This is one of the best examples of anarcho-tyranny I’ve heard from an MP. Lam is exceptionally good at exposing the sheer rot at the heart of Britain.
🚨The UK Government’s plug-in solar safety report is a shocker! They’re pushing plug-in panels hard for net zero, but the safety study by unqualified person has serious flaws that put homeowners at risk. Thread 🧵(1/11)
@tomhfh I have fond memories of my parents installing the first central air system in the US. They also had a whole house fan up in the loft that exhausted all the day’s hot stale air, in exchange for cool evening air from the windows brilliantly.
We are badly governed. In England, these large & lovely sash windows on upper storeys without barriers or bars & with their generous ability to create cooling breezes in the heat are banned without expensive (& rare) thermal modelling as my colleagues ….
@KingBobIIV For years…
And it’s getting worse.
Which is the reason you can tell the difference between people live in the matrix and those living outside it. Hence the new initiative to get us all plugged back in.
📣🚨CONVERSION THERAPY BAN PETITION
The Government has announced it intends to press ahead with a ban on conversion therapy. Like most 'bans', this sounds benign. How could anyone not want to ban giving electric shocks to gay kids?
But the fact is, that's already against the law, as are all the other coercive practices conjured up by the phrase 'conversion therapy'. So what is it the Government wants to ban, exactly? The answer is 'converting' children who think they're trans to being 'cisgendered'. That's where the impetus for this ban has come from — well-funded pro-trans lobby groups like Stonewall and Mermaids.
So any parent who 'misgenders' their confused adolescent daughter, or tries to talk them out of embarking on an irreversible medical pathway, could face criminal charges for trying to 'convert' them. And we're not talking about out a slap on the wrist. In the state of Victoria, Australia, which brought in a conversion therapy ban in 2021, the maximum penalty for trying to 'convert' someone is 10 years in prison.
It won't just be parents and medical professionals who will risk imprisonment for trying to talk gender-confused children out of mutilating themselves. Any religious leader who shares the teachings of their faith on issues like homosexuality and gay marriage, could also face prosecution. That's what this authoritarian Government wants to ban — any dissent from radical progressive orthodoxy when it comes to sex and gender.
So please do sign our petition and let Andy Burnham know how you feel about this anti-free speech measure. Speech is always curtailed in the name of preventing 'harm'. But stopping parents talking honestly to their children about the risks of irreversible medical procedures will cause actual, real world harm. This is a fight we have to win.
✍️ Sign our petition below 👇
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The sticks and stones rhyme was better mental health advice than anything we’ve replaced it with. We didn’t discover a fragile generation. We manufactured one — and I watched it happen in real time across thirty years of clinical practice.
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A few weeks ago, I submitted a petition which has now been accepted, and I’m finally able to share it.
Many people will be aware that, recently, members of a grooming gang in Huddersfield were sentenced for the abuse of children. One of the offenders was convicted of “controlling prostitution”, despite the victims being children at the time.
In my own case, in 2019, one perpetrator was convicted on two counts of “child prostitution”.
Children cannot be prostitutes. What happened was child sexual exploitation and child rape.
The government has already acknowledged that the term “child prostitute” is unacceptable by quashing convictions that victims themselves received under such laws. Yet this language still persists within the legal system.
When perpetrators are convicted of offences using terminology linked to prostitution, it risks implying that the child was somehow a willing participant rather than what they truly were: a victim. This language is deeply harmful and reinforces the stigma and victim-blaming that survivors of child sexual abuse continue to face.
The word “prostitution” should never be used in any context relating to the sexual abuse or exploitation of children.
Please sign my petition to help end the use of this language across all areas of child sexual abuse. Children are never prostitutes. They are victims, and the law should reflect that.
You can sign the petition through this link:
https://t.co/hOIsdoijt2
Ive included screen shots of the convictions and you can access the full articles through these links.
Nine men, guilty of abusing two girls, jailed for total of 132 years | ITV News Calendar https://t.co/ZBpv4HahB4
Twenty people jailed for sexual abuse committed decades ago in Kirklees | West Yorkshire Police https://t.co/kNK7GMykgt
Also if you would like to help me continue the work im doing around child sexual abuse and exploitation please consider donating below:
https://t.co/5Kn65MPRd8
APPLEBAUM: What Russians do is they put out not one lie, but million lies, or not one explanation, but one after another.
It's a propaganda technique. They just flood people with massive, contradictory stories, and sooner or later, people won't pay attention to anything at all.
And there's so much information all the time that people eventually just tune out, and they say, "I don't know what's true, I don't know what's not true, I don't believe anything, I'm not going to engage in this issue, I'm not going to get angry about it, I just don't want to know anything at all."