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September 30th 2022

Why Is the Pound Falling and What Does That Mean for Me?

A sterling explainer for people who aren’t good with figures.RBby Ross Buchanan28 September 2022, 12:08pm

Is it just me, or does Liz Truss not really feel like prime minister? Like, I’ve experienced seven prime ministers in my lifetime – all of which I haven’t voted for – but this is the first I’ve truly felt ungoverned. Unhinged, you might say.

Minimum Rage A Comment

by R.J Cook

One might have expected the British masses to be angry about the cost of living crisis but they have traditionally been the most passive and obsequious when it comes to protest. The arrogant upper and upper middle classes are doing very well, along side global corporations. Serious protest from the lower orders would invite the police, criminal records and possibly jail.

The masses had an extended period of isolation , fear & intense brain training with Covid Lockdown from March 2020 which has not gone away. There will soon be more enforced social distancing, curfews and mask wearing plus pressure for more health risking jabs. So on top of this we have the additional burden of financing the Anglo U.S NATO proxy war for the ruling elite violating the 2008 Minsk Agreement , encouaging persecition of ethnic Donbas Russians and land grabbing in Ukraine under guise of the same old freedom fighting garbage used to cover war crimes in Iraq , Syria and Latin America.

War on Russia, like war on Iraq, Libya Syria and Iran ( Iraq’s self destructive war on Iran was an Anglo U.S proxy war ) were all about controlling production and price of oil. Sanctions against a major oil producer , as with Iraq , Iran and Venezuela , are par for the Anglo U.S NATO course. But as a former truck driver, refuelling my truck far from the depot, I know how expensive transport is. I know its obvious relationship to prices of goods and costs to food production. I am more than an academic, writer and journalist. I know what I am talking about. I have walked the walk.

Because of all the anti Russia lies, with sanctions, the rich have to be protected in business and high living. The masses are expendable, as demonstrated not just on the battlefield , but everywhere else. They are also heavily policed.

In this context, the reasons for the falling value of the pound are far simpler than the above article wants you to know. Since the age of empires there has been international trade. In the modern sabotaged global economy, ( Where the west are most likely to have sabotaged Nordstream, blaming it on Russia to stoke up hate and war ) the international money market value of the pound depends on who wants to buy it and what for. In the old days it was a credible reserve currency, ‘as good as gold’ for foreign countries to store up. The pound got its name from being available in exchange for a pound weight of more cumbersome gold.Those days are long gone. The Tories had abandoned the Gold Standard by 1934. Now the sums for serious trade, business and government is measured in billions. Pounds are traded digitally with the Bank of England backing the currency.

Problem now is , other countries see the lingering impact of Covid lockdown and Britain’s absurd ideological involvement in the NATO proxy war on Russia. Currency experts working and speculating for profit at our expense in the markets realise that the U.K cannot afford another £2.4 billion in borrowing to supply more ordnance and weapons to Ukraine unless it is serious about helping toward the oblivion of World War Three. In the latter case, there is even less reason for other countries to buy pounds. The Pound’s international value will cease to matter along with everything else.

More fundamentally, while the rich are getting tax cuts and bankers have their bonuses protected , plus energy companies profiteering from inflated oil prices, people at home cannot afford to buy what little home produced , or imported goods like cars that there are. So who needs pounds ? The only way the Bank of England can respond is to protect the banks and attract international investment by raising interest rates. Inevitably it doesn’t work so the Bank of England uses tax payers money to buy pounds up to stop the value dropping further. Speculators know what is happening , so demand continues to drop. The price falls. The media doesn’t want us to know the truth. Speculators make massive profits from our mass ignorance.

This waste of public money and massively inflating serviceable debt for the benefit of arms dealers and land grabbing Anglo- U.S NATO, drains public money from other vital areas. Hence Truss & Co talking about cutting benefits where demand is continually rising due to economic migrants and an open door immigration policy. It doesn’t work because there is no future in it . Futures are what the markets are most interested in. Public servants like teachers , MPs, Civil Servants and police have their secure high pay inflation proofed so they are happy, moralising along with Liz Truss that our security is more important than rising prices. The Bank of England is State owned and the lender of last resort when other financial institutions are in trouble because of insane greed policies.

So when they increase bank rate, all other banks raise interest in case they need to borrow from the Bank of England. These banks will add at least 2% to their own lending rates, and possibly 5%.. People will lose their jobs and homes because of this. Lenders reduce mortgage products, foeclosing to protect profits and hideous bonuses. This impacts on the housing market along with all household related matters.We are far from equal and democratic. Class divisions, not unity, are what Prince Charles and the monrachy epitomise. The British masses can’t see this : easily duped or divided by multi culture , diversity and membership of LGBTQI.

There are similarities to the 1930s, which led to Nazism and World War II. But the world is now much more complex with consequences unpredicatble and potentially devastating. Arrogant world leaders, whever their colour, get too much pay and respect. Lying and secrecy goes with their jobs. They are a club, as the disturbing mawkish military Royal funeral demonstrated. Putin has broken the rules. He has been cast out and must be destroyed, along with his and many other countries if need be.

The rich elite have their luxurious well stocked bolt holes, much bigger than you think. Remember, 90% of the U.K population live on 10 % of the land. It is what happens on the other 90% of the land the masses must not know about – secrecyis all in the national interest ( sic ). That is what they want us to believe. The international western elite are very worried about Italy where the new leader should be most concerned for her security and good name. The ruling elite are conspirators. Women leaders are welcomed by them but must be on message. The female masses must be a blob married to The State, Call it the Great Replacement or ‘The New World Order ‘, but a rotten carcass would still smell just as rotten.

***Undressing 1980s. I won’t say who the other man was taking the photograph.***

R J Cook

September 27th 2022

Brilliant At Saying Nothing By R.J.Cook

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/27/personality-and-power-by-ian-kershaw-review-builders-destroyers-modern-europe-12-democrats-dictators

Image by Miss R.J Cook / Appledene Photographics 2010. A 60% voter turnout is considered high in the U.K, but U.K media calls it low in Italy because they don’t approve of the far right victory, just as they do not approve of Russia’s Donbas referendum. Only the British and U.S are honest brokers. Their lies are always true – True Lies, hence locking away whistle blower Julian Assange because they have far too many horrible secrets, so need to deter others.
Pushing and crushing the masses is a dangerous business. On top of that, this smug Western elite are pushing Russia into a situation where nuclear and World War is increasingly likely Anglo/U.S led NATO has wound up Ukraine, causing carnage and sense of Ukrainian entitlement to involve the whole world in a fight for a corrupt regime led by its second Anglo U.S NATO placeman, Zelensky – a former actor and comedian enjoying the role of leading man defending Ukraine’s virtue ( sic )..

