Bungle Rye

Veteran. Beekeeper. Biker. Love Staffies but now dad to two English Bull Terrorists. Was Reform but now flotsam.

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@timdavies_uk @Telegraph Exactly, coming home from the first Gulf war, I decided I wouldn’t make a fit parent. I have lived with that decision.

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@skisidjames @RupertLowe10 If you can answer one question for me, I will vote Reform. Can you explain why I should vote for a party that had clearly defined they don’t want my vote?

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@skisidjames @RupertLowe10 Reform doesn’t want people like me, a Restore supporter, so why don’t you let us have our own little party? Like you suggest, we are too small to do any real damage so just humour us us and leave us be.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

The only person responsible for Jason Arday's death is Jason Arday.

He was a liar and a fraud who was rightly exposed for what he really was by academics and journalists who were simply doing their job.

No one forced Arday to make up lie after lie about his life. He chose to do that. And he did it for financial gain and to bask in the applause it brought him.

He used those lies to deceive people into giving him a job he didn't merit, a lucrative book deal he didn't deserve,  as well as fame and adulation he didn't earn. 

And when he was found out, he called in the police and expensive lawyers to shut his accusers up, and his failed students who complained were branded as racist.

Cambridge University and Jesus College enabled this liar by lauding him as brilliant when he wasn't even mediocre. They should ask themselves why they put their DEI religion above the need for fairness in their appointments processes, above the needs of Arday's students and, most importantly, above the truth.

Arday's family and friends should ask themselves why they chose not to speak out to expose his lies which they must have known to be untrue. 

The police should ask themselves why they thought it acceptable to investigate an academic and a journalist simply for asking questions about Arday's fraudulent CV. 

The BBC and Arday's many other deluded cheerleaders should ask themselves why they were so desperate to believe Arday's outlandish claims in the face of all the evidence.

The thousands of the great and the good in academia, politics, media and law who signed the Good Law Project letter backing Arday should ask themselves why, without any justification, they outrageously branded Arday's critics as racists who just wanted to bring down a successful black man because of the colour of his skin.

All of these people made their own contributions to Jason Arday's life. And arguably all of them contributed in some way to his decision to take his own life when his fantastical claims were finally exposed for what they really were: lies.

The idea that those who exposed Arday as a lying fraudster are to blame for his death is as laughable as it is outrageous. 

The idea that Arday was "hounded" to his death is absurd. He chose to tell every single lie himself and he even chose to continue those lies in his resignation letter from Cambridge. He is not the victim. He is the perpetrator.

The claim that Arday's downfall was only a front page story because he was black is also ridiculous. He chose to tell the lies that made him a front page story in the first place. 

I feel sorry for those who loved him. It is very sad that he has chosen to take his own life rather than face the consequences of his own actions, which should have resulted in a criminal conviction for fraud. 

But actions have consequences. This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong.

[Tony @EvacTony]

Can someone explain the far left to me? I simply don't understand them.

#JasonArday #AnnWiddecombe

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

How do you feel about Halal slaughter, Ricky ?

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Imagine going to the effort of emailing a lone female book shop owner, because you dont like her political leanings. What sort of pathetic inverted penis of a man would go to this level of effort, and for what? What did he expect to achieve?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Since Jason Arday, I’ve been thinking about getting into Cambridge, and what it meant.

The culmination of years of headbanging hard work. Being a “swot” at school because I handed in homework instead of being popular. Yes, in a comprehensive the choice was that stark.

Carrying Tesco’s bags full of books home from the library on the bus for weeks. Piling the books high to create a rampart around my single bed.
Telling myself, “If you read all those books you’ll be good enough to get in.”

Some of the books I read - all of Graham Greene - were not considered “literature”. Not of the first rank, dear. I didn’t know.

As much Shakespeare as I could pack in - the big 4 Tragedies, all of the comedies. All of Austen, Forster (even Maurice FFS), lots of Dickens, Anna Karenina (devastating, wonderful).

I stopped going to school because I needed to read more, much much more. To be good enough to get in.

The Head of Sixth Form summoned me and said, “If you carry on like this you’ll fail your A levels.”

