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September 24th 2024
New New Labour New New Danger
Reeves promises crackdown on tax avoidance and focus on investment
Chancellor Rachel Reeves promised next month’s Budget would focus on economic growth in a speech at the Labour Party Conference today (September 23).
In the speech, Reeves pledged to crack down on tax avoidance and close tax loopholes.
She warned the party would have to make “tough decisions” to tackle a £22bn black hole in the government’s finances.
She said: “We said we will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase the basic higher or additional rates of income tax national insurance or VAT and we will cap corporation tax at its current level for the duration of this parliament.
“We will extend the energy profits levy on oil and gas producers to invest in homegrown energy here in Britain. We will end the non-dom tax loopholes, and we will crack down on tax avoidance and tax evasion.”
Reeves said the government is already recruiting 5,000 new HMRC compliance officers, “because this government will not sit back and indulge the minority to avoid paying the taxes that they owe”.
Reeves said investment in the UK was key to facing financial struggles.
She added: “This Budget will be a Budget for economic growth.
“It will be a Budget for investment, because today, we find ourselves at the very bottom of the G7 league tables for economy-wide investments as a share of our GDP.
“I believe in a better Britain, a Britain of opportunity, fairness and enterprise. I know that country has sometimes felt far off in recent years as our growth, our productivity and family finances are fall behind, but it doesn’t have to be that way.”
She also re-confirmed the decision to means-test the winter fuel payment. She added: “I judged it the right decision in the circumstances that we inherited.”
Tom Selby, director of policy at AJ Bell, said it remains to be seen where the government will raise money.
He said: “While the chancellor’s tone may have been more positive today, she left the conference in no doubt that painful decisions are coming in the Budget on 30 October – although the country remains in the dark on where exactly the axe will fall.
‘Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum, and the lack of clarity has led to inevitable speculation about possible revenue-raising reforms to pension tax relief and tax-free cash, as well as capital gains tax (CGT).
“The fact the government has boxed itself in by ruling out increases to the rates of income tax, National Insurance (NI) and VAT; insisting it will not raise taxes on ‘working people’; and saying its key economic priorities are growth and wealth creation further confuses the picture.
“It is hard to see how the chancellor can raise the money she says she needs without undermining at least one of these pledges.”
Comment The U.K Economy grew by 0.6% in the last quarter, so where is the money coming from to fund open door illegal economic migrants, elite public sector pay rises including train drivers on £70,000 per annum and the Ukraine War ? Answer is out of the pockets of the poorest. Starmer has made his point. This is not a government for protestors unless they are for Palestinian aims for a land ‘from the river to the see.’ Any one with different ideas will be arrested and jailed for a long time. Plans for more jails are in the pipelines. New New Labour are all about bringing us together whether we like it or not.
By the way, tax avoidance is legal, as I was taught during my training with what used to be called HM Inspector of Taxes. Tax evasion is what rich people do. Reeves won’t touch them with a barge pole. New New Labour are out to attract international capital which flows to wherever labour costs are lowest. That is where unlimited economic migrants calling themselves asylum seekers enter the picture. Otherwise the wealthy elite’s governments of consensus politicians, will have to put more investment in Third World sweatshops and mineral mines to ensure and maximise their profits.
Diversity means bringing all ethnic working classes down to the same level, economically and culturally. Any white person harking back to pre Thatcher days will be demigrated as a racist. The hideously wealthy global elite and their tame media call the tune to which the masses must dance if they wish to enjoy their limited freedoms..
R J Cook
September 23rd 2024
Murder probe as boy killed by ‘zombie-style’ knifeReeves promises crackdown on tax avoidance and focus on investment
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News
Anna O’Neill
BBC News
A murder investigation has begun after a teenage boy was stabbed to death in south-east London with what police believe was a “zombie-style knife”.
The Metropolitan Police said officers and emergency services had been called to Eglinton Road in Woolwich just after 18:30 BST on Sunday.
Police said the boy, aged 15, had been found with a stab injury and died at the scene. Detectives are yet to make any arrests.
One witness said she had heard the boy say “don’t let me die” as he lay injured on the ground.
Giving an update, Det Ch Supt Trevor Lawry said: “Once again we have had to tell a child’s family that their loved one has been killed in an act of violence using a knife. Our thoughts are with them as they struggle to comprehend what has happened.
“The fact that a 15-year-old teenager, who had his whole life ahead of him, has been taken from his family in this way, is a stark and sobering reminder of the danger of ‘zombie-style’ knives.
“We are committed to doing everything in our power to taking these weapons off our streets.”
The death comes a day before new legislation will come in to force to make it illegal to possess “zombie-style” knives and machetes in England and Wales.
A 43-year-old woman, who has lived in the area where the boy was stabbed for 14 years and did not wish to be named, said she had tried to save the schoolboy.
“I was upstairs in my bedroom, I had my nightshirt on, I heard screaming from across the road saying ‘someone’s been stabbed, someone’s been stabbed’,” she said.
“So, I grabbed a sheet, I had no shoes or socks on or anything, and I just literally run to just near where the tent is, and there was someone laying face down on the floor.”
She described seeing a “massive pool of blood” after his leg moved and the witness also said she saw a head wound.
“I just stemmed the flow of blood until the paramedics and that got here,” she added.
“He was going to me ‘I’m 15, I’m 15, don’t let me die’ and I said to him ‘you’re not going to die, mate’.”
Another neighbour told BBC London she had picked up the boy’s phone after it rang and she was able to get a friend to come to his side.
“I was back and forth with the boy on the floor and just trying to comfort him – he was saying ‘I am 15’ and ‘to call my mum’,” the witness said.
“People need to come together and not just say ‘we need to do this and that’.
“We need to do it not just when the crime happens but to do something to prevent it from happening.”
| The grooming gang cover-up This week, we were faced with yet another appalling example of our criminal justice system failing young victims of the most heinous, evil crimes imaginable. What possessed the judge to forbid the extraordinarily brave survivor to have her say after the guilty verdict was delivered? By calling for the deportation of the men who had mercilessly groomed and abused her from childhood, she was voicing what every right-thinking person in the country was thinking. And yet, she was silenced in court. That was simply wrong. While the guilty verdicts attracted suitably long prison sentences, the victims had every right to call for the men to be deported on serving their sentences. The seven men in the dock were all with Pakistani backgrounds, were convicted of offences that spanned more than a decade. The victim, who was groomed from the age of 11, faced her abusers in court as they were sentenced to a combined 106 years in prison. Yet, in her victim impact statement, a crucial request was removed—her plea for two of the men, Rudy Mohammed Amar and Showabe Mohammed Siyab, to be deported back to Pakistan, their country of origin, was removed. The judge ordered the removal of her request, with the barrister for the Crown Prosecution Service claiming that the decision to deport is “up to the Home Office.” The system had once again prioritised the rights of foreign criminals over the rights and dignity of a British victim. Under the UK Borders Act 2007, any foreign national convicted of a serious crime should face deportation after serving their sentence. Indeed, the Home Secretary has a legal duty to deport foreign nationals sentenced to a year or more in prison. Amar and Siyab should have been left in no doubt that that is what will happen on completion of their sentences. Their victim should have been allowed to call for deportation notwithstanding it will be incumbent on the Home Secretary to order their deportation, as the law now stands. For years, local governments, police, and social services have failed to face up to the scourge that is grooming gangs who, as often as not, targeted young, vulnerable, white girls, in working-class communities. Time and time again, we have heard of whistleblowers being silenced, victims ignored, and public institutions turning a blind eye to hideous crimes for fear of causing offence and their actions being labelled racist or Islamophobic. That’s a pusillanimous, if not cowardly, approach. From Rochdale to Telford, there has been an epidemic of grooming gangs over many years that has exposed the shameful failure of our institutions to face up to the problem and deal with it. Time will tell whether we are now doing enough to protect future victims or to ensure that those responsible face the full consequences of their actions—including deportation. We have serious doubts that we are and that the cases uncovered in the recent past may be the tip of a giant iceberg. Our laws are clear: those who come here to exploit, harm, and destroy lives must be exposed, punished and removed to their country of origin. The deportation on completion of their prison sentence of criminals like Rudy Mohammed Amar and Showabe Mohammed Siyab should follow as a matter of course. No question. |
| The mass migration myth A report we touched on in last week’s newsletter, from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) delivers sobering news: our national debt is on track to reach a staggering 274% of GDP within the next 50 years. Public spending could consume 60% of our national output, largely driven by an ageing population, bloated public sector and ballooning NHS costs. But even more alarming is how mass migration—long touted as a solution to our economic problems—will only worsen the situation. For years, proponents of mass migration have argued that it’s the key to solving our ageing population problem and boosting economic growth. But the OBR’s latest findings cast serious doubt on this assumption. While some skilled migration is beneficial, the overall fiscal impact of low-wage migration is a net drain on public finances. The OBR’s analysis breaks down the economic contribution of different types of immigrants: high-wage, average-wage, and low-wage workers. Unsurprisingly, low-wage migrant workers are a fiscal burden from day one, costing the exchequer close to half a million pounds by the time they reach the age of 80. As Migration Watch has been pointing out for years, mass migration is very costly. Not all migrant workers are net contributors to the economy, far from it. Had our warnings been heeded, we would not now be facing the many economic and social problems that we do. As it is, with net migration at an annual 700,000 and our heading towards a population growth of 20 million people by the mid to late 2040s, tackling and reducing out of control migration to (well) below 100,000 is an absolute imperative. Otherwise, we can look forward to our economic woes continuing and the change to the character and nature of our nation picking up pace. There is no time to lose. |
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| Robert Jenrick, The Daily Mail – The attitudes and policies of our metropolitan establishment have weakened English identity “A nation should put its own citizens first. But whether it’s us giving foreign aid to parts of the world that are richer than parts of England or half of all social housing in London being occupied by those born abroad, it’s clear this isn’t always happening. A nation cannot exist without a border, but the UK has experienced record illegal migration – and England has been saddled with the brunt of the burden. And, most importantly, the ties that bind a nation together fray if we have huge numbers of people arriving over a short period of time. It is England, and England’s cities in particular, that have been most affected by the unprecedented mass migration of the past 25 years.” We also liked: Fraser Myers, Spiked – The woes of Olaf Scholz offer a warning to Keir Starmer |
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| Writing for GB News, Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet asserted that Labour cannot be trusted on illegal immigration, accusing them of planning to outsource the problem to local authorities: “We’d heard it all during the election campaign, and for months before the election was called. They are going to smash the gangs – they of course won’t. However much Ms Cooper dresses it up and whatever meagre additional resources she promises for the task, there is very little that hasn’t been tried or isn’t already being done. They will get rid of the backlog (read: we will wave them through/declare an amnesty). In reality, all they will achieve by granting asylum or doling out leave to remain on the nod is shift responsibility for looking after those in the queue from central government to local authorities around the country.” Alp was featured in the Daily Express, highlighting the government’s failings after a Border Force vessel sat unused at Dover for cleaning, even as illegal Channel crossings surged: “It shows Labour’s lack of imagination when it comes to tackling this crisis. It makes no sense to have a working vessel sitting in Dover watching migrants coming in huge numbers each day but not doing anything. It shows Border Force is just a taxi service and isn’t interested in acting as a deterrent. Money has been thrown at this issue for five years and taxpayers are suffering.” Alp was also quoted in The European Conservative, criticising Sir Keir Starmer’s hasty decision to abandon the Rwanda plan. He warned that this move undermines efforts to deter illegal immigration and shows a lack of serious commitment to fixing the broken asylum system: “The boats will continue to stream across the Channel. That’s why the PM is now turning to Italy for inspiration. How ironic that they are succeeding in reducing illegal entrants with a version of the Rwanda plan, which he rashly abandoned.” Finally, Migration Watch Executive Director Dr. Mike Jones appeared on GB News with Nigel Farage to discuss Labour’s proposed Border Security Command: |
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September 22nd 2024
Two Kier Justice
Top Law Officer Who Appointed Keir Starmer as Director of Public Prosecutions, ‘Pleaded’ that she had no idea she was employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.
In July 2008, Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales, named Starmer as the new head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions. He took over from Ken Macdonald on 1 November 2008.
Baroness Scotland above. Like old and new New Labour, her motto would have been: “Do as I say, not as I do.”. If she didn’t know who she was employing, then she did not know employment law. So how was she fit to be Attorney General and to appoint Starmer as head of the corrupt England and Wales CPS, which was his stepping stone into Parliament and the Premiership. We will never know the true number of miscarriages of justice on Starmer’s watch. Under Starmer’s reign, the CPS earned a reputation for jailing mainly men, for trivial offences. Lack or absence of evidence was not and still isn’t a worry for a New Labour desgined target drivens system. Attorney General Harriet Harman, actually said “Better lock up an innocent man for rape than let a guilty man go free.” The idea of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is a dead duck, as we saw with the media witch hunt against Russell Brand.
The fact that under Starmer’s rule at the CPS, the innocent Victor Neaton, discussed below, and his denied appeals during Starmer’s watch, gives a clue to the CPS and U.K Police’s steadfast dedication to cover up their malicious prosecutions and their consequences. But when it is a big name with money and a sensitive ethnic background, like rapist Al Fayed, then it is a very different story. This is much worse than a two Keir Justice System. It is also why so few senior police officers ever face the consequences of their conspiracies, perjury, bullying of minions and corruption.
That is why Sir Keir Starmer and his chosen ones, with 35% of the 52% who bothered to vote in the July Election, got a massive majority in Parliament. This is in contrast to U.K Reform, who came second in 97 constituencies and got way more votes than the Liberal Democats, but only 5 seats compared to the Liberal Democrats 70 plus. That is not demcracy. Meanwhile, more magic has been worked to lower the exit poll for Afd, so it won’t look too suspicious when they perform badly in the current regional election. We have seen this already in Germany and Macron’s France. The consensus is for the rich. Any form of anxiety over mass immigration is criminalised as ‘far right’ nationalist hate. France’s National Rally has the same experience.
We are supppsed to see Putin as the only expression of authoritariansm. In reality, the Anglo U.S Elite led west are far more sinister. They want war on Russia and China, dividing it all with ther moronic multi culture, pap, bread and circuses for the masses. That is what Starmer and new New Labour are all about. They are a perfect fit for Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm.’
R J Cook
Attorney General Baroness Scotland’s housekeeper is an …Daily Mailhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-1214010
22 Sept 2009 — Border Agency launches inquiry into Attorney General’s hiring of an illegal immigrant housekeeper.
Attorney general’s illegal cleaner ‘was paid £95000 for her …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › apr › baroness-scotland…
8 Apr 2010 — An illegal immigrant accused of tricking the attorney general into employing her as a housekeeper was paid £95,000 for her story by a …
Law and the Lady – Baroness Scotland and the illegal immigrantUniversity of Kenthttps://blogs.kent.ac.uk › 2009/09/22 › comment-page-1
22 Sept 2009 — Lady Scotland’s spokesperson declared that “Baroness Scotland has never knowingly employed an illegal immigrant.” (Daily Telegraph 17.9.09, p8) …
Man wrongfully convicted of rape sues West Mercia police …Coventry Telegraphhttps://www.coventrytelegraph.net › … › Crime
30 Nov 2018 — Mr Nealon is now suing West Mercia police for £1million in damages after the Court of Appeal proved his innocence.
Comment £1 Million is trivial compared to what this insititutionally corrupt police force has done to this man.
R J Cook
Ex-West Mercia Police officer on trial accused of sex assaultsBBChttps://www.bbc.com › news › articles
9 Sept 2024 — The former officer denies inappropriately touching two women while on duty in Herefordshire in 2020.
Ex-police officer on trial accused of sex assaults
A jury has been told how a police officer sexually assaulted two women he met during his duties by hugging and touching them both inappropriately.
Former West Mercia Police officer Oliver Dines, 33, from Hereford, is accused of committing the offences on separate occasions while on duty in Herefordshire in 2020.
They were said by the prosecution to have occurred about a month apart.
Mr Dines denies both charges and the trial at Worcester Crown Court continues.
Mr Dines, who lives in Tupsley, was said to have asked the first alleged victim if she was single and made comments about what she was wearing before touching her on the bottom over clothing during a “touchy-feely” hug, the court heard.
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| Outline on progress of Victor Nealon Case with CCRC Victor Nealon has now been detained in prison for 17 years for a crime he did not commit. Two unsuccessful appeals against his conviction and two botched reviews by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) are still having an impact on Victor’s progress. In August 2011 the CCRC Case Review Manager (CRM) informed Mark Newby of Jordan’s Solicitors that he was in the decision making phase. This came about after Mark Newby had found new independent DNA evidence which completely cleared Victor of the crime and showed the assailant to be another male person as yet unknown. This DNA evidence had not been presented at the original trial. In fact the Police and the CPS misled the court by stating that there no untested DNA evidence to be presented to secure conviction. Up to this point ( August 2011) the CRM had been open and reasonable about the sharing of information but suddenly refused to engage with Mark Newby and share information as had previously been the case. This change in working relationship was challenged by Mark Newby but was told that no complaint could be investigated while the CRM was in “the decision making phase”. This position has lasted until the end of February 2012. At that point we were informed by the CRM that he had “significant new information” which he would need permission from his superior before the nature of the information could be shared with either Mark Newby or more to the point with Victor Nealon himself. The next twist in the case is – the CRM is referring his findings to a group of 3 commissioners who are believed to be the people who will either refer the case to appeal or refuse the appeal. There is no intention by CRM to disclose the “new significant information” or apparently do the 3 commissioners have to disclose this new information. We have been informed that the referral to the “gang of three” by the CRM will take until the end of April 2012- I deliberately use 2012 and not 2013. Then we are informed that the “gang of three” will take a further 3 months to make a decision to refer or reject the application for appeal to the Appeal Court – Criminal Division. This position taken by the CCRC is wholly unsatisfactory. What we are seeking to establish is – Is this standard practice by the CCRC? Has anyone else experienced this type of tactics and how has it been dealt with? Are there any case law examples that we can examine that will help us to change this position and speed up the “decision making phase”. We welcome any help and guidance from any source that will enable us to move this forward and speed up the “decision making phase” of the CCRC. The supporters of Victor Nealon call for the reform of the CCRC as a starting point to an over haul of the judicial system and in particular the Court of Appeal. We accept that to abolish the CCRC without taking the reform to a higher level may well not be enough. We state that there is a desperate need to reform the CCRC with over 2,600 cases waiting for a decision. We also state that reform must involve sweeping changes in personnel at the CCRC as the founding principles for the CCRC had the potential to be able to resolve cases of miscarriages of justice but the root of the problem is the capability or willingness of the CCRC to be truly “Independent”. Supporters of Victor Nealon Group Messages of Support/Solidarity Victor Nealon HMP Wakefield Love Lane Wakefield WF2 9AG From: Leo O’Toole <loto1@msn.com> New evidence may clear postman of sex attack after 14 years in jail Lawyer for Victor Nealon says crucial forensic evidence was left untested as surgeon insists wrong man was convicted http://tinyurl.com/2b4sddv Justice for Victor NealonA Lump on the Forehead By Bob Woffinden, from InsideTime issue April 2008 Last month, Sion Jenkins and I went to visit Victor Nealon. Sion, having had his own conviction for the murder of Billie-Jo quashed, still keeps in touch with some of those he knew while in Wakefield; and Nealon is one of them. His case is certainly intriguing. Events began in the early hours of 9 August 1996 when Kim Lovett, who was out celebrating her 22nd birthday, was assaulted in the centre of Redditch, Worcestershire. The attacker jumped on her and pushed her to the ground but she resisted and, fortunately, he ran off. She and a friend had just left a club, Racquets, and there were a number of people in the vicinity. Witnesses realised that the attacker, who was wearing a distinctive patterned shirt, was the same man who had been in the club earlier in the evening. The doorman remembered admitting him; he recalled that the man had a Scottish accent. More importantly, all the witnesses were unanimous on one key point. The man had a prominent physical feature: a lump on his forehead. One witness described this as “natural”; no one suggested that it was a temporary bump that could have been the result of accident or injury. Six weeks later, Nealon, a 36-year-old Irishman, was arrested for the attack. He did not have a lump on his forehead. He agreed to give forensic samples and also to stand on an identification parade. The victim’s friend did not pick him out. The club doorman did not pick him out. Two women who served the attacker at a burger bar (one of whom provided a particularly good description) did not pick Nealon out. And the victim herself? The police didn’t even ask her to attend the parade. However, a barmaid picked Nealon out and so did a club-goer, sort of (he was, he said, “unsure, though it was possibly No.3 [Nealon]”). That was all – although afterwards one witness was beckoned over by the investigating police officer. The witness then said he’d thought all along it was No.3 but, being naturally indecisive, he hadn’t said so at the time. So then Nealon was charged. In his defence, he said that he didn’t go to nightclubs, and didn’t even know where Racquets was. He couldn’t remember precisely what he’d been doing at the time, but would probably have been at home with his partner, Maria, and her daughter, Lisa. In the bizarre logic of the legal system, to have stayed at home on a Thursday evening and watched television with your family is a deeply unimpressive alibi – despite the fact that that is exactly what the majority of the adult population would have been doing. However, Maria realised that Lisa kept a diary. According to this, on that day, Nealon had gone to the video rental shop and taken out videos of Lock Up and The Shawshank Redemption, which they watched that evening. At the end of the trial, after the defence case had closed, the judge allowed the prosecution to introduce rebuttal evidence. According to this, the films Nealon had taken out that evening were actually three comedies, rather than the dramas that Lisa had noted down. So the trial ended with the prosecution having produced a coup de grâce to knock out the defence case. Nealon was given a life sentence with a seven-year tariff. However, there was something very fishy about that rebuttal evidence. Firstly, although the specifics may have been awry, the core of the evidence fully supported Nealon’s alibi: he had been at home watching videos. But why, secondly, was it produced at such a very late stage? Statements regarding that aspect of the alibi had been taken two months earlier, but nothing had been disclosed to the defence. Although the case went to trial just before the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 came into effect, there was nevertheless a general duty of disclosure, set out in the Judith Ward appeal judgment, on the Crown. By ignoring this and holding back the evidence, the prosecution had been able to ambush the defence. In a case of this kind, it would naturally have been assumed that the attacker would leave behind some forensic science evidence. However, when all the analyses of scientific samples had been completed, it turned out that there was no evidence at all against Nealon. The prosecution therefore put forward the argument that Nealon had only volunteered samples in the first place because he knew, as the attacker, that he had left no traces of evidence. In other words, it was the usual disingenuous nonsense from the Crown: the defendant was damned if he didn’t volunteer samples; and equally damned if he did. All that just left the identification evidence. Nealon didn’t have a patterned shirt or a Scottish accent. Nor had he ever had a bump on his forehead. A host of witnesses saw him in the days immediately before, and immediately after, the attack. All were certain that he did not have a lump on his forehead. The opinion of the medical expert was that there was “no medical reason for Mr Nealon having had such a lump and no evidence of him having had one”. So case dismissed? Sadly, not. Ultimately, the prosecution at trial took refuge in a double negative: the medical evidence didn’t prove absolutely that Nealon couldn’t have had a temporary lump on his forehead. So this turned the rigorous evidential basis of the criminal justice system on its head; the Crown argued that its case should succeed because, however remote, it could not be shown to be completely beyond the bounds of possibility. In retreating to this position, the Crown had also ignored the first-hand witness evidence – according to which the lump was not a temporary mark, but a permanent one. Nealon has long exceeded his tariff but, like others, remains in prison because he continues to plead his innocence. Some day, he is sure, he’ll find the man with the lump on his forehead. The name of the complainant has been changed.Enquiries/further information: Victor Nealon Group |
September 20th 2024
They pee on the seats – by R J Cook
Dame Hilary Cass
The following story is alarming but is what you get when those controlling society, through the power structure and money wage war on masculinity. As a teacher for 18 years, starting in politically correct London in 1978, I saw the war on traditional masculinity re writing the history books. On the ground, war was led by bourgeois feminists with young male teachers desperate to get on the band wagon. It was particularly aimed at young white men because young blacks were treated in this age of sociologists with their arrogant labelling, as fellow victims of the white male patriarchy. Now, 48 years later, in the age of white liberal virtue signalling and unlimited immigration from what is now euphemistically known as ‘the global south’ , religion is mainstream again, this time in all its diversity. So never a word must be uttered against its bigotry.
With white men marginalised and of secondary importance in society and workplaces, divorce is at record highs while marriages are at rock bottom. Ultimately men are only needed as cannon fodder. So little white boys struggle for an identity from the outset. It only takes one alienated child, as we saw with Hitler, to start a cult. To the bourgeois Dame Dr Hilary Cass, it is all wrong to encourage boys to consider themselves to be little girls. Her sketchy biased prejudged report said all the right things for all the wrong reasons. As a paediatrician she understands the medical risks, but apparently knows nothing about some biological males having female chromosomes and vice versa. She also appears to know nothing about the effects of a mother’s female hormone levels at the time of conception. I had a disagreement with a very female friend about this recently. She knows Cass and argues that only a distinguished medical practitioner can judge such issues. Cass does not have my experience of dealing with thousands of children with all sorts of talents and issues. Nor does she have my training in social science and post graduate psychology. When it comes to behavioural issues, Cass is paid to defend the State even when it is driving pubescent children mad.
These days, academics seem to learn less and less about less and less. Their careers thrive on their political skills more than expertise – a fact for all the professions including the U.K Police who are empowered to put their fingers in every aspects of our lives, apparently to protect our freedoms, not our freedom..
The issue of female brains in male bodies is very contentious. This is not least because sport is now all about money, not club or national glory as it was when I first represented Southgate Harriers and my county in 1963. Female athletes are vaunted by the politically correct media as representing all women. Boys who would be girls are horribly condemned as would be rapists. My female friend came up with a new argument when she told me that transwomen should not be allowed in female toilets because they pee on the seats. That, unfortunately is the level to which the transsexual scenario has descended. One cannot call it a debate when rabble rousing billionaire author J K Rowling uses her fame and fortune to impress her Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERFs) views on to the powerful and the pious that transwomen are sick and fair game for bigots. I am the last person to condone violence against transwomen, for obvious reasons.
However, in my esperience, young males have been on the receiving end of education and one parent families where males either discover their inner woman, then experience the full force of feminist hatred, or they assert an aggressive reacrion to being told how privileged and abusive they are to women. Many such males see transwomen as traitors and part of State approved female prejudice that condones positive discriminiation against them. These males become scapegoats for so much of what is wrong with hypocritical woke Britain and the wider world of the chattering classes and smug consensuspoliticians.
I make no categorical judgements on this subject. My fact based novel ‘Man Maid Woman’ advanced the idea that a boy could seek sex change because he feels a failure in his biological sex and wants to be like the idealised girl friend who rejected him. The book became even more offensive when it dealt with the hero(ine)’s mother who cheated on her husband with a man of higher status, feminising her son in the process. Hence the title. It wasn’t popular with the liberal critics and vested interests back then. The tide had yet to turn twenty one years ago. Then sport became a big paying business and feminists were being sanctified as eternal victims and rightful rulers of the world.
Hilary Cass went to exclusive City of London Girls School and is from an exclusive world. I can find no reference to her being married or having children. Her specialist field is Paediatric disability. Paediatrics also spelled paediatrics or paediatrics, is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the age of 18. This gives doctors massive control over young people’s development. So Cass should know more than she appears to about the effects of social and psychiatric (using medication) engineering of male identity from the earliest years.
You will find no reference to the role of rampant feminism and incompetent failing mothers in he report. Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that ostensibly aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. It treats all women as of naturally equal status, potential, talent and benign Feminism aims go way beyond that, actions based on a theory that assumes women are all of one blob, white men are another blob and non white ethnics are all women’s fellow victims of white male oppression.
Among other inputs, little white boys are increasingly confined to fatherless families and politically correct schools where whatever comes naturally to them is vilified. They are taught to blame white masculinity for all the evils of the world, past and present. School history lessons are tailored accordingly. These days we are light years away from the age of ‘Man Maid Woman’. Boys must not dare suggest they are or want to be girls. That identity is against modern feminism which increasingly resembles fascism where all must revere the exalted State of Feminism’ where males may live a servile role on the margins. So Caesar Rowling and her Praetorian Guard of TERF Feminists must fight against the Transsexual Trojan Horse full of men who want to pee on ladies toilet seats and rape them.
So I am not surprised by another story of another young male going insane and posting trans hate stories on the internet. He is not a woman, so has no acceptable excuses for his hate speech, unlike Rowling and fatuous feminists. There is no doubt that TERF hate speech fuelled the brutal sadistic sex killing of Brianna Ghey in an attack planned and led by a very disturbed young female – of a type I knew well during my years trying to teach feral children.
