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[Connie Shaw @_ConnieShaw]

Sitting in court watching Stephen Gray’s appeal against a conviction for reposting a meme which mocked Islam and Muhammad marrying a child. He had 15-20 followers on Facebook. A (non-Muslim!) neighbour, who Stephen has previous disagreements with, decided to report him to the police claiming it caused him distress…

The fundamental argument from the CPS is that Stephen was not making a political point. That he expressed his objection to Islamic child marriage in a way that was simply to offend because it singled out Islam, and he should have made his post more nuanced and sensitive if he was making a political point.

The defence is having to point out that Muhammad did in fact marry a 6 year old according to Islamic texts, and that child marriage does still occur in Islamic countries AND there are prominent Islamic scholars IN THE UK who openly say that they are content with child marriage. And either way, it is not illegal to offend others, and you are allowed to make political points that are not nuanced.

To think of all the actual, serious crime in Middlesbrough — let alone the rest of the country — and the time being wasted on this nonsense. Actually witnessing the amount of public resource and time being funnelled into prosecuting people for causing offence by highlighting a factual point is acutely infuriating.

Anyway, join the @SpeechUnion because you never know when it might be you having to explain why you don’t like child marriage, or anything else that Islam permits.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

😤 FURIOUS Maggie Oliver takes the gloves off and directly points the finger at Andy Burnham for blocking action on grooming gangs: “Do something! Stop making empty promises!”

I’ve rarely seen Maggie Oliver so angry and so willing to call out politicians by name. Bear in mind she has a relationship with Andy Burnham going back years, that alone tells you just how furious she is right now, and she has every right to be. The public is right behind her.

Asked by Wilfred Frost whether she is pointing the finger at Burnham for years of promises after local and national reviews, and whether his words are empty, Maggie let him know in no uncertain terms:

“I am pointing the finger! This week he’s talking about the Russell Brand case and David Walliams and saying that the stories of these victims in those cases will bring change and I’m not in any way underplaying the magnitude of what’s happened to those women, what I’m saying is we’re talking about failures over decades.”

“He could not be in a better position now, he is the Prime Minister. He has sent all his lawyers to argue why they should not bring in the recommendations of the 7-year inquiry that gave 7,500 survivors and victims hope that change would come.”

“Theresa May said it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect children of the future. It matters! Do something! Stop making empty promises!”

Maggie is a fighter. She’s been doing this for decades, endlessly fighting for real change, yet they’re still not listening. They pretend they are, they praise her, but when it comes down to it they refuse to do what’s actually needed and she’s had enough!

She probably thought things would finally change under Burnham. Instead he’s literally fighting her in court to block the recommendations. The man is a fraud. No different to Starmer and the rest who’ve done nothing.

Keep going, Maggie. Keep the spotlight on them and try to shame him into doing what must be done. 🫡

[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

Toe curlingly horrific…..

My interview with @thetimes and @TimesRadio this morning done in a corridor 5 minutes before we went back into court for day 3 of @TMOFCharity Judicial Review into the government’s failures to implement the recommendations of @IICSAVSCP

We are Exhausted tbh but I’m very proud to be leading this charge and there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that history will judge us well in this, whether we ultimately win or lose

Our legal team @HoweAndCo barrister Chris Jacobs from @Landmark_LC and KC Stephanie Harrison have been incredible as has our CEO!

Our thanks also to @Article39 for standing alongside us, and there’s absolutely survivors who added their voices to ours in court including @fionagoddarduk @KellyAnneLees1 Jade and Michelle!

I’m content! We could have done nothing more….

Full update to follow.

https://t.co/0F1YEqhn7w

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Unbelievable. Every day brings another absurd example of how UK politicians are destroying our country ...

Mohammed Alfatih was a bodyguard for a senior Hamas leader who celebrated the October 7th attacks and praised Osama bin Laden.

He then illegally entered the UK.

Astonishingly, the Home Office gave him ASYLUM.