Ha! She hadn’t got a clue. I was working so far beyond A levels. Besides, I had to finish all the books in the rampart. Time was running out.

So hard, the entrance papers. Translating Proust into English. How?

Then, a passage of George Eliot I recognised - thank you God! Then pretending that I’d read Oliver Twist when I’d only seen the film. I called it Oliver! in my essay. With an exclamation mark - how crass. But the dons didn’t know the musical, maybe. I don’t know.

The only lie I told to get into Cambridge. Oliver! “All we ever get is groo-ell!” A really small, forgivable lie, I think, because the work of becoming good enough was so immense, so lonely.

But the surge of pride when I made it. Good enough to get into that unattainable place.

And now, we know that same Cambridge let in someone with two GCSEs - PE and textiles. A man who lied and lied and lied.

They didn’t just let Jason Arday in, they made him a Professor, one of those scholars kids like me revered. We were in awe - imagine being taught by those great minds.

Christ, Cambridge. What a betrayal of all of us who strove so hard to be good enough to deserve you. Who put you on a pedestal, who really truly thought reading hundreds of books was the price of admission, a price you willingly paid.

So much for the brightest and the best. It’s so disgusting on every level, waving in someone utterly unworthy, barely literate for crying out loud. A man at the mercy of the English language, not its master and commander.

A know-nothing Professor, a vacuous, fashionable fraudster hired to give lectures to kids like me.

So Cambridge could look “diverse” and, in so doing, renounced its ancient power which made so many like me strive to be good enough.

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@RupertLowe10 It doesn’t stop at the places you mention. I live in a rural village in the north west. It’s character has been completely changed by the influx of east Lancs people escaping their over run towns. They want to make the country like the city and have no patience for local ways

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@Arron_banks Must be on Reforms radar then

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@GatesheadLad23 Some of the challenge is in working out what you are reading with Homer so I completely understand getting a book that’s a little less complicated to dip your toe it’s a great idea. I read the odyssey first and it’s excellent but was completely blown away by the Iliad.

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@CSG1973 @melindiscott Go and live on an Island, you won’t regret it. Except for the midgies, and the odd tin shed blowing past your house around Christmas. The life is fantastic, the beaches can’t be beaten. Fishing and diving second to none. Wonderful

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@Ian_Torbet @Jessrocks71 Thank you, I thought I was going daft

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

So police know Ann Widdecombe’s horrifying death was not a burglary gone wrong.

The suspect drove nearly 300 miles to Ann’s home ‘with wooden stick’.

But he wasn’t “politically motivated”? What was the motive?
https://t.co/4O1k8xj4a4

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@NatalieFleetMP This country needs bin men. However, it’s an excellent analogy, someone has to take the shit out.

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@CSG1973 Excellent news, congratulations ❤️

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The BBC has issued an official explanation on why it has failed to cover our rape gang inquiry.

'Complex choices' are made for editorial and practical reasons.

These choices 'should not be taken as indicative of bias.'

Their words.

But the BBC were very quick to cover malicious complaints against our inquiry, in an attempt to smear our efforts? They were then forced to later apologise about how they covered the story.

So either the inquiry is worth reporting on, or it's not.

They can't pick and choose.

We're told 'complex choices' are made, meaning that efforts to uncover the industrial rape of young girls is not near the top of list.

Let's take a look at a few stories on the main BBC news page, right now...

'Osaka pays 'love and respect to Japan' in Wimbledon kimono'

'Why £15 durians are being sold at half price - or given away for free'

'We had packed lunches every day for 10 years and retired at 40'

Are these stories more important than the rape gang inquiry?

I think not.

You cannot hate the BBC enough.

I expect no fair coverage from them, I've stopped expecting it.

But the BBC is funded by the British people.

Their continued suppression of our inquiry is a disgrace.

[Bungle Rye @BrianKnadd]

@JENpatriotic This is all well and good but what happens when a country such as China, a country that has so cleverly destroyed the world’s manufacturing, decides it wants to go a step further and dominate populations like the Muslim world has done? You then have to start again.