Workers At A Tennessee Government Salt Facility Discover A Human Heart

A human heart has been discovered among piles of salt at a Tennessee Department of Transportation facility.

Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said that employees at the facility in McEwen, west of Nashville, were making preparations for turbulent weather when they came across something unusual that was subsequently confirmed to be a human heart.

The organ was transported to the state medical examiner’s office in Nashville, where testing of tissue samples established that it was an adult male human heart, Chris Davis said.

He said the heart had been dehydrated by the salt and it was unclear how long it had been there.

Chris Davis told WKRN in Nashville that the facility was being treated as a crime scene, and he said that he’d seen some crazy things, but this by far, was one of the most unusual crime scenes he’d ever been on.

He urged anyone who believes they might have information about what might have happened to reach out to TBI or the sheriff’s office.

Davis said that everybody’s somebody’s somebody and that at the end of the day it would bother him if he laid down his head at night not knowing that they’d done everything they could for this individual and this person’s family.

He said that he had 32 years in law enforcement, but he had to say this was probably in the top 5 of the most bizarre things that he’d ever seen, and that they didn’t feel that anybody’s safety was in question.

He said it was discovered in the salt where TDOT was preparing to attack the bad weather and harsh weather conditions that they have.

Davis said that at first, they believed it was a rock. The process of what salt does to that, it dries out, and it’s speculated that it could have been there for only a few weeks.

He added TDOTs on board working with them to try and uncover any kind of information about where the salt came from and when it came in.

Local 10 was able to get an overhead image of the search taking place.

No other remains were discovered at the facility after crews sifted through the salt barn.

Sadly there are horrific unsettling crimes occurring all the time, and someone got killed and lost their life.

The police may not have located the body, but this heart, whoever it belonged to had a family and loved ones that must be worried sick.

Editors Say New Privacy Code Will Threaten Press Freedom

Ministers have been warned that press freedom is in serious danger from a proposed new data protection code of practice.

The editors of newspaper outlets have urged the Government to use the proposed Bill of Rights legislation to exempt journalism from data protection law.

In a joint letter, they said the draft code, which will have been taken into account by the courts, undermines the very basis of journalism and would turn the Information Commissioner’s Office into a statutory regulator.

Under the ICO code, journalists would need to have a lawful reason for publishing any personal details of people involved in the news, even those which are indeed public knowledge, such as someone’s job title.

They would also have to be willing to show paper trails of how they reached their finding that there was a public interest in publication, which the letter argues would be time-consuming and unworkable in a fast-paced newsroom.

The letter, addressed to Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, urges the ICO to revisit the code to better reflect the realities of journalism, but it says that won’t address the entire issue, which is that data protection law as it stands is incompatible with journalism.

It urges that an exemption for journalism from data protection law should be enshrined within the proposed Bill of Rights, exempting the UK’s otherwise free Press from the shackles of data protection law.

Announcing the return of the legislation to Parliament last month, Dominic Raab said it would be used to bolster free speech, which was a quintessentially British right.

An exemption for journalism is already utilised by several democracies, including Germany, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand.

While people have a right to privacy in their homes and personal lives, press freedom is fundamentally based on being permitted to report on what they say and do in a public arena.

This is already subject to a range of legal restrictions, such as libel and contempt laws, and is enshrined in the Editor’s Code of Practice, which the vast preponderance of journalists stick to.

The proposed code of practice says that under the Act, any details held in a digital device about a person are classed as personal data. This includes facts that are by their nature public, such as someone’s job title, and even an opinion about an individual.

Newspaper outlets are known as one of the most unreliable news sources, and some are seen as more of a comic than a newspaper, but still, people read the news – perhaps we like comics.

The tradition of good journalism is long dead. It’s now a procession of cheap hackery created to forge clickbait, and people need at least some sort of protection against that, and from having their lives sensationalised for profit.

