A typical comment
on the earlier Taylor report
Does it cost much for an apology? Arrogance of the lady
and the Council. As Head of the Council the Chief Executive can intervene. And it all stops. But no they need to deny the facts.
I think Kevin Taylor is much more interested in being a hero to his less than adequate staff members than being a decent manager.
I’ll skip the details but 40 years ago when some of my staff were ‘misbehaving’,
103 of them were dismissed but the 1,200 honest employees were more than happy to see the back of them.
Wilkinson Index.
24 August - Eight more Council Houses for sale
More of Bexley’s Social Housing stock has gone on sale this week, maybe not all of it
as rubbishy as before.
Whilst not all are marked as Social Housing on the sales blurb (click an image to view) they all check out as being ‘Council Houses’ on
https://uksocialhousing.com.
Index to similar sales reports.
Updated list with links.
30 Bourne Mead, Bexley
15 Marden Crescent, Bexley
34 Pengarth Road, Bexley
53 Pengarth Road, Bexley
Pengarth Road, Bexley (One bedroom flat)
20 Rye Close, Bexley
44 Stansted Crescent, Bexley
Parkside Avenue, Bexleyheath
Crayford Road, Crayford
Dale End, Crayford
60 Heath Road, Crayford
83 Heath Road, Crayford
22B Iron Mill Lane, Crayford
235 Iron Mill Lane, Crayford
176 Maiden Lane, Crayford
206 Maiden Lane, Crayford
234 Maiden Lane, Crayford
4 Medway Road, Crayford
Russell Close, Crayford Not on Strret View
20
Stour Road, Crayford
52 Jenningtree Road, Erith
22 Springhead Road, Erith
26-32 Burnham Road, Sidcup
204 Ellenburgh Road, Sidcup
63 Footscray Road, Sidcup
50 Mallard Walk, Sidcup
23 Maddocks Close, Sidcup
56 Maylands Drive, Sidcup (a flat) -
Second sale
Maylands Drive, Sidcup (Semi-detached)
17 Partridge Road, Sidcup
30 St. Andrews Road, Sidcup
19 Berwick Road, Welling
18 Burnell Avenue, Welling
39 Burnell Avenue, Welling
79 Darenth Road, Welling
47 Denton Road, Welling
17 Ridley Road, Welling
Rye Close, Welling
2 Wycliff Road, Welling
21 August - Bexley Council has employed another misguided loyalist who, despite overwhelming evidence, will not accept that they broke the law
Over several years Bexley
Council has been plagued by the most awful incompetent managers. In general
terms they admitted as much only a few months ago.
Probably the worst examples involved care services. Some very poor decisions led to
the death of a three year old boy in 2011 and a criminally stupid
bit of budget saving led to
the death of an old lady and a huge cover up involving paying off staff with gagging clauses.
And then we have the liars who value their jobs so much that all thought of
integrity flies out of their mind. The last time Bexley Council attacked me with
lies which they had the News Shopper repeat they were intent on covering up a
minor indiscretion by a Councillor.
The correct response would have been “Whoops, sorry, we got that wrong. It won’t
happen again” and end the matter there and then.
Instead several witness statements, from Councillors as well as members of the
public, went to the police who thought the lies were sufficiently serious to
warrant a file being sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. A year later the
police apologised to me for the CPS having lost the evidence and the whole thing
petered out; but that merely illustrates the corruption that pervades such
organisations and in no way lessens the Misconduct in a Public Office which was rife within Bexley Council.
I thought such days had gone but I was wrong. Kevin Taylor, Bexleyְ’s recently
appointed Deputy Director of Children’s Services, has written to me to confirm
the view expressed earlier that blocking the King’s Highway is acceptable.
What is it about Care Services managers? How many inadequate OFSTED ratings have they achieved?
He begins as you might expect of a complete idiot by saying that I [that is me!] do not accept
that Madam Wilkinson was legally parked while he thinks she was. No one at
Bexley Council can see that yellow line offences are not on a par with road
blocking as defined by The Highways Act 1980.
He like everyone else involved believes
that as there are no yellow lines Kelly Wilkinson can park where she likes. The
police and Bexley’s Highways Department both think otherwise. My Stage 2
complaint gave a link to the Highways Department’s report. Kevin Taylor ignored it.
Mr. Taylor says the photograph does not prove the road was blocked. Tell that to
the driver of a fire engine. Taylor also ignores the fact that I had two neighbours
as witnesses to the fact that my car would not fit through the gap that Kelly
Wilkinson left. (One had returned home before Wilkinson appeared.) Three
residents and a photograph are subordinate to Kevin Taylor’s need to back his staff at all costs; to whatever reputation he might once have had.
“My Officers refute any suggestion that the offence [road blocking] occurred.”
Black is white in Kevin Taylor’s tiny mind.
His logical brain goes on to claim that
the July CPZ consultation proves his case that no
offence occurred. It is totally irrelevant to my complaint. It proves only that
he is not as clever as he thinks he is.
I can assure you that Council Officers do not believe that
they have the right to block the Kings Highway and from my investigation, I can
find no conclusive evidence to support your complaint that Ms Wilkinson did this
on 28 May and I can therefore not uphold this element of your complaint.
Not a word of apology anywhere. The fact that I was unable to drive away from home
was a figment of my imagination and of no consequence whatever compared to Bexley Council’s requirements.
Mr. Taylor confirms he is not very bright by sending me a Word document which
can be edited, instead of a PDF which any professional would have used. He also
says that I can appeal his decision to The Social Care Ombudsman; as if they
would be interested in an offence against The Highways Act 1980.
Mr. Taylor is already wasting more than £100,000 of taxpayers’ money every year
by being paid for uttering nonsense. I do not intend to add to that bill.
I think a more fitting memorial to his stupidity is
an Index bearing his name to
help Google find him, a permanent link from the Bonkers’ banner and maybe
regurgitate it here every day I am short of material.
For the record, this was my Stage 2 complaint to the long suffering and always helpful Lorraine Hand.
Dear Ms. Hand,
I am afraid I cannot accept Ms. Clark’s contention that that Ms. Wilkinson
was legally parked or that “we deem Kelly’s behaviour to be appropriate”.
I did not refer to any yellow line contravention and therefore Ms. Clark’s
reference to Parking Services was not appropriate and their response
irrelevant. My complaint, though not stated in great detail, was that Ms.
Wilkinson was in contravention of Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980. If
reference had been made to your own Highways Department they would have been able to confirm.
In their submission to the Cabinet Member a year ago
https://democracy.bexley.gov.uk/documents/s110206/Decision%20Report.pdf
they confirm in the opening paragraphs that activity identical to that of
Ms. Wilkinson has indeed resulted in police activity in my road.
Part 1 of Ms. Clark’s response to me is wrong in law and must be withdrawn.
It was originally not uppermost in my mind but I did not expect to be
answered by a manager so ignorant that she does not know that Council staff
are no more able to go around blocking the King’s Highway than anyone else.
Part 2 is more subjective but more important. I would contend that any
reasonable individual upon realising that they had blocked a road to through
traffic would hurry along and make an excuse for their criminal behaviour
and instantly defuse the situation. There were at least 30 seconds in which
to do that. It was only in the final moments that I spotted the Bexley
Council badge and momentarily impeded door closure to give time to read it.
If that is intimidatory it does not explain why Ms. Wilkinson said nothing
on her 70 metre 30 second return journey to her car and is in no way an
excuse for the preceding behaviour. i.e. Total silence. The ‘Facebook’
excuse offered is pure desperation. It was a comment made while Ms.
Wilkinson was driving off. Totally irrelevant to what went before which was
the subject of my complaint.
Do you really believe that after committing a criminal offence, albeit one
which fell short of becoming a police incident, any Council employee
including managers such as Ms. Clark may legitimately offer no explanation
or apology and that is judged to be “appropriate”? Is it really acceptable
that any Council employee, especially one whose job is visiting vulnerable
people is so lacking in people skills that he/she cannot communicate with residents?
You ask what can be done to resolve this situation. It requires only that
Bexley Council accepts that it and its employees are subject to the law of
the land, in this case the Highways Act, instead of claiming otherwise, and
that the arrogance on display on 28th May is not appropriate behaviour in any circumstances.
regards,
18 August (Part 2) - Not a riot
I
should have been reducing the height of a Yew tree but instead found myself
watching yet another live-streamed protest. This time it was
held in Bournemouth where
Rent-A-Mob had gathered around the war memorial waving Palestinian flags
chanting River to the Sea, Nazi Scum and Refugees are Welcome Here. In reality,
shouting in favour of ever longer GP
queues and the grooming of young girls.
Across the road in the Town Hall car park was a smaller number of people with
Union and St. George’s flags who were much quieter. Between the two groups were
police from the Dorset, Hampshire, Thames Valley, Avon and Somerset and Devon
and Cornwall forces who didn’t have much to do. They asked Rent-A-Mob to remove
their masks but few did and they told off an old man who lived nearby who crossed the road.
Rent-A-Mob didn’t like being photographed and they had physically attacked the
cameraman the previous day in Piccadilly so he was naturally reluctant to get
too close. It is odd that they are so shy about being photographed if they truly
believe in what they are doing. Some say it is a paid mob which might explain things.
They have also learned to play unrelated popular songs very loudly to drown out
any YouTube commentary and sometimes trigger the YouTube copyright algorithm
which causes the stream to close down.
Over fewer than three hours all the patriots drifted away but
Rent-A-Mob remained which may confirm that they are paid by the hour.
Anyway, not a lot to report, to my mind the most interesting thing happened
later. A Muslim friend phoned and after we both condemned the rioting of a couple of weeks ago he told me
that all the protests such as today’s in Bournemouth were orchestrated from
overseas by Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage. As anyone who follows these things
will know, the two men don’t get along together. I have learned to keep
quiet and studiously avoid the J word but such misinformation among the Muslim community is worrying.