The following extract from England’s very snobbish Tatler glossy magazine is written by an upper class journalist for the upper classes. That class are worried people which is why they are so up tight about Russia. I had a history teacher who became a long term friend and got me a History lecturing job when I was 30. Yes, I do know what I am talking about , and have lost count of the number of history books I have written

However, in conversation, at my house, I suggested there was no need to have executed the Romanov dynasty. Romanovs were very close relatives to the rebranded Saxe Coburg Goethe British hypocritical Royal family , aka Windsors. Queen Victoria was the Russian Tsar’s aunt. Their infighting empires caused two World Wars, the second one being an outcome of blaming Germany’s people for causing the first one.

Having been a maths teacher, I attempted to teach history by the same logic. That was impossible in a country basically divided into a rich pompous patronising minority elite ( the only minority that actually matters in the U.K ) and the ignorant but colourful ethnically and gender divided dumbed down psychotic masses. The latter have been fawning over Royalty and their ‘feminist’ ( sic ) emblem the Queen, with silly women complaining there won’t be another hand waving upper class Queen in their lifetime.

My old history teacher – a mesmerising firebrand young Welshman when I met him as my teacher in 1967 – gave this caustic reply to my comment about executing the Romanovs. “They deserved it. They were vile decadent, oppressors, presided indifferently over the starving masses. The Tsars troops fired on protestors outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1905. This was the same year the Romanov incompetence lost their war with Japan. The Tsar’s wife went on to have a lurid relationship with the mad monk Rasputin. Rasputin needed the Tsar out of the way, persuading the Romanov inbred idiot to take command of the Russian army. The stage was set for the Russian Revolution. I not care if they did the same to the British Royal Family who are no better. They should be lined up against the wall and shot.”

As soon as the First World War was over , the British Elite led the war against Lenin’s Communist ideals. Lenin was assassinated following a British elite conspiracy. No surprise that Stalin was put in power, an ideal paranoid imbecile to discredit communism. Stalin then hounded his idealistic rival to death in Argentina, a British puppet state, and no doubt aided by British intelligence. Stalinism ruthlessly discredited , with Stalin joining forces with them against the deranged Hitler. Britain had fostered Nazism to block communism which was rising because they had helped bankrupt Germany as well as impoverishing their own people in the 1920s & 30s. Read ‘The Road to Wigan’ Pier’ by George Orwell.

But what Karl Marx called ‘the spectre of Communism haunting Europe’ (The Communist Manifesto 1848 ) still haunts the British elite who have engineered and led the proxy war against Russia to push further toward Russia and regime change. In this country, one causes offence by saying a word against Ukraine because it is a police state. I have just watched England assisted by a biased Dutch referee go from 2 nil down to a 1 goal lead. Both teams are appalling, selected according to the diversity manual – and health and safety code. England’s National team, especially Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling, should have part time jobs in the U.K diving team. Tomorrow’s newspaper headlines will , like all the drivel about Platinum Jubilees and Royal multi million pound funerals, shout about how great this country is.

It works on the desperate in fighting masses because they are stupid. Anything will do for a delusional identity, England’s football team of Chav Playboys and the new king are more of the smokescreen covering for the consequences of the UK’s politically corrupt and arms profiteers. Some years ago as a delivery driver, I was sent in a van to a huge estate in the wilds of Oxfordshire. I had to phone security. Five minutes later a big black 4X4 with sinister black tinted windows drove down a long winding drive between the rolling lawns from the distant stately home, towards me on the other side of massive wrought iron gates. The Electronic Gates crept open and I was beckoned in, Pulling up alongside my driver’s window, an electric window opened to reveal a big man wearing shades and black combat gear. He commanded me to follow him at 10mph.

As I drew behind the Tudor mansion and alongside outbuildings , I saw open garages with a Rolls Royce and collection of big BMWs, then passed the police section where a large police 4X4 was parked. I was just delivering to the kitchen. The place was so intimidating that I didn’t like to ask what it was all about. I usually drove company trucks. This was a van route, so back at the depot I asked Arthur, the relaxed 70 plus veteran van driver all about the place . I asked why it had its’ own police station. ‘He’s an arms dealer.’ came rthur’s quick nonplussed response.

That is the essence of the ruling class, if it moves and you don’t like the look of it, as with the police killings at Stockwell and Streatham, shoot it. While your at it, take note of all those other police forces and governments that don’t like a lot of threatening lower order people. Maybe there should be regime changes and a second shot at the one that failed when Anglo U.S NATO installed drunkard stooge Boris Yeltsin to asset strip State industries then bring the booty west, especially money laundering London.

Become an oligarch, but don’t renege on Western elite ideology or we will take away your mansions, Premier League football clubs, take your millions for the U.K State elite, jet panes, luxury yachts and high class whores. When all is said and done, power comes out of the barrel of a gun. Speak out of turn, take note they never stop building jails, madhouses ,

Driving good people insane in the U.K feeds quack psychiatrists with their DSM bible If the U.K drives young school girls to the apparent insanity of suicide, don’t blame feminism, factory schools, broken homes or bad parents. As with the palliative of the late Queen and her fornicating sons Charles and Andrew, you need simple answers, propaganda, smokescreens, freak shows and more totalitarian solutions. So the answer to U.K teen girl suicides, blame the internet as an excuse for more controls.

As with the current news making story, elite media are shooting the line that a schoolgirl killed herself because she viewed ‘distressing content on the internet.’ There has been no discussion of the facts that she was so disturbed she actively sought out methods of killing herself. This issue is very personal to me, but for legal reasons and due to being subject to constant police monitoring for nearly 15 years, I cannot comment further on that at this moment.

Apart from personal experience, I was a teacher and lecturer for 18 years and have seen a lot through 12 years in logistics. Add to that my qualifications in social science, including psychology, as well as years in local politics at senior level, I know why suicide rates are rising. There is never sympathy for males who kill themselves because equality is a sham. Women are being empowered by the elite to help the elite police and psychologically castrate the male masses – hence their need for Viagra to please women when they demand it. That is why feminists and police have issues with transsexuals like me. The best we can hope for is to join the LGBTQI club – I dare not say exactly what I think about that alleged example of diversity. As I said, the only minority group who matter in Britain are the 10% who own 90% of the land. They use ‘diversity’ as the good old ‘divide and rule’ now their imperial slaves are all together on this tiny island where the masses are effectively in cages, including LGBQI , disingenuous state supported by the elite within strict parameters for the transgendered they secretly regard as freaks or fakes.

