Joyce Cotton

Opinionated hate injustice,Love Alfie. Sick of lying politicians. FSU member
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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Who is making them do this?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Sky's @TrevorPTweets, a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, says he feel "rage" because the Henry Nowak case is one of many examples of "misjudgements about people based on their race leading to a young life being cut short."

He shares three other examples ⬇️

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Scotland Yard has been captured by a “woke mind virus”, with police no longer treating citizens equally under the law, says former chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation Rick Prior.

In the foreword to the FSU’s new briefing, Fear and Favour: Britain’s Policing Emergency, Rick Prior writes:

“It has been clear to me that for more than a decade, the Met has been pursuing equity of outcome between ethnic groups rather than equality of opportunity and equal treatment under the law. I have seen it in the forced rotation of skilled firearms officers to manufacture ‘churn’ and diversify armed policing, at great cost in lost skills.

“I saw it in 2022, when two very senior officers were found by a tribunal to have racially discriminated against a white inspector, by removing him from a promotion process and inserting a less qualified black candidate instead.”

Rick argues that the force has prioritised equalising outcomes between ethnic groups over ensuring equality of opportunity and equal treatment under the law for more than a decade. He says this has led to a loss of skills and harmed the policing of London’s streets.

Mr Prior also said that, following the death of George Floyd in the US, the ideology of pursuing equal outcomes had “shifted from policy backrooms to operational policing through the London Race Action Plan”.

Last summer, Mr Prior joined the Met’s policy unit and was asked to help produce the force’s EDI policy. The Met ignored his recommendations.

Prior has called for free speech to be protected within legal boundaries.

He has sought to ensure that his ordeal — after he was suspended for warning on a GB News interview that some officers are increasingly concerned about challenging certain ethnic minority groups for fear of vexatious complaints and being branded racist — helps the police get things right.

The High Court later ruled that his treatment had been unlawful and a breach of his right to free speech under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Forces across the country are under significant pressure to review their EDI policies and rethink race action plans following the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak in Southampton.

Henry was stabbed by Vickrum Digwa with a 21cm knife. Following a false accusation of racism by Digwa — a Sikh — Henry was arrested. The police appeared more concerned with an allegation of racism than helping a young man who had just been stabbed.

The FSU’s new briefing shows that a doctrine which openly rejects treating people equally now governs policing.

Read more in The Telegraph and check out the new FSU briefing 👇

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

No wonder Hampshire police did all they could to cover this up. They look completely compromised and partial. We may as well have an enemy nation policing our streets.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Firefighters in Manchester have been told to support Andy Burnham or face being snitched on by colleagues to managers

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

They been trying to falsify the narrative from the start.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Lucy Connolly was torn from her young daughter and thrown in prison, not for committing a violent crime, but simply to send a message.

Her case was used by the corrupt establishment as a warning to deter other British citizens from speaking freely online.

This is pure evil!
A white British mother was separated from her child as political punishment for her words she voluntarily deleted from Facebook.

This is not justice.

It is authoritarian intimidation designed to silence dissent.

Please share this and follow @AllisonPearson for more updates on the situation in the UK.

Link to the article: https://t.co/lfGJ0tZKzC

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

One of the locals protesting speaks to Australian News at the Henry Nowak protest tonight in Southampton at Portswood police station

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

This is Fascism.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Labour - the paedophile party.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Labour risks being forced to seek emergency help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Britain lurches toward a debt crisis, leading economists are now warning.

Former IMF chief economist Ken Rogoff says, in a new interview, that there is “more than 50:50 chance” of a major UK debt crisis before the end of this decade.

He is joined by Sir Charlie Bean, a former senior official at both the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility, who says the need for an IMF bail-out is now a “material risk” for the British economy.

I not only firmly agree with Ken Rogoff and Sir Charlie Bean – but have been repeatedly issuing the very same warnings for a very long time.

Because the grave risk of a major fiscal meltdown has been apparent for at least the last two years – to anyone who combines serious knowledge of UK economics and politics and global debt markets with an open mind.

The UK's public finances were already fragile when Labour took office back in July 2024.

But this government's misguided, ideologically-driven statist policies have made a bad situation much worse, seriously increasing the danger of a deep fiscal crisis - which would cause a disastrous state funding shortfall and a very nasty inflation spike.

That would result in Downing Street being forced to follow the orders of unelected technocrats flown in from Washington and elsewhere.

It would be a very major national humiliation combined with a deep economic slump and an even more intense cost-of-living crisis – in which low-income households, as ever, would suffer the most.

Yet those of us that have shown the brains and courage to point out these inconvenient truths over recent months and years have long been dismissed and derided for our trouble - not only by ignorant politicians and approval-seeking journalists but also the overwhelming majority of "leading economists".

Ahead of the general election in mid-2024, with Labour on course to win, the conventional wisdom among the great sages of broadsheet journalism and the economics establishment was that "the adults would soon be back in charge" ... Labour would "get lucky with the economy" ... and "Britain would now enjoy an extended period of political and fiscal stability".