But who can blame them? The Daily Telegraph initially described the scene in
Bournemouth as “a riot” and so did an idiot Conservative MP. Specifically about
Bournemouth, “These rioters must be stamped out”.
He knows as much about what has been happening recently as I do about the Conservative’s Leadership Election. Absolutely nothing. They still deserve
annihilation.
18 August (Part 1) - Another dump dumped by a Housing Association
No sooner
was the Social Housing sell off updated and another one showed up. 60 Heath Road, Crayford.
It is a year since the first of these sales was noted and I am finding it
difficult to check on whether any are repeat auctions of any that were not sold
first time around. This one required a
careful check on Google Street View. It is time to generate
an Index to the Houses lost.
17 August - Pile ’em high; sell ’em cheap
One of
Labour’s pie in the sky plans is that they will build far more houses than the Conservatives ever did
and hope that nobody remembers the abysmal failure Sadiq Khan who has catastrophically missed his housing target in London.
It’s quite likely that Angela Rayner will not build quickly enough to even keep up with
the rate of sales by the Housing Associations. Here’s another unattractive bunch
being sold off at a relatively low price in and around Bexley.
Below is an updated list of properties which have been deemed to be almost
uninhabitable and beyond hope of easy maintenance
Bourne Mead, Bexley
Marden Crescent, Bexley
18 Pengarth Road, Bexley
34 Pengarth Road, Bexley
53 Pengarth Road, Bexley
? Pengarth Road, Bexley
44 Stansted Crescent, Bexley
Parkside Avenue, Bexleyheath
Burnham Road, Crayford
Crayford Road, Crayford
Dale End, Crayford
81 Heath Road, Crayford
235 Iron Mill Lane, Crayford
234 Maiden Lane, Crayford
? Maiden Lane, Crayford (Not 234)
4 Medway Road, Crayford
Russell Close, Crayford
Stour Road, Crayford
Jenningtree Road, Erith
Springhead Road, Erith
Ellenburgh Road, Sidcup
50 Mallard Walk, Sidcup
56 Maylands Drive, Sidcup (a flat)
Maylands Drive, Sidcup (semi-detached)
Partridge Road, Sidcup
30 St. Andrews Road, Sidcup
19 Berwick Road, Welling
18 Burnell Avenue, Welling
39 Burnell Avenue, Welling
79 Darenth Road, Welling
16 August - Anti-establishment rhetoric
In April 2011 a tyrannical Council Leader called in her friends in the police and asked them to find a way
to prevent me reporting on Council meetings in a less than flattering way.
Someone with half a brain may have decided a more sensible course would be to
call or write to me to ask why I did it.
The police duly obliged and threatened me with arrest if I continued to criticise Councillors.
With the help of my Labour MP - something that would be unimaginable today - the
police eventually wrote to me to apologise for acting outside the law on the
whim of an undemocratic Council Leader.
Today, under a Labour Government, a man charged with publishing
anti-establishment rhetoric and having no love for Muslims has been sent to jail for three years.
His first ever conviction.
The Labour Party under Starmer is a very different beast to that of 13 years ago.
14 August (Part 2) - Government Policy is criminal
Labour’s
Deputy Prime Minister told us just before the election that she
thought that every part of the Kingdom should take its fair share of asylum
seekers and I suppose that until a way is found to disincentivise their arrival it is a reasonable point of view.
Presumably it has now become Government Policy and it is OK to spread the Socialist Word.
But don’t be tempted to help Angela out.
In particular don’t compress her desires down to six little words, even 100%
polite little words, and post them twice alongside a photo of our new neighbours on a Facebook page.
That would be very silly indeed. Someone who did exactly that has been put
behind bars for twelve weeks, discounted to eight after pleading guilty and
deleting the comments. Backing or amplifying Government policy is now a criminal offence
if it can be contorted into a perceived negative.
In the run up to the election I knew that a Labour Government would cost us
a lot of money but consoled myself with the thought that it might be worth it if another generation learned that
Labour Governments are a very bad idea.
What I hadn’t bargained for is that anyone who speaks up in public or even
in private has to be watching their back in case an agent of the state is listening ready to pounce.
Why eight weeks for that?
In 2012 a Bexley Councillor accused his neighbour of encouraging all and sundry
to put dog faeces through his letter box. It wasn’t true and I still have a copy
of the ‘offending’ Tweet and the Councillor’s signed statement to the police.
Thanks to the perjury which comes easily to some people including police
officers the accused was found guilty and given 80
hours of community service. The conviction was overturned on appeal by which
time the community service had been served.
Eight weeks in jail for mischievously commenting on Government Policy, a bit of litter picking
for dog crap through a letter box. It doesnְ’t make sense.
I repeat; the whole case was built on a lie and was eventually thrown out on Appeal but
the legal costs were not reimbursed.
The Councillor still sits on Bexley Council.
Note: Screenshot from Daily Telegraph.
14 August (Part 1) - Back to basics
Bexley Council
has conducted a survey on introducing Controlled Parking Zones
which it hopes will improve the parking situation around Abbey Wood station.
Everyone I have spoken to is in favour so my guess is that in due course the
CPZs will be introduced. Unfortunately as proposed it will not completely solve the problems caused by inconsiderate parking.
LX24 NNU created considerable danger on the corner of Carrill Way and Abbey Road
today by parking on the corner. For more than an hour and probably longer.
The car displays a blue badge but that does not mean that the driver is not an entitled inconsiderate moron uninterested in anyone but himself, or herself.
The CPZ will not put an end to such stupidity.
The van YT69 VEF which belongs to Preservation Treatments 0800 980 4937 has
blocked the road to all but the smallest of vehicles since early this morning.
There is nothing in the CPZ proposals (although I have requested that there should be) to stop him doing that for at least part of the day
and at weekends in future.
Incidentally, I had passed the cyclist in Photo 2 just a few minutes earlier on
the Harrow Manorway flyover. He was wobbling along close to the middle of the road
with a phone in his hand and none on the handle bars causing me to drive on the
wrong side of the road to avoid splatting him. I am in awe of someone who can briefly do a wheelie
while watching his phone on a bike. And here he is in Abbey Road doing much the
same and entirely free of the fear of retribution.
13 August - It could get worse
As you might imagine I have become the pub bore, quite
literally, passing on my live viewing of the so called and actual riots from
Plymouth to Newcastle to people whose knowledge came only from the BBC and The
Daily Mail. I think their eyes were opened. None were aware that Islamists waving
machetes have become a protected species (the police in Stoke asked them to
kindly return their weapons to storage) or that the brain-dead love to destroy
their neighbours’ houses.
It was not a sample that would satisfy a polling company because none were
aged under 45 and males outnumbered females two to one. Three were former Union
officials - I didn’t learn until yesterday that I have a cousin who was a Union
Convener, whatever that may be. Two were immigrants albeit not recent ones and
two were off the scale Left wingers. The remainder were as far as I know
normal law-abiding people but I do not know any extreme right wingers or
hooligans to add balance to my informal survey.
The Left wingers absolutely believed that the disturbances were
orchestrated by Nigel Farage and Vladimir Putin via the medium of Facebook bots.
Full disclosure time: I do not know what they are or how they might influence
people like me who only very rarely uses Facebook. The Lefties absolutely
refused to countenance that a theme of an Antifa rally was cutting the throats
of those who do not share their opinions.
Despite that there was an element of agreement across the board. People are very
unhappy. Their principal reasons varied somewhat. Tony Blair started it. The
Tories were absolutely useless throughout their 14 years. Austerity. Higher than
ever taxation. Uncontrolled Immigration. Rising crime and two-tiered
policing. The housing crisis and the loss of basic Freedoms.
It really doesn’t matter what the root cause of the discontent is; it is
undeniably there and it has bubbled to the surface.
The new Government has taken sides by promoting Islam through two Prime
Ministerial speeches and a meeting with their leaders. Public servants have been
richly rewarded at the expense of other taxpayers, pensioners in particular. The
native population has been shoved further down the Social Housing waiting list
and tyrannical new rules have been introduced making it an imprisonable offence
to observe criminal acts and one man is already in jail courtesy of a Judge in Northern Ireland.
Free speech has been curtailed to the extent that the police here speak of
extraditing foreign citizens for calling our politicians scumbags.
In Australia, Canada, Continental Europe and the USA social commentators are
comparing Keir Starmer with Kim Jong Un and encouraging their millions of
followers never to set foot in the United Kingdom.
The long term affects on our economy are incalculable and no one who was unhappy
a month ago is happier now.
That is dangerous. A discontented population rose up and now it is even more
unhappy. What will they do next?
The only light relief I can offer is to look up Kier in a Farsi/Persian to English dictionary.
12 August - The Socialist revolution
When Labour was elected a mere five weeks ago I amused myself by creating
what was intended to be a new short term graphic for the site banner. My
Photoshop skills are basic but I managed to superimpose a nuclear explosion
above a London skyline and plonk Sir Keir over the lot of it.
Quite separately I decided to log the new Government’s decisions because it is
far too easy to forget what they are; in my case after just a few hours.
Using code that was new to me I created a two column format. The Bad on the left
and the Good on the right. This may have been a bad decision as the page is
already looking decided lopsided.
As you may have noticed the image of nuclear Armageddon has been retained and is
now linked (click on it) to the Government decisions page. Just look what that
20% of deluded voters has done to our once great country.
The EV charging point is fitted for my Pakistani Muslim
friend. It took five hours instead of the hoped for two, maybe we should not
have spent so much time setting the country to rights.
We agreed on the causes of the current disturbances and whether the right wing
is responsible for the rioting or whether it is just simple mindless thuggery.
The same on the subject of two-tier policing and
two-tier justice and if Sir Keir Starmer and his motley crew are doing a good job or done their best to make
the situation worse. And Nigel Farage over the past couple of weeks.