When the men kill themselves the elite media lackeys and feminists say they have all brought it on themselves as wife beaters deservedly divorced, weak willed alcoholics, drug abusers etc. You can’t argue with authority in authoritarian Britain. One of the most powerful depressants for young women, who want partners just like dad, is the rubbishing and scapegoating of males. Led by feminist harridans and lesbians, white men have been labelled as domestic abusers , adulterers , rapists, privileged white males, alcoholics, shiftless and drug abusers – unless they are in the saintly police force where the men don’t do anything like that and if they do , the media elite keeps it quiet in ‘the public interests. The ‘Undie Cover cops who basically raped animal rights protestors were only following elite police state orders.

One could go on because there is no feasible limit to what is wrong with this institutionally corrupt country. So , in the context of the following Tatler extract and link, the question should not be about what King Charles III is going to do for Britain or the wider world. It should be , Why on earth does King Charles III matter if Britain is a democracy ? The answer is that Charles and his historic and dubious family are disgustingly rich and rapacious. As for Boris Johnson’s ludicrous levelling up, he and his class mean making sure all the ethnic and white masses are equally dumbed down, fighting the perpetual racist and feminist wars, so conveniently distracted. King Charles and his Queen Consort have never forgotten the hungry Thatcher & Major years, when one night in Central London their Rolls Royce was stopped surrounded and shaken by an angry baying mob.

Paparazzi captured the look of horror on their pampered pompous pius faces. That is why the Tatler drivel matters for them. Their greedy over indulged class passes the buck for their wealth grabbing Imperialistic antics onto the lower orders, laughing their tits and socks off when the morons blame each other, fighting over religion and other tribalistic distractions. Their ignorance is entrenched by smug self righteous teachers and a government that tells people what to think, not how to think. In particular, females are told all the different things they can be. Young males are told what they are and why they must be so much nicer to girl who never lie, cheat or do anything else bad.

The same system tells the boys what they are. If it was actually working, then we wouldn’t have poisoned people and suicide kids on the internet. If women went beyond demanding husbands take Viagra to provide sexual and egotistical gratification and accepted being feminine – dressing accordingly , then there would be no need for Viagra. Truth is ugly and fake democrats don’t like it. Men are condemned for not keeping up with the new women. Fourth rate children’s book writers , pandering to mass bad taste, like J K Rowling, forbid transsexuals being accepted as real women. Meanwhile it is offensive to suggest that the feminist model for woman drives suicide, broken home and mass insanity – great news for psychiatrists who work in an industry that can put labels on disruptive abnormal psychology types much faster than the machine I saw putting labels on wine bottles while working in a wine bottling warehouse in the summer of 1968.

In this context, what King Charles thinks about anything should be seen for the hypocritical patronising gibberish from a privileged hypocrite with his ludicrous divine right, who has no understanding of common people beyond fear of them shaking his Rolls again. Over £50 million was spent on security during the period of his mother laying in state, and her long winded funeral so the masses could publicly grovel to their betters. If the masses really loved Royalty that security would not be needed.

Charles’s family are descented from murderous land grabbing psychopaths who evolved to assert that God chose them , so they have divine right. They were brought back after a brief Puritan Commonwealth between 1649 and 1660 , on the basis that they were just pampered figureheads. James II broke the rules because he wanted to bring back Catholicism, was defeated by good Ulster Protestants at the Battle of the Boyne. So a distant German relative and good Protestant was brought in from Saxe Coburg. He was happy to be a super Protestant Constitutional monarch, enjoying the privileges and pleasures of the job, agreeing to do nothing except being an emblem and psychological bulwark against Catholicism. That is where Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III came from. It is absurd to care what he and his class thinks. They will never tell you what they really think . My late father recalled an army friend who had been a sentry at Windsor when the Queen was a child. Her and her sister Margaret thought it funny running backwards and forwards to his sentry box to force his repeated salutes. ‘Give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.’ Said the Jesuits. That is how the queen was brought up. The guards were just toys to the child Queen. Images of her mother, ‘Traitor King’ Uncle Edward and sister performing Nazi salutes have disappeared from the internet.

The Queen was brilliant at saying nothing beyond what her bland elite PR people told her to say. Her husband Phillip described himself as a top ‘plaque unveil-er ‘. The Queen was brilliant at cautious gloved hand waving and benign distant smiles. I saw her doing this in Edinburgh’s Princes Street in 1970. Going back to Holyrood House, gliding liding past in her magnificent custon Rolls Royce , she was wearing a diamond studded tiara, a stunning shimmering white satin dress and matching gloves. The woman in me could not help admiring her style and wishing I could be her and have her amazing wardrobe, jewels, limousines and grovelling subjects. I would have loved her life of service ( sic ). Being Charles does not seem so appealing. He is dull , posturing like his Kaiser Bill II close ancestor, loves military uniforms, is vain and a block on the concept of democracy.

Fallout from the Queen’s inevitable death exposes this country for what it is. If it appeals to Africans, so much that they cross land and dangerous waters to get here, then it tells me how awful Africa must be. Now the far right candidate has won the Italian election, a privileged white man Sky News reporter asserted that the new leader being a woman is far less important than what she stands for. Women at all levels are welcome so long as they stay on the elite’s deceptive agenda. Women are there to mesmerise , control , police and destroy men if necessary, on the mythical basis that they never lie.

Charles alone would have deserved problems , He is awkward, with a record of saying too much in a stiff condescending manner of his class, born of no real hard life experience beyond posturing in a selection of tailored military gold braided suits. His sons followed his examples, all getting free flying lessons at the tax payer’s expense , the Royal PR and BBC pushing the myth that they saw front line action. None of them did or faced the rigorous aircrew selection process I faced in the early 1970s in my misguided youthful years.

Charles will be saved by former lover and concubine Camilla. She has already jumped on the women’s rights and domestic abuse bandwagon. The facts of her brazen affair with the young Prince Charles and her advice that he should marry teenage distant relative to both of them, The Lady Princess Diana , which left the door open for both of them to cheat on their spouses continuing their sexual relationship. But that is British Royalty. Kind Edward VII’s wife was reckoned to have had 200 lovers , Prince Phillip and Princess Diana’s sexual dalliances were other well known examples of lewd behaviour. Royals are very sexual. Charles exiled Uncle Edward was arrested , along composer and impresario Noel Coward, in a nighttime London back street, both dressed and made up as women.

