Council Barricades Divide Rich And Poor

A Green Party council has been accused of carrying out ‘ethnic cleansing on steroids’ by installing ‘racist and classist barricades’ under the cloak of darkness with police protection.

Green-run Bristol City Council claims the blockades in Barton Hill, east Bristol, are anti-traffic and pollution measures but Somali and white working-class residents fear it’s a ploy to keep them away from the gaze of their posh neighbours.

Even supporters of the scheme have admitted the council is blockading the area off – which they say could lead to ‘riots’, turning the roads into a warzone. Other locals said the area was being turned into a ‘segregated ghetto’ that their posh white neighbours could avoid. 

Barton Hill is one of the most disadvantaged regions of the UK. According to The Quartet Community Foundation, an organisation enabling donations to charities across the west of England, more than a third of people living in the region are under the age of 16.  Of those children, 55 percent are living in deprivation below the breadline.

The area is also one of the most ethnically diverse in the city, with a large Somali immigrant community and 55 percent of all residents being non-white. A fifth of homes have no one with English as a first language living there.

Speaking to MailOnline, people living in Barton Hill said they were horrified to wake up at 3 am on March 13 to council workers nailing down barricades while dozens of police officers stood guard. Some of the police were armed with Tasers.

Shopkeeper Naveen Challagundla, 26, has worked in Barton Hill for two years but now fears for his job after the ‘race wall’ was installed. He said: ‘It’s like a prison. There’s no difference between pollution here and [in richer areas], but here it’s closed. We will lose all that business.’

Disabled resident Melissa Topping, 55, has lived in Barton Hill for 11 years. She broke down in tears as she said: ‘It’s going to get to the stage of guerrilla warfare. It’s ethnic cleansing on steroids.

‘The physical [road]blocks are so scary. What if we need the fire brigade? They are blocking us in. We have eight tower blocks.

‘Lots of the [Somalis] work five or six different jobs a day. They need to get out. It’s seriously affecting their livelihoods.’

Bristol City Council has pledged to cut personal car usage by 44 percent in the next five years to meet its climate targets.

It said ‘liveable neighbourhood’ schemes like the EBLN were ‘key’ and would ‘re-design streets so that they are people friendly’.

Bristol City Council says the EBLN is a six-month trial after which it will ‘re-engage the community for feedback’.

It said: ‘Proposals for a permanent scheme layout will be consulted on after six to nine months of the scheme being in place. 

‘Local considerations may mean that a Liveable Neighbourhood warrants more time and adjustments before considering if it should be made permanent.’

Locals who spoke to MailOnline suggested that whatever happens, the council will not have the money to dismantle the scheme and agreed the barricades were ‘racist and classist’.

And although the Green-run council said the measures will improve air quality across a 450-acre area, people living in Barton Hill said the traffic will simply be forced around their homes instead. 

Locals also said that despite the measures trying to push people to give up cars in favour of public transport, buses only come once every half an hour if they show up at all.

Melissa added: ‘The council did the consultation here because an English online-only [consultation] would not be read.

‘It’s nuts. What’s the negative impact if this doesn’t go ahead?

‘We would like cleaner, safer streets. But they are not supporting any of the businesses at all. We have got nothing here.

‘They close all of this area. Why not another? The businesses are not going to be here in six months.

When she heard council workers installing the barriers, she went out on the road with her neighbours – and were met with dozens of cops from police riot vans lining the streets.

She claimed the police weren’t from Bristol.

Melissa added that far-right groups who are against traffic measures were also trying to infiltrate the area, bringing even more tension to the streets.

Her friend, charity worker Lisa Whitehouse, added: ‘They are ghettoising it. They are segregating them. 

‘[The council] doesn’t fund us. If it wasn’t for the lottery we would be f***ed.’

Not all residents, though, oppose the plan.

Father-of-one builder Terry Wilson, 47, lives in Redfield within the EBLN. Like many of his neighbours in the area where homes market for an average of £327,000, he backs the scheme.

Yet even he admitted the council had constructed it in a way that could lead to brutality on the streets of Bristol.

He said: ‘Some of it is good. It’s safer for bikers. They are doing this under the umbrella of pollution.

‘Most of the locals here are for it. A lot of people who aren’t in flats, who own their own houses, are very happy. House prices are going to go up.

 ‘It’s not for the poorer people. There’s massive construction – a huge development. Some of that has been swaying what’s happening here.

 ‘They put this [barrier] in stealthily overnight at 3 am.

‘They are trapping people to make them get the bus, but there aren’t many buses.

 ‘The Somali community think it’s a conspiracy against them. They have been protesting en masse.

‘It’s going to really kick off down there. 

‘They are getting ready to push them in. It’s all thought out. The high-rise flats are being pushed into one area.

‘Once the other measures are put in place, that’s where we are going to see riots.

‘It’s just bonkers. If they had listened to people we would have a better situation.’

For father-of-one Mark Gottshalk, 39, a cooling systems commissioning engineer, said ‘Enough is enough.’

He issued a rallying call to his neighbours, saying, ‘We need to come together and get our roads back.’

Mark said the new measures would mean driving his elderly father to hospital would take an extra 40 minutes.

He added: ‘I wish it never happened. [We have been] squashed in together. It’s beyond me. They are going to make it permanent.’

Barton Hill taxi driver Abdiweli, 45, said he was furious at the ‘race wall’.

He said: ‘I don’t understand why they are doing it. We need to open. We need to be fair. Why are they closing this area?’

Meanwhile, Zeravan Sadik, 40, who has run the kebab shop Alibaba’s Grill for five years, said the new barrier opposite the takeaway would put his store in the ground.

He said: ‘I’m going to close the business. We can’t do delivery. We are going to lose lots of customers. Nobody is happy.’

Another local said the council’s measures were ‘racist and classist barricades’.

Local greenkeeper Chris Southie, 34, added: ‘What are they trying to achieve? Everyone pro the scheme has the same answer – emissions.

‘But all you have done is move it to someone else’s. It’s disgusting.’

Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Clare Moody has said she is ‘investigating’ the police presence during the installation of the ‘race walls’. 