100% agreement on everything apart from the Jewish question which we skipped quickly over.
A new video showed up on YouTube yesterday showing the riot - there can be no
other word for it - in Middlesbrough last Sunday, it was the most shocking thing
I have ever seen on British soil. So were the potholes in residential roads. If
filled with water they might make pretty good garden ponds.
This was the riot in which a woman pushed a burning wheelie bin into a line of
policemen and has since been given 20 months inside. She was unlucky, not sure
that is the right word, because she tripped under the nose of the police and was
quickly nabbed. There were 50 of so doing much the same but they got away unless the
video identified them for picking up later. There were far more flinging bricks at the police
and they were very vulnerable. There may well have been 200 rioters with nothing but
violence on their minds in the middle of a major road junction (Photo 3) and only a dozen cops in a line.
What could happen does not bear thinking about.
But that was far from being the worst of it.
The video began with a large crowd, many hundreds, charging along what might
usually be a quiet residential street in a run down area of Middlesbrough. (Photo 1.)
(I suspect that the whole of Middlesbrough is run down.)
It was a typical poor old fashioned street with no front gardens; the doors
opened directly on to a narrow footpath with residents’ cars parked outside.
The mob, mainly men but some women and youngsters on bikes stampeded towards some unknown goal
clad in balaclavas and masks. As they passed front windows on both sides of the road, they were
caved in with hammers - Sidcup style. Others walked over the top of cars kicking in the windscreens. Two
(in a different street) were set on fire.
Two houses had their doors kicked in. Two men took flying leaps across the road
with their leg outstretched and the PVC doors disintegrated. A section of the mob invaded the homes.
What sort of dehumanized thug can destroy the lives and property of their fellow
citizens and neighbours? Nearly everyone who spoke on camera lived locally. There
was barely a brain cell between them.
The cameraman four times described it as a war zone and that he would never
return to Middlesbrough ever again. His judgment was right on both counts.
There was absolutely zero police officers in evidence
while homes and cars were destroyed so hundreds of people who
should be behind bars for a very long time will be free to do it all over again
while their innocent victims struggle to rebuild their lives and their finances.
One of the cars destroyed by fire was owned by a care worker who returned to
find he no longer had any way of doing his job. The cameraman was so moved that he started a GoFundMe and the care worker has a new vehicle, or will soon.
All absolutely horrifying. There were no chanting Antifa flag wavers
present and
only two bystanders wearing English flags.
When the cameraman returned to his own car in a car park 15 minutes away he found
that every single parked car had had its windscreen smashed. He had left
his girlfriend in his which was perhaps a stupid thing to do but fortuitously, because
it was occupied, the thugs left her and the car alone. She was terrified and hysterical as you might imagine.
Now that we live in police state Britain where innocent bystanding is an
imprisonable offence I don’t think I can provide you with a link. However in the
24 hours since I found the video 1,238,501 people have viewed it. Three times the circulation of the Daily Mail.
Do yourself a favour. Never go to Middlesbrough. Unlike other Northern cities
the architecture was crap even before the local Neanderthals let rip last Sunday.
10 August (Part 2) - Looking for Newcastle Brown shirts
The anti-hate cult was on the streets of Newcastle this morning looking for Brownshirts. Same old
amplified chants and new songs imported from Crawley. There were no Brownshirts in Newcastle.
Not even a Union flag to be seen however one of the cultist’s songs said that if they saw any they would ֹ“Fight
Fight Fight” them. That’s the Peace Lovers for you.
It seems to me that the anti-hate cult exists mainly
to spout hatred for anyone who might disagree with them but they stopped well short of
wishing folks’ throats
to be cut. Nevertheless I bet they convinced no one of the righteousness of their cause.
The police had a Section 60 Order in place so were randomly searching anyone
who wished to enter the main shopping district. Every single one of the cops interviewed was polite, helpful and civilised. That may be a first.
Many of them were from South Wales.
I must say these Northern towns have some beautiful architecture. If only we had the same ambitions
as the Victorians and Edwardians. What have we become?
Thankfully South East London remains calm. Keep it that way.
10 August (Part 1) - Creepy Crawley
On a sunny Friday afternoon about 250 Antifa activists
assembled in the car park of The Holiday Inn Express in Crawley. They did not
arrive in dribs and drabs as one might expect if they were local residents but
in several large groups which one might assume had walked from the nearby Three Bridges railway station.
Another well organised demo.
The cameraman,
the same one who covered Plymouth, arrived well before the start
and spoke to several police officers. None knew what they were expecting to see.
The Antifa mob had a wider repertoire of chants than I have
heard elsewhere, some
set to song. As well as the usual “Get the Fascists off our streets” and the
usual claim that the streets belonged to them, “Queers for Palestine” and
something about Transvestites could also be heard. It was very noisy and muting the TV sound was a temptation.
Then they spotted just one man standing close to the car park perimeter who was
wearing a Union Jack shirt. That was all they needed to turn ugly. As they moved
in on him the police walked over to provide protection.
Not quite enough of it. Banners were thrust in his face while the peaceful
decent folk (as described in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph)
shouted at him from point blank range. “There are more of us than you” was the
repeated chant. The police moved Jackman backwards for his own protection and he began to sing Rule
Britannia as loudly as he could. Brave, Foolhardy or Provocative? Your guess is as good as mine.
The mob rushed him and one woman broke through the police line to assault him.
The police dragged her away but in what you may consider to be a fine display of two-tier policing she was
back again within seconds to do it again. No arrest. The cameraman withdrew for
his own safety and the man in the Union flag was not seen again.
The mob didn’t like being video’d. They came after the cameraman in balaclavas
and masks. Overall, the proportion with their faces obscured must have been around half.
Covid must be running riot in Crawley.
At first they poked the cameraman with an umbrella and then blocked his view with backpacks and cardboard banners. Eventually
they produced an enormous cloth banner and attempted to cover him in it so that nothing could be filmed.
The banner said ‘Fascists Get in the Sea’. Not sure why, if
anyone needs a good wash it is probably not the so called Fascists.
I thought the idea of the Antifa protest was for as many people as possible to see and support their actions but perhaps like
their counterparts in North Finchley
they had little idea of why they were there.
Half a dozen policemen stood idly by doing nothing about very obvious
harassment. When the threats to the cameraman rose to the next level just one
police officer (Photo 2) offered to escort him to a safer place but the balaclava men
merely followed with their banner so the cameraman had little option but to cease
filming for a while and presumably beat a hasty retreat.
These are the good people remember, they are constantly telling
us that they are. For the record one of the threatening gang came forward and
tried to reason with everyone, but it was one lone voice within an unruly mob.
When filming resumed I saw two men, seventyish I would guess, with a ring of
police officers around them being walked towards some police vans. There was
some comment that they may have been arrested but as they were not handcuffed it
was probably for protection from the surrounding mob. They had arrived on bicycles and the
police carefully collected them and put them in another van.
One might guess that if the pair had been arrested the police may not have exercised such care.
As far as I could tell, no one parading signs saying Immigrants Welcome Here
knocked on the hotel door and offered to take one home.
Elsewhere it is said that observers of a riot will be deemed to be just as
guilty as those participating in it. Journalists everywhere must be in danger and
what about those living in a riot struck street who happen
to look out of their window at the wrong time?
The EV charger installation job has been deferred until tomorrow.
9 August - A divided nation. Divided friends
This
is not quite what I had planned for today. I woke up this morning to a speech
radio interview with someone very much in favour of what was said in Walthamstow
on Wednesday evening. That is the Anifa protest which led to
the Dartford Councillor
today being charged with Encouraging Violent Disorder and remanded in custody until 6th September.
The man insisted that there were no abusive chants or Palestinian flags at that
protest so the radio presenter played him the relevant clip. He still denied it.
Everyone but him was liar and eventually the presenter cut him off. A moment or
two later it was announced that the Left wing reality denier swore at the
producer and was banned from being on the station in future.
The Daily Telegraph published a reader’s letter which described such people as
“brave and decent” and another that said they were “peaceful”. Well in as much they did not vandalise property I suppose they were.
The Mail on-line told lies about the event which is not exactly newsworthy but I began to wonder
if I was alone in thinking the people of Walthamstowe were deranged. Is it just
my Rightist views which lead to that conclusion?
This morning I showed all 30 minutes of the video to a friend who leans slightly to the right
and my view of events was confirmed. “They are mentally ill.”
Then this afternoon I was with another friend who leans a long way to the Left. I was lectured on how Tommy Robinson
and Nigel Farage had whipped up the weekend disturbances and how Antifa and
their Nazi Scum message was entirely reasonable. The only thing we could agree
on was that the brick throwing, police punching arsonists should be severely punished.
“Have you seen what happened in Walthamstow?” No. “I can show you the video.” I will not waste my time looking at it.
So the Left are not interested in the truth. They have their views and they are
not interested in anything else. I expect they are saying the same about me
despite looking at both sides in ten or a dozen cities.
I was then lectured on how important its is that Twitter/X is closed down and how the Prime Minister has massively increased
his popularity in recent days. It tells you all you need to know about the Left.
The video of the Dartford Councillor that you will likely have seen on your
televisions was taken from the original YouTube channel which as of this
afternoon has been viewed fewer than 600 times. The extract has been seen millions of times.
Normally I would provide a link to the original 30 minutes of footage so that
you can judge whether the Left is deranged or not but now
that we live in a quasi-police state I am reluctant to do so. Fortunately you
can see where to look on YouTube because the channel name is burned into the video.
Tomorrow I will be with a Muslim friend to help him install an EV charger
outside his garage. I shall be very careful not to mention current (pun unintended) events.
All of these pictures were from the first minute of the video.
As you can see the numbers were absolutely massive extending down four major roads. Maybe
those at the back had no idea of what was being said in their name at the front.
