EU
Times
Brussels is preparing to back down over a Brexit fishing deal and acknowledge for the first time that European fleets do not have an automatic right to fish in British waters. In a concession to help to unlock negotiations, Michel Barnier is understood to accept that the UK will have to be treated as an independent coastal state and have annual negotiations with the bloc over fishing quotas from next year. The EU’s chief negotiator told European diplomats that the compromise would have to wait until other parts of the deal were closer to being finalised.
Express
THE European Union has finally accepted the UK will leave the bloc at the end of the transition period on December 31, 2020 following crunch talks with Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister met European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Parliament President David Sassoli by video conference to assess the progress made on a post-Brexit trade agreement. A statement from the European Commission confirmed both sides had noted the UK’s decision not to request an extension to the transition period beyond the end of this year, with Britain leaving on December 31. The statement said: “Prime Minister Boris Johnson met the President of the European Council Charles Michel, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, on 15 June by videoconference to take stock of progress with the aim of agreeing actions to move forward in negotiations on the future relationship.
Westmonster
The EU Commission want Germany’s financial contribution to increase by a whopping 42%. That’s according to a report in Die Welt citing government calculations. It would mean the Germans paying an average of €13 billion per year more than they do currently. At the moment Germany contributes €31 billion per year, meaning this would amount to a 42% increase. Ouch. With the UK cash cow having left but those in Brussels wanting more money and ever greater power, finances will be the story to watch in the EU over the next few years. How much are European taxpayers willing to cough up before they too say enough is enough?
Brexit
Telegraph
Boris Johnson has called on the three EU presidents to put a “tiger in the tank” of Brexit negotiations and said he sees “no reason” why a deal cannot be done in July. There was renewed optimism in London and Brussels about the prospects of finally breaking the deadlock over fishing, the level playing field guarantees and the European Court of Justice after the video call, which was held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. “I don’t think we are actually that far apart,” the Prime Minister said, “but what we need to see now is a bit of oomph in the negotiations.” “The faster we can do this, the better. We see no reason why you shouldn’t get that done in July,” the prime minister said after hour long talks with the presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament.
Independent
Boris Johnson held talks with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in an attempt to revive negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal. No 10 said the prime minister urged the EU to reach an agreement “by the end of the summer”. It came as Mr Johnson announced he would set up a commission to consider “all aspects” of racial inequality. The review will also consider wider disparities such as issues facing “working class white boys at schools”, Downing Street has said. Labour’s shadow justice secretary David Lammy claimed the idea was “written on the back of a fag packet” and said it was time for action.
Mail
The EU warned it will not accept a ‘pig in a poke’ deal today as Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen vowed to inject ‘momentum’ into agreeing future trade terms. After holding a virtual summit, the leaders confirmed that the transition period will end in December, and declared that talks will be ‘intensified’ in July in a desperate bid to break the deadlock. Mr Johnson said he believes there was a ‘very good’ chance of a settlement ‘provided we really focus now and get on and do it’. But he added that the process cannot be allowed to drag on into the autumn ‘as perhaps in Brussels they would like’.
Telegraph
Brexit talks require “new momentum” if negotiators are to succeed in striking a deal before transition ends, Boris Johnson and a trio of EU leaders have agreed today. Speaking after a high-level meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and other EU leaders, the Prime Minister told reporters there was “no reason” why a deal couldn’t be struck by next month. He said: “It’s very clear what we need to achieve, I don’t think we’re actually that far apart, but what we need now is to see a bit of oomph in the negotiations… the faster we can do this the better, we see no reason why you shouldn’t get that done in July.
Local lockdowns
Guardian
Councils do not have the legal powers to enforce a “local lockdown” across a city, town or neighbourhood to prevent clusters of coronavirus cases spreading widely into the community, local authority leaders have warned. They called on ministers to urgently spell out what a local lockdown might mean in practical terms or risk a local outbreak spreading out of control, at a hearing of a parliamentary committee. Greg Fell, director of public health for Sheffield, said that while councils did have the power to act to control smaller outbreaks “in a school or a workplace or a care home” by, for example ordering them to close, that did not apply for larger areas.