Councillor Ed Plowden, Chair of the Transport and Connectivity Committee, said: ‘We want residents in east Bristol to benefit from safer, greener and quieter streets while maintaining access to their homes, businesses and local services.

‘We recognise there are mixed opinions about the trial, and we fully support the right to protest, and the right for people to campaign for the change in the area. Trialling these measures for 6 months is the best way to gather the information needed to make an informed decision on the permanent solutions to improve air quality, increase walking and cycling, boost footfall for local shops, and make roads safer for all in the area.

‘Because some people have been putting themselves and our contractors at risk by placing themselves in the way of heavy machinery and large items being installed, such as the planters, works were planned for early morning. This was to reduce the risk of harm to all involved, which was the safest way to install the measures while supporting people’s right to peaceful protest. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the early start of the works, including to residents currently observing Ramadan. We will be returning to complete the remaining work at a later date.

‘Everyone can still drive to their properties within the trial area but they may need to go by a different route. Walking, wheeling and cycling access remains as it was. We have tested routes for all sized vehicles, including our waste vehicles.

‘This trial has been extensively consulted on over three years and has been co-designed with members of the community. It was planned and developed under the previous administration and has now, in the main, been delivered by the council. We will be asking for feedback about the trial and reviewing monitoring data, before making any decisions about the long-term proposals for East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood.’

A Bristol City Council spokesman added: ‘In January, Bristol City Council attempted to install a traffic management system in the Barton Hill area of the city, however, the works were disruptive and police were required to attend.

‘The local authority gave us advanced notice it was planning to recommence the works on March 13, and we decided to stand up a policing operation, with the first officers attending at 4 am, by which time the work had already begun. A total of 28 police officers were involved.

‘The policing operation had the objectives of ensuring peaceful protest could be facilitated and to prevent a breach of the peace. A small protest did take place and officers engaged with protestors to ensure the safety of everyone concerned.

‘Neighbourhood officers remained in the area throughout the day to engage with the public and answer any questions they may have.

‘We understand the strength of community feeling around this scheme and would encourage anyone with concerns about our policing to please speak to us. We received two complaints about the operation, but neither relates to the conduct of any of the officers involved.

‘Complaints about the behaviour or conduct of officers can be made through our website and will be assessed by the Professional Standards Department. Any allegations of this nature would be treated incredibly seriously and we’d encourage anyone to report them to us so they can be investigated.’

A request for a response from Avon and Somerset Police was not answered.

These are the things we should look forward to. Gated communities are on the way for the wealthy which will house everything they need – the remainder will be left in total deprivation, and don’t think you will be immune, you won’t!

One may wonder why there are so many Somalis living there. To protect themselves and their families, they are escaping war as a result of the severe civil turmoil that has occurred in their nation. In any event, that was the plan, but after this incident, I’m not sure that will be the case.

This is purely ethnic cleansing. Give Google a little look and then all we have to say is ‘Heil Hitler.’ And it looks like apartheid has gained approval in Green Bristol.

But let’s face it, the UK is becoming an Islamic state, and if they can put a barricade up in Bristol, why can’t they put one across the English channel?

Netflix’s Adolescence: Musk Spreads False Information

Elon Musk has come under fire once again for ‘amplifying’ misinformation, this time around Netflix drama Adolescence.

The smash hit drama, starring Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty, landed on the platform last week and has accumulated over 24 million views.

Divided into four one-take episodes, the series follows 13-year-old Jamie, who rising star Owen Cooper plays in his first-ever acting job, as he is accused of killing a female classmate, Katie (Emilia Holliday).

Jamie’s parents (portrayed by Christine Tremarco and Graham) are then forced to face the shocking incident as officers investigate the impact of his radicalisation and incel culture affecting young boys.

Adolescence has been praised worldwide for its extremely real—albeit terrifying—depiction of misogyny and how little many parents know about the ideologies their children are exposed to online.

However, as discourse rages on about how true-to-life the drama is, X owner Musk has been heavily criticised for permitting mistruths about its story to spread.

Taking to the platform this weekend, @stillgray shared a picture from episode 1, writing: ‘Netflix has a show called Adolescence that’s about a British knife killer who stabbed a girl to death on a bus and it’s based on real-life cases such as the Southport murderer.

‘So guess what. They race-swapped the actual killer from a black man/migrant to a white boy and the story has it that he was radicalized online by the red pill movement.

‘Just the absolute state of anti-white propaganda.’

The user, real name Ian Miles Cheong, boasts 1.2 million followers and his post has been viewed almost five million times.

Responding to it, Musk, who has an astronomical following of 220 million, voiced his surprise, writing simply: ‘Wow’.

Both have since been called out and enlightened on the actual influence behind Adolescence, with @Shayan86 explaining: ‘Adolescence is not based on the Southport attack or a single case. It was already in production and being filmed before Southport happened.’

Indeed, the Southport tragedy happened on July 29 last year, as 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana attacked children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, killing three girls and seriously injuring 10 others. Adolescence was filmed over six months between March and September.

‘The amount of viral nonsense that is posted as news on this app, often amplified by Elon Musk, is mind-boggling’, the X user added.

Echoing their thoughts, @Sensanetional said the prevalence of misinformation was ‘concerning’ and @priestleyl branded X a ‘hell site’.

As for what motivated Jack Thorne and Liverpudlian actor Graham to write Adolescence, the Boiling Point star has talked candidly about why he felt it was important to make.

In various interviews, Graham has explained that while the miniseries is not directly founded on one particular case, he drew inspiration from a series of shocking knife-related crimes.

‘Where it came from, for me, is there was an incident in Liverpool, a young girl, and she was stabbed to death by a young boy. I just thought, “Why?”,’ Graham began to Radio Times magazine.

‘Then there was another young girl in south London who was stabbed to death at a bus stop. And there was this thing up North, where that young girl, Brianna Ghey, was lured into the park by two teenagers, and they stabbed her.

‘I just thought, “What’s going on? What is this that’s happening?”‘

The This is England star added at a Netflix event earlier this year that the idea was ’10 years’ in the making.