I think it is appropriate that this evenings film viewing should be 1776. (The American Revolution.) An
American disc I imported a couple of months ago but never got around to watching.
8 August (Part 2) - Make them famous
Last
night’s film was comic book violence well beyond what I have seen in the past
week, but what about next? The film revelled in exactly the sort of blood letting that Antifa was advocating in
Walthamstow, but portrayed in graphic detail.
For the record only the central character shown here is relevant to the
following text but I wanted to show how quickly Dartford Council has removed the
party affiliation of one of their Councillors from their website.
I watched events in Southampton live yesterday evening. Very weird. There was a
huge crowd of Antifa, LBGTQ etc. supporters and Palestinian flag wavers marching under police direction
along a footpath on a wide road into a park. My first guess was that there might
be 2,000 of them; maybe an overestimate but there was a huge number. Far more than just a few hundred.
On the other side of the road was a relatively small number of bemused
bystanders and walkers. The police in evidence were perfectly friendly and
chatty. Nobody had banners or flags. The spectators just happened to be there and decided to watch.
The road was wide and the cameraman unadventurous so that it was hard to
hear exactly what the Antifa chants were. I think it was mainly “Get those fascists off our streets”.
Very few of them ventured across the road but one female thought it appropriate
to get half way across and make sexually provocative gestures.
What is noticeable about the Antifa groups is that they are well organised;
exactly the same posters and banners everywhere and the same puerile chants.
In North Finchley (London) things were much the same. A large Antifa group on
one side of the road and some bystanders opposite. There was one man
draped in as St. George flag and he was unnecessarily aggressive towards the cameraman.
The cameraman acted dumb and asked the police where the Far Right group was but
they didn’t know. (Some refused to answer.)
The man crossed the road to ask Antifa where the Far Right were and they didn’t
know either. He then proceeded to ask three Anifa men and a similar number of
women why they were there. None of them knew. They were asked if they were in
favour of unlimited immigration or not. None of them knew. Two of the men
assaulted the cameraman, not very seriously but it shows what sort of people they are.
Probably they did not know that the cameraman has 2·54 million subscribers to
his YouTube channel so their faces will soon be well known across the world.
In Walthamstow outside a pub where I drank a pint only a few weeks ago there
were thousands of people stretching into the distance on all four roads of
the major crossroads outside Walthamstow Central station.
Not to put too fine upon it their leaders were mentally insane.
It was a constant amplified F*** Farage, F*** Braverman, and so on down a long list of political personalities.
They were wanting to F** all the ‘racists’ and cut a few throats if necessary. The Communist Revolutionary Party representatives and their Amnesty
International counterparts cheered the idea to the rafters.
There were Palestinian (“Free Free Palestine” etc.) and Bangladeshi interludes but the overall message, clearly stated,
was that the streets were theirs. The Police, the Council, the MP and racists
(white people presumably) were not in control of the country, they were. It belongs to them.
This is seriously depressing and frightening stuff. How can so many
people be so full of hate? Thousands of them intent on violence. No police made
a video appearance in Walthamstow, neither were there any normal people in evidence.
I have taken the precaution of putting the local source of similar sentiments on my
email Blacklist. The only address on it but I could really do without being drawn into more of their insanity.
Well done everyone for keeping well away from these demos although there is a
Section 35 Dispersal Order in force at present to within a few feet of my house. Feral youths apparently. All power to Bexley police for keeping on top of it.
8 August (Part 1) - A bit of a dick
It
may be time to ease off on the protest reports if for no other reason than
everyone interested will have been watching the videos for themselves by now.
On the other hand, with Bexley Council in recess until October, local news is down at the trivial level.
Here are two examples
Escorting a lady with a blue badge to a medical appointment in Bexleyheath this
morning, there was nowhere nearby to park her car.
Well there was but Bexley Council had in effect taken two bays out of service.
They were marked ELECTRIC VEHICLES ONLY but there was no charger and no sign on
a pole. So could we park there or not? (We were not using my EV.)
We didn’t take a chance and instead parked on a single yellow line
(with blue badge) 200 yards
further away leading to a difficult and painful walk.
Thanks Bexley Council.
I had accumulated a lot of cardboard. Three big boxes and five or six smaller
ones. I took them, flattened, to the nearby recycling bins, lifted the broken lid and tossed
the boxes into an otherwise empty bin. Later in the day I collected some empty
envelopes and took them across the road too. When I opened the lid I saw that
someone had dumped plastic bottles on top of my cardboard.
Then I realised what had happened. Both paper and plastics bins have broken lids
so that they are both easily lifted for easy access and effectively identical. Country Style in their infinite wisdom
had swapped their positions around. Out of habit I had dumped a great deal of cardboard in the wrong bin.
Being more responsible than some I had to return home for a step ladder so that
I could climb inside the bin and remedy my mistake. Or was it Country Style’s mistake?
Both of these issues are Cabinet Member Richard Diment’s responsibility,
a man who is proving to be a big disappointment. I doubt he will be getting such
a good press around these parts in future. You may wish to make allowances if
his name crops up when Council meeting reports resume.
7 August (Part 4) - Eggs and a beating
Further and much longer video from Lancaster
confirms what was said earlier; nothing much went on. Shouting Lefties alongside
family groups. The police were wandering around town in pairs in a way which
used to be common in every shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon and the
streets were not especially crowded. A man was
delivering a speech from the sidelines about the state of the country and the
police didn’t like it but they were persuaded by bystanders that he was
absolutely peaceful and merely stating facts. They shuffled off. The good thing
was that a police presence was deterring shop lifters at least one of whom was apprehended.
Stoke
Later video showed that after
the armed Muslims frightened the locals away, the
police managed to contain them and observe their retreat to the safety of their Mosque.
I don’t think any of them will be heading to jail.
Preston
There were not huge numbers of people in the town square, it was never crowded
and maybe there were 200 in total if you count everyone on the periphery.
Antifa had gathered somewhere near the middle of the square with families
gathered all around them. They must have felt safe enough or they would not have
stood in such a vulnerable position. There was no exceptional police presence and certainly not in riot gear.
Antifa felt obliged to resort to their standard taunts and before long two or
three lads in hoodies who had climbed the main feature of the square, some sort
of obelisk, threw eggs at them. Three according to the commentary; one
landed harmlessly close to the cameraman.
The police who were not especially close made a move towards
the obelisk and the
culprits and everyone else nearby did a runner into the shopping street. The
police couldn’t catch them so instead they brought down an enormous fat lady.
Wrestled to the ground and her double chins pushed into the pavement by about
five police officers with another half dozen or so surrounding them.
The woman was so fat that her arms could not hang by her side and there was no
way she could swing them around her ample bosom. I doubt she could throw an egg
across her kitchen, let alone half way across the town square.
But the police had claimed their prize.
Shoppers and protesters if there were any made their opinion clear but the
police threw their victim into the back of a van. The video ended there.
Plymouth
Devon
may have seen more mindless violence than anywhere else. Different to Rotherham
and Liverpool where there was arson but the confrontations with the police were a good deal worse.
Mr. Bird showed a brief video of peaceful flag waving and marching but elsewhere
or later it was very different.
The setting was outside a lovely old church alongside a dual carriageway with a
very substantial central reservation. Continuous Iron railing close to four feet high.
On the church side of the road was a large Antifa group doing what Antifa does.
In front of them was a long line of riot clad police, helmets, shields the lot.
Beyond the central barrier stood the opposing crowd. Very few mothers with
children but quite a lot of young women, possibly only teenagers and quite a lot
of ‘hard men’. Not all of them, some were pretty ancient and unsteady on their feet.
Mingling with the riot police were several officers liaising with the Antifa
people and handing them notes. It was all very odd and gave credence to rumours
that Antifa may include Government agents. It was also notable that Police Liaison
Officers were videoing the protestors but not Antifa. Two tiered policing?
The stand off was menacing and the riot police decided that it was a good idea
to jump the central barrier and confront the aggressors more directly. It turned the dual
carriageway into a duel carriageway.
Missiles began to come over from the Antifa side but whether they were responsible for them or interlopers had squeezed behind their
ranks is impossible to say. Whatever the case the church precinct had been transformed into a battle ground.
There were numerous acts of madness, generally by the same people over and over
again. Their friends sometimes tried to drag them away but they seemed to be intent on getting a prison sentence.
One man in a pink shirt was well past his sell by date but he repeatedly
confronted the police at very close quarters. One officer not unreasonably
barged him with his shield and the old man rolled over backwards.
Meanwhile younger fighters brought a policeman who looked to be well past
retirement age to the ground and several police and hooligans grappled on the
floor before running away. There may have been an arrest.
Young women thought it was fun to open police vehicle doors, riot vans too. Why
was access to the prisoner cages open to all?
Antifa seemed to have disappeared and the battle became very much thugs versus
police with the occasional thrown firework. The police looked to be losing the
plot or the battle or both and just as I was thinking why don’t they retreat for
their own safety and leave the rioters with no one to fight, they did exactly
that. A long snake of police officers disappeared into the distance.
And the riot was over. There was no one left to fight.
That’s it for today. Tired of reporting
violence I will be looking for light relief in a new 4k disc
of a film called ‘Boy Kills World’ and turn the Atmos up loud. I am sure it
must be a peaceful story of misunderstood youth.
It is said that there will be disturbances in London this evening. Stay at home
or be very careful. I don’t want to see Bexleyheath making headlines here.
7 August (Part 3) - The Left strikes back
There have been a few Thank Yous for the reports on the
weekend disturbances, but no comment on the rights and wrongs of the situation.
Until this morning that is when a well known Labour activist objected to
my coverage of Lancaster.
I thought it was a bit odd to dispute what I had said because it was supported by the accompanying video.
Part of your latest article said “the Antifa crowd being far larger than the
pro-children contingent who probably didn’t reach 25.”