Testing
Mirror
UK scientists will start testing another potential coronavirus vaccine on humans this week. Imperial College London’s clinical trials will start with 300 people, to see whether their jab produces an effective immune response against Covid-19. The healthy participants, aged between 18 and 70, will all receive two doses of the vaccine over the coming weeks, and the hopes are that tests could then move on to 6,000 volunteers if they are successful. Rather than giving people a weakened form of the illness, the Imperial vaccine instead uses synthetic strands of genetic code based on the virus’ genetic material.
iNews
More than half a million NHS staff and patients have been given Covid-19 antibody tests, which will now be rolled out to care homes. The Government has signed a deal with pharmaceutical giant Roche to supply up to 10m of the tests showing whether or not you have ever been infected with coronavirus. Ministers are working on plans to issue “health certificates” which could be used by people to prove they are immune to Covid-19 because they have already had the illness, but they will require further scientific research.
Social distancing
Telegraph
The two-metre rule has no basis in science, leading scientists say as the Government comes under increasing pressure to drop the measure. Writing for the Telegraph, Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, from the University of Oxford, said there is little evidence to support the restriction and called for an end to the “formalised rules”. The University of Dundee also said there was no indication that distancing at two metres is safer than one metre. The intervention comes as two government ministers on Monday suggested that the rule is likely to be relaxed following a review commissioned by the Prime Minister.
Sky News
A decision on the future of the two-metre rule will be “underpinned” by science, the foreign secretary has said, as Downing Street was warned “millions of people depend on this decision”. Some Conservative MPs – such as Imran Khan – have claimed 3.5 million jobs are at risk if the restrictions aren’t eased. Speaking at the latest coronavirus news briefing, Dominic Raab the restriction is “something that can be looked at” as the virus is brought under control.
Mirror
A major review of the two-metre social distancing rule will be finished in the “coming weeks”, Downing Street confirmed today. The review launched after Boris Johnson came under pressure from pubs and his own MPs to cut the distance to a metre or 1.5 metres. Pubs warn they will go bust if the recommended gap between people to prevent coronavirus does not match that in other countries. Publicans will likely be angry at waiting weeks to discover what they’ll look like when they reopen. But others warn the review is still too soon.
Second wave
Sun
BRITAIN avoiding a second wave of Covid would be “highly surprising”, according to a Government adviser. Immunologist Sir John Bell said the “real question” is how widespread the flare-up of infections will be, rather than if they will occur. Just 38 deaths from the bug were reported yesterday, the second lowest total since lockdown began. The fall in new infections and fatalities had led to a gradual easing of lockdown, with non-essential shops opening their doors yesterday. Sir John, regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, has advised ministers on Covid testing.
Shopping
Sun
A DISTRAUGHT Primark worker has revealed what it was like during today’s reopening chaos, claiming there are still social distancing concerns. The employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the day as “hell” and said keeping customers two metres apart just wasn’t realistic. The worker told The Metro: “People were queuing from 3am. I know the people nearer the front camped out all night and apparently there’s already been near fights. “We have no new stock yet but that’ll come. It’s just how we left it before lockdown.”
ITV News
Queues have formed at stores across England as thousands of non-essential shops pulled up their shutters for the first time since March. Customers are being encouraged to go out and spend but to “be sensible” in their approach, as the government seeks to begin reopening the economy “gradually and carefully”. In a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus, many shops will bring in more spacious floor plans, only allow in a limited number of customers at once and have hand sanitiser stations.
Times
High streets were more than 50 per cent busier today than last week as shoppers took advantage of stores reopening to try to grab a bargain. Queues snaked around some of Britain’s best-known stores amid heavy discounting by retailers looking to get rid of stock that has built up during the lockdown. However, the total number of shoppers remained a third down on the same time last year, illustrating the scale of the challenge retailers face persuading shoppers to return.
Unemployment
Sun
SHOCKING new figures have revealed 600k Brits have already lost their jobs during lockdown with unemployment now set to hit three million. Experts fear the figures — the highest since the 1980s — will reveal the biggest drop in employment on record, laying bare the impact of the coronavirus lockdown. Early estimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest 163,000 people lost their jobs in May, on top of 449,000 the previous month. The ONS explained the numbers suggested a 2 per cent fall in paid employees since the country went into lockdown on March 23. It will pile pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to cut job taxes in a bid to deter employers laying off staff and encourage recruitment.
