Two issues of liberty

Two issues today from me, both loosely connected with the theme of liberty.  Firstly, check out these two items:

Just as with Brexit or going way back, the 1975 EU precursor … the public debate was either near non-existent or highly slanted, with the only “facts” getting out being for what one side was pushing … this is the side which bangs on about “democracy” whilst at the same time having zero commitment to it, except as a weapon.

This is far more clearly outlined in the Obama matter, in a quote about why Obama and his political kind act as they do … that quote’s about to go up at UHC across the way.  Coming back to this matter … the secretive and calculated way such outright treasonous behaviour by govt, with utter impunity, dismissive of any opposed view, a view which values the long time people of that nation … the way they have been able to force this upon a nation which largely rejects DEI … can only lead to violence.

They know it full well, they’ve planned it this way, they’re ready to launch all out attack on any brave enough to put the head above the parapet.

As for Essex police … nuff was said last evening.  Now it’s Canary Wharf.

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The second issue I’d like to address … and I’m discussing it with Julia … is the thorny old ggl or blgr problem of “Anonymous” in comments.

It had been all right until recently but now reader Redacted has said that someone is signing comments “R” … which could well be trolling, quite possible with ggl blgr, less so with WP.

In short, it is criminal, esp. with increased censorship of blogs coming from globopsycho and the EU, which means Starmer … if someone falsely uses another’s name, that is fraudulent and it gives our new stasi an opening to come in and censor us, press charges etc.

There’s a simple enough way around it though, which I’ll call “monikers”, which circumvents censoring.  I’ll do a second post now on it, to explain.

Competing Ideologies

Labour has become embroiled in a fresh row over trans rights after activists put forward a biological man to be the women's officer for an LGBT+ group.

Given enough time, factions in left wing parties always end up fighting like rats in a sack!  

The Trans Rights Alliance, a newly formed organisation seeking to change Labour's approach to gender issues, has put forward a number of candidates for election on July 19. One of them includes Steph Richards - a transgender woman in possession of a gender recognition certificate - who is standing for women's officer.

However, a gender critical group within the party, Labour LGB, said the move breaks party rules by 'putting a man forward to be a women's officer'.

Not just any man desperate to encroach on female spaces, but one with form in this regard: 

However, Ms Richards has pushed back at claims she does not have a right to stand for the position.

Why can’t the press leave off with this now-towing to these lunatic’s demands? It’s ‘he’!

She told Labour List: 'I am legally female, other than in regards to the Equality Act and the Equality Act does not apply to the position within LGBT+ Labour so I am thoroughly within my legal right and my moral right to be able to stand.'

The irony of a Labour politician claiming a moral right to do anything isn’t lost on us….

Ms Richards has previously claimed trans people can change their biological sex 'a little bit' and boasted about running a 'safe space' where men could dress up as women in secret, including as 'schoolgirls'.

Because it’s a fetish!  

Last year, she faced fierce criticism after being appointed chief executive of Hampshire-based charity, Endometriosis South Coast, in a move women's rights campaigners branded 'worrying and insulting'.

And everyone else branded utterly nonsensical! But still the male encroachment rumbles on and on… 

UK state of play, politically

The polls published online or in the MSM … can they be trusted? My feeling is … to a point. Reform certainly has a sizeable lead according to them but …

There are two Reforms … the first is the left centrist, all will be well, Lord Toby Young “scepticism”, saying all the right sceptical things but of course … just talk on the tele to rope in the disgruntled normies, with clownmaster Farage having kissed the Blarney Stone sometime in his life.

There’s a second Reform, not “be hush hush on TR” and Respectable Upper Middle … this other Reform being more the non-respectable face of “that lot” as Tice said, plebs all, including Rupert, the raped girls trying to make headway … except it’s a strange mix of those not really pleb by education or occupation (farming), together with the lowest echelons, e.g. the raped girls, the ordinary Epping protester.

And they are already leaving Reform, generally being onliners … but there are still, sadly a huge number of the formerly unpolitical, with teles and the MSM brainwashing, ignoring the warning about the gang of three at the top … it’s the best we have, they say.  Bewildered a bit, hoping Nige will come good.

Ain’t gonna happen … there are agendas. Meanwhile, new young people … still not many, but increasing … people such as Charlie Downes, Gen Zee, the new upcomers, inc. the raped girls.

There’s another Charley too … Bentley-Astor, a girl … only just though … was preparing to mutilate but saw the light … now a vehement pundit for the downtrodden, for the Brit.  As a former teacher, my interest is in the upcomers, the next gen of sane people, in amongst the Eloi.  All power to these kids, say I.

Meanwhile, the rest of us.  Advance, with Ben Habib? Hmmmm, maybe. Rupert rough and ready?  Doing great things but not a political “leader”, more a radical, telling it as it is.  Great stuff but where will the people’s “champions” arise from?  Somecsort of alluance of the largely willing?

Hmmmmm.

It Isn’t Even Breaking The Middle East

Oh, give me a break! 

Sereen Haddad is a bright young woman. At 20 years old, she just finished a four-year degree in psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in only three years, earning the highest honors along the way. Yet, despite her accomplishments, she still can’t graduate. Her diploma is being withheld by the university, “not because I didn’t complete the requirements”, she told me, “but because I stood up for Palestinian life”.

By making such a nuisance of yourself, and preventing the other students who just wanted to study without some screeching lunatic on campus disrupting their education, that eventually the police had to be called to remove you. 

