Boris Johnson Compares Keir Starmer’s Police To The Soviets

Boris Johnson has attacked the growing scourge of ‘thought police’ in Sir Keir Starmer’s Britain, comparing it to ‘the Soviet Union at its worst’.

Writing in today’s Daily Mail, the former prime minister says investigations by police into comments on social media come ‘straight out of 1980s Romania and the horrible curtain-twitching culture by which people reported on their friends—even their family members’.

It comes amid an increasing backlash over ‘non-crime hate incidents’, where already overstretched officers probe comments and actions not considered serious enough to constitute an offence.

Two Essex police officers visited newspaper writer Allison Pearson this week after receiving a complaint over a social media post from a year ago that has since been removed, bringing the situation into the public eye.

Ms Pearson says she has not been told which message generated the accusation, or who made it. Mr Johnson said that was ‘obviously wrong, and tyrannical, and redolent of the Soviet Union at its worst’.

‘The police should clearly abandon immediately their investigation into this deleted tweet,’ he said.

‘The whole thing would be a complete joke if it were not so serious for Allison Pearson – and for all of us living in Starmer’s Britain today.’

The Free Speech Union has branded non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) as ‘thought policing’ as it was revealed they have been used to investigate children as young as nine.

Sir Keir this week backed their use, prompting Mr Johnson to attack the PM’s ‘deathless skill in plonking himself on the wrong side of the argument’.

‘If someone doesn’t like what you have said, you can be done for a non-crime hate incident or worse, and be damned forever. Isn’t it a nightmare?

‘It’s certainly a disaster for policing because good officers are having to waste their time on this nonsense so that they can’t attend burglaries, and every hour that they spend scanning the ether for ‘offensive’ tweets is an hour they can’t spend on the beat deterring the criminal gangs who swipe your mobile phone.’

He adds: ‘Inch by inch, we are losing our place on the moral high ground. Our enemies can detect this erosion of old British freedoms, and they will unhesitatingly exploit it… We are seeing a relentless and sometimes brutal drowning-out of those who dare to dissent.’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch told The Daily Telegraph: ‘We need to stop this behaviour of people wasting police time on trivial incidents because they don’t like something as if they’re in a nursery. It’s like children reporting each other.’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves agreed, saying that investigating children’s playground-style comments was not ‘the best use of police time’.

Officers should focus on ensuring ‘towns and high streets are safe’ instead, she added.

A former Director of Public Prosecutions also warned that a suggestion that police should record yet more ‘trivial’ NCHIs would be a ‘terrible mistake’. Lord Macdonald urged Home Secretary Yvette Cooper not to weaken restrictions on police over how they make use of the reports.

Ms Cooper is thought to want to make it easier for police to use NCHIs for anti-Semitic and Islamophobic abuse, but Lord McDonald warned that ramping up their use could have ‘real world consequences’ for potentially innocent individuals.

Proponents of free speech also warn that easing the limits, which were initially proposed by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman last year, might have devastating consequences.

Doctors, vicars and social workers have been among those in positions of authority probed for allegations such as misdiagnosing patients or saying it is a religious sin to be gay. NCHIs are technically reserved for cases ‘clearly motivated by intentional hostility’ with a real risk of escalation ‘causing significant harm or a criminal offence’.

However, under an enhanced criminal record check, anyone reported for one may have their information shared with a potential employer.

Last night No 10 said it was important for police to spend their time protecting the public, but added that the recording of NCHIs was used as a tool to prevent escalation and future crimes.

But Jake Hurfurt, from the privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: ‘Forces must make sure they protect freedom of expression and privacy by only recording NCHIs when absolutely necessary.’

He added: ‘Plans from the Home Secretary to widen the scope for NCHI recording are alarming, and she should press pause to consider the chilling effect such a move could have on free speech in the UK.’ Earlier this week, it emerged that 45 police forces recorded 13,200 NCHIs in the 12 months to June this year. They included investigating a nine-year-old girl who called a fellow pupil a ‘retard’, and a doctor accused of misdiagnosing someone because they were bisexual.

Another person complained to police that he had been removed from a friendship social media group because he was ‘too much and exhausting’.

I’m not sure whether Boris Johnson has noticed, but the UK hasn’t had free speech for years, thus we aren’t a democracy. However, I find it surprising that I have to support this with this proof. Does anyone else think their MPs are doing a good job representing them in Parliament?

The UK is heading rapidly towards a totalitarian form of governance, and politicians have forgotten through seething arrogance that they work for the British people and are there to benefit the people. To manage the economy and protect, nurture, and develop society for the advantage of their employers, the people, and future generations. Not push their university or college politics or agendas; it’s not their position to do that. Politics should never be put over the safety of the British people.

An MP only cares about the public when they are trying to get your vote, and if they do respond, it’s only to give you their views that they believe override your fears.

You could go to Speakers Corner and voice your opinions back in the 1980s, when I lived in a much better nation. Nowadays, you would most likely wind up in jail if you wanted to voice your opinions.

Of course, some MPs go the mile to help their constituents, but they are rare beasts. However, politicians know, and work on, how to make themselves appealing. With their swish suits and nice-smelling cologne. I’d be more impressed if they turned up on my doorstep wearing jeans and a tee shirt.

To be fair, it’s just a kindergarten government.

