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Let’s be clear on this stuff
Let’s be clear on this stuff – one you’ve decided that there are superior and inferior groups, it’s then a progression that (if no-one stops it) gathers momentum. It’s a side benefit that creating a “them” helps strengthen your “us”.
You take away the things that sustain the identity of the “enemy” – symbols, gathering places, books, leaders; then it’s changes to education, government and business, and oh look street harassment and vandalism have started.
We’re just a few weeks in with just a handful of councils and we’ve got the Pride flags, and now an episode about a book, complete with an informer for the bonus.
To give some fairness to the BBC, let’s look at an O level revision guide for an outline of that progression from 1933-39:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zn8sgk7/revision/5
We’ve already damaged the rule of law by issuing long jail sentences for Zoom calls – and turning a blind eye to tractors.(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws)
“Hitler’s racism: not just the Jews
Hitler viewed the world as an arena for the permanent struggle between peoples. He divided the world population into high and low races. The Germans belonged to the high peoples and the Jews to the low ones. He also had specific notions about other peoples. The Slavic people, for instance, were cast as inferior, predestined to be dominated.
Hitler felt that the German people could only be strong if they were ‘pure’. As a consequence, people with hereditary diseases were considered harmful. These included people with physical or mental disabilities, as well as alcoholics and ‘incorrigible’ criminals. Once the Nazis had come to power, these ideas led to the forced sterilisation and killing of human beings.”
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/why-did-hitler-hate-jews/
I always think the 1939 requirement to wear a Star of David is a parallel to “make them wear hi viz”. See also: ripping out cycle lanes and bus gates.
Powered along by economic depression and the legacy of WW1, and with no-one stopping it, you eventually get to the atrocities in the conquered east and the admin bods coming together at Wannsee in 1942.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
No, this isn’t a book burning
No, as you’ve said this isn’t a book burning, but a knee jerk response to a non-issue. -all in that well known Reading suburb, Herne Bay. Still, little acorns and all that.
Reform council claim ‘trans-related’ library book ban ‘not a change of policy’
Cllr Kemkaran added on X that “telling children they’re in the ‘wrong body’ is wrong and simply unacceptable” and said that “trans-related” works would be removed from the children’s sections of all 99 of the county’s libraries.
First, they came for the trans autism books
And I did not speak out
Because I was not trans or autistic
Etc
Driver’s nightmare after car
Driver’s nightmare after car falls off wall and lands on Devon beach spot
You can’t park there etc
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/drivers-nightmare-after-car-falls-10319539?int_source=nba
As advertised (frequently) on
As advertised (frequently) on Road.cc
Essex Police urgently want to
Essex Police urgently want to speak to this man
The instance where you attempted to squeeze past three oncoming vehicles – sheer bloody-mindedness on your part – you put yourself in danger and broke someones side-mirror. Disgraceful.cyclists should be more considerate toward drivers and all the trauma they put them through – having to worry about police visits, insurance forms, court dates, penalty points, crappy courtesy cars – all while the cyclist lounges in a hospital bed and doesn’t even pay road tax!
Some of these folk are just
Some of these folk are just one post away from “can’t you having running water wait? Drivers are being inconvenienced here, you know.”
Angry residents call Colchester roadworks ‘absolute joke’
Oxford: Car crashes into city
Oxford: Car crashes into city centre block of flats
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25256980.oxford-car-crashes-city-centre-block-flats/
EDIT Follow-up story – driver carries on with his life (minus car?) while resident who’s done nothing to anyone is still out of their home 2 weeks later.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25285027.oxford-resident-yet-return-flat-city-centre-crash/
Are you getting the same
Are you getting the same double posting effect I keep getting? There is a comment delete function, but it seems to cause the whole thread to go off line for a few seconds and you have to go in via a new window.
Taxi drivers warned of
Taxi drivers warned of cyclist scam demanding money over false phone use claims after video emerges
Speaking to The Standard, Mr McNamara said the tactic used by the cyclist is becoming more common and warned those visiting the capital of “another scam”, alongside the likes of phone snatching and overpriced pedicabs.
how has the cyclist’s footage ended up on the internet?
edit – Rendel says
“Checked out the @hanadhendrix account on Twitter from which this video emanates, it’s basically a total spoof from a wannabe comedian who advertises his videos as “Watch me pretend to be CyclingMikey!” Not surprised that the viciously anti-cyclist LTDA tried to portray it as something that cyclists were actually doing; a bit disappointed that road.ccdidn’t do a brief investigation which would’ve proved that it’s bollocks.”
(See also https://www.tiktok.com/@hanadhendrix – the story is still there on the Evening Standard site)
Public row over Pride flag
Public row over Pride flag sees teenage council leader already under fire for ‘crying off’ to (national) party
Reform UK’s Cllr George Finch has taken less than a week to cause controversy at the helm of the local authority after telling chief executive Monica Fogarty to take down the banner, which has been flying outside the council’s headquarters during pride month.
An email from the chief exec (published by The Telegraph) to the 18-year-old said: “I am afraid I will not be taking the action that you are requesting.”
Green group leader, Cllr Jonathan Chilvers said […] “If Warwickshire Reform’s Cllr George Finch wants to make a decision, he should go through cabinet in line with the democratic traditions of our country that protect us all.
“It’s appalling that when he couldn’t get what he wanted he cried off to his national party to get them to launch a full blooded party political assault on a civil servant.
“If that’s his interview for the top job he’s just failed badly.”
In a video shared on social media [Zia Yusuf] said: “The CEO of Warwickshire council has said they will not follow the instructions of elected officials, and has effectively declared themselves the supreme ruler and monarch of Warwickshire.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-cab-driver-blackmail-phone-b1235794.html
https://warwick.nub.news/news/local-news/teenage-council-leader-told-to-get-on-with-the-job-264513
good for you, lady
Choice, Billy, choice – big,
Choice, Billy, choice – big, big clue there. Keep going – you might eventually get it.
The episode seems mighty
The episode seems mighty fishy to me; even the Daily Mail’s write-up is hedging it.
Pedicabs aren’t taking journeys away from cabbies to any noticeable degree, are they?
Still, RCC have featured the story now, so we can all weigh in over there.
I should have said – I put
I should have said – I put this gem here coz people seem to believe this nonsense and write to the local paper!
one for the “stuff I’ve had
one for the “stuff I’ve had chucked at me by car occupants” column, wherever it’s gone
Mother tells of child’s trauma after rock hurled from bridge
Suddenly, an almighty crash was heard and the windscreen was smashed (“smashed” doing a bit of heavy lifting here).
“I have even written to Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, requesting that the bridge is removed in place of a crossing.”
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25281763.mother-tells-childs-trauma-rock-hurled-bridge/
