It's Not Just Babies!

A couple beat and starved a vulnerable man to death after he was sent to live with them by social workers, a court heard. Rubin Blount, 28, resembled a 'walking skeleton' in the weeks before his death and was seen scavenging for food in bins, it is claimed. When he died he weighed just seven stones and had suffered multiple rib fractures, a fractured spine and cigarette burns, jurors were told.

How did he end up with them? Well, Reader, of course it's social services, who are giving Nazi camp guard and train signalling staff a run for their money in the 'sending people to their death' stakes. The only different thing here was they did it to an adult. 

She told jurors that Newton was a 'sort of step-brother' to the victim, having been raised by Mr Blount's father. But she said the defendants - who were described in court as 'recovering drug addicts' - kept Mr Blount in their council house 'for their own financial benefit' and abused him 'for their own fun and kicks'.

because everyone knows that recovering drug addicts are just as responsible as gay men! 

The court was told Mr Blount, who had a low IQ and learning disabilities, spent the first 20 years of his life living with his parents Eric and Jeanette Blount, until there were 'some concerns' in 2015 which led to him moving in with the defendants.

out of the frying pan and into the fires. Did they do any due diligence at all? 

Miss Josephs said : 'It was agreed with all including social services that he would move in with the defendants.The court heard James managed his finances and bank card, receiving £1,100 in benefits for all three of them into Mr Blount's account. The walls of their 'disgusting' house, which had no heating, were covered in mould and stank of urine, Miss Josephs said.

Guess that’s ‘no’ then! 

 Miss Josephs told jurors: 'You may have questions or concerns about how it is he was left to live with these people…without any ongoing support. 

'These may be valid questions, but they are for another day.

And don't bother asking them, they've probably already written their statement, with promises to 'learn lessons'. they have form, after all.

Trash Hire Fired For Trash Theft

A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City’s Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.

Which is a surprise, because to look at her she didn’t appear to be the sort of person who would be holding down a responsible and respectable job!

Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle and experiential content.

Ah, now the penny drops! 

Sources say the bank looked into the incident after the video surfaced and a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told The Post, “This employee is no longer with the company.”

 Maybe reconsider the desire for DEI brownie points that drove her hire in the first place?

Baez also appears to have co-founded a queer and Black, Indigenous and People of Color-owned talent agency, Same Page Co. which is “focused on increasing representation and equity in media and industry. It works with artists/talent on creative projects, photoshoots, strategy, and business affairs.”

Well, at least she has something to fall back on! 

Shorter Jason Okundaye: 'Stop Noticing! '

Yes, of course it’s the modern way, blame technology so you don’t have to concentrate on the people using it anf what they are using it for... 

That quandary has been sharpened by something that has quietly become a regular fixture of social media: members of the public are now consistently fed a stream of exceptional images and videos that once might have only been seen by investigators or from the inside of a courtroom. It is so regular that it has become banalised, whether it’s of robbers smashing up a jewellery shop, or of extreme and graphic assaults akin to snuff films.

Much of this is broadcast in real time from the phones of bystanders. That includes the horrific footage out of Belfast this week, of a Sudanese refugee alleged to have carried out a knife attack on a white man, gleefully circulated on X by the likes of far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Circulated by everyone- they can’t all have been ‘right wing’, can they? 

Considerations of the decency of sharing such footage, of how the circulation of graphic, violent crime images can indignify and rob victims of bodily agency, are nullified by what are considered greater political priorities: to identify and profile the ethnic violence that is supposedly tearing the fabric of the nation.

Did the same appeal to 'decency' not apply to the death of George Floyd? Seems I saw that video everywhere.

It has perfectly landed within a pre-existing online visual language that has, for some time, cast the United Kingdom as in decline, and besieged by “invaders”, with ordinary white people betrayed by the state that was meant to protect and privilege them.

And is that so far from the truth? 

Where responsible politicians would not so casually circulate such violent imagery, the likes of Reform UK’s Nigel Farage and Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe say, come, Britain, come and see how you have been betrayed by the state. It echoes the conviction of Enoch Powell, when he said, in 1968, that allowing a growing immigration population “is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre”.

He was absolitely right, and his predictions are being proved more right every day! Certainly, the recent case of Henry Nowak proved whose hand is now holding the whip, thanks to the weakness of our hopelessly compromised police force.

Starmer’s national telling-off in response to the Belfast racist rioters targeting people “because of their background” and his appeal for “calm” – even though palpably correct – cannot meet or subdue the angered and visceral response from those who view that image of a black suspect over the stricken body of a white man, and see it as the loss of their dominion.

We've heard all we care to about 'not looking back in anger' from this failed PM, we have all noted how he rushed to condemn the recent stabbings in Edinburgh and even to ascribe a motive, while urging caution in smilar attacks by muslims 'to allow the law to take its course'.

The man's a despicable liar and anti-white to his core, and we are well rid of him.

Considering Leaving Money To Charity?

A farmer was left 'baffled' after his sheepdog was reported to the RSPCA for rounding up his own flock. Tom Trueman, 42, received a complaint from the animal welfare charity after reports that his border collie had been seen 'worrying' sheep. He was sent two pamphlets alongside the complaint titled 'dog behaviour' and 'how to look after your dog'.

A waste of time and little old ladies' bequests to this wretched 'charity'... 

Purplexed (sic), Mr Trueman looked further into the report and was stunned to discover that it was lodged against his own sheepdog Tilly, who had been helping him round up runaway sheep on a nearby road. 