Prince Andrew is the latest to be exposed. Youthful Edward VIII , subject of a book called ‘The Traitor King’ and his older brother used to frequent the East End of London incognito , where Edward’s brother impregnated a pretty young whore. According to a long banned book of credible research, this brother who was Prince of Wales, became obsessed with this girl. He was half witted, then exiled and incarcerated on the Duke of Argyll’s Estate where he pursued his hobby of oil painting. As a reward , Argyll’s daughter was betrothed to King George VI who came to power when sex obsessed Edward VII abdicated rather than lose his satin and lace lingerie wearing lover, Mrs Simpson.

The nastiest part of this story was the only credible explanation for the surgical killings of young East End prostitutes who knew the impregnated Royal lover. Records revealed she was given a lobotomy at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington. Only one of her friends , Mary Kelly escaped the man known affectionately in folk lore as Jack the Ripper. Evidence that a Royal crested carriage was seen in the area of one murder, was suppressed, but suspicion pointed at the Royal surgeon.

One could go on and speculate on the mysterious death of Prince Charles’s estranged wife Diana. Diana was obviously pregnant by her Muslim millionaire lover. Official accounts of her death make no sense. The fact she was embalmed makes no more sense than the same Anglo – U.S clique insisting we could not see images of Bin Laden’s corpse because Muslims are always burred at sea. Moralising about Russian war crimes also makes no logical sense when you consider the fate of Julian Assange or refusal to prosecute the SAS soldiers known to have committed war crimes in the Middle East Oil wars. The Anglo U.S NATO elite make it up as they go along, taking the frightened down trodden masses for imbeciles.

So back to the following Tatler story. It is about the rich, their self interested lies about climate , migration and other key issues. In my view, the likes of King Charles III can be listened to as examples of the people who will say anything to placate the masses. They don’t have to say anything. It is what their class represents and does, things like shifty Charles with suitcase full of Saudi cash is but one example, that matters. If they weren’t fakes , they would not need all the clothes that me, as naïve young Roberta admired when she saw the Queen in Edinburgh. The Royal £5 million funeral exposed what those posh clothes and uniforms are about. They are about intimidation and keeping us admiringly in our place. They want mass immigration and overpopulation to cheapen labour. With that comes ever rising relative and absolute poverty. With that comes rising crime , more oppressive intrusive policing , propaganda , riots and fear of rebellion.

As in 1914 and 1939, there comes a time when elite leaders thoughts turn to culling us. That is what Ukraine is about. NATO broke the 2008 neutral zone agreement quite deliberately. Common people don’t matter. White masses are too educated. The blacks and Muslims must not be allowed beyond Islam and face up to the sort of inevitable environmental and over population disasters we currently see in Pakistan.

The absurd but dangerous King Charles and Camilla, like the moronic football religion and famous Aston Villa supporter Prince William are crucial to this new world order where Royalty will become ever more conspicuous. Half Spencer William’s mother’s family are just as ruthless as the Windsors who have a new lease of life. Harry Enfield’s satire ‘The Windsors was too close to the truth and probably already off Netflix. If not check it out and don’t laugh too loudly. Britain operates like a banana Republic came close to all out supporting the Nazis , as Hitler calculated. With the situations in Ukraine and Italy as they are, consequences may be extreme. Truss is facile and hubristic. Charles is there to delude. Like Charles II , he fears exile if the plebs revolt. Policing ever extending public spaces, including the internet , will intensify to keep women and children safe ( sic ).

Defining ages of Britain with Royal names is a brain training thing. Tatler wants us to see the nation through those misted lenses. Charles doesn’t need to much help to conjure up many tricks, but will not make this country a better place. Technology is not intended to benefit the masses. Under cover of the ridiculously named Carolean Age, with a government telling us ‘security’ is more important than not being able to pay bills and live decent lives, defines a very ugly ruling class attitude. I do not see matters getting better. If Russia turns off the gas there will be hell to pay. It is thus vital for the wealthy clique to pass ever extending new legislation because a girl sought assistance with suicide. Had she been older , she would have known all the options as I do , because I am seriously considering it.. The media has no interest in why this young girl killed herself, after all, she was one of the wonder gender and could be anything and anyone she liked ( sic ). Verdict , the Internet needs even more policing. I said at the outset, the state wanted the internet as ‘Disinformation a highway.’

Perhaps King Charles and Queen Camilla can help out. Then who knows, World War III is live ? Charles meanwhile offers a new world of love. Charles was as a love cheat , cuckolding his friend Major Parker Bowles. So the mind boggles. His gestures have been of little use. Windfarm profits go the monarchY and the Queen paid £12 million to save her arrogant sex offender son. This is a viLe corrupt country, where a privileged white Queen lingers in the mind as a reassuring symbol of a decent Britain that never existed. Our proper Charlie might at least offer comic relief and who knows what Queen Consort Camilla will do to help out. R J Cook

September 26th 2022

What can we expect from the new Carolean age?

Now the second Elizabethan age is behind us, what can we expect from the upcoming era of King Charles III?

By Annabel Sampson13 September 2022

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If the second Elizabethan era drew to a close on the 8 September, the second Carol or Carolean age began on Saturday 10 September with the accession of Charles III. Prior to that we – or more accurately our ancestors – have lived through Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian times to name but a few of the various ‘ages’ in England, branded by the sovereign at the time.

‘It’s inevitable that the period when Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne will be named after her,’ Sir Anthony Seldon, a constitutional expert, told Sky News. And through 15 passing prime ministers, Tories have governed for around twice as many years as Labour during the Elizabethan era and there’s been unprecedented technological advancement – from a brick-size phone to an Apple Watch. But what is in store for the second Carolean age, a period that is certain to be shorter than the previous reign?Advertisement

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September 25th 2022

War in Ukraine is a ‘gold rush’ for Western arms makers, experts say

Western arms manufacturers are racing to cash in on the billions of dollars of sales in a “gold rush” created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the likely increased militarisation of Europe that will follow, say industry experts.