It will also end comic journalism that people have come to love and also bitch about, but it’s not always about the press, it’s about social media which is like a poisonous wild west, although I can’t understand what all the commotion is about. For years newspapers and television have given us the news. The problem is, they only give us the news that they want us to see.

And while it’s true that newspapers do publish a lot of rubbish, they also uncover a lot of misconduct by politicians, police, industry and professions, which if not reported would leave the public in the dark and disadvantaged, and for those who support the bill, be careful what you wish for.

Unless Saturday Letter Deliveries Are Scrapped, First-Class Stamps Will Exceed £1 For The First Time

Royal Mail has warned that the cost of a first-class stamp will see a significant increase if the postal service is to continue six-day deliveries.

The price of a first-class stamp increased by 10p to 95p in March, while a second-class stamp rose to 68p. A further increase could push the cost of a first-class stamp to exceed £1 for the first time.

Chairman Keith Williams said that fewer letters were being sent, which means that it’s costing more to deliver at the weekend.

Keith Williams said that the cost to them was being driven in part by the fact that the volume of letters had declined, and that they’re delivering the same number of letters over six days when they could be doing it over five, so that was pushing up stamp costs.

It comes after Grant Shapps told a select committee that he wouldn’t let Royal Mail decrease the number of days it delivers.

The postal service is legally required to deliver posts six days a week but regulator Ofcom has accepted proof that 97 per cent would be happy to reduce service to five days.

It’s been struggling to modernise in order to compete with other delivery services, like Evri and Amazon.

Mr Williams told a newspaper outlet that Royal Mail is permitted to generate a profit margin of between 5 per cent and 10 per cent under post-nationalisation regulations, and he said that they’ve made that margin in two years since privatisation.

The Chairman said the postal service was stuck between the government and the regulator as it failed to meet financial sustainability targets.

The Royal Mail chief also said that Mr Shapps might be forced to allow the changes.

The postal service has also been hit by strikes throughout December, which is normally its busiest time.

Strikes have driven up delivery prices for businesses across the country and some have limited their delivery options as a result.

Charges at John Lewis have gone up from £3.95 for standard delivery for items of more than £50 to £4.50 since November. Argos has increased its charge for fast delivery by £1.

Retailer Oliver Bonas has suspended their click-and-collect option, leaving Christmas shoppers fewer ways to order gifts.

A representative for John Lewis said the retailer was working to keep its delivery prices as low as possible.

But the sad fact is, you never actually see a postman around these days, twice a week if you’re lucky.

As a child, twice a day a postman would deliver the mail and you could set your watch by the smartly attired postie, now it’s just completely random, but that’s because everything is done by email and text – online everything these days, which is killing the postal service.

You can mark my words, eventually, Royal Mail will be a thing of the past because it’s far easier to send by email or text – you can even do e-signature these days if something needs to be signed and just send it straight back.

Most people have mobile phones and computers that they can send correspondence on, apart from those that don’t!

Everything is now going paper free, or at least you’re being encouraged to do so, and contracts are being done over the phone, you don’t even have to sign for much these days, and most people don’t write letters anymore because the new generation doesn’t know how to.

People don’t write letters anymore, and back in the day other courier companies weren’t around, but with all this technology we don’t seem to need a postman – why would you when everything these days is done online?

As A Result Of A Burst Water Main Flooding London Street, Thousands Are Without Water And Dozens Are Evacuated

Thousands of residents had been left without water while dozens vacated their homes on a dinghy after a burst water main flooded a London street, with further pipe ruptures that might have been possible as the Big Thaw kicked in following freezing temperatures.

Eight fire engines and about 60 firefighters were summoned to Belsize Road in Camden at 2.50 am after a 42-inch water main burst caused flooding of half a metre across an area of around 800 metres.

The fire service said the mains had been isolated, but a further 15-inch water main had also burst and about 100 properties had been affected by the floodwater, with one homeowner likening it to having ‘the River Thames outside their house’.