‘We’ve seen an epidemic of knife crime amongst young lads up and down the country,’ Graham began.

‘And for me, there were certain instances that really stuck out were young boys—and they are young boys, you know? They’re not men—were killing young girls.

‘When I mentioned it to Phil [Barantini, director], it just really hit me hard.’

Graham also told Tudum that he wanted the show to ‘shine a spotlight’ on the alarming behaviour of these boys, who had been radicalised in online forums by the beliefs of figures like Andrew Tate.

‘One of our aims was to ask, “What is happening to our young men these days and what are the pressures they face from their peers, from the internet, and from social media?”,’ Graham continued. ‘And the pressures that come from all of those things are as difficult for kids here as they are the world over.’

The makers of Adolescence also wanted to show Jamie’s family life as secure and caring, which only served to emphasise how dangerous the internet can be for youngsters in their bedrooms at night.

‘When these things are on the news, your judgement instantly goes to blaming the family, you blame the mum and dad,’ Graham shared in January.

‘We’re all guilty of it because that’s the easy common denominator. I just thought, “What if that’s not the case at all?”‘

Regarding Elon Musk, is anyone paying any attention to his writings these days? He is a very pitiful person who, instead of sowing discord and hatred, could be accomplishing so much more with his influence.

Is there anything Musk won’t butt in on! He simply leaps in, circulating his own opinion without sound research.

The series was great, in my opinion, and it emphasises how important it is for parents to know what their children are exposed to online.

Anyone with half a brain can see this amazing programme has nothing to do with Southport, or indeed ethnicity, and in various discussions, Graham demonstrated that while the miniseries was not directly founded on one particular case, he drew inspiration from a series of shocking knife-related crimes.

A Fatal Mistake Was Made By A Hospital

When Bonnie’s parents observed a strange bulge on her left arm at the age of five, they took her to the hospital.

She was sent home with her arm in a sling after the doctors informed them that it was only a sprain.

Two months later, Bonnie’s parents were given the sad news that it was actually an aggressive cancer and they had just months left with their little princess.

In the time since she had first gone to the hospital in December – just days after celebrating her fifth birthday – the cancer had spread to her lungs through her bloodstream and the tumour in her arm was restricting blood flow and releasing toxins that damage the kidneys.

Specialists said the young child would have to have her arm amputated to stop further damage before then being started on palliative chemotherapy.

The cancer, Rhabdoid Sarcoma, is said to be exceedingly rare but aggressive, only affecting approximately eight children a year.

Speaking to MailOnline, step-mother Caroline Spence said: ‘It’s been horrific. It’s been really tough.

 ‘A lot has happened in a small space of time, it’s hard to process.

‘It’s really upsetting having to watch her with her little one arm, trying to do everyday tasks that we take for granted.

‘We’re just trying to navigate giving her the best time we have left with her. We want the entire time to be really special for her.

‘Her arm was amputated on March 3 and she started chemo on March 5, so two days later. So it’s been a lot for Bonnie.

‘It’s a really aggressive chemo because the tumour is so aggressive. 

‘They’re giving her chemo to hopefully give her a bit more time with us, but there is no cure.

‘If her body responds to the chemo, then we’ve been told we have six to 12 months, 12 months as the absolute max.

‘If it doesn’t respond to it, then they say they’ll stop it and she’ll have a month or two after.

‘We’ve been trying to protect our other two children from it all, who are eight and two.

‘My eight-year-old Jennifer is aware Bonnie is ill but doesn’t know she is terminal.’

Bonnie, who loves music and is constantly eager to play outside, is presently being looked for in Newcastle by her father, Iain Spence, and her stepmother, Caroline, with frequent visits from her mother, Zoey.

This kind of cancer is so horrible, and if these doctors sent her home without performing an X-ray or CT scan, they should be put to shame, and they should be sacked and never allowed to practice medicine again.

This little girl was misdiagnosed, but due to the parent’s persistence, she received the correct diagnosis – not everyone would have returned to the hospital after already being diagnosed by a seemingly all-knowing doctor.

This poor little girl was failed again by the NHS – they ignore people’s concerns time and time again and it is appalling.

Will the doctor who sent her home without doing the necessary blood tests be fired and accused of negligence? I really doubt it. Honestly, I’m not a doctor and even I know that doesn’t look like a sprain.

What kind of doctor ignores this type of lump as a sprain? Just who are we employing in our hospitals? I realise there is little funding in the NHS but this is unacceptable and negligent medical practice.

I’m curious to know what CEOs in the healthcare sector think about this.

Ed Miliband Admits His Solar Panels Bought For English Schools And Hospitals Are Chinese And May Be Made Using Coal

Ed Miliband has admitted that solar panels for English schools and hospitals will come from China, despite concerns over human rights and environmental impacts.

The first project of the Energy Secretary’s new green quango will see it oversee a £180 million project to install rooftop panels on 200 school buildings and nearly as many NHS sites.

He informed reporters yesterday that the Great British Energy initiative will instantly reduce electricity costs for the public sector because services will be able to sell excess power back to the National Grid.

But when asked where the solar panels will come from he conceded that some will come from China, which is responsible for an estimated 80 percent of total global supply. Questioned why British ones were not being used, Mr Miliband told LBC radio: ‘Our solar panel industry has not got this kind of share of the market.’

When asked if they would come from China or Russia, he said: ‘Some of them will be, they’ll be from different countries, but that’s why we’ve got to build our domestic industry.’

Critics claim that transporting materials from China, where they were probably made using electricity from coal-fired power plants, is illogical for Britain’s goal to reduce emissions in the UK.

The Conservatives’ energy spokesman Andrew Bowie said: ‘If these solar panels do come from thousands of miles away it shows how ridiculous this whole thing is. Ed Miliband and his eco warriors need to get real.’

Concerns have also been raised about the use of Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang province by China’s solar power sector. A proposal to ban public support of renewable energy businesses that use forced labour in their supply chains will be discussed by MPs next week.

