What’s Up With The Fairer Sex?

Two teenage girls have been sentenced for a series of antisemitic attacks in London, including one that left a woman unconscious. The 14- and 15-year-olds, who cannot be named because of their age, targeted members of the Jewish community in Stamford Hill in four separate incidents over half an hour in December 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

The CPS said the pair appeared at Stratford magistrates court on Wednesday where they were handed a youth rehabilitation order for 18 months. They were also ordered to undertake a rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 and 45 hours, and placed under curfew with an electronic tag for three months.

In other words, they faced almost no punishment at all, despite this being a clear 'hate crime' of the sort that Two-Tier Kier and his idiot lapdog Home Office Minister seem to think deserves special punishment.  

And then we have Brighton:

A teenage girl gang who went viral on social media after they were filmed attacking train staff, passengers and police officers in an alcohol-fuelled rampage have been spared jail. The five girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons, threw punches, headbutts and ripped out hair in an incident described as 'mass hysteria'. One girl held up a clump of hair from the head of a rail passenger like a trophy during the hour-long melee, a court heard.

That's mass something all right, I'm just somewhat doubtful it's hysteria.  

None of the girls, two aged 15, two 16 and a 13-year-old at the time, can be named for legal reasons. Defending one of the girls, Paula Bristow described the incident as having an element of mass hysteria. 'She is doing well at school and this was completely out of character.

Bollocks!  

'There is an element of mass hysteria in this incident.'

No, there's an element of entitlement and lack of proper punishment, bevcause she's a 'juvenile'.  

The three youngest girls were given nine-month referral orders. The two older girls were given 12-month intensive referral orders.

In effect, they got away with it. And will probably grow up and go on to bigger assaults.  

Maybe A Child Would Be Less Credulous?

Mr Chant said the attack, involving a dog believed to be a rottweiler, happened at the Marsh playing fields behind the swimming pool when he was walking his own dog. He had approached the owner of the dog, who was in the children's play park, to ask if he could pet it and the owner, a woman, said it was fine.

Oh oh!

Speaking about the attack, he said: "I put my hand out to stroke the dog and it bit me and as she was trying to pull the dog off me it pulled my hand through the railings.

"There were children in the play park. What if it was a child? It would have been at face height."

Perhaps a child would have been more sensible than to want to pet a large unknown dog or to believe the owner when she said it was fine, though?  

Mr Chant said the woman who had the dog had been in touch with him to apologise.

And the cops? What are they doing?  

The attack took place on the afternoon of Sunday, December 15 and Dorset Police is carrying out an investigation. No arrests have been made at this stage.

Sod all, as usual. But to the comments! 

Dog racism. If I rolled my eyes and harder they'd fall out of my head. 

 

Punctuation, Punctuation, Punctuation...

Blimey, Elon, It took 6 years to build the Channel Tunnel!

Going Into 2025 Just The Same As Ever, 'Mail'?

Through the what? The doorbell? 

H/T: Stephen Brown via email

Sunday Funnies...

No. 1 would be unbelieable, if not for the target being French...

Because People Remain People, Yvonne…

...even at Christmas.

Every Christmas, domestic abuse rates soar as women find themselves on the receiving end of batterings, abuse and controlling behaviour from a partner, son or former spouse demonstrating anything but festive peace and goodwill. It’s a year-round problem with a seasonal peak.

Though rarer, pretty sure there'll be a few men dreading Christmas with a violent female wife of partner too, Yvonne. Doesn't that concern you?

Keir Starmer is committed to halving violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade. Several initiatives have been announced. They include embedding domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms; new domestic abuse protection orders that mean perpetrators could face tougher sanctions; and powers given to six police forces to charge a domestic abuse suspect without first going to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Kier Starmer said a hell of a lot before getting into No 10 Yvonne. I don't think anyone will be surprised if this is yet another of his broken promises...

These are early days but so far, like random jigsaw pieces that have ended up in the same box, the initiatives don’t cohere. What’s more, it might have been better to establish what already works well: to implement existing legislation, for instance, on stalking and coercive control; and to introduce an oversight mechanism that monitors whether police, probation, health, housing and all the services are collaborating to address a constant (and repetitive) stream of recommendations from domestic homicide reviews, inquiries and inquests that could save the lives of women and children. But that’s not happening.

Of course not! This is politics, and 'We're making the public sector do their jobs properly now!' doesn't get the same headlines as 'We're introducing new legislation!'. Does it?

When All Else Fails, Blame The Internet

More young people, including children aged 10, are viewing a “pick and mix of horror” on the web that pushes them towards violence, a UK counter-terrorism leader has said.

Deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans of the Metropolitan police, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the nature of radicalisation had changed and warned of a “rapidly increasing fascination with extreme content that we’re seeing throughout our casework”. Evans said suspects increasingly had no ideology or would scour the internet for material justifying or depicting violence from different sources.

Yes, let's not look at what in their home lives or origin culture might be making them susceptible, let's just blame the electronic Satan corrupting otherwise normal youth.  