It said numerous homes had been flooded and firefighters had to lead about 25 residents to safety, with several seen being steered away from the area with packed suitcases.

One video illustrates the fire brigade attending the location while water surged down the road.

As temperatures were expected to leap by 15 degrees or more across the United Kingdom after days of freezing weather, Water UK warned that the rise could cause more burst pipes.

Footage shared on social media shows emergency services using small vessels and residents being helped, covering them in blankets for protection.

Cody Dolcy-Grant, 27, who lives on Hilgrove Road at the end of Belsize Road, said she woke up to scenes ‘like the River Thames’ outside her home.

Ms Dolcy-Grant who’s unemployed due to a health condition said she wasn’t conscious of the situation until 7 am when she went to the bathroom and discovered the lavatory wasn’t flushing and no water was coming out of the taps.

She said her road was flooded, and when she opened the front door it was like a horror scene, fire engines up the entirety of the road, police, and ambulance, and then she looked to the left and it was like the River Thames outside.

Ms Dolcy-Grant lives on the second floor of her building so her dwelling wasn’t flooded, but at midday, she said she still had no running water, all shops were closed and transportation had been stopped on her street.

Station commander Gary Deacon said from the scene that this was a substantial flooding that had affected about 100 properties and left thousands without water.

The migrants will be over the moon, they can swim up the Thames and straight into Camden, and up to the four-star hotels they will be put into, but joking aside, water is horrible and it could take a year to dry the walls out in these homes.

Basements were never meant to be lived in, and during the Victorian era, properties were commonly built with a small space below ground level. This basement was designed for storage, and families would use the area to store coal, wood or other fuels during the winter months, while in summer the space was occasionally used to keep things cool.

It’s almost like the entire country and its infrastructure is falling like a stack of dominoes, but that’s what happens when governments don’t invest in its infrastructure, but then I guess giving away money and MPs looking after their own finances is more important, and it seems to be that infrastructure is only being maintained and not upgraded, but then to upgrade existing infrastructures would mean that companies would have to spend money which would result in less profit and therefore fewer dividends for shareholders.

As A Man Collapses On The Street, Striking Nurses Rush To His Aid From The Picket Line

Nurses rushed from a picket line to the aid of a man who collapsed in the street.

The striking staff raced to provide emergency first aid to the male after he fell over just metres from the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) main entrance.

The patient was put into the recovery position and was visibly shaking on the ground outside, as temperatures dropped as low as -8C.

Within ten minutes staff working at BRI came out to collect the patient, putting him on a spinal board and lifting him onto a stretcher.

The striking nurses returned to the picket line shortly afterwards.

Discussing the walkouts Paula Byrne, 58, a Nurse Specialist, said that she’s been a nurse for 40 years next year and she had genuine concerns, among herself and her coworkers, about the future of nursing.

She said that every day they’re seeing nurses working under tremendous stress with great challenges, and contributing a huge amount of charity and goodwill to maintain patient care so that was a real concern for her.

She said that what they’ve seen over the last ten years is austerity, austerity measures, public sector pay cuts, and rising costs and find that nurses know their daily living and quality of living have gone downhill.

She said that the staffing in the NHS is the most valuable asset it has, so if they don’t protect their assets, they’re not going to have a future in healthcare because there won’t be any nurses.

She said that this wasn’t about making things difficult for patients, though they do appreciate that there’s going to be some suffering involved, but unfortunately, that’s where they’re at to hopefully bring about some transformation.

Councillor Lorraine Francis, 56, isn’t a nurse but has a health care role at Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (mental health team).

She said that she believed that it was really important for nurses to be recognised for the hard work they actually do and that through the pandemic, no one in their team had been off, they’ve just been working, as usual, so she thought it was really important to take a couple of hours out to support the picket line.

It’s all a plan to privatise everything and it’s part of the Tory’s plans, but what they should be doing is saving the NHS.

But what we should be doing is returning to the key issue.