Haddad, who is Palestinian American, had been raising awareness on her campus about the Palestinian fight for freedom as part of her university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

Maybe ‘raising awareness’ isn’t quite the right phrase to describe what this organisation does?  

Israel’s war in Gaza is chipping away at so much of what we – in the United States but also internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict.

I don’t think that anyone - well, apart from your mob - has changed their view about whether killing, raping and torturing or taking hostages is a legitimate warfare tactic though? 

This collapse began with the liberal world’s lack of resolve to rein in Israel’s war in Gaza. It escalated when no one lifted a finger to stop hospitals being bombed. It expanded when mass starvation became a weapon of war. And it is peaking at a time when total war is no longer viewed as a human abhorrence but is instead the deliberate policy of the state of Israel.

And funnily enough, the villain here is - of course - capitalism: 

“When students expose the violence of Israel’s occupation and genocide, institutions like VCU, which are deeply entangled with weapon manufacturers and corporate donors, become fearful,” Haddad said. “So they twist the rules, they rewrite the policies, and they try to silence us … But it’s all about power. Our demands for justice are a threat to their complicity.”

You're no threat to anything except your own futures, with the criminal records you're amassing. 

In 2003, the historian Tony Judt wrote that the “problem with Israel [is] … that it arrived too late. It has imported a characteristically late-19th-century separatist project into a world that has moved on, a world of individual rights, open frontiers, and international law. The very idea of a ‘Jewish state’ – a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded – is rooted in another time and place. Israel, in short, is an anachronism.” Judt’s idea that Israel is a relic of another era requires understanding how the global push for decolonization significantly accelerated after 1945. The result was a new world – but one that forsook the Palestinians, leaving them abandoned in refugee camps in 1948.

Why do these articles always gloss over what happened in Arab countries that accepted Palestinian refugees, like Jordan? 

Planning on succumbing to the medical establishment

… and getting that vaxx, in line with WHO directives?

Opening a cafe

Easy-peasy in the UK, according to Rupert:

“Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it. You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe. Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in. Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell. You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives. But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone. Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk? It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother? Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense. Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations. But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold. That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant. Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on? More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother? Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase. Incompetence reigns. Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground? Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk? It is brutal. Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments. No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government. You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead. We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can. We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more. If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance. I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities. They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not. My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better. Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.”

If It’s Not Illegal, What Basis Can There Be For Fines?

They've not given up trying to stop the population from freely discussing things:

Social media business models endangered the public by incentivising the spread of dangerous misinformation after the 2024 Southport murders, MPs have concluded, adding that current online safety laws have “major holes”.“It’s clear that the Online Safety Act [OSA] just isn’t up to scratch,” said Chi Onwurah, the committee chair, after a seven-month inquiry. “The government needs to go further to tackle the pervasive spread of misinformation that causes harm but doesn’t cross the line into illegality. Social media companies are not just neutral platforms but actively curate what you see online, and they must be held accountable.”

Accountability is a good thing, but MPs seem to only regard it as such in other people. 

The committee called for fines of at least £18m if platforms do not set out how they will tackle significant harms that derive from content promoted by their recommendation systems even if it is not illegal.

I sincerely hope the big social media platforms treat this ridiculous overreach by these arrogant little pipsqueaks with the contempt it deserves. 

Further fallout from Afghani-gate

Just now, five topics are vying for punditry for me … Sandie Peggie, the Afghan thing here and in the US (at OoL from me), the failure of Reform to turn up to the rape gang meeting at Westminster for those girls, obviously Epstein … plus everything else that’s going on.

Right … the Afghani scandal:

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The Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, campaigners have said, after the weather forecasting service opened a storm naming competition.Climate campaigners have recommended the Met Office names its storms after various oil and gas corporations to remind the public of the link between burning fossil fuels and extreme weather.

Oil and gas companies promptly say "There's no such thing as bad publicity!" 

Hundreds of people have submitted ideas to the Met Office. While some have named specific oil and gas companies, others have suggested names such as “bigoil” and “fossily mcfuelface”.

Ah, that's the UK populace I've grown to know and admire...! 

The release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has made the storms we experience more extreme, research from the forecaster has found. An attribution study cited by the Met Office found that rainfall in the winter season of 2023-24 was 20% more intense due to human-caused climate change, and the amount of rainfall observed during the season was 10 times more likely.

Of course they did... 

Scientists predict that while the number of storms may not increase during climate breakdown, their intensity most likely will. This is because rising global temperatures contribute to more frequent weather anomalies such as the “Spanish plume”, which is when hot air from the Iberian peninsula moves northwards into the UK, creating unstable conditions that can lead to intense summer thunderstorms with heavy downpours and lightning.

I wish! I could do with a really good thunderstorm, haven't really had one in ages. Another of the scientist's promises that never come true... 

Why are normies, plus us at times, so politically mindless?

Just how spurious was this meme?

Obviously the Antifa mindless are mainly male and the soup and paint throwers over artworks are college/university girls, brainwashed from childhood by single mothers, teachers, the entire culture … and so it goes on.

Then the average voter, the normie, who thinks a BBC audience construct is actually fair debate. How did Labour get in? 20% of the vote?

We were all played, esp. those of us who, disgusted, did not vote. After all, Labour never openly said they would do all this.  Tories not quite as bad but still bad. And now Nige has hoodwinked Reform that he has no intention of handing over to Islam.

All right, meritocracy, in which only political thinkers vote … who sets the exam? Fabians?  Civil servants … which is the same thing?