Detectives in the counter-terrorism policing network were expending huge amounts of time and resources on digital forensics, uncovering young people seeking extreme material, which was “hugely worrying”, she said. “We most definitely need to think differently about how we stop that conveyor belt of young people who are seeing and being exposed to this type of material, and unfortunately, sometimes then going on to commit horrific acts,” she said.

Well, perhaps a start would be to stop the absurd soft justice that treats them as children and seeks to to accept every bullshit excuse going to ensure the punishment does not fit the crime?  

The government is also reviewing the thresholds for entry to Prevent, which currently requires there to be a clear terrorist ideology. Increasingly people referred to Prevent have an alarming interest in violence with no obvious ideological driver.

If you can't find one, maybe you just aren't looking hard enough? 

The Tools Necessary To Do The Council’s Job, You Mean…

Rejoice, Basildon!

New bin bags will be delivered to residents early next year as a controversial waste system is set to be scrapped.

Basildon Council approved returning to weekly collections and introducing new recycling bags earlier this month after a “huge majority” of residents “demanded” the change during a consultation. The current blue and white reusable recycling sacks will be replaced with single use disposable bags in early 2025, the council has revealed.

As the upcoming changes have sparked a flurry of questions from residents, Aidan McGurran, councillor for environment and leisure, has answered their top queries.

Take it away, Aiden!  

Quizzed on how the new recycling bags will work, the Basildon councillor, dubbed “king of the bins”, said: “The disposable blue and white bags will function similarly to the present system, facilitating the separation of waste.

“Clear bags are designated for plastic and cans and blue bags are for paper and cardboard.

”However, Mr McGurran explained: “You will not be able to use pink sacks for recycling, residents are asked to please use the new bags that will be provided.”

Clear as mud. One thing IS clear though - the council expects you to sort the rubbish for them.  

The borough is returning to weekly residual waste collections, with the change set to take place in spring 2025.

What have they had up to now? 

The proposal was approved at cabinet on Monday, December 9, following feedback from residents in the recent waste consultation. The meeting was told at the time that residents could be hit with “enforcement” for not disposing of waste correctly, as the council is now “going to equip people with the actual tools necessary to do the job”.

And how have the grateful residents taken the news? 

Sounds about right.

But It's A Christmas Tradition!

A number of shoppers around the UK have complained after finding Easter eggs on supermarket shelves in December.

It can't have come as a shock, surely - it happens every year!

Chocolate eggs and hot cross buns have already been spotted for sale in shops including Morrisons, Tesco and Asda.

As reported by Sky News, Gary Evans, 66, from Margate, shared a picture of Creme Eggs on display at his local Morrisons on Boxing Day.

"I just think it's crazy that everything is so superficial and meaninglessly commercial... [there's] something quite frantic about it," he said.

You're in a supermarket, Gary - 'superficial and meaninglessly commercial' is its raison d'etre.

"I wish that supermarkets weren't so blatantly consumerist-driven and would actually allow customers and staff a time to decompress during the Christmas period."

You could always stay home?

At Least He Was Intelligible

...which puts him one up on a lot of the London Tube staff:

A ticket inspector’s bilingual greeting to a Flemish train passenger has created a political war of words – and an official complaint – in language-divided Belgium. The country’s language watchdog is investigating after a Dutch-speaking commuter protested a conductor’s use of “bonjour” – French for “good morning” – to welcome him onboard during a rush-hour train from Mechelen, in Flanders, to the capital, Brussels, in October. Writing on Facebook, Ilyass Alba, the French-speaking conductor, said that on the day in question he greeted passengers entering his carriage with a resounding “goeiemorgen, bonjour”.

And this is a big thing over there! 

The use of both the Dutch and French greetings was not good enough for one Dutch-speaking passenger, who told him off, saying: “We’re not in Brussels yet, you have to use Dutch only!”

That told him!  

The passenger was technically right, as under Belgium’s complex language rules conductors should in theory use both languages only in Brussels and a few other bilingual regions. “The file is under review,” the Permanent Commission for Linguistic Control said, adding it would ask the national railway operator, SNCB, for more information on its enforcement of language policies.

Ah, if only that was the only thing other country's transport systems had to worry about.... 

If They Rebooted 'The X Files', Mulder's 'I Want To Believe' Poster...

...would refer not to UFOs, but to the FBI itself. 

That's if Mulder wasn't a black gay wheelchair-bound woman. Like the DEIhires who turned up in New Orleans to attend 2025's first Islamic terrorism event.

Well, I guess they are teaching something at Quantico other than investigation - they certainly aren't turning out agents like they used to:

Once they found the bombs and ISIS flag on the truck (visible in Tweets from the scene), ol' Althea's earpiece was no doubt buzzing like a hornet nest and the story immediately changed to what everyone else had already figured out - the NOLA Mayor was right after all. 

And this rot in the heart of the administative agencies is why the re-election of Trump is probably not going to be the turning point that people hope. Not unless there's a plan to deal with the cancer of DEI going forward.