The elite masterminds of a mass culture of dangerous diversity, do not care what the masses do to each other so long as they are safe. Feminists rabble rousers like J K Rowling and big girl Sharon Davies ( 1.8 metres tall ) have a vested interest in blocking the sex change escape route for boys. White men are, like the Jews were to the German Nazis, necessary scapegoat evils. They know boys will, on average, outperform girls in sport and, boys having treatent then becoming women, might experience undue preference in the workplace, upsetting a woman’s right of passage to power and supremacy over everything.
This morning, an aptly named mixed race commentator on GB news, called Precious, argued that the outrage caused by Prime Minister Starmer’s top adviser and Labour luvie Sue Gray getting paid so much more than the man elected by a small minority in U. K’s corrupt electoral far from democratic system, is because she is a woman. Another GB News guest, writer feminist Rebecca Reid said that the outcry against this very political appointment to a top Civil Servant job was because people are jealous and don’t want her to have money to buy all the nice things her hard pressed tax payer funded salary can buy. Reid asserted that Sir Keir Starmer was entitled to receive all his £100,000 plus donations and freebies because he had a right to relax in a high security box where he could bee seen along with the masses watching his favourite football team. Starmer has personal wealth exceeding £3 million and his expensive freebies, including £4000 of Taylor Swift concert tickets, are tax free.
But in spite of all this, U.K mainstream media gets away with flogging what should be the dead horse of gender and racial equality. Life is not about homogenous blobs of male and female black and white. But with women taught to grab top jobs and me time, and white boys harangued for being ‘privileged white males’ then warned to check their privilege’. The government has ordered teacher training colleges to step up this brainwashing for young students to go out and do battle for the wealthy patronising elite cause of divide, fool and rule. They were doing that to me while studying at London University Goldsmiths College. We were told our priority was to fight sexism and racism in London Schools. So here we all are, well down the road to hell in a feral greedy moronic society governed by hypocrites who have given us the added distraction of building up to World War Three. The Jesuits got it right when they wrote: “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” So the following link is to another common story.
R J Cook
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September 19th 2024
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A senior police officer broke lockdown rules to sleep with a 21–year–old trainee, a misconduct panel has heard. Listen to this article.
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Chief Superintendent Daniel Greenwood, 41, abused his position by striking up an illicit relationship with student officer Caitlin Howarth.
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Disgraced Daniel Greenwood, who headed West Yorkshire Police’s Covid enforcement team, breached lockdown rules to have sex with Caitlin Howarth …
Comment The young woman who helped this awful overpromoted imbecile breach lockdown, should have been dismiessed from the service. But that is diversity and equality for you. The U.K Police are just what one would expect from an institutionally corrupt country where the former head of the still corrupt CPS, Sir Keir Starmer, pleads he would not have been able to attend football matches or a Taylor Swift Concert if he wasn’t given freebies.
A very senior police officer well known to me socially for many years, told me while he was a young constable, “I have found a mentor and will soon be a sergeant. My sergeant does less work than I do for more money.” He followed his upward path according to this criteria. When only two steps from the top, I asked him what he did. He said he had a big desk in a large office where he wrote appraisals of senior underlings who were keen not to upset him, adding that he had a lot of time for golf.
These people cost a lot of money, with their big tax payer funded cars available for private use and personal drivers on call. They do not have enough to do. Back in 2008, Greater Manchester’s Police Chief had so many work place sex partners that he committed suicide rather than face the consequences. He was married with children.
A retired police officer told me, while I was researching a book, that many women have a fetish for men in policeman’s uniform. He said that he had multiple opportunities when called out to lone women’s homes.
R J Cook
Mohamed Al Fayed accused of multiple rapes by staff
By Cassie Cornish-Trestrail, Keaton Stone, Erica Gornall & Sarah Bell
BBC News
Five women say they were raped by former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed when they worked at the luxury London department store.
The BBC has heard testimony from more than 20 female ex-employees who say the billionaire, who died last year aged 94, sexually assaulted them – including rape.
The documentary and podcast – Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods – gathered evidence that, during Fayed’s ownership, Harrods not only failed to intervene, but helped cover up abuse allegations.
Harrods’ current owners said they were “utterly appalled” by the allegations and that his victims had been failed – for which the store sincerely apologised.
“The spider’s web of corruption and abuse in this company was unbelievable and very dark,” says barrister Bruce Drummond, from a legal team representing a number of the women.
Warning: this story contains details some may find distressing.
The incidents took place in London, Paris, St Tropez and Abu Dhabi.
“I made it obvious that I didn’t want that to happen. I did not give consent. I just wanted it to be over,” says one of the women, who says Fayed raped her at his Park Lane apartment.
Another woman says she was a teenager when he raped her at the Mayfair address.
“Mohamed Al Fayed was a monster, a sexual predator with no moral compass whatsoever,” she says, adding that all the staff at Harrods were his “playthings”.
“We were all so scared. He actively cultivated fear. If he said ‘jump’ employees would ask ‘how high’.”
Fayed faced sexual assault claims while he was alive, but these allegations are of unprecedented scale and seriousness. The BBC believes many more women may have been assaulted.
‘Fayed was vile’
Fayed’s entrepreneurial career began on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, where he hawked fizzy drinks to passers-by. But it was his marriage to the sister of a millionaire Saudi arms dealer that helped him forge new connections and build a business empire.
He moved to the UK in 1974 and was already a well-known public figure when he took over Harrods in 1985. In the 1990s and 2000s, he would regularly appear as a guest on prime-time TV chat and entertainment shows.
Meanwhile, Fayed – whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 – has become known to a new generation through the two most recent Netflix series of The Crown.
Rachel, not her real name, worked as a personal assistant in Harrods in the 1990s.
One night after work, she says she was called to his luxury apartment, in a large block on Park Lane overlooking London’s Hyde Park. The building was protected by security staff and had an on-site office staffed by Harrods employees.
Rachel says Fayed asked her to sit on his bed and then put his hand on her leg, making it clear what he wanted.
“I remember feeling his body on me, the weight of him. Just hearing him make these noises. And… just going somewhere else in my head.
“He raped me.”
The BBC has spoken to 13 women who say Fayed sexually assaulted them at 60 Park Lane. Four of them, including Rachel, say they were raped.
Sophia, who says she was sexually assaulted, described the whole situation as an inescapable nightmare.
“I couldn’t leave. I didn’t have a [family] home to go back to, I had to pay rent,” she says. “I knew I had to go through this and I didn’t want to. It was horrible and my head was scrambled.”
Gemma, who worked as one of Fayed’s personal assistants between 2007-09, says his behaviour became more frightening during work trips abroad.
She says it culminated in her being raped at Villa Windsor in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne – a former home, post-abdication, of King Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson.
Gemma says she woke up startled in her bedroom. Fayed was next to her bed wearing just a silk dressing gown. He then tried to get into bed with her.
“I told him, ‘no, I don’t want you to’. And he proceeded to just keep trying to get in the bed, at which point he was kind of on top of me and [I] really couldn’t move anywhere.
“I was kind of face down on the bed and he just pressed himself on me.”
Student-nurse recruitment as bad as ever, RCN says
Kristian Johnson
BBC News
- Published7 hours ago
There are 21% fewer nursing students starting courses at universities across the UK than three years ago.
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures show 23,800 students have been accepted on to nursing courses for this academic year – 340 fewer than last year and 6,350 fewer than in 2021.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called the situation “critical” and “as bad as it’s ever been”.
Across all subjects, there has been a 0.9% rise in the number of students going to university this year compared with 2023 – the first increase in four years.
But nursing courses have seen a 1.4% drop over the past 12 months.
The 21% UK drop breaks down by nation:
- 22% in Wales
- 21.6% in England
- 19.8% in Scotland
- 10.3% in Northern Ireland
There was a surge in nursing students in 2020 and 2021 but the figures have now fallen to pre-pandemic levels.
“The pandemic had an impact,” RCN England executive director Patricia Marquis said, “positively in the first stages and now negatively as we move away from the pandemic.”
And the figures would “really impact the whole of society” for years to come.
September 18th 2024
Meanwhile the cameras are watching us lesser beings –
By R J Cook
Lord Alli
I am writing this to express my disgust at sanctimious Starmer’s bare faced pseudo socialist greedy acceptance of benefits in kind from a Labour Peer, undeclared until a Civil Service Chief Simon Case blew the whistle on the Prime Minsiter’s gift cover up. Apparently, accordong to the BBC, high pay and benefits are necessary to attract talented high flyers like Starmer. Their country needs them.
The world has changed massively since my time working for what was called HM Inspector of Taxes back in the 1970s. As far as I know , in the UK, there are no specific tax implications for giving money to your Member of Parliament (MP). Donations to MPs are not subject to tax as long as they are considered gifts and not payments for goods or services..
Gifts that are not cash and don’t have a money’s worth value (EIM00530), are not earnings taxable under section 62. But they may be taxable under the benefits code (EIM20006), as may cash gifts and gifts that have money’s worth value, not taxable as earnings (EIM21006). EIM01460 – Employment income: gifts not taxable as earnings. Whatever, Starmer and his ilk won’t be paying taxes on their expensive freebies or anything much else because they’ll have top accountants like the one I used to work for in Central London.
Starmer’s personal wealth exceeds £3 million and he has received gift benefits exceeding £100,000. Sir Keir failed to declare these benefits received directly from Lord All who has donated massively to Labour for the last 20 years. The immediate scandal relates to over £5000 worth of clothing mainly for Starmer’s wife from Lord Alli. This Labour placeman has given more than £500,000 to Labour over the last 20 years and earned himself a pass to Number 10 Downing Street. So there is clear evidence of reciprocity ongoing. There is no doubt that his role in charge of Labour fundraising has earned him significant influence over the U. K’s celebrated democracy. Apparently he has recentlygiven his No10 pass back so its all O.K now until he needs another one. Those large gifts were not an act of charity, helping out the poor folk at Number 10, so as to make this near bankrupt country look good in public. It is an absurd situation.
The Prime Minister even got new free designer spectacles out of the deal, but still can’t see anything wrong with what he has done. Although he likes to boast of his time running the CPS, during his rule, it routinely withheld evidence that would have helped defendants prove their innocence. God knows how many miscarriages of justice happened on Starmer’s watch, such as Andrew Malkinson who fought for 17 years for an appeal against a life sentence for a rape he could not have committed. You won’t hear Sir Keir wanting to reform the CPS, or police.
So Sir Keir Starmer has nothing to boast about regarding his past public service or the knighthood awarded to him as a matter of routine. Yet he is what the BBC like to call ‘talent.’ That word used to apply only to the performing arts. But all changed with the global economy and televising Parliament and all its committees. How on earth such an esteemed lawyer, like Starmer, can use the excuse of being ignorant of the rules is beyond belief. As he knows, ignorance is no defence in law. Starmer, like so many of our corrupt police officers, thinks he makes the laws so he is above them. Where they don’t suit, he will have his government change them. When asked about his religion, he replied :”I am an atheist, but have always believed in religion because it brings people together.” That was the well-established ruling class trick during the first industrial revolution, with all the promises of getting rewarded in heaven for a life of misery,poverty, exploitation, disease and early death on earth. Hence the soporific mantra of ‘multi culture’ to bind us in our eartthly toil and torment under politicians like him.
These people like, Starmer, talk down to the hard pressed masses who are paying for well above inflation public sector pay rises, suffering an appalling NHS, and funding mass illegal immigrants who would stop at Calais if they were genuine asylum seekers. Migrant demands on the public purse, including above average individual use of the NHS, is funded overwhelmingly by the lower paid who are also taking the brunt of funding war in Ukraine. The U. K’s indigenous masses must suffer ever higher taxes alcohol and tobacco, with further official guidance in avoiding food likely to make you overweight and ill. This isn’t because our leaders care, they just have more important things to use our taxes on. You must not be a burden on the NHS and make sure you have a funeral plan.
At the first sign of a pandemic, there will be another harsh lockdown. Of course our leaders will be exempt, as we saw with Starmer and Johnson last time, because they have the difficult and dangerous task of keeping us safe. They are the talent, deserving all the very very best. We would be lost without our legislators who have given up fat livings in law, finance and other lucrative parts of the private sector. They have done that for those of us among the lowly masses, not for themselves. Down here, we don’t need help with our ever increasing heating bills or anything else. For us it will be a privilege to die for our country or before we get so old we are a burden on the State. Starmer will give us lowly folk all the change we don’t want. Meanwhile, half way up Mount Olympus with him and all the other consensus Gods, the partying will go on as normal, behind very strong closed doors in very secure buildings.
Meanwhile the cameras are watching us lesser beings who pay most of the taxes and our homes. Under New Labour Laws are homes are definitely not our castles. They are now public spaces open to police entry and search on a whim and the State’s invisible hand is in every aspect of all lives outside the ruling elite and their agencies.
R J Cook
Keir Starmer’s top aide Sue Gray paid more than the PM
Chris Mason
Political editor
Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent
- Published18 September 2024, 13:00 BST
Updated 1 hour ago
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff received a pay rise after the election which means she is now paid more than the prime minister.
The BBC has been told that Sue Gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000 – £3,000 more than the PM and more than any cabinet minister – or her Conservative predecessor.
One source told the BBC: “It was suggested that she might want to go for a few thousand pounds less than the prime minister to avoid this very story. She declined.”
A government source close to Ms Gray said this claim was “categorically untrue” and she had “had no involvement in any decision on her pay”.
The decision has ignited a row within government over Ms Gray, whose report while a senior civil servant into parties in Downing Street during the pandemic contributed to the downfall of Boris Johnson.
She then went on to work as a Labour Party adviser.
Her wide-ranging role as the prime minister’s chief of staff includes controlling access to the PM and helping to ensure the government’s policies are put into action.
Her Conservative predecessor Liam, now Lord, Booth Smith, who did the job under Rishi Sunak, was paid at the upper end of the highest pay band for special advisers, between £140,000 and £145,000 a year, external.
The boost in Ms Gray’s pay comes after the prime minister signed off a rebanding of the salaries for special advisers shortly after taking office.
The government says the rebanding was done by officials, not by Ms Gray herself, and her salary is not at the top of the new highest band for special advisers.
News of Ms Gray’s pay rise, briefed to the BBC by a number of Whitehall sources, is the latest in a line of leaks about her which paint a picture of fractious relationships at the very top of government, just months into Labour’s tenure.
“It speaks to the dysfunctional way No10 is being run – no political judgement, an increasingly grand Sue who considers herself to be the deputy prime minister, hence the salary and no other voice for the prime minister to hear as everything gets run through Sue,” one insider told the BBC.
The prime minister earns £166,786.
One angry government insider branded Ms Gray’s pay “the highest ever special adviser salary in the history of special advisers”.
Others in government speak passionately in Ms Gray’s defence and believe there is a misplaced and deeply personal campaign against her which is grossly unfair.
A government source said “any questions should be directed at the process and not an individual”.
Asked about Ms Gray being paid more than the PM, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “We’re very lucky to have Sue.”
Comment The new Labour Government certainly are lucky to have Sue Gray. She certainly did a good job lying for them over Covid Lockdown, ensuring Starmer’s little party didn’t appear on official records. She’ll do him proud and is worth every thousand of hard pressed taxpayer’s money. Her earning much more money than the Prime Minsiter demonstrates that in so called U.K Democracy, spin doctor’s like Gray are more important because that is where the real power over the masses lies,
R J Cook
- Who is Sue Gray, Keir Starmer’s top adviser?
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Starmer’s £100,000 in tickets and gifts more than any other recent party leader
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KEIR Starmer has declared more than £100000 in free tickets and gifts, surpassing other recent major party leaders.
September 17th 2024
Four key takeaways from Huw Edwards’ sentencing
Home and Legal Correspondent
- Published16 September 2024
Former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards has been given a suspended prison term after he admitted making indecent images of children. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard he received more than 40 images over several months from convicted sex offender Alex Williams. Here are four things we learned from the sentencing hearing.
Online exchanges lasted about four years
When Huw Edwards pleaded guilty in July, we knew that he had communicated with Alex Williams, the man who supplied the indecent images, from at the very least December 2020.
That’s when Williams, convicted earlier this year, sent Edwards the first images that count as “indecent”, the archaic legalese for depictions of abuse.
The online relationship in fact began two years before that and it was of a sexual nature. According to the evidence, it coincided with a period when Edwards was struggling with both his mental health and sexual identity.
Williams said he had contacted Edwards because he was hoping to get a response.
He did – and the online relationship lasted four years on and off – and Edwards began receiving legal pornographic images and a smaller number of illegal abuse images.
Prosecutor Ian Hope told the sentencing hearing they met once in person, and there was an evidence of a solitary video-call too.
The only evidence of this relationship comes from Williams’s phone as the handset used by Edwards at the time was not found.
Payments – but not for images
The bulk of the 377 images were legal pornography featuring young adult men. But 41 of them depicted children.
Edwards would have been aware of what he was being sent, because he discussed it with Williams.
“In December 2020 Alex Williams said that he had ‘a file of vids and pics for you of someone special’,” prosecutor Ian Hope told the court.
“Mr Edwards immediately queried who the subject was and was then sent three images of seemingly the same person.”
That person was aged between 14 and 16 and the images were “Category C” in the table of severity of abuse, the lowest of the three tiers.
Williams then asked Edwards whether he wanted the “full file”.
Edwards responded: “Yes xxx…”
Williams then sent further and more severe images of abuse and a final video file of a Category A incident involving abuse of a boy aged between 13 and 15. Edwards and Williams wished each other a Happy Christmas.
When Williams said he had “hot” files that were big to send, Edwards recommended Dropbox. In time, the former newsreader referred to some of the material as “amazing” but it is not clear whether that meant the legal or illegal images.
We heard in court that Edwards had paid Williams. But this was not taken by the sentencing chief magistrate to mean that he had been paid for the indecent images. It was more a case of “thank you” for whatever was going on between them – in effect gifts.
For instance, Williams asked for “a Christmas gift after all the hot videos”.
Edwards sent him £200 for some Nike Air Force 1 trainers.
And in total, Williams received between £1,000 and £1,500, which helped pay his way at university.
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This on and off exchange continued through to 2021. Edwards ultimately received seven files of the worst type of abuse.
There’s no evidence as to what Edwards thought about those files – but a crucial part of the case shows that he did respond to questions Williams asked him about the subject matter. That shows that it was Williams who was leading the conversation about the nature of the images, rather than Edwards.
“Is the stuff I’m sending too young for you?” asked Williams on 19 February 2021. Three days later Edwards replies: “Don’t send underage.”
But when in August Williams offered Edwards more files, and said they involve people who were “yng”, the former newsreader said: “Go on.” This was the second of two videos featuring a child aged between seven and nine.
Prosecutor Ian Hope said: “Alex Williams says the subject is ‘quite yng looking’ to which Mr Edwards responds it ‘can be deceptive’ and asks if he has ‘any more?’ Alex Williams says he has but he is not sure if Mr Edwards would like them as they are illegal. Mr Edwards says ‘Ah ok don’t’.”
Mental health battles
The evidence in the case shows that Edwards had been struggling with mental ill health for many years and had fragile self-esteem. The court heard he had what appears to have been unresolved feelings about his sexuality dating back to 1994.
Confusion about sexuality is not the same as an interest in images of child abuse – far from it. So what led to him receiving the images from Williams, even if he later regretted it?
A forensic psychotherapist wrote in a report for the court that the people Edwards was meeting via social media helped boost his low mood – but then created a “perfect storm” leading to the offending.
That decision making, the court heard, was linked to Edwards’ mental ill health and the wider picture of his complex character.
One expert who analysed Edwards said he grew up in a puritanical but hypocritical environment with a father described in court as “monstrous”. Edwards entered adulthood feeling inferior – and that was compounded, the expert concluded, by working in an organisation that he had perceived as being full of Oxford graduates (Note to readers: it isn’t).
In time he developed clinical depression leading to therapy at times – but his situation worsened from 2018 – and then more so during the first awful year of the pandemic, which coincides with the majority of the offending. The conclusion of the experts was that Edwards was sufficiently unwell that it affected his decision-making – a situation exacerbated by alcohol, a heart problem and a breakdown of relationships within his own family.
All of this could sound to some like a sob story – but the court accepted that there was evidence that Edwards’ mental health had improved – and therefore his understanding of his crimes – thanks to help. And that sign of improvement was a key factor in what the chief magistrate decided to do.
Sentencing can be a very finely balanced act
The burning question for many tonight is why was Huw Edwards not sent to prison? The simple answer is … there is no simple and uniform solution for dealing with offenders.
The offence he committed could in theory lead to 10 years in jail.
But, in practice, detailed sentencing guidelines, developed over years of comparing varying cases, save that severe punishment for the worst of the worst people who are producing the images that Williams scooped up and went on to share.
Edwards, by receiving them, was at the bottom of that chain of abuse.
So his sentence was always going to be well short of that maximum 10 years – and, likely to be shorter than the 12 months suspended sentence given to Alex Williams in March.
The guidelines say that for someone in Edwards’ position, the starting point is a year in jail with a range of between six months and three years.
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring began his sentencing calculation with a year. He knocked three months off to take into account the mental health evidence and the fact that this was a first offence. This is absolutely standard procedure.
He then discounted the sentence by a third, bringing it down to six months, to credit the earliest possible guilty plea.
Again, this discount for an admission is a standard feature of sentencing law. It is an offer to focus an offender’s mind on pleading guilty early and accepting their crimes.
It saves a huge amount of public money by not tying up the criminal justice system with a jury trial. And it means, if the offender is willing, they can get on with the long and hard process of rehabilitation as soon as possible.
The next question was whether Edwards needed to be jailed to protect the public. The chief magistrate concluded not, because he accepted evidence that the offender before him had already understood the gravity of what he had done – and was responding to therapy.
And so he moved down a notch from immediate jail to a suspended six month sentence. That means that if Edwards were to commit another offence in the next two years, he would be likely to go to jail immediately. But if he stays on the road to reform, he won’t.
The prosecution had argued that Edwards needed to be subject to restrictions on his liberties through a Sexual Harm Prevention Order. That would have allowed agencies to monitor or curtail his communications and movements – including knowing his entire internet history on every device he uses.
The court heard that probation experts had used a “predictor tool” to estimate the likelihood of Edwards reoffending. It had found his risk of indirect internet-based offending – meaning viewing more images – to be medium.
But his lawyers argued that risk was diminishing because he was on the mend and had shown genuine remorse.
The chief magistrate said that it was not necessary to subject Edwards to the additional SHPO conditions, given the progress towards rehabilitation already underway.
Edwards must complete a 40-day Sex Offender Treatment Programme and 25 rehabilitation sessions aimed at helping him to fix his mental health and use of alcohol.
Even if all that is successful, there is a sting in the sentencing tail.
For the next seven years Edwards will be on the sex offender register – meaning he has to keep the police informed of his whereabouts. It will be difficult for him to travel abroad on holiday and some countries may never let him in at all.
He’s free from prison – but he is not free in the true sense of the word. His life choices will be watched on and off for years to come.
September 16th 2024
Starmer reported to Parliament’s standards watchdog over …The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk › UK › UK Politics
3 hours ago — PM accused of breaking the rules over Lord Alli, who has donated more than £500000 to Labour, and clothes he gave to Lady Victoria Starmer …
Did Huw Edwards’ celebrity status keep him out of jail? …Daily Mailhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-13856503
3 hours ago — EXCLUSIVE: Huw Edwards ‘ mental health may have been a key factor that kept him out of prison, lawyers told MailOnline today.
Why Keir Starmer may avoid investigation even if wife’s …inews.co.ukhttps://inews.co.uk › News
1 day ago — Sir Keir Starmer allegedly breached parliamentary rules by failing to declare clothing donations for his wife Victoria. The cost of a personal …
Huw Edwards: What was his defence after disgraced …Sky Newshttps://news.sky.com › story › huw-edwards-what-was-…
The former BBC presenter was given a suspended sente
Fury at the BBC as Huw Edwards avoids jail: Ex …Daily Mailhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-13856077
The ex-newsreader was spared jail after admitting three charges of ‘making’ indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by ..
September 15th 2024
Turd World Britain
Girl, 8, died of sepsis after being sent home by GP who said …
An eight-year-old girl died of sepsis after being sent home by a GP who said the local hospital was full. Mia Glynn visited a GP surgery twice in four hours, but her parents Soron, 39, and Katie, 37, were told by the doctor to take her home despite presenting symptoms of Group A Strep. The GP Doctor told the mother that the hospital was full. That is Third World Britain where the elite is more interested in profiteering war mongers and politically correct rhetoric than ordinary people who were too stupid to vote U.K Reform – R J Cook
September 14th 2024
Migration Deception
Comment: The official cost of U.K illegal economic migrants is £4 billion per annum. The expected saving on winter fuel payments for the elderly is £1.4 billion. There has been no impact study but over 750,000 pensionsers are losing their entitlement, with much higher hospital admissions and deaths expected.
R.J Cook
Will they ever stop coming ?
| The great migration data blackout How many prisoners in our jails made their way to the UK illegally? Are people from certain countries more likely to end up behind bars than others? How much do migrants really cost the state and how much do they actually contribute? You’d think we might have the answers to these basic questions. After all, they’re crucial for understanding the impact of immigration. But guess what? We don’t have them, because the Government refuses to publish the data. As other European countries become more transparent on migration data, here in the UK, we’re moving in the opposite direction. It’s getting harder and harder to get the facts. The Department for Work and Pensions has quietly stopped releasing figures on how many migrants are claiming welfare. HMRC? They’ve cut off data showing how much tax migrants pay and how much they take back in tax credits. In fairness to the new government, the trend towards secrecy and obfuscation began in the twilight period of the previous government. But far from putting right a disservice to the public, Sir Keir Starmer’s government has doubled down on disguising or hiding the facts from us. Take the cost of dealing with the illegal dinghy arrivals and the backlog of asylum applications; they are now granting asylum or allowing applicants to stay at pace and palming them off on local authorities. In doing this, they bury the costs within the overall welfare budget. How deceitful and sneaky is that? Soon, Ms Cooper will be boasting that she’s slashed asylum spending (currently an eye-watering £4 billion a year). |
| The real costs are rising Letting in, or allowing to stay, everyone coming illegally, without proper scrutiny just encourages more illegal immigration. The easier it is to enter and stay in the UK, the more people will try to come. Indeed, asylum grant rates have skyrocketed—from less than a third in 2004 to a staggering 80% today. Those who don’t get granted asylum or leave to remain, as often as not, disappear into the black economy or get sucked into criminality. Meanwhile, the proportion of failed asylum seekers removed from the UK has plummeted. Ten years ago, a quarter of them were removed. Now? Just 5%. 1 in 20! Any wonder that illegal Channel-crossers are approaching 25,000 so far this year when you know that once you make it to the UK, you can pretty much stay here for good. Since Labour took office, roughly 8,400 people have crossed the Channel illegally. That’s about 137 every day. We need to have an honest conversation about the consequences. To do that, the government must make the relevant data available and stop hiding information from us, this simply breeds mistrust and anger in the people who ultimately pay for it all. |
| The shocking cost of low-paid migrants: £150,000 hit to taxpayers As we at Migration Watch have long argued, overall net migration has been a net fiscal cost running into billions of pounds. Research, including our own, has consistently shown this. This week, we learned from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), that low-paid (earning half the average annual UK wage of £35,000) migrant workers are a drain on the public purse from the moment they arrive, with each one costing taxpayers more than £150,000 by the time they reach state pension age. Those living to 80 will cost a whopping £500,000. And those making it to a hundred, will cost the exchequer over £1 million. Professor David Miles of the OBR added that the wages migrants earn had a huge impact on Britain’s future debt. If every migrant worker earned 50% less than the UK average, the national debt could balloon to 350% of GDP by 2074. But if we focused on high-earning migrants, debt would rise to just 225% of GDP. This latest OBR report is a clear signal to the Government that cutting immigration and reducing net migration to below 100,000 per annum is an urgent imperative. We could begin by doing away with low-skill work visas. As we at MW have frequently argued over many years, low-skill, low-pay immigration is costly. Net migration numbers were high throughout the New Labour years, and exploded under the Conservatives, hitting a record 764,000 in 2022. 2023 saw this fall to 685,000. The trajectory may be downwards but it’s at snail pace. It remains at over six times where it needs to be If our population is not going to continue growing exponentially. Sir Keir Starmer, like his immediate predecessor, has voiced concern (we hope he means it). Before the election and during the campaign, he was saying that employers were “too reliant” on cheap overseas labour. Despite this, Sir Keir and his Home Secretary have done very little to address runaway legal migration, and have regressed with tackling illegal immigration. If the Government doesn’t get a grip of illegal and legal immigration, including those coming for low-paid work, the financial hit will be catastrophic. Moreover, with net migration of even half the current rate, the population increase of some 9 million people by mid/late 2040s will have devastating economic and social consequences. |
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| Sam Ashworth-Hayes, Substack – Our immigration system is making our country a worse place to live in “[T]here’s a long literature on the corrosive effect of diversity on social capital. But it also requires management. In the UK, this seems to mean effectively erecting a two tier legal system with significant restrictions on freedom of speech in order to get things to work. There is a strain of Libertarian thought which broadly welcomes these effects as a correction mechanism for the potential fiscal costs of migration. The theory, such as it is, is that the more diverse a country becomes, the more fragmented it is, and therefore the less likely people are to support welfare payments and taxes. For everyone else, however, it seems fairly likely that these cultural effects are negative. One estimate of the effect of immigration on local (not national) house prices is that an inflow of immigrants equal to about 1% of the local population causes roughly 0.8% of the local population to leave, with house prices dropping 1.6%. People talk a good game about loving their fellow man, but that doesn’t mean they want to live next door to them.” |
September 13th 2024
The Cause – by R J Cook
The progress of U.K change under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer ( ‘the harmer’), former head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which made a habit of withholding crucial evidence for the defence. This was because getting men jailed for offences against women were not supposed to be impeded by the small matter of evidence proving their innocence. There was the important business of meeting Blairite government guilty verdict targets and pleasing radical feminists. So the CPS have an established routine of convicting the innocent.