Autumn Arctic Blast Brings Snow

Britain is bracing for its first major Arctic blast of autumn next week with sub-zero temperatures, sleet, and snow on the way alongside rain and strong winds.

Temperatures in some areas will be significantly below average for the time of year, with daytime highs in London reaching just 6C (43F) and overnight lows of -1C (30F).

The Met Office today issued two weather warnings for snow and ice—the first for northern Scotland from Sunday 4 pm until Monday 11 am, and the second for southern Scotland and north England from Monday 10 am until Tuesday 10 am.

The mercury will plunge well below zero in most of Scotland next week, with the Met Office giving a ‘lowest possible’ reading in the Highlands of -17C (1F) next Thursday.

Meteorologists said parts of the UK are expected to see ‘a messy mixture of rain, sleet, and snow’ in the coming days, with the whole of the country turning cold.

The Met Office told of a ‘major change in the weather from this weekend as an early winter cold spell arrives, bringing the potential for disruption for some next week’.

The UK Health Security Agency has issued a cold health alert from Sunday until next Thursday for the Midlands and North of England, warning of an ‘increased use of healthcare services by vulnerable people’ and ‘greater risk to life’ for the vulnerable. 

Forecasters warned that it was too early to pinpoint the precise locations where the wintry weather would affect, even if computer models showed many possibilities.

It follows the driest first half to November for England and Wales since at least 1931, with some areas having less than 10 percent of their average rainfall during a period of ‘anticyclonic gloom’ as cloudy conditions dominated with little to no wind.

The majority of England and Wales will get drier and sunnier weather, while northern England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland will see overcast conditions with the possibility of rain in the west.

Temperatures will be a little above average today with 13C (55F) highs – although winds will become stronger in the North later tonight, ‘ushering in colder Arctic air’.

Wintry showers will follow over the hills as clouds and patchy rain travel southward throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern England.

Tomorrow will see the rain continue to head southwards across England and Wales while conditions turn colder in the North with the ‘possibility of some hill snow’.

When the erratic and significantly cooler weather starts on Sunday, low pressure then sweeps in. While it will be cloudier elsewhere with rain, stronger winds, and possible snow over higher land, the North will have sunny periods and wintry showers.

The first weather warning for northern Scotland, covering the Highlands area, said ice and some snow could lead to ‘slippery surfaces and difficult travel conditions’, with possible ‘icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements, and cycle paths’.

Roads and railways could be affected by longer journey times by road, bus, and train services, while there could also be ‘injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces’.

Forecasters said that during Sunday afternoon within the warning area, showers will turn increasingly wintry through the day with hail, sleet, and some snow.

Little snow is likely to settle at low levels by day, but through the evening and overnight, 1 cm (0.4 in) to 3 cm (1.2 in) may accumulate in some places, while 5 cm (2 in) to 10 cm (4 in) is possible on high ground above 1,000 feet (300 m) by Monday morning.

Additionally, ice is expected to develop on untreated surfaces when temperatures drop overnight.

The second warning, which was issued Monday morning, extends as far south as West Yorkshire and Lancashire and encompasses all of southern Scotland, up to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The Met Office said there was a chance of power cuts and mobile phone coverage being affected, while ‘untreated pavements and cycle paths’ could become impassable.

There is a ‘slight chance that some rural communities could become cut off’, while bus and train services may be delayed or cancelled, with some road closures.

In addition, there is a chance of ‘injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces’ and ‘travel delays on roads with some stranded vehicles and passengers, along with delayed or cancelled rail and air travel’.

For this warning, the Met Office said spells of rain, sleet and snow are likely during Monday and overnight into Tuesday morning.

Forecasters said the ‘most likely scenario’ is for most of the snow to fall on high ground, with 5 cm (2 in) to 10 cm (4 in) possible above 1,000 feet (300 m) and perhaps as much as 15cm (6in) to 20cm (8in) above 1,300ft (400m).

They added: ‘There is a small chance of snow settling at lower levels, where 5cm to 10cm would prove much more disruptive, but this is very uncertain.

‘As rain, sleet and snow clear on Tuesday morning, ice may form on untreated surfaces.’

Met Office deputy chief meteorologist Rebekah Hicks said: ‘A notable early winter cold spell will arrive across the north from Sunday and will likely reach all parts of the UK by midweek.

‘Temperatures will drop as a northerly airflow develops, bringing in colder Arctic air. This introduces the possibility of snow, initially over high ground in the north from Sunday, with gusty winds also a potential hazard.’

The Met Office said that there was ‘currently much uncertainty in what we might see next week, with computer models showing a number of different scenarios’.

This year, many retirees who are unable to pay for home heating may pass away. The Labour administration believed it was too good a chance to pass up, so they went ahead with it despite Labour’s prediction that this is what would happen if the Conservatives cut the fuel allowance.

Think of all the inheritance tax, they must be rubbing their hands together! No more pensions to pay out, no more NHS medicines. Think of all the savings and extortionate amount of money gained. Our government aren’t stupid!

Now they will just give it away on useless projects, like illegal immigrants. It makes my blood boil.

Helping the old on their journey to the hereafter seems like a clever ploy—legalizing the extermination of our elderly—and this is exactly what our Labour administration is doing, spitefully. I don’t know how Reeves manages to sleep at night!

They are attempting to kill elderly folks. Pensioners are viewed as a burden on society despite having put in a lifetime of hard labour and contributions to the system.