For the first time in its history, the Royal College of Nursing is engaged in strike action, but ask yourself why.

Are they Commies, Marxists or Militants – no! They’re just fed up with being offered pay deals which means some nurses still have to go cap in hand for supplemental payments and visit food banks.

They’re sick and tired of being told how much they’re valued and then booted in the teeth for asking for a living wage.

They can also see the open corruption, conceit and incompetence of their government which rewards its backers, tolerates parliamentary abuse of power and treats the common people with open disdain, and that’s why they’re making a stand, and that’s why they’re prepared to lose money before Christmas.

The facts are there to see, the Tories have destroyed this once great country of ours, and our government are to blame because no person goes on strike without reasonable cause.

Well done to our nurses, and it’s shocking how our government have turned their backs on the NHS when it comes to decent pay, but they were quick to push us to breaking point through the pandemic, and they should pay up now!

After Serving Just Eight Months Of A Two-And-A-Half-Year Prison Term For Bankruptcy Fraud, Boris Becker Is Released From Prison

Three-time Wimbledon champ Boris Becker has been released from prison after serving just eight months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence and will now be deported from the United Kingdom.

The 55-year-old tennis star, who won the All England Club tournament at the age of just 17, was convicted in April of concealing £2.5 million worth of assets and loans to dodge paying his debts.

He’s supposed to be returning to his hometown of Leimen, where his 87-year-old mother Elvira lives, for a touching reunion with his loved ones.

Boris’ mother reportedly told a friend that this would be the best Christmas gift she could wish for and that she couldn’t wait to hold her darling son in her arms.

A close friend of Boris Becker’s family also said that Elvira was just overjoyed he was coming home, and they said that for her, having Boris out of prison and back home was the best thing imaginable, and for it to happen in time for Christmas was going to be amazing.

They said that she was worried about when she might see him again, so this was all a huge deal for her, especially given her age.

The former world number one and BBC commentator was declared bankrupt on June 21, 2017, owing creditors nearly £50 million over an outstanding loan of more than £3 million on his estate in Majorca.

The German, who’s lived in the United Kingdom since 2012, was expected to serve half of his sentence behind bars but was released and is scheduled on a flight to be deported from the UK.

He’s thought to have been moved to a lower security prison, Category C Huntercombe Prison near Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire, for foreign prisoners awaiting deportation in May.

According to reports, he was previously being held at Category B Wandsworth Prison in southwest London.

The six-time Grand Slam champion qualified for automatic deportation because he’s a foreign national who doesn’t have British citizenship and received a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.

He walked free under a fast-track scheme that sends criminals back to their own homeland before their release date to relieve pressure on Britain’s overcrowded prisons.

As he tasted freedom, the German tennis ace slipped comfortably back into a lifestyle he’s more used to with Boris Becker allegedly heading home in a luxury paid-for private jet.

But sentencing in the United Kingdom is ridiculously inconsistent and he should have never been put in jail in the first place, but he’s now learnt his lesson and paid the price, so now he should be permitted to rebuild his life.

Meanwhile, there are activists stopping people in the United Kingdom from getting to work and appointments, yet they will get a slap on the wrist – now they should go to jail.

It’s a shame we can’t do the same to people coming into the United Kingdom illegally. Their admission to the United Kingdom is illegal, shouldn’t they be arrested instead of the UK harbouring these lawbreakers? The trouble is we don’t have enough dwellings to put them, although as far as our Government is concerned, hotels and Pontin’s camps will suffice.

The trouble is, even though they cross over to our country illegally, once they’re picked up and brought in by our Border Force and RNLI, it’s no longer illegal, which is extremely fortunate for them and our Government.

Bullying Probe Against Dominic Raab Now Has EIGHT Formal Complaints

No 10 Downing Street disclosed that Dominic Raab is now facing eight formal complaints about his conduct as an investigation into bullying allegations was widened once again.

Downing Street said top barrister Adam Tolley KC had been asked by the Prime Minister to include a further five complaints in his ongoing investigation.