Therefore I see no reason to suppose that Starmer will be any more honest when leading the government. So his government has refused to release the impact study of his legislation to withdraw the winter fuel payment for pensioners. He needs as much money as he can get, for : economic migrants, the Ukraine NATO proxy war on Russia and for public sector inflation busting pay awards, including for General Practice doctors who rarely meet patients face to face and there is a daily 8.30 to 9.00 morning scramble for phone appointments. One receptionist at my local GP practice said she had handled 549 phone calls last Monday morning. It is no longer possible to book appointments for check ups in advance. The average general practice doctor in the U.K has 3,400 patients on his or her list.
A recent review of the U.K National Health Service was published today. It is quite bad, but ‘ Starmer the Harmer said that there will be no real progress for at least 8-10 years. The massive burden of a fast expanding illegal Global South population, some with families and others waiting to join them, have prior claim to housing and health care. This is at the same time, doctors and nurses annually demand more money. Starmer the Harmer said today that there will be no more money for the time foreseeable future. But he offers hope with new intrusive plans to monitor what people eat, much higher tax tobacco, along with pricing alcohol out of reach of the wirking class masses and an army of state officials, including school teachers, sicial workers etc, monitoring life styles. That way, the natives will leave NHS hospitals free for their more important priorities.
The fact that smokers and serious boozers pay more than their fair of taxes in rip off Britain is supposed to escape our attention. Never mind, without being able to afford booze and something to smoke, the masses might do the decent thing, go even madder and kill themselves while the old folk without winter fuel allowance freeze to death by the thousand. That way private landlord and local councils will have more empty homes for fast growing economic migrant families, as well as more space to use the NHS.
Today a Dr Barnados in Child Poverty in South Wales revealed truly terrible stories. This is in a region that saw its coal mines decimated by the evil profit grabbing Oil refining was another lost cause. Thatcher and her government, along with privatising Port Talbot Steel Works which is now set to sack thousands of workers. Incredibly thousands of Welsh voters learned nothing, ignoring U.K Reform to vote in the Thatcherite New Labour ‘Harmer Government’ and worse to come – as ‘The Harmer’ actually admitted.
Over a third of children (34%) in Wales are living in poverty1 – the highest proportion of any UK nation.2 The Wales Audit Office have recently published an 11 page report.
The deepening impact of poverty and the cost-of-living …
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But readers must remember, ‘The Harmer’ has to help sort out the global elite ruling class war on Russia first. The Western Elite, who pretend to be freedom loving democratic icons of the ‘free world’ and worshipped accordingly, because they are the wealth creators. Interestingly, when one of these icons, the hi tech whizz kid billionaire Mike Lynch was pursued in court by Hewlett Packard for fraud, along with billionaire Morgan Stanley, the press and Tory MPs treated Lynch as a victim. So when Lynch and his billionaire business partner mysteriously died within days of each other, Tory MP Sir David Davies and U.K media could not stop singing his praises. That is a rather different story to the Anglo U.S fake liberal revelries when Donald Trump faced trumped up charges of fraud when the Democrats weaponised his hush money payments to hooker ‘Stormy Daniels who should be sued for breach of her non disclosure agreement. Does anyone remember Bill Clinton – a friend of Epstein – and his sexual antics on office?
Like the U.S and EU, the U.K is run by the rich for the rich and their class traitor lackeys. So the South Wales Study revealed children sleeping in outgrown cots, sleeping on the floor, where sadly, their kids were stoic in acceptance of their fate. The report concluded that poverty is worsening and that there is a housing crisis in London. London has housing space – vacant rich peoples vast properties available now.
So this is where scapegoats and distractions are so important. As Trump told lefty liberal Bob Woodward, power is an outcome of peoples fear. Every gangster and public sector jobsworth knows that. So it was all planned years ago when NATO judged the time right to take over Ukraine, after the fall of the USSR in 1991, then on to dismember Russia before war on China. It is about freedom, but not for the masses.
So it has been very easy to persuade the undernourished, overcrowded, hopeless and unemployed that the Harmer is bringing change. He is, but the masses are just beasts in the field, so the ‘Harmer’ is also ‘The Farmer.’ who doesn’t care how many of his herd are slaughtered for the rich elite’s causes.
R J Cook
When challenged in Parliament over the Malkinson case, ‘The Harmer’ replied that “Now is not the time to talk about it.” I recall interviewing a victim of Milton Keynes CID malpractice and malicious prosecution on the Harmer’s watch. He was given a life sentence for a murder that he could not have committed. He told me that the Thames Valley Police lead CID Officer had told him that he didn’t care whether or not he did it because he wanted him off the street because he was determined to get him for something. British injustice at its finest – corrupt vile police state Uk.
The case had featured on ‘BBC Rough Justice’ programme. Again it was on ‘The Harmer’s ‘ watch. I was Political Editor of ‘Milton Keynes Zero Now’ at the time and was given the programme DVD.
The CPS are no better since ‘The Harmer’ left, along with his knighthood to enter parliament. Former fellow barrister and Prime Minister Tony Blair is now advising him on how to deploy and develop Starmerism. It is going to be very nasty and authoritarian. Vladimir Putin should watch and learn how its done in the Western, so called democracies, without the victims ever knowing.
Life With Hard Labour – by R J Cook
Starmer the Harmer, former Chief Prosecutor for the Corrupt CPS, where crucial defence documents were withheld to get convictions regardless of guilt. Now this man, knighted for a service which jailed innocent Andrew Malkinson for 17 years before he gained appeal and proved his innocence, among so many others, is in charge of the nation and admired by all liberal consensus western style nations. Starmer’s excuse for his institutionally corrupt CPS, was that he didn’t know what was going on when this happened on his watch. I wonder !
I think the Harmer understands exactly what is going on under his watch now and that it is exactly what he, his asscociates, billionaires and other string pullers have asked for. It says it all that he has emptied Britain’s appalling filthy disgusing overcrowded jails to make room for protestors, thought criminals and dissidents.
With his and corrupt police structure open to toadying lying criminal senior officers who promote only their own kind,‘The Harmer’ has offered the British masses a life sentence, asserting that life will get worse and it will take his clique of ‘diverse’ ministers and MPs at least 10 years to put matters right. One wonders what damage his and his class will do beforehand, before offering a few improvements to make life better. That is if he and his class have not sufficiently either backed the nasty retired and serving senior NATO military types into a pre- emptive strike on Russia or provoked Russia into doing it first. It amazes me how many lefty liberals are protesting and virtue signalling about the war in Gaza which HAMAS brought on themselves because they want to destroy Israel.
It also amazes me how seemingly oblivious of the NATO Ukraine proxy war on Russia, of which Gaza is an offshoot, the western masses are. Few outside NATO military intelligence realise that not only Europe that is about to explode into a nuclear holocaust. Push Russia any harder and Iran et al will make sure the Global South, obviously excluding pleasure bent religious hypocrits in Saudi Arabia, joins in the ensuing mayhem. Saudi Arabia with its elites are a British creation that ultimately can do no wrong for corrupt western leaders because they are basically the same thing. They are a key part of the Anglo American establishment. Iran is the wild card, which has been threatened with more reprisals, like China, for helping Russia.
Back home in Britain and its dreadful National Health Service, for which a worked as a night shift emergency driver in Oxfordshire, a few years ago, the following on line comments are very enlightening.
This is infinitely more dangerous than Cuban Missile Crisis. This one is really happening. The only thing stopping the Russians going over the top is the Putin regime’s faith in someone in the U.S Military using some restraint. The much adored ‘woman of colour’ revealed herself during her TV debate as preoccupied feminist, a simplistic moralising virtue signalling self righteous moralising threat to peace and human survival as an advanced specie. Like another famous fatous female leader, Margaret Thatcher who showed women how it is done, Kamala Harris was handpicked by dark forces, so superficial that she will be easily flattered and manipulated by the U.S Deep State’s war profiteers, industrial and military madmen. She is certain to win the U.S Presidency whatever the vote. She has no need to worry, but those of us who can see the wood for the trees.
R J Cook
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Labour has saddled the NHS with huge PFI contracts currently totalling £217bn thanks to Gordon Brown. These PFI contracts – capital value of £57bn, plus £160bn for their use and maintenance. This is why the NHS is on its knees. Starmer needs to be honest and tell us how these controversial contracts will be settled as they fall due, and the assets brought back to the public.
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Blundering minister hints Labour no longer committed to …Express.co.ukhttps://www.express.co.uk › News › Politics
2 days ago — Blundering minister hints Labour no longer committed to free bus passes for pensioners.
On and off the buses – By R J Cook
Arriva Aylesbury Depot was down to 19 operational vehicles and 3 routes operational vehicles when R J Cook took this picture two days before the August 28th 2024 closure. Arriva had been running the depot down for some years before I Span Capital made the swift decision when they took over in June 2023.
Comment I have already predicted on this site that Labour will abolish free bus passes. They have now basically admitted this is going to happen. I have authored one book on Britain’s buses and co authored two more, as well as writing for national bus magazines. I understand the industry very well. It has been on life support from pensioner passes ever since Thatcher decimated the National Bus Company for Thatcher’s Tory assest strippers, enriching the likes of the Souter brother sister siblings and Cowie’s Arrva. The latter was sold at profit to Deutsche Bahn (DB), Germany’s national railway company.
In June 3, 2024: the Arriva Group (“Arriva”), a leading provider of passenger transport across Europe, announced that it is pleased to reveal the completion of its acquisition by I Squared Capital (“I Squared”). They are described as a leading independent global infrastructure investment manager.
Also reliant on school bus passes, Arriva’s new owners have still been struggling, so closed their Aylesbury depot on June 28th this year and High Wycombe a month later. The decline in service quality has been noticeable with other operators unable to take up the slack at the same high standard.
Scrapping elderly bus passes or making them subject to ever greater scrutiny is also for the purposes of funding the billions required for a never ending stream of Global South economic migrants claiming political asylum as a prelude to their familes joining them. Britain’s Labour Party gets 80% of these peoples votes. They are milking old people by building up data on the vulnerable, on the look out for more assets and money to tax. This is also, ultimately barrel scraping for more money to finance the NATO proxy war on Russia which is all about benefiting the rich and super rich. Such people must not face higher taxes even if their wealth could be tracked down to their tax havens. When I last checked, the price of a Storm Shaddow Missile was £2.2 million. Now we know why ‘Starmer the Harmer’ and winter fuel claimant Chancellor Rachael Reeves are in such haste to abolish winter fuel allowances and raising taxes etc.
The cost of the war and immigration has been horrendous. So much higher taxes are expected on alcohol and tobacco as well as fast food. According to a Labour think tank and ministers, this is necessary to protect the National Health Service. Starmer’s regime has agreed to an immediate grant of £600 million to aid what the Anglo Americans call Ukraine’s ultimate victory. David Lammy, UK Secretary of State says this is necessary because of Iran’s support for Russia. Blinken and Lammy were in Kiev today. The U.K war economy is moving up the gears. There will be more sanctions on Russia and several more steps to total war. U.K masses are going to feel just how hard it will get with the October U.K Budget. That won’t be the end of it. The government is also discussing rationing by high taxes.
Now the posh boys and girls in the Treasury have another barrel scraping scheme to stop pensioners swapping their bus passes for a car. They have advised the Starmer Labour Government to introduce a pay per mile scheme. Anything goes when you want us old folk freezing to death in our homes or on the streets when we fail to pay the astronomical taxes for the policies of the global elite. Labour are a super Thatcherite Govenment who won a landslide victory with 55% of the 34% who bothered to vote in our corrupt politcal system that is anything but democratic.
This is down to the nature of the global investor’s world economy. Western governments, whose members more often invest and profit from this system, quickly sell off shares and assets if they fear losing even a fraction of their ever growing wealth. These pamapered powerful parasites are the driving reality of the fake western style democracies. That is why they control mainstream media and want a clampdown on anything resembling a free speech platform like Musk’s ‘X’.
Only 3% of the world population own 62% of global wealth. They control even more. They have to be humoured and above the law. My first lessons in this corrupt system were learned while working for HM Inspector of Taxes in Portsmouth. Britain’s PM Starmer is former head of U.K’s Crown Prosecution Service which was and still is so corrupt that it has no problem sending innocent people to jail. The innocent of the U.K have need to fear. The jails are so full of protestors and dissidents that the jails needed emptying to make room for them.
R J Cook
Rachel Reeves claimed £4400 to cover energy bills before …Daily Expresshttps://www.express.co.uk › News › Politics
20 hours ago — Rachel Reeves claimed £4,400 in energy bills expenses before cutting Winter Fuel Payments. The Chancellor is under fire over claims of …
Labour MPs expensed over £400,000 for energy bills before axing winter fuel payments
MPs are able to pay for some energy bills using taxpayer money under the current expenses rules
Labour MPs claimed more than £400,000 of taxpayers’ money to heat their own homes over the last five years, as the party voted to cut Winter Fuel Payments for millions of pensioners this month.
Official figures reveal how much members who claim expenses for their London accommodation have been awarded over time, with some taking thousands.
Rachel Reeves, who announced the controversial cut to Winter Fuel Payments in July, has claimed £4,400 since she was elected an MP in 2010. In the last five years alone, the figure was £3,700, analysis from The Telegraph shows.
As MP for Leeds West and Pudsey, Ms Reeves is expected to hold a residence in both her constituency and London, so that she is able to attend to parliamentary business. All expenses for this second accommodation are paid for with taxpayer money, as is the case with all members who do the same.
Taken from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), the figures reveal that 162 Labour MPs have claimed £425,000 in expenses for energy bills in accommodation.
Fact Check: UK’s Reeves does not have a 3400-pound …Reutershttps://www.reuters.com › fact-check › uks-reeves-does…
6 Aug 2024 — Britain’s new finance minister Rachel Reeves does not have a 3,400-pound ($4,357) heating allowance, contrary to widely shared suggestions …
MPs claimed £1m in six years to heat their second homesopenDemocracyhttps://www.opendemocracy.net › parliament-mps-clai…
24 Feb 2023 — MPs have claimed more than £1m on expenses to pay energy bills in their second homes over the last six years, openDemocracy can reveal.
MPs charge YOU for their £3500 energy bills at …Daily Mailhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-10404277
14 Jan 2022 — Revealed: MPs charge YOU for their £3,500 energy bills at their second homes as millions prepare for their fuel bills to double this year.
Taxpayers foot £300k energy bill for MPs’ second homesThe Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk › UK › UK Politics
4 Dec 2023 — MPs have charged taxpayers almost £300,000 for energy bills and other utilities at their second homes over the past year, a new analysis by …
Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › politics › live › sep › la…
1 day ago — Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories.
Data released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows the suicide rate in women and girls under the age of 24 between 2020 and 2021 saw the steepest rise since records started in 1981 – rising from 2.5 to 3.6 deaths per 100,000 women.5 Jun 2023
Suicide rate in England and Wales from 2000 to 2022, by gender (per 100,000 population)
Our study highlights that existing mental health inequalities were getting worse even before 2020. This is a particularly concerning trend as it predates COVID, which is known to have exacerbated mental health problems. Girls and those from poorer families experienced steeper increases in emotional problems.19 Jan 2024
| Characteristic | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.4 | 5.4 |
| 2021 | 16.2 | 5.4 |
| 2020 | 15.5 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | 5.2 |
Women and mental healthMental Health Foundationhttps://www.mentalhealth.org.uk › a-z-topics › women-…
Around one in five women have a common mental health problem, such as depression and anxiety. While there can be many reasons why these develop, some risk …
‘Steep rise’ in self-harm among teenage girlsBBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › health-41671060
19 Oct 2017 — There has been a steep rise in reports of self-harm among girls aged 13 to 16, according to a study of data from GP practices across the UK.
The gender gap in adolescent mental health: A cross …ScienceDirect.comhttps://www.sciencedirect.com › science › article › pii
by OLK Campbell · 2021 · Cited by 283 — Girls have worse average mental health than boys across 4 measures of mental health. •. There is large heterogeneity in the size of the
September 10th 2024
16:30 – STELLA O’MALLEYWhat drives children to murder? The death of an 80-year-old man has revived a grim debate
What’s behind the rapid rise of school suspensions in England?
School suspensions have been steadily rising since 2015, but in the last few years there has been a particularly sharp increase in the suspension and exclusion rate in England and it is getting worse. Using the most recent data available, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found that up to the Easter holidays 2024 there was a 20% rise in exclusions compared with the same period the previous year.
Government figures released earlier this year revealed there were a record 787,961 suspensions in 2022-23, a 36% increase on 2021-22. And there were 9,376 permanent exclusions in 2022-23,up 44% on the previous year.
The troubling data is part of a wider crisis in “lost learning” that the report identifies. On top of the surge in suspensions, schools are facing a number of parallel issues including internal truancy, where pupils go to school but do not attend lessons, and unauthorised absences. For students, spending this much time outside the classroom can have catastrophic consequences for their attainment, mental health and life outcomes, so schools and the government are scrambling to find solutions.
To understand the underlying causes of this trend, I spoke with one of the authors of the IPPR report, Efua Poku-Amanfo, a research fellow who specialises in education.
A survey commissioned by the BBC found that nearly one in five teachers in England have been hit by a pupil, with one teacher describing managing behaviour in classrooms as a “never-ending battle”. Headteachers have described a culture of “non-compliance” among students, and the former head of Ofsted also commented last year on the rise of disruptive behaviour since the pandemic. There is a growing wave of anecdotal evidence indicating that behaviour seems to be getting worse and many are pointing to the years of socialisation and learning lost during Covid. A Department for Education spokesperson told the Guardian that the increase in suspensions and permanent exclusions reflects the “massive” scale of bad behaviour in schools. In the 2022-23 academic year, 48% of suspensions and 39% of exclusions were attributed to “persistent disruptive behaviour”.
Poku-Amanfo says that while there is truth to this sentiment, the question of worsening behaviour is more complex. “In many ways, lots of children have struggled to focus in school since the pandemic, which has impacted their behaviour, but I also think there needs to be a reframing of how we actually speak about young people and how we understand their behaviour,” she says. “Sometimes poor behaviour can be a term to hide behind, when actually what we’re talking about are unmet needs and if you reframe the understanding of the problem then there is a chance to use a more preventive and empathetic approach to pupils”.
Who is worst affected?
Students who are on free school meals were found to be nearly five times more likely to be permanently excluded and four times more likely to be suspended than their peers. Another study found that children with special educational needs are up to five times more likely to be excluded from school when they do not have specialist support – even with support, they are still more than twice as likely to be excluded. Students struggling with poor mental health are also identified as being at higher risk of suspension, which often further damages children’s mental health.
There is often also a racial dimension to suspensions. The disproportionate exclusion of certain ethnic minority groups from school – such as children with Black Caribbean, Roma or Irish Traveller heritage – has been a persistent problem in the English education system for years. These students are disproportionately being placed in alternative provision away from mainstream schools. “A lot of those young people have expressed that their experience of racism at school has impacted their feelings of safety and belonging, and if school doesn’t feel safe you’re not incentivised to turn up, stay and engage,” Poku-Amanfo says.
The impact of suspension
There is plenty of research and data that shows that suspended or expelled students have much worse outcomes than their peers in the short and long term. Students that have even one suspension are less likely to achieve a standard pass in GCSE English and maths and are twice as likely than their peers to be out of employment, education or training by the age of 24.
“Our analysis has shown that there is a £1.6bn cost to the state over a lifetime for a single cohort [one academic year] of permanently excluded children,” Poku-Amanfo says. “We don’t even know the full scale of the issue because we haven’t been able to necessarily capture every way that every form of lost learning changes people’s outcomes,” she adds. “So for all we know, that cost could be even greater.” The IPPR report found that students who were not in class were more vulnerable to criminal exploitation, for example through county lines drug operations.
The underlying problems
For the last decade, schools have been contending with dwindling resources and a recruitment crisis that has left the sector in a state of decline. Simultaneously, the number of children requiring support for special educational needs and disabilities has increased sharply in recent years, as has the child poverty rate and the number of students dealing with mental health issues.
“Arguably, school exclusions are being used disproportionately,” Poku-Amanfo says. “That’s not to say that they aren’t appropriate in certain circumstances, but we think that the teacher workforce and school leaders should be able to respond to children’s needs in the classroom in a way that doesn’t necessarily escalate the situation and lead to learning loss – but that requires resource and time”.
Nimo Omer
Death At An Early Age – by R J Cook
Comment As a former schoolteacher who started out in brutal South London ending up in animalistic Aylesbury, I endeavoured to teach for 18 years. The only good part was the 3 years I spent just teaching maths and PE. But I was stupid enough to transfer to the Humanities Department because I really wanted to be an entertainer.
The above piece misses all the key issues and reasons kids hate school, but given the rapid fall in my readership following last weeks still mysterious several days of shut down, I cannot currently summon the enthusiasm to hit my ahead against a brick wall at the moment or write anything else on this U.K Police watched site.
In many ways, I know all I need to know. Perhaps Thames Valley Police would like to take time out from updating my criminal record on the Police National Data base and for my National Health Service Record (NHS) and write about my crimes and records on here. I have seen some of their West Mercia Police colleagues stuff about how I was in two places at once over the weekend of October 3rd/4th/5th 2008 published for them by Trinity Mirror in May 2011.
But nothing beats the Thames Valley Police February 2018 fantasy where the then very much ‘Acting’ DC Bellamy arrested me at dawn, backed by 6 colleagues after an apparent 3 month stake out of my remote rural home. They emerged from their dark underworld after months of watching from the bushes and in the abundance of trees from where they had been watching for months. Up to then, on February 5th 2018, I was either sleeping between my HGV shifts or on the long dangerous road, all weathers, for hours
But lucky for Bellamy and his merry men, plus the hard bitten lady detective from Nottingham who told me that in her home city you hadn’t lived if you never had an STD., these dark forces were lucky when they came punching my front door, while shouting “Open up, this is the police” while I was on my fortnightly Monday HGV rest day on February 5th 2018.
According to officer Bellamy, I was working as a gay whore and had sent nasty dirty letters, videos and images of a sexual nature concerning, my ex wife and myself working as a whore to police chiefs , with the message that I thought they should know that I was working as a gay whore, for my eldest son and his gangster criminal associates in a home based brothel.
Curiously the whole thing was made up but has had ongoing devastating consquences for my son and myself. The law protecting the police forbids me from saying more. Also I am not allowed to explain why the police do this interesting but horrible stuff to me and my son. I made a nearly successful suicide attempt because of it on December 19th 2016 during a holiday from work. I was taken unconcious, to Milton Keynes Hospital and unforrunately revived. I woke up on a Gurney, then walked nearly 15 miles home. By the way, if you think that is a fantasy, I was a County atlhlete running 60 miles a week by age 15 and 100 miles a week by the time I was representing the University of East Anglia.
By the way, I usually walk 4 miles a day and found time to walk 8 miles today. I often walk 16 miles to Buckingham town centre and back with a rucksac for the shopping. But nothing beats my trekking in the French Pyrenees and over Brecke La Roche into Spain.
Have to say all that because Thames Valley Police persuaded Dr Ramsay of Whiteleaf mental health hospital to produce a damining report that I am delusional paranoid long term violent alcoholic perverted transvestite more likely to die by misadventure than suicide. Ramsay reported that I would be ‘very upset’ if I saw all the files they had on me. They even told all of this to the London Gender Identity Clinic in 2018 to screw up my gender reassignment surgery because they needed me to be a gay whore, especially after arresting me as a ‘gay whore’ without any evidence of investigation on February 5th 2008. . Who are the sick perverts here? They live in their own dirty world where PC Rapist Murderer Wayne Couzens thrived like a rat in a sewer and was even allowed to carry a gun. I know police officers are reading this true account of their criminal misconduct.
This story would make a lot more sense if the law allowed me to explain my interesting relationship with U.K Police. I live now, simply to expose the truth. Otherwise, my son and I would be better off dead and that could be easily sorted. We won’t miss any of it when we are gone. Maybe death is the ultimate high. I think it may be. Once we are gone, unless one believes in religion as anymore than more oppressive politics, that is the end of it. We won’t miss being here in this vainglorious world. I know that my son and I are rather tired of all this. I am a social scientist by training, with some background in psychology.
Many years ago, I wrote and delivered a seminar paper at the University of East Anglia, attempting to answere the question of how far Emile Durkheim lived up to his Rules of Sociological Method in his study of Suicide. Durkheim, like all social scientists was rather flexible on this issue. He had a hypothesis that it was all an outcome of the perons degree of integration with the social group. He had made allowances for extreme exckusion and had an early concept of anomie. But he had a thesis and worked to prove rather than disprove it. He had a good basis for his theory, but was writing in the nineteenth century when there was an ideal that societies were like organisms where what he called pathogical factors could be remedied.
What we now call western society was in turmoil then and the World Wars with all the consequent rapid technological advances were yet to accelerate way beyond the early stages of industrial revolution. Durkheim’s cute concept of anomine with its ever receding horizons, later refined by R K Merton et al into normlessness was, however a warning sign to the future. Modern societies with all their nonsense of cultural diversity are inherently normless outside of the ruling elite who impose laws, as in the nineteenth century, to protect their interests, controlling a so called consensus system of democracy which is full of intolerable contradictions for the masses surviving in a rainbow colour divided world where white is the new black.
In this new world, where the global rich elite call the tune and impose their will, many of us consider suicide from an increasingly young age, those of us considering suicide see opportunities when we look around and see electric railway lines where all we have to remember is to keep one foot on the ground when we touch the live rail, or look at railway level crossings, stand on the beach, see bleach bottles, bridges, fast flowing rivers, thundering trucks, pill bottles, bleach bottles and thundering trucks, just to get away from this rich man’s, feminist and war mongering hell hole.
We think of suicide until the point when we decide there is no reason not to do it. We know we are not the ones who really killed ourselves. We have no reason to feel guilt and won’t care what you nice good selfish, rich, relgious or other type of sanctimonious hypcrites think because we will be gone. And we are not coming back. We don’t care who has to pay for our funeral because we don’t want one. The refuse dump will do because we have decided that is the way society sees and judges us. That is why so many intelligent sensitive kids hate school and don’t want to be there. I have taught thousands of kids in our crappy school system and know what I am talking about. That is why the U.S has school shooters. But nice people don’t want to know. The brain is like the liver. Feed it too much poison and it will die. One way or another. Years ago, at Goldsmiths College, University of London, I read a book called ‘Death at an Early Age,’ by Simon Kozol. It was an indictment of the Boston School System. Nothing has changed.