Our government don’t want pensioners to survive. They see them as a drain on society and the NHS and they want them to quietly die off, that’s why they keep putting the retirement age up, hoping they die before they can even cash in on their pensions, and their replacements are coming across the channel daily, paid for by YOU, and you think your opinion counts, think again!

We the British people are a minority now, not a majority!

No 10 Issues Grovelling Apology

Downing Street issued a grovelling apology to British Hindus today after serving meat and alcohol at a Diwali celebration.

After a backlash, No 10 admitted a ‘mistake’ had been made in organising the event, pledging ‘it will not happen again’.

Although there is no explicit ban on drinking alcohol or eating meat in Hinduism, many Hindus opt not to, and others are vegetarians.

Those voicing concerns included Shivani Raja, the Conservative MP for Leicester East, who said it showed a ‘disappointing lack of knowledge’.

A No 10 spokeswoman said, ‘The Prime Minister was pleased to welcome a range of communities celebrating Diwali to a reception in Downing Street.

‘He paid tribute to the huge contribution the British Hindu, Sikh, and Jain communities make to our country and how the government is driven by the shared values of hard work, ambition, and aspiration.

‘A mistake was made in the organisation of the event. We understand the strength of feeling on this issue and so would apologise to the community and assure them it will not happen again.’

Diwali is the Hindu Festival of Light, symbolising the spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. 

Since 2009, Downing Street has commemorated the occasion with a reception.

It became well-known when Rishi Sunak, the first Hindu prime minister of Britain, was in office. He was seen lighting traditional candles with his family to commemorate the event.

In a letter to Sir Keir, Ms Raja said she was ‘greatly concerned’ to hear that attendees of this year’s celebration were offered meat and alcohol.

‘I feel this speaks poorly against the organisation of this year’s event—with a disappointing lack of knowledge of the customs and traditions that many British citizens hold dear,’ she said.

‘As a practicing Hindu, representing thousands of Hindus within my own constituency of Leicester East, I have been deeply saddened to hear that this year’s festivities were overshadowed in the greatest Office of State by negativity as a result of this oversight.’

This is a perfect example of Keir Starmer’s lack of attention to detail. That’s one thing even Rishi Sunak would have got right. If Starmer can’t get an event like that right, I wouldn’t hold out much for fixing the foundations of our country.

This Labour government is so out of depth and they don’t have a clue how to run the UK, and in the end, they will cause so much harm and it will drive this country into ruin. If they don’t change their ill-thought-out budget and expand the minimum wage among other things, they will have no choice but to step down and call another election.

And why is the UK even commemorating such an occasion? Our British values are not at all like this!

It seems that Starmer is only interested in keeping one, particular demographic happy, and it’s not the Indigenous, hard-working taxpayers.

Let’s face it, English isn’t the first language of many in the service in the catering industry now. They probably misread the instructions, and where it said ‘Hindu’, they probably thought it said ‘Hen do.’

We don’t even have to say much about our new Labour government, we now just know they’re all useless!

A DNA Test Does Not Match Peter Sullivan, The ‘Wolfman’ Murderer

A convicted murderer known as ‘The Wolfman’ who has served nearly 40 years in prison after a bride-to-be was beaten to death could get a retrial after his conviction was referred to the Court of Appeal.

Diane Sindall, 21, was killed with a crowbar after she ran out of petrol when she left her part-time job as a barmaid in Bebington, Merseyside in August 1986. 

The next year, during one of the largest manhunts in the region’s history, Peter Sullivan was found guilty of her murder.

Although the authorities never disclosed the florist’s horrifying injuries, Sullivan was convicted based on bite marks on her corpse that matched his dental records, earning him a monstrous reputation.

According to the Liverpool Echo, the jobless father of one had spent the day drinking excessively after losing a game of darts at the Crown Hotel. He then happened to run across Ms Sindall as she was walking to a gas station after her blue Fiat van ran out of petrol.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said on Wednesday that the Court of Appeal had been tasked with reviewing Sullivan’s conviction due to DNA evidence.

In a statement, the CCRC told The Mirror: ‘Mr Sullivan applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in March 2021 raising concerns about his interviews by the police, bitemark evidence presented in his trial, and what was said to be the murder weapon. 

‘After consulting experts, the CCRC obtained DNA information from samples taken at the time of the offence. 

‘As a result, a DNA profile was obtained which did not match Mr Sullivan. The CCRC has now sent Mr Sullivan’s conviction back to the courts.’ 

According to the inquiry, a DNA profile that did not match Sullivan was discovered when samples collected at the scene of the crime were re-examined.

In 2021, Sullivan requested that his case be re-examined, citing issues with the murder weapon, bite mark evidence, and police interviews.

He claimed he had not been provided with an appropriate adult during interviews.

The CCRC added that there was evidence suggesting there were breaches in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 over police interviews, as he was not given an appropriate adult and was initially denied legal representation.

Although forensic specialists stated that additional testing was unlikely to provide a DNA profile, Sullivan had previously applied to the CCRC in 2008, raising concerns regarding DNA evidence.

He requested permission from the High Court to appeal his 2019 conviction due to bite mark evidence, but the Court of Appeal denied his request in 2021.

At the time of his trial, a scientist specialising in teeth told the jury that his teeth marks were as unique as a fingerprint.

