A Collins

Mad greyhound lady with fur-babies. Audi alteram partem - and use critical thinking. Beyond irritated by people who conflate sex and gender.

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@peterboghossian It's not honesty though, is it. It is cowardice and self preservation, desperately wanting to hold onto power and giving minimal lip service to appease 'the unwashed'.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

This is a total disgrace.

It is absolutely not the role of the police to intimidate members of the public - especially while openly admitting no law has been broken.

An affront to free speech and a massive overstep of authority.

The public expects the police to focus on real crime, like stopping burglaries, not squandering taxpayer funded time and abusing their powers by actively undermining free speech.

https://t.co/gzBXywJy3m

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@AmnestyUK Since you can't engage with reality, kindly bugger off in advocating for censorship and propaganda.

[Darlington Nursing Union @DarlingtonUnion]

BREAKING: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is refusing to rule out taking disciplinary action against the Darlington nurses despite an employment tribunal finding they were unlawfully harassed.

President of the Darlington Nursing Union, said: “After everything we have been through it is astonishing that the Trust is still refusing to rule out taking disciplinary action against us.

“The trust has apologised. It has paid damages. It has accepted our concerns were not properly heard. An employment tribunal found we were subjected to harassment and unlawful discrimination. Yet somehow, even now, the trust appears to be keeping open the possibility of punishing the very nurses who were vindicated"

See more breaking in the media 👇🏻

https://t.co/vDJEqKYx2w

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@EthemTosun4 @alexduvallin Female poker pros are afraid of cancellation 😞

[A Collins @_43AE_]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Feminine energy.... pffft utter bollocks

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

I play poker. This is my response to the world series of poker ladies championship letting a male place 2nd and cash $129k

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@waterjetcut @Glinner It's one tournament in the WSOP series that is meant to be for ladies. Due to local laws (I think - could be wrong) Men can enter but they pay 10k versus the 1k women pay... so discouraged. This competitor got an exemption and only paid the 1k I believe.

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@RedBlood1006 @babybeginner You can play as a man, you just have to pay 10x the entrance fee. Unless you're given an exemption...

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@ZiaYusufUK I'd be concerned for the unwitting lorry drivers who have 'passengers' clinging to the underside of their vehicle. Those that alert shouldn't be prosecuted.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

In yet another Orwellian move, the Government announced in a green paper this week that it wants to decide what news people can and cannot see, with plans to push approved outlets to the top of social media feeds.

Ministers should not be deciding which news sources the public read — especially in an era when three-quarters of under-25s say they get their news from social media.

As written in The Times, “In a state-sponsored ­regime in which inconvenient news was pushed out of view, would the grooming gangs scandal or the excesses of transgender ideology ever have come to light? You shouldn’t choose to trust ­everything you read online; but you shouldn’t trust the state to make the choice for you, either”.

This is dystopian.

Read more below in @thetimes 👇

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Volkswagen aims to axe up to 100,000 jobs in a “profound” strategic shift to counter trade tariffs, stagnating markets and, above all, fierce competition from China.
It will cut one in six of its 660,000 jobs worldwide and production at four German factories — the largest restructure in automotive industry history.
China is out to do to Europe’s car industry what it’s already done to its solar panel industry — destroy it.
Judging from the pathetic response of the EU so far to this threat (the UK is equally pathetic) it’s likely to succeed.
China also aims to dominate batteries, wind power machinery, machine tools, Pharma and chips — with its mercantilist ‘industrial policy of everything’.
China 2.0 poses a far bigger threat to European industry than China 1.0 over 20 years ago. Some forecasts predict over 50% of what’s left of Europe’s manufacturing base will be gone in a decade.

[Integral Views @Integral_Views]

I am furious about this to a degree that it's hard to express.

This is important.

Shabana Mahmood is laying out plans for more asylum seekers to come to the UK using a 'Community Sponsorship Scheme' but very few people know what this entails.

I am so angry not just for the reasons that are clearly obvious to everyone but also due to the fact that this was all laid out in the Fabian Society's publication 'Lawful & Fair' in June 2023. Keep in mind that almost our entire cabinet are Fabians including Shabana.

It says: '“In addition, the UK should create a single ‘community welcome’ route to enable communities to sponsor refugees. The UK Refugee Service would be responsible for administering a single, uncapped, additional, sponsorship route. This community welcome route would allow citizen groups (including faith, charity and community groups as well as universities and employers) to sponsor refugees, building on existing schemes including the community sponsorship scheme and the Homes for Ukraine scheme, but not restricted to any particular nationality. Sponsorship also has the benefit of injecting community voice into the system and improves integration outcomes.”

