Colin 💭

Thought-criminal. Jaded cynic. Whether my glass is half-full or half-empty, it's not been bloody full enough for far too long. 🤨 😼

[Colin 💭 @colgardner]

I wonder which intelligent, well informed sophisticates I'll be encountering today.

Each day, a new blossom of humanity crosses my path ...

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

An Army veteran has reportedly been turned away from a Wetherspoon pub in Gosport for wearing a poppy.

Footage has emerged of a British Army veteran being refused entry to The Star. A member of staff tells him the poppy is “political” and that he will not be served while wearing it.

The incident is alleged to have taken place in Gosport, a town currently grappling with anti-immigration protests.

In footage shared on Facebook, a doorman can be heard saying: “Really sorry mate, you can’t come in with a poppy I’m afraid. It’s political.”

He tells the veteran he can re-enter if he removes the poppy and puts it in his pocket, but warns him not to put it back on inside or he will be asked to leave and refused service.

A Wetherspoon spokesperson said: “Wetherspoon has long been a supporter of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, with poppies for sale in our pubs, including The Star. There is no ban on poppies in Wetherspoon pubs.”

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[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

Welcome to the UK.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

A British government minister should be fired immediately for saying this

It means that most of us cannot trust the government any more

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

If this is your 'culture', your culture is shit

[Brendan Kavanagh (Dr K) @brenkav]

Bedford Borough Council’s search for Zoe’s illegal Teddy Bear Cafe continues….

[David Collier @mishtal]

Today in London, Jews considering moving to Israel are attending an event

The @metpoliceuk had to impose restrictions to protect them from protests and intimidation

Making British Jews leave the UK is not enough for the antisemites - they are hounding them on their way out too

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

So... This tweet doesn't have a community note. It appears to be true.

That's interesting, isn't it?

Because... shouldn't this person be arrested? Isn't calling for jihad a little bit worse than my tweet saying that trans activists smell, for which I was arrested at Heathrow Airport?

Sorry, shouldn't he actually be deported? Lest he radicalise the UK's prison population?

Why is this person in the country?

[Brendan Kavanagh (Dr K) @brenkav]

For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️

[Aldo Sterone @AldoSterone111]

13 mois d'enquête et de harcèlement policier pour cette photo.

Alors qu'elle se promène sur la plage de Plymouth, Rebecca Tidy prend une photo avec sa fille et partage sur les réseaux sociaux.

Une flic à la retraite, reconnait les rochers. Comme il n'habite pas tres loin, il contacte la police pour leur dire que cette photo lui a causé du stress et de l'inquietude.

Immédiatement, une enquete criminelle est ouverte et cette mère de famille convoquee.

Au Royaume-Uni aujourd'hui, la vie de n'importe quelle personne peut basculer à tout moment pour un motif grotesque. Plusieurs raisons a cela :

1 - Les lois britanniques sont de plus en plus écrites de manière vague et ont un large champ d'application. Ceci laisse aux fonctionnaires un grande liberté de pratiquer l'arbitraire. N'importe quel geste de la vie quotidienne peut tomber sous le coup de la loi. Il suffit qu'un policier le decide.

2 - Beaucoup de personnes incultes, ignorantes et au QI très bas sont équipées de badge et de gilets. Un Britannique a été arrêté par 2 flics de 19 ans parce qu'il a critiqué un groupe terroriste en ligne. Une famille a fini avec un raid de police parce qu'ils ont critiqué le directeur de l'école primaire de leurs enfants... Ces affaires s'effondrement systématiquement devant la justice, mais elles causent des dégâts considérables chez les personnes visées.

Une armée de badges à l'intelligence inférieure à celle d'un singe rhésus est lâchée sur la société civile britannique. Ils tentent d'appliquer à la lettre, avec un zèle de névrosé, des lois auxquelles ils ne comprennent rien. Ils sont ivres de leur pouvoir et soutenus inconditionnellement par leur hiérarchie. Une fois qu'une affaire est lancée, elle a toutes les chances d'escalader en gravité et de pourrir pendant longtemps avant qu'une personne sensée arrête la machine folle.

3 - La culture de travail britannique est basée sur l'évitement du blâme. Quand une machine s'emballe, on se retrouve avec toute une administration qui suit des process de manière mécanique. On peut causer des monstruosités en suivant un process, personne ne viendra nous en vouloir; "je n'ai fait que suivre les ordres" est encore une excuse béton au Royaume-Uni.

Cette femme, Rebecca Tidy, a passé 13 mois sans allumer le chauffage et sans manger à sa faim. Elle et son enfant se sont privées de tout pour économiser de l'argent afin de se défendre en justice.

Au bout de 13 mois, on leur a dit qu'aucune loi n'a été transgressée par leur photo, il n'y a aucune affaire et le dossier est clos.

Par contre, la colère gronde. Les gens ont ras le bol. Imagine l'inflation, l'insécurité professionnelle, l'impôt qui tourne à la confiscation, l'absence de services publics, le soleil qui se couche à 15:45, la pluie... et un vicieux, ivre de son pouvoir, qui agite son badge sous tes yeux. Ça va mal se terminer.

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

If this is true it is peak insanity.

Anyone can claim anything caused distress. You can receive an *unlimited fine* for someone claiming you caused them distress.

This post caused me distress. The poster should be fined out of existence.

[Gaz Weetman @GazWeetman]

Ugly scenes in Hampstead right now. It’s all kicking off

[Colin 💭 @colgardner]

@dearoperator @antisxg @MayorofLondon @TfL @ACT I was thinking more of the bad-ass budgerigars in "The Boy and the Heron".

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Keep in mind that one can cause "harassment, alarm, or distress" in England and Wales by uttering a true statement of fact to someone who doesn't want to hear it, or by offering an honestly-held opinion or belief, spoken or written, which also offends.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

As of today, it is now illegal to offend someone in the UK. You can be jailed for 2 years.

[Colin 💭 @colgardner]

@PolitlcsUK I've fixed that final paragraph, for you:

"As breaching an Order will be a criminal offence, the Government says they will not apply to children so as to only give adults criminal records unnecessarily"

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.

As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.

In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.

In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.

We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.

[Joo @JoosyJew]

This is a damning indictment of @skynews’ lack of knowledge and begs the question about how often they misrepresent Israel to their viewers in broader coverage of the conflict. They fail to grasp the basics.

The Community Note is a beast.

[David Collier @mishtal]

@SkyNews @adamparsons This is disgraceful stuff from Sky. He is talking about Arab Israelis - and he calls them Palestinians - even though this is neither their national status - nor self identity.

It dismisses truth and facts - in order to sell a Hamas narrative. DELETE IT

https://t.co/buB6WuN5lh

[Joo @JoosyJew]

@SkyNews @adamparsons They’re Israeli-Arabs. They’re not “Palestinian citizens of Israel”. You can’t not know this, so your motives are clearly disinformation.