In September 1987, the Liverpool Echo reported Prosecutor Mr Andrew Rankin QC said: ‘The defendant caused those bite marks -he murdered Diane Sindall beyond argument. That is how important the evidence of bite marks is.

‘This is the critical part of the case – so critical that, in my submission, you can forget the rest of the case.’

He told Liverpool Crown Court that Sullivan had teeth which matched all the features found on Ms Sindall’s right breast.

Sullivan had a history of petty convictions and confessed, before retracting his plea. He was convicted in November 1987.

He said he didn’t have an appropriate adult at the interview, and bite marks are not conclusive evidence on their own, but DNA is, and the question is, if it doesn’t match why wasn’t he released?

If he is now saying he did not have an appropriate adult, was he mentally disabled in some way? And why was he not appointed a solicitor before they interviewed him?

The thing is when an expert comes in and says something, another expert normally comes along to say they are wrong. This type of evidence is based on an expert opinion rather than science, which is rather unreliable in court.

In 1986-7 there was DNA testing. In 1986 DNA evidence was first used in the criminal case of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, and then in 1987 DNA profiling was used to convict Colin Pitchfork for the murders of Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth – why was it not used in the case of Peter Sullivan?

If there is the slightest doubt the conviction should be revisited, especially given it was at a time when rules were frequently bent, and the authorities often stitched up innocent people because they were lazy, incompetent and bad at their job. Or both!

The source of this DNA sample is left unstated.

Bite marks are very rarely uniform or neat and overall they’re an inconsistent way to measure or collect evidence. However, DNA never lies.

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, a fantastic book by Radley Balko, explores the history of bite mark analysis and offers an engrossing and terrifying look at the science of bite marks and several other forensics that aren’t as accurate as frequently claimed.

Bite mark evidence is largely considered weak these days. In studies involving blind testing, experts often couldn’t even establish correctly if the bite was human or animal in nature.

The British legal system is comparable to a cartel. Until it is redesigned, it will continue to condemn innocent individuals, and some police don’t care who they convict as long as they get to convict someone, with lots of back-slapping because they got a good result.

Ah, the good old British justice system at its finest. Just like the Birmingham six and the Guildford four. A rush to find anybody responsible for atrocities to appease the media and calm the public.

If he is guilty then he’s in the right place, but if it’s proven that he’s innocent, then 40 years behind bars is unforgivable.

Bullying Shouldn’t Be Called Bullying

Teachers have been told not to use the word ‘bullies’ to avoid upsetting them – and ordered to call in police when pupils are suspected of hate crime.

The latest guidance from the SNP government aimed at cracking down on bullying highlights the importance of tackling prejudice – including misgendering –and ‘microaggressions’.

This phrase refers to a deliberate or inadvertent casual insult based on gender, colour, culture, or beliefs; for instance, believing someone is foreign-born based on their name or race.

Staff have been instructed not to label children as ‘bullies’ or ‘victims’ – as it can be ‘disempowering’ – and pupil exclusion does not feature in the 57-page document.

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth was told to ‘get a grip by ditching the wokery and protecting the victims of bullying’.

Scottish Tory children and young people spokesman Roz McCall said: ‘This guidance might be full of warm words but it also fails to address the serious issues that our teachers are having to deal with every single day. 

‘That is typical of the SNP who have dithered and delayed as violence has soared in Scotland’s schools.

‘It has consequences if we are asking teachers to record incidents based on ideology, rather than allowing them to show some common sense and get on with teaching.’

Separate Scottish Government research published last year found violence, aggression and disruptive behaviour in schools have risen sharply. But the guidelines state: ‘Labelling children and young people as ‘bullies’ or ‘victims’ can be disempowering and is unhelpful in supporting them to change their behaviour, or in scaffolding their recovery from a bullying experience.’

Terms such as ‘child displaying bullying behaviour’ and ‘child experiencing bullying behaviour’ are preferred.

However, the guidance states that the ‘nature of some behaviours may constitute criminal offences, and advice should be sought from Police Scotland where there are significant concerns’. 

The report also emphasises how crucial it is to document all instances and keep an eye out for bias as a component of bullying, which may potentially violate the Hate Crime Act.

Bullying of youngsters who identify as trans can be manifested in many different ways, it says, including ‘deliberately misgendering’.

The guidelines also state that it is ‘crucial to help [bullies] recognise the harm their behaviour causes, repair relationships when possible and desired, and challenge prejudicial attitudes through education and building empathy’.

Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘This woke guidance is totally inadequate.

‘The soft and ‘inclusive’ approach it promotes is more likely to encourage bullies than to deter them.

‘It places children in danger and undermines the authority of hard-pressed teachers facing daily thuggery in the classroom.

‘Bullying, including online bullying, should be treated as crossing a red line that results in exclusion and, for a second offence, expulsion.’

Ms Gilruth said: ‘I am committed to creating safe, inclusive, and supportive environments where children and young people can thrive.’

So, what it boils down to is that now a school’s reaction to ‘bullying’ is a series of ‘isolated incidents’ of one pupil against another. If you were to ask them what the definition of ‘bullying’ is, they would probably say that it was ‘repetitive incidents’, over a period of time, of one pupil against another.

The logic? By closing each incident, and calling it isolated, it doesn’t fall into their definition of bullying, therefore they don’t have any incident of bullying in their Ofsted report.

What will it be next? ‘Sorry Johnny. I can’t tell him to stop kicking you, because it might upset him, and he’s just expressing himself.’ The very reason we have so many problems is the lack of discipline and too much wokery.