Already, the US and other western nations are providing large sums to help Ukraine defend itself in the short term,

Comment Thus making it easier to make obscene profits off the backs of the dead. , in this NATO Anglo U.S Proxy war that the lower classes and absurd British merecnaries will pay for. Meanwhile Anglo U.S NATO is lining itself for Ukraine’s ( and Scandanavia ) ‘defence’ ( sic ) Ukraine in the long term -while vain comedian actor NATO placeman Zelensky sees his way forwaard to the high life as a key part of the E.U’s parasitical elite.

R.J Cook

Ukraine invasion is not the first conflict Western governments have used to showcase weapons to potential buyers, writes Andrew Buncombe

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£17bn of UK arms sold to rights’ abusers

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Weapons licensed for export to two-thirds of states on ‘not free’ register, including Libya, Saudi Arabia and Turkey

A Challenger tank for sale at the DSEI Arms Fair in London, 2019. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/ShutterstockMark Townsend, Home Affairs editor@townsendmarkSun 27 Jun 2021 06.30 BST

Two-thirds of countries classified as “not free” because of their dire record on human rights and civil liberties have received weapons licensed by the UK government over the past decade, new analysis reveals.

Between 2011-2020, the UK licensed £16.8bn of arms to countries criticised by Freedom House, a US government-funded human rights group.

Of the 53 countries castigated for a poor record on political and human rights on the group’s list, the UK sold arms and military equipment to 39.

Noteworthy recipients include Libya, which received £9.3m of assault rifles, military vehicle components and ammunition. Last week it was the focus of international peace talks to stabilise a country where armed groups and foreign powers compete for influence.

Further analysis by the London-based Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) found that £11.8bn of arms had been authorised by the UK government during the same period to the Foreign Office’s own list of “human rights priority countries”. Two-thirds of the countries – 21 out of 30 – on the UK government list of repressive regimes had received UK military equipment.

The Department for International Trade has also identified nine nations as “core markets” for arms exports that groups say are guilty of many human rights abuses, including Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey.

The UK government has already admitted that a Saudi-led coalition has attacked Yemen using weapons made by British companies with the UK supplying more than half of combat aircraft used by the Middle East kingdom for its bombing raids.

“Right now, UK-made weapons are playing a devastating role in Yemen and around the world. The arms sales that are being pushed today could be used in atrocities and abuses for years to come,” said Andrew Smith of the CAAT.

Further arms deals are expected in the near future with many of the countries on the Freedom House list expected to send representatives to September’s international arms fair in east London.

“Wherever there is oppression and conflict there will always be arms companies trying to profit from it, and complicit governments helping them to do so,” said Smith.

“Many of these sales are going to despots, dictatorships and human rights abusing regimes. They haven’t happened by accident. None of these arms sales would have been possible without the direct support of Boris Johnson and his colleagues,” added Smith.

Russia was also among the beneficiaries of UK arms sales – in the last decade, it received £44m of UK arms including ammunition, sniper rifle components and gun silencers, analysis shows. Moscow last week claimed it had chased a British destroyer out of Crimean waters with warning shots and bombs.

The sales to Russia and Libya were, however, made before ongoing arms embargoes to both countries were introduced, a situation that critics say highlights the short-term thinking behind most arms sales.

The Department for International Trade has been contacted for comment

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September 20th 2022

King Charles III’s people, from F.S in the Wild West.

Quote of the Day ‘I brought my mum’s ashes to see the queen.’

Spent much of Saturday night in Hereford A&E because of a family emergency.

At A&E there’s a fleet of old vans, cars and mobility scooters, parked at all angles right outside the front doors, and a milling group – a dozen to twenty strong – of traveller types, the sort who would do you a dodgy driveway because we’ve got a bit of tarmac left over.

In the waiting room, taking pride of place, there’s Big Bob – a ravaged looking chap, with a head like a hairy potato, a large belly and a bad leg. He talks about his van a lot: there are extended eulogies to ‘smiley-face Transits’ and speeches about the pros and cons of cherry-pickers. Mrs Big Bob is at his side – also big, dyed black hair and a slightly alarming presence. It appears that Big Bob’s sister – the tribe’s matriarch – has been brought into hospital – and has just left intensive care.

Surrounding Big Bob and his missus, there’s an ever-changing roster of nephews, their nephews’ blonde daughters, modelling heavy gold accessories and the best fake designer clothing and knock-off trainers Hereford market can offer, who float in every so often, speak in a dialect that the others appear to understand, cadge a smoke, then float out again, and their daughters’ children – too many to count, and the girls all sharing their mothers’ dress sense. Several youths come and go, completely silently. They sit for a while, gazing about, then get up and go, as if to a vital appointment: this usually involves the lavatory.

One nephew is comparatively well spoken, belying his appearance – clean shaven, including his head, except for a grey chin beard about six inches long. It’s definitely a statement. The other nephew who’s with us most often is quite drunk and occasionally shouty. His name, as he proclaims, with vigour, is Henry Harry Smith – or Enry Arry, more correctly. His mother named him after her brother Enry, but wanted to call him Arry – so both names are on his birth certificate. However, Arry is referred to by all as Black Boy – or Big Black Boy (to differentiate him from his woman, who is known as Little Black Boy: I promise I’m not making this up). The name was given on his arrival in this world, when his mother regarded her new baby, and said ‘He looks like a Paki.’

About three-quarters of an hour is taken up with Big Bob recounting, in forensic detail, his trip from Stoke on Trent to Hereford. This took four days, with three nights sleeping in the back of his van, and cost him £200 in diesel. He got lost because he didn’t have a map, so he had to ask the way quite a lot. Sights included Spaghetti Junction, the M25 and the outskirts of London, the sea, motorways around Bristol, and the Severn Bridge, which he crossed en route for Cardiff.

When Mrs Big Bob refers to Black Boy as ‘Nobby’, he explodes, for reasons that are unclear. Eventually he calms down – after quite a shouty episode. All A&E staff keep their distance. Both Mr and Mrs BB apologise to us later for the outburst, and explain, though explanation is unnecessary, that Black Boy has had a drink. They are decent people.

Later in the evening, two police arrive, with a handcuffed chap between them: he’s been in a fight, during which he was knocked out. It’s difficult to tell whether his state is explained by drunkenness or head injury, but he’s under caution for some reason or other. He informs the police that he’s had no luck since he moved to Hereford and that he should have stayed in Bristol. Everyone is Hereford is a ‘country bumpkin weirdo’, apparently.

As the police are sitting there, a girl arrives at the A&E door, walks in, observes the police, immediately turns on her heel and walks out, without breaking her stride. She doesn’t return.