Seriously, how many “pro children” people do you know that go rampaging thru
the streets and create violence and mayhem? Stirred up by Yaxley Lennon and Farage.
If there was a larger crowd outside suddenly appearing opposing your so
called “pro children” thugs have you ever thought that they were opposed to
the violence that has suddenly exploded across the country? You do know
Antifa is short for “Anti Fascist”?
If my correspondent had bothered to look at the video he
would have seen around a dozen people sitting on the steps of a large statue
of Queen Victoria, a couple on the bench behind and five people in the
foreground either standing chatting or walking by. Twentyish people, as far as I
could see, were standing by the entrance to the square. Two were police officers
and the others were mums with tiny babies, old ladies with shopping bags,
several old men all with their hands in their pockets, a young couple cuddling
up on a bench and a young fellow talking on his mobile phone.
Why does my correspondent call them “pro-children thugs?” Nearer the police line
is a couple of middle aged ladies, one with a microphone and a similarly aged
bearded man wearing camouflage trousers. OK, the total number may have been 45
rather than 25 but they are quiet while 150 plus Antifa members were making a
lot of noise on the Town Hall steps opposite.
I don’t know what Nigel Farage has been up to
recently but I might guess he would be arrested if he was stirring up
violence but I know that Tommy Robinson - you always
know when someone is trying to be insulting when they call him Yaxley Lennon -
has called many times for peace and calm; from his sun lounge in Cyprus and beforehand.
Your language may appear moderate but it is certainly slanted in favour of
the violent thuggery that we are all witnessing and is certainly not “pro-children” I am not sure how many children would be happy to be amongst that
or near to the violence and mayhem.
That is so utterly ridiculous. Lancaster was entirely peaceful and the babies were not involved in “violence
and mayhem”. Apparently I am “in favour of violent thuggery”. Wow! Where do such people come
from? I have acknowledged many times over recent days that there has been thuggery
and nowhere has it been encouraged or in any way lauded but it cannot be
denied that the chants coming from one side have been ‘Save our Children’
and similar while the Communist flag waving Antifa people restrict themselves to “Nazi Scum”.
I was marching last Saturday amongst 150,000 people calling for a Ceasefire
in Gaza. No violence, no problems just simple peaceful protest, a UK
tradition for effecting change. We will achieve our objectives and all of
the marches over the last 9 months have been huge and peaceful. It is only
your right wing supposedly “pro children” peeps that seem to perpetrate violence.
There is also an interesting take in this article that states a valid question
jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk
I do seriously think you need to write a first draft and re think it not
just post it straight off. Suggesting that only one side is “pro children”
whilst committing their thuggery and violence and the others protesting this
violence are by implication somehow “anti children” is bordering on bonkers !!
As I said before, how is it that not especially well dressed people people
who appear to be from the working class backbone of this country are
right wingers in Northern towns that have always been Labour controlled?
Doesn’t make sense. Why were Antifa out in force in Lancaster at all if it was not
to shout down maybe 50 people with babies?
What will Antifa man have to say when he sees how I report Plymouth later on
today? Maybe I should simply put the Labour activist on my email Blacklist if
saying I am in favour of thuggery is the best he can do.
7 August (Part 2) - The Government controls the media
I
have to be rather vague with this one, there are confidences to be protected.
My radio has five station Preset buttons on its front panel. I think it has 30 on each
band if I use the remote control but I can be a bit old fashioned and the remote is just too much bother.
The five are set - in alphabetical order - to GB News, LBC London, LBC National,
Talk Radio and Times Radio. I am not a news junkie really; well not all of the time anyway!
When I lived in Hampshire and liked to make my own FM radios I tuned into the
London Broadcasting Company’s first programme in October 1973, broadcasting from their feeble transmitter in, well
I have forgotten, Croydon probably, with studios in a back alley off Fleet
Street. It was Britain’s first commercial radio station.
But I digress again.
Yesterday I was listening to one of those stations and they brought on an expert
to discuss what I will calls riots, if for no other reason than it is an easy
shorthand. The expert was going on and on only about right wing thugs and looters
beating up the police etc. which is true up to a point, but it is far from
being the whole story.
The radio presenter went along with it pushing out the same agenda. I was
thinking, has this expert not watched any of the live streams and I am afraid the
words “utter bollox” may have passed my lips.
As you may have read
I had to visit my daughter yesterday. Who else can
cultivate a computer that cannot do Control A, or C or V and loses the ability
to drag and drop files from one hard drive folder to another hard drive? (Windows 11
on a six month old hugely powerful PC.)
Sometimes it would drag and drop but mainly it didn’t. The pattern appeared to be that it
would copy across a folder if there were no sub-folders inside it - Russian Dolls as my daughter calls them.
Anyway enough of that; I mentioned the man who was spewing biased half truths on
one of the above named radio stations. She knew him, has interviewed him etc.
and filled me in on just one or two details. Only a discreet sentence or two but enough
to make me better understand why I had heard what I did and why there was no
kickback from the presenter, only encouragement of a jaundiced view.
You will have to guess what it was all about based on the associated X post.
7 August (Part 1) - Two Tier policing. It’s obvious innit?
It is only nine days since I was bemoaning the fact that there are no Council meetings until October and filling the gap here on BiB would not be easy. And then
along came Kier Starmer to divide the nation with his comments
about the priority being to protect Mosques and Muslims and not a word about
murdered and groomed children, raped women and machete wielding gangs on our
streets. Then, when that went down like a lead balloon, he doubled down on it next day
He is also on the record as saying there is no two-tier policing when the
evidence is there before our eyes. After a night of mayhem in Birmingham when
followers of the Religion of Peace were driving cars around a roundabout like
lunatics, seeking out cars that might contain white people while armed with
knives the local police Superintendent has done a TV interview to explain that
he had spoken to the criminals beforehand and they had asked him not to police their activities.
Can you even get your head around the intelligence, or the lack thereof, of a
senior police officer who thinks it is normal to ask permission to patrol the
streets, to the extent he happily advertises Two Tier policing and attempts to defend it.
Are they under Government direction? Presumably not as Kier says it just doesn’t happen. We know it does.
A pub hosting a Karaoke night was attacked and had to barricade its doors and a
man was beaten up and hospitalised with bruises and a torn liver. He has been on
the radio this morning saying he had earlier called the police to ask them to
come out but despite the police station being only two minutes away they stayed away.
My near 24 hours of YouTube watching has shown clear cut Two Tier policing in
Liverpool, Stoke, Bristol, Lancaster, Preston and Plymouth; the latter three not yet reported.
The video shown here is from Lancaster. The full length video
- and the beginning of this extract - shows the Antifa
crowd being far larger than the pro-children contingent who probably didn’t
reach 25. This two minute extract is well worth listening to - unless perhaps you
believe in chanting Nazi Scum at mothers and children.
An alternative view of
Rotherham confirmed the unforgiveable attack on the
immigrant hotel but also provided a clear view of the police response. Nothing!
The police, ten or a dozen of them, stood in a line backs to the hotel wall with
their shields in front of them. Just standing there doing nothing while attacked
with bricks, assorted furniture and fie extinguishers. One lone female did her
job by confronting a rioter; the remainder might as well have not been there.
A drone view of the
tooled up Muslims in Stoke who eventually ran the locals out of town with a
knife charge shows the police - depending on the viewpoint - outnumbered by
between two and six to one. Unarmed police against machetes and swords can do
little more than stand and watch and politely request that the criminals put
their weapons back onto storage. Which is what the police did. Pathetic.
At least London has been on its best behaviour. Keep it that way.
Note: I have noticed that some of the YouTube videos need a
Page Refresh or two before they appear.
6 August - Don’t rise to the bait
You may be pleased to know that there
will be no riotous reports today and you have my daughter to thank for that.
A journalist who mainly works from home requires a time consuming, but hopefully not difficult,
modification to her PC. As you may imagine she is a bit busy this
week and the bosses are demanding twice the usual weekly output. Dad to the rescue!
With any luck London will be peaceful unlike Birmingham
and Plymouth last night. Please do us
all a favour if you are even slightly inclined to join in ‘the funְ’. It is not
fun and the police
have more than enough to do without you adding to their problems; what might
happen politically will not be changed by Bexley people sticking their oar in. Best to sit at home. Maybe watch events on YouTube.
Meanwhile our Labour politicians have put out a statement. I offer no comment
except that I think they may have opened their eyes a bit wider. Sod all from
the Conservatives which is only to be expected.
For your convenience
the Labour Press Release (PDF) is reproduced below as well as in the usual place
- the Labour PR Archive.
Bexley Labour Group stand united against racism.
5th August 2024
Bexley Labour Councillors stand united with all communities across the
country who have faced the appalling racism, Islamophobia and rioting we
have seen in recent days.
There is no excuse for any of this thuggery which has been fuelled by the
far right with their divisive agenda and misinformation spread on social
media platforms, instead local communities have to clear up the mess and
have made it clear this behaviour is not reflective of the inclusive nature
of these communities affected over the last week
In Bexley, as a Labour Group we have been liaising with Senior council
officers, senior police officers and local community and religious
organisations to monitor community cohesion.
Cllr. Zainab Asunramu Deputy Labour of Bexley Labour Group said:
“I am devastated about the violence and disturbances we have seen across
the country; we have seen people of diverse backgrounds and faiths being the
target of hateful rhetoric, Islamophobia, violent attacks and verbal assaults.
As Cllrs we must lead by setting a good example for a more inclusive and
tolerant society, that is why I am disappointed that at the recent Council
meeting the Conservative members of the Council could not agree unanimously
to the motion proposed by Cllr. Ogundayo on fighting racism and celebrating
cultural diversity. We believe that this would have sent a clear message of
the council united against those who seek to divide us”
At the recent July council group we were disappointed that the Conservative
Council could not support the motion below and instead decided to amend it
to suit their agenda, rather than showing cross party unity on a
particularly important issue.
