And Hopefully, You've Learned A Lesson...

An experienced magistrate has been given a warning for misconduct after making a 'racist' comment on WhatsApp during a discussion about Winston Churchill. Derek Muhammad JP made the comment in a private message group during an 'intellectual discussion about the complex legacy of Winston Churchill and the colonial history of Britain'.

Oh ho ho. How I love to see people hoist on their own petard...

But, another member of the group complained it was 'racially prejudiced' and left them in a state of 'distress'.

Deploying the ultimate weapon of the once-great British judicial system: 'I'm offended!'

Bedfordshire-based Mr Muhammad, who has been a magistrate for almost 20 years, denied the comment was racist and claimed it had actually been a 'criticism of colonial exploitation'. He added that he could not be prejudiced against people 'with whom he shares ancestry'. But, despite his protestations, Mr Muhammad has now been given formal advice for misconduct.

I wonder if at any time throughout this process he had second thoughts on the wisdom of becoming part of such a captured enterprise as the modern judicial system. I do hope so. 

What Were The LA Riots Really About?

 

They appear to be about rich Democrat’s fury that they might no longer be able to rely on cheap labour to make their lives better, if this Tweet is any example!

With Los Angeles convulsed by confrontation between pro-migrant protesters and military units dispatched by Donald Trump, no figure apart from the president has loomed larger than Stephen Miller. As the man in the Oval Office, it is Trump who has absorbed the accusations of authoritarianism for usurping the powers of California’s government after deploying 4,000 national guard troops and 700 active marines on to the streets of a city that is home to more undocumented immigrants than any other in the US.

.That being the progressive's favoured term for the Latin American illegal immigrants that keep their houses clean, their cars valeted and their lawns manicured. And to hell with their fellow citizens who see the disruption and crime they bring to their neighbourhoods as something they are entitled to complain about.

As demonstrators took to the streets, Miller promptly raised the stakes by accusing them of an “insurrection”.

Well, they can't complain about that, can they? Didn't they hurl the same accusation over the Capitol demonstration?

WCPGW?*

She had been fostering the American bulldog in the hope of fully adopting it.

Because who doesn't want to foster an animal that the police have to taser and batter with truncheons to make it let go of your oh-so-tasty arm? 

She said: 'The pain was excruciating.

'I knew I was in a bad way but nothing prepared me for the news my arm would have to be amputated.'

The RSPCA has denied it was liable for the attack, and Joanna's claim will be heard at the High Court in London.

Wait, how is this the RSPCA's fault? I mean, I hold no brief for them at all, but unless there was a known risk then th... 

Ms Harris, from Crowborough, East Sussex, claims that the RSPCA failed to let her know that the dog, which was later put down, had attacked two women just eight months before it set upon her, The Sun reported.

Oops! 

This will be an important case. If the RSPCA loses, it might make other rescues think twice about handing out these things to unsuspecting idiots. 

*What could possibly go wrong?

Self Inflicted Wounds...

If you’re writing a memoir, the moment of panic at your own specific revelations will come. Once it’s out there, there’s no withdrawing it.

Then why do it? Did someone hold a gun to your head?

Could a shared central resource exist? A set of agreed principles and harm-reduction guidelines? A directory of counsellors, therapists, helplines and specific support organisations – after all, each author’s needs will be as specific as their stories.

Why on earth should any of these things be needed so self-indulgent snowflakes can feel free to 'express themselves' in public? 

 

Wow, Technology's So Advanced These Days!

...you can punch someone over the phone now!

Staff are facing unprecedented assaults, abuse and aggression by patients, with surgeries struggling to cope with “unmanageable levels of demand” after years of failure to recruit or retain sufficient numbers of family doctors.

It's not entirely the failure of recruitment, is it, though...it's the failure of doctors during the two years of lockdown to treat their patients as people, and not walking disease vectors to be avoided at all costs!

Security measures such as CCTV, panic buttons and screens at reception are now increasingly being rolled out across GP surgeries, the Guardian has learned, with senior medics claiming ministers perpetuate a myth that services are “closed”.

Wait, what? Make up your minds - why are patients flocking to surgeries they believe are closed to kick Dr Findlay in the nuts?  

Richard Van Mellaerts, a GP in Kingston upon Thames and an executive officer for the BMA’s GP committee, said... “Some sections of the media have driven a view that general practice was closed during the pandemic, which is of course the opposite of the truth. Unfortunately, that opinion has been adopted by some people, and that’s been a driver for some of the aggression. That’s not been adequately quashed by the government, which could have taken the opportunity to be more supportive of general practice.”

Technically, they weren't completely closed, no, but boy, did the majority of them make it absolutely as difficult as possible to get seen. 

Insisting, like my surgery, on no walk-ins, keeping the door closed and insisting patients rang the bell to be seen (when one of the lard-arse receptionists could bother to stop chatting away to her chum in the next seat and waddle over to open the door a crack to a freezing pensioner who'd been standing there for 10 minutes). 

And yes, Dickie old chum, I witnessed this first hand!

Richard Vautrey, a GP in Leeds and former chair of the BMA’s GP committee, said the officially recorded crimes of violence were only “the tip of a much, much bigger iceberg” of the incidents occurring in general practice. Staff are now facing “often daily abuse”, he said.

I'm not in the least surprised. I'm not the type to physically assault someone, but point out in print how much I despise the lazy, cowardly, uncaring GPs at my local surgery, and how I wouldn't micturate on them if they were on fire? 

Yup, that I can do! So there's another 'incident' for your stats...