Labour ministers are likely to use their majority in the Commons to get the amendment to the Great British Energy Bill removed from the legislation, even though the Lords passed it last month in a loss for the Government.

Luke de Pulford, of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, told the Mail: ‘Uyghur forced labour is rife in the solar supply chain, and very little is being done about it.

‘Where’s the climate justice in a green transition built on modern slavery? I hope the Government sees sense.’

Sources said strict procurement rules will allow the Department for Education and the NHS to end contracts with suppliers that have broken slavery laws.

Ed Milliband is a complete moron, and I believe that most people will agree with me, but then perhaps I’m being unkind to morons because Milliband is in a class of his own making.

He embodies the Labour Cabinet’s tendency to make things up as they go along since they are unaware of how they are financially and ethically bankrupting the United Kingdom.

Let’s discuss EVs being a scam while we’re at it. See how it’s manufactured.

Batteries require two million litres of water to create one ton of lithium. This is causing serious stress on water resources, and mining waste is discarded into rivers and lakes. Children are being sent to mines to mine lithium, all because fools believe it’s more environmentally friendly.

Even though smartphones, laptops, and electric cars are symbols of the contemporary world, the cobalt used in their rechargeable batteries is often extracted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo using slave labour.

The DRC has more cobalt deposits than the whole world combined, and studies on child labour, human trafficking, and modern-day slavery have been conducted for 20 years.

DRC’s cobalt is being removed by so-called ‘artisanal’ miners – freelance workers who do extremely dangerous labour for the equivalent of just a few dollars a day.

People are labouring in subhuman, gruelling, terrible conditions.

To collect cobalt and move it up the official supply chain, they rummage and hack at the ground in trenches, pits, and tunnels using pickaxes, shovels, and lengths of rebar.

The air surrounding mines is cloudy with dust and grit, millions of trees have been felled, and the water has been tainted by hazardous mining processing effluents.

Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe—and there are hundreds of thousands of impoverished Congolese people touching and breathing it day in and day out. Young mothers with infants strapped to their backs, all breathing in this toxic cobalt dust.

The production of practically all lithium-ion rechargeable batteries used today involves cobalt. Furthermore, although people outside the DRC distinguish between cobalt that was mined by the nation’s sophisticated industrial mining firms and that that was dug by artisanal miners, the two are inherently linked.

Cobalt extracted by industrial excavators and cobalt excavated by women and children using their bare hands are completely cross-contaminated.

Cobalt is crucial for technological equipment and the switch to renewable energy sources.

We shouldn’t be switching to electric cars at the expense of the environment and people in one of the world’s most destitute and oppressed regions.

According to the legislation, artisanal mining is technically prohibited in all industrial mines. Nevertheless, it turns out that artisanal mining is occurring in the majority of industrial mines.

Visualize a whole population of people who cannot survive without scrounging in hazardous conditions for a dollar or two a day. There is no alternative there. The mines have taken over everything.

Imagine families whose children, husbands, and spouses had suffered horrendous injuries. Frequently, digging in these larger open-air pits, where a pit wall collapses. Visualize a mountain of rock and stone just avalanching down on people, crushing legs, arms and spines.

Everywhere you look, you may find opportunities to earn money. You also have these militias. They will kidnap, traffic, and recruit youngsters from even distant regions of the Congo; they are sometimes referred to as commandos.

A significant portion of the issue is corruption. That’s the reason why so much of this abuse continues. The problem is, picture the Congo. It’s a war-torn, extremely poor country that has seen centuries of ransacking and pillaging, dating back to the slave trade. It is thus not implausible to assume that corruption will occur when significant foreign stakeholders arrive brandishing substantial quantities of money.

The Council Tax Soars, But The Service Is RUBBISH

After millions were slapped with inflation-busting bills, struggling households will have to pay record amounts of council tax this year.

Homes across England face paying an average of £2,280 after almost all town halls increased the tax by the maximum 5 percent allowed, official figures confirmed yesterday.

It means rates for a standard Band D property have skyrocketed by 20 percent in just five years. 

And it comes as residents in Birmingham – where bills are up 17.5 percent in two years – chased bin lorries down the street after a week-long walkout left piles of rubbish bags standing waist high, with rats running rampant.

Hundreds of thousands of homes will have to fork out more than £2,500 for council services this year, the new data revealed, while growing numbers will pay more than £5,000.

Residents in six parts of England face increases above the usual 5 percent after ministers agreed their struggling town halls required more money.

And the Tories pointed out that four of them – Bradford, Newham, Birmingham and Trafford – are Labour-run, while the other two, Somerset and Windsor, are controlled by the Liberal Democrats.

The central theme of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s party’s local election campaign was the shortcomings at Birmingham City Council, where an equal-pay lawsuit and IT fiasco had rendered Europe’s largest local body insolvent.

At yesterday’s takeoff, she warned that Labour councils ‘always cost you more and deliver less’, adding: ‘Labour has run Birmingham into the ground. All while Labour councillors gave themselves a pay rise. Don’t let Labour do that to your council – if you vote Labour, you get trash.’

Since Rachel Reeves’ budget raised the amount of National Insurance that town halls must pay for its employees, the Conservatives have accused Labour of pressuring them to raise their costs.

Local government spokesman Kevin Hollinrake said: ‘This Labour Government is driving up costs for councils across the country with their jobs tax. It’s no surprise they have raised council tax by 5 percent, with the highest increases by Labour and Liberal Democrat councils.

‘This has been engineered by Labour, who have left town halls to foot the blame when record bills hit the doormat.’

While the opposition leader in 2023, Sir Keir Starmer claimed Labour would have frozen council tax for a year if it had been in power. But since moving into government, no such hold has been enforced.

Labour envisions the UK awash in trash, overrun by undocumented immigrants, and governed by an inept parliament where nothing functions as it should.

It appears that only a fraction of our Council Tax is used for services. The vast majority is being used to finance a new life for new arrivals and money to aid other nations.

These new arrivals got to spend the winter in comfortable hotels that were heated and provided food. Starmer and Reeves have ignored the pleas of those who said their most brutal policies would ensure pensioners and the disabled were left to choose heat or eat, and many have died as a result of this evil approach.