Cllr. Stefano Borella, Leader of Bexley Labour Group.
“I fully support the measures taken by the Prime Minister and the Home
Secretary to support the police and the court system to deal with those
involved with this disgraceful behaviour, to feel the full force of the law
and are brought to justice”
As local Councillors we will be working with our Members of Parliament,
including Abena Oppong Asare MP for Erith and Thamesmead and Daniel Francis
MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford to support the communities we represent and
fighting the scourge of racism across Bexley.
All hate crime should be reported directly to the police for response. This
should be done by calling 999 in an emergency or otherwise by calling 101,
visiting a police station or reporting online to the Met’s dedicated
platform, True Vision: www.report-it.org.uk.
Residents can seek support from the London Victim and Witness Services if
they are a victim or witness of hate crime by calling 0808 168 9291. There
are also specific services for anti-Muslim hate: Tell MAMA,0800 456 1226;
and for racist hate: The Monitoring Group, 020 7582 7438. More info:www.bexley.gov.uk/hate-crime
The linked Press Release also contains a copy of the Labour Group’s recent ‘Racism’ Motion.
5 August - Protests, riots and thuggery
It may be a sign of impending madness but I watched
eight more hours of streamed video of the protests yesterday. I think the most
important observation may be that the days of blogs like this one are over. An hour long
YouTube video can get 15,000 views within an hour and pushing half a million
within 24 hours. I would be overjoyed if this was read by 2,000 people over a month.
I must consider whether it is worth carrying on while being in awe of the data
shifting power required to make YouTube happen.
One of the things missing from yesterday’s reports is that the
anti-knife
protestors were campaigning under the umbrella title of ‘Enough is Enough’. Their
favourite chants were ‘We Want Our Country Back’, ‘Save Our Kids’ and ‘Stop the Boats’. The opposing
side at their worst were calling out Allahu Akbar.
I woke up this morning to my newspaper headline ‘Far Right clash with Muslims in
riotingְ’. If it wasn’t for the fact that they stopped charging for my Telegraph on-line
subscription I would be thinking of giving it up. That is not a balanced headline,
definitely there was some rioting but in 17 hours of video, and I looked at
more this morning, only the Muslims arrived tooled up and given police protection.
As for Far Right; the thugs I saw, and there were some, by appearance and
location (Northern cities) one would guess they have all voted Labour for ever.
How else have Northern Cities been Labour Controlled since time began? How are their residents suddenly into Far Right politics?
So an update on what has gone before.
Blackpool
Yesterday’s report was based on an edited video, I have since watched the live
feed. It was Blackpool’s ‘Rebellion Weekend’ whatever that may be and there was
a whole load of men, mainly old enough to know better, dressed in what in my day
we called Punk gear. Mohican haircuts and some more spectacular, that sort of thing.
A smaller number of females too.
They were hugely outnumbered by more ordinary looking people, mainly couples of all ages,
some with children plus a reasonable number of people who one might judge to be more
of a threat. Tattoos and T-shirts, some bare chests. Nothing really out of the
ordinary on a very hot day but people who looked as if they could handle themselves.
The police were surrounding the seafront Metropole Hotel which was said to house
immigrants. They didn’t otherwise have much to do, why would they? If I didn’t
know better I might think it was just a normal Saturday afternoon on the Blackpool seafront.
Later on the Punks decided they were on the side of the immigrants and said as much, it
didn’t take long for a brawl to break out. Someone aimed a can of drink at a
line of Punks and many more followed. Then there were chairs until five minutes
later the police arrived on horseback.
Some sort of order was restored but tensions had been raised. To keep the two
factions apart the police decided it was a good idea to unleash their dogs on
men, women and children. I saw one man go down, I think the women and children got away.
The police had successfully roused the more foolish members of the public to brick
throwing at their vehicles. They withdrew them. A small number of Punks intent on
taunting the masses had to be rescued outside a seafront shop by the police.
A policeman returned to his car to find the windscreen caved in.
Meanwhile the police protecting the immigrant hotel ran en-mass
to the nearby North Pier and encircled whoever it was who had
upset them. There must have been 70 police in a neat circle around their
intended victims. The circle contracted to entrap the target of police attention
which must have traumatised the women and children caught up in it. Another
generation that may go on to hate the police for their entire life. At least I
was able to enjoy 50 years before my eyes were opened. Poor kids.
The immigrants were not at any time shown to be in the streets at all.
Maybe the police cordon wouldn’t let them out but a wise move either way.
Liverpool
The cameraman I followed in Liverpool went home
quite early to protect his own safety. I found a braver soul. His video started
with the regular Save Our Kids chant and women with placards gathered around a
War Memorial saying the same. For no obvious reason the police thought it was
appropriate to search ladies’ shopping bags and handbags. Their antagonising skill knows few bounds.
A man holding a Crucifix aloft paraded solemnly by.
The commentator said that things took a turn for the worse when Antifa supporters were bussed in from
Manchester. I saw no evidence of buses but the anti-British
contingent had become quite a lot bigger, bolder and gone well beyond their
Communist flag waving activities - although the Hammer and Sickle was still in
evidence. While waving their own flags they aimed
insults and V signs at the women pleading for the lives of children. Why is the
Left so hateful? Elderly women included.
A lady, well not really a lady, probably as old as me, was waving a banner
complaining about pensioners being robbed by Rachel Reeves which might be
amusing if the lack of education was not so sad. However she still had a good
pair of lungs on her because “Nazi Scum” spewed from her mouth more loudly than anyone elses.
Some of the child loving women were “shithouse cunts”. What sort of people have we bred?
The police did a reasonable job of separating the two lines until they decided
that women and men with Union flags in favour of protecting their children were an
easier target than thugs. So they charged at them with dogs. They have the Two
Tier reputation to maintain.
From there on in the distinction between good and bad disappeared with fights
breaking out and as darkness fell large wheeled refuse bins were set on fire and
used as mobile weapons. One shop at least was looted, it was owned by an
immigrant family and totally wrecked. A children’s library was burned out.
By morning a small shopping street was in a bad shape with nearly every shutter
damaged to some extent. A car charger was on its side and innumerable wheeled
bins were burned out with the road surface melted. Yes a riot and yes mindless destruction.
Shopkeepers aside, possibly, no obvious immigrants involved, just Antifa people
hell bent on destruction meeting their opposite number allegedly protesting
knife-crime. The families including women and children appeared to have had the good
sense to buzz off home. Mindless destruction. It is not the way forward.
The above is sourced from three different videos.
Manchester
Liverpool was portrayed as a beautiful city and so was Manchester.
Yesterday’s videographer left because it was
quiet. She was in the wrong place.
The crowd was enormous but good natured for the most part. Families with the
occasional chant of Save Our Kids and placards bearing similar messages. Unlike
in Blackpool and Liverpool the Muslims were being provocative. The police were
hopelessly outnumbered but on the other hand most protestors were there to be respectful.
The Antifa crowd was tiny compared to the Save Our Kids protesters, chanting
about Nazis obviously, with a handful of them hiding their faces behind the black
and white checked tea towels one sees on the pro-Palestine marches.
The Muslims were openly taunting the British. Two brave or foolhardy women in
Burqas baited the British mothers saying they could go wherever they wanted which whilst correct may not have been the most sensible thing to say. Two of
their menfolk dragged them away. In a near identical incident one Burqa woman
singled out a white woman who tried to persuade her to get away from potential
danger and failed. Two police officers made her see sense. They frog marched her away.
Various dark skinned men taunted the crowd and one was chased into the park by
half a dozen men and later plenty more. He was quick on his feet and received
only a minor duffing up. The police were nowhere to be seen, at least not for about three minutes.
I felt a bit sorry for the police at this stage, because control was slipping
away and there was such a large area to cover and they did not appear to be particularly
well organised at times. If they were scared it would be natural, they were hemmed in.
Fortunately the white men did not see them as the enemy except to call out
two-tiered policing, that was
reserved for the balaclava clad Muslim gangs - quite a lot of small ones - rushing into the crowd armed with large planks of wood.
To their credit the police managed to round them up and disperse them to where I
do not know. This allowed the formal march to begin. It was more a case of the
police marching in the road and the protestors following on the footpath. A gang
of youths went into Sainsbury’s and came out without paying. In and out with
large handfuls of stuff in seconds being the clue.
Outside the Art Gallery the police decided on “a Containment” or kettling in
street language. It was not well enforced and quite a lot of people were let out
and the police could be heard arguing on whether it was a Containment or not.
The cameraman got away.
Just outside the kettled area an old man in the middle of the road on a mobility
scooter was for some unfathomable reason carrying a football. Maybe he had
bought it for a grandchild, Who knows? Inevitably it was kicked skywards and the
police were not happy at the distraction. The old man gave them a bit of lip so
the police officer snatched his bottle of drink and threw it onto the footpath.
Following that the old man came out with his worst word yet. “Knobhead.”
Presumably the officer is competing with Mark Rowley in the petulism stakes. Do
we really have no adults left in our police forces?
Bristol
The Bristol protest covered a huge area and may even have been among the largest
in terms of numbers. Men women and children were shoulder to shoulder. The usual
stuff. Protesters Saving Our Kids and Antifa shouting abuse and separated by the
police who were accused of being two-tiered again. Fewer flags and placards than
usual making it harder to differentiate sides. However my cameraman didn’t capture any big incidents.
However another one did. There was a stand off on a bridge over a river. About 50
men fronted by four women who were singing the National Anthem and Rule
Britannia and chanting We want Our Country Back and Save our Kids. Some calmer
people were urging them to back off.
For some reason the police didn’t like it and they lined up against them with
batons drawn and to be fair the songs did come across as somewhat aggressive. A
few missiles came from the back of the crowd. It was likely that given time the
King’s Choir would get fed up with it and go away but the police were less than patient.
