So, They Do Exist..?

A former Ministry of Defence police officer has won a discriminations case after she was sacked for failing the bleep test exam. An employment tribunal ruled that the multi-stage fitness exam, which sees participants run back and forth at increasing speed, did not take into account 'innate biological differences' between men and women.

That won't please the trans cult, will it? 

During the grueling fitness test she scored just 6.7 instead of the required 7.6. She continued to be deployed in Scotland in April 2017 but after repeatedly failing attempts at the test was dismissed in October last year.

The College of Policing found that the officer had been 'indirectly discriminated against' on the ground of sex, when other alternative tests could have been made available.

Maybe they didn't see why they should have to provide them for someone unable to meet the basics? 

The New Hierarchy Of Complaints...

Council lashes out £32k on a pointless 'art installation' on the beach, and taxpayers aren't happy:

Taxpayers had previously criticised the public-funded art installation as being a waste of money that could be better spent of things like fixing potholes.

Abalina Lane said: 'Who paid for this and where was the public consultation? Even if this is from another pot of money surely it could be put to better use.People are homeless and hungry for god's sake.'

Carole Wakeman said: 'What a waste of money when everyone else is cutting back Bournemouth splashes out on non essentials.'

Chris Martin added: 'Another waste of our Council tax for this over priced rubbish. Is not even gonna last for very long. 'Meanwhile many shops having to close due to council over pried rents!'

But nothing happens, until...

The move to dismantle the 15 metre-high mirrored archway follows a complaint by Vanessa Abbess, Joe's mother, who described it as 'disrespectful'. She said in a statement: 'As a family, we were shocked and astounded to see news reports of the disrespectful 'Arts by the Sea' installation at the Bournemouth beach yesterday.'The 'Portal of Hope' was badly located and thoughtless, as it frames the area of sea where our son Joe and Sunnah Khan got into difficulties.

'In addition, it is sited on the area of beach where emergency services cared for all casualties on May 31 and the tragic circumstances unfolded. This is not a suitable area to celebrate the sea or to place a tourist attraction.

'We emailed BCP Council, as owners of the beach, to express our distress and upset yesterday evening. 'We fully appreciate that this project may have been planned for many months, but due to the tragic circumstances and ongoing inquest, we feel this (is) entirely unsuitable and plans could have been easily adjusted in the last 17 weeks.

'Last night, Graham Farrant (council chief executive) confirmed the installation would be immediately shut down/relocated.

'We are grateful that BCP Council have acted so quickly...'

I wonder if everyone else is grateful that their legitimate concerns are discounted in favour of council virtuesignalling? 

Tweet Of The Month

Post Title Of The Month

 Jonathan Pearce at Samizdata with a take on genuinely dangerous obesity:

 

Quote Of The Month

Fahrenheit211 sees a glimnmer of hope in Sunak's U-turn:

"Sunak’s announcement could merely be cynical electioneering as all that this move does is bring Britain into line with the European Union’s policy. However, if we put that aside then it could represent a welcome return to realism among British politicians. One reason for this, as outlined by the Climate Resistance Twitter account is that the world has changed from when the Green Blob in the Civil Service and in the Quangos created policies like the internal combustion engine, ban which former PM Boris Johnson just rubber stamped. "

Post Of The Month

Head Rambles notices a bit of a faux pas on his subtitles for the weather....

H/T: Stephen Brown via email

Call It What It Is...

Croydon MP Sarah Jones attended the police press conference alongside Croydon mayor Jason Perry. Ms Jones said: 'I'm heartbroken that a child in my town has been killed on her way to school and I cannot imagine the grief that her family will be going through at this time.'

'Been killed'? She wasn't run over. She didn't have part of a building collapse on her. She was stabbed by some savage. The police know what to call it:

Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said tonight: 'The senseless murder of a 15-year-old girl on her way to school is impossible to comprehend.'

Why don't you?

So What, Chris..?

A meeting of the North Wales Police and Crime Panel heard the area had 37,684 firearms and shotguns linked to just 12,354 licences. It means one person could have "a small arsenal" warned Flintshire councillor Chris Bithell.

They can still only fire one at a time, possibly two if they are really good...

Andy Dunbobbin added police were currently bound by the law, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).

