Traitors To Their Country

Protesters clashed with police and flares were set off as cross-Channel migrants arrived in Hampshire on RNLI boats. Police made 12 arrests for a range of offences including assaulting an officer following a protest in Gosport on Sunday night.

Demonstrators had gathered in the town amid reports that authorities were preparing for the arrival of a boat. The dinghy was being shadowed by French rescue vessels until it was met by the RNLI boats in English waters, according to ship tracking data.

Given the government knows exactly what they are importing it's hard to see why they treat the demonstrators like this.

A Government spokesperson said: “The Border Security Command works around the clock to protect our border. We have established contingency plans to make sure we can securely disembark, check and process all small boat arrivals.

Strange interpretation of ‘protecting the border’, that!

“Migrants will be transported to short term holding facilities in Kent where they will be processed as normal and undergo stringent health, security and biometric checks.”

Given they routinely discard all ID just what are you checking them against? And true migrants come on planes with visas - call a spade a spade, these are illegal immigrants!

On Sunday, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said it had deployed officers to Gosport to “support our partners in the event of an emergency at sea”.

Who are 'yout partners'? It's not the general public, is it? The emergency is on land!

Shameful...

Demonstrators clashed and police made 11 arrests amid protests in London on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel.

Only 11?  

Five people were arrested for inciting racial hatred after shouting and chanting slogans calling for “intifada” were heard at what police described as a “spontaneous protest” outside the Board of Deputies in Camden on Wednesday.

And they called it that because of the criticism of them for failing to ban the main march - as if anyone who has seen how the uk Police cower when faced with Muslim agression thought they would.

The Met imposed strict conditions on the central London pro-Palestine march, including requiring the group to form up at Lincoln’s Inn Fields by 12.30pm, take a set route to Russell Square, and complete the rally by 2pm.The Metropolitan Police said the force could not ban a protest planned in the capital but repeated a plea to demonstrators to not go ahead with it.

Funny, because they have no issues banning marches they don't like. 

Later, the Met Police said: “We appreciate that some will think officers should have taken more robust action against protesters wearing face coverings. “During the march earlier, officers engaged with a large number of protesters to inform them of an order in place under Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act requiring them to remove face coverings.During the student march, officers made one arrest under Section 60AA for failing to remove a face covering when required by an officer.

Once they would have got away with this, as most peaple onlt read newspapers, but now everyone has social media and we can see in livestream and full colour just how weak and ineffectual they are. 

Education Secretary Lucy Powell has called on students planning to protest on university campuses “to show compassion and respect for others by moving it” to another date.

Waste of time expecting it from students who probably can't even spell it. 

Well, I Think The Answer Is Staring You In The Face, Gaby

There were seven men in all, and it lasted almost seven hours. What followed, according to the woman at the heart of the Cornell University case that has gripped student campuses around the world, was less a sexual encounter than a grim pack-bonding exercise fuelled by booze and ketamine, in which she was passed around like a blow-up doll.Twenty years old and drunk at a college frat house party, she had reportedly agreed to a threesome with a student she liked, though her lawyer maintains she wasn’t sober enough to consent.

Were the males? Why does no-one ever consider that? 

But it is what allegedly followed – including a crude invitation sent to a group chat of more than 50 of the men’s friends, advertising “free pussy” upstairs if they wanted to join in – that really makes the blood boil. Could so many men really see nothing here to challenge?

All over social media, mothers are posting and swapping advice on how to raise sons who don’t just refrain from rape but who would, if they ever got such a message, realise something was wrong and be brave enough to intervene.

Simple, you bring thrm up with a moral code, but to do that, you have to possess one yourself and dispaly it frequently; No more rooting for a child killer just becauuse you share a sex, because kids will pick up on that sort of thing faster than you realise.

Bringing up our own boys to do better feels like the one practical step any mother can take. Yet it makes me angry, all the same; angry and exhausted. How has rape prevention become yet another thing on mothers’ to-do lists? Where are all the men – the celebrity dads, the sports coaches and the role models…

Mostly parading their sons in womens clothing, at least in Hollywood. 