They charged with their batons and let the dogs do their business. And now we
have another bunch of protesters determined to see the police as their enemy.
Maybe they already did but their ire should be reserved for the politicians that
have brought us to this sorry state.
Rotherham
Rotherham, or at least what I saw of it, was unmitigated hooliganism. True the
town has seen the worst of the grooming gangs covered up until recently by
Labour politicians and the police and they have every right to be angry. However
all I saw was a mob attacking an immigrant hotel. Bricks thrown, windows
smashed, a small fire started and a few mobsters gaining entry. However contrary
to reports, I saw no sign that the building was occupied. There were no faces at
the windows and no one trying to get out and away from danger. I may be wrong,
but there were no immigrants in evidence.
The police were not especially active when they had every excuse to be so.
Prime Minister’s statement
During yesterday afternoon Two Tier Keir decided it was time to pour petrol on
the fire. He is going to make sure all Mosques are protected 24/7. The places
we now know are used to store lethal weapons. I used to think Rishi Sunak had no
political antennae; but Starmer! How useless can one man be? He is stoking up trouble.
Today he is vehemently denying two-tiered policing
exists when it is obvious for all to
see. How long will he last? Not long I hope.
4 August (Part 3) - Stabbing, Starmer and Stoke
I found a much better view of the
stabbing and Muslim
knife crime in Stoke. A large number of Muslims streamed out of their Mosque and
headed for a major road junction nearby. The police were advised that a group of
knifemen were heading their way but they did nothing but stand and watch. As a result two men - not one as reported earlier - received head wounds and their
assailants were allowed to retreat to the Mosque unmolested. Unbelievable!
Four men returned - not two as reported earlier - brandishing
knives. They were pepper sprayed to subdue them but yet more Muslims provided
water to wash their eyes. They then all returned to the Mosque passing within a
single carriageway width of half a dozen police who in effect escorted
them back to the safety of the Mosque, knives and all.
A white man crossed the road to ask the police what the Hell they were playing at and he was immediately arrested for Aggravated Public Order and
bundled into the back of a van.
Clearly the Prime Minister’s order that Muslims are to be given special
protection reached Stoke very quickly.
I doubt you will find this published in any major news outlet but it may be seen on more than one YouTube channel.
4 August (Part 2) - Starmergeddon looms. Blood flows
After
another shredding session
occasioned by my refusal to pay Bexley Council’s garden waste collection tax I
put on the TV and fired up YouTube to see if there were any live streams of the
promised anti-knife protests. I began with one coming from Manchester and it became so addictive that I watched
several videos for almost nine hours until after midnight. It is the only way of being reasonably sure of what is going on.
The BBC is going on with its far right narrative and even that least woke of
radio stations Talk Radio is pursuing a less than honest agenda. The presenter claimed to have watched
the live streams but in a later segment admitted being glued to the Olympics all day. Everyone lies.
This is what I saw streamed in real time with me catching up later in many cases. No editing except where noted.
In Manchester two groups were kept well separated by the police, some were
helpful to the camera people and some were most definitely not. The left wing,
pro-immigration people were shouting “Nazi scum” which as we shall see, seems to
be their insult of choice. Anyone who didn’t agree with them was a Fascist.
At least a quarter of a mile away the group taking the
opposite view were to be found. In between were ordinary people going around
trying to do their Saturday shopping. Not huge numbers but just getting on with life.
There were not many people in the protest group, by no means a crowd, just a variety of people
standing around either singly or in pairs with dogs on leads and interspersed with mums with
pushchairs. There was a group of Venezuelans trying to attract attention to what
is going on in their country. A very few placards were being waved around and
after more than an hour of broadcasting their video the photographers became
bored and decided to go to nearby Stoke instead.
I understand that things got livelier later.
In Belfast two groups were separated by a line of armoured Land Rovers. The
commentator described the left leaning side as well dressed middle class people
and the anti-knife side as working class people. His
camera didn’t get close enough for this viewer to form an opinion. The former was chanting about
immigrants being welcome and the mandatory “Nazi scum”. The opposing group could
be heard shouting “peados out” occasionally and the Irish, being good at
marching, that is what they did. All orderly with the Irish Tricolour and the
Union flag flying side by side, the Nationalists and Unionists walking with
their arms around each other’s shoulders.
A contingent had come up from the Republic to add their support. Who would have
thought some ill-chosen words by an incompetent Prime Minister could bring peace
to Northern Ireland?
In Aldershot things were very different. A large number of oppressed residents,
most waving large banners standing alongside the A325 road which runs by
the
Potter’s immigrant Hotel. All calm and civilised and not even particularly
noisy. If the police sought to antagonise them by being there in force in full
riot gear and dogs, they failed miserably. I have a friend who is a retired Aldershot
police Sergeant, I wonder what he thinks about them now.
At the other end of the county things were much the same. A few hundred people
gathered in front of Portsmouth’s Guildhall. There were no police visible
although it was said that a few were standing discretely in the corner of the
square observing events. However they must have missed the only incident.
Two men who from their appearance one might assume to be Muslim yelled out “Fuck
the English”. When challenged by a group of locals they pulled out their knives
so that was the end of that. This was one of two edited videos so it is
impossible to say if things were peaceful from that point onwards but what
evidence there is suggests that the protest was over before mid-day.
It is perhaps noteworthy that the
Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire
has decried two-tier policing on her website and even more
noteworthy that she had to delete it later.
In Liverpool the left wing gang was waving a Communist flag, holding banners
welcoming immigrants and, you’ve guessed it, chanting “Nazi scum” through a megaphone.
The police dressed in full riot gear complete with shields stood in a line to
protect them. I suppose Nazi scum cannot be considered to be hate speech when
the language has been borrowed from the Deputy Prime Minister.
For reasons that were not obvious to me the police decided to charge the opposing
faction which ran away. An old man who was not quick enough on his feet was
soundly beaten with batons. The protesters regrouped and pushed the police line back and
produced a few water pistols and a pink smoke flare.
The cameraman decided it was time to get out.
In Stoke things were very grim. There were not many protesters, not a crowd by
any means and sporadically populated by young girls wearing not a lot and older
men who would be well advised to go on a diet and maybe give up smoking too.
Many of the protestors were sitting on the kerbstones enjoying the spectacle and
a couple of them had found somewhere to buy an ice-cream. Then things became
more interesting while the spectators continued to spectate.
Quite what caused it was not shown but it seems likely that Agents Provocateur
threw bricks at a mosque. A considerable number of Muslims emerged armed to the
teeth. Knives, machetes, bats, iron bars and hammers. A police officer asked
them to return their weapons to wherever they store them. They did not.
The video didn’t show how it happened but one group of Muslims ran towards the spectators and hammered two
heads right under the noses of the police who did nothing to apprehend the
attackers. One victim was bleeding profusely while surrounded by police. He left
a large pool of blood on the ground. When one bystander asked a policeman why they weren’t calling an ambulance he was
barged with a shield and told “if you don’t like it fuck off back to Manchester”.
A bystander called an ambulance which eventually took the victim away. He was
able to stand but had lost a lot of blood as the large red pool on the road
testified. Hopefully it looked worse than it is.
A group of Muslims went off in the opposite direction and in another video can
be seen on a green mound taunting the police with their weapons. The police just
stood there and in the face of a gang of swordsmen perhaps there is no other
choice. A small group stood on an adjacent road bridge waving a Palestinian flag
and throwing bricks. A woman was hit on the head and the commentary said a
St. George’s flag was burned although it wasn’t obvious on the video.
Allegedly that group stabbed one or two (reports vary) youngsters playing in the park.
Two of the group that had run towards the protestors stood opposite them
brandishing knives. Several police officers approached them but what happened was obscured by a police van.
Then things got really serious. The two separated groups of Muslims made a
two pronged (pardon the pun) attack with knives and machetes. All the protestors,
cameraman included, ran for their lives.
In Blackpool things were quieter. A lot of people unhappy with the PM and
a great deal of police activity but nothing particularly untoward. This was
another edited video.
I am beginning to lose track of what happened where so if there is more to come
I need to do a bit of revision. In one (name forgotten) Northern town a long
line of modern coaches emblazoned with Arabic script were lined up waiting to
take the swordsmen to another battle ground.
Please don’t be drawn into law breaking, it is not worth ruining your life for.
A video shot in Blackburn showed the police arresting alleged rioters in their homes. They
don’t bother with door bells, it is an immediate boot through the front door.
As my friend said yesterday, “animals’. Do not stoop to their level.
Donְ’t give them the excuse they are looking for.
4 August (Part 1) - Cheap but maybe not too nasty
The new
Bexley Magazine came tumbling through my door a few days ago which is good
because there was a period a few years ago when it rarely showed up. However
there was something very different about this one; it is a good job that the
Covid or whatever it was has gone away because one powerful sneeze might have blown a
hole through the new issue.
The paper is not only thinner but has also lost its gloss. It has gone from a
good looking piece of work to, well, a bit cheap.
I took my Dad’s old micrometer to it but the scale has faded somewhat and my
eyeballs are not what they were so I cannot give you a precise measurement to
the nearest thousandth of an inch. (All my father’s aero engine designs were in
Imperial measurements.) But it is quite obviously thinner.
The postal scales came up with 55 grammes while a two year old copy reads 75.
The content is of course much the same and might reasonably be described as
interesting and worth looking through.
The Bexley Magazine has clearly been the latest victim of ‘the cuts’ but maybe I
should be pleased about it. I have a collection of Bexley Magazines going back
to before BiB started. A bit of space saving will be welcome.
Batteries are potentially dangerous. Don’t wrap your AA cell in wire wool (old schoolboy trick) or even
keep one in your pocket with a bundle of keys.