Also spotted during the evening: one of the fattest women I’ve ever seen. Proper freak show material. She is a nurse.

With the Jubilee marking 70 years on the throne for the Queen, YouGov looks at the British public’s attitude to the monarchy: past, present and future

***Queen Returns from her Coronation at Westminster Abbey 1953***

Britain is a militaristic country, verging on a banana republic. Emperors and tyrants came from all over the world in a psychological neo Imperialist Age where we are supposed to regard Russia as the evil outcast. So Truss has jetted off to the U.S to pledge £2.4 billion for more NATO War on Ukraine. Taxpayers will fund the required extra borrowing. She has said that security is more important than cheaper energy. The question is , whose security ? She said that a trade deal with the U.S is not important and not on the agenda. She also said that there should be no limit on banker’s bonuses and energy companies have a right to over £100 billion profits. She sees fracking as a solution to new energy supplies as NATO’s hypocritical resource and land grabbing war continues in UKraine. R J Cook

***The propaganda that Britain is an egalitarian Democracy is absurd.***

This week, the Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, after 70 years on the throne. Britons see the Queen in a very favourable light, and tend to be supportive of the institution of the monarchy in general: but what will the future look like for the royal family?

Should Britain continue to have a monarchy?

Six in 10 Britons (62%) think Britain should continue to have a monarchy in the future, with only 22% saying the country should move to having an elected head of state instead.

More than eight in 10 (84%) Conservative voters and 77% of Britons aged 65 and older say the monarchy should continue, while just 9% and 13% respectively say we should have an elected head of state instead. Conversely, Labour voters are 48% in favour of a monarchy and 37% in favour of a head of state, and 18 to 24-year-olds are even more split: 33% favour a monarchy and 31% a head of state.

While the majority of Britons have consistently been in favour of continuing the monarchy, there has been a decline over the last decade, from a high of 75% in favour of a monarchy in July 2012, to 62% now.

While support amongst the general public remains generally high, young people have lost favour in a monarchical system over the last decade. In 2011, when YouGov first started tracking the issue, 59% of 18 to 24-year-olds thought the monarchy should continue in Britain, compared to just 33% today.

Is the institution of the monarchy good or bad for Britain?

A majority of Britons (56%) feel that the institution of the monarchy is good for Britain, although this percentage has also fallen since December 2012, when 73% of the public saw the monarchy as a good thing for the country.

Eight in 10 Conservative voters (80%) see the monarchy as being good for Britain, compared to 44% of Labour voters. Three-quarters of Britons aged 65 and older (74%) say the same, compared to just 24% of 18 to 24-year-olds.

Will Britain still have a monarchy in 100 years’ time? Britons are split

Over the past decade, there has been a shift in opinion about what the monarchy will look like in the future.

Britons are now split on whether the country will still have a monarchy in 100 years’ time, with 39% saying the institution will still be around in a century, and 41% saying it will not. In 2011, when YouGov first started tracking the issue, two-thirds of Britons said they thought there would still be a monarch in 100 years’ time, while just 24% said there would not be one. As recently as 2015 – the last time this question was asked – Britons still had confidence in the longevity of the monarchy, with 62% expecting it to last another century.

Younger and older Britons alike have become less convinced that there will still be a monarch in 100 years’ time. In 2011, 67% of 18 to 24-year-olds thought there would definitely or probably still be a monarch in 100 years, compared to 39% today. Similarly, 57% of Britons aged 65 and older thought the monarchy would still be around in 100 years’ time in 2011, compared to just 33% today.

Today, those Britons who think that the country should remain a monarchy are more confident that Britain will still have a king or queen in 100 years: 52% say we will still have a monarchy, while 31% think we will not. Seven in 10 of those who believe we should move to having an elected head of state say we will not have a monarchy in 100 years (69%), while just 23% think we will.

The majority of Britons feel that the royal family is less important to the country now than in 1952

While Britons do think that the monarchy should continue, the public think the royal family is less important to the country now than it was when the Queen ascended the throne in 1952.

Today, 56% of Britons think the royal family has become less important over the Queen’s reign, while 11% think it is more important and 21% think there has been no change. In 2012, the results were almost identical – 53% said less important, 13% more important, 28% no change.

It appears, however, that the British public’s perception of the importance of the monarchy is affected by proximity to a Jubilee: in 2011, when YouGov first started tracking the issue, 71% saw the monarchy as being less important to Britain than they were in 1952.

Even those who feel that the monarchy should continue in Britain are agreed that the royal family play less of an important role today than they did 70 years ago (50%), while just 16% see them as more important and 27% think there has been no change. Eight in 10 (83%) of people who think the country should elect a head of state feel that the importance of the royals has diminished since 1952.

Are Britons still proud of the monarchy?

The years since the Diamond Jubilee have been rocky for the royal family. Britons have become more embarrassed of the monarchy over the last decade: one in six (18%) now say they are embarrassed of the Crown, compared to just 8% in 2012. Similarly, while close to half (47%) say they are proud of the monarchy today, this is a drop from 57% who said they were proud of the monarchy in 2012.

Seven in 10 Conservative voters (70%) say they are proud of the monarchy, while Labour voters are split: 34% say they are proud of the monarchy, 28% embarrassed, and 35% neither.

Similarly, six in 10 Britons aged 65 and older (61%) are proud of the Crown: that’s compared to just 23% of Britons aged 18-24 who say they are proud of the monarchy, 28% who are embarrassed and 30% who are neither proud nor embarrassed.

Is the royal family good value for money?

The royal family is funded by the ‘Sovereign Grant’ (formerly the ‘Civil List’), with the Queen normally receiving 15% of the Crown Estate profits and the rest going to the government. In 2020/21, the Crown Estate generated £269m in profit.

A majority of the public (55%) think that the royal family are good value for money, with 30% saying they are bad value for money. This figure has declined since the Diamond Jubilee, however, when close to two-thirds (64%) saw the royal family as being good value for money.

Conservative voters see the royal family as good value for money (75%), while Labour are split: 41% say they are good value, and 44% see them as bad value. Similarly, while 69% of Britons aged 65 and older see the royals as good value for money, just 34% of 18 to 24-year-olds feel the same, and 36% of younger Britons see them as not being good value for money.

Eight in 10 of those who think the monarchy should continue in Britain (80%) think the royal family are good value for money, with just 10% saying they are bad value. Conversely, just 13% of those who think the country should have a head of state think the royal family are good value for money, while 79% say they are bad value.