Our armed services have fought to protect the UK and then are left on the streets or again are left to choose heat or eat, and also many have died because of this. We are treated like common criminals, and even they have human rights on their side while our government spends millions on illegals.

Council tax is the most insane and pointless costed bill. It’s not founded on any logic, and we are being charged outrageous prices for it. At this rate, it would be more sensible to get a flight to France and come back on a dingy and get rewarded handsomely, and the same councillors will still be getting their free lunches, free parking, subsidised fuel allowance plus over inflated salaries and pensions – reminds me of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm.’

Musk’s Estranged Daughter Calls Him A ‘Pathetic Man-Child’: ‘I Don’t Give A F–k About Him’

Elon Musk’s estranged transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, slammed the tech tycoon as a “pathetic man-child.”

During a lengthy interview with Teen Vogue published Thursday, Wilson shared her honest emotions about the Tesla CEO when questioned if she’s “scared” of him.

“He’s a pathetic man-child,” Wilson quipped. “Why would I feel scared of him? Ohhh, he has so much power. Nah, nah, nah. I don’t give a f–k. Why should I be scared of this man? Because he’s rich? Oh, no, I’m trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here.”

“I don’t give a f–k how much money anyone has. I don’t. I really don’t. He owns Twitter. OK. Congratulations,” she continued.

The 20-year-old admitted that most people “thrive off of fear,” but she’s “not giving anyone that space in [her] mind.”

“The only thing that gets to live free in my mind are drag queens,” she quipped.

Wilson also addressed her dad’s newfound political involvement with President Trump and her reaction to him heading the Department of Government Efficiency.

“I’ll see things about him in the news and think, ‘That’s f–king cringe, I should probably post about this and denounce it,’ which I have done a few times,” she stated.

Wilson specifically pointed out a gesture Musk, 53, made during a Trump rally that some people likened to a Nazi salutation. Both Musk and the Anti-Defamation League have denied that he was mimicking the notorious salutation.

“The Nazi salute s–t was insane,” Wilson told Teen Vogue. “Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That s–t was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is equally to blame, and I feel like people are not talking about that. That crowd should be denounced.”

However, Wilson––whose mom is Musk’s first wife, Justine Wilson––said that “other than that,” she still does “not give a f–k about him.”

“It’s annoying that people associate me with him,” she admitted. “I just don’t have any room to care anymore.”

Wilson confirmed that she and Musk have not spoken since 2020. She told the outlet she does “not keep up” with the eight children that Musk fathered with other women.

“I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have if you include half-siblings,” she admitted. “I don’t really give a f–k what they do. This is not my problem, OK?”

Musk and Justine also welcomed Vivian’s twin, son Griffin, and 19-year-old triplet boys named Kai, Saxon and Damian while they were married from 2000 to 2008.

The college student has previously spoken out against her dad, accusing him of allegedly using sex-selective IVF for his children. She has also publicly called him a “serial adulterer” and alleged that she “disowned” him.

Elon Musk has not been present enough in his children’s lives because he thinks he’s so self-important, and he deserves all the vitriol he’s getting. Unfortunately, his sanity has left the building.

I’m sure Vivian Jenna Wilson receives a lot of criticism and jeering since she is transsexual. We’ve gone a long way since homosexual people were labelled sick and had their orientation medicalised, but there are still some extremely homophobic people in the world.

However, because we are all unique and don’t fall into one category, I’m confident that Vivian will make a significant contribution to society, much like the great Alexander the Great, Alan Turing, Isaac Newton, Elton John, Clive Davis, and others did in the past.

Elon Musk is extremely child-like and has had dozens of ‘designer’ children to stoke his enormous ego, which was basically what Vivien was saying about Elon, but I fear that under all that hostile rhetoric lies a shattered heart because children want to know and love their parents, despite what they say.

France’s Invasion Guide: Surviving A Nuclear Attack

France is set to issue a survival manual to homes nationwide, warning citizens how to respond to an invasion or any other ‘imminent threat’.

The surprising move comes as tensions grow in Europe and fears rise over Russia’s confrontational tactics.

The new 20-page booklet, reportedly packed with 63 measures, will inform the French on how to defend themselves and their families in the event of armed conflict, natural catastrophes, industrial accidents or even a nuclear leak.

It will include information on constructing a ‘survival kit’ with essentials including six litres of water, canned food, batteries, a torch and basic medical supplies such as paracetamol and bandages.

Importantly, it will guide what to do in the event of an impending assault, including how to participate in local defensive initiatives by joining firefighting or reserve forces.

Citizens will also be told to ‘lock their doors’ in the event of a nuclear incident  –  advice that has already drawn ridicule from commentators.

The French government maintains that the pamphlet is not a direct reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite its concerning content.

President Emmanuel Macron has previously warned that Europe must be equipped to face the ‘Russian threat’ and adapt to the possibility that America could scale back its military aid.

Earlier this week, Macron announced that French fighter jets equipped with new-generation hypersonic nuclear missiles will be sent to the German border as part of his bid to renew France’s airborne nuclear deterrent.

Officials from the General Secretariat for Defence and National Security (SGDSN), which oversaw the booklet’s creation, claim the purpose of the survival guide is just to support France’s strength in the face of ‘all types of crises’.

The decision to draft the booklet reportedly dates back to 2022, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a national strategy to improve public preparedness. 

But the timing of its release – expected before summer if approved by Prime Minister François Bayrou – has raised eyebrows.

French newspaper Le Figaro noted that the kit’s rollout ‘could easily suggest that the state is reacting to the unstable international situation’.

Macron has recently called for Europe to rearm in the face of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and America’s uncertain commitment to upholding European security under Donald Trump.

He initiated a doubling of the French defence budget over his two terms and recently set an even higher target, saying the country should increase defence spending to 3-3.5 percent of economic output from the current 2 percent. 

France’s public investment bank Bpifrance will launch a €450 million (£377 million) fund dedicated to funding defence projects as part of the country’s efforts to ramp up military spending, finance minister Eric Lombard said on Thursday.