The eighth-generation farmer, from Buckfastleigh, Devon, said: 'The whole thing is laughable really! 'Usually if you see a sheep, a sheepdog and farmer you put two and two together.

And who did they send?  

He said: 'The inspector was a farmer's daughter from Devon, so she understood the situation and we both had a good laugh - she even said to tear up the letter and put it in the bin.

She shouldn't have wasted her time visiting him in the first place!  

It's Not Such A Bad Idea...

But they picked the wrong games:

Civil servants played the graphic video game Grand Theft Auto to explore Britons' 'everyday lives'. Policy Lab, which was founded in 2014 to apply 'design thinking' to government policy, said it was 'crucial' for policymakers to use virtual worlds to learn about British people's 'hopes and dreams'. Popular games including GTA, Fortnite and World of Warcraft were all earmarked as relevant to the policy process.

Why focus on a game that simulates criminals in America when there’s so many other useful games that they could use? 

Researchers said meeting people online could be useful for those working remotely or who struggled to speak face-to-face.

This is undoubtedly true as playing World of Warcraft, and especially Guild runs to bring down bosses helped me immensely when holding Teams meetings with multiple participants. And Jurassic World Evolution would be of benefit to prison officers who have to keep their inmates from causing havoc in the outside world.

Policy Lab is funded by paid commissions and is hosted by the Department for Education, though any government department is able to use it.

I’m suggesting that council planning department train their town planners on SimCity or other type city builder -type games,  which would inform them that building more and more housing is doomed to failure if you don’t also build the underlying infrastructure that houses rely on. 

Policy Lab said it had worked with more than 7,000 civil servants to form policy through practical projects, building skills and knowledge and inspiring new thinking. A government spokesperson said: 'We are reforming the civil service to create a cost-conscious culture that relentlessly roots out waste, drives efficiency, and protects taxpayers' money. We are currently looking into this initiative.'

Its a damn good idea in my opinion if they just choose their games a little more competently. 

Superstition...

The 130ft high bridge where a young woman was hurled to her death on a bungled rope jump is to be blown up to prevent future tragedies, the Daily Mail can reveal.

 The bridge didn’t cause her death, humans did. Still, I guess there’s precedent….

Work started Wednesday morning, less than a week after 21-year-old Brazilian Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was hurled off the bridge to her death. The decision to demolish the dangerous structure comes after a heartbroken relative demanded action in a text to a local politician who for years has campaigned against the rogue cord and bungee operators using it.

I don’t know for certain, but if I’d been that grieving relative, I’d have wanted the law to focus on the people who failed her and not on the structure. 

We All Suspected They Did This ...

 .. and now we have proof: 

Police 'guided' the family of a hotel worker in 'toning down' their public statements after she was murdered by an asylum seeker – in case their words led to anti-immigration rioting. Rhiannon Whyte, 27, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver by Sudanese national Deng Majek while waiting at a train station.

Now Rhiannon's mother, Siobhan, has claimed police said they didn't want 'another Southport' when she told them her daughter's life support was to be turned off. She said: 'Did they tell us what to say? No. Did they guide us so it didn't look so aggressive? Maybe. I was aggressive – they toned it down.'

Confimation at last! 

Ms Whyte – who stresses that she is grateful for the help she received from the police in the aftermath of her daughter's death – added: 'I think they didn't want violence... they didn't want a riot.'

What help?  

When Rhiannon's family told police they were turning off her life support, officers quickly removed the migrants from the hotel. Ms Whyte added: 'Those migrants were out within two hours – I think that's because [the police] feared violence.'

See, they can do it when they want to, thus giving the lie to the claim that violence is not the way. 

It was only after Majek was sentenced that Ms Whyte mentioned the fact he had arrived in the UK on a small boat three months before the attack – and criticised Sir Keir Starmer. She said: 'The Prime Minister's got blood on his hands.'

He has, yes, but he's not alone in the government in that! 

Danger, Danger Will Robinson!

Amber heat health alerts are in place across southern and eastern England, with a heatwave set to develop in the coming days. Temperatures are set to climb above 30C (86F) on Friday, possibily up to 32C (90F) in south-east England, and potentially up to 34C (93F) or higher by Tuesday.

We used to call this 'summer', didn't we?

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued amber alerts covering the east, south-east and south-west of England, which are valid until 20:00 BST on Tuesday. Yellow alerts are valid across the Midlands during the same period.Amber heat health alerts are issued when high temperatures are likely to have a significant impact on health and social care services.

It will be a different story for Scotland and Northern Ireland with outbreaks of heavy rain.

That’s the sort of British summer that they are more used to. 

Nicely Topical...

 

..as we expect from Matt

Who Doesn't Have 'Normal Fingers' Then?

Hundreds of "stunningly beautiful" blue sea creatures have washed up along parts of the Welsh coastline. Velella velella, commonly known as by-the-wind sailors and closely related to the Portuguese man o' war, have been spotted on beaches across Anglesey, Gwynedd and Tenby.

The only 'stunningly beautiful' things to be found on Welsh beaches. 

One woman who found one of the free-floating hydrozoans on Tenby South beach said it was "like a crystal".

Ah, yes, that famously jelly-like substance, crystal. 

Marine specialist Frankie Hobro, of Anglesey Sea Zoo, said the creatures were beautiful but warned people not to touch them due to their sting.

Although their sting is generally considered "very mild" in comparison to Portuguese man o' war, Hobro advised people not to touch them. "You probably wouldn't feel it through normal fingers because human skin is fairly thick," she said.

I knoe it's the Welsh, but c'mon man, they have normal fingers! Don't they?