R J Cook
September 9th 2024
Out-of-touch government versus the silent majority
| Out-of-touch government versus the silent majority If you want to know what not to believe or how the public does not think about the issue of immigration, just pick up a copy of The Guardian. Another example of what we mean came this week from Zoe Williams in her piece titled, ‘Want to know the problem, Tories? You’re … weird. And even your own tribe thinks so.‘ Here is her take: “The Conservative leadership candidates also come off as weird, for their obsessive focus on things no one else is talking about: leaving the European convention on human rights; a cap on migrants (and whose cap is the lowest); the scourge of woke.” Not being discussed? Perhaps Ms Williams hasn’t seen the latest YouGov polling. Remember this one from the 17 August edition of our newsletter? Then, another YouGov tracker poll two weeks later (2 September) found that 69% of the public now think that immigration has been too high over the past 10 years. The same poll found immigration tying at 49% with the economy as the most important issue facing the country. 40% thought immigration had been mostly bad for Britain, double the number who thought it mostly good. Who exactly is being weird here? Or should that be, disingenuous? The truth is there’s a growing, and we believe dangerous, disconnect between the political elite and the public on immigration. Voter concern has reverted to the levels of 8-10 years ago. Despite this, Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour government are fumbling the issue. They have no clear strategy on immigration and seem unwilling to address out of control legal migration. On illegal arrivals, having prematurely abandoned the Rwanda plan – we wrote about this last week (how ironic that the Germans are now thinking of picking up where we left off, utilising the accommodation we generously put in place for them), Yvette Cooper’s plan now seems limited to appointing a Border Security chief— a role the Home Secretary has found difficult to fill. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about illegal immigration is only too aware that whoever is appointed will be on a hiding to nothing because they are bound to fail. Whoever takes the job might as well cash in the severance package on day one. This strategy has already been tried at home and abroad, and it didn’t work. You can’t just ‘smash’ the gangs. While making life difficult for them is necessary, the only way to stop the boats is to detain and quickly remove anyone making their way here illegally from a safe country. It should be made clear that those arriving this way will not be granted asylum. There will still be those who try to get here by any means but there will also be fewer tragedies, as we again saw this week with twelve more lives lost. As it is, illegal crossings have already surpassed last year’s figures. Meanwhile, we pay the French hundreds of millions to escort migrant boats into British waters. Legal immigration is off the charts. There has been net migration of around 1.5 million in just two years, with an inflow of 2.5 million. We also know from Office for National Statistics (ONS) projections that (based on much lower net migration than we are currently experiencing) our population will increase by 6.2 million people by 2036, and that 92% of this increase will be from migrants and children born to them. This is simply unsustainable. Sir Keir Starmer’s government’s response? A shrug. It is clear they do not see sky-high immigration as a problem. Consider this written ministerial statement in Parliament this week on both legal and illegal migration. Although, it is mostly focused on the boats and asylum. A do-nothing, waffle statement if ever there was one. It has absolutely nothing of note or new on illegal or legal migration. On the boats, we are reminded that they are going to smash the gangs – they will not. They will also get rid of the backlog (for this read we will wave them through / declare an amnesty). In other words, instead of dealing with asylum seekers with central government resources, the onus for housing and keeping them will be passed to local government and the costs seemingly reduced at a stroke. This was the statement’s final paragraph: “The government’s intention is to return to using long-standing dispersed asylum accommodation and will do so as soon as is practicable, once we have made progress on clearing the backlog. Any decision regarding the use of accommodation sites will be fully considered, with a firm focus on value for money and ensuring proper standards are in place.” Classic civil service waffle. With net migration (including those coming illegally) we can expect at least another couple of million people to be added to our population, resulting in added pressure on everything from housing and the NHS to schools and transport. And do not be surprised if social tensions too worsen. The first step to solving the Channel crisis is to face reality and take back control of our borders. We must take a close look at the legal framework and the judicial over-reach that has taken hold of the system. The ECHR is no longer fir for purpose and the Human Rights Act (HRA) is a major obstacle to the removal of migrants with no right to be here. They should both go. But we must not kid ourselves that pulling away from the ECHR and ripping up the HRA will be the silver bullet that pulls the curtain down on illegal immigration. But without them, it will be a hell of a lot easier to remove people with no right to be here. As for legal migration, the only way we can control and reduce it is by imposing a cap. This does not mean ending all immigration. But it does mean we would be able to reduce net migration from the catastrophic levels we now have. What should net migration be? We think no more than a 100,000 per year. The time to act is now. |
| Tony Blair admits immigration “strain” during his time in power A turn up for the books this week. Sir Tony Blair finally acknowledged (sort of) that he was responsible for the massive levels of migration that unfolded during his time as Prime Minister and that this caused “strain” on British communities. He addressed the massive surge in net migration on his watch. Going from the 48,000 he inherited from Sir John Major to 250,000 by 2010, the year Labour lost to the Cameron/Clegg-led coalition, a fivefold increase. He opened the floodgates that have become increasingly difficult to close. Sir Tony defended his decisions claiming the policies were necessary for the economy. Did he regret his handling of immigration, “no,” was the firm reply. He maintained that Britain needed large numbers of workers from Europe to keep the economy going. We did not. Some 80% of the workers (mainly) from Eastern Europe (who, remember, were going to come in modest numbers, and no more than 13,000 per year) came in their 100s of thousands for low-skill, low-pay jobs, contributing little to the economy. Indeed, research, including our own, showed that between 1995 and 2011 overall immigration was a net fiscal cost to the exchequer of around £120 billion. To be fair to our former PM, he admitted that the mass immigration he facilitated had its downsides and that certain communities bore the brunt of this influx. “In some areas, the arrival of so many people did cause real strain,” he said. |
| Sectarian politics In the same interview, Sir Tony voiced concern over the rise of sectarian politics in Britain, calling it “troubling” and condemning the intimidation of candidates (especially Labour ones) during the 2024 general election. He called out the harassment of Labour candidates by pro-Palestine activists during the election calling the attacks, “ugly.” We were particularly interested to hear the former PM highlight the wider issue, saying the rise of sectarianism in UK politics was deeply concerning. “There’s a very clear question around Muslim identity and the distinction between Islam and Islamism,” and that this issue resonated not just in Britain but across the globe. We did wonder how much of what Sir Tony said in this interview was directed at the present PM. Was there a message for Sir Keir? Was he really saying, “get a grip of immigration quickly Keir or you’ll be in deep trouble with the electorate in five years time”? Did the three-time election winner sense what the silent majority are thinking? |
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| Tony Smith, The Sun – How rash scrapping the Rwanda migrant plan looks after Germany want to make it their deterrent using hotels WE paid for “And for every smuggling gang that is smashed, there is another waiting in the wings — because the financial rewards are huge. What Labour needs is a significant deterrent to asylum seekers who are thinking of making that deadly journey to the UK. Speeding up processing and removing more claimants will help — but that will only work for some of the nationalities. People originating from places such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iran have a very good chance of qualifying for asylum if they can get across the Channel — and even those that don’t qualify are very hard to remove.” We also liked this one by Sam Bidwell in The Critic – Two-tier immigration? |
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| Speaking to Martin Daubney of GB News, Migration Watch UK’s Executive Director, Mike Jones, discussed the vile trade of people traffickers, the tragic recent deaths of irregular migrants in the English Channel, and how the British government can address this growing crisis. |
| The recently reconstituted political class seems determined to ignore the will of the people, who are increasingly concerned about the impact of immigration on the country and the speed with which it is changing the very nature of British society. The next general election is still some years away, and much will happen between now and then but let us keep up the pressure on politicians and let them know how we feel about this critically important issue – contact your MP today. |
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September 8th 2024
This site was down for several days last week. I was denied access, so can only suppose that it was another occasion of police interference. I was put under 24/7surveillance on October 9th 2008. It took me until November 2009 to get any idea why. The U.K can teach the Russians a lot about how to run a police state. It came at a time of record international hits, though U.K viewers are normally met with a warning that this is an unsafe site.
September 3rd 2024
CAMPAIGNERS have written to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper threatening to take her to the High Court over her planned free speech crackdown.
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September 1st 2024
Rumour has it that Old Age Pensioner bus passes are next on the list to be scrapped as the cost of illegal immigrants claiming asylum, along with the Ukraine War spirals out of control. Fuel duty is also set for a massive price rise. Pension credit qualifications are expected to be toughened to help realise Starmer’s priorities. His government will almost certainly apply a 5-10 % increase in alcohol and tobacco duty to protect the NHS from doing too much work and demanding even more big pay rises.
R J Cook
Winter fuel payments had to be scrapped, minister insists
Jeremy Culley
BBC News
- Published1 September 2024, 10:56 BST
Updated 11:10 BST
The government will not reverse its decision to scrap winter fuel payments, the leader of the House of Commons has said.
About 10 million pensioners not receiving pension credit will lose the payment of up to £300 from mid-September, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves blaming a £22bn “black hole” in public finances for the decision to restrict the allowance.
MPs and charities have criticised the move in recent days, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats pushing for a Commons vote.
But Lucy Powell told BBC Breakfast she could not see a scenario in which Ms Reeves abandons her plan, and warned there could have been a “run on the pound” had the government not taken action on public finances.
Ms Powell acknowledged that losing the payment would make things even tighter for pensioners, but defended the government for taking “really difficult decisions” such as targeting winter fuel payments.
“The reason we are doing that is because the deficit was much higher than anyone thought, spending was higher than anyone thought,” she said.
“If we hadn’t taken that action we’d have seen a run on the pound, the economy crashing and the people who pay the heaviest price for that are the poorest, including pensioners and those on fixed incomes. That stability is really important for living standards.”
She said Labour’s commitment to the state pension triple lock and focus on economic stability would protect pensioners in the long term.
Asked if she could see any scenario where the winter fuel payments decision could be reversed, Ms Powell said: “I don’t.”
The government’s resistance to rethinking the policy comes after a slew of criticism in recent days.
On Thursday, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey joined the Conservatives in calling for a Commons vote on scrapping winter fuel payments, describing it as the government’s first big mistake.
Labour MPs loyal to Sir Keir Starmer have told the BBC of their growing unease over the policy, with one senior backbencher branding the move a “mean means test”.
Thousands urged to claim pension credit
Ms Powell also highlighted a campaign being launched by the government to encourage retired people to check if they are eligible to receive pension credit.
Pension Credit Week of Action comes as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said about 880,000 eligible pensioners are missing out on pension credit, which on average amounts to £3,900 a year.
Pensioners with a weekly income below £218.15 for a single person or £332.95 for a couple are being urged to use the DWP’s online calculator to determine their eligibility for payments.
People with a severe disability, carers and those who are responsible for a child or a young person who lives with them could receive additional money, the government said.
Meanwhile, Age UK, the charity whose petition calling for the government to halt its winter fuel payment policy has been signed by more than 460,000 people, said on Sunday it had written to Ms Reeves.
The letter specifically urged her to extend the payment to two million further pensioners by also including those who receive housing benefit, council tax support, attendance allowance and carers’ allowance.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, told the Observer, external it was aiming to “safeguard” the estimated two million pensioners “who will experience severe hardship” by losing the payment.
No clues ahead of ‘painful’ Budget
Ms Powell would not be drawn on which taxes Ms Reeves might raise in her forthcoming Budget on 30 October.
Inheritance tax, capital gains tax, fuel duty and changes to tax relief on pension contributions have all been mooted as possible taxes that may go up.
The prime minister conceded the Budget will be “painful” in his speech last week, and said those with the “broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”.
Ms Powell repeated Labour’s long-standing commitment not to raise income tax, National Insurance and VAT, including reversing National Insurance cuts brought in recently by the Conservatives.
She said: “All other matters are for the chancellor and she will be looking at those in detail.”
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August 31st 2024
These fools never had a country by R J Cook
Rarely a day go by that I am not given more reason to loathe this vile country of my birth. The so called United Kingdom or Great Britain, as it is often called, has a very unpleasant history, the Norman invasion shaping what it is today. The Normans brought the Feudal System of ‘know your place or else.’ It weakened a bit when Oliver Cromwell et al leading his prospering middle class, challenged the Divine Right of Kings and resurgence of Roman Catholicism. Cromwell also boasted the idea of the Commonwealth. Slavery and its trade was already feeding the colonies and elite wealth. Britain’s Feudal hierarchy has remained basically the same, though the Industrial Revolution gave opportunities to men like blacksmith George Stephenson and his son Robert.
Britain’s wealth and power, in the hands of old and new money, inspired international rivalries as rival colonial powers posed threats to their growing wealth and power. Most notable of these was Germany whose unification scared the old guard by its rapid technological advances, underpinned by a first class state education system. The new Germany had to be put down by a coaltion of powers, in spite of its monarch being the British Imperial King Edward V11, being first cousins as well as being first cousins of the cruel and incompetent Russian Tsar Nicholas II. That is how the aristocracy operate. So came World War One, where poor white cannon fodder killed each other on behalf of their ruling class. By the time it had finished in 1918, with Germany outnumbered by the U.S.A joining in, the Russian Revolution gave Tsar Nicholas et al, what they deserved.
The modern world was so divided between east and west. Britain led the plots to overthrow the new Russian communist regime. But that did not stop western elite leaders grinding their interwar masses into the dirt. The best the British ruling classes came up with was a don’t shoot Hitler policy because they saw his Nazi Government’s paranoia about Russia, as a bulwark containing communism and so protecting their wealth and supremacy. By this time, Russia’s leadership,especially Lenin’s ruthless replacement, Stalin, had warped communism way beyond the Marxist ideal. The anti Hitler British had to rely on Russia to defeat his Nazis. Then came the Cold War as East and West leadership had good reason to fear each other. The Second World War went nuclear with two U.S pre-emptive attacks on Japan, to ensure the Russians didn’t beat the United States to carving up the already broken Japan at any peace conference. The hideous war crime consequences of those attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are rarely mentioned, especially now.
With the current NATO Ukraine proxy war on Russia, the media censored conventional wisdom is that even if the Russians were provoked into deploying nuclear weapons of any scale, they won’t ‘go off because they have been stored for so long that they have ‘gone off already !’. An ex soldier friend gave me that opinion a few days ago. Let’s hope he et al are right, but I doubt it.
There was great media excitement over Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mainstream media declared these events as marking ‘the end of history.’ The rape of the Soviet Union had begun under the reign of alcoholic Boris Yesltsin and the asset stripping oligarchs. The new Russian Federation had to be put down by a coaltion of powers, as had been the established elite strategy to stop Germany from 1871 – 1939. Resource rich and strategically important Ukraine held free elections after Glasnost. The Anglo U.S and Nato did not like the result because Ukraine remained in economic union with Russia. They wanted it in the EU, for its land, for its wealth and to weaken Russia. So the west, deploying all the secret service skills of the west, arranged a violent coup. The Poroshenko age of corruption was born, then handed over to placeman Zelensky. The western economic dictators can’t back off. They have too much invested in a Ukraine War which is expected to claim the Crimea, control of the Black Sea, and an open road to rape the landscape all the way through Russia, to China. The industrial military mad men have their luxury bunkers should the worst happen.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer, knighted for his service to the target driven notoriously corrupt U.K Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) warns of worse to come now he is Britain’s Prime Minister. He has a lot of blame for his Tory predecessors messing up the finances, but he does not mention the mounting cost of supporting a war against Russia, for the freedom of Ukraine’s institutionally corrupt Ukraine regime – overworking the cause of ‘freedom’ in its mantra. Nor does he want to discusss or acount for the cost of housing illegal immigrants and their cost to the National Health and police services.
Starmer never mentions the overwhelming cost of open door immigration. His response to the Southport riots was filling the disgusting filthy jails to bursting point. Of course it was wrong to blame Southport’s established Muslim community for the fact that the 17 year old son of Rwandan asylum seekers killed three young females and injured others. The only Islamic connection is that his African parents gained asylum because Rwanda is Catholic and Muslims are in a minority. It is outside of Starmer’s interest to discuss the impact of mainly African immigration on poor neighbourhoods like Southport. For white middle class liberals, all dark skinned people are the same and perfect victims for their virtue signalling point scoring. The likes of the elite, especially King Charles III, never socialise in the masses’ down trodden everyday world where booze and tobacco are their only normalised relief from hell. Yet they dictate all moral and practical responses to the reality of the nation’s terrible problems, compounded by ever rising prices, public sector wastage, public sector corruption, public sector bad management by over promoted corrupt incompetents, appalling education and the cost of war with all its sanctions.
The war, like feminism, serves as a smokescreen of fake morality for a nation of idiots, imbeciles, bigots, posh covert criminals and hypocrites. Inevitably there will be more Starmer rules, laws, harsher punishments, higher taxes, higher council tax and bureaucracy to protect an appalling National Health Service from the consequences of social and economic consequences of official policies. That is how Starmer and his government thinks.
Conventional wisdom supports transphobes like J K Rowling who decided that transwomen are potential rapists who must be banned from female safe spaces ( there are no safe spaces for men because that would be misogynistic ) in the wake of the brutal sadistic murder of young trans girl Brianna Ghey. They do this while at the same time preparing a law making disliking women a crime on par with terrorism. The common element to these apparently contradictory official attitudes is that both are aimed at criminalising all biologically born males, trans or not. Britain boasts its rainbow world, with pretty rainbow posters.
This belies the basic truth that rainfall and sunshine create rainbows by acting as a prism. This prism splits naturally white light into its constituent parts, red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo and violet. If all the white light around us was so divided and all the time, because the colours could not stick together, then we would never be able to see the shape or substance of anything in any useful way. But that is the world Britain’s Labour Government admires and is building on. They also admire the nation’s sanitised shared history with their U.S incestuous elite offspring. Together their kleptocracy demands to rule the world. Foolish British White working classes had not the wit or imagination to spot the Brexit confidence trick about them getting their country back.
These fools never had a country in the first place, though they might have managed a mortgage. I have said this many times : “The top 10% own 90% of the United Kingdom’s land. This is while 90% of the population live on 10 % of the land . This 10% is where the land rich wealthy ruling elite dump the illegal immigrants into their rainbow world. Starmer doesn’t want to talk about that. Just like his barrister New Labour predecessor, Tony Blair, of illegal Gulf War II, Starmer’s values dictate more laws and tough punishment, including language and thought crimes. Brexit Boris Johnson is a Winston Churchill wannabe. He and his toffee nosed fantasy supporters wanted, and still want, Brave Little Britain standing alone, so long as the U.S is right behind them. He is always talking down to Europe and looking for his own Churchillian finest hour, however many of the deluded obsequious masses have to die. These masses and their offspring lost their identity years ago when Thatcher’s fascist government set out to change the nation and rule the world. The masses went through hell, but when push came to shove Thatcher & Company revived Britain’s historic genetic jingoism with the Falklands War in 1982. This was before stepping up to join the U.S First Gulf War to inflate oil prices and take command of a consequently destabilised Middle East. This was a policy, alongside multi national corporations working with native dictator placemen, exploiting Africa’s abundance of natural resources for the enrichment of a global elite, where 3% of world population own and control 62% of the world’s wealth. That is western style democracy.
R J Cook
‘We’ve got to take action’: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hints …
Things that matter in U.K Today – R.J Cook
August 29th 2024
Thames Water says it needs 59% bill rise to survive
Charlotte Edwards & Mitchell Labiak
Business reporters, BBC News
Updated 6 hours ago
Thames Water has warned it will not survive unless it is allowed to increase water bills by almost 60% over a five-year period.
The UK’s largest water company demanded the bill hike after the wider water industry issued a scathing response to a proposed cap from the regulator for water bill rises.
In July, regulator Ofwat proposed an average £19 a year ceiling on water bill rises, with a final decision due in December.
But the water industry has argued the increase is not enough and said there was a risk that companies would not be able to raise enough investment to stop things like sewage spills.
Water firms have faced a fierce backlash over sewage discharges and leaks in recent years. Critics have also said companies have historically neglected investment in favour of paying executive bonuses and shareholder dividends.
It has led to a stand-off between regulator Ofwat and water companies over how much customers should pay.
Thames Water has been in the spotlight and faced questions over whether it can survive as it struggles under a £15.2bn debt pile and only has enough cash to fund its operations until the end of May next year.
When all water firms put forward requests to Ofwat for bills from 2025 to 2030, Thames originally asked the regulator to increase bills by 44%, but the regulator proposed a 23% rise.
On Wednesday, the company announced it wanted to go further, hiking bills by as much as 59%. The proposed changes in bills do not take account of inflation.
Such a move would take the average annual water bill to £638 per customer by 2030. Average bills are currently around £443.
Chris Weston, chief executive of Thames Water, said the money from higher bills would be invested in new infrastructure and improving services.
“They [customers] are not being asked to pay twice, but to make up for years of focus on keeping bills low,” he said in a response to the regulator.
Mr Weston claimed Ofwat’s current proposal – a 23% rise in bills – would be “neither financeable nor investible”.
“It would also prevent the turnaround and recovery of the company,” he added.
- Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?
- Published5 hours ago
‘No one will invest in water’
The warning came after Water UK, the industry body for all water firms, said bills needed to be increased by more in order to stop leaks.
David Henderson, chief executive of Water UK, told the BBC people were “right to be angry” at water companies over sewage spills, but said the country had a “system that’s tired and it’s old”.
“If Ofwat doesn’t change its proposal then investors may not stump up the money that we need,” Mr Henderson said.
“No rational investor is going to put their money into water right now.”
Ofwat has proposed a water bill increase limit as part of its draft decision on the business plans of water companies from 2025 to 2030.
The proposed increase is a third less than the amount requested by water firms, who argue companies must be able to charge more in order to spend money on fixing leaks.
Mr Henderson rejected the idea that the amount paid out in dividends to investors in recent years was part of the reason there was not enough money for companies to invest, rather than just bills being lower.
He said returns were set by the regulator Ofwat, adding: “If you want investors to put their money into the UK they need to receive a return.”
He said without more investment, building projects such as hospitals and housing developments would potentially not be built.
‘Absolute balderdash’
The GMB union called the claims from water companies “absolute balderdash”.
“Water companies have had the money, failed to invest in plugging leaks and preventing sewage spills and now want more money to do what they failed to do,” said Gary Carter, GMB’s national officer.
An Ofwat spokesperson told the BBC it would carefully consider all responses to its proposals, which were required by midday on Wednesday.
“We expect to receive responses from many organisations, including water companies, customers, environmental and consumer organisations and investors,” they said.
“These are likely to reflect a diverse range of views on the proposals we have made.”
Raw sewage spills into England’s rivers and the sea by water companies more than doubled last year.
A BBC investigation earlier this year revealed sewage had potentially been released illegally 6,000 times in 2022 by England’s water companies in breach of their permits.
Thames Water, along with Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water face a total of £168m in fines from the regulator for a “failure” to stop years of leaks.
Ofwat has suggested a ban on director bonuses until leaks and sewage spills are dealt with.
Two Tier Policing ?
August 27th 2024
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Starmer says national strikes were costing country ‘a fortune’published at 11:02 British Summer Time11:02 BST
The prime minister was asked by ITV News about what he’s chosen to spend money on – such as pay rises for doctors – with a report from Age UK, external referenced that nearly 2 million pensioners could face difficult decisions in the winter.
He’s asked what he would say to pensioners “who are not well off” and “feel you are choosing to balance the books on their backs”.
Starmer responds saying the winter fuel allowance is “not a particularly well designed scheme, frankly”.
He says it is important for “support” to be there for the pensioners who need it the most.
Starmer adds national strikes were costing the country “a fortune” – and they had to be resolved.
My main point, apart from the fact that corrupt police have a legal right to interfere in people’s health care thanks to the ever abused 1988 Mental Health Act, here, is that a handful of so called General Practitioners at 3W Health, Winslow, serve the ever expanding town and rural area villages. So the idea referred to here, by Dr Rahul Kamble, is that when feeling ill, a person must phone between 08.30 and 09.00 when the lines are almost immediately jammed by hundreds of ill and worried well. The town demograhy comprises geriatrics like me and young families. GP patient direct contact is kept to a minimum, which is why Dr Kamble has never met me, but became a willing partner to a covert police operation to discredit me.
R J Cook
Why should heavily policed feminist scapegoat males be pressed by the ruling smug profiteerring elite to fight the Russians ?
By R.J.Cook.
24 Jan 2024 — Army chief says people ( sic ) of UK are a ‘prewar generation‘ who must be ready to fight Russia.
Why should heavily policed feminist scapegoat males be pressed by the ruling smug profiteerring elite to fight the Russians? Why refer to people being ready to fight when there will never be women in the front line ? It is men who always face slaughter in war.
What does the U.K give the common man that is worth dying or to be crippled for ? Will African asylum seekers and Muslims fight for the U.K Ruling elite or their patrons in the virtue signalling patronising male declaiming white liberal elite ? Why should they when they came to the U,K to be safe ? So many of them escaped war in their own country rather than fight for better government.
Will white middle class women and know all feminist ‘uni girls’ be handing out white feathers like they did to my Uncle Arthur who was invalided out of the army after being wounded at Dunkirk and whose 24 year old brother Charles Close died with the London Irish Rifles on 1944 ? These people make me sick. Note, I was a volunteer for the armed forces in my misguided youthful years because I was naive and stupid enough to think this was a country worth dying for. I even joined the cadet branch of the RAF when I was 13. What an idiot !
R J Cook.
United Kingdom
Country in Europe
Related statistics
| Fertility rate | 1.56 births per woman (2021) |
| GDP per capita | 46,869.76 USD (2021) |
| Population | 67.03 million (2021) |
Life expectancy elsewhere
| Australia | 83.30 years (2021) |
| Canada | 82.60 years (2021) |
| France | 82.32 years (2021) |
The United Kingdom, made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe. England – birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles – is home to the capital, London, a globally influential centre of finance and culture. England is also site of Neolithic Stonehenge, Bath’s Roman spa and centuries-old universities at Oxford and Cambridge. ― Google
What are the odds of living to 90 in the UK?
Around one in five boys and one in three girls born in 2017 to 2019 are expected to live to 90 years old. In 2017 to 2019, a new-born male in the UK had a 21.7% chance of living to age 90 years, while a new-born female had a 32.9% chance.24 Sept 2020
What is the life expectancy of a white male man?
Record-high life expectancies were found for white females (80.5 years) and black females (76.1 years), as well as for white males (75.3 years) and black males (69.0 years).
August 26th 2024
What do Ukrainians think of the British?
In February 2023, British foreign secretary said in a tweet that “The UK and Ukraine are the closest of friends”. In research published by the Munich Security Conference, Ukrainian respondents voted the UK the best performing country in response to the Russian invasion, ahead of the US, Canada and the EU.
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30 Jul 2024 — Labour scraps care cap and winter fuel payments to plug £22 billion public overspend. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a string of …
The chancellor detailed a raft of cuts, including scrapping winter fuel payments for wealthier pensioners and long-delayed plans to reform adult social care.
Ian Corfield resigns as official to Rachel Reeves as ministers deny giving preferential treatment to funders.
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White Teachers must adopt and a teach a positive white racial identity and teach a history of whites exploiting and enslaving blacks throughout white history.
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Mum stabbed at Carnival was with her young child
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News
A mother who attended Notting Hill Carnival on Sunday with her child narrowly avoided being killed after she was stabbed, the Metropolitan Police has said.
The 32-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said Carnival’s family day had been “marred by unacceptable violence”.
About 7,000 officers are patrolling this year’s event, which is expected to attract about one million people across Sunday and Monday.
Issuing an update on Monday morning, the Met said two men had also been stabbed at the west London street festival on Sunday.
A 29-year-old has non life-threatening injuries, while a 24-year-old discharged himself after receiving hospital treatment.
No arrests have been made in relation to the three stabbings.
About 100 arrests have been made for a range of offences including violence with injury, sexual offences and possession of offensive weapons.
Eighteen officers were assaulted, the force added.
A section 60 order, which gives officers additional powers to search suspects, was put in place from Sunday evening until 02:00 BST on Monday.
‘Tired of seeing crime scenes’
Mr Adelekan, who is in charge of the event’s policing operation, said Sunday was supposed to be “family day”.
“We saw the first day of Carnival marred by unacceptable violence,” he said on Monday.
“Three people were stabbed and we only very narrowly avoided a fatality.
“One of those in hospital, a 32-year-old woman whose condition remains critical, was at Carnival with her young child.”
Mr Adelekan appealed for information to help police, but also reiterated the force wanted Carnival to be an event enjoyed.
Comment The establishment values this event as part of its ethnic diversity latent tension management strategy. The policing cost, at taxpayers’ expense, is £12 million. Police have little alternative to their two tier policing if they want to avoid anti racist anger and riots. Equally, they have no choice but to come down very hard on anti immigration protests when they clash with the well organised New Left. Here it is a matter of the white working class versus the comfortable white university educated, like me, and virtue signalling professional elite. The latter are shielded from the violent and miserable reality of everyday life in Britain and Western Europe.