If fathers don’t know how to raise these subjects – well, mothers are equally mortified, but we muddle through because we don’t want our sons to be a danger to other people’s daughters or themselves.

And what of those 'families' where fathers aren't even in the picture, Gaby? You know who I mean... 

Across the Atlantic, it is now for the courts to decide whether what happened at Cornell meets New York’s bar for prosecution, with the local district attorney – who decided in 2024 not to press charges – reopening an investigation into what he now calls allegations of “heinous and despicable acts”. But it’s already clear that lives were ruined that night; that it was a tragedy, and a preventable one. Precisely the kind, in other words, that parenting exists to stop.

Parenting used to exist to stop it - modern parenting however? 

Just Another News Report With Salient Details Missing…

Armed police officers responding to reports of an assault at a Blackpool address made the grim discovery of a dead dog inside the property, Lancashire Constabulary has confirmed.

Better than a live, angry one, I’d have thought… One that might require special measures.

A cordon was established on Central Drive earlier today (October 3) after officers received a report that a woman had been attacked. Armed units were subsequently deployed to the address amid concerns that the suspect could be carrying weapons, with reports of dangerous dogs being present "inside the property".

 Seems those reports were correct. 

"A thorough search of the property was conducted and a number of dogs were found, including one which was deceased. However, the suspect was not located and arrest enquiries remain ongoing. This is being treated as an isolated incident and there is no wider threat to the public.”

That would be reassuring if not for the fact they’ve studiously avoided not naming or describing the man they are supposedly searching for, not the breed of the dogs. That’s ok, we can all fill in the blanks by now.

If You Need 'Support' To Stay Out Of Prison, That's a Warning Sign It's Where You Truly Belong

The flipchart in the corner of the staff meeting room, deep inside a prison in the south-east of England, tells its own story about what our overcrowded jails are having to deal with, day in day out. Under the heading “Challenges”, it lists gangs, the destruction of cells, prisoners exploiting each other and complex behaviours. Committed, hard-working staff talk about the high levels of psychosis, often combined with drug abuse. They provide examples of people actually committing crimes to go back into jail to get some respite from their chaotic, dysfunctional lives.

To tackle the current prisons crisis in England and Wales, planned changes to sentencing will see almost 2,000 people released early from Thursday and over the following month. It is the first tranche of the estimated 5,000 releases that will take place in phases over the coming year.

Hw of course has two things to focus on, both of which boil down to being soft on criminal excuses, as you'd expect for the 'Guardian':

As a first step, we need to address the staggering increase in people recalled to prison. The power that probation officers have to send someone back behind bars plays an important role in protecting the public, but with recall now accounting for one in seven of the prison population compared with one in 13 a decade ago, it is neither sustainable nor effective.Cases of people being recalled for missing probation appointments because transport was delayed or for moving out of their accommodation to get away from drug dealers and gangs, are too often punished with a return to custody.

There are rules and they expect people to follow them - sounds like they are the only State agents actually doing their job diligently to me. 

Second, we need to focus on the probation service. It is critical to fixing prisons and too often undervalued. Today it is a long way from its original social-work ethos to advise, assist and befriend those once described as clients but now always labelled offenders. The focus is much more on surveillance and compliance.

As it always should have been! 

The services need connecting. Fixing this cannot be achieved by the justice system alone. Public bodies from the NHS to local councils have a role to play in giving people the support they need to stay out of prison.

I don’t require any ‘support’ to stay out of prison, and nor do the vast majority of people, you know.

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far...

The father of one of the teenagers killed in the A66 Middlesbrough crash faces prison today after attacking the celebrant at his son's funeral. Gye Worthy is alleged to have become angered when Paul Maull failed to mention him in a eulogy for 17-year-old Cole - but did not forget the teenager's step-father. Worthy, 40, is accused of shouting insults before assaulting the celebrant (Ed: odd term for a mourner, but then, normal society has much to celebrate with these wastes of oxygen in the ground) and obstructing police officers called to deal with the disturbance at Teesside Crematorium on September 9.

Not unusual with traveller get togethers. Especially funerals.  