As they should be. The law is sensible and allows people who properly hold a licence to have more than one item, and that's as it should be. Why not?

"A certificate can cover one weapon. [But] there's no maximum or minimum," said Mr Bithell, who is Flintshire's cabinet member for public health.

"I think that should cause some alarm," he said, "because although the owners of these guns... may well be bona fide people, farmers and so on, who use them very legitimately.

"The danger is break-ins and then these weapons get into the wrong hands."

"I think it should be raised nationally," he added. "I think it should be one certificate per weapon really so we can keep some sort of grip on this.

"You are talking about 37,000 plus weapons in the north Wales area, and that's a matter of some concern."

I can't really say I'm concerned. And not just because I don't - thankfully - live in Wales.

Well, If You'd Asked Me What You Had To Do To Get A Jail Sentence In Britain...

...I'd have confidently said 'Crash your car into the PM's residence while holding a stack of child porn'. But amazingly, no:

A child sex offender who rammed his vehicle into the gates of Downing Street in an 'attack on democracy' has been spared a prison term. Seth Kneller, 43, drove his Kia Ceed into the gates of the Prime Minister's residence on May 25 in front of armed police, while terrified bystanders ran away. In a TikTok video posted earlier that day, Kneller blamed politicians for society's ills and said 'someone has to pay'.

So how come he doesn't get banged up?

In mitigation, his barrister Charles Hannaford said his client was suffering from a 'mental health breakdown' at the time of the Downing Street crash. He added: 'This is not an individual who has thought through the consequences of their actions and how they would affect another individual.'

Which makes him even more dangerous surely?

Judge Christopher Hehir said Kneller launched an 'attack on democracy' but was persuaded to spare him prison.

What have you got against democracy, Judge?

The judge said the defendant's lack of previous convictions, early guilty pleas, the fact he has served the equivalent of an eight-month prison sentence, mental health and 'good prospect' of rehabilitation persuaded him to spare the defendant jail.

*sighs*

Looks Like Cows React To Red Flags Too...

The campaign to cancel Natalie Bird began with an item of clothing. She was standing in the sandwich queue when a woman marched over asking ‘Why are you wearing that T-shirt?’ The T-shirt in question had the words ‘Woman: Adult Human Female’ emblazoned across it. To some, an indisputable fact. To others, a red rag to a bull. Either way, it proved a provocative choice for a Liberal Democrat gathering.

How basic biology can ever be 'provocative' I can't imagine, but then thankfully, I'm not a LibDem... 

‘I told the woman I was wearing it because I wanted debate,’ says Natalie, 45. ‘She asked me if I was an approved party candidate and I said yes, and she said: “Well, we’ll see about that.” ’Days later, in December 2018, Natalie received a letter telling her she was banned from standing as an MP or holding party office for ten years.

Not that the chances of them winning any are particularly huge, but still... 

Natalie, who says the party’s focus ‘has moved from women’s equality to trans rights’, believes it is pushing more and more women out of politics. ‘For speaking out, I’ve been bullied, harassed, hounded... and received twice the punishment [with the ten-year ban] that people receive for electoral fraud,’ she says.

Well, yes, I mean, electoral fraud is clearly a lesser crime in the eyes of the people who want it in order to get into power... 

Louise Distras, 36, a singer-songwriter from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, believes the music industry is ‘so captured by gender ideology that they don’t know what a woman is any more’. She adds wryly: ‘Yet the “mob” always hounds women who speak out more than men. So they do know what a woman is, really.’

Bullies always target the weaker victim. They have an unerring sense for it. 

And in this topsy-turvey world the progressives and rabid trans-cult followers are building, anything can be a trigger for the mob: 

Artist Sonya Douglas, 52, is another whose livelihood is under threat. She was dropped from the Critically Speaking arts podcast after she refused to give her pronouns and, according to a tweet made by the podcast, for ‘sharing transphobic content’. The repercussions have been far-reaching.

‘I decided not to put anything and simply said: “It’s not important how people refer to me.” But I knew that I’d stuck my head above the parapet.’ Sure enough later that day the podcast team emailed her: ‘They told me — a black Welsh woman — that they were an “inclusive and diverse” team and wouldn’t be platforming me any more.’

There's 'diversity', and then, there's diversity, clearly...