‘French citizens will be able, by tranches of €500 (£419), to invest their money in the long term,’ Lombard told TF1.

According to the finance and defence ministries, French defence industries would require more than five billion euros in extra equity capital over the next years.

Macron has also offered to extend the safety of France’s nuclear weapons, the so-called nuclear umbrella, to other European countries.

During a visit to Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur airbase in northeast France on Tuesday, he told aircrews their base will soon receive a squadron of Rafale F5s – the latest evolution of France’s premier fighter jet that is expected to enter service in 2030.

The jets will be equipped with the ASN4G – a nuclear hypersonic cruise missile currently under development that will reportedly fly at more than 5,000 mph with double the range of France’s current air-launched nuclear weapons.

Macron said the government had earmarked more than €1.5 billion to transform Luxeuil – a renowned World War One airbase just 80km from Germany – into one of the nation’s most cutting-edge military facilities.

Rafale F5s equipped with the next-gen nuclear hypersonic missiles would be equipped for deployment at the base by 2035, he said to a crowd of Air Force pilots and officers outside their hangars.

‘We haven’t waited for 2022 or the turning point we’re seeing right now to discover that the world we live in is ever more dangerous, ever more uncertain and that it implies to innovate, to bulk up and to become more autonomous,’ he said Tuesday.

‘I will announce in the coming weeks new investments to go further than what was done over the past seven years,’ he added.

Macron also said that the government would order additional Rafale warplanes from French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation to replace ageing Mirage fighter jets – some of which were sent to Ukraine.

Earlier this month, it was said that Poland would soon send out a handbook for its citizens on how to survive forthcoming crises after it warned its male population would have to go through military training amid growing tensions with Russia.

This year, the nation, which shares borders with Russia and Ukraine, will distribute the pamphlets to households.

The pamphlets will advise them on ‘how to deal with various hazardous situations,’ a deputy director for the interior ministry’s civil protection unit, Robert Klonowski, told the PAP news agency.

Civilians will be given wartime information on how to cope with ‘a power outage lasting several days or several hours,’ he said, adding that the information would also serve for reacting to natural disasters.

The brochure will be issued in Polish and Ukrainian for the 900,000 Ukrainian refugees in the country.

‘We are also planning a special version, or at least part of this guide, addressed to children,’ Klonowski added.

Poland is one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies in the European Union and hosts a logistics hub through which NATO and EU member states have been sending military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.

It has been warily eyeing Russia and has been ramping up its defences, as Vladimir Putin’s aggression rages on.

Poland has been making overtures towards a war footing in recent weeks, with the country’s prime minister Donald Tusk revealing that his government is working out a strategy to militarily train all men in the event of a war. 

Sweden, Norway and Finland have already taken similar measures amid growing geopolitical instability. 

Last year, Sweden sent out five million copies of a chilling 32-page booklet titled If Crisis or War Comes, advising citizens to stock up on food and water and be ready for an armed attack.

‘An insecure world requires preparedness. The military threat to Sweden has increased and we must prepare for the worst – an armed attack,’ its introduction states.

Norway’s directorate for civil protection distributed a similar guide last year, warning its citizens: ‘We live in an increasingly turbulent world.’

The Norwegian booklet urges citizens to keep stock of medicine, a supply of cash, and at least a week’s worth of non-perishable food items including ‘crispbreads, canned pulses and beans, canned sandwich spreads, energy bars, dried fruit, chocolate, honey, biscuits and nuts’.

Finland has also launched a government website describing how to prepare for various ‘longer-term crises’ including ‘military conflict’.

Germany made a similar announcement in November, saying it was creating a list of bunkers that would be able to offer residents emergency refuge in the case of conflict.

The Interior Ministry announced underground train stations, car parks, state buildings and private properties could all be harnessed for protection.

The French survival guide has already provoked mockery despite all the preparations made by other European nations.

French comedian Matthieu Noël scoffed at the idea of telling people to ‘stock up’ and ‘lock their doors’ if a nuclear bomb hits.

‘Putin could drop a nuclear bomb on Paris, Ebola could strike the Cantal – we’ll be ready,’ he joked on France Inter. 

‘While you’re at it, why not advise against snorkelling during a tsunami?’

The UK, meanwhile, has shown no signs of following suit. 

The British government last issued similar guidance during the Cold War with the notorious Protect and Survive booklet, which urged citizens to paint their windows white and build a ‘fallout room’ in the event of nuclear war.

 A 2004 campaign following the Madrid bombings offered updated guidance, but there’s been little activity since.

Is this all fear-mongering rhetoric – are we going to war? Or is this just politics and nothing else? Perhaps we simply need protecting from our own governments.

Sorry, but when the poo does hit the fan, it will be everybody for themselves as demonstrated by the UK toilet roll shortage during COVID. Can you even imagine what it would be like if there was a real war?

DWP To Cut PIP And Other Welfare Payments

Many nationwide will be alarmed by the Labour government’s announcement that it would be slashing billions of pounds from the nation’s welfare bill.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will speak in the House of Commons and is expected to confirm a huge package of cuts to welfare. This is despite growing unrest from Labour MPs on the matter.

Downing Street has said there is a “moral and an economic case” for an overhaul and that the changes set to be set out by Ms Kendall will put the welfare system “back on a more sustainable path”.

Some reports have suggested that as much as £5 billion could be cut from welfare payments, including modifications to the Personal Independence Payment, which is the primary benefit for disabled people.

Ms Kendall aimed to reassure MPs on Monday that the reforms would ensure “trust and fairness” in the social security system and make sure benefits are available “for people who need it now, and for years to come”.

The government has revealed a string of changes to the welfare system, claiming that these adjustments will assist people in finding work.

Responses to the different measures have been mixed; while some have been welcomed, others have been criticised as “draconian cuts that will push more disabled individuals into poverty.”

It is “rather crass” to present welfare reforms as a way of saving money, Labour former minister Dawn Butler told the Commons, as she urged the Government to tax millionaires instead.