Education in schools is at an all-time low, and since schools should be a safe environment for all kids, bullying in all its manifestations has to be strongly addressed at a young age.

The government must take action to protect our children from bullies because their heinous behaviour makes the lives of many of our children completely miserable and can have heartbreaking consequences. The problem is getting worse due to a lack of discipline in both the home and the schools.

April Council Tax Hike: How Much?

Following Keir Starmer’s announcement that the cap will be 5 percent, families are preparing for further shocking increases in council taxes next year.

After Downing Street confirmed the ceiling, local governments would have the authority to raise prices by almost three times the existing inflation rate.

The average Band D property in England might rise by £110 due to that. It will be greater in financial terms in certain places, though.

The news is devastating for British citizens who have already been hit hard by the budget’s large tax raid and are already dealing with the cost of living issue.

A government source said the 5 percent cap would not necessarily translate into a similar tax rise, as it would be ‘up to individual councils’ to decide what to charge. 

However, the majority are anticipated to raise bills by the greatest amount.

Government statistics show the average band D council tax set by local authorities in England for 2024/25 was £2,171, which represented an increase of £106 or 5.1 percent on the previous year.

The main inflation figure fell to 1.7 percent in September, although it is expected to rise again towards the end of this year as energy costs go up over the winter.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch warned at PMQs that the national insurance hike in the budget would drive up costs for town halls in areas such as care services.

The party claimed there is a £2.4 billion black hole in the finances for local government that would need to be filled with higher taxes. 

The party has calculated that would amount to a 6.6 percent rise across the board, roughly £143 extra on a Band D property.

Instead of approving yet another round of bill increases, Taxpayers’ Alliance member Darwin Friend asked politicians to reduce council waste.

‘Taxpayers will be bracing for another penny-pinching year ahead,’ he said.

‘Councils across the UK have either increased council tax or threatened to increase it. While the cap has not been scrapped, the increase of 5 percent will still hit hard-pressed households.

‘The Government needs to crack down on councils to ensure that they are keeping costs to a minimum and delivering front-line services at the best possible value for residents.’

Labour voiced a scathing complaint in opposition over the impact of growing council tax bills on living expenses.

Ms Reeves stated before the local elections last year that she would freeze council tax prices using £2.7 billion from a new windfall tax on the oil and gas sector.

At the time, she said: ‘While the Tories think the cost-of-living crisis is all over, Labour is on the side of working people.’

We may not worry too much if councils were cost-effective, but the majority of councils are trapped in a bygone era and continue to make the same expensive mistakes year after year.

Has there ever been a tax that is less cost-effective than council tax? In addition to inflation-busting wage increases, most people spend hundreds of pounds a year to have their garbage removed, while work-shy pen pushers enjoy golden pensions and golden pay cheques.

Of course, our taxes supposedly go on other things, i.e., social care, but do we really know where our money is going and what it’s actually being used for, like war and genocide?

I’m guessing it goes to Starmer and his friends and into hotels in your area. After all, that’s what the true meaning of ‘social care’ means these days.

Labour! The gift that keeps on giving.

This is a big problem for all of us, and there’s no opt-out charge unless, of course, we go homeless. We can complain about it till we are blue in the face, but it won’t make any difference unless, of course, everybody in the country stops paying it. What’s the worst they can do, put us all in prison? Oh yes, I forgot, not enough room at the inn!

Ukraine Builds Nuclear Bomb If Trump Pulls US Military Aid

Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump pulls US military aid, a briefing paper prepared for the country’s Ministry of Defence has revealed. 

The weapon would be built from plutonium and use similar technology to the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report stated. 

Even though Ukraine gave up its nuclear armament in 1996, it still maintains control of nine working reactors and possesses substantial nuclear construction experience.

It comes after Trump reportedly backed the shock ultimatum President Volodymyr Zelensky gave NATO last month when he seemed to demand either Ukraine be granted membership of the bloc or they would become a nuclear power.

Kyiv has now denied that they are thinking of developing a nuclear weapon, and Zelensky later explained that he had meant that there was no alternative security assurance.

According to The Times, the briefing paper prepared for the Ministry of Defence reads: ‘Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later.’

‘The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tonnes… A significant nuclear weapons arsenal would require much less material,’ it continued.

The authors of the study concluded that the bomb would be large enough to destroy concentrated military or industrial objectives or an entire Russian airbase.

It comes as president-elect Trump has famously pledged to end the Russia-Ukraine war within a day of becoming president and has boasted of his ‘very good relationship’ with President Putin. 

He has also questioned Biden’s degree of support for Ukraine, despite President Zelensky’s staunch opposition to ceding land to Russia and said that the invasion would never have occurred if he had been in the White House.

It comes after Zelensky last month reportedly told NATO to let his country join the group or it would get nuclear weapons in a shock ultimatum that was allegedly backed by Trump. 

The leader, 46, declared his bombshell proposal at the EU summit in Brussels, stating either NATO quickly accepts Ukraine into its alliance or it will once again become a nuclear power, the German newspaper Bild reported. 

Zelensky had reportedly planned to present what is being dubbed his ‘victory plan’ to the heads of state and government of the European Union but instead made the dramatic announcement to stunned reporters. 

