Michael Thompson

A Briton and proud of it. A life spent travelling, and a career spent in hospitality and technology

[Michael Thompson @ThompsonMinor]

@lucianaberger @redfeathers It's like Brexit

If you don't like the outcome you keep trying to get the decision overturned

I am in two minds over Assisted Dying but having been thrown out by the Houses of Parliament I believe it should not be allowed back in this term

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Dear South Yorkshire Police @syptweet is it true you killed the man in the video below? Rumours suggest you did. Please make a statement ASAP as to his condition Chief Constable Lauren Poultney, Assistant CC's Sarah Poolman, Lindsey Butterfield, Hayley Barnett. @policeconduct

[Michael Thompson @ThompsonMinor]

@andrewfeinstein I think the majority of this country will disagree with your naming the UK judiciary as "conservative".

For someone who supports/ed terrorist organisations (whether in SA or the ME) you'll always be unhappy about justice being meted out to terrorist supporters.

[Claire Harrison Page @ClaireH38655873]

Is it me or are our police out of control ?

[Michael Thompson @ThompsonMinor]

@doctor_rahmeh @HeidiBachram does an amazing job of scrutinising the way antisemitic behaviour is carried out by the terrorist supporting pro-pal idiots, as well as the policing of them.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This is undeniably two-tier isn't it ?

[Joo @JoosyJew]

After Oct 7, Palestinianism was given a long leash to take control of the streets, with little pushback. Police were hamstrung by red tape. Jews were scared.

Slowly, authorities have begun to understand the threat of these Western Islamist proxies. And Jews have had enough.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

On the morning of November 30, 2021, a judge in a Frankfurt courtroom delivered a verdict no court anywhere in the world had ever delivered before.
The defendant, a former ISIS member, was guilty of genocide.

The specific crime: the death of a five-year-old Yazidi girl named Reda. He and his wife had purchased Reda and her mother as slaves in 2015. As punishment for wetting the bed, he chained the child outside in the open sun in Fallujah, Iraq — in heat that reached fifty-one degrees Celsius — and left her there until she died.
Her mother survived. She testified.

It was the first time any court anywhere had convicted an ISIS member of genocide. The first time any court had ruled in law that what was done to the Yazidi people constituted genocide.

The path that made it possible to use that word, in that courtroom, six years after Reda died, leads back to a twenty-two-year-old Yazidi woman who decided, in December 2015, not to speak in generalities.

Her name is Nadia Murad.
She was born in Kocho — a small Yazidi village of about seventeen hundred people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq.

On August 3, 2014, ISIS surrounded Kocho. They separated the men from the women and took the men to the edge of the village and shot them. They shot the older women too. Among the dead were six of Nadia's brothers and her mother. The younger women — Nadia among them — were loaded onto buses and driven to Mosul, where they were sold.

She was twenty-one years old. She spent the next three months in captivity, passed between captors, until one day she found a door left unlocked and ran.

A Muslim family in Mosul sheltered her at enormous risk to themselves and helped her escape. She crossed into northern Iraq, then a refugee camp, then Germany, which granted her asylum.
She was free.
She was also free to be silent.

Most survivors of mass sexual violence choose silence — and that choice deserves every ounce of respect. Nadia Murad chose differently.

On December 16, 2015, she walked into the chamber of the United Nations Security Council — accompanied by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney — and described what had been done to her and her community. She did not use diplomatic euphemisms. She did not speak in abstractions.

She said the women had been sold. She said the children were as young as nine. She said her mother had been executed. She said what had been done to her.

Then she made the demand her testimony had been built to make: international recognition that this was a genocide, and prosecution of those responsible.
The room went silent. The transcript exists in the UN archives.

That specificity was not accidental. Vague testimony cannot become evidence. A genocide conviction requires testimony precise enough for a judge to rule on intent, on system, on pattern. Nadia's testimony — and the testimony of survivors she helped gather in the years that followed — was precise enough to do exactly that work.

In 2016, the UN Commission of Inquiry formally determined that ISIS's treatment of the Yazidis met the legal definition of genocide. The United States, the European Parliament, and the UK Parliament reached the same conclusion. In 2017, the UN established a specialized investigative body to collect evidence to courtroom standard.

In 2018, Nadia Murad was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She used the acceptance speech to remind the room of the women still missing.

And in 2021 in Frankfurt, in a case where Amal Clooney represented Reda's mother, the legal architecture built from that testimony produced the verdict that had never existed before.

Further convictions have followed. Open prosecutions continue in multiple countries under universal-jurisdiction laws that allow genocide to be tried wherever the perpetrator is found.

Nadia Murad is thirty-two years old. She continues to travel and testify and run Nadia's Initiative, which rebuilds water systems, clinics, and schools in the Sinjar region she came from. More than two thousand eight hundred Yazidi women and children are still missing or held in captivity. Mass graves are still being excavated.

The first time a court used the word genocide for what was done to her people, the year was 2021.

The first time anyone said it in a chamber where the law could hear it was December 16, 2015.

The woman who said it was twenty-two years old.
She did not speak in generalities. She spoke in names, and ages, and facts — and the law followed.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM

Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at.

BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them.

Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one.

He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work.

So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly.

Then his document leaked to a broadband blog.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money.

Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent.

Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders.

Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair.

He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract.

This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque.

Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets.