See full results here and historical results here

September 17th 2022

After the sympathy, British royals face something else: Scrutiny

Analysis by Adam TaylorReporter September 14, 2022 at 12:01 a.m. EDT

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The death of Queen Elizabeth II sparked a wave of sympathy for the British royals. Tributes have come in from around the world, while the streets of London have been packed with mourners. Some queued up by the thousands to pay their respects across Britain. Polls show a surge in support for King Charles III, never the most popular British royal.

But amid all this, there are signs of something far more uncomfortable for the long-standing U.K. monarchy: Scrutiny.

In the days since the queen’s passing, there have been sometimes vicious debates about her family’s role in Britain’s bloody colonial history. The detail that Charles will not pay an inheritance tax on the assets passed down by the queen, an inheritance probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars, has raised new questions about the unusual and secretive financial arrangements of the family.

Comment Britain is a militaristic imperialist country built on the backs of ignorant multi ethnic masses. It is not and never has been a democracy. Britain’s Royal Family have a dubious history and are symbolic of everything that is wrong with Britain. It is interesting how they have plugged into the feminist cause, thanks to elite owned and elite staffed mainstream media. That elite led the Napoleonc wars, the wars against the Russian Revolution, two world wars and now another one. Officially there is no bad weather because that elite want the masses to keep turning up in London to mourn the Queen who, apparently, was responsible for everything good in the world, most notably Britain and its vile empire . Here the legacy more than lingers on thanks to their placemen – many of whom will be at the State Funeral to exemplify the establshments ant racist credentials. ‘Proud Irishman’ Joe Biden will be there too, riding in his £1.3 million bomb and rocket proof limousine.

R J Cook

September 14th 2022

British Police Routinely lie, conspire With CPS to fabricate and withhold evidence, truth, innocence and justice are no matter to them. It has been this way all through Saintly Service of Queen Elizabeth II & Nothing Will Change.

https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Documents/statistics/deaths_during_following_police_contact_201718.pdf

Dalian Atkinson’s family say five-year wait for trial was ‘unacceptable’

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Police officer Benjamin Monk convicted of manslaughter of former footballer during disturbance in 2016

Dalian Atkinson was shot with a stun gun for 33 seconds, then kicked twice in the head as he lay on the ground. Photograph: PAVikram Dodd Police and crime correspondentWed 23 Jun 2021 20.31 BSTFirst published on Wed 23 Jun 2021 11.48 BST

Dalian Atkinson’s family told of their relief and continuing pain after a five-year battle for justice saw a British police officer become the first in 35 years to be convicted of manslaughter while on duty.

PC Benjamin Monk used excessive force when he fired an electric stun gun into the former professional footballer for 33 seconds – six times longer than is standard – and kicked him twice in the head as he lay on the ground, a jury found.

Monk was called to attend a disturbance in Telford, Shropshire in August 2016, when Atkinson was suffering an acute mental health crisis. His behaviour was erratic and out of character, the trial heard.

At the end of a six-minute clash, Atkinson was kicked with such force that his blood was found in the laces of Monk’s police-issue boots, the trial heard. The West Mercia police officer was accused of lying in court about his account.

Legal restrictions meant details of the incident were not made public until the trial began in May, almost five years after Atkinson, 48, died. After the verdict, his family condemned Monk, saying they were “sickened” by the officer’s defence, and that he had meted out violence to a man who needed help.

Monk told the jury he had been terrified by Atkinson and had acted solely in self-defence, as he was entitled to do.

The jury disagreed, and afterwards the Atkinson family said: “On the night he died, Dalian was vulnerable and unwell and needed medical attention. He instead received violence, and died with PC Monk’s bootlace prints bruised on to his forehead.

“We have been sickened to hear PC Monk try to minimise the force he used on Dalian and exaggerate the threat he posed … We would like to thank the jury members for all their hard work and attention.”

The family condemned the delay in achieving justice: “The fact that this case has taken nearly five years to get to trial is completely unacceptable, especially when you consider that PC Monk’s identity was known to the prosecuting authorities from day one.”

The jury at Birmingham crown court reached its verdicts on Monk after nearly 19 hours of deliberation over six days. They first acquitted him of murder, but then unanimously convicted him of manslaughter.

The last successful prosecution of an on-duty police officer for manslaughter was in 1986 following the death of Henry Foley. The retired bus driver from Southport was beaten by Alwyn Sawyer of Merseyside police while in custody.

On Thursday the jury will resume to consider their verdicts on Monk’s co-accused, PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, who denies actual bodily harm for striking Atkinson with a baton while he was on the ground.

PC Benjamin Monk outside Birmingham crown court earlier this month. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Atkinson was pronounced dead 70 minutes after the incident on 15 August 2016.

The trial heard he suffered an acute mental health crisis on the day he was killed. He had gone to his childhood home in Meadow Close, Telford, which he had bought for his father, Ernest, with the money he made from being a Premiership star. Shortly after 1.30am, a neighbour called the police because Atkinson was causing a disturbance.

The stun gun used by Monk initially failed to stop Atkinson, who remained standing, the court heard. Monk told the jury that Atkinson said: “You can put 100,000 volts through me. I am the fucking messiah. Your Taser won’t work,” and added: “I’m going to take you to the gates of hell.”

After Monk fired the stun gun for 33 seconds, Atkinson fell to the floor. Explaining the kicks to the head, Monk claimed he believed the former footballer had still been moving and trying to get up. If he had done so, the officer said, he feared he would die.

Monk said the six-minute clash left him the most fearful he had ever been in his life and he had run away. The prosecution said Monk grew angry because he felt humiliated by Atkinson.Advertisement

Atkinson, a former striker for Aston Villa, had developed severe health problems, the court heard, including an enlarged heart, and required regular kidney dialysis.

In their statement, the Atkinson family said: “We are hugely relieved that the whole country now knows the truth about how Dalian died. While it has been hard for us not to be able to talk about the details of Dalian’s death, it has been even harder to sit through this trial and to hear PC Monk try to justify the force he used.”

They added: “Our sincere hope is that now that the truth about his death is known, and justice has been done, we can start to remember him not for the manner in which he died, but for the way in which he lived.”

In his legal directions to the jurors, trial judge Melbourne Inman QC said they could only convict Monk if they were “sure that Mr Monk used unlawful force against Mr Atkinson” and were “sure that unlawful force caused his death”.

