristics of those referred to Prevent and that this constitutes an ongoing failure to comply with their public sector equality duty”.But maybe the prevalence of them on the list simply means that the public perception of autistic people as harmless wierdoes obsessed with dinosaurs or rail timetables - thanks to film & tv - is wrong?
RSI has argued that the failure to collect adequate data to support equality monitoring constitutes a breach of the home secretary and police’s public sector equality duty. The duty is the requirement to have “due regard” to the equality objectives in section 149 of the Equality Act, which include the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between people who share protected characteristics and those who do not.
Pretty difficult to do when they are doing this sort of thing:
Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has voiced his concerns that a “staggeringly high” number of autistic people are referred to Prevent. He has cited terrorism cases in which the defendants were autistic, including 17-year-old Lloyd Gunton, who declared himself an Islamic State soldier and was sentenced to life in prison for preparing a vehicle and knife attack in Cardiff in 2018.
Should someone who does this not be referred to Prevent then? Just because they have, or may later get, a diagnosis?
A Home Office spokesperson said the government was reviewing the Prevent programme in light of concerns over neurodivergence. “We understand that those referred to Prevent often present with a range of vulnerabilities, and we take our safeguarding duties very seriously.
I think you are a bit confused about who exactly are the truly vulnerable here…