R J Cook
August 25th 2024
| We’re closing in on the cliff edge Extraordinary official figures were published this week on the number of visas granted in the year to June 2024, in other words, up to a few days before the general election. An astonishing 547,000 work-related visas were issued, 260,000 of which were for dependants. A massive 69% of them were to dependants of those coming to work in the Health and Social Care sector many of would be earning wages below the national average. A further 98,906 visas were family-related, an incredible 40% increase from the previous year. Meanwhile 75,000 visas were issued to those granted humanitarian protection; this figure increases to 93,342 when those granted leave to remain on humanitarian grounds are added. Despite the government, seemingly, taking comfort from a modest reduction in overall numbers from the year before – largely because of measures (belatedly) introduced by the Tories, immigration is running at full throttle. And adding huge numbers to our population. Most concerning is that nothing the new Home Secretary has said suggests she has any plan or desire to tackle the catastrophic scale of immigration. We find it baffling that the Prime Minister and his Home Secretary carry on with blithe unconcern to a very serious situation. They seem to regard the impact and reaction to runaway migration like scudding clouds that will soon pass over, to be followed by blue skies and sunshine. Just deal with the violent rioters and frighten the rest into keeping quiet and all will be well. Dream on, Sir Keir. With net migration continuing at very high levels – a small reduction in the inflow will be neither here nor there. Our population will continue to grow at an unmanageable pace. As we repeatedly remind the government, annual net migration of 350,000 (it’s about double that at the moment) will lead to our population growing by nine million people in the next 20 years or so. This will be in addition to the eight million people it grew by in the first 20 years of the century, of which seven million was due to migration and children born to migrants. We can neither provide for such a rate of growth nor integrate those who come. Tensions will grow and cohesion will fray. Meanwhile, the illegal migration crisis goes on unchecked with no sign of easing up. The number of asylum seekers granted refugee status has skyrocketed to the highest level since records began nearly 40 years ago. The latest figures from the Home Office paint a troubling picture: 67,978 asylum claims were approved in the year to June, more than triple the previous year’s number and surpassing the levels seen during the early 2000s asylum crisis. There were around 75,000 (c95,000 if dependants are included) asylum claims. About 38,000 were ‘irregular arrivals’ of whom 31,000 came in small boats. Home Office caseworkers made close to 92,000 decisions on asylum claims, the highest in two decades. 58% of these decisions resulted in asylum or humanitarian protection being granted, despite Tory attempts to tighten the rules. Before the pandemic, only about a third of asylum applications led to refugee status. The fast-tracking and increase in caseworkers over the last 18 months or so of the Conservative government and the seemingly scant scrutiny led to the numbers granted refugee status ballooning. The backlog of asylum cases, a thorn in the side of this government (and its predecessor) briefly dipped by nearly a third but has crept back up as processing stalled. With Labour now further easing processing and abandoning the Rwanda plan, migrants previously earmarked for removal to Rwanda are now almost certainly going to be allowed to stay. More will make their way here illegally or legally to claim asylum and few will ever be removed. That is not controlling our borders. There was more in the published data. The number of migrants granted UK citizenship has hit its highest level in over 50 years. A staggering 246,488 people were granted citizenship in the year ending June, a 37% increase from the previous year. This is the equivalent of adding a city the size of Plymouth to the UK’s population in just 12 months! The top non-EU nationalities granted British citizenship include Indian, Pakistani, and Nigerian nationals, but the sheer diversity of applicants shows how wide the net has been cast. And, it seems, Vietnamese nationals have become the largest group making dangerous Channel crossings, doubling their numbers from last year. The UK and Vietnam have struck a deal to fast-track the return of those seeking to enter illegally. It remains to be seen how effective the agreement will be. The previous government’s attempts to curb net migration have had mixed results. While measures like restricting dependants have led to a 14% drop in visas for foreign workers, overseas students, and family members, the numbers are still staggering. Incoming foreign student numbers fell by 23% in the first six months of this year, but we’re still looking at over 432,000 students entering the UK. Moreover, by the end of June, there were still those whose applications for university courses for the coming academic year had either not yet not been submitted or yet been processed who would not have shown up in these figures. As the Labour government struggles to decide what they should do about immigration and how to bring it under control (we are not entirely convinced that they want to do this) the impact on British society is undeniable. Overcrowded schools, strained healthcare services, and rising housing costs are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s time for the government to stop dithering and take decisive action to protect our borders and safeguard the future of our country. |
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| Rakib Ehsan, Spiked – What does it take to get a dangerous criminal deported? “The UK needs to start prioritising the security of law-abiding British citizens over the rights of dangerous foreign criminals. This probably cannot be done without serious reform of our human-rights laws. We may also need a proper reckoning with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which allows foreign criminals to appeal their deportations on the flimsiest of grounds. Ultimately, this is a matter of political will. We can certainly criticise the ECHR, woolly judges, liberal immigration lawyers, naive refugee charities and even the hyper-woke Church of England for the roles they sometimes play in preventing dangerous criminals from being deported. But it is our elected representatives who need to be held to account. For too long, the British political classes have failed to take robust action. They have demonstrated a shocking indifference towards public safety.” Wessie du Toit, unHerd – The housing crisis tearing Leicester apart |
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August 23rd 2024
More women have made allegations against Jermaine Jenas, reports say
Match of the Day pundit, sacked by BBC over claims he sent unsolicited messages to female colleague, said to be ‘speaking to lawyers’
Caroline DaviesFri 23 Aug 2024 16.27 BSTLast modified on Fri 23 Aug 2024 23.30 BST
More women have reportedly come forward with allegations against the TV presenter Jermaine Jenas, who was sacked by the BBC from Match of the Day and The One Show over complaints about his workplace conduct.
Jenas, 41, is understood to be “speaking to lawyers” after his BBC contract was terminated over allegations he sent unsolicited messages to a female colleague on The One Show.
The Sun, which broke the story, reported that other women have come forward amid an investigation into messages allegedly sent by the married father of four. The BBC declined to comment.
The former England international has been taken off air from both prime-time shows.
He has said that there are “two sides to every story”, adding that he is “not happy” and will be taking legal advice.
Jenas, who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest, was sacked by the corporation after complaints about workplace conduct. The BBC reported that his contract was terminated this week because of alleged issues relating to workplace behaviour. The allegations involved digital communications including texts, which were raised with the corporation a few weeks ago, the BBC reported.
He was co-presenting a TalkSport drive-time show as it was announced he had been removed from all BBC presenting lineups on Thursday afternoon.
TalkSport said later there were no plans for Jenas to broadcast as a presenter “in the immediate future”.
The BBC chief content officer, Charlotte Moore, said she was aware of the situation but could give “no more information” when she was approached by the PA Media news agency after she spoke on a BBC panel at the Edinburgh TV festival.
A BBC spokesperson said on Thursday: “We can confirm Jermaine Jenas is no longer part of our presenting lineup.”
He was last on air for the corporation earlier in the summer.
In an interview with TalkSport radio on Thursday, Jenas repeatedly said, “I can’t really talk about it,” when asked about the claims being made. “I, as you can probably see, I am not happy about it,” he told the station.
“I’ve just got to leave this to a team of lawyers at the minute who are, yeah, I suppose just managing the situation,” he said.
Jenas earned between £190,000 and £194,999 last year at the BBC for his work on Match of the Day and coverage of the FA Cup and the World Cup. He was widely regarded as a natural successor to replace Gary Lineker as host of Match of the Day, but was noticeably absent from Saturday’s first episode of the new season.
His salary for his work on The One Show has not been made public because it is made by BBC Studios, the BBC’s commercial production company, which does not reveal how much it pays presenters.
Jenas is also employed by TNT Sports, a group of paid-for television sports channels.
Staff were informed of his departure from the BBC in an email from the BBC’s director of sport, Alex Kay-Jelski, on Thursday afternoon, which said: “Hello all, I wanted to let you know that Jermaine Jenas is no longer working with the BBC. Thanks, Alex.”
What personal tax rises might Rachel Reeves introduce to ease UK deficit?
We look at likely changes, as chancellor plans measures to plug £22bn public finances shortfall
Hilary OsborneWed 21 Aug 2024 14.45 BSTFirst published on Wed 21 Aug 2024 14.38 BST
The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is planning to increase taxes in October’s budget in an effort to plug what she has described as a £22bn shortfall in the public finances.
The Labour election manifesto ruled out raising the rates of income tax, national insurance or VAT, but other personal taxes are in the firing line as official data published on Wednesday showed spending on public services and welfare pushed government borrowing to £3.1bn last month, more than double its level in July 2023.
Reeves is believed to be exploring how to raise more from inheritance tax and capital gains tax as well as getting tough on benefits. Last month, she scrapped winter fuel payments for most pensioners – and may resist pressure to lift the two-child benefit cap. Here we look at what the tax changes predicted in the autumn budget could mean for you.
Inheritance tax
What is it? This is the tax paid on someone’s assets after they die, but only if they leave enough money to go above a certain threshold.
It’s quite complicated, but you will definitely not pay tax if the estate is worth less than £325,000. Above that level you will not pay tax on anything you leave to your spouse, civil partner or charity.
If you leave your home to your children or grandchildren, and your estate is worth less than £2m, you can leave up to £500,000 tax-free, and any unused sum up to the threshold can be transferred to your spouse or civil partner to be used when they die.
The standard rate of tax on everything above the threshold is 40% but there are exemptions for agricultural land, businesses, shares in companies listed on the AIM market (rather than on other stock exchanges) and pensions.
Who pays it? In short not many people. In the 2021-22 tax year, 27,800 deaths resulted in an inheritance tax (IHT) bill – that’s 4.39% of all UK deaths that year.
Across all of those estates the average tax bill was £215,000 but the bills on large estates pull up the figure. For the 2,120 estates valued at between £300,000 and £400,000 the IHT bill averaged £13,500 (about 4%); for the 170 estates valued at more than £10m the average bill was £3.91m (about 20%).
How much is raised? £7.5bn was collected for 2023-24 financial year.
What could change? The various exemptions could be looked at.
For 21,800 estates above the threshold, the transfer of someone’s unused allowance to their spouse or civil partner was used to cut the bill. £15.5bn worth of allowance was transferred in total. Had these assets been taxed, the Treasury may have received an extra £6.2bn.
The residence relief, which effectively shields most homes from tax, reduced the tax take by another £2.6bn. However, changing this would be very unpopular. Looking at the reliefs offered to wealthier people would be more popular, and progressive.
Business property relief was used by 4,170 estates to shelter £2.9bn worth of assets from IHT in 2021-22, while agricultural property relief was used by 1,730 estates to shelter £1.6bn worth of assets. If these were removed an extra £1.8bn could be raised.
Capital gains tax
What is it? It’s a tax on profits you make when you sell – or give away – something that has increased in value and is worth more than £6,000.
You do not pay it when you sell your main home or your car, when you cash in a stocks and shares Isa or if you give something to charity or your spouse or civil partner.
Other than that, pretty much any profit on a one-off sale can count as a gain. You can make up to £3,000 in gains each tax year (April-end of March), and can reduce the total by offsetting any losses or sale costs you incur.
There are reliefs and exemptions. You do not pay capital gains tax (CGT) when selling: your main home; stocks and shares owned in Isas; or personal possessions with an expected lifespan of less than 50 years. And you can give things to your spouse, civil partner or charity without the tax.
How much CGT you face will in part depend on how much income tax you pay. If your gain and your annual income fall within the basic rate tax allowance (£12,571 to £50,270 a year) you will pay 10% on profits, unless they are from selling a residential property, in which case you will pay 18%.
If you are a higher or additional rate taxpayer you will pay 24% on gains from residential property or 20% on your gains from other assets. There’s a 28% rate linked to investment funds.
Who pays it? In the 2022-23 tax year 369,000 people paid CGT. They had between them made £80.6bn worth of gains.
A small number of people making large gains pay the bulk of the tax. In 2022-23, those who made £5m or more represented less than 1% of those paying CGT but paid 41% of the tax collected.
How much is raised? £14.4bn in 2022-23. This was 15% lower than in the previous tax year.
What could change? Rates could be brought in line with income tax, so higher-rate taxpayers would pay 40% on their gains and those with the biggest incomes would pay 45%.
Pensions: lifetime allowance
What was it? This limit on the amount you could build up in a private pension scheme was axed last year. Those with a pot worth more than the threshold had faced paying a tax of up to 55% on the excess money when it was withdrawn. The lifetime allowance was originally £1.5m when it was introduced in April 2006, but after steadily increasing was reduced to £1m in 2016.
Who paid it? Fewer than 1,000 people a year paid tax when the allowance was first introduced, rising to more than 11,000 in 2021-22, official figures show.
How much was raised? In2021-22, £500m was paid, an average of just over £40,000 for each person paying a bill.
What could change? The government could reintroduce the cap. The Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests reintroducing it at the level it was when scrapped (just over £1m) could raise almost £800m.
Pensions relief
What is it? This isn’t a tax but a relief. When you pay into your pension – one offered at work or a personal scheme – the government boosts your contributions by giving you a tax break.
For basic rate taxpayers who pay 20% on their earnings that can mean paying £100 into your scheme only costs you £80. Higher rate and additional rate taxpayers get more relief as they pay more tax: 40% and 45% respectively.
The most you can pay in and receive tax relief on is your annual earnings, although there is a tax if you pay in more than £60,000 in one year.
How much is spent? £44.1bn went on pensions tax relief in 2021-22. It is estimated that 52% of total tax relief was provided to those with incomes in the 40% income tax bracket, and 6% was provided at the 45% additional income tax bracket.
What could change? The chancellor could reduce the relief available to higher- and additional-rate taxpayers to the 20% other workers receive or offer everyone the same tax relief at a level somewhere between 20% and 40%.
Millions facing ‘cruel winter’ without fuel payments, Labour MPs warn
Backbenchers say end to support schemes would be ‘wrong measure’ that ignores struggle of poorest households
Which benefits are available to vulnerable people?
Kiran Stacey and Patrick ButlerFri 23 Aug 2024 18.07 BSTLast modified on Fri 23 Aug 2024 21.55 BST
Millions of vulnerable people face a “cruel winter” owing to a combination of rising energy costs and government cuts to welfare schemes, Labour MPs and campaigners have warned, as Keir Starmer comes under pressure to extend key financial support programmes.
Labour backbenchers are calling on the prime minister to reverse or mitigate the government’s decision to end winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners and to extend the household support fund (HSF), which is due to run out in September.
They warn that thousands of people could die because of the cold this winter without those schemes, with fuel prices expected to rise by an average of 10%.
The HSF was introduced in 2021 after the £20-a-week Covid increase to universal credit was withdrawn, and has become a vital source of emergency support for households in crisis.
Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, said: “There is real concern about the levels of poverty in communities like York. People can’t afford to get through the week, and without the additional protection of things like the household support fund, I don’t know how some people are going to get through the winter.
‘Jenas sacking shock’ and ‘Fury as dementia drug denied’
August 22nd 2024
Immigration: legitimate concerns
After the shocking violence in Southport last month, Britain is now facing an equally shocking reaction – but this time from the ivory towers of moral grandstanding. The violent riots have rightly been condemned; we have done so unequivocally. But instead of seeking to understand the root causes, as happened with the riots of 1981 and 2011, we’re hit with a wave of (sometimes threatening) lectures.
In a recent article in The Guardian, Maya Goodfellow wrote, “We keep hearing about ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration. The truth is, there are none.” She declared:
“Are concerns about immigration “legitimate”? Demonstrably, no. People who arrive in the UK aren’t to blame for an economy designed to benefit the richest while exploiting and abandoning the poorest – immigration iis not a significant causal factor of low wages and it’s not why people have insecure jobs. Anti-immigrant feeling isn’t a natural, inevitable reaction to change either.”
Actually, lower-skill, lower-pay mass migration has a great deal to do with the state of the economy, and undoubtedly impacts hugely on the most vulnerable, lower-paid people in society. That is why there are profound and ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration. But don’t take our word for it. Here is the August 2024 Ipsos Issues Index:
| So, it seems, the public disagree with Ms Goodfellow, putting immigration ahead of the NHS, the economy and crime/law and order. Moreover, some 60% of the public have been saying for some time that immigration over the past decade has been too high. Given the pressures and tensions flowing from rapid population growth, almost entirely due to immigration from disparate parts of the world, and the children born to migrants, is it any wonder that people (including longstanding migrants) are concerned? For years, the oft-heard refrain of mass immigration, open-borders enthusiasts has been about the wonders of immigration with no downsides. Anyone who has disagreed with the pean of praise has been branded xenophobic or racist. Fact is, millions of our citizens, many of them in constituencies that elected Labour Members of Parliament, have profound misgivings about the scale of immigration, its impact on the economy, services, the need for housing and the demographic change it drives. Sir Keir Starmer has a whopping majority and can pretty much do what he likes with the this Parliament. There will be siren voices in the Labour Party, the universities, sections of the trade union movement, a variety of left and far-left groups, NGOs, as well as the upper echelons of the civil service, who will all be pressing him to open our borders further and, for once and for all, silence the right (labelled far-right). We can but hope that he will prove wise enough and have the courage and strength to resist the sirens. If he doesn’t or can’t, he will, as sure as eggs, be lured to destruction on the electoral rocks that lie ahead. The truth is concerns about high levels of immigration aren’t just ‘legitimate’; they’re grounded in common sense. And, beneath the recent wave of violence lies a seething frustration with a political class that has long ignored the will of the people. Back in 2016, Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned Britain was on the brink of chaos if immigration wasn’t addressed post-Brexit. At a Labour Party Conference event, Ms Reeves cautioned that simmering tensions over immigration could lead to riots if the Brexit deal didn’t end free movement. She said: “We’ve got to get this right because there are bubbling tensions that could explode. Remember the riots in 2011? If they start up again in places like Leeds, it’s like a tinderbox” She was right. The blatant disregard for public opinion on how British society is evolving is stoking outrage over incidents like the Southport killings. |
| Gig economy chaos: illegal migrants, low pay, and the food delivery farce Britain’s streets have been flooded with food delivery riders, serving up a mountain of takeaways as the appetite for convenience grows. But behind the scenes, this booming gig economy is stirring up a scandalous mess. The delivery giants – Deliveroo, Just Eat, and UberEats – might be raking in billions, but they’re also stirring up a storm of controversy. Reports have surfaced that nearly 40% of riders checked by authorities were working illegally. That’s right: a significant number of these delivery workers are illegal migrants, including some of those who have crossed the Channel illegally, who have been filmed merrily going off to work from their taxpayer-funded lodgings. They have found a loophole hidden in the gig economy’s murky rules that allows delivery riders to “substitute” their gigs, letting others use their accounts. This “freelancer” model makes it easy for anyone to dodge right-to-work checks and allows migrants to rent accounts from established riders. Robert Jenrick, former immigration minister, has called for a crackdown, suggesting that the only way to solve this issue is to ban account substitution and impose hefty fines on companies that fail to ensure workers are legal. Until proper checks are enforced and illegal working is stamped out, Britain’s takeaway craze will keep feeding into a cycle of exploitation and wage suppression. |
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| There was quite a lot to choose from this week. Here are four that especially caught our eye. Chris Bayliss, The Critic – Carelessness in the community “The political scientist Parveen Akhtar, who is one of a very small number of UK-based academics to have devoted serious attention to biraderi networks, has described the critical role of biraderis played both in facilitating chain migration to Britain between the 1950s and 1980s, and then subsequently in the lives of the Pakistani communities that settled here. Whereas, back in Pakistan, individuals may have relied on their biraderi for access to electricity, or a telephone; in the UK, they were critical in arranging visa sponsorship, finding employment and accommodation, providing legal assistance, and generally navigating life in an unfamiliar land. The consequence was that, rather than a loosening of social bonds as they moved into a more individualistic society, many arrivals from Pakistan came to rely even more heavily on kinship bonds than they had back home. Furthermore, for second generation members of the community, the biraderi also provided the link back to their ancestral homeland – which was of critical importance in facilitating marriages, thus perpetuating the bonds between ‘the two worlds’ – including in many cases, ensuring that individuals resident in the UK also maintained properties back in the old country.” Michael Deacon, The Telegraph – Should these Labour MPs go to prison too? “While we’re on the subject, I note that another Labour MP has apologised for a historic post in which she complained about “f—ing Estonian retards”. Was that stirring up hatred? And a third Labour MP has deleted a post which shared an unfounded claim that there’d been an acid attack on a Muslim woman in Middlesbrough. Was that spreading fake news? To be clear: I’m not saying I think these MPs should be arrested. I’m just saying that, if we’re going to jail everyone who has ever posted something foolish, intemperate or misleading on social media in the heat of the moment, Labour will have to abandon its pledge to build 1.5 million new homes – and build 1.5 million new prisons, instead.” Douglas Murray in the Spectator – this tongue-in-cheek piece And, Karl Williams on CapX with this short analysis of longer-term visas figures. It’s clear, we can bring in all the skills we need without letting immigration rip. |
| MIGRATION WATCH IN THE MEDIA |
| In an article for The Daily Telegraph, Migration Watch Executive Director Dr. Mike Jones was quoted on the scandal surrounding social housing in the UK. He highlighted how British citizens are being sidelined, and slammed the Labour Party’s recent decision to ditch the ‘British homes for British workers’ policy. The article quickly went viral on social media, sparking widespread outrage and discussion: “Labour has no plans to cap legal migration or change the Human Rights Act to allow deportations of illegal entrants,” he said. They’ve also dropped the ‘British homes for British workers’ policy, which would have given priority to people born in the UK.” This hits hard at public trust in our institutions and the fairness of the welfare system.” Mike was also quoted by GB News regarding the social housing scandal in the UK and the Labour Party’s total disregard for the national interest: “But Dr Mike Jones, executive director of Migration Watch UK, slated the Government’s move, saying: “Labour isn’t putting the ‘national interest’ first – they’re putting non-citizens ahead of British people.” We were intrigued (and pleasantly surprised) by the publication in the New Statesman of this (top) letter of the week, ‘A call for clarity’, in which the author generously praises Migration Watch. He writes: ‘Confusion, misinformation and disinformation as it pertains to immigration is, rightly or wrongly, fundamentally exploited by those on the right of the political spectrum, including the Conservative Party. Transparent information, such as that provided by the think tank Migration Watch UK, would do much to ease tensions if it were more widely publicised.’ Thank you John Bishop of Edinburgh. |
| MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD |
| Sir Keir Starmer and his government are dodging the immigration debate; as they did during the election campaign. Their clear manoeuvring to shut down discussion, making no bones about what they see those who voice concern over high levels of immigration and the continuing flow of boats illegally crossing the Channel. But we will remain steadfast. We will not be cowed into silence. We care about our country and what we will pass on to our children and grandchildren. Please join us in speaking out, contact your MP today and make your voice heard. |
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August 21st 2024
Publishing Unacceptable Opinions – R J Cook.
Thirty Six years ago in the summer of 1988, I interviewed Sir Edward Tomkins for a news paper article. He was very hospitable and expansive. While we chatted, we sipped his fine malt whisky.
Sir Edward was a former U.K Ambassador to Paris and young wartime officer with Montgomery’s famous ‘Desert Rats.’ His account of escaping from an Italian prisoner of war camp sounded terribly modest. He told me “We simply walked out through the gates.” When I asked him “How on earth was that possible ?” Sir Edward replied: “Very simple. We read the newspapers.” So I said : “Surely they didn’t publish the truth about the war ?” Sir Edward smiled, then said : “Reading between the lines, we knew the Italians had given up.”
My message here, learned from older wiser men and women over many years, is that you still need to read between the lines if you want anything like the truth. Mainstream media represent the super rich and corporate state. They use their media to keep the population down and in their place. Just in case any of the lower orders or wealthier people like Nigel Farage see where this is going and get uppity, there will be a strict enforcement of and a plethora of new repressive laws, all in the name of protecting women, ethnic minorities and our ‘precious democracy.’ Already feminist Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of anti terrorist legislation to put misogyny on par with all acts of terrorism and punished accordingly.
This is the thin edge of the Labour Government wedge. The rich and powerful have much to lose. They are part of a global elite. Divide and rule is the very essence of their privileged existence. Civil War is their major concern in these historic times when far too many have nothing to lose and any real comprehension of events should study the state of Africa and what Muslins see as the divine solution. Starmer’s type see the solution as naming and shaming those they call ‘far right’ as if the lower classes have any idea of these bourgeois political concepts. It will take more than a walkabout by King Charles who was labelled by mainstrean media in the 1990s, a reprobate unfit for office during his years of adultery with the now Queen Camilla, to sustain what he has called a ‘community of communities’ – another patronising bourgeois concept.
It was hardly necessary to read between the lines when the billionaire transphobic fantasy author, J K Rowling said that she would withdraw her financial support for Starmer’s Labour Party if he did not stand up for women ( TERF feminist rabble rousers ) in their fight to keep transsexual women out of their safe spaces.
Now in power, Starmer’s Labour Government have wasted no time dealing with social media where ‘the deplorables’ preach their nasty opinions and conspiracy theories. In this way of censorship, their masses will not notice the rising cost of the Ukraine War, open door illegal immigration and public’s services which translates into very big tax rises for the lower classes this autumn.
I began studying economics at A Level, then on to University. It is a surprisingly simple subject as far as I am concerned. I soon realised who paid most of the taxes. After university, I worked for H M Inspector of Taxes where I was trained in tax law and its application. Next stop was working for an accountant in London’s West End, helping the rich to avoid taxes.
Meanwhile, the masses remain oblivious of how the system works. For various reasons I have spent many years living and working among them. One HGV driver colleague interrupted a conversation I was having in the driver’s despatch office just after midnight. He told my little gathering : “ I played truant as much as I could. left school as soon as I could, because I didn’t want to learn anything.”
So when the migrants appeared to have been taking over in Southport and across the crowded 10% of this obscene and unpleasant land, where 90% of the population live, where Starmer’s government offers amnesties for illegal migrants and no obvious barriers to African and Muslim boat people, the situation is volatile. It is a powder keg where marginalised, so called ‘privileged white men’ are tired of being made scapegoats for the rich powerful blacks and whites who built the slave trade. That is why the balloon went up after the son of asylum seekers from Catholic Rwanda, killed 3 young girls and injured others in the Southport slaughter. Yesterday’s updated statistics for mainly young white male drug related deaths in Scotland show nearly 4.500 this year alone. What part of this ‘community of communities’ did they belong to?
That is what life is like for priveleged white males. Meanwhile, thousands of men of all ages await sex change surgery in the age of J K Rowling being allowed to villify them as rapists in waiting. As a billionaire femints icon of what the authorities call a democracy, she gets away with it.
The great and good of politics, mainstream media and judiciary have no interest in the misery of the masses. The Southport attack, unlike the oft repeated judgements on black teenager Stephen Lawrence’s murder, which was immediately labelled racist, the Southport murders cannot be deemed racist. The same was so with the Nottingham killings, passed off as a matter of mental illness by a man whose student visa had expired..
It is true that blacks are more likely to murder other blacks just as whites are more likely to murder whites. But there is an ongoing provocation when blacks murdering whites is instantly and never racist. It is the same patronising white liberal mind set that male victims of domestic violence asked for it and women never lie. Excluding women and blacks from the responsibilities of `hate crime’, gives these people a huge sense of solidarity in their victimhood.
Starmer played on this when he got a landslide victory with 30% of the 52% of voters who bothered to vote. Kamala Harris, with massive support from the BBC and Sky News U.K, will enjoy the same easy path to victory, 68% of young female voters pledging support.. Any departure from the elite consensus politicians agenda is effectively a crime. The laws will get ever stronger as will their enforcement. The London Metropolitan Police even want to arrest Elon Musk for publishing unacceptable opinions.
R J Cook August 21st 2024.
August 19th 2024
Evidence produced at the first trial of Lucy Letby indicating which staff had been in the baby unit she worked in was incorrect, the Institutionally Corrupt Crown Prosecution Service (CPS, formerly headed by the current U.K Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ) has admitted.
Evidence in first Lucy Letby trial was incorrect, CPS admits
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CPS admits mistakes in Lucy Letby trial over ‘door swipe’ evidence
A migrant was appealing deportation for a series of sex crimes when he pushed a man in front of a train. Brwa Shorsh, 24, shoved Tadeusz Potoczek, 61, into the path of an oncoming Tube train at Oxford Circus station, in central London, on Feb 3.
Train pusher who tried to murder a man by pushing him …
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1 day ago — Kurdish migrant Brwa Shorsh, 24, shoved stranger Tadeusz Potoczek, 61, at Oxford Circus in central London on February 3. Although he denied …
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August 16th 2024
Great Britain, Home Of Privileged White Males by R J Cook
What way forward in the fight against the far right in the UK?
Single-issue protest cannot stop the rise of the far right. This requires the political and industrial mobilisation of the working class, the overwhelming majority of the population, for socialism.
Rail drivers in England should reject ASLEF’s Labour-backed sellout deal
ASLEF leader Whelan’s claim to have averted a “land grab” on working conditions is bogus. The plan is that these will be negotiated away once the dispute is over as part of the Great British Railways agenda of the Labour government.
August 14th 2024
Nigel Farage could be investigated by police over riot social media posts, ex-terror boss suggests
A former counter-terrorism chief has hinted police could investigate Nigel Farage’s social media activity following riots across the UK.