SOURCES
@BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge

[Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 @pippaisright]

Pakistani Muslim a Home Office employee was caught “fixing” the visas for his fellow countrymen for cash..

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HORRIFYING: Yasmeen Khan, owner of a beauty salon, offered free courses to young Christian and Hindu women to lure them in. Once there, she drugged their drinks. When they lost consciousness, she called her husband Mohammed Khan, who raped them while she stood watch at the entrance.

They recorded the abuses to blackmail them and force them to have relations with more Muslim men. When questioned, Yasmeen justified the crimes by saying that helping to rape "infidel girls" would lead her to Paradise.

This is Islam.

[GnasherJew®גנאשר @GnasherJew]

It’s unbelievable that despite supporting terrorists “Jonny United” is free to go on his hols to Cornwall (and kill an animal)

What a joke @WestYorksPolice - not arresting him for terrorist support & @DC_Police for making up silly excuses for not nicking him.

https://t.co/WuGj3hTymy

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

London — Muslim public workers paid by taxpayers for @harrow_council make violent threats to severely injure a man. They turn off their body cameras as they make the threats & say they can leverage their relationship with @metpoliceuk to injure him.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

6 pro-Palestine activists arrested outside a north London synagogue.

Can you imagine if people protested outside a mosque, there’d be outrage.

Yet this event was allowed to go ahead on Sadiq Khan’s watch.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Oh, do gather round.

Jamie Kay has posted a crime. Wait he's checked the perpetrator's ethnicity first (standard procedure, naturally) and it's white. Cue the confetti. Cue the barely-contained glee. Cue the inevitable "Any comment from the far-right?"

Because in Jamie's cramped little imagination, "far-right" means anyone who didn't clap hard enough at his last lecture. Anyone who noticed that grooming gangs were covered up. Anyone who thinks murder is bad regardless of the murderer's melanin count. In Jamie's head, the far-right is just a mirror he screams into.

Here's your comment, Jamie: Murder is murder. Shocking, I know. We don't need to check the skin tone before deciding whether to condemn it. That's your gig. You're the one running a racial sorting hat over every corpse, desperately hoping today's tragedy scores you a "gotcha" against people who've done nothing but disagree with you.

You've pulled this bait what a dozen times this week? Same post. Same smug little question. Same disappointment when people just say "lock him up" instead of performing the racial outrage you crave. You're not a journalist. You're a slot machine that only pays out in self-satisfaction, and you're furious nobody's feeding you coins anymore.

The "far-right" you're hallucinating? They're just normal people who've noticed you treat dead women as content opportunities. Who've watched you salivate over white perpetrators like you've won the lottery. Who've realized that to you, justice is secondary to the narrative.

Keep refreshing those notifications, Jamie. Keep wondering why the engagement is down. Keep screaming "far-right" at your reflection.

The tragedy vampire is thirsty. But the blood's running thin and even vampires need new material eventually.

[Michael Thompson @ThompsonMinor]

@TheCanaryUK As always, the antisemitic Canary will always give you un "unbalanced" view of events

Total scum

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Oh, do gather round.

Julia Hartley-Brewer is "crazy and dangerous" for criticizing Zack Polanski, declares the man whose bio reads like a leftist warehouse clearance sale: Socialist. Humanitarian. Anti-Fascist. For The Many Not The Few. And apparently how delightfully specific For Breaking Police Spines With Sledgehammers.

Polanski found it "gut-wrenching" that activists who smashed a female officer's spine with a hammer were imprisoned. He retweeted claims the attack was a "lie." A woman lies in hospital shattered, and your "humanitarian" response is to attack the journalist who noticed.

But here comes the pivot, doesn't it? But Israel! The whatabout arrives right on schedule. You cannot defend the indefensible, so you reach for a separate conflict 2,000 miles away. This is not principle. This is desperation wearing a keffiyeh.

Your bio proclaims "Anti-Fascism." One trembles to learn your definition, given that fascists are historically the ones attacking police and denying it. "For The Many Not The Few" unless you're a police officer with a broken spine, apparently.

"Anti-Capitalism," you declare, from your perch on Elon Musk's platform, using a device assembled by exploited labour, transmitted through capitalist infrastructure, monetized by capitalist algorithms. You are not anti-capitalist. You are anti-consequences.

You will call me Nazi. Fascist. Racist. Gammon. Incel. Russian bot. You will spam cartoon frogs and scroll my profile for crumbs to mock. You will diagnose my childhood from afar, explain my economic anxiety, know me better than I know myself while knowing nothing of the woman learning to walk again.

You will scream "listen to women" while ignoring the one your allies put in hospital. You will cry "punching down" from your verified perch of forty thousand followers.

So go ahead. I've already worn your insults like armour.

The police work while you tweet. The officers bleed while you posture. A woman relearns to walk while you defend the hammer that put her there.

Your compassion is as selective as your principles. Which is to say: entirely.

[Michael Thompson @ThompsonMinor]

@JohnCleese

[GnasherJew®גנאשר @GnasherJew]

IDENTIFIED

Maud Dromgoole, a playwright and theatre producer, served as a juror in the high-profile criminal damage trial involving activists from the now proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action. Here, she spoke in their defence outside Woolwich Crown Court before sentencing yesterday. We believe this conduct is illegal and constitutes contempt of court.

[David C Bannerman @DCBMEP]

The patriotic duty of Restore voters in this Makerfield by election is to back Reform to stop a hard left Burnham government.