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Might get around to setting up a chapter of the UK roundabout appreciation society in Firth.

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@danparker55 @Vivek4real_ With sufficient intelligence you ability to deduce truth from a set of lies increases. That is what they ate trying to do with Grok.

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@LimitingThe Good measured comments.

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@PETERDAZELEY Same here.

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@Coinvo Does that man need a hand/ help?

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@LimitingThe Who paid for the sign?

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@RobertJenrick Is there an allegation of conspiracy?

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@nickshirleyy @EricLDaugh If fined contact us.

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@nicksortor If fined message us.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE REPORTED RAPE AT WORK

Jan Cruickshank (@LittleJanhere) came to me this week with her story and a file of evidence she has spent years building. What she went through is one of the most shocking workplace cover-ups I have come across.

Jan worked as an apprenticeships officer at the Construction Industry Training Board @CITB_UK. Shortly after she started, a male colleague began subjecting her to sexual harassment that lasted over three years.

Explicit texts. Exposing himself to her at a hotel. Sending her an indecent photograph. A phone call during which he committed a sexual act while she was on the line.

In March 2015, at a conference in a Highland hotel, he came to her room and raped her.

Jan reported him. CITB believed his version instead. He claimed they had been having a consensual affair for three years and that Jan was hitting back because he had ended it. He was put on gardening leave for one week. Then he came back. He was also allowed to continue visiting schools while the investigation was ongoing.

CITB then launched a campaign to remove Jan from the business entirely. Two separate internal whistleblowers later confirmed this was deliberate. CITB's own legal team had calculated that a trial would cost them seriously.

So they chose to destroy her credibility instead. An HR investigation was initiated with the outcome already decided before it concluded. Jan was eventually sacked. The stated reason was misuse of company time by having an affair.

Her criminal case was dropped after @PoliceScotland were told by CITB that the relationship had been consensual. That lie closed the case.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority looked at the evidence independently and reached a completely different conclusion. They awarded Jan compensation as a victim of serious sexual assault.

Jan took CITB to an employment tribunal. They offered her 15k pounds. She refused. She eventually settled for 60k pounds and refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

She said there was never any way she was going to agree to be gagged.

In November 2024, SNP MP Seamus Logan @SeamusLoganMP raised her case in the @HouseofCommons. He told Parliament that Jan had been pressured into a settlement far below what she was owed and that the man she accused was never held to account.

CITB responded with one line saying the matter was settled and they had nothing further to add..

A tribunal ruling recently reported as thrown out with no prospect of success has since been overturned. That decision has not yet reached the press.

Jan is now represented by well know to some of us John Robertson, the same investigator who stood beside Glenn Cottingham Smith before his death and who is currently fighting for my friend John Galajsza in his case against Barclays.

Jan asked herself one question:

"How did a woman who reported sexual misconduct at work end up spending the next decade fighting to defend her own reputation and reclaim a life that was stolen from her."

She was not broken. She documented everything. She refused the gag. She is still standing.

If this story made your stomach turn, share it. Jan has been fighting this alone for ten years.

The least we can do is make sure the right people see it. If you believe cover-ups like this should have consequences, put this in front of your network.

One share might reach the person who finally makes the difference.

Let's help her to be heard!

Sources: @Daily_Record Dec 2018 | @CNplus Nov 2024 | @BylineTimes Aug 2024

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SIR ALAN BATES - THANKS GOD FOR THIS MAN. EH.

In 1998 Alan Bates and his partner Suzanne packed up their lives in West Yorkshire and moved to a small town in North Wales.

They put everything they had into a post office. Every penny. Every hope. A future they had planned together.

Two years later the software started lying. Money appeared to be missing. He called the helpline 507 times. He kept going. He kept records. He kept asking.

The Post Office's response was simple. It wasn't the software. It was him.

In 2003 they sent him a letter terminating his contract. No reason given. He lost £65,000. Everything he and Suzanne had invested, gone. Their private notes about him, revealed at the public inquiry decades later, described the situation with devastating corporate elegance. He had become unmanageable.

That is what they called a man asking why the numbers were wrong.

So he did what any reasonable person would do after losing everything to an institution that called them a liar.

He spent the next 25 years fighting back with nothing. No legal fund. No media empire. No government support. Just a burning refusal to let them win.

He wrote letters promising his continued and increased resolve to bring this to people who would have no choice but to act, regardless of how many years it took.

It took 25.

While he was fighting, at least 13 people who had been through the same thing took their own lives. People who couldn't hold on long enough. People who needed someone to believe them and found nobody there.

While he was fighting, the Post Office and its lawyers billed £265 million in legal fees between 2014 and 2024. Making sure the truth stayed buried. Making sure men like Alan Bates ran out of road before they ran out of fight.

He didn't run out of fight.

He rejected three compensation offers he considered insults. He watched an @ITV drama turn his life into a television event. He watched politicians suddenly discover outrage they had been too busy to feel for two decades. He watched the country cry at a story it had been ignoring since 1999.

In June 2024 they gave him a knighthood. Twenty-five years after calling him unmanageable.

In November 2025 he settled his compensation claim. He received 49.2% of what he was owed.

No executive has been charged. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) still holds government contracts. The Post Office (@PostOffice) is still standing.

This country failed Alan Bates for 25 years. It failed every person who could not hold on long enough to see what he saw. It handed him a title instead of justice and called itself generous.

He deserved better. They all did.