Education
Telegraph
More than two million children have done virtually no schoolwork during the lockdown, a study has found. One in five pupils in the UK – equating to around 2.3 million children – either did no home learning at all or less than one hour a day, according to a new report by University College London’s Institute of Education. Researchers analysed the findings of a study in which over 4,500 British households were asked about their children’s schoolwork during the second half of April. They found that children spent an average of 2.5 hours each day doing schoolwork.
Mail
Two million children in the UK have done barely any schoolwork at home during the coronavirus lockdown, a shocking study found today as secondary school pupils with GCSE and A-level exams returned to classes. Around one in five pupils have carried out no schoolwork, or less than an hour a day, since schools closed partially in March. Meanwhile, only 17% of children put in more than four hours a day. The research, by UCL Institute of Education (IOE), is the latest worrying sign that disadvantaged youngsters are falling behind their peers during lockdown, particularly those from well-resourced private schools that have provided hours of online lessons.
Times
Two million children have done little or no schoolwork at home during lockdown, according to a report that lays bare the impact of school closures. The study by University College London (UCL) found that a fifth of the country’s ten million school children had done no work at home or less than an hour a day. A separate academic study found that about four million pupils had not had regular contact with teachers and that up to six million children had not returned the last assignment set.
Times
Teachers have marked too generously in allocating GCSE and A-level grades this year, research suggests. Exams have been cancelled this summer and grades will instead be calculated by teachers, who must submit a ranked order of pupils for each subject. This will be moderated by exam boards and Ofqual, the exams regulator, which has warned that it could lower grades if schools suddenly do better than expected. The research organisation FFT Education Datalab asked schools to share their preliminary grades.
Mail
Oxford University students who feel the ‘traumatic effect of the brutality’ of George Floyd‘s death made them do worse in exams can apply for mitigating circumstances considerations. The announcement by vice-Chancellor professor Louise Richardson followed pressure from campaigners at the university who claim the horrific video of Floyd’s last moments had a lasting impact on black students.
Telegraph
Up to 300,000 children in Year 10 and Year 12 may miss out on school as headteachers say they do not expect to open to all eligible pupils today. Secondary schools are allowed to open today for students who are mid-way through their GCSE and A-level courses, with a quarter of pupils allowed to be in the building at any one time. But potentially hundreds of thousands of teenagers will be prevented from returning to the classroom by schools which are not allowing them back.
Statues
Mail
Black Lives Matter activists have named Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris, the man who oversaw allied bombing raids on Nazi Germany, on a list of statues they want pulled down, for being a ‘colonial warmonger in Rhodesia’. Commander in Chief of RAF Bomber Command, Sir Arthur was in charge of ‘area bombings’ – targeted raids on German cities that were typically highly populated and working class areas. Following the recent toppling of statues including Edward Colston in Bristol, and the defacing of Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, English Heritage is understood to be speaking with Met Police about the safety of its monument to Sir Arthur in The Strand, London.
Telegraph
Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris has become the latest target of activists demanding statues are toppled, over his wartime “aerial bombardment”. English Heritage is liaising with the Metropolitan Police about the safety of the statue after anti-racism protestors targeted other public monuments in recent demonstrations. The Second World War officer, who pursued the Allied bombing of Nazi Germany, has a memorial outside the dedicated RAF church of St Clement Danes in London, which campaigners want to be reviewed and removed. A senior RAF source told the Telegraph: “There is no situation where vandalising a monument of someone who fought for and delivered our freedom, could ever be justified.”
BLM
Breitbart
Britain’s top police union has called on the government to ban protests, after weeks of Black Lives Matter demonstrations. However, the call to ban protests only came after ‘right-wing’ counter-protesters gathered in London over the weekend. The Police Federation of England and Wales decried the “mindless hooliganism” and “utterly shocking” violence of supposedly ‘far-right’ demonstrators, calling on Home Secretary Priti Patel to ban protests. The police union claimed that the gatherings should be banned in light of the Chinese coronavirus, despite failing to make a similar call in previous weeks while at-times quite violent protests by other groups were ongoing.