The new allegations relate to Mr Raab’s behaviour at the Ministry of Justice.

Mr Tolley was last month appointed by Rishi Sunak to conduct the inquiry into Mr Raab’s apparent treatment of officials.

Initially, the investigation into Mr Raab, who’s Justice Secretary as well as Deputy Prime Minister, concentrated on a formal complaint from his time as foreign secretary and another from his first spell at the justice department.

This was subsequently widened to include a third relating to Mr Raab’s time at the Department for Exiting the EU in 2018, and now Mr Tolley’s investigation has been expanded again to include another five allegations.

Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats asked why Mr Raab hasn’t been suspended from his ministerial responsibilities while the investigation is ongoing.

They also put pressure on Mr Sunak to confirm he will sack the Deputy PM if the complaints against him are supported.

Revealing the latest claims against Mr Raab, the PM’s official spokesman said that he could confirm that the Prime Minister had now asked the investigator to include five further formal complaints relating to conduct at the Ministry of Justice as part of the continuing investigation and in line with the current terms of reference.

The spokesman confirmed they were five other complaints on top of the three already being investigated.

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said that it was yet another indication of how weak Rishi Sunak is as a Prime Minister that despite being conscious of Dominic Raab’s reputation, he selected him as his deputy.

She said the Prime Minister must now say why he’s not been suspended until the outcome of the formal investigation, and make clear that any violation of the Ministerial Code will result in his prompt sacking.

She said the Government must also take immediate measures to ensure there’s a safe working environment for their entourage.

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper declared Mr Raab’s position was becoming increasingly untenable amid the deluge of allegations, and she said that Rishi Sunak must ask Dominic Raab to step down as Justice Secretary while these complaints are investigated, and confirm he won’t be reappointed if they are upheld.

Dominic Raab doesn’t actually strike me as the bullying type, and is this just the civil servants attempting to get rid of him?

And the definition of bullying these days seems to be doing or saying something that someone doesn’t like, but Dominic Raab should be instructed to step aside while these complaints are being investigated, and of course, Dominic Raab will not be alone, if not him it will be someone else.

What we seem to be overlooking here is that we have a civil service controlled by left-wing values who simply ignore the work that they’re given and don’t go with their ethics.

They’re Public Servants and should do as they’re told, not ignore anything they don’t agree with, but then when they’re told to do the job they’re supposed to, whine they’re being bullied.

Would someone please explain bullying to me, because in today’s wimpy woke world, if you say ‘boo’ then it’s bullying – you just have to feel sorry for the poor sheep.

Dictionaries are now extinct. Google is now the ‘king master’ who re-wrote history and their dictionary definition for bullying in the workplace is as follows:

Anyone who asks you a question you don’t like, you must report it at once so that it can be investigated, leading to your being sacked, but please note, only if Tories are in office.

Britain Returns To LOCKDOWN After Mick Lynch Loses Support For Crippling Strikes

Public support for Mick Lynch’s crippling Christmas walkouts is draining away as Britain faces a lockdown by industrial action with the festive season in ruins for the third year running and businesses face losing billions.

Millions of employees must now work from home, some until 2023, due to union tycoons such as Mick Lynch shutting down essential services until January 10.

With the cold snap blasting the country, support for RMT union boss Mick Lynch on the picket lines seems to be decreasing, with a poll indicating support for the rail walkouts falling by eight points since October.

On day two of the RMT’s rail strikes, half of Britain’s rail lines are closed all day, as thousands of members at Network Rail and 14 train operating companies walk out in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, with numerous regions of the country having no services, including most of Scotland and Wales.

Rail staff have been joined in strikes by Royal Mail workers, and nurses prepare to take unprecedented industrial action, which experts say puts lives at risk amid claims chemotherapy appointments have been axed as 100,000 medical staff remain at home.

Ministers will call an emergency Cobra meeting for the second time this week over the crisis that will last almost a month.