Neil Basu said authorities “will be looking at anybody who might have incited riots” during an interview withLBC on Tuesday (13 August).
Presenter James O’Brien asked Mr Basu: “Nigel Farage’s social media activity – do you think that should be investigated?”
Mr Basu replied: “I imagine my former colleagues are doing precisely that.”
The Reform UK MP has previously doubled down on claims that he did not provoke rioting following the killings of three young girls in Southport on 29 July.
“I’ve never been involved in violence, been involved in street protest, been involved in encouraging any of these things,” he told Talk TV on 8 August.
The Independent has contacted Mr Farage for further comment in relation to Mr Basu’s interview.
1 day ago — We keep hearing about ‘legitimate concerns‘ over immigration. The truth is, there are none. Maya Goodfellow. Maya Goodfellow. Immigrants aren’t …
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Rail drivers in England should reject ASLEF’s Labour-backed sellout deal
ASLEF leader Whelan’s claim to have averted a “land grab” on working conditions is bogus. The plan is that these will be negotiated away once the dispute is over as part of the Great British Railways agenda of the Labour government.
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August 13th 2024
Broken Britain – It’s All About Class.
| Broken Britain Sir Keir Starmer is right to condemn the recent violence. We do too, unequivocally. “Crime is crime, no matter the cause or motivation.” We agree. Unlawful behaviour and criminality remain just that, whatever issue or ideology the perpetrators attach themselves to. However, it’s also critically important that our Prime Minister and his ministers don’t take the events of the past couple of weeks as the opportunity to shut down debate about immigration and squash the deep concerns of millions of British people, some of whom sought to make clear how they felt with peaceful protest only to find themselves caught up in violent disorder and tarred with the ‘far-right’ brush. As Camilla Tominey wrote in her Daily Telegraph column this week: “Ever the lawyer, the Prime Minister has treated the unrest we have witnessed across these broken isles as a case to be prosecuted rather than a problem to be solved.” In a four-minute video on ‘X’, the “politically non-binary satirist”, straight-speaking and courageous Konstantin Kisin thought what has been going on went beyond Sir Keir Starmer. Do watch, Mr Kisin puts in a nutshell the problem we face as a country – uncontrolled, mass immigration and a failure to integrate too many of those who have come here. As for how most people perceive the violent disorder and how the government has dealt with it, according to new data, while only 8% of Brits express any sympathy for the violence seen in the recent protests, a notable 58% show support for the peaceful participants. This figure includes nearly two-thirds of Conservative voters and 83% of Reform party supporters, indicating a broad base of sympathy for those protesting peacefully and widespread rejection of violence. YouGov also reveals that 42% of Britons believe the peaceful protests are “completely” or “somewhat” justified, with support rising among Conservative (53%) and Reform (84%) voters. MW concerns remain the out-of-control immigration – legal and illegal and the government’s seeming laissez faire approach to it. As things are, millions of migrants will continue to arrive in the coming decades, millions will be added to our population, which will continue to see unprecedented growth deriving almost entirely from migrants and children born to them. The government appear unconcerned by the potential harmful effects that legal and illegal immigration will have on our economy, the cohesion of our society and on our ability to integrate those who come. Does it matter? I suppose not, if you are of the view that the steady demographic transformation to a population to one where the majority now will be the minority within the next forty years or so. Fact is, millions of people don’t want this to happen. And they don’t believe that to harbour such views is in any way extreme. Most people are happy with measured, necessary immigration that serves the interests of British citizens. Net migration of no more than 100,000 a year, and preferably significantly less, has to be the government’s ultimate goal. |
| Latest immigration data Reducing immigration is perfectly possible if the government of the day has the will. This can be done with a combination of closing down unnecessary immigration routes and the imposition of a cap. The government should study the latest data release. While immigration will remain much too high for the foreseeable future, we can still welcome the fall, which is entirely due to the measures belatedly introduced by the outgoing Tories. An analysis of the figures by the brilliant Guy Dampier puts into perspective the fall. |
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| There was quite a lot to choose from this week. Here are four that especially caught our eye. Dan Hodges, The Daily Mail – The man with a Swastika tattoo and his friends did not emerge from a vacuum. “People constantly opine ‘we need an open and honest debate about immigration’. We don’t. We’ve been debating immigration ad nauseum since the 1950s. The view of the majority is clear. They want legal immigration controlled and reduced, and they want illegal immigration eradicated. That’s it. The responsibility of politicians is now to stop talking about it, and deliver it.” Aris Roussinos, UnHerd – How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict “[Starmer’s] faltering attempt to steer the discourse following the Southport attack towards tackling “knife crime” — itself a British state euphemism — highlights the state’s ideological inability to address ethnic tensions frankly, and so manage them effectively. If it were happening in another country, British journalists and politicians would discuss such dynamics matter-of-factly. This is, after all, simply the nature of human societies. Indeed, it is one of the primary reasons refugees flee their countries for Britain in the first place.” Allister Heath, Daily Telegraph – These sickening riots have exposed our social model as a fraudulent sham “We need a rethink on immigration, legal and illegal: we are incapable of integrating current volumes. Our long-standing approach to policing, with its proto-colonial emphasis on managing “community relations”, fetishises a failed kind of state multiculturalism. A colour-blind approach, centred on individuals not groups, is the solution.” Matthew Syed, The Times – In Southport, I found raw grief, decency and moral courage “Millions of law-abiding people are alarmed at the speed and scale of immigration (legal and illegal) and the failure of some of them to integrate. It is neither right-wing nor extremist to note this. And it is therefore imperative that whatever short-term measures are brought in to deal with the violence, sanity must finally be brought to immigration policy, not least by amending human rights conventions and asylum treaties that are — to any sane observer — decades out of date.” |
| MIGRATION WATCH IN THE MEDIA |
| Writing to The Times, Migration Watch President Lord Green of Deddington urgently called on the government to “get a grip” on immigration and take decisive action to reduce the numbers. “Sir, Having advocated tighter immigration controls for more than 20 years, I was glad to see your fierce editorial about Britain’s immigration system (Aug 6). You rightly condemned the street violence which has often targeted asylum seekers, but the issues run much more widely. Immigration is nowadays ten or twelve times higher than asylum. The Conservatives’ legacy was net migration of about 700,000 a year for their last two calendar years. If anything on such a scale is allowed to continue the nature of our society will be changed irreversibly. This is what underlies the public’s concern, with some 60 per cent taking the view that immigration should be reduced. This matter must not be allowed to drift a moment longer. The government needs to get a grip, set a clear annual maximum for net migration of 100,000 a year, and take the necessary steps to achieve it.” Dr. Mike Jones, Executive Director of Migration UK, was quoted in The Daily Express discussing the issue of two-tier policing and commenting on remarks made by West Midlands Police Superintendent Emlyn Richards: “At first glance, the officer’s actions seem innocent – consulting community and business leaders before a planned protest. Gathering intelligence is part of their job, right? But listen closely: the purpose of the meeting wasn’t just to gather intelligence. It was to consult on the ‘style’ of policing needed. The officer even praised the community leaders for trying to police the events ‘within themselves’. Why are the police taking advice from community and business leaders on how to police, and why is policing being outsourced to these groups?” In an article for The Daily Express, Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet discussed the Common Travel Area with Ireland and emphasised the need for greater government transparency regarding the various methods illegal migrants use to enter the UK. “This is an all too frequent occurrence that does a disservice to the public and stymies democracy. The obduracy and stonewalling of the Home Office when it comes to releasing data that we have a right to know is frustrating. Perhaps we should expect it from a once great department of state that’s become dysfunctional, inefficient and ineffective. “The common travel area is an obvious gap that has been found by both traffickers and migrants. We used to work closely with the Irish even before we joined the EU. Since Brexit and the Windsor agreement, it has clearly got worse. Unless it’s plugged it will become worse still. Perhaps that’s why the HO is reluctant to reveal the data.” |
| MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD |
| Britain is at a breaking point. We cannot continue to pretend that mass uncontrolled, immiigration is in the interests of our country and it its citizens. It most certainly is not. Legal immigration must be reduced, and illegal immigration stopped. If we fail, damage to the economy and social chaos will be the legacy we leave our children and grandchildren. The political class is doing its best to stifle debate on this critically important issue. Peaceful and worried citizens resent being labelled ‘far-right’ for having the courage to voice their concerns. We will not be cowed into keeping our profound concerns under wraps any longer. Sir Keir and his ministers must be left in no doubt about how we feel. We will speak out and we will hold those in power accountable. Contact your Member of Parliament today and demand they address the immigration crisis head-on. The future of our country depends on it. |
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Man stabbed girl, 11, eight times, court told
- Published13 August 2024, 06:46 BST
A 32-year-old man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11-year-old girl was stabbed in London’s Leicester Square on Monday.
Ioan Pintaru, a Romanian national with no fixed address, is also charged with possession of a bladed article.
The prosecutor told the court that Mr Pintaru allegedly placed the girl into a headlock and stabbed her eight times. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court remanded Mr Pintaru in custody. He is due to appear at the Old Bailey in September.
The court heard that Mr Pintaru allegedly approached two tourists – the girl and her mother – in Leicester Square at about 11.30 BST.
The girl sustained injuries to her face, shoulder, neck and wrist during the attack, the court was told.
She remains in hospital and is likely to go undergo plastic surgery as a result of her injuries, the court heard.
Mr Pintaru only spoke, via an interpreter, to confirm his name, date of birth, and that he had no fixed address.
August 12th 2024
Get ready for more – By R J Cook
The following story is alarming but such behaviour may soon be normalised. Mainstream media have warned the public that police will be ever more vigilant and come down hard on anyone speculating about the motives of a killer targeting an 11 year old and her mother today- or any similar events past and present. Knife crime is a major London problem, but associating it with migrants is an explosive issue. Police, as with the Southport massacre, said that there is no connection with Islam or terrorism. Government have made clear that the 17 year old killer in that case was not an asylum seeker. However, his parents were. They came from Rwanda where only 2% of the population is Islamic
There has been no mercy for angry hopeless working class whites rampaging around 7 of the most deprived communalities in Britain. There is no mercy for these people who are living at best, one step up from the gutter. As with the Southport horror, and Nottingham killings by an African student, mental illness is the first line of defence. On the other hand, the attitude of the less deprived public toward the 12 year old white boy in court today for rioting ( sic ) is without mercy. The 12-year-old became the youngest person to be convicted over the riot in Southport that broke out in the wake of the killing of three young girls in a Dance Class. The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, appeared at Liverpool Youth Court on Monday to plead guilty to violent disorder in the Merseyside town on 30 July. He was arrested for kicking a vape shop window.
Blame for those riots which spread south as far as Portsmouth and Plymouth, has been variously placed on Nigel Farage and the English Defence League (EDL), once led by the infamous Tommy Robinson and hasn’t existed for years. Tommy Robinson now lives in Spain. However, the label ‘far right’ has been used to put protestors in their place. The U.K Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has said that now is not the time to talk about the deeper issues.
Meanwhile, the Labour Government is preparing powerful new legislation to police the internet and social media. It will soon be a major crime to criticise Islam. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has expressed serious concern about Islamophobia and the need to teach people to have more respect for the police. Starmer is the former Director of Public Prosecutions. He has said questions about his role as the director of public prosecutions (DPP) during the wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson, being refused the right to appeal, so serving 17 years on the basis of hearsay, fabricated evidence and the Prosecution withholding key evidence from the defence,, should be “directed elsewhere”. So goes the Labour Police State Mindset. Get ready for more.
R J Cook
August 12th 2024
Eleven-year-old girl stabbed in London’s Leicester Square
By Reuters
August 12, 20244:47 PM GMT+1Updated 3 hours ago
LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – An 11-year-old girl was seriously injured in a stabbing in London’s Leicester Square on Monday, police said in a statement, adding that a man had been arrested at the scene of the attack.
The police said they did not believe the stabbing was terror-related.
The girl’s mother, 34, received minor injuries during the incident in the busy central London area which is popular with tourists. The child’s injuries were not life threatening, police said.
A 32-year-old man was swiftly arrested and officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.
“An urgent investigation is now ongoing and detectives are working to establish the details around exactly what happened,” the police said. “At this stage we don’t believe the suspect and the victims were known to each other.”
Britain’s police forces remain on high alert after days of riots earlier this month, which were triggered by false online posts wrongly identifying the suspected killer of three girls in northern England as an Islamist migrant.
Sir Keir Starmer says questions about his CPS role during …
August 10th 2024
Doctors question union over puberty blocker views
Health editor Hugh Pym
About 1,000 senior doctors have written to the British Medical Association (BMA) saying they are “extremely disappointed” with the stance taken on gender services.
The BMA has said it opposes a ban on puberty blocker treatments and wants the reforms following a recent official review to be put on hold, following a vote by members of its Council.
But organisers of the letter say the doctors, including some former heads of Royal Colleges, have backed the open letter.
It accuses the BMA of being “opaque and secretive”, with the policy not reflecting the views of the wider membership.
The BMA has responded by saying it wants to carry out its own “evidence-led evaluation of the issues…and the state of transgender healthcare in the UK today”.
Why is there disagreement?
A review of gender services by the leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, commissioned by NHS England, was published in April.
It concluded that children had been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions.
Her report called for a move away from medical responses for children struggling with their gender identity, and the adoption of a broader based model incorporating better mental health support.
Shortly before the report was published, the one clinic offering gender services in England and Wales, the Tavistock in London, was closed.
NHS England said it would no longer support routine prescribing of puberty blockers, which the NHS used to prescribe as a way of halting puberty. This was followed by a government ban on the drugs.
In early August, NHS England announced its response to the main recommendations of the Cass Review.
This included setting up eight new centres to serve England and Wales by 2026, including two which are already running. Each will have a nominated paediatrician or psychiatrist with overall responsibility for patient safety.
Referrals will be made by mental health or paediatric services rather than directly from GPs. There will also be a clinical trial next year on the potential benefits and harms of puberty suppressing hormones.
There was a broad welcome from health leaders for the measures. However, the BMA has called for a pause to the implementation of the Cass Review’s recommendations and said it will carry out its own review of the findings.
The BMA, while welcoming news of next year’s trial, opposes the ban on puberty blockers and argues clinicians should decide on the treatment of patients.
Organisers of the letter to the BMA leadership say it has the support of about 1,000 doctors, more than half of whom are BMA members.
August 8th 2024
Stay on high alert for riots, Starmer tells police
Ruth Comerford
BBC News
Harry Farley
Political Correspondent
Keir Starmer has told an emergency meeting police will remain on high alert, after a week of violent disorder sparked by the killing of three young girls in Southport 10 days ago.
The prime minister chaired a meeting of police chiefs, ministers and officials on Thursday evening as part of the government’s emergency crisis response – the third since unrest broke out.
Sir Keir said there was “no doubt” rapid sentencing as well as having police in the right places across the country “acted as a deterrent” to prevent the further unrest that had been expected on Wednesday night.
Officials the BBC spoke to resisted the idea a corner had been turned.
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Police had expected more than 100 events on Wednesday night, with 30 counter-demonstrations planned, but most of these did not materialise and those that did were largely peaceful.
Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, one of the UK’s most senior police officers, stressed there was no room for complacency as “many potential events are still being advertised and circulated online”.
Almost 6,000 extra public order officers that were mobilised earlier in the week remain in place.
Tough sentences will continue with maximum publicity, to try to deter future violence, the BBC understands.
On Thursday, judges in Liverpool, Plymouth and Teesside, among other towns and cities, handed down sentences for violent disorder. There were 21 convictions on Thursday alone.
So far, 149 charges have been brought with police expecting the number to “rise significantly” as suspects are fast-tracked to appear in court.
More than 500 people have been arrested, and more than a quarter of those who have been charged are under the age of 21, the latest statistics show.
The mother of a teenager who faces charges for rioting told the BBC her son was caught up in the crowd and should not be “made an example of”.
The real story of the news website accused of fuelling riots
Marianna Spring
BBC disinformation and social media correspondent
- Published8 August 2024, 00:13 BST
What connects a dad living in Lahore in Pakistan, an amateur hockey player from Nova Scotia – and a man named Kevin from Houston, Texas?
They’re all linked to Channel3Now – a website whose story giving a false name for the 17-year-old charged over the Southport attack was widely quoted in viral posts on X. Channel3Now also wrongly suggested the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year.
This, combined with untrue claims the attacker was a Muslim from other sources, has been widely blamed for contributing to riots across the UK – some of which have targeted mosques and Muslim communities.
The BBC has tracked down several people linked to Channel3Now, spoken to their friends and colleagues, who have corroborated that they are real people, and questioned a person who claims to be the “management” at the site.
What I found appears to be a commercial operation attempting to aggregate crime news while making money on social media. I did not find any evidence to substantiate claims that Channel3Now’s misinformation could be linked to the Russian state.
How the tide turned after a week of riots
Daniel Sandford
UK Affairs correspondent
Six thousand riot-trained police officers were on standby to respond to potential disorder wherever it happened on Wednesday night.
But while thousands of anti-racism campaigners turned out, the far-right was largely absent.
That was a key moment when the tide turned in this wave of public disorder, says Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, one of the UK’s most senior police officers.
But he stressed there was no room for complacency, with the police now “very focused on the weekend” with “many potential events still being advertised and circulated online”.
He added: “Yes it was a turning point. Is it a decisive and definitive one?
“We will see over the coming days, but it was clearly a shift in behaviour.”
Communities had been braced for a night of unrest after it emerged a list purporting to contain the names and addresses of immigration lawyers was being spread online.
But this largely failed to materialise. Forces were aware of 160 sites of potential public disorder, but only 36 of those needed a significant policing presence.
Why? It appears the huge number of riot officers on standby, combined with the stiff sentences of up to three years in prison already handed out by the courts, had been an effective deterrent.
In practical terms, potential rioters seem to have been put off by the sheer number of police officers deployed.
Councillor arrested over counter-protest remarks
Michael Keohan, Jacob Panons & PA Media
BBC News, South East
Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging murder after comments at a London counter-protest.
Videos had emerged online reportedly showing Mr Jones telling a crowd in Walthamstow that far right demonstrators needed to have their throats cut.
A Labour spokesperson said: “This behaviour is completely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated.”
Mr Jones, and Dartford’s newly elected Labour MP Jim Dickson, have been approached for comment.
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police said a man in his 50s had been arrested in south east London on suspicion of encouraging murder and for an offence under the Public Order Act. He remains in custody.
In video that has circulated on social media, a man at the rally was filmed apparently saying: “They are disgusting Nazi fascists and we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.”
Reform leader Nigel Farage had called on X for Dartford councillor Mr Jones to be arrested.
Mr Jones, who has represented the Princes ward since 2019, will be unable to sit on the Labour benches at Dartford Borough Council meetings.
UK Prime Minister Starmer launches police “standing army” following far-right riots
Starmer’s promises make clear that the new force will be used not just against the far-right but all opposition to the government.
August 6th 2024
A day in court after the Rotherham riot
Oli Constable
BBC News
Reporting from
Sheffield Magistrates’ Court
- Published5 hours ago
Days of rioting and unrest across the UK have resulted in more than 400 arrests and 100 people charged.
Police officers have been injured, businesses torched and places of worship attacked.
In South Yorkshire, trouble flared on Sunday outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, near Rotherham, which is being used to house more than 200 asylum seekers.
Fast forward 48 hours, and some accused of being part of the disorder have been making their first appearances in court.
Arriving at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court, you could quickly see it was busier than normal.
Inside Courtroom 2, with its floor-to-ceiling glass dock, an extra usher has been drafted in to help, and the press benches are packed.
In the cells below, four men and two teenagers are waiting for their moment in court, all charged with being part of the violence.
Proceedings get under way at about 11:30 BST, with Christopher Rodgers the first brought into the room.
Wearing a grey t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms, he is told to stand as the clerk reads out the charge against him.
The 38-year-old from Barnsley is accused of being part of a group that was throwing missiles at police and then blocking the way as a line of officers moved forward.
‘Chin up big lad’
Asked how he pleads to the charge of violent disorder, he replies: “Not guilty, my love.”
After the short hearing, Deputy District Judge Simon Blakebrough deems Mr Rodgers’ case so serious it can only be dealt with in the Crown Court.
Mr Rodgers is remanded in custody ahead of a hearing on 20 August.
His friends shout “chin up big lad” as they leave the court.
Over the course of the morning, others suspected of being part of the violence are brought into the courtroom, interspersed with other cases on the list for the day.
One man appears on a possession of cannabis charge, another is accused of stealing a bottle of wine.
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Next to appear charged in connection with the hotel attack is Liam Grey, a 20-year-old from Mexborough, who, we hear, took a four-mile journey to the hotel.
Arriving in the dock, he blows a kiss towards two women sitting in the public gallery while prosecutor Mark Hughes outlines the case against him.
He is alleged to have tried to take a riot shield from an officer as he pushed against the police line.
Mr Grey pleads not guilty and is remanded in custody to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 20 August.
Head to the floor, he is led away by the dock officers. Blowing another kiss to the two women as he goes, he begins to cry.
August 5th 2024
One child still in hospital after stabbing – police
One child remains in hospital a week on from the fatal Southport stabbing attack, police have said.
Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, died after the stabbings at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on 29 July.
Eight children and two adults were also seriously injured.
Merseyside Police said all of the casualties had been discharged with the exception of one child.
Leanne Lucas, a 35-year-old yoga teacher, had arranged the workshop and was believed to be leading the class. She was described as being in a “critical condition” in the aftermath.
Her cousin Chris Rimmer called her a “hero” and said she had “shielded two girls” during the attack.
Jonathan Hayes, who runs a business next door to the dance studio where the attack took place, was also in a critical condition after being stabbed in the leg.
Axel Muganwa Rudakubana has been charged with three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder in connection with the incident.
In the days following the attack, violent disorder was seen in towns and cities across England
False claims were spread online that the person responsible was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat and a Muslim.
The 17-year-old suspect, from Banks, Lancashire, is due to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 25 October for a pre-trial preparation hearing.
The teenager, who was born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff and moved to the Southport area in 2013, has no known links to Islam.
Britain’s far-right riots: The class issues
The anti-immigrant riots that erupted this week in cities across the UK represent the most concerted efforts since the 1930s to develop a fascist movement in Britain.
Lucy Letby: The Case for Innocence (@letby_lucy60240) …X · letby_lucy60240620+ followers
Lucy Letby was not present at half the deaths of babies in the chaotic, understaffed, sewage-polluted neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 …
Is Lucy Letby innocent? – by Christopher Snowdon
Substack · The Snowdon Substack70+ likes · 1 month ago
The jury did not blindly assume that Letby must have been guilty of attacking a baby just because she was on duty when the incident occurred.
Is Lucy Letby innocent? I’m a miscarriage of justice …
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13 Jul 2024 — We cannot know whether Letby is innocent. Only Letby herself knows that. But we can say that she was never caught “red-handed”; she was not seen …
Comment The evidence against Lucy Letby was at best circumstantial. I have researched this case and have no doubt that this is another target driven miscarriage of justice and that Lucy is a scapegoat for a seriously failing NHS. The NHS cannot cope with migrant driven demand and most of the increased spending goes on impossble salary demands.
R J Cook.
| Weekend Essay |
| How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict This week’s riots won’t be the last |
| Online sleuths Why the Southport suspect’s identity matters Both Right and Left are projecting their demons SIMON COTTEE 5 MINS |
Comment Evidence that I am aware of suggests that the child killer’s parents were Rwandan African Muslim asylum seekers. So there is an asylum link and a probable racial or religious motive for these hideous killings, just as there was for the recent murder of a white bus driver by an African asylum seeker, That story has been played down and a racial motive ignored by a mauinstream media still writing and talking about Stephen Lawrence,
R J Cook
Mosque leaders find moments of hope after violent disorder
Rumeana Jahangir
BBC News, Liverpool
- Published1 hour ago
Among the many stark images emerging from the recent wave of unrest across England were photos of Muslims embracing protesters outside one of the country’s first mosques.
A demonstration was held outside the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque in Liverpool at the end of a week in which misinformation about the Southport attacks was blamed for stoking Islamophobia.
A counter-demonstration drew a several hundred more people and, once the situation had calmed, mosque volunteer Adam Kelwick and other worshippers crossed over in an attempt to speak to those present.
The mosque’s chairman Dr Abdul Hamid, a family doctor, believes there is a “fear of the unknown”, adding: “If they don’t get answers, they will try to find any excuse to label you.”
Scratching below the surface of what was going on, Mr Kelwick said he found people not be motivated by anything in particular – rather just lashing out in a state of general frustration.
He said: “None of the people who I spoke to mentioned Southport.
“I don’t think they knew what they were protesting about – I think they’re just angry, fed up.”
In fact, he said there were “beautiful interactions” as the group from the mosque were able to “break bread” and listen to some people’s concerns in “deep conversations”.
Photographs showed the sharing of food, hugs and handshakes were among the more positive posts being shared widely on social media.
“Some of the most vocal protesters, after everyone else had gone, came inside the mosque for a little tour,” Mr Kelwick added.
Dr Hamid, who works as a GP in a deprived area of Liverpool, said: “The far right are a spectrum so there are those who are very, very extreme but there are people who have certain issues, whether political or personal, and they need to vent that.
The urgent need to control and reduce immigration
| The urgent need to control and reduce immigration Migration Watch UK President (and joint founder with David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demography at St John’s College, Oxford) Lord Andrew Green delivered a short speech in the Home Affairs section of the King’s Speech debate on 24 July. He began with these words, “Our country is now facing its most serious challenge in nearly a century – yet no-one seems willing to discuss it.” Lord Green went on to say that no serious measures to reduce net migration had been outlined and no targets set. Instead, he said, the [new Labour] government “have focused on asylum which accounts for less than one tenth of the overall net inflow.” He continued, “Yet, even if they were to achieve a reduction in net migration to 350,000 a year, the population of the UK would increase by 9 million by the mid-2040s. That is roughly the population of central London. The impact on housing and public services will be immense.” As we have often pointed out in this newsletter, and as our President repeated in the House of Lords, over the past 20 years, the UK population has grown by 8 million – equivalent to eight times the population of Birmingham. Astonishingly, 85% of this growth was due to the arrival of migrants and their subsequent children. Lord Green explained, “the total for the last two calendar years was very nearly one and a half million.” This surge is not accidental but the result of specific decisions by the previous government to cave in to pressure from powerful lobby groups such as universities, corporations and the care sector. Our nation is facing an unprecedented challenge born of the sheer scale of current net migration. And while Labour can justifiably blame the Tories for making the bad situation inherited from Labour 14 years ago worse, they must not duck the responsibility that now falls to them to address the problem head-on. We must say, so far, their response has been unbelievably lax. Lord Green’s speech is a call for “courageous leadership” from our new government. It’s time for a clear commitment to bring net migration down to as close as possible to [or well below] 100,000 a year – a goal that 80% of the public favour. This isn’t just about numbers; it’s about preserving the integrity and future of the United Kingdom. Do watch Lord Green’s speech in full here. Getting on for a million people have now viewed it on X – formerly Twitter. And other social media platforms. |
| Labour’s immigration policy: a confused strategy and fiddling with the MAC So far, Sir Keir Starmer has binned Tory plans to hike the salary thresholds for the spouses of migrants, claiming it might hurt the “economic wellbeing” of the UK. Really? How would higher salary requirements be harmful to the economy? Earlier this year, the Tories raised the income threshold for bringing a foreign partner to the UK from £18,600 to £29,000 to cut down on legal migration. But now, Yvette Cooper, the new Home Secretary, has put the brakes on raising it further to £38,700 next year. Instead, she’s asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to take another look. Ms Cooper told MPs that the government needs to “balance respect for family life while also ensuring the economic wellbeing of the UK is maintained.” Labour’s plan is to tie the points-based system to new skills and better job standards, while also overhauling the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) by adding more Home Office staff to make it more “strategic” in forecasting future trends. The risk is that this could turn the MAC into a puppet for those wanting overseas labour instead of investing in British workers. The MAC must be independent to ensure its objectivity and reliability to provide evidence-based advice to the government. It must not become a self-serving tool for government, business and lobby groups. The idea that immigration can fix labour ‘shortages’ is baseless. Immigrants are workers and consumers. They don’t just fill jobs; they create more demand for goods and services, which may lead to more job openings and growth in GDP. What immigration won’t do is increase productivity and GDP per head. Labour’s plan to set up Skills England, an ‘expert body’ to manage national skills, strikes us as just more bureaucracy. Time will tell but we have little confidence that the scheme will work. There’s scant evidence that top-down approaches work by quickly identifying the specific and changing needs of different sectors. The skills needed vary widely, even within the same industry. A central, controlling body can seldom keep up. The risk is that, however well-meaning, any resulting mismatch of training programs and job market needs will lead to even greater reliance on cheaper migrant labour. |
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| Another brilliant, poignantpieceby Matt Goodwin on Substack – What did you expect? Britain’s protests reflect DECADES of elite failure “I’ve thought about many things since. But the one thought that keeps coming back to me is this. When a nation cannot protect its own children something has gone terribly wrong. And something has gone terribly wrong in this country. We can all see it, we can all sense it, even if we dare not say it out loud. The creeping sense of lawlessness. The overwhelming sense of hopelessness. The now inescapable conclusion that we’ve simply let too many people into our country who hate who we are. And a growing sense of desperation, rooted in the knowledge that nobody in power has any serious control over the country —over its streets, borders, future.” We also liked: Ben Sixsmith, The Critic – Southport and the inescapability of politics |
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| Speaking to the House of Lords, Lord Green of Deddington delivered a blistering speech on the long-term consequences of mass immigration: |
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| We must confront the political elites who dismiss our concerns and label us as ‘bigoted.’ The new government clearly won’t do it and has so far shown little appetite for meaningful reform of immigration policy. It has also already shown that it has no qualms about going back on promises. The only way to ensure they stay true to their word is through persistent public pressure. This means writing to your MP and clearly expressing your views. |
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From energy to football: the quangos being set up by Labour
Keir Starmer’s new public bodies reflect his style of government. We take a look at the more than a dozen planned
Eleni Courea Political correspondentSun 4 Aug 2024 12.00 BSTLast modified on Mon 5 Aug 2024 09.39 BST
Soon after taking office, David Cameron embarked on a highly publicised “bonfire of the quangos” – a mission to abolish more than 100 arms-length government agencies he thought were superfluous.
