John Souter

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Every politician should be required to watch this over and over until they understand, no matter how long it takes. For ever, if necessary.
Offended?
https://t.co/cDSmwJGsWV via @YouTube

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

@crislar @toadmeister Definitely both, Christian! Trust you are well?

[Driftwood @buc97552]

Keir Starmer informing parliament that anyone who pushes a wheelie bin towards the police will “feel the full force of the law”

But putting a police officer in hospital is perfectly fine.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I’m sick to death of Lib Dem’s in particular saying trans identifying men are no risk to women. Official MOJ statistics show over 60% of trans identifying men in prison are there for sex offences against women or children. In mens prisons is 18%. Yet we understand why we keep men out of private spaces for women. Safeguarding. That’s over 3x times a higher risk. Stats are stats. Even if you don’t like them. Check out this figure yourself. Next time someone spout this nonsense I will endeavour to give the actual official stats. It’s time we work with truths & not fluffy fantasy.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Still don't think the police are anti-white?

This is Sarah Crew, Chief Constable of Avon & Somerset Police, who dropped all charges against Bob Vylan for their vile Glastonbury set.

She previously vowed to arrest/prosecute anyone flying a UK flag, calling it racist. 🇬🇧

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@RenewablesNews No, Europe's industrial future depends on ending its obsession with intermittent renewables

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Reed chief executive James Reed says the high cost of hiring young people is to blame for plummeting entry level jobs.

"The cost of hiring a 21 year-old 40 hours a week in 2016 was £15,333, now it would cost the same employer £29,654 so it has gone up 93%"

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

David Lammy,

You told Elon Musk to stay out of UK affairs. Two hundred twenty-four likes. The top comment has two hundred sixty-six. It simply says: "Lammy did not stay out of the George Floyd case."

You took the knee for a criminal in another country. You cheered while American cities burned. You inserted yourself into their politics, their elections, their pain. Now an American billionaire mentions a murdered British child and you tell him to mind his own business.

You are not a statesman. You are a hypocrisy delivery system with a Foreign Office pass.

You call Henry Nowak's murder a "complex but painful situation." It is not complex. A child was murdered. The complexity is political. You do not want the attention because it exposes the two-tier system you helped create.

You have spent years lecturing other nations while your own constituents suffer. You have demanded sanctions, boycotts, and interventions abroad while ignoring the chaos at home.

You told Trump "4 US Presidents have been assassinated snowflake." You called him a neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath. You promised to protest in the streets if he visited. Then you became Foreign Secretary and called it "old news." Now you tell Musk to stay out.

You are not a diplomat. You are a hypocrite with a red box. And hypocrites do not keep their jobs.

[Deuxvingarian @deuxvingarian]

A reminder that just last year, the Sentencing Council tried to push through guidelines which would have instructed judges to give ethnic minorities more lenient treatment than whites.
https://t.co/YaphNBEehG

[John Edwards @John_EdwardsUK]

I’m getting sick and tired of Keir Starmer and other left-wing politicians cherry-picking one segment of the Nowak family’s statement about not wanting this to cause further division in an attempt to silence political opponents through guilt.

That isn’t all the Nowak family said.

They also said that Henry was treated differently by the police to Vickrum Digwa. They also said they wanted the Kirpan banned along with all other knives.

Starmer has respected neither of those wishes. He has denied that two-tier policing exists and refused to support banning the Kirpan.

So please don’t start lecturing other politicians about respecting the family’s wishes when you are not doing so yourself.

[Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office @RepWPH]

🚨 New York Democrats just voted to erase "Mother" and "Father”.

Governor Kathy Hochul will be replacing "mother" with "gestating parent" and "father" with "non-gestating parent."

This isn't inclusion, it's insanity.

While New Yorkers battle sky-high taxes, crime, and failing schools, The state is obsessed with rewriting biology and the English language. Real parents don't need woke bureaucrats redefining them.

Reject this nonsense.

[Dave @DaveKent101]

Burnham wants to tax us out of our homes in the South.

His wish to replace Council tax with a Land Value Tax would see council tax in a London borough Band D rise from an average of £1,028 to £4,330 under a LVT😳

Burnham’s excuse is that Labour councils have higher council tax rates for similar properties in the North.
Well hello - THAT is down to overspending by Labour councils and a greater population density in the South.

Burnham stands for one thing and one thing only - more legalised larceny from hard working people.

[Rt. Hon. Alan B’Stard MP @NoWayWoke]

If the National Living Wage is £26,400. Why is the State Pension £12,500?

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Labour doesn’t want us to know this. 👇

Bridget Philipson repeatedly lies that there are more teachers.

Her own department’s official figures prove there are fewer.

[Dr Pam Gosal MBE @DrPamGosal]

It is astonishing that Peter Murrell is entitled to legal aid.

Hard-pressed Scots who are being hammered by the highest taxes in the UK are now expected to pick up the legal tab for Nicola Sturgeon’s disgraced husband.

At the same time, we have heard examples of survivors of domestic abuse being denied legal aid, but somehow Murrell, who Sturgeon claimed was a high-earning individual, is entitled to legal aid.

What a disgrace 😤

https://t.co/iBd1Xd8aBg

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

You couldn’t make it up! The rot is so deep in the police.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Meet Parm Sandhu. She sued @metpoliceuk for discrimination and pocketed £120k - despite becoming the force's highest-ranking Indian officer.

She then wrote a book calling everyone racist.