Teach this man in every school in Britain. Not as a feel-good story. As a warning about what happens when ordinary people trust institutions that were never built to protect them.

And as proof that one person, with nothing but the truth and the stubbornness to keep saying it, can make an entire country look at itself in the mirror.

Even if it takes 25 years to get them to look.

Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews AND many others

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Release the body camera videos

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@mattvanswol @Grok what evidence do we have for the attacker's intent.

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@boudicasarmy @Grok please summarise the intent of this legislation, the problems of the current arrangements (why is it wanted) and the risks of abuse.

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WATCH THIS. This made me choke. Made me feel sick.

Henry Nowak. 18 years old. Walking home from a night out.

He saw a man carrying a massive knife in a sheath. Filmed him. Henry said, You're a bad man for carrying that knife in public. The man said back, I'm a bad man. Then stabbed him. Four times. Henry bled to death in the street.

When police arrived, the man who stabbed him said Henry had been racist to him. So POLICE HANDCUFFED HENRY, NOT THE ATTACKER, WTAF.

The kid who was bleeding out and died. Arrested him for racism. While the man who stabbed him walked free and his mother removed the weapon.

Henry wasn't racist. He filmed a man carrying a knife and said he looked like a bad man. That's it. That's what got him stabbed. That's why police arrested him while he died.

Richard Donaldson brought this. Filmed it from his car. Couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Where was the news?

BBC Local News Hampshire reported it. ITV Meridian reported it. Regional. Buried. That's it.

BBC News? Nothing. Sky News? Nothing. Channel 4? Nothing. GB News? Nothing.

National news blackout. Complete silence. George Floyd? International Weeks of coverage. Statues torn down. The world stopped.

Henry Nowak? Local news only. Court reporting. Nobody knows. That's why you didn't hear about it. National news didn't tell you.

How is this allowed?

Religious exemptions for ceremonial knives. Special rules for some. But Henry? No protection. Just stabbed and arrested while dying.

How do we have one rule for religious communities and another for British kids?

Why is a ceremonial knife more protected than an 18-year-old's life?

Henry's dead. The attacker's on trial. National news said nothing.

That's two-tier Britain. Media silence. Protected knives. Dead teenagers. And you weren't told.

This is what Starmer's Britain looks like.

If it wasn't for Richard's video I wouldn't know about this. Thanks to someone in the UK actually bringing this to my attention. @RDonaldson91

@GBNews @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News @ITV

Shame on you. Shame on you all. One of us is taken. One of our young lads. Somebody's son. Could've been your son.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Remember when the left told us that NO illegal immigrants were getting taxpayer-funded healthcare?

Well, here comes the plot twist.

In Davidson County, TN officials are reportedly losing their minds - because according to reports, illegal-immigrant families could lose their kids' free government healthcare if they cannot verify legal status.

This all happened because Now Tennessee passed a law requiring verification. So now... county officials are admitting that the kids of people who CANNOT prove they are here legally have been getting taxpayer-funded benefits the entire time.

Democrats are the party of fraud and lies.

REPOST for exposure!

#thinblueline #Lawenforcement

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SIX BANKERS JAILED

Sally Masterton was a forensic accountant at Lloyds Banking Group (@LBGplc). In 2013 she wrote an internal report, Project Lord Turnbull, documenting how HBOS executives had deliberately concealed a £1 billion fraud at their Reading branch before Lloyds acquired them.

Small businesses destroyed. Lives ruined. Fraud siphoning money to pay for kickbacks, prostitutes and Barbados holidays.

She was pushed out in 2014. Lloyds publicly denied the report was even authorised. They called her a rogue employee acting alone.

The police, meanwhile, were writing letters saying her work was vital to their investigation and trying to have her co-opted onto the case.

@TheFCA received the report in 2014. They did nothing for years. Nothing. The regulator whose entire job is to catch this exact thing sat on it.

Six HBOS executives were eventually jailed for a combined 47 years. The fraud was real. The cover-up was real. Masterton was right about all of it.

Lloyds settled with her twice. The second time, in 2018, they formally admitted the report was commissioned by the bank and apologised, saying she had acted with integrity and good faith. That is what institutions call justice when they want to avoid the word sorry.

The FCA was fined £45 million for concealing the fraud. Not a single board-level executive was held accountable. The £45 million fine went straight to the Treasury.

Thames Valley Police spent £7 million investigating a fraud they could never recover from the fraudsters. The Chancellor at the time refused to reimburse them.

A woman who did her job properly was fired, smeared, and silenced with a non-disclosure agreement. The people who covered up a billion-pound fraud kept their careers.

Nothing about any of this was an accident.

MP Kevin Hollinrake (@kevinhollinrake) called her treatment disgraceful. He was right. It was also completely predictable for anyone who knows how these institutions protect themselves.

Share this if you think the public deserves to know.

Sources: @FinancialTimes @CityAM @businessinsider | Blueprint for Free Speech | Parliamentary Written Evidence

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Steady Æddie @renrubuk]

@Katie_Lam_MP Little known fact: Harriet Harman is a keen baker.

Google "Harriet Harman PIE" for more information.

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@renrubuk @Katie_Lam_MP Very good.

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I live in Europe. We would have Russians all over Ukraine and Poland withput Starlink. It changes the calculations on Taiwan. Apart from reducing the probability of a world war we also have planet wide sat comm for ordinary people. I and many of my neighbours have Starlink in London. When I drive accross America we can work anywhere at any time; that is necessary for us.