Keir Starmer, on the other hand, evidently sees a place for them – Labour has announced plans to set up more than a dozen.
The number of non-departmental public bodies has been in decline for decades, and currently stands at about 300, down from about 700 in 2010 when Cameron won power. In the 1970s, there were as many as 2,000.
“At the high point of executive agencies in the late-90s, there’s one paper which suggests that three-quarters of civil servants were employed in agencies of this kind,” Matthew Gill, programme director at the Institute for Government, said. “That was the point at which you had the bonfire of the quangos led by Cameron and Francis Maude. But the reduction in cost this led to was low compared with the reduction in number.”
The public administration select committee warned in 2011 that the “bonfire” had been poorly managed and failed to achieve its main aims of cutting costs and improving accountability.
Gill said Starmer’s plans for a slate of new public bodies reflects his style of government. “He likes to recruit experts or people with experience into particular areas of activity, for example the new prisons minister, James Timpson.”
Some of the new bodies will be formed by merging existing entities. Others will carry out specific functions within priority policy areas, such as investing in green energy and enforcing workers’ rights.
The Guardian takes a look at the ones that have been announced.
GB Energy
The most high-profile of Starmer’s new public bodies, GB Energy is a centrepiece of his policy agenda. A publicly owned company, it will invest in green energy projects and help build clean power supply chains across the UK. The government has committed £8.3bn of funding and begun the legislative process of setting it up.
Border Security Command
Launched within two days of Labour winning the general election, the Border Security Command is a new immigration enforcement agency that will bring together the police, security services and the National Crime Agency to try to tackle cross-Channel smuggling gangs.
Skills England
The Starmer government’s principal skills policy is to create a new agency tasked with resolving skills shortages in England. Led by the former Co-op chief executive Richard Pennycook, it will work with employers, the Migration Advisory Committee, trade unions and the Industrial Strategy Council. It will also lead reform of the apprenticeship levy.
Industrial Strategy Council
Labour’s manifesto commits to establishing an Industrial Strategy Council with representation from all nations and regions as well as businesses and trade unions. Its stated purpose will be to drive growth and end short-term economic policymaking. This forms part of the government’s plans for an industrial strategy.
National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
Two existing public bodies – the National Infrastructure Commission and Infrastructure and Projects Authority – will be merged into a powerful new authority. The purpose of this new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority will be to support major infrastructure projects, and forms part of the government’s plans to turbocharge building across the UK.
Passenger Standards Authority
Labour will create a “tough” rail passenger watchdog to improve standards on the UK’s train network. The Passenger Standards Authority will independently monitor standards and seek to improve performance, according to the manifesto.
Regulatory Innovation Office
Described as a regulator for regulators, this new office is intended to bring together existing functions from across government and promote innovation in regulation across sectors. The Regulatory Innovation Office will “speed up approval timelines and coordinate issues that span existing boundaries”, according to the manifesto.
National Jobs and Careers Service
The Department for Work and Pensions, led by Liz Kendall, has begun the process of combining the Jobcentre Plus network with the National Careers Service, combining two existing public bodies into one. The focus of the revamped jobs and careers service will be to tackle economic inactivity by focusing on career advice rather than benefits crackdowns.
Fair Work Agency
As part of the government’s plans to bolster workers’ rights, a single enforcement body – the Fair Work Agency – will be established. It will enforce rights to holiday pay, sick pay and parental leave. Angela Rayner has said it will have the power to levy fines, inspect workplaces, lodge civil proceedings and bring forward prosecutions.
Ethics and Integrity Commission
Largely spurred by the series of Conservative sleaze scandals under the last few prime ministers, Labour has committed to creating an Ethics and Integrity Commission with an independent chair to ensure probity in government.
House of Commons Modernisation Committee
Another new body that was mentioned in Labour’s election manifesto, the modernisation committee will seek to reflect some of the Commons’ “arcane procedures and outdated working practices” to help MPs better serve their constituencies. It will be tasked with reforming procedures and driving up standards.
School Support Staff Negotiating Body
Labour has committed to reinstating one of the bodies abolished by Cameron’s bonfire of the quangos – the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB). The reconstituted SSSNB would become the negotiating body for teaching assistants, cleaners, caretakers, technicians, catering staff and other school support staff.
Independent Football Regulator
In plans adopted from the last Conservative government, Labour has committed to passing a football governance bill which would set up an Independent Football Regulator. This will oversee men’s football clubs in England’s top five tiers, and seek to ensure their financial sustainability.
August 5th 2024
No 10 to hold Cobra meeting after weekend of escalating violence
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News
Lucy Clarke-Billings
BBC News
Updated 25 minutes ago
Downing Street has confirmed there will be an emergency response meeting on Monday after more than 150 people were arrested following violent disorder in UK towns and cities over the weekend.
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer condemned an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and promised those involved in unrest would face “the full force of the law”.
Police responded to violent scenes in Tamworth, Middlesbrough, Hull and other parts of the UK on Sunday.
The Cobra meeting will come after a sixth day of escalating violence following the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport last week.
Cobra meetings, or Cobr meetings as they are often also called, are named after Cabinet Office Briefing Room A on Whitehall.
It is an emergency response committee, a get together of ministers, civil servants, the police, intelligence officers and others appropriate to whatever they are looking into.
Monday’s meeting of the emergency committee will be intended to provide the government with an update on the violence over the weekend and the response in the coming days. It will involve relevant ministers and police representatives.
Police officer injured after second hotel targeted in Tamworth
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News
- Published4 August 2024
Three petrol bombs were thrown at a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Tamworth on Sunday night, Staffordshire Police said.
One officer suffered a suspected broken arm in what the force described as “targeted violence”, with projectiles and fireworks thrown from a “hostile” crowd.
Extra officers were drafted in from neighbouring forces in order to deal with the incident – which ended after the crowd was “successfully dispersed”, police said.
Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Ellison referred to the violence as “despicable thuggery” and said officers in Tamworth had shown “tremendous courage”.
Mr Ellison added: “The local community do not deserve to be subject to this behaviour, and neither do the brave officers putting themselves in harm’s way to keep everyone safe.
“We will be using footage from CCTV, air support and our officers’ body-worn video devices to identify those responsible and seek the toughest possible punishment for these acts of senseless violence.”
No one inside the Holiday Inn Express was injured, police said, but added that windows were smashed and petrol bombs were used to start a series of fires.
August 2nd 2024
Police office attacked and car on fire in unrest
A fire has been set next to a police building as protesters clashed with police in Sunderland during a demonstration linked to the Southport knife attack.
It follows beer cans and stones being thrown at police in riot gear outside a mosque in the city, and other clashes between rioters and the force.
Mounted officers pushed back demonstrators, some of whom were in masks, from the mosque on St Mark’s Road.
Northumbria Police said its officers had been “subjected to serious violence” and advised members of the public to avoid the area.
Police also had beer barrels thrown at them, as young men chanted “whose streets, our streets”.
Members of the crowd chanted in support of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, while others shouted racist slurs.
Cars in the city centre have also been targeted by the group, with one overturned car being set on fire.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service said it was at the scene of the fire by Sunderland Central Police office.
A crowd of about 200 anti-racist protesters also gathered outside the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque in Liverpool after rumours of a far-right protest there.
The group chanted “say it loud, say it clear: Refugees are welcome here”.
Director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson said extra prosecutors had been called into work this weekend to deal with the disorder.
“We have deployed dozens of extra prosecutors who are working round the clock this weekend, supporting the police, and ready to make immediate charging decisions so that justice is swiftly delivered,” he said.
Two nights of violent protest in English towns this week, following the knife attack in Southport, reveal how today’s far-right is organising in the UK.
A BBC analysis of activity on mainstream social media and in smaller public groups shows a clear pattern of influencers driving a message for people to gather for protests, but there is no single organising force at work.
Not everyone attending these protests or posting about the Southport attacks holds fringe views, supports rioting or has links to far-right groups. The protests also appeared to draw in people concerned about violent crime or misled by the misinformation that the attack was linked to illegal immigration.
So how did the protests – starting in Southport and spreading to London, Hartlepool, Manchester and Aldershot – begin?
Merseyside Police have publicly identified the English Defence League (EDL) as a key factor.
While there are people who describe themselves as EDL supporters, the organisation ceased to exist in any formal sense after its founder, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – who uses the alias Tommy Robinson – focused on spreading his message on social media platforms, where he has a sizeable following.
But its core ideas – in particular an opposition to illegal immigration, mixed with indiscriminate and racist claims about Muslims – are very much alive, and loudly and widely spread among sympathisers online.
Thrown into this mix are tropes from conspiracy theories that “elites” are somehow covering up the truth – including the abuse of British children.
A Patronising Bourgeoise by R J Cook
Comment The BBC is an elite and agency of the consensus political and economic system. So of course those elites cover up the truth, appeal for restraint on social media and pass ever more repressive laws. In the Southport tragedy, the New Labour consensus government is side stepping the issue of a second person from migrant African origins attacking and killing white people – then being excused as mentally ill.
There were also black gangs involved with the Primrose Hill killing of a white teenager and of the young footballer at a Birmingham night club. Every time this happens the media comes out very quickly, following police and government guidelines with a far right racist put down to anyone who priotests.
It is a very different story when it comes to Muslims protesting about war in Gaza, even though Muslims blatantly provoked it. There is a different story when it comes to Black Lives Matter, with protestors blaming all white people for slavery, in spite of the fact that powerful black leaders were complicit in the slave trade and it would not have worked without them.
White working class people are sick of hearing this all across the western world. They are sick of being patronised by the bourgeoise as if they profited from a slavery that made the ruling classes in the west and Africa very rich – and still does. They are sick of picking up the tax bill for public services overloaded by mass Third World Immigration while public servants claim massive pay rises for a system seriously failing to cope.
R J Cook
August 1st 2024
Diversity and The Police State.
Facial recognition plans are ‘alarming’ – privacy campaign group published at 20:3920:39
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plans to deploy facial recognition technology more widely in a bid to tackle disorder are “alarming”, a privacy campaign group says.
The measure is part of a new “national capability” across police forces to combat the unrest seen in parts of England in the wake of the Southport stabbings, Starmer announced earlier.
Big Brother Watch says the plan “threatens rather than protects democracy”.
“This AI surveillance turns members of the public into walking ID cards, is dangerously inaccurate and has no explicit legal basis in the UK,” the group’s director, Silkie Carlo,
A Perfect Excuse For Authorities Averse To The Truth.
- The suspect in the Southport stabbings has been named as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, 17, after restrictions preventing him from being identified were lifted
- He is charged with three counts of murder, 10 of attempted murder, and one count of possessing a bladed article and is remanded in youth custody
- PM Sir Keir Starmer denounces the actions of “a gang of thugs” who took part in a riot in Southport and says a new “national capability” will be established to tackle violent disorder
- Tuesday’s riot followed a vigil for the victims Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine
- Police officers have been given greater stop and search powers in Southport town centre, lasting until 18:00 BST on Friday
- Disorder broke out on Wednesday evening in parts of England, with more than 100 people arrested in central London, alongside disturbances in Hartlepool, Manchester and Aldershot
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July 31st 2024
Labour’s Future Britain Starts Here. Whatever Next ?
More than a dozen people have been detained after flares were thrown towards the gates of Downing Street at a protest in London following the Southport …
Political activists plan to protest at Downing Street, London, UK, from 19:00 July 31; increased security likely.
Southport protests spread to Downing Street Violence is erupting at a protest outside Downing Street in the wake of the murders and subsequent …
Rise in people fascinated by violence, police warn
Steve Swann
BBC News
- Published31 July 2024, 00:52 BST
The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudary.
The Islamist preacher from east London is starting a life sentence for directing a group banned under UK terror law, and encouraging support for it online.
The officers say his case highlights the continuing danger posed by radicalisers – and the violent groups they support.
But they also say counter-terrorism forces are now battling a wide diversity of threats – including from a worrying number of people who don’t support an underlying ideology, but are simply drawn to violence.
Young people being attracted to online extremism through conspiracy theories, the actions of “hostile states” such as Russia, and the “toxicity of our political environment” are also of concern, they warn.
Following Choudary’s trial, the BBC spoke exclusively to Matt Jukes, the UK’s head of counter-terrorism policing, and Rebecca Weiner, Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department.
They told us that alongside extremist groups energised by events in the Middle East, the new security threats were sparking multiple investigations.
It is a “palpably different picture than it was,” says Assistant Commissioner Jukes.
Deputy Commissioner Weiner singles out online extremism as probably the most important aspect of what she terms an “everything, everywhere, all-at-once threat environment”.
‘A town in tears’ and Reeves budget warning
Rioters robbed shops, says man who stood on drive to protect housepublished at 09:4209:42
Kris Bramwell
BBC News UGC team
I’ve just spoken to someone who lives in the area where the violence broke out last night. He wants to stay anonymous.
“I’d driven to see my mum and drove my car through a mob of angry people,” he says.
“They weren’t from Southport, you could tell from their accents. A lot of the people who were there were there to cause trouble. They were wearing masks. It was a free for all.
“The robbed a shop down the road. They knocked my wall down to get the bricks to use as missiles.
“They stood on cars. They were taking for sale signs from people’s gardens and using them as missiles.
“I wasn’t going to let them attack my house, that’s why I was stood on the drive. I feel sorry for the emergency services because they were in the thick of it.”
Riot van ablaze and cop injured in clash with ‘EDL supporters’
Violence has exploded in Southport following rumours about the identity of the stabbing suspect.
Shocking violence has erupted in Southport, with masked thugs setting police vehicles ablaze and attacking officers.
The protesters descended on a mosque in the town, following rumours about the 17-year-old suspect being questioned by police in connection with the horrendous fatal stabbings of three little girls yesterday morning.
Police given enhanced stop and search powers
As concerns continue to be raised about the violence in Southport, Police have introduced 24-hour Section 60 Order to the Southport area, giving officers enhanced stop and search powers.
The order, which came into force at 7:54pm on Tuesday, aims to help reduce the risk of serious violence, with Merseyside Police also confirming that they have deployed extra officers to try and maintain order.
In addition to the section 60 order, a Section 34 order has also been implemented targeting antisocial behaviour.
“Under the legislation, officers have the power to seize any item, including vehicles, used in the commission of anti-social behaviour,” Merseyside Police said in a statement.
“Should a person who has previously been directed to leave the area return, an offence would be committed, which they may ultimately be arrested for.”
GIRLS killed after the rampage on Hart Street on Monday. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Two …
Police were called to the incident, before the crowds grew in number and violent scenes escalated, leaving officers outnumbered. Worshippers were also said to be inside the mosque when flames began climbing up the building’s fence.
Riot vans and officers swarmed the area amid chants of “No surrender” and “English till I die” from sections of the crowd. Hundreds of youths and men continued to gather in streets surrounding Hart Street, where the fatal attack took place.
Firecrackers were set off, as wheelie bins, bricks and glass bottles were launched at officers, clad in body armour, before a police van was set alight. Huge plumes of smoke could be seen billowing overhead above the escalating scenes of violence.
Young victims named after UK dance class stabbings
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Violence has erupted near the vigil for three murdered schoolgirls in Southport after police intervened with a mob reportedly attacking a …
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African Immigrant Anthony Esan, 24, appears in court charged with attempted murder of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton.
July 27th 2024
Reeves set to reveal public finance shortfall of billions
Economics editor
Updated 11:11 BST
The new chancellor is set to use an audit of public spending to make claims of a “black hole” in the government finances worth tens of billions of pounds.
Rachel Reeves said she would give a statement to Parliament on Monday showing “honesty” about the scale of the challenge faced by the new Labour government.
She vowed to “fix the mess we inherited” but would not confirm speculation that the gap in the public finances stood at more than £20bn per year.
The Conservative Party accused the new government of “peddling nonsense”.
Labour will suggest the Conservatives left various crucial public services unfunded in areas from public pay to prisons.
“On Monday, the British public are finally going to see the true scale of the damage the Conservatives have done to the public finances,” a Labour source said.
“They spent taxpayers’ money like no tomorrow because they knew someone else would have to pick up the bill. It now falls to Labour to fix the foundations of our economy and that work has already begun.”
However, Conservative shadow chancellor Jeremy Hunt said Labour’s claims were “nothing but a fabrication” and accused the government of “laying the ground for tax rises”.
Pay deals
On Monday, Ms Reeves will also set out the government’s response to the public sector pay recommendations, which are about 3% higher than in current spending plans.
The chancellor is likely to accept some above-inflation pay settlements for public sector workers after being warned by independent pay bodies about recruitment and retention challenges, and calculating that the public is keen to draw a line under months of rolling strikes.
Cabinet ministers have spent the week saying a thorough look at their departmental books has revealed more “severe” problems than previously anticipated.
The opposition says this is an elaborate effort to butter up the public for some tax rises at the Budget in the autumn.
The “black hole” arises because the government says it must spend extra money to keep public services functioning.
However, governments draw up their own rules on how much they should borrow to fund public services like the NHS and how the country’s debt is managed.
Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said it was difficult to know how big the gap in the public finances was, because it depends on how much the government wants to spend.
Labour has pledged not to raise taxes “on working people” including most aspects of National Insurance, income tax and VAT.
“Big tax increases, given the constraints they’ve put on themselves, aren’t impossible, but they’d be pretty difficult,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
The extra money the government needs to find to meet self-imposed targets around debt in the future has been labelled the “black hole”.
Some economists suggested during the election that many of these spending pressures, and the possibility taxes would need to be raised to fund them, were obvious and should have been made clear to the voting public.
Comment It was pretty obvious that Labour were lying and making it up as they went along. Starmer is right when he promised change, but it won’t be for the better.
R J Cook
July 26th 2024
Manchester Airport: Ex-police chief warns of ‘summer of discontent’ over race failings
Exclusive: ‘I cannot discount the possibility that people are going to get more frustrated and take matters into their own hands,’ says former Met Police chief Leroy Logan
Race Correspondent
A former Metropolitan Police chief has warned of a “summer of discontent” following widespread condemnation of an officer who kicked an Asian man in the face at Manchester airport.
Ex-Met superintendent Leroy Logan reacted to footage of Tuesday’s incident, which went viral on social media, warning that this latest case of violent policing of Asian, Black and minoritised communities will spark riots as part of ongoing concerns about racist police officers.
Greater Manchester Police, which said it understood people’s “immense feeling of concern”, has since removed the officer from operational duties and has referred itself to the police watchdog for investigation.
“We could be looking at a summer of discontent where people are going to hit the streets,” Mr Logan told The Independent on Thursday.
“You’ve had recent issues in Leeds where people rioted and it was dealt with within a small geographical area.
“Things can really kick off when officers don’t treat people with respect and dignity.
“I don’t condone bad behaviour or criminality of any sense, but I cannot discount the possibility that people are going to get more frustrated and take matters into their own hands.
“Martin Luther King Jr said: ‘Uprisings are the language of the unheard.’ I just get a really bad sense that the police are going from bad to worse.”
thuggery” he has seen by an officer.
Comparing the Met Police, Britain’s largest police force, and GMP, Mr Logan said racism and institutional problems across both are the same while “toxic cultures” have been able to develop within policing units.
Comment Never mind. At least the U.K has money to police language, rout out sexism and fund the Capitalist NATO Proxy War on Russia. Russia must be be kept out of Africa, India, Pakistan and the rest of the free world, at all costs, in case they bring enlightenment, prosperity and an end to Western Corporate Capitalist Elite Hegemony, sanity and an end to Western Elite exploitation and profiteering for the benefit of their top 3 %. All the west has to offer the global impoverished masses is the vacuous word democracy and religious oppression in the name of diversity and equality. Britain is real Third World now, and a very violent place.
R J Cook
‘The ick’, ‘boop’ and ‘chef’s kiss’ added to Cambridge Dictionary
A phrase popularised by Love Island joins more than 3,200 other entries relating to online gaming, parcel thefts and more
Ella CreamerThu 25 Jul 2024 17.53 BSTLast modified on Thu 25 Jul 2024 17.55 BST
“The ick” is among the more than 3,200 words, terms and phrases added to the Cambridge Dictionary so far this year.
Meaning “a sudden feeling that you dislike someone or something or are no longer attracted to someone because of something they do”, the term has gained prominence online in recent years after being used on reality show Love Island.
Usage examples given by the dictionary include: “I used to like Kevin, but when I saw him in that suit it gave me the ick”, and “If you suddenly feel repulsed by someone you’re dating, that’s the ick talking”.
Another term often used on social media and in texts that has made it into the dictionary is “IYKYK” – an abbreviation for “if you know you know”, used to suggest there’s shared knowledge or a shared joke with the reader that others might not understand.
Comment This is a perfect example of dumbed down Britain, an excuse for a nation where its’ arrogant leaders and military lunatics are preparing for war against Russia. The other notable thing about these derogatory terms, so proudlly added to the Cambridge University dictionary, is that the examples, shown here, are being used as terms of abuse for conceited young women, like pictured mobile phone artist Olivia Attwood, to use and encourage other similarly stupid ‘uni’ and ‘chav’ girls to use against men. It wouldn’t be allowed against women however nauseating or ill fitting for their clothes. This is the moron culture that Russia has to look forward to if NATO is allowed to defeat them.
‘The ick’, ‘boop’ and ‘chef’s kiss’ added to Cambridge Dictionary
R J Cook
July 25th 2024
Protest held after Manchester Airport kicking video
A police officer is filmed appearing to kick and stamp on a man’s head lying on the ground
Francesca Gillett
BBC News
A crowd of people has protested outside a police station in Greater Manchester, amid anger over a policeman filmed kicking a man in the head at the city’s airport.
Chanting “shame on you”, the protesters in Rochdale accused the police of institutional racism, footage from the protest online appears to show.
Greater Manchester Police said it understood people’s “immense feeling of concern” and respected the right to protest – and that the demonstration had finished “safely without incident”.
The force has referred itself for investigation and removed one officer from operational duties following the kicking video.
The video, filmed at Manchester Airport on Tuesday evening, shows a male police officer holding a Taser over a man, who is lying face down on the floor.
The officer then appears to stamp on and kick the man in the head, while other officers shout at onlookers to stay back.
The video was widely shared on social media and has been described as “truly shocking” by the police force itself.
At the protest on Wednesday evening, a crowd of what appeared to be several hundred people gathered outside a police station in Rochdale.
The Manchester Evening News reported that one of the protesters had told the crowd they were “no longer going to settle” for “police brutality”.
GMP said its officers had been called to Terminal 2 of the airport at 20:25 BST on Tuesday following reports of a fight.
It said while trying to arrest a suspect, three of its officers were violently attacked and punched to the ground. One officer suffered a broken nose and all three needed hospital treatment.
“As the attending officers were firearms officers, there was a clear risk during this assault of their firearms being taken from them,” a spokesman for the force said.
Four men were arrested at the scene for affray and assault on emergency service workers.
GMP earlier said it had voluntarily referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct – the watchdog that oversees police conduct and investigates complaints.
The IOPC said it would assess GMP’s referral “and decide what further action is required”.
‘Difficult to watch’
Amar Minhas from Leeds told the BBC he was coming through arrivals when he saw the scene unfold.
He said police officers had approached one of the men, in his early 20s, and told him he was a wanted man, before “they pinned him up against a wall”.
Another man then “started on the police” and a fight ensued, he said.
The man who was being pinned against the wall started “throwing punches, he was Tasered, and fell to the floor”, Mr Minhas said.
“That’s when the policeman kicked him.”
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, described the video as “disturbing” and said he recognised “the widespread and deep concern” it had caused.
He said he had raised his concerns with GMP’s deputy chief constable.
Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, described the video as “difficult to watch”.
July 21st 2024
11 Jan 2024 — The Labour leader says the Crown Prosecution Service he led handled a total of four million cases … fraud. In a BBC interview, Sir Keir said …
The liberal and fascist feminist mainstream media amplified lie is that women never lie, seeking attention or revenge and that accused white men always lie because they are privileged white males deserving of negative discrimination. Their very nasty brand of sexism and racism is acccepted as fully justified by the socio legal mainstream.
R J Cook.
Harriet Harman’s proposal to keep sexual histories out of court will put innocent people in prison. thesecretbarrister, July 5, 2017.
21 Aug 2023 — … Crown Prosecution Service when I was director of public prosecutions”. … Mr Malkinson, 57, was found guilty of raping a woman in Greater …
10 Jun 2010 — She appears to be comfortable with the concept that better a few men are tarnished and all that follows than have a guilty man go free
Comment
Mr Malkinson, like so many victims of the Police CPS symbiotic injustice system, was convicted on hearsay and police fabricated evidence, with police withholding evidence. This vile U.K Police fascist state has no grounds for criticising and condemning Russia. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Starmer was either incompetent or complict in the despicable U.K CPS corrupt practice. In either case, he was unfit for purpose and should not be leader of the absurdly named U.K Labour Party.
R J Cook
10 Jan 2024 — The Crown Prosecution Service prosecuted at least three sub-postmasters for theft and fraud caused by the Post Office Horizon system while …
13. Maurice Berry. And people will still vote for this corrupt globalist clown!!!!! 6 mos. 74. Dean Cook. Maurice Berry yep,total delusion. 6 …
Claim: Keir Starmer stopped Jimmy Savile being charged in 2009.
July 20th 2024
Rape, sexual assault and other sexual offences · Road traffic incident … in custody, use of strip-search, and the handling of complaints.
Women and girls ‘humiliated’ in police custodyBBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › articles
One of them, Zayna Iman, alleged she had been strip searched and sexually assaulted by custody officers, although she did not formally engage …
Women faced unjustified strip searches in police custody, report finds · <p> … Gunshots fired at Manchester house in ‘targeted’ attack · <p>Court artist …
When can police strip search you?
MTIP or More Thorough Intimate Parts searches ( this is the language used by police to describe what is commonly referred to as “Strip searches”) can take place either before or after an arrest. If after arrest, this is a strip search and it takes place in custody.
A woman who claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted in a cell at a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) station has told the BBC she has no confidence in official reviews set up to investigate her claims. Zayna Iman waived her right to anonymity to speak about her detention at Pendleton police station in 2021
Woman has ‘no faith’ in GMP custody probe – BBC
7 Sept 2023 — Zayna Iman is demanding answers, six weeks after claiming on Sky News she was raped in a police cell in Manchester. Police statements released …
Comment I used to know a very senior officer. He used to tell me stories of his adventures as a young constable. He told me about a man he and his partner pulled over, They spotted bra straps outlined under his shirt. So they took him back to the station for a strip search. I think the Wayne Couzens says so much about this sick poilice mindset. Like recruits and promotes like and police chiefs admitted they would need 200,000 applicants to get the right people for 20.000 jobs.
R J Cook
‘I can’t forgive PCs for photos of my dead girls’
Mina Smallman ‘can’t forgive’ police who took photos with murdered daughters
Emma Barnett
BBC Radio 4
This article contains some content readers may find distressing.
The mother of two women who were murdered says she has forgiven their killer, but not two police officers who took photos of their bodies.
Mina Smallman told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that she does not feel “hatred” towards the man who killed her daughters, Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, in June 2020.