She’s now @CollegeofPolice's Chief Executive, which explains everything RE: Henry Nowak.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Ed Miliband has signed the UK up to a legally binding 87% CO2 emissions cut by 2040. Paul Homewood says this can only be achieved by the devastation of industry and sharp cuts in the standard of living. Read his article in the Climate Skeptic. https://t.co/bGOg3zigaP

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The big question in all of this is why were these messages between Darren Jones and Peter Mandelson not released on Monday alongside all the other Humble Address documents?

The Humble Address is clear that "electronic communications… between Lord Mandelson and ministers… during his time as Ambassador" must be released to Parliament - that is exactly what these messages between Darren Jones and Peter Mandelson are.

The Cabinet Office, which Darren Jones is in charge of, oversees this process, and it is beginning to look as though that department cannot be trusted to make politically sensitive decisions.

In my mind, we now need an independent third party, not subject to the pressures of the Government, to review this matter.

The most natural option would be for the National Audit Office to look at this. When I was chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the NAO had access to every single document in government no matter how highly classified.

The NAO could review the information and documents the Government holds and provide reassurance that the demands of the Humble Address are being properly complied with.

https://t.co/BXZKw3DoyR

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Anyone with any sense wouldn’t go anywhere near this.

[TR @Tony_Royle]

The sheep will be lining up for this! 🤦‍♂️

Oh, and don't worry about the use of the word 'could' ... the 'experts' always use this caveat when 'will' might get them in hot water in court when the thing turns out not to do what it says on the tin.

"We only said it could m'lud, not that it would".

Feel free to give me a shout @EmmaGritt if you ever want to know what natural lifestyle practices actually keep human beings healthy.

[Ben Pile @clim8resistance]

A fool and his money.

All of Net Zero requires this blind faith in technology despite physics.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

We should retire the phrase "two-tier policing." Not because it's not true - as per official police materials, it pretty clearly is - but because it goes nowhere near far enough.

When you look at tragedies like the death of Henry Nowak and try to capture it with a term like "two-tier policing", you end up inadvertently masking a vast constitutional catastrophe underneath a complaint about general procedure, something a review and a reworded leaflet can put right.

What happened to Nowak is a single visible outcrop of something far larger and far worse: the capture, one institution at a time, of the British state by the belief-system of a particular class. It is something to which the public are, slowly-but-surely, awakening, but it's well short of the reckoning it requires.

After all, we have a word for people who steal from an institution. We call it corruption - it is endemic in British public life, by the way - and we know what to do about it. But we have no working word for the thing that is worse: an ideology quietly replacing an institution's reason for existing. A virus of the institutional mind, a toxin of the institutional soul.

A police force exists to protect the public. But a captured police force exists to advertise its own virtue, and will leave the public to bleed on a pavement to do it. You needn't take this on faith: they wrote it down. The police's own Race Action Plan states, in black and white, that equal treatment is the very thing it has set itself against. The institution rewrote its purpose and published the confession, though it expects your submission, rather than your forgiveness.

Nowak's death is the product of that inversion. An officer trained to treat the accusation of racism as the most urgent fact in the room met a dying boy and a lying killer and performed exactly as trained. Nothing has malfunctioned here, nothing at all. The system did precisely what it is now built to do.

And it's not one rogue patrol, either, though the truculence of the Hampshire police commissioner in the face of his officers' malfeasance might tempt you to think otherwise. The same disease runs through institutions with nothing else in common.

Consider William Shawcross' review of Prevent, which found a counter-terror system so warped by fear of the word "Islamophobia" that barely a fifth of its referrals concerned Islamism, while four-fifths of live terror investigations did: an apparatus that exists to see the threat, trained not to look at it. Closer to home, we all know how forces now log tens of thousands of "non-crime hate incidents" - speech that broke no law - while most actual thefts end without a suspect even being sought. Captured institutions keep working. They simply pour their effort into whatever the creed rewards.

None of this is mysterious. Robert Conquest's old law holds that any institution not deliberately kept to its purpose drifts, sooner or later, toward the reigning orthodoxy. Bolt onto that a personnel machine - the diversity directorate, the recruitment that quietly screens for the right opinions - that makes careers out of professing the creed and ends them for doubting it, and the capture becomes self-sealing, because the captured now do the hiring.

What turns this from a blunder into a betrayal is who holds the beliefs and who pays for them. These are what Rob Henderson calls luxury beliefs, and beneath them sits the truth Christopher Lasch named thirty years ago in The Revolt of the Elites: a credentialed class that has seceded from the common life and no longer shares the nation's fate. The beliefs are status markers, costless to the people who profess them, because that class is insulated by the good postcode and the private option from every consequence of what it believes. The bill falls entirely on the people without the buffers - the boy stabbed on a night out, the girl in a town the council won't name being pimped around a circuit of cab drivers who may well be flying their cousins in from overseas to join in their activities.

A doctrine experienced as compassion by the people who hold it that is paid for in the blood of the people who don't.

And when one of those victims dies on camera, the same class looks the country in the eye and tells you that the thing you have just watched didn't happen, and that to have noticed it is the real bigotry.

There's no point talking about reviews or inquiries. We're passed that point. If you want this to stop, you need to be thinking about institutional recapture. We need to commit people, means, and time to the task of hauling each institution back to the job it was built for:

- The police to protect
- The courts to judge on the evidence according to law delivered by a mandated parliament
- Local councils devoted to matters of local import, rather than those which spend their times siphoning away procurement funds and pontificating on matters of obscure foreign policy

...and restoring the most unfashionable principle left in British life, that the state is blind to who you are and answerable only to the truth. Equality before the law is part of the great inheritance we have bequeathed the world, and it has been taken from us on purpose, by people convinced they knew better.

It was taken from us because we were too weak. It is our disgrace and a blotch on our history. But we can return it to ourselves, and return it we must.