The judge said the jury should acquit Monk of murder if they were “not sure that Mr Monk intended to kill Mr Atkinson or intended to cause him really serious injury”. The judge said they should convict the officer of manslaughter “if you are sure that that force was an act which any reasonable person would realise was bound to subject another human being to the risk of physical harm”.

Monk, 43, denied inventing or exaggerating his account and accepted the evidence from officers who rushed to the scene as reinforcements. They say they saw Monk with his foot on Atkinson’s head as he lay on the ground.

Monk also declined to challenge the evidence of a colleague who said that immediately after the incident the officer had said: “I had to kick him in the head.” Later, in interview, Monk said he had aimed for the shoulder.

Prosecutor Alexandra Healy QC said Monk made up the story about kicking Atkinson in the shoulder when faced with the forensic evidence. The prosecutor said: “I suggest, Mr Monk, you had kicked Mr Atkinson in the head, because that is what you had chosen to do, not once or twice …”

Monk replied: “I would not choose to kick Mr Atkinson in the head … There was no conscious decision of mine to kick Mr Atkinson in the head.”

Atkinson achieved fame with Aston Villa and also played for clubs in South Korea, Spain and Turkey. He retired from football in 2001.

Comment West Mercia Police and local Trinity Mirror Cronies have an impressive record for cover ups and misconduct in public office, as we saw with the Plebgate Report re write to get 3 lying officers off of misconduct charges, leaving them to go on to do more harm to the public. R J Cook

23 October 2013 at 3:29pm

MP ‘plebgate’ hearing: senior officers ‘disagreed’

Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, who investigated whether Midlands police officers lied after a meeting with Sutton Coldfield MP Andrew Mitchell, has told MPs he disagreed with his senior colleagues.

“I thought the three Police Federation men had a case to answer and didn’t agree when my superiors concluded otherwise.”

– Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, Professional Standards, Warwickshire and West Mercia Police Last updated Wed 23 Oct 2013

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The police watchdog has announced it will reopen an investigation into three senior officers involved in the “plebgate row”. Inspector Ken MacKaill, Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton and Sergeant Chris Jones had been told they would face no action for misconduct over press statements they made after a meeting with Andrew Mitchell, the Tory former chief whip who quit after an altercation with officers in Downing Street last year. However, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has said it will hold its own investigation after finding “procedural irregularities” in the way an earlier probe was dealt with. Mr Jones and Mr Hinton have been also called to appear again before MPs on Tuesday, after being accused of giving “misleading” answers when they gave evidence to the home affairs select committee on October 23. The three officers are all members of the Police Federation, which represents police officers and has been at loggerheads with the government over reforms and budget cuts. The select committee said in a report published on Sunday that it found the three officers’ testimony “misleading, possibly deliberately so, and lacking in credibility”. It said it was recalling two of the officials to apologise and correct their testimony. “The narrative of what we have seen could rival any great work of fiction,” the committee’s chairman, Keith Vaz, said in a statement. “At every point and at every level, instead of being transparent, we have uncovered a process that obstructs the truth. If this can happen to a cabinet minister, what hope is there for anyone else?” The three men were originally told that they would face no disciplinary action after senior officers disagreed with Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, who found they had a case to answer for misconduct. But IPCC deputy chairwoman, Deborah Glass, said that evidence given on October 23 revealed “irregularities between the production of the draft and final reports” on their conduct. “On August 12 2013, a final report was provided to the IPCC. It contained a single set of conclusions to the effect that no case to answer for misconduct was made out against any of the three officers under investigation. “However, it is clear from CI Reakes-Williams’s evidence to the home affairs select committee that this conclusion did not reflect his opinion. His opinion was (and remains) that a case to answer for misconduct was made out. “However, he mistakenly believed that his report should reflect the view of the appropriate authorities – the senior officers in each of the forces involved. “The appropriate authorities are the final decision-making bodies, and they are entitled to reach a different decision to the conclusions of the investigator. However, this is an entirely separate process. The procedure described above has conflated the two.” Mr Mitchell had called a meeting with the three men to apologise for his altercation with an officer who had prevented him leaving through the main Downing Street gate on his bicycle. But the Police Federation representatives spent most of it debating whether the former chief whip used the word “pleb” as an insult against the officer. When Mr Mitchell denied using the word, the officers said they would have to report the issue as the Downing Street officer may have lied in formal notes, something they said would be a common-law offence. However, when they emerged from the meeting they instead called Mr Mitchell’s integrity into question and demanded he should be sacked from his cabinet role. He quit days later.

Chris Kaba: What Happened And Why It’s So Important

No.10 are refusing to comment on the issue right now, citing the national mourning period for the Queen.By Kate Nicholson12/09/2022 12:25pm BST|Updated September 13, 2022

A protest for Chris Kaba, who was killed last week, took place over the weekend

Chris Kaba’s death last week has shaken people across the UK.

The 24-year-old man was shot dead by police in London last Monday night after the car he was driving was found to be connected to a firearms incident.

Kaba was due to become a father, and was a rapper known as Madix or Mad Itch with the drill group 67. A criminal investigation into his death is now under way, and hundreds marched calling for justice for the murdered man on Saturday – although the government are yet to comment.

After the incident, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner Amanda Pearson said she “absolutely understands that this shooting is a matter of grave concern, particularly for our Black communities”.

She added that firearms officers have a “difficult and often dangerous” job, claiming: “I don’t underestimate the impact on them of this development.”

Kaba’s mother, Helen Nkama, told the BBC last Wednesday: “My heart is broken. I am speechless.”

Chris Kaba's parents, Prosper Kaba and Helen Nkama seen during the demonstration demanding for justice for Chris Kaba on Saturday — Chris Kaba’s parents, Prosper Kaba and Helen Nkama seen during the demonstration demanding for justice for Chris Kaba on Saturday

His family said they “need answers” and “accountability” as they called for an official investigation into Kaba’s death.

They added: “We are worried that if Chris had not been Black, he would have been arrested on Monday evening and not had his life cut short.”

They also said that they want a charging decision in “weeks or a few months, not years” and the suspension of the firearms officer responsible, pending the outcome of the investigation.

Kaba’s relatives pointed out that action needed to be delivered on a “timescale that delivers justice to all concerned” to restore public confidence.

The family added: “We do not want any delay as has happened in other fatal shootings – otherwise we and the wider public can have no confidence that the police will be held to account.”

Since this statement last week, it’s been confirmed that the incident is being looked into as a homicide by the IPOC.

As of Monday September 12, it was reported that the officer responsible for firing the fatal shot had been suspended from frontline duties.