Oliver Fisk

Tech Dad - East Anglian - Jumped up country boy - London, UK - Views solely my own.

[Oliver Fisk @anotherfish759]

@Sargon_of_Akkad On the left the ends justify the means, on the right the means justify the ends. That’s it, that’s the whole thing.

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@peterrhague But that isn't what I would accept as a "cause".

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@peterrhague I think wokeness is a symptom. Or rather a strategy, of how to manage competing rights in a multicultural and ideologically fragmented nation. Wokeness passes to the state the right to define groups and manage outcome oriented policy through a framework of progressive language.

[Oliver Fisk @anotherfish759]

This is very sad for the individual but the truth is high density bug hotels have almost no utility for owner occupiers over 30yo unless there is capital appreciation. In absence of forward value expectations they leverage down to dormitory prices.

[Lawrence Hunt @huntmj28]

I’ve taken my flat off the market. It was on for 25k less than what we paid in 2014. No one was even clicking on the listing. The only flat which has sold in my building went for a £60k loss and it took a year to complete.

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@ThoughtOutlaw @afneil @Keir_Starmer Perhaps not. But they should reasonably expect that Andy Birnham Burnham does!

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@RupertLowe10 @Dominic2306 Exile is a perfectly reasonable punishment in the right circumstances.

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@BasedNorthmathr All I can see

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

When your entire worldview is based not on knowledge, but on what others think - the only possible rebuttal is a performance.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

I was on GBN to discuss the recent grooming gang trials.
We see these sentences of hundreds of years being handed down, but that’s an average of 11 years per perpetrator. Doesn’t feel like justice when victims were abused for 5 years & it took 10 years for the case to conclude

[Nina Power @Nina_Power_]

You spend £30 on a mediocre burger, a coffee and water. Unbusy incomprehensible men pretend to be waiters.

You go to the toilet. The bathroom is a large, misshapen room with multiple cubicles catering to various identities. The toilets are dirty, because the elimination of sexes has created a tragedy of the urinary commons. People wash their hands furtively, the ritual profane, men next to women, weird, awkward.

There's a tube strike. You get the bus. You would have taken the bus anyway, but the bus is crowded. People block the door, the stairs and the walkway. Your teeth hurt. You drive past empty pubs. "At least she's trying" says the young man on the phone next to you.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

There's a common thread that runs through the way police officers arrested Henry Nowak when his killer invoked "racism", the domestic propaganda unit wheeled out after terror attacks, the attempts to enforce Islamic blasphemy law, the cover-up of the grooming gangs, the clamp down on free speech, and it runs something like this:

The revealed preference for Britain's establishment is for unprecedented levels of migration. The repeatedly revealed preference of the population is for massive reductions in this number. Migration has been pushed on this country against its will.

The result is friction. Friction between people, friction between groups, increasingly sectarian politics as people begin to see the decision of 'who governs' as an existential one. And where there's enough friction, there's fire.

The way the state handles this is to refocus itself on reducing friction, rather than upholding what the law might actually say. A low-level counter-insurgency against its own people. A crime against an individual is unfortunate; a crime against a group is intolerable. Imperial style policing, brought home.

The difference that gives rise to the 'two-tier' element is the size of the groups involved. The 2010 and 2024 riots showed that the state would struggle to deal with any large scale disorder; by definition, any significant dissent from the majority would give rise to this disorder.

The way that the state has chosen to handle this is to treat minority groups with a certain deference and lenience, making "small" concessions with relatively limited impact that buy a degree of peace, and to treat the majority with utter ruthlessness. The Harehills riot saw the police retreat; the Southport riots less than two weeks later saw maximal deployment of state capacity and a "shared understanding" that the courts would do the bidding of Government with quick, tough sentences. This is not "policing by consent" in the old Peelian model. That was not "the public must consent to the law being enforced", but that the police would try to win the trust of the community, singular. Now there are communities, plural, with conflicting views and interests, and the result is that policing has retreated from what it sees as contested ground.

At times, the new reality is even stated bluntly. The National Police Chiefs Council states that its goal is "producing equality of policing outcomes", and that this "does not mean treating everyone 'the same' or being 'colour blind' (racial equality)".

From monitoring what you say online to reorienting policing around the management of "tensions" between groups to endless efforts to promote the idea of diversity as a good, or play down any identity-based element in incidents with a majority victim. Two-tier policing is a function of numbers. And it is by this point completely clear that the Establishment has committed to this strategy so completely that it cannot reverse it without totally discrediting itself.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Hi @MayorofLondon
This you?

[Oliver Fisk @anotherfish759]

@BobbyNSteve1 @mary_hughes_2 @SaysSimulation Every time

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@TheNewsAgents @AndyHughesCrime @maitlis @jonsopel Maybe this chap could explain this? From the national police chief’s council website. “It does not mean treating everyone the same”.

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@AaronBastani @CamillaTominey @Jonathan_Hinder SDP I suppose

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@AaronBastani It’s too late. The pendulum always swings too far the other way. KB gets points for trying to hold a sensible middle ground 5 years ago. But that time has passed. The hour is late.

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@mulronie Exceptions are a sign of power. They deign to grant the exception, it shows who is in charge.

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@VintageMrHobbes I’ve got family in the police and they are good people who do a hard job. But as an institution I’m not sure the police are a force for good on balance, either in their priorities or their practice. Too much “keeping the peace” at the expense of justice.

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@DannyShawNews @FraserNelson I’m less interested in the individual actions of these coppers and more in how they have been so comprehensively brainwashed that they acted as they did.

[Oliver Fisk @anotherfish759]

I’ve been on the internet a long time. I’ve seen, things. But tonight I wept for Henry. It’s time to fix things for our boys and girls, to fix this country. The hour is late.