Ms Butler said the employment service has “always needed reform”, adding: “How we go about it, and the way we go about it, is fundamental and important, and I don’t think it should be linked to saving money, because that’s rather crass, and it’s caused lots of anxiety for my constituents in Brent East and elsewhere.

“The patriotic millionaires have said that just a 2 percent on assets over £10 million will bring in £22 billion a year. That’s a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in.”

Ms Butler continued: “Does the minister agree with me that aspiration, compassion, care, fairness will be the hallmark of this Labour Government?”

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall replied: “Aspiration, compassion, care, fairness is absolutely a hallmark of this Government. That is why we are bringing forward these reforms.

“And as I said earlier to the House, I don’t start from a spreadsheet, I start from my belief that everybody has a value and a contribution to make in whatever way and that we want people to fulfil their potential.”

The Liberal Democrats said they support getting more people into work, but their work and pensions spokesman said he feared the effects of the reforms.

Steve Darling (Torbay) said the “significant blocker” in getting people into work was the state of the health and social care system. Health Secretary Wes Streeting was sitting on the Government benches several places down from Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall.

Mr Darling said: “The devil is in the detail of these proposals, and I do fear what we will find as we turn over rocks over the next few days, particularly for those who are most vulnerable.

“The minister has described the system as a broken system, and so therefore I would like to ask the minister how is (she) driving significant change through this. I fear this is tinkering around the edges where we need to see real culture change within the DWP.”

Ms Kendall said £26 billion was being invested into the NHS, £172 million into the disabled facilities grant, and £3.7 billion into social care.

She added: “We do need a decisive cultural shift in the DWP.”

She continued: “Our pathways to work employment support programme genuinely is that, because for some people getting out of the house is an achievement, for others going along to a community thing, maybe doing voluntary action, getting skills, that is what we mean.”

Helen Whately, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary responded to Ms Kendall, saying: “This is a now or never chance to seize the moment, a now or never for millions of people who will otherwise be signed off for what could end up being a lifetime on benefits, but this announcement today leaves me with more questions than answers.

“How many people will this help back into work? By when? Surely we haven’t been waiting eight months just for another green paper? Where is the fit note reform, crucial to stem the flow of people onto benefits? Where is the action on people being signed off sick for the everyday ups and downs of life?

“Why is she only planning to save £5 billion when the bill is forecast to rise to over £100 billion?

“Fundamentally, this is too little, too late. The fact is £5 billion just doesn’t cut it. With a bill so big, going up so fast, she needed to be tougher. She should be saying no more hard-working taxpayers funding the family next door not to work. No more free top-of-the-range cars for people who don’t need them.”

Cuts to benefits will cause “pain and difficulty” to the most vulnerable, a Labour MP has said.

Clive Lewis (Norwich South) asked Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall whether her department understood the impact the reforms would have.

Mr Lewis said: “When she made the decision to go down this route, did they understand the pain and difficulty that this will cause millions of people, millions of our constituents who are using food banks, who are using social supermarkets, people who are on the brink.

“This £5 billion cut is going to impact them more than I think her department is giving credit for, and I would like her department to be able to look my constituents in the eye when I go back to them to tell them that this is going to work for them. Because as things stand, my constituents, my friends, my family are very angry about this and they do not think this is the kind of action that a Labour government takes.”

We might be able to save some money if we tighten down on the £8 billion we spend each year on illegal immigration. The absurdity of net zero and all the other money our government is wasting may be avoided if we cut down on handing our money away to foreign nations.

Sadly they pick on the natives first, way before anyone who enters this country illegally.

Starmer took the Labour Party to court in 2003, demanding payments for illegal immigrants. Because of his victory, Starmer and Labour will not take any action to lower the number of illegal migrants, their lodging expenses, or their perks.

While the UK is in debt, all foreign financing should be discontinued.

It’s disgusting that Labour is wasting billions of our pounds on people who shouldn’t be here and that their only solution is to use our most vulnerable members of society to fund their immigration army, and it seems that economically idle migrants come before our pensioners and disabled.

Our government send billions to Ukraine, to Africa and India. Billions on boat people – Starmer and Reeves are communists and pork pie merchants and the people of the UK should rise up because this is getting worse day by day.

And they say pensioners are a drain on society, at least they paid in. So now I’ve decided I’m going to live to be 100 just to enrage this government.

Our authorities ought to prohibit these boats from coming in and then deport the ones who do manage to get in. Without a doubt, they should cease assisting the millions of non-native English speakers who will never find employment.

And our Labour government believe that they can keep blaming the Tories for all this chaos, and we will do the same – we won’t!

I wish they would quit repeating the rhetoric that blames the previous government for everything that isn’t great because it gets very old. It only demonstrates their lack of creativity.

To negate the books they should cut goodies for those who arrive on our shores, uninvited and not wanted. They arrive, and they are given everything they require. Items that if we wanted them would have to work for, like furnishings, garments, mobile phones and driving lessons et cetera, while we British work longer and pay more tax.

Eight billion a year for illegals over 5 years, that’s 40 billion saved, but then I guess every penny counts when you’re spending £4300,000,000 on asylum seekers, hotels and legal costs.

They get everything we don’t. Cleaners make their bed and clean their room. Three hundred pounds for a voucher for a bike. Doctors visit their hotel, you name it, they get it. There is no hope for this country and it doesn’t pay to be British.

Mother-Of-Two, 22, Who Lied To The Department For Work And Pensions For Years

A mum broke down in tears in court after lying about her two children living with her to claim more than £16,000 illegally. Kayley Evans, 22, was 18 when she first embarked on the erroneous claim, a court heard.

Prosecutor Nabiha Ahmed said Evans received Universal Credit on the basis she was single, unemployed, and had two children living with her. She specifically notified the DWP to add the second child to her claim.

“In fact, the first child was placed into care a few weeks after being born and the second was placed into care immediately. Neither child has ever lived with Miss Evans,” she said.

Evans broke down in tears at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court which heard neither of her children had ever lived at her address because they had been taken into care, Birmingham Live reports.