I thought that was total nonsense – not least as I was well aware Labour's plans irresponsibly to increase borrowing and spending would be met with deep scepticism by the global pensions funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors that lend governments serious money.

My weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column of 23rd June 2024, a fortnight ahead of the general election, was a total outlier. I recounted the disaster of 1976 – when Britain was forced to go "cap in hand" to the IMF for a bailout – and warned that "The Ghosts of the 1970s" would haunt Labour's (so-called) economic resurrection".

Six months later, after the October 2024 "Hallowen" budget in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves did indeed sharply hike borrowing and spending, I assessed the market reaction then doubled-down – warning more assertively in my column of 12th January 2025 that "The UK risks a return to 1976 unless Reeves changes course".

And then again on 20th July 2025, as Labour's policies raised the costs of doing business, translating into price pressures which pushed up government borrowing costs even more, I again cautioned that "Inflation risks are taking Britain to the debt-crisis cliff edge".

"It’s now screamingly obvious that Labour’s crude Keynesianism – “pump priming” the economy by upping state borrowing and spending – isn’t working," I wrote in that column last July.

"Worse than that, this Government’s actions are pushing Britain towards a budgetary crisis every bit as serious as that in 1976 – when the UK was forced to go “cap in hand” to the IMF for a bail-out".

It's been a lonely task issuing these warnings. I've been hounded in public debates, slagged off by senior civil servants and often dismissed by "leading economists" as "alarmist".

So what do these same "leading economists" now say to Rogoff (Harvard Professor, Former IMF Chief Economist) and Bean (LSE Professor and Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England)?

The "economics establishment" – with very few honourable exceptions, the brilliant @jagjit_chadha among them – has been and remains extremely reluctant to point out the deeply unsustainable nature of this government's addiction to ever more borrowing.

The systemic fiscal dangers of evermore "tax and spend" – and the prospect of a serious spike in gilt yields and related fiscal meltdown – are now so real and present as to be completely undeniable.

Yet the UK government is about to shift even further to the left, pushing up borrowing and spending even more under a new leader, in a bid to appease the massed ranks of economic illiterates among Labour's Parliamentary party and activist base – making those dangers even more acute.

Yet, still, the silence among "public intellectual" economists is deafening.

I'm glad the likes of Ken Rogoff and Charlie Bean are now issuing clear warnings. So where is the rest of the "economics establishment" - those who purport to understand fiscal management and financial markets, and often funded by taxpayers' money?

Britain is now clearly in the crosshairs of a very serious danger. The government's creditors are increasingly fickle and based overseas – with no regulatory or cultural obligations to lend money to the UK government.

Those holding UK gilts are increasingly "speculative" rather than "strategic" long-term investors – looking for quick returns, financing their government bond purchases with "leverage" (money borrowed from elsewhere), which will quickly be withdrawn when senitment decisively shifts, causing a plunge in gilt prices and a sharp additional surge in government borrowing costs, setting up a vicious circle.

The UK government is very heavily indebted – and the global investors we rely on to bankroll a huge slice of our state spending are alarmed that of the £132bn the government borrowed last year, no less than £110bn was spent on debt interest – as I wrote in a column on 17th May 2026, "As Labour lurches further left, the markets are calling time".

Global investors are alarmed the UK has consistently had the highest inflation in the G7 (which pushes up borrowing costs) and has easily the highest share of index-linked debt (which magnifies the burden of inflation on the state's balance sheet).

And they are deeply, deeply alarmed that when Labour came to power in mid-2024, the Office for Budget Responsibility was forecasting additional state borrowing of £323bn by 2029, the scheduled end of this Parliament.

But Labour’s runaway spending and growth-crushing tax rises mean that the same five-year borrowing forecast is now £583bn – 80pc higher. And still, the trade unions, MPs and Labour activists who will choose Starmer’s successor now want even more.

It is not too late to pull the UK back from the fiscal brink, to avoid the extremely painful and deep, lingering damage of being forced to go to the IMF and perhaps other multi-lateral creditors for a bailout.

It is not too late to avoid the inflation surge, the currency crash, the shocking blow to consumer and business confidence alongside the sky-high interest rates that will seriously whack our economy – or the perhaps even deeper damage of yet more of the British electorate losing faith in the ability of our establishment to manage the country in a manner that avoids imposing serious hardship on so many hard-working people simply trying to make their way.

But our political and media class needs to start acknowledging the economic and financial truth – that the UK government is borrowing and spending too much, taxation is now so high that it's hammering growth and employment, and that trying to finally get the economy moving by "moving further left", borrowing and spending even more, will result in a fiscal collapse.

Smart, experienced, high-profile economists need to start speaking out – as Rogoff and Bean just have – raising the alarm in a bid to force the broader establishment to face reality. Before it's too late.

If you've read this far, you clearly think this analysis is worthwhile and important. So please like and share.

