A father threw a chair toward a judge after the driver who killed his 2 year old daughter and both her grandparents was sentenced to just 120 hours of community service.
[H/T: insidehistory]
It is so very upsetting to think that if the police had acted correctly over the attack on Nigels home Anne might still be alive. We need answers as to why the investigation was dropped. Who took the decision and why?Was their political pressure put on the police to stop and why did the MSM and the BBC not report the attack as an important story? Any other political party leader and it would have been headlines
The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images
Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph revealed the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people
The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote".
In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks.
That was the only way that "nature" could win.
However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo.
The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House.
The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear
This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural.
Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain"
Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar.
The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists.
Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths.
Me on @GBNews:
Churchill's face on the five pound note is a daily reminder that Britain has a history worth being proud of. That the people who shaped and defended this nation deserve to be remembered. And that national identity is something real. Hand over a fiver for a coffee and catch a glimpse of the man who stood between Western civilisation and Nazi conquest. The man who refused to negotiate when every pressure was on him to do so. The man who defined British resolve at its finest hour. Replace him with a puffin and you have made a statement about what Britain now thinks of itself. You have made it to every man, woman and child in the country. Without a debate. Without a vote. Without asking anyone.
She raised the alarm 181 times.
181 separate referrals, about girls being groomed and abused in one northern town.
For years, almost nothing happened.
Then they made her redundant.
Her name was Sara Rowbotham.
She was born in Middleton, Greater Manchester. She was not a police officer, not a senior manager, not a politician. She worked for the NHS in Rochdale, on a small team called the Crisis Intervention Team, offering sexual health support to young people.
She started there in 2004.
It was the kind of job where teenagers told you things they told nobody else.
And what they were telling her was horrifying.
Young girls, many of them vulnerable, many of them already known to services, were being groomed, passed around and sexually exploited by groups of men.
This was not a rumour. It was not one case. It was a pattern.
So she did exactly what she was supposed to do.
She reported it.
Between 2005 and 2011, Sara and her team made 181 referrals detailing the abuse and grooming of young people.
181.
Each one was a child. Each one was a warning.
Here is the part that should make people angry.
Those warnings went to the agencies whose job was to protect children. And again and again, they were not acted on. Some of the girls were treated as if they were making choices about their own lives, rather than as children being abused.
Think about what that actually meant. A girl of thirteen or fourteen, being exploited by grown men, and the system looking at her and seeing a problem teenager instead of a victim.
Sara would not accept that.
She kept reporting. She kept pushing. She kept telling anyone who would listen that this was happening, and it was happening now.
In May 2012, nine men were convicted in the Rochdale grooming case.
Suddenly, everyone wanted to know how it had been allowed to go on for so long.
That year, Sara gave evidence. She told the Home Affairs Select Committee in Parliament that Rochdale's child protection services had failed to act on her alerts, and that the abuse had been widespread.
She said it in public. About the system she still worked within.
Two years later, in 2014, she was made redundant.
Two more years.
Then gone.
The woman who had done more than almost anyone to expose what happened in Rochdale was out of a job.
For a while, it looked as if that would be the end of it. Another person who had told the truth, quietly moved aside.
Then, in May 2017, the BBC broadcast a drama called Three Girls, based on the Rochdale case.
Sara was in it. The actress Maxine Peake played her.
Millions of people watched a sexual health worker refuse, again and again, to let it go, and wondered who she really was.
Within days, a petition was started calling for her to be formally recognised. It gathered more than 275,000 signatures.
Consider what it took to get there. Years of being ignored by the people who should have listened. Losing her job. And it took a television drama for the country to find out her name.
By then, she had already found another way to serve the town.
She was elected as a local councillor for North Middleton, and she went on to become Deputy Leader of Rochdale Borough Council and its cabinet member for health and wellbeing.
The woman who had been pushed out of the system ended up helping to run part of it.
In 2018, she received a Special Recognition Award at the NHS Heroes Awards. That October she became an honorary member of the NSPCC's council.
In 2021, she was appointed MBE for services to young people.
Her case became one of the clearest examples in modern Britain of what happens when a frontline worker sees abuse and the institutions above her do not respond. It is now part of how social workers, health workers and police are trained to think about exploitation, and part of an ongoing national reckoning with grooming gangs that has still not finished.
Witnessing a murmuration of starlings in Italy was absolutely breathtaking! 🇮🇹 Thousands of birds swirling together in a synchronized dance—nature's own aerial ballet.
A two-year-old girl and her grandparents were killed on a cycle path. The driver who hit them was given 120 hours of community service.
Her father heard that in a courtroom in Roermond and broke. He cried out and threw a chair at the judge before security dragged him out. I don’t blame him.
I don’t know what anyone is supposed to do when they are told their child was worth a few weeks of unpaid work.
Don’t blame him to be honest. And to be fair, I bet he got a longer sentence for throwing that chair than the driver got for the deaths.