Given his willingness to comply with Putin’s orders, it appears that Trump’s peace strategy calls for Ukraine to cede a portion of its territory to Russia, but the fact that Zelensky is willing to use nuclear weapons tells the world that he needs to be removed.

In reality, Putin and Zelensky both need to be removed because Putin threatens nuclear war every week and we know he has them.

Putin and Zelensky have both gone from being nastily mad to being officially insane, and they are both on cloud cuckoo.

These individuals are insane, and we shouldn’t be going around the world starting wars and if they think they’re going to run away from this one without any blowback, they can think again.

‘Warrior Board’ Of Retired Senior Officials

According to reports, Donald Trump intends to appoint retired former military veterans to a “warrior board” to screen out “woke generals” who are seen to be unsuited for leadership roles.

The president-elect’s transition team is said to be considering a draft executive order with the power to review three and four-star officers they find ‘lacking in requisite leadership qualities’, according to the draft seen by the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump pledged throughout his reelection campaign to rid the military of so-called “woke” generals, even suggesting that former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and critic Mark Milley may be put to death for treason.

According to current and former U.S. officials, Trump would emphasise loyalty during his second term and remove career civil workers and military personnel whom he believes to be disloyal.

Beginning in January, Trump, as commander-in-chief, will have the authority to dismiss any officer. However, an outside board would enable him to circumvent the Pentagon’s customary promotion process, implying an impending purge, according to the WSJ.

The draft order reportedly says it will aim to set up a review focusing on ‘leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence’.

The requirements for fulfilling these standards are not explicitly stated.

According to the WSJ, an unidentified external policy organisation assisting the transition team in getting Trump ready for office helped create the directive.

Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for the transition team, did not address the order directly but told the outlet: ‘The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver.’

Such an order would give the so-called ‘warrior board’ power to sack top officials for failing standards, although it is expected Trump will be keen to target those responsible for the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as those he deems ‘woke’.

Running for office, he was asked by Fox News in June whether he would fire generals described as ‘woke’.

‘I would fire them. You can’t have (a) woke military,’ Trump said.

According to some insiders, the team may target Air Force General C.Q. Brown, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a well-liked former fighter pilot and military leader who avoids politics.

The Black four-star general has been an advocate for diversity in the U.S. military and released a video message on prejudice in the ranks in the days following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a police officer.

Asked for comment, Brown’s spokesperson, Navy Captain Jereal Dorsey, told Reuters: ‘The chairman along with all of the service members in our armed forces remain focused on the security and defence of our nation and will continue to do so, ensuring a smooth transition to the new administration of President-elect Trump.’ 

Retired army general Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has also severed ties with the president-elect, having called him ‘fascist to the core’ in the run-up to the election.

Milley stepped down in September 2023 after more than 40 years in the military and raised concerns about Trump in his retirement speech.

In 2023, he sensationally told the Washington Post that Trump was ‘the most dangerous person to this country’, deeming him ‘a total fascist’.

‘If the people in your own government aren’t obeying you, you have got to get rid of them and replace them with people who are responsive to what the president’s trying to do,’ Vance said in an interview with Tucker Carlson before the election.

Trump promised throughout the campaign to reverse a decision made following Floyd’s murder and return the name of a Confederate commander to a significant U.S. military installation.

Transgender troops were the target of Trump’s most vehement anti-woke rhetoric throughout the campaign.

Trump has previously banned transgender service members and posted a campaign ad that opens a new tab on X portraying them as weak, with the vow that ‘we will not have woke military!’

Fox News and army veteran Pete Hegseth was nominated by Trump to be his defence secretary starting next year.

Before joining Fox News, the 44-year-old, who received two Bronze Stars for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, campaigned unsuccessfully for the Senate in Minnesota in 2012.

He is also the author of ‘The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.’

The book, according to its promo, combines ‘his own war experiences, tales of outrage, and an incisive look at how the chain of command got so kinked,’ and bills itself as ‘the key to saving our warriors – and winning future wars.’ 

As Trump continues his divisive tactics, Kori Schake of the conservative American Enterprise Institute cautioned that high-level dismissals may occur during a second administration.

‘I think there will be an enormous chaos premium in a second Trump term, both because of the policies he will attempt to enact and the people he will put in place to enact them in terms of appointments,’ she said.

Such worries were dismissed by one U.S. military officer, who stated on condition of anonymity that causing disarray in the chain of command of the U.S. military would result in political reaction and be superfluous for Trump to achieve his objectives.

‘What these guys will find out is that military officers are generally focused on warfighting and not politics,’ the military official said. I feel they’ll be satisfied of that—or at least they should be.’

From using the National Guard and maybe active-duty troops to assist in the mass deportation of illegal immigrants to even using them to quell domestic unrest, Trump has indicated that the U.S. military might be a key component of many of his policy initiatives.

To be fair, we could use some of this in the UK to regain our nation and military but to be honest, people did keep voting Tory, and it was under them that all this ‘woke’ stuff started.

Wokeness must be acknowledged as a disgraceful aspect of our history, when we permitted minorities to pressure the majority to tolerate their actions, regardless of how offensive they were to us, and now it’s not even a matter of ‘majority’ vs ‘minority’ because those numbers can change or flip, given the situation. It’s just a matter of it being so wrong.

Keir Starmer, look, read, listen, and learn, and stop fannying around.

Perhaps Trump’s return to ascendancy will prove contagious in many other countries, including the UK, but Starmer is too woke to entertain this because he knows if he appointed ex-military, one of the first people to go would be Starmer himself.