Britons had to sacrifice seeing loved ones over the holiday period in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic but now face having to do the same due to union barons closing down essential services until January 10.

Businesses have said the continuous postal strikes are costing them more than during the pandemic, with one forecasting £1 million in losses at the peak of the festive trading period.

Thousands of Christmas cards and packages have started piling up as Royal Mail workers prepare to mount picket lines outside sorting and delivery offices.

Two further Royal Mail strikes are scheduled for December 23 and December 24, in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

Royal Mail has brought forward the final posting dates for Christmas cards because of the industrial action.

The wave of walkouts billed as the ‘December of discontent’ is bringing untold hell on hard-working Britons in the run-up to Christmas.

Business owners say that their festive trading period, one of the busiest throughout the year, is being hit badly by disruption to critical services.

Enough is enough now, they should get back to bleeding work – don’t like the pay and conditions, find another job! Because all they’re actually doing is destroying other people’s lives – forcing them to close their businesses and let their staff go which then puts them on welfare.

However, saying that. It looks like the people of the United Kingdom are rediscovering its mutinous streak, which we all knew would happen eventually because we have a self-absorbed and greedy government, and it won’t just stop at walkouts, ultimately people will be so disgruntled there will be riots as well.

It was claimed that the average rail worker makes £44,000.

This figure is the median salary for rail sector positions. It includes train drivers, few of whom are involved in the RMT walkout, and excludes other employees such as cleaners, who are. The RMT says the median salary of its rail members is £31,000.

MP Grant Shapps said on 20 June 2022 that the average train driver earns £59,000, the average rail worker earns £44,000, and the average nurse, £31,000.

His comments were made during discussions about the walkout presently underway by railway workers represented by the RMT union over pay, working conditions and job cuts.

The £44,000 figure has also been repeated by Conservative MPs Nick Fletcher, Jonathan Gullis and Chris Philp when talking about the strikes.

This figure is broadly correct as the median rail sector salary is described in official figures. However, it’s not representative of the average salary of the employees who are striking in this particular action.

However, during an appearance on Newsnight on 20 June, government minister Chris Philp said that the median salary of all railway workers was £44,000.

The Department for Transport told the BBC this figure came from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which calculated that the median rail sector salary was £43,747 in 2021.

The Tories know they’re going to be out eventually, so they’ve executed a scorched earth policy. Destroy the workers, deregulate the bank’s et cetera, and therefore after every crisis, the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer.

This government has lost its ability to govern to the benefit of the people. Its only beneficiaries are illegals in dinghies, why because they will work for less and longer hours, so as far as our government is concerned, they are our future because there’s nothing like a bit of slave labour!

And they say slavery had been abolished, not on your nelly!

Last Resort!

Channel migrants could be put up at a Pontins holiday camp in a bid to cut taxpayers’ £6 million a day hotel bill for small boat arrivals.

The Home Office is in negotiations to hire an 820-chalet camp at Camber Sands in East Sussex.

Pontins offers budget holidays at the camp, which was purpose-built in 1968 just steps away from a five-mile-long Blue Flag beach.

The 32-acre site is an hour’s drive from Dover, where most migrants disembark from northern France, and a government source said it’s one of the options under review.

Alternative sites being discussed include disused student housing and Ministry of Defence properties, it’s understood. However, sources repudiated reports that there would be numerous holiday campsites ready to go as early as next month.

Accommodation at the Camber Sands base is in two-storey chalet blocks which sleep four to six people, plus separate bungalows.

It’s not known how many migrants could be accommodated at the camp, but if each bedroom is used for single occupancy, it could be between 1,000 and 1,600. Each chalet offers a bathroom, kitchenette and dining space.

Facilities at Camber Sands include a restaurant and an on-site pub, although these are likely to be closed if the centre is used for migrant housing. The Pontins chain was bought out of administration by Britannia Hotels in 2011 for approximately £20 million.