But she said the Met Police officers who sent photos of their bodies to a WhatsApp group chat had “violated” the victims – and for that reason she has not forgiven them.
“Obviously what they did wasn’t as bad as murdering,” Ms Smallman said.
“But you’re telling me you have violated our girls, further?
“Because of that – them I haven’t forgiven.”
Ms Smallman, 27, and Ms Henry, 46, were stabbed to death by Danyal Hussein in June 2020.
PCs Jamie Lewis and Deniz Jaffer were deployed to guard the crime scene in Wembley, where the two sisters were found. They took pictures of their bodies, describing them as “dead birds” on a group chat, an offence for which they were each jailed for 33 months.
Ms Smallman said that when the two men were released, she attempted suicide, an incident she describes in her book A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength.
“I just thought: ‘I don’t want to be here.’
“I’ve had enough. And yeah – I attempted suicide.”
Ms Smallman, a campaigner for women’s safety, said police needed to take the online misogynistic radicalisation of young men more seriously.
“A lot accelerated during lockdown … [young men became exposed] to dialogues that suggest that if you can’t get a girlfriend it’s because women have become more dominant and men have lost their place in society.”
“This is radicalisation that is happening to our young men, it is feeding those haters to hate even more, and giving them the tools to hurt women in their lives.”
Earlier this month she called for more black officers to be deployed in London, appearing at the launch of the Alliance for Police Accountability (APA), a group of bodies fighting racism and misogyny in the police.
July 19th 2024
Leeds incident: Why did rioting break out in Harehills? Calendar · West Yorkshire Police · Leeds. Friday 19 July 2024 at 5:00pm.
Riot in Leeds as police car overturned, bus torched and fires in Harehills … riots under control (Reuters). Police said no injuries were …
Footage taken in the aftermath of the unrest in the Harehills area of the city on Thursday night shows the charred wreckage of vehicles, …
For many, Andrew Malkinson’s case a sign the CCRC has ..
Report reveals miscarriage of justice review body contemplated rejecting Andrew Malkinson’s case for a THIRD time. Report reveals miscarriage …
The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › law › article › jul › for-…
Andrew Malkinson had only just stepped outside the court of appeal last summer when he received a message of apology from Greater Manchester …
Last month Northamptonshire’s Chief Constable was summarily dismissed when exposed as an habitual liar and fantasist. Apologies are not enough from these people who ruin lives. I wouldn’t have escaped jail if I killed people with my truck before corrupt police got me fired, alleging that I was a delusional paranoid schizophrenic, alcoholic and so much more to settle their long term grudge. They even raided my home on February 5th 2018,, confiscated computers, mobile phones, my digital tachograph card vital for my work, my debit card and taped records used for my writing work along with my digital recorder. I was arrested, handcuffed and taken to Aylesbury police cells where I was held for over 8 hours, 7 of them in a dirty stinking cell with a concrete slab and one blanket for a bed,.
They were using fabricated evidence that I had outed myself to them et al as working for my eldest son and his associates as a gay prostitute. Thames Valley Police even wrote tomy doctor reporting all as matters of fact because they are accomplished liars. At the time I was on my fortnightly rest day from my job as a long distance truck driver at the time. Here I worked overtime every day – hence the obligatory rest day. This was not my first or last expereicne of these vile people.
Knowing they were lying on February 5th 2018, the lead officer went to ground. So after 3 months I left increasingly angry messages on his phone. Thames Valley Police responded by taking me to Crown Court for harassment and causing alarm and distress to the said police officer. It is a job to find kind and pleasant wors for such monstrous despcicable abusers of power and the public purse – masquerading as heroes.
We now have a Prime Minsiter, boasting of his public service heading a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that colluded with police in hiding evidence to get the likes of Andrew Malkinson jailed for over 17 years before Greater Manchester Police and CPS criminal misconduct was exposed. In this context, U.K’s self righteous bombastic Police Federation were outraged by a Channel 4 New Comedy starting tomorrow.
They objected to its humour and tile : ‘Piglets’, churning out their mantra that the heroic police’put their lives on the line for us everyday.
R J Cook
R.J. Cook
July 18th 2024
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Women’s Rights have no meaning, like all human rights, outside of the political system and structure created by an ancien regime of a global ruling elite. This is why the U.S claims exceptionalism on the matter of war crimes – they act only for good so sometimes must break the laws and rules big time. With too much money in too few hands they are mindlessly supported by saluting silly obsequious old men happily living in a D Day fantasy land. Here they are supporting and reliving mindless nostalgia for a golden age that never existed. This is as an example for other young men to face sacrifice because the elite media tells them they face imminent invasion by Russia, whilst at the same time sneering that Russia can’t even beat Ukraine. But the elite do not have to make sense or tell the truth.
This consensus outlook of elites exhorts the massacre and genocide of millions of young white men on both sides of the NATO Ukraine proxy war on Russia, in the service of an elite that would not spit on these underlings if they were on fire.
The delusional who parade their medals and war stories, are rather like President Biden with very poor judgement or memory due to their old age – assuming they ever had any good judgement to wither in the first place. My father was wounded at Dunkirk in 1940, when only 20 years old. As a patriot, he was promoted and transferred to the Military Police, posted to Liverpool in time for its version of the Blitz.
His enthusiasm for his country was in spite of the hardship of growing up on the miserable streets of North London and living in a slum during the Great Depression. Sadly for our family he died from the effects of being buried under a stack of bricks while working as lorry driver for the London Brick Company. That was in 1962, he was 41 years old. He was never keen to talk about the war, but during his last months bed ridden at home, before they took him away to die in hospital nine months later, I stayed off school and enouraged his reminiscenses. I was there with my mother and sister on the sunny October Saturday when he died. I ran out of the back doors of the wartime hut they were still using as Ward 10 at that Aylesbury hospital, laying face down on the grass.
The flowery patterned screens had been put around him when his moment came and he started his death rattle. I broke my heart and was changed for ever. His death altered the course of my life. He had plans for all of us and worked himself to death to make them happen, cycling a round trip of 20 miles daily to and from the brickyard to pick up his lorry in the early hours in all weathers.
I missed my father. But luckily I had lots of uncles and grew up in an extended family with an aunt and uncle living next door. If any of us needed help from another then we knocked on the wall. Now there are 2.9 million single parents in the U.K. 84% of them are families headed by women. I am sickened by the likes of billionaire J K Rowling and her feminist followers always complaining about the automatic hardship of being a biological woman.
At the University of East Anglia ( UEA), four years after I left school aged 16 in 1967, I had to study six subjects for my first year examinations. One of those subjects was philosophy. The subject was annoying to me, but oddly enough I was brilliant at it without knowing what I was doing. In those days only 3% of the population went to university. UEA had only 3,500 students on a green campus on the western edge of the city of Norwich, by the river and adjacent to countryside. We were pampered. I spent all of my 3 years living in well appointed residences with my room cleaned daily.
Back to the subject of philosophy. My young little personal tutor looked like the Man From Uncle’s Illya Kurryakin, wearing gold framed circular lensed spectacles making him look very serious when he talked to me. He was so pleased with my first essay on the subject that he recommended I major in philosophy. Here I would definitely get a first. I didn’t follow his advice because my life experience had been limited by material poverty, so I didn’t consider it a real subject. Concepts like ‘You can’t say all crows are black because you will never see all crows’, seemed absurd.
Many years of bitter experience has taught me to know better. All the complicated linguistics of philosophy had serious purpose then but apparently not in today’s western world where lying manipulative politicians are in the devil of marriage to elite mass media. My undergraduate and graduate contemporaries turned into the ultimate careerists, police officers, liars, profiteers, planet eaters and hypocrits.
The connection here with those hypothetical crows is simple. Substitute men for crows and you have the reality that as man or woman you will never meet all men so you cannot reasonably say that they are all the same.
But that is what billionaire J K Rowling does. She is equally certain that there is no such state of being as a man in a woman’s body. She offers no view on lesbians or them being risks to women in women’s safe spaces and public toilets because she is all about women. Women are as close to human perfection as it is possible to be, according to her mantra and reasoning. Moreover, male to female transsexuals regardless of how far they are along with their transition, are still men and even more hell bent on committing sexual assault and rape of women who are universally innocent and desirable.
Her acolytes and failing women are ever grateful to Rowling for making it a fact, by decree of the power invested in her by Hogwarts Magicians, book and film profits, that any flaws in woman are caused by the ubiquitous male rapist abuser, actual or intending, now dangerously transmogrifying in female form. This is rather like the malevolent wolf in ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ One of the unintended consequences of Rowling’s vicious sophistry is that little boys and male youths are hearing this from a children’s author well known to them. She is telling their sensitive ears that boys are likely to grow into something nasty. The ones without fathers are most likely being feminised and were aware of what Rowling portrays as transmogrification. So where does this leave the boys already on the sex change production line.
The brutality of how the gender divide has been widened, thanks to Rowling’s magic powers and her money, this cowardly feminist war masquerading as bravery, is appalling. Starmer’s Labour Government is following Tory and devout Hindu Rishi Sunak in proscribing Male to Female Transsexuals as freaks who have no legal right to be treated as women. Britain’s diversity culture has nothing to do with equality. Nor does feminism. It is all about control.
Feminists, like Rowling, interpret the Equalities Act reference to women being biologically female as a ‘protected characteristics’ which cannot be violated by birth males having treatment to physically feminise them with female legal status. Nothing can approximate to the wonderful world of womanhood. Publishers have female anti racist ‘sensitivity readers’ to protect this version of truth.
Feminists know in general, though you cannot logically argue that all crows are white virginal or black, that they have the higher status, credibility and legal advanatage. The laws of physics apply here : ‘action and reaction are equal and opposite.’ Newton’s third law simply states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, if object A acts a force upon object B, then object B will exert an opposite yet equal force upon object A.
However, feminists effectively speak ex cathedra. Ex cathedra is a Latin phrase, nowadays meaning not “from the cathedral,” but “from the chair.” Fittingly, given the nature of Rowling style feminism, the phrase has religious origins. It was originally applied to decisions made by Popes from their thrones. According to Roman Catholic doctrine, a Pope speaking ex cathedra on issues of faith or morals is infallible. Presumably Feminism is working towards its faithful electing its own version of a Pope. An accomplished fantasy writer like Rowling would be perfect, as her cult are rewriting the diktats of creartion.
Women, in spite of claiming equality, demand physically safe spaces from men. Many want a male curfew on the grounds that men curb female freedom of the night. They do not accept transsexualism. In my view this should work both ways because women do lie about sex offences and domestic violence ( IPV), especially when they are in danger of being discovered cheating on partners or in the process of milking a man for divorce benefit and custody of the children. Women also fantasise about sex far more than men do. That is why so many of them tuned in to watch impassioned Ross Poldark rape Elizabeth.
As for female on male domestic violence, a man is immediately judged as one or all of the following a) a wimp who can’t stand up to a woman b) a liar c) having provoked his wife or partner’s violence as in the Caroline Flack case d) mentally ill.
This is no doubt that feminists fear men approaching any kind of equality with them. I recall a department meeting back in the 1980s, where a diminutive loud voiced female teaching colleague with stacks of permed blonde curls, declaiming during a meeting regarding a troublesome 9th year Pakistani boy. She had responded to a brusque Northern female senior teacher suggesting castration as a useful dampener on his young male disruptive behaviour and enthusiasms. The little blonde responded quickly and furiously : “What a terrible thing to say. My friends tell me I should have been black.” The Northern woman, smirking, her fingers casually playing with a pencil, replied : “Why is that Mary?” Mary replied righteously : “Because I am a woman and know what it is like to suffer.”
That seems to be the enduring feminist message. Labour have got right on to feminist requirements with today’s promise to make drink spiking illegal. Call me rather OCD if you like, but I have never left a drink unattended in a public bar or other space. There is no telling what might get into it. But this is the world for men in the not so United Kingdom and much of the west. As Hilary Clinton pronounced in 2016, “Human Rights are Women’s Rights, Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” We are going to experience a lot more of this under what will become a Starmer Labour hegemony when they push through a new voting age of 16. That is another story.
R J Cook
July 17th 2024
9 hours ago — Roy Keane stayed up all night celebrating England’s defeat by Spain in the Euro 2024 final… or at least that’s what it sounds like.
Over 1000 illegal migrants have arrived in the U.K since Starmer’s Labour Government were elected.
- Sir Keir Starmer has pledged “national renewal” as the government outlined its plans during the King’s Speech
- They include nationalising railway operators and speeding up the delivery of “high-quality infrastructure and housing” – but there’s no specific mention of votes for 16-year-olds
- Also in the speech was charging VAT on private school fees, and using “counter-terror style” tactics to stop cross-Channel people smuggling
- The government announces a new child poverty taskforce, but Starmer faces some pressure on not scrapping the two-child benefit cap
- Rishi Sunak says his party will oppose the government where necessary – but not for its own sake
An election victory for Labour made real as the King reads out their plans for government.
This is a hefty set of legislative plans – ministers keen to capitalise on the momentum of their recent win by cracking on and being seen to crack on.
Governing isn’t only about passing new laws; ideas for new laws can get bogged down, side-tracked, amended.
And stuff happens, stuff always happens that seizes the agenda.
But this is a government with a majority as hefty as these legislative plans, so it’s a fair bet plenty of them will reach the statute book, will become law.
I’ll be watching next for the order in which these bills begin their legislative journey – that’ll be a further indication of the new government’s priorities.
And – taking a step back – the key thing here is what ministers see as their driving mission: economic growth. Can they actually help deliver it and if so how quickly? That is the test they have set themselves and against which they will be judged.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c250v53jz5dt
July 16th 2024
Shivani Chaudhari and PA Media
BBC Essex News
A woman has denied assault after a milkshake was thrown over Nigel Farage during the general election campaign.
The Reform UK leader was leaving a pub in Clacton-on-Sea on 4 June having launched his candidacy for the Essex constituency when a milkshake was hurled in his face.
Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, of St Osyth Road in Clacton, has appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to assault by beating and criminal damage.
Mr Farage, who won the seat after the 4 July vote, was campaigning at the Moon & Starfish pub on the seafront when the incident happened.
He seemed to make light of the incident later on in the day when he posed with a tray of four milkshakes in the nearby village of Jaywick.
Ms Thomas Bowen has been released on unconditional bail and is next due to appear at the same court for trial on 21 October.
Caroline Liggins, representing the defendant, said: “My client strongly protests her innocence and looks forward to fighting these unjust charges in court.”
July 15th 2024
| The Starmer era has begun. The flurry of early announcements inspires little confidence Sir Keir Starmer was as good as his word. No sooner had he and Yvette Cooper, his Home Secretary, got going in their new roles than the Rwanda scheme was no more. Over two years of parliamentary time, three acts of parliament and £270 million to the Rwanda government – not a penny of which will be returned (who can blame them?) and Rwanda was in the bin. Sir Keir can argue all he likes that it was all in the Labour manifesto and that he had been telling us for some time what he would do with the Tory scheme, if elected. But to chuck it on the first day in office, before even consulting the experts who have been dealing with the problem for six years – and without anything to put in its place, smacks of hubris. And, dare we say, uncharacteristically impulsive for an ultra-cautious lawyer. While we at MW have said from the outset that ‘Rwanda’ was not the complete answer to the problem, we did think it would discourage some migrants from attempting the illegal, and dangerous, Channel crossing. As it is, there is now nothing to prompt migrants or traffickers to stop and think. The boats will keep coming and the 600 migrants who made it over in the past week will be joined by many thousands more. Sadly, more will also lose their lives, as four wretched souls did on Friday. So, what now? Sir Keir has already said it will take time to smash the gangs. Yep, you can say that again Prime Minister. What’s more, you won’t, Prime Minister. The gangs will continue to flourish. The easy money to be made from an inexhaustible supply of people (mostly young men) will spawn more and more gangs by the time of the next election. Knowing that once in the UK you are here to stay – whatever the mode of travel – and speeding up the processing of asylum applications and quickly moving on those being housed in hotels will only incentivise those prepared to jump into small boats to get here. The numbers are limitless. All the traffickers will hear is ‘kerching’ as their bank balances overflow. Meanwhile, Neil Basu, the former Assistant Commissioner and head of counter terrorism at the Met, earmarked to head the new Border Security Command, turned down the invitation to apply for the job. We do wonder if Mr Basu cast an eye over what he would have been tasked to do and immediately saw that he was onto a hiding to nothing. So far (and we realise it has only been nine days since the election), it has all been about illegal immigration and asylum. We have heard little about legal migration. Early on in the election campaign, Yvette Cooper acknowledged that immigration was too high and should come down but she didn’t say how this would be done. There seems to be an expectation that it will happen without any government action, beyond improving the points-based system (PBS). It won’t and as we keep saying, the catastrophic levels of net migration will continue for the foreseeable future. Millions of people will be added to our population (20 million by the mid-2040s if net migration settles at around 600,000 per annum). Rachel Reeves’s house-building plans – in the unlikely event of their ever materialising – will still leave us significantly short of what is needed. Meanwhile, the nature of our society will change irreversibly. We will be writing a lot about legal migration and its consequences in the coming months. |
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| Two brilliant pieces by the ever-excellent Professor Matthew Goodwin. Here “If there is one issue that holds the potential to completely derail Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the new Labour government then it is immigration. And one person who has also recognised this is none other than Tony Blair. In the days since Labour’s election victory, Blair, the most successful leader in his party’s history, has already warned Labour to make sure it controls illegal migration, law and order, and avoid ‘any vulnerability on wokeism’.” And here. Matt ends this piece with these poignant words: “The unique, post-Brexit realignment that made the Tory majority in 2019 is now well and truly over and looks distinctly unlikely to reappear anytime soon. And the Tories have only themselves to blame …” This is precisely what we at MW warned Boris Johnson would happen if he didn’t deliver on immigration promises. |
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| Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, spoke to Martin Daubney of GB News about the legacy of New Labour and Tony Blair’s impact on immigration policy: |
| Dr. Mike Jones, Executive Chairman of Migration Watch UK, spoke to Jacob Rees-Mogg of GB News about the futility of “smashing the gangs,” Keir Starmer’s plans for a centralised border control unit, and the importance of amending or abolishing the Human Rights Act: |
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| Both legal and illegal immigration are completely out of control. The situation will get worse and affect every nook and cranny of our lives. The Keir Starmer era is underway, and the British public will not put up for long with more vacuous outpourings from the new leadership – “We will: smash the gangs; build more houses; sign agreements; process applicants quickly; get them out of hotels; remove those who don’t qualify (really?)… etc, etc. But will you reduce immigration and will you stop the boats, Prime Minister? Be warned Sir Keir, if you fail, we will do to you what we did to the Conservatives and vote you out of office in 2029. It’s how democracy works. If you feel as we do, please write to your new MP today. |
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Cheap sales, debt and foreign takeovers: how privatisation changed the water industry
Familiar concerns over bosses’ pay, prices and borrowing emerged in the utilities’ early years in private hands, with UK dubbed the ‘dirty man of Europe’
Nils PratleyWed 10 Jul 2024 05.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 10 Jul 2024 07.09 BST
There was a time when privatised British water companies were as unpopular as they are now. During the hot summer of 1995, the managing director of Yorkshire Water, Trevor Newton, achieved notoriety when he urged customers to use less of his company’s product by issuing a motivational message: “I personally have not had a bath or shower for three months.”
After a round of jokes about “the filthy rich” – because megabucks pay for water company bosses was also in the headlines in those days – Newton invited the press to watch him washing with a flannel and bowl. It later emerged he had been popping out of Yorkshire for a soak at his parents’ and in-laws’ homes.
The serious aspect of the farce was that, just as now, the public was outraged by the mismatch between rewards for investors and the standard of service being provided by a privatised utility. Yorkshire had just paid a £50m dividend to shareholders and yet the city of Bradford was at risk of running dry. A new grid was behind schedule and the company was reduced to transporting water by tanker through the Dales. “Public anger exploded,” recalled Sir Ian Byatt, the first head of the Office of Water Services, or Ofwat, the regulatory body created at privatisation in 1989, in his account of his career.Trevor Newton poses for the media as he washes with a flannel and bowl – video
Look, Thatcher’s even privatising the rain that falls from the heavens
The saga also underlined the rotten state of the water infrastructure, the reason given for privatisation in the first place. The UK was regarded as the “dirty man of Europe” on account of pollution on beaches and in rivers. Spending by the industry on overhauling its pipes and sewage-treatment works had been falling from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s and now the UK had to meet new European Community standards on pollution.
Margaret Thatcher, 12 June 1987; Thames Water Head Office; Bill Alexander, chief executive of Thames Water pours RWE chair Dr Dietmar Kuhnt. Composite: Gerald Penny/AP; Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock; Isobel Matthews/PA
Margaret Thatcher’s administration, which had already privatised British Telecom and British Gas, decided only private capital and stock market ownership could deliver improvements. “Much emotive nonsense was talked along the lines of, ‘Look, she’s even privatising the rain that falls from the heavens’,” wrote Thatcher in her memoirs. “I used to retort that the rain may come from the Almighty but he did not send the pipes, plumbing and engineering to go with it.”
More than three decades later, that same infrastructure requires a big upgrade, with bills to soar when Ofwat outlines the regime for the next five years on Thursday. In the meantime, the 10 English and Welsh water and wastewater companies have paid £78bn in dividends since 1989, and accumulated £60bn in debt. Meanwhile, the biggest of the lot, Thames Water, is at risk of temporary renationalisation. Only three of the 10 are still listed on the stock market. Meanwhile, the industry has become synonymous with mismanagement, corporate greed and pollution, as a string of sewage spills, water leaks and hefty fines led to deep public anger. How did we get here?
Sold on the cheap
To make privatisation happen in December 1989 – a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall – the government cancelled all the long-term debt owed by the previous water authorities and injected cash into the new companies as a “green dowry”. Such exercises meant the net proceeds to the Treasury, even after selling the companies for a total of £7.6bn, was roughly zero.
There was, though, the usual quick win for investors in the stock market listings: shares in the 10 companies rose 20% on average within a month. Half the small investors, encouraged to buy with the slogan “You could be an H2Owner”, took their profits and sold their shares within a year. It was a period of corporate exuberance, lampooned by Harry Enfield’s “Loadsamoney” character.
But extra spending did arrive. Investment roughly doubled in the four years after the sellout, from £3bn a year to £6bn. Privatisation fans could also argue that the discipline of a stock market listing, plus a smack from an independent regulator, could force underperformers to improve. After Yorkshire’s shambles in 1995, Ofwat sent in investigators, which led to a management clear-out. By the end of decade, the company was top of the class for performance. Byatt also proposed that Yorkshire should return £40m to customers in the form of price cuts and “after some discussion, it concurred”.
But it was immediately obvious that the companies had been sold far too cheaply. Customers’ bills went up by a third in the first five years on the assumption at sale that the companies would need ready access to cash to fund the step-up in investment. Debt levels, it was thought originally, would comprise a maximum of only 35% of the value of the assets – the leverage, or gearing, ratio. The bond market, however, was willing to lend far greater sums to monopoly businesses with captive customers.
And, strange as it may now sound, the regulator was keen to see financial gearing rise. The rationale was that savings from lower funding costs would be passed to customers in the form of lower bills. Ofwat’s first five-yearly price review in 1994 slowed the bill rises imagined at privatisation; the second, in 1999, cut bills by an average of 12%.
The companies were happy to play the debt game. Some, flush with rising share prices and access to cheap capital, caught the diversification bug in the go-go 1990s. Thames won contracts to run water networks as far away as Indonesia and Chile. Welsh Water lost a packet by buying hotels and country clubs. In 2000, Anglian Water bought a construction company.
Takeover games
Thames Water’s privatisation, Guardian, 13 December 1989. Photograph: Guardian
Then there were the takeover games, which began when the government cancelled its golden shares in the 10 companies in 1995. Northumbrian Water was bought by Lyonnaise des Eaux of France. Scottish Power bought Southern Water. Enron of the US – before it crashed in scandalous style in 2001 – bought Wessex Water. Water companies were not allowed to buy one another, but some adopted the fashionable notion of “multi utilities” and bought regional electricity suppliers, which were privatised in 1990. North West Water bought its local supplier to become United Utilities and Welsh Water took over South Wales Electricity, restyling itself as Hyder.
None of this activity was slowed by a windfall tax on the privatised utilities, water included, imposed by the incoming Labour government in 1997. Thames, for example, was sold for £922m at privatisation but was valued by the stock market at £2.9bn in July 1997; Severn Trent had risen from £849m to £3bn.
Thames Water’s privatisation, Guardian, 9 December 1989. Photograph: Guardian
By the end of that first decade, the privatised water sector was changed beyond recognition. This newspaper reflected in 1999 on “the mixed effects of water privatisation”. On one hand, too much of the extra profits had been “dissipated in ill-advised diversifications, excess dividends and unearned mega-increases in boardroom pay”. On the other, “a lot of money was invested in improving the infrastructure, so that we now have much improved drinking water”.
The deal-making kept coming. Thames was bought in 2000 by the German utility RWE, which paid £4.3bn in cash and assumed £2.5bn of debt. The takeover price of £12.15 a share represented a fivefold increase from the 240p at which all 10 water companies were sold in 1989. Foreign capital continued to chase UK utilities and, in the spirit of times, that was seen as an excellent thing. New Labour was not going to mess with the model.
Thames Water’s privatisation article, Guardian, 12 December 1989. Photograph: Guardian
July 14th 2024
Keir Starmer gives go-ahead for British missiles to be used in …
Keir Starmer gives go-ahead for British missiles to be used in strikes against targets inside Russia. The decision over the use of Storm Shadow missiles, which has been welcomed by Ukraine, represents a hawkish shift in policy from the stance taken by the former Conservative government.
Putin Aide Fumes At New UK PM Keir Starmer, Warns Of ‘Appropriate Response’ Over This Move
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Amid the NATO summit in Washington, Russia’s Kremlin has issued a stark warning to newly-appointed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, threatened “appropriate measures” if Ukraine uses UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike Russia. This comes after Starmer stated that Ukraine has the autonomy to decide the use of these missiles. …
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Election abuse may have been coordinated – adviser
Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
- Published14 July 2024, 06:10 BST
The government’s adviser on political violence has written to the home secretary asking to investigate the intimidation of candidates during the general election.
Lord Walney is suggesting there could have been a “concerted campaign by extremists”.
He is urging Yvette Cooper and Security Minister Dan Jarvis to commission a short inquiry to find out if groups in different constituencies were working together and to document what he calls the “dark underbelly” of abuse.
The Home Office said it takes reports of intimidation, harassment and abuse “extremely seriously”, adding that officials are contacting affected individuals.
In the letter, seen by the BBC, Lord Walney said evidence from the last couple of months points to a “concerted campaign by extremists to create a hostile atmosphere for MPs within their constituencies to compel them to cave into political demands”.
He writes the “conduct of the election campaign in many communities has underlined the gravity of the threat to our democracy” from the abuse and intimidation of politicians, local and national.
July 13th 2024
Campaigners Demand Labour Scrap ‘Cruel’ Two-Child Benefit Cap As Thousands More Affected
“Ultimately, the cost is far greater than the money it saves”. By Kevin Schofield
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 6: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer chairs the first meeting of his cabinet in 10 Downing Street on July 6, 2024 in London, England. The Labour Party won a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, ending 14 years of Conservative government.
Labour is under fresh pressure to scrap the “cruel” two-child benefit cap after new figures revealed thousands more youngsters being affected by the austerity-era policy.
Under the policy, which was introduced by George Osborne when he was chancellor, parents are not able to claim child tax credit or universal credit for any third or subsequent child.
Official data released this morning by the Department for Work and Pensions showed 1.6 million children now live in households hit by the cap – an increase of 126,000 on the same point last year.
Overall, 440,000 families across the UK are affected, 33,000 more than a year ago.
Child poverty campaigners said the figures show why the cap needs to be scrapped by the new government – despite Keir Starmer’s previous vow to keep it in place.
Alison Garnham, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: “Children are losing their life chances to the two-child limit now – they can’t wait for the new government to align every star before the policy is scrapped.
“The PM came to office pledging a bold, ambitious child poverty-reduction plan and there’s no way to deliver on that promise without scrapping the two-child limit, and fast.
Comment This will enormously benefit Islamic and African immigrants, legal or not. But who is going to pay the taxes ? As trained econonmist, Inland Revenue Officer and tax adviser to a Central; London accountant, I know the wealthy liberals and overpaid politicians along with their overpaid civil service advisers won’t be paying for their ‘idealism.’ Human masses overpopulation is the fundamental global problem. The elite love it because it means cheap labour, higher prices, higher profits and mass stupidity which is so easy to control and ideal for cannon fodder.
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