Despite his close links with Hamas which was officially banned by the British state in 2021.

And despite him entering Britain ILLEGALLY.

Then, get this, he was granted BRITISH CITIZENSHIP in 2020 under Priti Patel and the Tories.

He settled in Birmingham with his wife and kids and then plotted to murder Jews in Europe.

He then travelled to Germany to plan the attack and record a 'martyr video', came back to Britain, was arrested then RELEASED ON BAIL.

Can anybody explain to me why Danny Tommo who tried to stop the illegal migration invasion was refused bail while a Hamas terrorist plotting to murder Jews was given bail?

Moreover, can anybody in the British state tell me why a Hamas activist and bodyguard from a BANNED group was given British citizenship?

It is, yet again, a complete and utter disgrace.

The British state, the Home Office, and the political establishment are not just incompetent. They are destroying our country from within.

[Elise Vanessa @ev0123456789]

🇫🇷【フランスで大炎上🔥】現職の左派議員が、殺害予告を受けている22歳の女子学生（ルイーズ）をテレビ生放送で罵倒し退席に追い込む😠💢

左派活動家から殺害予告や脅迫を受けている22歳の女子学生ルイーズ・モンタンゴン氏に対し、現職の国会議員アレクシス・コルビエール氏が、番組内で暴言を連発し、フランス全土で左翼勢力への激しい批判が渦巻いています。

📺️ 番組内の実際のやり取り：

🤡 コルビエール議員：
「お前は都合よく憤慨する二重基準の人間だ！
人種差別的で排外主義的な発言を一度も非難していない！」

🌹ルイーズ（22歳）：
「ちょっと待ってください、私は一般の学生で何者でもないんですよ。私が何かを非難する立場にあるとでも？」

🤡 コルビエール議員：
「お前は『政治指導者』だろう！新聞の一面を飾っているじゃないか！」

🌹ルイーズ（22歳）：
「私が政治指導者ですって！？もう結構です、失礼します」（※マイクを外して退席）

🤡 コルビエール議員：
「ええ、もう二度と戻ってこないでください！
代わりなら他にもいますから！」

👉️【感想・解説】
日頃から「弱者保護」「多様性」「女性の人権」を声高に叫ぶ左派政治家アレクシス・コルビエール氏が、極左から脅迫を受けている22歳の一般女性に対して権力を振りかざし、「人種差別主義者」のレッテルを貼って「二度と来るな」と吐き捨てる。

これこそが、弱者を装いながら異論を力で封殺するフランス左翼の偽善と暴力性の正体です。😠😠💢

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

You may think it's a good or bad thing that the indigenous white people of these islands may be in a minority at some point this century. You may think it doesn't matter at all. That's fine; everyone is entitled to their view. But for one of our national parliaments to ban an elected member for raising concerns about it is absolutely scandalous. In defence of free speech, and even if you oppose his views, we should all stand with Joe Martin.

[Kristin Sokoloff @ksoklower48]

🚨 BRITISH COUPLE CONFRONTED OVER REMEMBRANCE DAY POPPIES!

Imagine being harassed in your own country for honoring the men and women who sacrificed their lives for it.

Absolutely DISGUSTING. A British couple confronted at London's Victoria Station while wearing Remembrance Day poppies, and the woman ends up in tears.

These poppies honor those who fought and died for their country. The sheer disrespect is infuriating.

Britain, what the hell is happening to your country?!

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly by 144 votes just elected Iran's Islamic Regime to the Committee for Program and Coordination, which shapes priorities on Women’s Rights, Disarmament & Counter-Terrorism. Disgraceful reward for a regime that massacred tens of thousands of people.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Britain - led by ‘do the right thing’ team of PM and Foreign Sec - effectively supported U.N. General Assembly by 144 votes just elected Iran's Islamic Regime to the Committee for Program and Coordination, which shapes priorities on Women’s Rights, Disarmament & Counter-Terrorism.

How by any definition however deluded is this doing the right thing @Ed_Miliband ?