It comes after 555 migrants arrived in Britain over the weekend despite the sub-zero conditions. The total number to have arrived in small vessels since the beginning of the year is now 44,867, compared with 28,526 in the entirety of the last year.

Last week Home Secretary Suella Braverman promised to take extreme action to tackle the Channel crisis, after securing an agreement with European nations for a wide-ranging crackdown.

She heralded a really positive step forward after meeting European Union counterparts last Thursday and agreeing to closer work between the United Kingdom and the bloc’s agency, Frontex.

The ministers also signalled more stringent activity on social media goliaths which permit people traffickers to advertise on their platforms, and in another significant development, they demonstrated support for an EU-wide migration agreement, a move which was blocked during Brexit negotiations.

It could unlock the door to Britain taking part in a deal to return asylum seekers to the Continent.

Suella Braverman has pledged a dramatic shake-up of Britain’s asylum and modern slavery laws, amid concern they’re being manipulated by Channel migrants, and the Home Secretary said last week that the way she saw it was that they require extreme action, and they would do whatever it takes.

But what about our homeless veterans? No one cares, it’s a national disgrace. Mind you, it beats me why anyone would want to join the Armed Forces these days, they’re not used to defend our country, they’re there to meddle in other people’s homelands where they get their legs blown off and then our Government then throw them away like a discarded tissue, and they then have to rely on charities to help.

I understand that some of these migrants are coming across because of the conditions in their homeland, and who can condemn them if our Government are letting them in, but why can’t our Government accommodate them on a few cruise vessels offshore, they would be less likely to abscond from them and their cases could be dealt with in the meantime. At least that way our British citizens and veterans who are living on the streets in this painfully cold weather could be put in a nice Pontins camp where they would have a bed and food.

Staff At Brighton University Are Urged Not To Say ‘Christmas’ Because It’s Too “Christian-Centric”

The University of Brighton has instructed staff not to say ‘Christmas’ and instead call it the ‘winter closure period’.

According to a nine-page ‘Inclusive Language Guidance’ document sent to educators at the university, the word ‘Christmas’ is too ‘Christian-centric’.

The document says that staff should be ’empowered’ to use ‘inclusive language confidently and effectively, in order to ensure that both students and staff alike feel safe, valued and respected.

According to the guidance, generalities about a group of people based on their age, such as saying’ millennial snowflakes’ or ‘old people cannot use technology’, should be avoided.

The document reads that language and meaning are strongly conditioned by the prevalent norms of the culture in which they exist, and that overall attitudes, misconceptions and stereotypes are entrenched within modes of communication, and these factors are occasionally reflected, whether consciously or not, in the language that we use when communicating with and referring to others.

This suggests that communication, both verbal and written, may be offensive even when this is not our intention.

Andrew Allison, of the Freedom Association, said that Universities were supposed to be places where ideas were freely discussed.

He said that this was Orwellian and absurd, and that staff and students ought to disregard it and have a good Christmas.

Then, in a table informing staff on what not to say to students, they’re encouraged to avoid the term ‘Christmas closure period’ and replace it with ‘winter closure period’. The purpose of this was to avoid using Christian-centric vocabulary.

Meanwhile, staff were also urged not to ask students ‘What is your Christian name?’ but instead ask ‘What’s your first name?’ or ‘What is your given name?’.

In a statement sent to a newspaper outlet, a representative for the University of Brighton said that this advice was created with their staff and students and was part of their shared commitment to making Brighton a place where everyone felt respected and appreciated. The advice is just that, just guidance.

They added that words hadn’t been banned at Brighton, and neither was Christmas, as it was evident from the embellishments and Christmas trees in their building and across their campuses.

But really, what’s happened to our wonderful country and why has it been permitted to happen? Well, it seems to be that people are now terrified to challenge these minority crazies.

It’s Christmas for crying out loud, so in Noddy Holder’s voice… Merry Christmas Everyone!

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