TheCentreCannotHold

Sola dosis facit venenum

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
-Marcus Cicero

[Bob Moran @bobscartoons]

If you're demanding mass deportations without caveating it every single time by saying "But under no circumstances through the implementation of Digital ID", then all you're doing is facilitating your own enslavement and making all of Tony Blair's dreams come true.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

A brief point of information …

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.

Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.

When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.

Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.

The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

FFS. There isn't one bloody problem - political, cultural, economic, social - that this Labour Gov doesn't think the answer is to shut down debate. Their dull, technocratic mantra -on repeat- is always 'you can't say that'. They really are censorious, ghoulish scoundrels. Contemptible

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

A 12-year-old white girl is raped upstairs while 20 of the rapist’s uncles, cousins, brothers wait their turn downstairs.
This actually happened in our country.
Thousands of times.
But talking about it was “racist” so people were told to shut up.
Britain is sick.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The more you read about the Pakistani-heritage child rape gangs and the cover-up the more sickening and distressing it becomes.
Haven’t felt this angry for a long time.
My column: https://t.co/pc0xTlVunH

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

There is nothing controversial about deporting foreign rapists.

If you think there is, then you’re part of the problem.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Someone needs to tell Keir Starmer that it’s not far right to be angry about the fact that there is an epidemic of Pakistani rape gangs abusing tens of thousands of mostly vulnerable white girls and that this WAS covered up, by people in positions of power…like him

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

If you need to overlook atrocities in order for society to be functioning, then your society is sick to its core

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society.

This is how the grooming gangs scandal was covered up ⬇️
https://t.co/ah1cv27Jm9

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

It hit me how absurdly dystopian life in the UK has devolved to when my significant other had to have “the talk” with me.

I was fixing something up in the kitchen when he made me stop what I was doing to make sure sure I’d fully absorb his solemn warning.

“Listen to me. If and when the doorbell rings and it’s the police, do not answer it without pressing the record button.

The chances are high that they will come by to investigate a tweet or post or even meme. Make sure you have your phone with you to record everything.”

I went back to what I was doing. But later that evening, I realized how ludicrous things must’ve have gotten to make his exhortation a necessity.

This just underscores how far England - the nation that, in 1215, put out the world’s first statement of the principles of liberty, the Magna Carta - has fallen.

It was the historical and philosophical foundation that paved the way of assuring free speech, freedom of expression and a free press. The American Constitution and its First Amendment can trace its intellectual inheritance to the Magna Carta.

Not even the experience of spending the first 17 years of my life growing up in Singapore - famously known for draconian speech laws - prepared me for this. The only “talk” I was subjected to was the typical one about the birds and the bees.

It is unsettling that UK police resources are being spent on policing speech (a victimless crime) rather than actual crimes such as assault, stabbings and rapes; that prisoners serving time for serious crimes are released to make room for those guilty of mere thoughtcrimes.

It’s utterly jarring that the country that brought you the subversive comedy of Monty Python could succumb to Karenism and destroy its culture of dissent and irreverence.

It’s really disquieting that a nation that historically spilled so much blood to fight tyranny is welcoming tyranny at home.

We have now sunk to a depth at which we are wasting time and bandwidth debating the legality of tweets, worried about when (not just “if” anymore) the police will come knocking. We now have children logged by the police for “non-crime hate incidents” - in other words, for just being children trying to figure out their place in the world.

It’s time to turn things around. It’s already getting very dark here.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Every major Western nation is currently undergoing some form of controlled demolition.

We can debate the who, why, and how, but that much seems clear.

It can't all be organic.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

NET ZERO - Note on ideology v. Reality for Ed Miliband.

Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, explains the battery storage (load base) cost of becoming a renewable energy state by 2030.

$12 BILLION Per 1 Hour Battery storage. Alberta’s population is 4.4 million!

Britains population is 70 million.

So er …Ed, how were you proposing to fund fully renewable energy in just 6 years and have you done the maths? 🤡

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

Huw Edwards has been given a six-month suspended sentence for paying another man, Alex Williams, hundreds of pounds in exchange for 41 images of abused children

He will likely never spend time in prison

Meanwhile, 53-year-old carer Julie Sweeney was given 15 months in prison for an offensive Facebook post, following the Southport riots

Sweeney's post was wrong, but unlikely to lead to imminent lawless action

Huw Edwards was actively creating a market for child abuse

In modern Britain, those involved in protests which are politically inconvenient for the Labour government receive harsher penalties than perpetrators of child s*x abuse

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The thing about wokeness was that it gave really lazy, incompetent people a morally superior way to justify their laziness and incompetence

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

The left has actually arrived at the Idi Amin position on free speech.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

I remember reading about a Japanese cannibal who, after killing and eating a Dutch woman, became a celebrity, appearing on cooking shows and writing restaurant reviews.

I thought something like that could never happen here.

Then Alastair Campbell became the voice of morality for left-wing Brits.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

Almost every judge I’ve identified as being involved in the rapid prosecution and incarceration of individuals who participated in the Southport riots has a history of letting convicted pedophiles walk free with no jail time. 🌞

A short thread on "two-tier" justice:

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

🎥Two-tier Keir- Social media crackdown.