[Baloo E. Shum @ShumBaloo]

Armistice Day
One battalion in 1914
And in 1918
Those who survived

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have tabled a parliamentary motion officially calling on the Government to recognise and protect English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ethnicities as distinct historic identities.

We should never be ashamed to defend who we are.

All MPs have been invited to support.

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

England has existed for 1,099 years, but our leaders claim it is not an ethnicity. Pakistan has only existed for 79 years, yet it is an ethnicity.
England is conventionally dated as a unified kingdom from 927 AD under Æthelstan, the first king of all the English. Pakistan gained independence on 14 August 1947. In the UK census and official usage, “Pakistani” is routinely listed as an ethnic category, while Englishness is frequently treated as a civic or cultural identity open to anyone rather than a historic ethnicity tied to the long-settled people of England.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Rubbish. Your bill is called the "English ETHNIC Identity Bill"

You criticised the flying of the English flag. Now you seek to deny the English their unique ethnicity, their ultimate & most intrinsic identity

Denying a group their ethnic heritage contributes to "cultural genocide" or "ethnocide" according to the 1944 definition

Polling shows that ALMOST ALL ethnic minorities in England still understand that "English" is a fundamentally ethnic identity to which they do not belong

It is only certain parts of the White British community - and activists like yourself - who seek to engage in ethnic erasure

Such a large percentage of White British people disagree with you, that it is dangerous to go down this needless path

Acts like yours are the reason for the growth of ethno-nationalism, not to mention political extremism. Their rise is a direct reaction to needless provocation from leftist elites

If one is born and raised in England, a person may be culturally English -- but that is wholly distinct and separate from being ethnically English. The two should not be conflated.

The two identities - ethnically English and culturally English - have happily co-existed for generations - with the historically tiny culturally English understanding their status and preferring to identity as civically and legally "British" rather than English.

This was done partly out of respect for the ethnic English, who accounted for 92% of the population of England as recently as 1991. But it was also because they naturally identified with their own ethnic group.

This is the only correct view. By way of illustration:

An Englishman born and raised in Japan, who was brought up in Japanese culture and who speaks Japanese with a flawless Japanese accent is clearly culturally Japanese -- but he remains ethnically English. That is an immutable characteristic.

In contrast with England, however, an immigrant to Japan can also be legally Japanese. Japan is a sovereign country of which he is a passport-holding citizen.

So this Englishman is culturally and legally Japanese but he is clearly not ethnically Japanese. I'd wager that 99%+ of Japanese people would agree with this - they'd say it was blindingly obvious

There is such an Englishman in Japan, actually. His name is Joshua Thomson, and he is a sensation for precisely this reason. He identifies as culturally Japanese but acknowledges he is not ethnically Japanese

But Englishness is an even more exceptional case. Unlike Japan, England is not a sovereign nation. It has no citizenship or passports. There is no nationality law.

One may be culturally English - as, say, the footballer Ian Wright is. But Ian Wright can no more be ethnically English than he (or anyone) can be legally English.

So that begs the question: what is the point of doing this?

What is behind this dangerous, provocative and completely unnecessary desire to erase / undermine English ethnicity, by far the most historically significant and consequential identity for creating the England we know and love?

Ethnic minorities are not calling for it. Poling shows that a mere 10% identify as English. The rest identify either as British or of the ethnicity of their ancestral homeland.

If anyone still believes the myth that the Liberal Democrats are a "centrist" party of "moderates" - falling somewhere between the Tories and Labour - this reprehensible policy by one of their MPs must surely blast it to smithereens.

Economically they may be more centrist than Labour - but culturally they are every bit as reckless and dangerous.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

Was supposed to be joining @RupertLowe10 for a @RestoreBritain event tonight. If I had travelled to the UK, I would have been arrested on the spot and could have faced up to 4 years in prison.

I can’t visit for one day to give a speech, yet thousands of people without papers cross the Channel and are given free housing and citizenship.