This means that, for example, Mosques could make use of that uncapped sponsorship route to bring in as many 'asylum seekers' as they choose to sponsor. No doubt with shady foreign funding. Then the government would call that 'integration' because they had integrated into the Muslim 'community'.

And it says:

“A community-based welcome strategy would fit and move in lockstep with a new national refugee policy (for example, requiring a minimum level of refugee resettlement in all local authorities) and with a single community welcome sponsorship scheme for all nationalities, as outlined above, but encompassing all new arrivals.”

Got that? 'A minimum level of refugee resettlement in all local authorities'.

The document also makes the case for:
- The right to work for all asylum seekers after 6 months
- Making all kinds of migrants including asylum seekers British Citizens as soon as possible
- Building an industry out of asylum seeking within a 'UK Refugee Service' with 1,000 staff
- An online portal for applications from Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc
- Speeding up approvals and blanket approving claims from certain countries

What this means, as is so clearly obvious to us all is that this government, from before its first day in office has been following a playbook that has been decades in the making.

They are not listening. They are not reacting to events or changing course based on evidence. They are locked in and utterly convinced of their righteousness. They simply do not care what you think or what evidence exists.

This is echo chamber thinking at its worst. Groups convincing themselves that they are correct and then gradually, collectively working their way into positions of leadership in order implement their master plan.

I covered this 'Lawful & Fair' document in quite some detail in a youtube video last year. I'll link that in the comments.

The Fabian Society is not just a think tank. It's a network. A belief system. A cult.

This will be looked back on and studied in the future as a political disaster of civilisational proportions. That's if it's us that get to write the history books.

I'm utterly disgusted by what our political system has produced. Tone deaf, ill informed, philosophically infantile, economically illiterate, virtue signaling dim wits.

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@AndySpurs84 @Vix_79 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@CyrusVinci87033 @babybeginner Does anyone actually rate Harvard anymore? I'd be very wary of anyone with a degree from there post 2015.

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@robbyyy What is more concerning is that this imbecile will now have the ear of parachute Andy. UK economy was screwed before and it will become USSR of the 1950s

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

1. 🚨BREAKING: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has paid £187,000 in damages, apologised, and committed to separate changing facilities for male and female staff following the Darlington nurses’ legal case.

In January, the Employment Tribunal had found the nurses suffered harassment and indirect sex discrimination over workplace changing-room arrangement.

The case, brought by seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller, was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, which has provided the nurses with legal, media and pastoral support from the beginning of their ordeal.

The case has become one of the most significant legal challenges in recent years concerning the freedom of female staff to access single-sex spaces in the workplace, with the nurses being compared to the Ford Dagenham workers and being dubbed ‘The Angels of the North.’

In January, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney, ruled that the policy, which had been in place at the Trust for years allowing men who identify as women to access the female staff changing room, had amounted to unlawful discrimination.

Following extensive and at times deeply protracted negotiations, the Trust has now paid out £187,000 in damages to the nurses, which does not include legal costs, which are still to be decided at a further hearing.

This figure also does not include the Trust’s own legal costs of £603,000, and counting, spent on defending its position of allowing men into female changing rooms.

See more on our website and in this🧵to see the Trust's apology and commitments on single-sex spaces....

https://t.co/cYDzFL1cHL

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

We are in a very dark place. The football World Cup is on & this council has spent tax payers money going to court to make it illegal to fly Our flag on Our streets.

[A Collins @_43AE_]

At what point can we say that he is trying to incite the population to revolt so that he can instill even greater restrictions on our civil liberties?

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

😡 WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK IS WRONG WITH KEIR STARMER? 🤔

In the exact same week Rupert Lowe drops his devastating independent inquiry exposing decades of systematic, racially and religiously motivated grooming gang abuse by Pakistani men preying on vulnerable white British girls, this Prime Minister decides it’s the perfect time to start releasing these monsters early!

Victims, including Bradford grooming gang survivor Fiona Goddard, are receiving letters this week telling them their abusers are being assessed for release after serving just 33% of their sentences. Hundreds of r*pists and p*dophiles could be back on our streets by the end of 2026.

This is a disgusting slap in the face to every single victim who’s already suffered unimaginable trauma. Many are now terrified, receiving official notices that the men who destroyed their lives are about to walk free.

Keir Starmer’s “compassionate” justice system apparently has more sympathy for grooming gang perpetrators than for the British girls they r*ped and trafficked.

This madness must be stopped IMMEDIATELY.

These animals should serve every single day of their full sentences. No early release, no leniency, no excuses

[A Collins @_43AE_]

@PokeBadgers @severnaya66 @geek_gareth This. One million times, this. Such sad times.