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To all those men jeering #RussellBrand just a little reminder that there is nothing to prevent this happening to YOU in the future.
You don't need to rape a woman for her to accuse you of rape.
She can accuse you decades after she says it happened without time limitation when those offering you an alibi may be dead.
Your accuser can stay anonymous whilst your name will be publicised. No evidence is required other than her testimony and that of her nearest and dearest to send you to jail for a very long time.
Your barrister may soon be unable to cross-examine your accuser in any meaningful way so she 'doesn't feel put on trial'. The accuser may be referred to as 'the victim' long before the trial has finished.
The process can take years. You may lose your job, income and your family willl suffer even if you're eventually found innocent.
And you think it's a joke?!
We have entered dystopian territory.
Zahawi has serious questions to answer about his role during lockdown - our policy announcement today confronts that. He was Britain's Vaccine Minister. He is now in Reform, regularly speaking on behalf of the party.
The way Zahawi treated those men and women who felt uneasy about taking the vaccine was absolutely abhorrent, and I will never forgive him for it.
Vaccine passports, widespread coercion/blackmail, care homes - he even argued 12 year olds could override their parents to take the vaccine.
It is evil.
Under a Restore Britain government, he will face full independent scrutiny.
If investigators uncover evidence of wrongdoing, he must face the same legal process as anybody else.
That means uncovering what did he know? What did he tell the British people? What didnโt he tell us? What was the process behind his decision-making? Full public scrutiny on classified documentation. Unredact it. All of it.
Essentially - who knew what, when.
It is time for the politicians who imposed and defended lockdown and mass vaccination on a healthy population to answer for their own decisions.
That is what Restore Britain's policy paper argues today, and Zahawi will be the first held accountable for his vaccine decisions.
@DaveyBoi73@dodgii73@EmilieX_2025@SamMay95462570 No no don't put yourself down. The russians sent a dog into space, We should be the first to send a disabled man. I'm sure they could fit you up with pipes and tubes, to ensure your comfort.
@Turmaine Can't be affecting their profits that much or they'd be straight on it. On the other hand. Maybe, they are aiding people to become fitter. We're always being told to take the stairs.๐
@Turmaine Your predecessor and lanky have also claimed to be the catalyst of this rebuild. Even pictures of workmen on site, That was a while ago. Should be completed by now! ๐
People of my generation should be very careful when they're crowing about sending young men to war against Russia, Iran or whoever else.
Our lifetimes have been almost entirely peaceful - we have not had to watch an entire generation of young men marched off to fight and die in a foreign land.
We have been blessed with peace.
Yet some of the loudest voices demanding conscription or the dropping of bombs are men who will never be asked to fight. They have profited from that peace, lived comfortable lives from that peace.
It's very easy to be brave with somebody else's blood on the line.
There are circumstances in which our nation must fight, but our aim must be to give young men a reason to believe in that fight, to give them a Britain worth defending.
Because millions of young white men are looking at a system that hates them, that has made them strangers in their own towns, that has decimated their industry?
Why on earth would they bleed for that?
I agree.
Our establishment has spent years alienating young white men and now they suddenly remember their value when they need those lads to fight their wars.
Restore Britain's duty is to give these young men a country worth fighting for, certainly NOT another endless foreign war to die in.
@opinion_black@rustyrockets The jury must have heard far more than we are being told, to have come to such a verdict considering the aforementioned testimony from an alleged victim.
There are far too many people working within the Home Office who are more concerned about promoting the interests of migrants than defending the interests of the British people.
This is a real problem.