All courtesy of @ShabanaMahmood and the @ukhomeoffice.

[Rogue ❤️ @RogueUnfiltered]

‼️A MUSLIM MAN WHO RAPED A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL AFTER GROOMING HER ON FACEBOOK, WAS SPARED PRISON, DUE TO HIM ATTENDING A MUSLIM SCHOOL- WHERE THEY WERE TAUGHT THAT WOMEN ARE WORTHLESS!!! ‼️

How many of you are fed up with the two tier justice in our country?

THE UNITED KINGDOM IS NO LONGER UNITED.

ITS FRAGMENTED.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

The BBC has pulled Little Britain and Come Fly With Me from iPlayer.

The same BBC that wants you to trust it with Children in Need.

I certainly won't be donating a penny. From Savile onwards, far too many predators seem to have come out of the BBC, and in my view, far too many seem to have been protected by it.

I'd rather give to local charities I can actually trust.

Who else has lost faith in the BBC and doesn’t trust it to raise money for charities anymore?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Reform's deputy leader in Scotland, Thomas Kerr, says burkas are a "security risk" and "extremely intimidating". 🇬🇧

He says niqabs and burkas shouldn't be allowed in public in what he calls a "Christian nation".

France, Denmark, Belgium and Austria have already banned full face coverings in public. So why is it so controversial to even talk about it here?

In a free, open society we should be able to see each other's faces.

Is he right? Should Britain ban them? 👇

[Mossad Customer Support @LionOfJudahX]

A poor Christian kid from Texas who never met a Jew and couldn’t find Israel on a map…

…now stands at the UN on the 3rd anniversary of October 7th and says this:

Jews are 0.2% of the world’s population.
They’ve won over 20% of all Nobel Prizes.

On October 7th more Jews were murdered in a single day than on any day since the Holocaust.

Families burned alive in safe rooms.
Women gang-raped.
Babies taken.
Hostages paraded.

Israel was the one attacked…
and somehow Israel is the one condemned.

PTSD nearly doubled overnight.
But in Israel there is no “post.”
The trauma is ongoing. Every day.

And still — they bend, but they do not break.

Dr. Phil’s verdict:
“Israel will prevail.
Israel will win.
And the United States will stand with them.”

Moral clarity is not complicated.
One side celebrates life.
The other glorifies death.

Choose accordingly. 🇮🇱

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Raffia Arshad becomes the UK's first female Muslim judge to wear a hijab.

And the UK celebrates it as progress.

A judge is supposed to be blind. Blind to religion. Blind to politics. Blind to tribe. Blind to personal belief.

That is why they wear a wig. That is why they wear a robe. To say: I am not a person today. I am the law.

Now you put a religious symbol on the bench and tell people to believe it doesn't matter. It always matters.

If a Christian judge walked in wearing a giant cross and a "Jesus Saves" robe, the same liberals would scream bias. If a Jewish judge wore a kippah, they would ask questions. But no questions for a hijab. They say it is diversity, brave, empowerment.

The courtroom is no longer neutral.

A hijab represents a religious law that says a woman must cover herself to be modest. A law that in Iran, in Afghanistan, and in Saudi Arabia, is enforced with beatings and prison.

You cannot celebrate a symbol of female submission in Tehran and call it female empowerment in London. You cannot have it both ways.

This is not about Raffia Arshad as a person. She may be brilliant. She may be fair. But the system that celebrates her hijab more than her brain has already lost its mind.

The UK is not being tolerant. The UK is being conquered by its own guilt.

When Muslim-majority countries ban the Muslim Brotherhood because they know what it is, the UK protects it.

When Muslim women in Iran burn their hijabs to be free, the UK puts a hijab on a judge and calls it freedom.

https://t.co/VF6hQhHqmE

[DR. Kek @TheKekSocietyX]

🚨🚨A MUST LISTEN, PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨
90 seconds from a grandmother who speaks for every man, woman & child patriot in the UK.
#UK #Patriots