The 90-Year-Old Timothy West Has Passed Away

At the age of 90, legendary actor Timothy West passed away after a dazzling six-decade career on stage and television.

Mr West, who starred in shows Brass, Edward the Seventh, EastEnders, and Great Canal Journeys with his Fawlty Towers star wife Prunella Scales, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family and friends.

His children Juliet, Samuel, and Joseph West announced the tragic news with a shared statement on social media, saying he died peacefully in his sleep ‘with his friends and family at the end’.

Before Prunella’s role as John Cleese’s on-screen wife Sybil Fawlty in the renowned British comedy series, Timothy married her in 1963. In 2014, the actress received a diagnosis of vascular dementia.

In a 2023 interview with The Daily Mail, Timothy talked of his grief at watching his wife, whom he had looked after over their six-decade marriage, deteriorate due to a health issue.

Prunella and Timothy previously starred together in their own Channel 4 TV show, Great Canal Journeys, between 2014 and 2021, but were forced to quit due to her ailing health.

Joseph and Samuel West, a 58-year-old actor who presently stars in All Creatures Great and Small, are the couple’s two sons together. In addition, West had a daughter named Juliet from his 1956–1961 marriage to actor Jacqueline Boyer.

The statement announcing Mr West’s death read: ‘After a long and extraordinary life on and off the stage, our darling father Timothy West died peacefully in his sleep yesterday evening. He was 90 years old.

‘Tim was with friends and family at the end. He leaves his wife, Prunella Scales, to whom he was married for 61 years, a sister, a daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. All of us will miss him terribly.

‘We would like to thank the incredible NHS staff at St George’s Hospital, Tooting and at Avery Wandsworth for their loving care during his last days.’

Prunella had symptoms of vascular dementia for a long time before receiving an official diagnosis in 2014.

During a 2003 staging of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London’s West End, the actress repeatedly fumbled her lines, as West disclosed in his book.

In an interview with the BBC last year, West said he recalled every word of that life-changing moment when the doctor finally diagnosed her condition: ‘We went to see a specialist who said, ‘Sorry, this is just something which happens to you when you are older and it’s not going to get any easier, but you can cope with it. Don’t let it get you down.”

Mr. West featured in television series including Coronation Street, EastEnders, the sitcom Not Going Out, and the comedy-drama Brass.

He portrayed brutal, self-made industrialist Bradley Hardacre in Brass from 1982 to 1984 before making a comeback for a third series in 1990. In Not Going Out, he portrayed Lucy Adams’s father, Geoffrey, who was portrayed by Sally Bretton.

He portrayed Eric Babbage in seven episodes of Coronation Street in 2013, then from 2014 to 2015, he played Stan Carter in EastEnders.

During his career, West also played former British prime minister Winston Churchill three times, in From Churchill and the Generals (1979), The Last Bastion (1984), and Hiroshima (1995).

In 2019, the Bradford-born actor played Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad’s Army.

His film roles included Commissioner Berthier in The Day Of The Jackal (1973), King Francis in From Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998), and Nazi physician and war criminal Karl Gebhardt in Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973).

On stage, he was a regular performer of Shakespeare, playing Lear in 2016 and 2002.

He performed at the Piccadilly Theatre with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and the West End, portraying many classic roles, including Shylock, Falstaff, and Macbeth.

In 1984, West was appointed CBE for his services to drama in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Before acting, West had attended the John Lyon School and Bristol Grammar School and worked as an office furniture salesman and a recording technician before becoming an assistant stage manager at Wimbledon Theatre in 1956.

Emotional messages have poured in following his death. Paying tribute to West on Times Radio, broadcaster Dame Joanna Lumley, who campaigned alongside him to destigmatise dementia, said he would be a ‘huge loss to everybody’.

She said: ‘Timothy really will be a huge loss, obviously, to Pru, but I think a huge loss to everybody who came to love and respect them, not just the general public, but particularly those who live with dementia.’

Dame Joanna continued: ‘I think between them, Timothy and Pru did an amazing, amazing job of convincing people that dementia was not something that you should be always afraid of, but something that you could embrace and live with and live with well.’

TalkTV presenter Piers Morgan, 59, paid tribute to the ‘wonderful’ man, alongside a photo with Timothy from when he appeared on My Life Stories.

He wrote, ‘A wonderful actor and delightful man. My Life Stories interview with him, as the love of his life Prunella Scales sat in the audience, was so moving. 

‘They were married 61 years, and his devotion to her after she developed Alzheimer’s was profoundly touching.’

Mr Dreyfus wrote on X: ‘Marvellous actor. A constant in many of our lives. He shall be much missed. My thoughts with his family. RIP Timothy West.’

Alongside a sweet picture of Timothy, Gyles Brandreth, 76, said, ‘Cheers, Tim! And thank you. A marvellous man—a marvellous actor, husband, father, friend. 

‘On stage, on screen, on a canal boat, on the end of a pier (he loved a seaside pier!), in the garden with a glass of wine, he was just the best. The great Timothy West has died at 90; what a worthwhile, well-filled life.’

The list of Timothy West tributes was endless!

He was a fantastic performer, and he and Prunella Scales had a long and enduring marriage that was a real love affair. He was so devoted to taking care of her, too.

