JohnG 🌱

Freethinker, vegan and CPFC supporter. #UFOtwitter #sittingnotsat

[Project Slingshot UK @slingshot_uk_]

The gas chamber campaign is leaving the London Underground for now.

Not because the industry fixed anything. We're just making room for the next one, starting Monday.

Guess what's next 👇

#DontBuytIt #EndFactoryFarming #ProjectSlingshot

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@ericweinstein @jimalkhalili @ProfBrianCox ?

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@theurigeller Why don't you tell us? You're the psychic.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

.@MatthewStadlen, nobody serious condones the burning of homes or violence against innocent people. That has been said clearly and repeatedly. Peaceful mass non-compliance, sustained public anger expressed through votes, through civic pressure, through the kind of informed public argument that refuses to be silenced, would be far more effective and far more legitimate than disorder. That is the argument worth making.

What you deliberately fail to address is why we are here. This didn't happen because of social media. If anything social media has given a voice to millions who were ignored, dismissed and labelled by the very people supposed to be representing them. For thirty years the political and media class controlled the terms of the debate. They decided what could be said, who could say it and what label would be applied to anyone who said the wrong thing. Social media broke that monopoly. The anger you are now describing as dangerous was always there. It was simply not permitted a platform until now.

Britain was forged over a millennium. Out of invasion and resistance, reformation and revolution, industrial genius and imperial reach, two world wars and the stubborn refusal to be broken. The people who built that country, who dug its coal, staffed its factories, fought its wars and buried its dead, were never consulted about the transformation of their communities at a speed and scale that their own government now admits was too much, too quickly. When they objected they were called racist. When they persisted they were called far right. When they voted for parties that reflected their concern those parties were dismissed as extremist.

The working class communities now erupting with anger are not doing so because of a website. They are doing so because their concerns were ignored for thirty years by people like you, who had the platforms, the education and the proximity to power to raise these questions honestly and chose instead to brand those raising them as bigots.

The road to perdition was not paved by the people of Belfast. It was paved by the political and media class that substituted mass migration for economic reform, celebrated the transformation as diversity, prosecuted those who questioned it as racists, and is now, as the consequences arrive, reaching for the same tired accusation one more time.

You are not describing a backward ideology. You are describing the consequence of your own class's choices. The difference is that the people in those streets have to live with those consequences. You do not.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The cruelty of factory pig farming is beyond imagining.

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@JanetMeeham @veganfitnessric Plants don't have brains and central nervous systems so you cannot equate the two. It never ceases to astonish me how so called animal lovers fight tooth and nail in their attempt to put vegans down. Vegans whose modus vivendi is compassion to all living things.

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@veganfitnessric Didn't take long for all the usual, predictable and facile responses to your post to arrive.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The problem with this argument is that the overwhelming majority of meat produced in the world comes from animals that spent their entire short lives crammed miserably in vast feedlots and factory farms, kept alive on a constant supply of antibiotics. Compared to which, alternative proteins are a dream come true.

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@Itzpoopster @OunkaOnX Nice. You are one classy fella.

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@ABridgen That one is suitable for vegans. So fine with me.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Exploiting animals for a photo op is NEVER a good look.

Animals at tourist traps are often abused, imprisoned, & separated from their families 💔 There are so many fun excursions you can take that don't involve animals! Don't be that kind of tourist!

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

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[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Andrew Gilligan asks why an organisation like the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) is allowed to be anywhere near the profession of law enforcement.

NAMP has branded Zionism “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred, stripping Muslims of their humanity”.

These inflammatory claims were made in a NAMP policy paper on “confronting anti-Muslim hatred”, which also described the Israel Defense Forces as a “Zionist terrorist group”.

The organisation is affiliated with at least 16 of Britain’s 43 police forces and has a formal national role within policing. It has also received praise from the College of Policing.

NAMP works with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), including through workshops and presentations to the NPCC’s counter-terrorism advisory group. It has called for the term “Islamist terrorism” to be abandoned, arguing that “its use by the police contributes to faith hate crime”.

As Gilligan notes, this is despite the fact that, since 1999, 94 per cent of terrorist deaths in Britain have been caused by Islamists.

Policy Exchange’s David Spencer has argued that a central element of the crisis consuming British policing is the diversion of officers from their core task: keeping the public safe, preventing crime and catching criminals. NAMP and its agenda are a clear example of that distraction.

Read more below in @spectator 👇

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@AlanDillon26041 @ABridgen Their.

[JohnG 🌱 @TheChilterns]

@JohnMor66719851 @ABridgen He was standing, not stood.

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

🚨(1)BREAKING: Christian community police officer wins settlement after being forced out of his role for questioning and criticising Islam during diversity training.

Luke Salmons, who has been supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was suspended for six months, forced to resign and put on a police barring list after he had questioned radical Islam in a training session.

He had been told that the session was a 'safe place' for discussion, but after expressing his beliefs, the consequences were devastating.

After taking legal action, his case has now been settled on confidential terms, however his story raises serious concerns about free speech and religious freedom in UK policing.

See more in this thread 🧵on our website and breaking in the media:
https://t.co/Ed9elAMIKa

https://t.co/sAkxcVf9PW

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[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

How dystopian and disturbing is this?!

Absolutely nothing humane happens in animal agriculture.

Is this the future you want? 😢

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

The entire mainstream media has spent two weeks harassing and abusing Rupert Lowe.

He stands up in Parliament, and reads out the harrowing testimony from multiple rape gang survivors.

Not a single channel/paper covers the testimony.

That tells you everything you need to know.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want the world to hear what we heard.