Sanity-Sux

We sleep safe in our beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence to those who would do us harm. Per Mare Per Terram.

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

First Mothin Ali calls out "misogyny" and now he's urging us to love our neighbours. This man glorified Oct 7 and described a Rabbi as "an animal". His wife wears a niqab. This is gaslighting on an industrial scale.

[Jools @JoolsJuevans]

Did you ever think you'd live to see the day where a WOMAN leading the largest Union in the UK with the largest number of women members would argue against women's right to single sex spaces in the workplace?
No me neither.
Find a better union ladies.
Also the guidance doesn't cover workplaces, it's not even relevant, that's covered by separate legislation. Absolute clowns.

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

📢 "Your voice is needed."

UNISON general secretary @AndreaEganGS is calling on members and trans allies to oppose the EHRC guidance.

MPs will decide on it in the next 30 days.

Tell us why it's unworkable in your workplace.

📩 [email protected]

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

You, Bridget, are a member of a government that has impoverished parents with higher taxes, soaring fuel bills. the highest energy bills in the world, and yet here you are boasting about your stupid breakfast clubs.
Families are really struggling because of Labour.

[Veteran_MC 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 @Veteran_MC]

This is pure and simple police brutality. An absolute over use of power. There are multiple strikes with shields, punches thrown and kicks to a person already under control.
Every one of those 'offices' needs to be suspended, investigated and possible sackings.
The man should come forward, we need to know what injuries were sustained and sue the police, then the home secretary.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer has shown more anger at people being furious over Henry Nowak’s treatment than the fact that Henry bled to death handcuffed like a criminal.

This is why he is so despised.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

A Furore That Was Whipped Up. That Is What Alexis Boon Called It.

Henry Nowak died in handcuffs on a Southampton street. The Prime Minister said he felt sick watching the body cam footage. The Commons Speaker ordered the government to make a statement. The chief constable of the force responsible described the national outcry as a furore that had been whipped up.

Alexis Boon, chief constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, spoke publicly for the first time today. He apologised for his officers handcuffing and arresting Henry. He said Henry could not be saved. He said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign.

The University of Reading evaluated Hampshire's mandatory Inclusion Matters diversity course, completed by 6,250 officers and staff. The findings were published by the force itself. Nearly twenty percent of officers said they felt they would have been rejected for saying the wrong thing during the training. Nearly fifteen percent said that if they made a mistake it would have been held against them. Fifteen and a half percent felt controlled and pressured to be certain ways. The University noted that individuals who did not respond well to the course may benefit from further intervention, monitoring or coaching.

Read that final observation carefully. Officers who retained their own judgment during diversity training were to be monitored, further intervened upon and coached until they responded correctly. The training was not designed to inform. It was designed to condition. Hampshire's own commissioned research documents that conditioning precisely.

The Metropolitan Police has gone further. It commissioned HR consultant Shereen Daniels to write a structural review of systemic racism within the force titled 30 Patterns of Harm. The Metropolitan Police described it as a key document in its race action plan. In a section on neutrality Daniels writes that neutrality is not neutral. That it reflects dominant norms, particularly whiteness. That claiming neutrality is claiming distance from bias but that distance is not real. That neutrality is a myth. The Metropolitan Police told its officers they could not be neutral because of their whiteness.

Officers trained that neutrality is a myth, that their own whiteness prevents impartiality and that failing to respond well to diversity training would result in monitoring and coaching arrived at the scene where Henry Nowak lay dying. They were not neutral. They had been trained not to be.

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said policing had been infected by an extremist ideology that calls itself anti-racism but is in fact racist itself because it urges ethnic minorities to be treated more leniently. He said the doctrine is enshrined as official police policy and in his view contributed to officers prioritising the allegation of racism above saving a young man's life.