In addition, I want to express my deepest sympathies to Prunella and her family for the amazing and contented life they shared. All couples should find a lot of inspiration in this.

This man spent much of his life in an affectionate relationship and lived to a delightful old age.

He had a fantastic career, was loved by a large family and lots of friends, and lived a comfortable life in terms of financial security. In reality, as we know it, dementia is cruel and robs people of their short-term memory and in time, if not already, Prunella would have been unlikely to have recognised him, but death comes to us all, but what an incredible legacy he leaves behind.

2035: Reduce Meat Consumption, Use Heat Pumps, And Drive Electric Cars

Advisors have cautioned that to meet Keir Starmer’s new climate objective, British citizens must purchase electric vehicles and heat pumps and even reduce their meat consumption.

The prime minister said at the COP29 meeting in Azerbaijan that the UK will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 81% by 2035.

He insisted it was possible to meet the goal without telling people ‘how to live their lives’, arguing that decarbonising the power network was the key. 

However, the government’s Climate Change Committee (CCC), which originally laid out the aim, has made clear that other changes, such as more vegetarian and vegan diets and less travel, would also be needed.

CCC head Emma Pinchbeck told the Telegraph: ‘They’ve done the job with working out how to get a lot of clean, cheap domestic electricity.

‘We need to get technologies into people’s homes so they can use the electricity. What we’re looking for is progress on heat decarbonisation, transport decarbonisation and renewables.’

Ms Pinchbeck said the ‘secret weapon technologies for the next decade are heat pumps and electric vehicles’.

Pressed yesterday on what Brits would have to do to hit the target, the PM said: ‘What we’re not going to do is start telling people how to live their lives. We’re not going to start dictating to people what they do.’

Asked again whether it was really possible to meet the goal without people changing their lifestyles, he said: ‘Yes, of course it is.’

Challenged that the CCC recommendations stressed the importance of adjusting behaviour, Sir Keir said: ‘The target is my target and the plan is my plan; I’m not borrowing from somebody else’s plan.’

The Tories warned the vow would lead to ‘sacrifice and hardship’ and would require a shift away from foods with a high carbon footprint and petrol and diesel vehicles.

In the Commons, shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho told MPs that the pledge made the UK’s ‘already stringent carbon emission targets even higher’.

‘That’s despite the fact that we’re only one percent of global emissions, and whilst the leaders of the world’s highest emitting countries, making up over 60 percent of emissions, are not attending,’ she added.

‘The Climate Change Committee has said this target will require, for example, an accelerated shift away from meat and dairy, less travel, and a gas boiler ban for the British people, and yet the Government’s approach would see our reliance on Chinese imports—a country which is 60 percent powered by coal—go through the roof.

Ms Coutinho said the government was ‘asking for more sacrifice and hardship from the British people in return for more goods from one of the world’s largest carbon emitters’.

She warned that would mean fewer ‘jobs in Britain and more carbon in the atmosphere’.

Sir Keir was also asked if he was ‘disappointed’ that there were so few leaders of major world countries present at the Cop29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The heads of the biggest polluters were notably absent, including Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, US President Joe Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi, while many EU leaders also stayed away.

The 81 percent target, which is based on reducing emissions compared with 1990 levels, forms the UK’s latest formal commitment to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2020, when the CCC set the goal for 2035, it detailed a series of changes that would need to be made to live in the UK to achieve it.

These included phasing out gas boilers by 2033 and ending sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles, including hybrids, by 2032.

Additionally, it stated that encouraging people to consume less meat and dairy products, slowing the expansion of flights, reducing automobile travel, and reducing trash would all contribute to around 10% of the emissions savings.

The UN’s climate change chief Simon Stiell hailed the UK commitment, saying it set a powerful example to other G20 nations.

Charities and academics also welcomed the goal but cautioned that the government would need a proper plan to meet the target.

Tanya Steele, chief executive at WWF, said the UK had positioned itself as a climate leader but said it needed to back up the target with ‘solid and credible delivery plans’.

Dr Caterina Brandmayr, from the Grantham Institute—Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, said the target was ‘what the world needs’ but said it needed to back it up with strong policy and investment plans to show it was serious.

Since electric cars and heat pumps are now too costly and are not the way of the future, many people will NOT make the changeover.

The largest political earthquake in history will occur before the next election, and Keir Starmer will not be the prime minister after. Labour will also be more shattered than the Conservatives were.

This kind of thinking is illogical. This government has no brain cells at all. Keir Starmer promised that his administration would prioritise the needs of the people before its own, but that isn’t the case.

I think that I speak for many, but if I don’t, then please correct me! Things are going to get much more chaotic and cold, amongst other things, but hopefully, common sense and economic necessity will prevail, and hopefully, at some point, Keir Starmer will realise that the rest of the country is not impressed, and neither will his voters be.

Our government has been sneakily telling us what we can and cannot do for a long time, but now they are telling us what we should eat!

Heat pumps are extremely inefficient and costly, particularly when temperatures drop below 5 degrees. The money you will spend on electricity is inefficient and useless.

What a liar Keir Starmer is. Although he said they wouldn’t begin dictating to individuals how to live their lives, we all know that they will and have already begun. They will create new tax laws and use taxes to do this; if we are not vigilant, they will next implement a meat tax!

We all know how they do this and their Stalin town councils will rub their greedy palms together with glee, knowing they have us right under their thumbs. Labour equals a centrally controlled and oppressive state.

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