Cole's mother, Natalie McConnell, was 'devastated and shocked' by the disruption to her son's memorial, a source close to the family said. Ms McConnell has long been separated from Worthy and both now have new partners.

Lovely people. Salt of the earth.  

Then You're Expanding The Definition Far Too Wide

Almost half of the women who reported allegations of sexual abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed to the Metropolitan police are potential victims of human trafficking, MPs have been told.

Trafficked? When they mostly will have got on a train or plane themselves to take up a job? 

In a briefing for the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for the survivors of Fayed and Harrods in July, senior Met officers said a review earlier this year found 70 survivors’ accounts bore the hallmarks of trafficking. The Home Office has confirmed that at least five survivors were victims of international and domestic trafficking.

The Met’s figures suggested the number of confirmed cases could climb much higher, said the Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain, a co-chair of the APPG.“I can’t believe that wouldn’t increase,” said Chamberlain, who also compared the scale of Fayed’s abuse to Jimmy Savile’s.

The only real similarity is the fact that the police and establishment ignored it too, until the alleged abuser was safely dead. And for much the same reason. 

Amy, who lives in Italy, said she was trafficked from Harrods, where she initially worked on the shop floor, and her home to Fayed’s other properties. She said she was transferred to a PA role in his private residence and office at 60 Park Lane in London, where he allegedly sexually abused her, including groping her breasts and forced kissing. She said Fayed also took her in his private car and helicopter to his estate in Oxted, Surrey, where she was sexually assaulted in a lagoon-style swimming pool located behind a concealed door.

“I would be removed from my home in Hammersmith and then be changed into clothes like Lacoste polo shirts and Bermuda shorts and boat shoes, which I absolutely hated,” said Amy. “That was robbing me of my actual identity. Whoever saw me leave my bedsit would say that’s not her. That’s a strong component of what trafficking is and was very calculating.”

She makes it sound like a kinapping - did it ever occour to her to find another job and quit this one.. ? 

Eleanor Lyons, the independent anti-slavery commissioner, said the Home Office’s statutory guidance explicitly stated that people needed to be in the UK to be referred to the NRM. Lyons said this was because the process involved getting access to support including a safe house and counselling, which officials believed would be difficult to provide to people who do not live in the UK. But she called on the Home Office to reconsider the requirement because many affected people she spoke to just wanted to be recognised as trafficking victims, adding that the situation was causing deep distress for alleged survivors of Fayed’s abuse. A Met police spokesperson said: “We were previously making referrals to the Home Office for victims living in the UK and abroad, but those relating to victims living abroad were being rejected. As a result, we have paused any further such referrals. Should the Home Office position change, we will restart those submissions. Our support to victims continues, regardless of where they live.”

Well, as the hunt for Madeline peters out, got to get that overdeas travel somehow. Do all the overseas complaianants live near golf courses, perchance? 

Well, What’s Stopping You?

Sentencing him on Friday,Judge Sean Morris said he had shown "not one line of remorse", adding: "I'd dearly love to lock you up. Now go away and hang your head in shame."

Given he lied his way through the trial I don’t think there’s much point in expecting shame from him, your honour…

The judge rejected Beckett's account that cyclists had obscured his view. "You tried to blame cyclists, which was a nonsense, and you tried to blame the deceased for not having lights on. He did have lights on," he said. The prosecution said the collision was "no momentary lapse of concentration".

I fail to see why he shouldn't be charged with contempt of court then. Maybe that would attract the jail time that killing a man with a car doesn’t. 

Beckett's defence barrister urged the court to suspend any prison sentence, citing Beckett's age, previous good character and clean driving record. Judge Morris said: "It is the will of Parliament that I have to suspend the sentence."

Then what’s the point of you? Might as well flip a coin… 

That Tune's Familiar: Parody Songs

Can't go wrong basing your parody song on a Disney movie tune, and here's one for all the housewives and mothers out there:

Don't Play With Your Food...

I love takeaway menus, and the weird spelling errors on them. This one caught my eye because I can't figure out what it's meant to have been. 

Surely not 'cheese'!?