3 August - The shortest honeymoon in history
I first referred to the Labour Government
being in trouble within 18 months in February and
again more
recently. Predictions are always risky and I was hopelessly wrong again.
Most of yesterday morning was taken up showing video to an old friend,
the things referred
to here two days ago. For context she is a little older than I am and a lifetime
Daily Telegraph reader until it became too expensive a year ago. She now has the
Daily Mail delivered. Her TV viewing is limited to the main channels but far from being a TV addict.
(Constantly borrowing my DVDs.)
Politically - quoting from yesterday - never much enthusiasm for the
Conservatives but never really liked Labour either, despite being a Union
official in her younger days. I am pretty sure she didn’t vote a month ago and
may overall be more typical of the electorate in general than I am.
We watched four different videos of Wednesday’s anti-knife crime protest in
Westminster including the organizer calling for calm and good behaviour and by
and large it was peaceful. There will always be idiot exceptions and I saw two
plus a third that I heard about. My friend heard the riot police say that
they would just go in and snatch people at random from the footpath and some
were punched to the ground for no reason whatsoever. Just standing there and wallop! Her verdict was that “the police
are animals” which may be a bit hard on your pet Rotweiller.
If you only watch regular TV you will probably not know that.
We then watched the Muslim march held the following day. Oxford Street and
Regent Street brought to a total standstill. Nearby roads were coned off so
completely that no one could get in or out of the Mayfair area. A motorcyclist
took a video tour around the area twice showing that he was kettled in. With one
exception the police were rude and unhelpful. The exception was a young woman
who phoned through to her bosses and obtained permission to open one road and
release the taxis and buses.
Back in Regent Street the Muslim marchers were dancing on top of bus shelters
while the police looked on admiring their antics. The police with no batons,
shields or helmets admitted to having no prior notice of the disruption and
according to the YouTube commentary the TfL website carried no warning of
planned road closures.
How much is Sadiq Khan costing London’s economy? The white British,
and some people of foreign appearance, at a protest authorised by the police, were kettled and brutally attacked by thugs in
uniform on Wednesday evening and the Muslims who may be encouraged by the fact
that they are protected by two-tiered policing were
allowed to bring the West End to a halt on Thursday afternoon. Criminal
behaviour ignored.
And then I showed my lady friend Kier Starmer’s speech which she knew nothing
about. Instead of announcing a plan to counter knife crime he announced a plan
to attack the knife protesters and hamper Social Media.
Since then I cannot find any support for him.
YouTube is not yet Main Stream Media and channels generally boast a few tens of
thousands of subscribers though Mahyar Tousi has 600,000. When universally negative
YouTube comments went further and referred to Starmer as evil, or a Nazi and
mentioned the Gestapo they were attracting huge numbers of Likes within an hour
or so or publication, 2,000, 3,000 or even 4,000 in one case I saw. All from a
relatively small number of viewers.
Starmer has won no friends at all.
Similar videos have been produced in Ireland, Australia, the USA and Sweden
which has a similar problem. All decrying the former Trotskyite who
has quickly reverted to type and already wrecked the UK’s reputation for fair
dealing internationally.
I was at the Oval last night so not able to watch Sunderland live but it is
obvious that the hooligan element was out in force and playing into Starmer’s
hands. He must be brought down by peaceful means and the police exposed for
the thugs they have become. In London anyway. Rioting in the true sense of the word is not
acceptable and must stop and arson is a good number of steps too far.
If I may digress for a minute there have been several references to disturbances
in Aldershot which long time readers will know was ‘home’ for 35 years. Six
addresses all within five miles.
The centre of the protests there has been the Potter’s International Hotel which
I had never heard of. Its address and Google maps led me to its location. When I
was there, when Britain had an Army and Aldershot was its main base, the hotel
was the Officers’ Clubhouse. It was quite a way outside of town and I used to
pass it daily on my way to school. Not on the way back as in the afternoon
there was a more direct bus route.
The issue in Aldershot is not knife crime related it is simply that the hotel has been taken over by
immigrants. My remaining few friends in Aldershot say the whole town has been
taken over by immigrants but fortunately they live about as far away from the Hotel as it is
possible to get without losing their Aldershot address.
Why Potter’s Hotel? The name was very well known when I was growing up there.
The family grew rich from making and selling musical instruments from about 1800 onwards
and in my time had a shop in the town centre. I vaguely remember the names
Samuel, Henry, Robert and George, there were loads of Potters in Aldershot and one at
least went to the same school as me.
Bob Potter was a bit older than I am and created the Lakeside Country Club in nearby Frimley. It is famed for hosting the
Darts Championships and a few pop concerts when they were smaller affairs than
they are now. I saw Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames perform there in the middle or late seventies.
I’m not sure if Lakeside Country Club still operates (Ah! Google say it does) but it looks like the Potters have moved
on to housing immigrants and no longer the local heroes that they used to be.
And all from making a bugle and drum kit back in 1803.
The Officers’ Mess was
bombed by the IRA while I lived nearby.
2 August - Mr. Khan will not be pleased
TV is not the only thing I seem to have given up on,
I have very nearly given up on the refuse collection service too. With a week to
go until the next collection there is absolutely nothing in any of my bins.
There’s a few bits of Cellophane in my kitchen waste bucket and that’s it. Some weeks I have put two tiny bags of stuff in the green bin but sometimes only one.
Can I claim a discount?
Country Style, when they come, always move the communal bins across the road to a new position which is a nuisance but in their defence
inconsiderate car parkers
make life as difficult as possible - despite the risk of damage to their vehicles.
Not so happy a situation in Welling though, where for many weeks Country
Style truck VE15 WOJ has been busy polluting the atmosphere.
They have been told but reports have been ignored.
Clean it up Country Style!
1 August (Part 2) - Tinderbox Britain
I gave up on the BBC many years ago when I came to the conclusion that they were
not telling me the whole truth and eventually I gave up on TV altogether. My
viewing is confined to feature films and YouTube.
Last night I followed the Southport related demo or whatever one should call it
in Parliament Square and Whitehall. Three live streams of an hour and more each.
Not all at the same time obviously; I have done a bit of catching up this morning.
One YouTuber claimed to be the organiser and when the chanting threatened to get out of hand
he was seen and heard pleading for calm and asking the police not to provoke the
crowd by behaving like thugs. Today’s Daily Telegraph said the event was organised by
Tommy Robinson and Lawrence Fox. An obvious lie, Robinson is on holiday abroad
with his family and Fox wasn’t there, indeed there were complaints that he had distanced himself from it.
I don’t understand why protestors don’t just sit on the ground and do nothing
other than sing and shout, giving the police no excuse to get their batons out.
The video streams showed a few hotheads throwing beer in the direction of the
police and another shouting encouragement to scale the gates of Downing Street.
However the same video picked up the police giving orders to just pick off
everyone one by one. Anyone, no reason necessary. They arrested a GB News journalist for simply doing his job
from the edge of the road and a 73 year old lady who was there in
sympathy with three sets of bereaved parents but guilty of leaning against a wall. Handcuffs for both of them.
And a lot more. Snatch squads dashed in to take whoever was nearest. The
police were indiscriminate and their behaviour often disgraceful. Batons and
helmets to tackle almost entirely peaceful citizens concerned for their
children’s safety and the state of Britain generally.
I don’t know what the TV channels had to say about these events but comments on
X suggest it is far right football hooligans again. The truth is very different.
Out of several thousands out on the streets and maybe three hours of video
watched until past midnight last night I observed quite a lot of patriotic
chanting in Parliament Square and the aforementioned acts of stupidity in Whitehall.
This afternoon the former Conservative MP Nick du Bois broadcasting on TalkRadio repeatedly
said that last night’s largely peaceful event was a riot and shouted down the
event organiser who had tried to calm matters. He denied the facts of the
videos. He is part of the problem.
However the overwhelming impression from in effect being there is that the police have become our enemies
and speaking personally I would be wary of visiting the streets of Central London at present.
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary by their actions in Southport - a few
photos and run - are failing us badly.
On a related note, another YouTube video was showing a pianist at St. Pancras
station’s public piano surrounded by four threatening police officers all of
whom claimed never to have heard of the term ‘Two Tier Policing’.
Neither the police nor the so called Main Stream Media have a clue where the truth lies.
For the truth, forget BBC and Sky, just watch events live on YouTube.
1 August (Part 1) - Under attack
I
think I am going to blame David for this, he was
the reader who
said he was expecting election comment here when I wasn’t sure I wanted to
stick my oar in and risk offending old friends. In the event he got more than I had expected to be able to provide.
The Labour Councillor in Crayford was backed as a very
honest man although later on the comment went just a little bit towards the negative.
The Conservative in Old Bexley was backed as my preferred candidate but I
allowed Dimitri to take a very different view.
I took the mickey out of Rishi Sunak and Kier Starmer and said that in my own
constituency a clown with a red rosette could take the seat.
The Reform UK manifesto/contract was welcomed as the most appealing to me and I related
how my friends in Old Bexley were going to vote Reform. I eventually decided I
would do the same in Erith & Thamesmead where my vote counts for nothing anyway.
There was a reference back to a Reform UK candidate’s problems whilst a
Councillor in Bexley but it provided no explanation as to what those problems were
or a link to the Bexley Council website which continues to provide the details. One of the
Conservative Party’s X accounts was just a little more forthcoming.
So no deep political analysis, rather a bit of knockabout fun.
Despite that one of the candidates plans to take legal action against me if I do
not remove all historical blogs. I have counted 61, none of which are critical although perhaps they
should be; and pay the candidate £4,800 for, well I am not quite sure. Damaging electoral chances I suppose.
Quite an achievement for an old fashioned blog which attracts a tiny fraction of the number of readers than once was the case.
This index links to every 2024 General Election blog so you can see what I might
have done wrong. Has anyone any idea?