Ms Ahmed said Evans ‘understood’ this would impact on her benefits claim. She confirmed the overpayment of Universal Credit was more than £16,000 and that Evans had no previous convictions.

She pleaded guilty to a charge of dishonestly making a false statement to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to obtain a benefit, advantage or payment. The court heard Evans had not been assessed for a mental health treatment requirement.

But Alexandra Youster, defending, said she preferred to be sentenced on the day rather than the case be adjourned, providing she would not be sent to prison.

She said: “I’m not sure the benefits of a mental health treatment requirement would outweigh the stress these proceedings are causing Miss Evans. If you were minded not to impose a non-custodial sentence today I would ask you to do that.”

Ms Youster added: “The offences date back to 2020. She had just turned 18 and had just left the care system herself. There’s a lot of background and trauma in this lady’s life. She was around very bad people and she was unwell at the time.

“Positively, since this all took place she is doing really well. She’s got her own flat. She has been working, albeit sporadically – she’s employed at two different locations. She has started a university course. I think this perhaps shows the naivety of this lady and lack of awareness she really does have.”

Evans, of Fordbridge, Solihull, was sentenced to a two-year community order with 20 days of rehabilitation activity requirement.

She was ordered to pay a £114 victim surcharge but nothing towards prosecution costs due to her lack of financial means. Her illegally claimed benefits will be retrieved separately.

District Judge Michelle Smith told her: “I can step back from a custodial sentence. I was considering a suspended sentence because of the value and length of time (of the offence).

“But I can step back in view of your age, circumstances and everything I have read about you, the trauma you have suffered as well. I’m minded that rehabilitation will prevent further offending.”

The money that this lady illegally received will be retrieved from her by the DWP either by garnishment of her earnings or any benefits she will now legally claim.

She broke the law, she cheated the system. However, it doesn’t seem like she’s had a good life to date.

I’m not condoning her actions and she will have to pay it all back, but what about all the deception and dishonesty at the hands of our politicians? For those who have never had to rely on benefits, let’s hope you never have to.

Sometimes when you’re in such a dark place you make mistakes. This lady had a lot of trauma in her life which can cause mental health issues, and prison isn’t always the solution.

After leaving the care system, she was obviously left on her own and would not have had any family assistance. Care leavers require organised and continuous help, and the care system requires a significant rethink and investment.

If a child isn’t shown any love from their mother or is neglected, then they don’t have a role model. If their parents aren’t fit to care for them, how do they know what is ‘normal’?

This would have been a young girl who had left the care system with very little experience of being loved or cared about and would have had no feeling of self-worth, and a lot of young people look for love in the wrong way because they don’t know any better ways, and very little chance of a happy life.

A Candidate Who Called Hitler ‘Brilliant’ Oversees Party Vetting

The man in charge of vetting Reform UK’s candidates for the next general election glorified Hitler as ‘brilliant’. 

Jack Aaron, who was the party’s candidate in Welwyn Hatfield in last year’s election, also made remarks in the past calling Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad ‘gentle by nature’ and claimed Russia’s use of force in Ukraine was ‘legitimate’.

His shocking views first came to light during the election campaign which he defended by claiming there was a context and ‘nuances’ in the way he was viewing them through a psychological perspective.

 Despite the controversy, Mr Aaron is currently Reform UK’s head of vetting.

The position includes studying prospective candidates’ social media outputs and advising them on what should be deleted.

It comes after more than 100 candidates were sacked or removed for offensive and racist comments.

In September, Nigel Farage declared that the party’s vetting process would be more strict to sidestep a comparable humiliation at the next election which polls at the moment suggest Reform could succeed.

A representative for Reform UK told the Guardian: ‘Mr Aaron is Jewish, and sits on his local synagogue council. His grandfather came to this country as a refugee from Vienna and much of his family on that side were murdered by Hitler’s regime.

‘Reform UK does not disclose details of our internal vetting process and nor staff members involved.’

Mr Aaron came third in Welwyn Hatfield with slightly over 13 percent of the vote and finished behind the defeated Tory minister, Grant Shapps.

According to his LinkedIn page, he is a business psychologist, consultant, YouTuber, coach, relationship counsellor and matchmaker.

It adds that he set up the World Socionics Society – a group promoting the notion that there are 16 personality types – which began as a Facebook group.

Mr Aaron declared his remarks about dictators were part of a pseudoscientific theory of personality types.

In a post on social media in 2022, Mr Aaron said Hitler was ‘brilliant in using Fe+Ni [socionics personality traits] to inspire people into action’.

Days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he said that those who called Putin insane ‘do not understand him and limit their ability to oppose him’.

He added: ‘The motivation to acquire and wield force is legitimate, and there is a whole group of personality types inclined to this, and they have historically shaped the world we live in.’

In a comment on Reddit, he said that Assad was ‘gentle by nature’ and not ‘some bloodthirsty tyrant who exercises control over his people with an iron fist’.

He also declared the Syrian oppressor had been ‘led astray’ by social stereotyping.

Mr Aaron and Reform UK have been contacted by MailOnline for comment.

Mr Aaron did not say that Hitler was ‘brilliant’. What he said was that he was brilliant at manipulating voters. His remarks have been taken out of context.

History demonstrates that propaganda and the perception of inferiority in one’s own nation were the main factors in Hitler’s ascent to power.

It’s astounding how many people overlook the details, which is why this nation is in a downward spiral.

There’s a major difference between being brilliant and being evil and Hitler was just evil. Hitler was actually extremely intelligent, he was also a monster.

Even while we agree that there have been many wicked dictators throughout history who were excellent military commanders and strategic strategists, we nevertheless believe that they were bad and committed wrongdoing.

Hitler was probably the most outstanding leader in documented history. He came from nowhere, with nothing, and created his empire through little more than his intellect and determination. Of course, it all ended in ashes, and it took the rest of the world working together to bring him down.

Genghis Khan was also a bloodthirsty leader who killed people on such a scale that it might have even changed the climate. However, history regards him as a prominent leader, yet at the time he would have been despised by his opponents, and Hitler is reckoned in just the same way.

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