That is the argument Alexis Boon refuses to engage with. He apologised for the handcuffs. He described the outcry as a furore. He said he would not resign. He did not address the Inclusion Matters course whose own evaluation shows officers were afraid to say the wrong thing. He did not address the neutrality document that told his officers their whiteness prevents impartiality. He did not address the training that the University of Reading documented and that his force commissioned.

Henry Nowak is not a furore. He is an eighteen year old boy who died in handcuffs on a Southampton street while his killer chose his food in a police kitchen. The furore is the appropriate response to that. The chief constable who cannot see the difference has not understood the question.

"Alexis Boon said his force had been subjected to unfair criticism. He said he does not accept the term two tier policing and does not recognise it. He will not resign."

[Rachel Maclean @redditchrache]

This is the man who called me transphobic for pointing out that he was a bloke in a wig. He wasted police time reporting me for a non crime hate incident. The local Labour Party held a protest in town about me.

Absolutely ridiculous.

He is a bloke in a wig.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

The Novak family made clear that the police got things wrong, and spelled out how with infinite dignity.
Police double-standards are an entirely legitimate subject for public debate.
As someone who 'took the knee' for the discredited BLM movement (which sought to abolish prisons and defund law enforcement) you are in no position to criticise anyone for politicising a death in police custody.
As a politician struggling to hold onto office you are entitled to play every card at your disposal.
But this is amoral and grotesque.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨STARMER’S BLATANT HYPOCRISY EXPOSED! 🤔

Perfect example of Two-Tier Keir.

Video 1 (2020): Starmer viciously attacks Trump for his response to the rioters after George Floyd’s death, calling it an “affront to humanity” and defending the unrest as “peaceful protests” by people “rightly demanding justice”.

“Like you, I was shocked and angered by the killing of George Floyd. And the response of President Trump and US authorities to the peaceful protests, to people rightly demanding justice, has been an affront to humanity.”

Video 2 (Today): Starmer condemns the “disgraceful” rioters in the wake of Henry Nowak’s tragic murder and his shocking treatment by police.

“No matter the pain we feel, there is no justification for violence and disorder. Let me be clear, we will ensure anyone found engaging in disorder meets the full force of the law.”

Why the blatant double standard, Keir?

Either rioting is bad or it isn’t?

You’re “shocked and angered” and label Trump’s crackdown an “affront to humanity”… but now you’re cracking down hard when people “demand justice” after Henry Nowak.

Are you the “affront to humanity” for condemning these rioters?

Two-Tier Keir exposed for the world to see.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

Still no one seems to be asking the question why they searched Henry’s phone for racist content after the event.
I suspect they were desperately trying to find content that would mitigate them in their monumental, biased fuck up.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

The Fire Brigades Union stands ‘firmly in solidarity with trans, non-binary and gender diverse members.’

But not, apparently, with women who wish to undress - or use the toilet - without males present.

This union appears to be unaware that being forced to share facilities with male colleagues may cause ‘fear’ for women.

Or that they also have the right to ‘respect and dignity’ at work. And for their employers to follow the law.

Extraordinary.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This poor poor young man & his family. I just despair where we are headed with so many things.

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

Ed Davey has urged Bridget Phillipson to withdraw EHRC guidance protecting women-only toilets and changing rooms—guidance based on the Supreme Court’s Equality Act ruling. Calling it incompatible with “British values”, he’s chosen a side. It isn’t women.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

The mask has finally slipped.

Labour's own minister, Pat McFadden, has said it out loud: who can we tax to pay benefits to others?

That's what many suspected from day one.

Higher taxes. Less reward for work.

The game is up. This government is finished.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A message from DWP Secretary Pat McFadden to Mandelson:

Every meeting Labour MPs always ask "who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others."

Labour do not value hardworking people, they believe that you should prop up those who wake up at midday. A treacherous government.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The police have always found it very, very difficult to admit that they've made a mistake

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Police force tells officers to log anti-Islam conversations https://t.co/AUefxXHOuR

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

700,000 a year !!!!

How on earth did this scoundrel get appointed ?