Xristos

Gay man, not "queer"

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Only a far right extremist would object to 243 mostly peaceful criminal offences on family day at the Notting Hell carnival.

[Xristos @XPasterson]

@GyllKing Gay men and lesbians (the creators of pride) aren't welcome anymore because of this homophobic travesty. Absolute embarrassment, no wonder the world has turned against you. Don't bring us gays down with you!

[Blue Betty @cabbagekeks]

@GyllKing Where is the terf representation at pride? There’s plenty of the LGB who would love to be there but feel excluded, for having views that were the norm not so long ago.

[Xristos @XPasterson]

@leo_leo_X Absolute travesty, a mockery of our gay pride marches. No wonder the gays want a divorce from the T+ nutters.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

No state-funded school should require girls as young as seven to cover their hair.

No school in Britain, of any faith and however it's funded, should be allowed to require girls of ANY age to cover their hair.

The hijab is a garment that is only required because apparently men cannot be trusted not to sexually lust after women - and young girls - unless they show "modesty".

That puts the responsibility for sexual assault onto the women and girls, not their male attackers.

How can anyone think this is okay?

[R @rjb_1998]

Can't believe ikea waited 13 steps to let me know I needed a wife

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

These women just found out how South Yorkshire Police act when women report assault. Myself and @LightninLex know this very, very well indeed.

The women had been assaulted, one was bleeding, clear evidence of the assault was in front of the police officer’s face.

He refused to arrest the suspect who was right in front of him.

Been there. Got the two-tier t shirt thanks @syptweet

[Julie McNamee 💚🤍💜 🦖🦉 @naturelovernow]

@redrobin9000 Compare this to Manchester Pride in the 1980s.

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

A drag queen making sense…

[Joseph Jones @JoeGayHistorian]

@SAshC_Opinions The first Pride was not a riot. It was not “LGBTQIA+” as that political coalition did exist yet. There were no trans, no “queers,” no kinks. It was just ordinary gay men and lesbians.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

If the Notting Hill Carnival were any other event, it would have been shut down yonks ago.

[Alex @AlexM_Artist]

@brendanlovesu1 Stop appropriating gay history. This embarrassing freak show has absolutely nothing to do with the historic pride parades. It’s false advertising & disrespectful to the gay community.

Name it something else so the public can consent to showing up for a fetish parade. LGB ✂️ TQ+

[Xristos @XPasterson]

@brendanlovesu1 https://t.co/ek9UYXcGj1

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

So many gay people are rejecting Pride because it has now become a freak show and an embarrassment to homosexuals. If it ends, who will all the straight people at Pride point to and laugh at?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@Lifeofpuck07 @NoTimeToDiane @Gauguina_ @SkyDalby37773 @beanschicken1 A girl's reproductive system doesn't disappear because her family, or the state, chooses to classify her as male. Material reality is not altered by language. You've embraced a quasi-religious, pseudo-intellectual pretence of ignorance. I respectfully decline to join you.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

They can’t help themselves… the bbc is a sad shadow of its unbiased news first former self.

[Kilgore Trout @RadioFreeStPaul]

This is hilarious!😂 “Can’t you tell the difference between a man who puts on a wig to pretend to be a woman and a man who puts on a wig to actually be a woman?”

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Every single day, I’m uploading a sexual assault or rape by an
‘asylum seeker’

The Government is going to court to STOP that migrant data being released.

The Government gives migrants pamphlets telling them not to rape, sexually assault or abuse kids.

The Government gives migrants condoms.

ARE YOU OK WITH THAT ?

YES OR NO ?

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

Go on Richard! 🔥

Richard Madeley proper gave both barrels to Labour’s Victims Minister on @GMB this morning over the early release scheme that will see thousands of prisoners, including domestic abusers, let out early because the jails are full.

He started by saying he actually felt sorry for Alex Davies-Jones because she’d been sent out to defend the indefensible:

“I actually feel rather sorry for you this morning, because you’re the one who’s been pushed out to defend what most people would say is the indefensible.”

Then he went straight for the jugular:

“There’ll be women watching this who’ve had their jaws broken, their teeth knocked out, they’ve been punched in the stomach when they’ve been pregnant. All by men who you, your government, will shortly be releasing years ahead of time because of prison overcrowding. What do you say to those women this morning? Because they are terrified.”

Her reply was the usual robotic talking points: “I say to those women that the government’s first responsibility is to keep its public safe.”

Is it though? If public safety was genuinely the first responsibility, you wouldn’t be releasing these people back onto the streets!

She then claimed: “I would not be able to sleep at night, Richard, if a domestic abuser who was sentenced to time in prison couldn’t go there because there wasn’t a prison place available and we had to send him back to his victim at their property.”

Richard immediately pulled her up on the logic: “Minister, Minister, Minister, I don’t see the logic of that at all! What’s the difference in not being able to send a violent offender to prison because it’s full and releasing a violent offender from prison who’s very likely to reoffend? We know that these men are recidivists. They do it again and again. What’s the difference between not sending one to prison and letting one out?”

She then argued “these offenders will have served time in prison”, and they would have been released at some point anyway. Oh, that’s ok then. Let’s release everyone who has served a bit of their sentence. Ridiculous argument!

Then came the usual promises of tags and “world-first restriction zones”, with the line that if they breach they’ll go straight back.

Richard wasn’t having it. He tells her that victims don’t want them released at all and they don’t trust the government: “They don’t trust the measures that you put into place to stop these men hounding them and attacking them again. They don’t trust that the tags always work because they don’t. And they don’t trust that the men will follow the instructions they’ve been given about where they can’t go because some of them will just do it anyway.”

He warns there will be inevitable consequences for victims: “There are going to be consequences of these early releases and it’s going to be more attacks on women who are begging you not to release their attackers from jail early. That’s the reality. Not a comforting protocol about tags and restricted areas which if the offender is determined enough just won’t work.”

She had no real answer because there isn’t one. Just the same empty lines: “Ensuring that we have a functioning and effective and sustainable criminal justice system is fundamentally important for the safety of our country.”

You’re not ensuring that. That’s the entire point. You’re choosing to release dangerous people early and victims will pay the price.

Well done Richard for saying it in no uncertain terms. This is wrong.

[Oracle @biggle1908]

The UK state pension is £241.30 per week after 35 years of National Insurance contributions.

The guaranteed minimum income for someone who has paid nothing, niete, zilch into the system is £238.00 per week.

So a lifetime of hard work paying tax and national insurance is officially valued at £3.30 a week.

#BrokenBritain.

[QUEER FAMILY VALUES 🌈 😍❤️ @QueerFamlove]

The difference between straight couples and gay couples 😂