And for more, read my "Economic Agenda" column in The Sunday Telegraph each week – and subscribe to "When The Facts Change: Economics and Politics in a fast-moving world, with Liam Halligan"

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

Never Forget Henry Nowak - Today’s protest against two tier policing in Southampton

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

An immaculately observed three minute silence for Henry Nowak

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump's White House is considering a plan to BUY the crucial Island of Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands rather than allow the UK to "GIVE IT AWAY" to an Iran-China ally — Telegraph

YES, BUY IT!

We have a MILITARY base on Diego Garcia, don't give it to Mauritius!

"US officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass Britain and make its own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the strategically important UK-US military base amid uncertainty about its future, The Telegraph understands."

Keir Starmer is an absolute FOOL trying to give away this land.

Take it for ourselves 🇺🇸

[Richard Wellings @RichardWellings]

Perhaps Labour are wrecking the economy on purpose, with the IMF then requiring the UK to rejoin the EU in some form as part of the bailout conditions.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

This is a shocker. Iceland founder Sir Malcolm Walker tells how a senior Asian employee at his store in Enfield was handcuffed and dragged to a police car after a black customer rang 999 and alleged racism after being caught tampering with milk bottles.
The point Sir Malcolm makes in the Mail
On Sunday is that the cops turned up just 3 minutes after the false claim and yet they often didn’t attend even when staff had been seriously hurt or threatened with violence.
Incredibly, the member of staff was taken away for more than two hours before the matter was dropped.
The Met said a man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence.

[DaisyMae @suemcdonald342]

I’ve never been a political activist but come the general election I will volunteer my services to Reform in Luke Taylor’s constituency. I hope others do too! Let’s get him out! @LukeTaylorLD

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

Excuse me … WHAT???

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

Folks well here we are Britain has finally woken up to a police service that’s not just Broken but has been smashed to pieces ie is Not fit for purpose just like our entire CJS;

For 25yrs plus MANY of us have tried to warn you not just & no one listened & no one acted me well we are in big big shit!

The Perfect storms were wanted if they came & no one learned anything; Yep all the perfect storms came one after the other & policing & our CJS started eroding falling apart & no repairs were carried out!

NIW the full force of the TSUNAMI has hit us & a TSUNAMI causes far more damage that perfect storms as perfect storms are the ‘WARNINGS’ in what’s to come; it gives to some time to prepare;

The 1st thing I’d do is get rid of @CollegeofPolice & get back to the Basics of policing; the beat Bobby & protecting society our Borders & Streets & answering all the publics calls for help investigating crime & challenging those who break the law & frighten threaten & hurt society;

Not a lot for a society to ask for & seems quite simplistic but we have fallen into to the Woke Weary & Worrying mindset of policing & it’s leadership where Pronouns supersede basic & proper policing!

It’s now clear for all to see!

We need a Royal Commission into UK Policing but that takes at least 5yrs & we don’t have the luxury of time on our hands a shattered & broken CJS URGENT ASSISTANCE as in 999 > HELP is REQUIRED NOW!

But? Is anyone actually going to say Enough’s Enough & things have got to & will change? Lessons must be learnt is all we hear;

I can’t lie I can’t see a political party & certainly NIT Labour that’s got much of a clue what REALLY needs to be done!

Mainstream Parties have failed is time & time again that’s Both Labour & the Conservative Party ‘ the Liberals are away with the fairies;

Other Political Parties now spend too much time insulting & goading each other politically & on social media platforms so get distracted on their leaders personalities rather that rolling up their sleeves & putting together a well costed/funded thought through plans in which to sell their visions to us for a better Brighter Future for Britain!

I will state again what I’ve stated so often over the last 15/20yrs I love my country but I don’t like what it has become & I certainly don’t like the direction in which it’s going on policing & law & order!

Britain is hurt; it’s tired & it’s fed up with political parties that promise so much in opposition & when elected in are just a massive let down always a reason or an excuse as to why they can’t deliver on their promises!

Their promises of torrential change ends up no more than a trickle of water the promise of the roaring sea change is never seen;

I’ve never seen so many people in Britain hurt lost & with so little hope of seeing things change; we must give out next generation something to hope for;

A GOVT relies on people being broken thinking & feeling nothing will ever change & just accept the status quo that nothing will change!

Well? That’s the challenge ahead on policing & our CJS; We need a GOVT with leaders expert in their relevant fields; with vision passion directions & ability & more importantly an understanding; personally when I look at what we have I truly despair & find myself constantly putting my head in my hands;

If I can we can see what needs to be done what has to be done the changes then why is it our GOVT’s can’t!

I will Finnish off as I so often; Britain is like a massive oil tanker the captains gone mad the crew are rebelling & clueless what to do; ie poor leadership; the rudder is broken the engine has stalled the seas are rough & we are drifting towards the perilous rocks;

We need a new captain & crew the rudder needs repairing the engine fixing & starting & a chart set to slowly navigate away from the perilous rocks & choppy seas;

I’m a man of when there’s a problem I look fit a solution it appears that our GOVT’s don’t seem to have the same mindset!!

Thanks!🙏

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Georgian patriots drape a banner in respect to Henry Nowak as they chant his name.

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