Guido
A new poll from Ipsos MORI today shows the remarkable progress made in Britain on the issue of race relations over the last decade-or-so. Unlike what the left would have you believe… Since 2006, the number of people who say to be “truly British you have to be White” now stands at only 3%, with the number of Brits strongly disagreeing rocketing from 55% to 84%. Similarly, the number of people who think it’s unlikely we’ll have an ethnic minority PM in the next 10-20 years has halved, from 42% in 2009 to 21% today. 37% say it’s very likely – an increase of 16%…
Yahoo News
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has called on universities to “include people of colour” as he said racism is “bone-deep” in Britain and the US. The US Baptist minister and politician, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr, spoke out about racism on a Black Lives Matter (BLM) solidarity panel hosted by the National Education Union (NEU). His comments come after three weeks of global anti-racism demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African American, in Minneapolis police custody on May 25. Speaking on Monday, Mr Jackson said leading UK universities have an “obligation to include people of colour”.
DNA database
Mail
Tens of thousands of innocent Britons will have their DNA placed on a controversial EU database. The Home Office has risked a privacy backlash after announcing it would share samples of those never charged with offences with European forces. Currently the UK only puts the swabs of those convicted of wrongdoing on the Prum system. But in future the DNA of crime suspects will be added – even if they have been cleared. It raises the prospect of a British citizen being wrongly caught up in an investigation because of a false match linking them to a serious crime overseas.
What worried me most is the last item. We are supposed to have ‘got brexit done’ yet lo and behold our DNA is going onto an EU data base. Presumably part of the transitional period – EU still rules. We’ll never get that DNA data back.
I think it will be permanent not part of transition. I predict a Trade and Security Treaty locking us permanently into Europol and the EU Criminal In Justice system, at the mercy of EU Arrest Warrant and EU Public Prosecutor. TMay declared her intention to do this; and I have written to my MP, to BoJo and Steve Baker in protest. Their responses indicated that they too intend this.
So has PM Johnson torn the fishing out of EU negotiations ? – If he has, and without its later re-emergence, he has got one thing right ! – Yes, it’s about time, and Barmier needs to keep his French mouth shut on this item ! – Well done BoJo !
Shopping has exploded with retail outlets going through a form of Sales purchasing ! – It’s interesting that there are some folks who seem to have the money for this. – I know that I am not able to join them, not that I would anyway !
What has Bomber Harris to do with the unwelcome attachment of morons to the BLM movement ? – Hasn’t this Nation shown enough disrespect to Bomber Command, following WW2 ? – Area bombing was part of ‘Total and General War’, as declared by Churchill !
School Children have indeed learnt something from this pandemic. – They have learnt that Sir or Miss of the Teaching profession will put their sun-tan ahead of teaching, and certainly won’t chase you if you fail to keep up with school work ! – It’s called knowledge of factual life !
It feels like a personal attack doesn’t it Mike, the people BLM are attacking. For heavens sake the Nazis flattened vast areas of London and other cities before we retaliated.
Wrong. It was the other way around.
My Great Uncle drove ambulances through the East End of London during the Blitz / FIRE Bombing of London, generally when the Thames was low.
What my Dad had to say about Harris, after himself being bombed then and whilst being DoodleBugged, and the thousand bomber raids, can be shortened to give it ‘to the Basthards some of their own medicine’. He said you could see bombers flying out in tens and twelves for hours and hours. The lad that sat next to him at school was machine gunned by aircraft at the age of ten and is buried in St Mary’s Merton. That’s enough – it hurts too much.
Debbie, I understand that you have now been contacted with regard to the new political party that is being created. We will crack on with this project despite Nigel Farage in the past few days announcing that he may bring the Brexit Party out of its self imposed hibernation. There are however some fundamental differences between the two parties both of which demand a fully independent and sovereign United Kingdom outside of the European Union, able to control our own borders, able to negotiate trade deals with other countries around the world, and have full control of our territorial waters. However, the new party will have a membership base and will be run by the members for the members who will have full voting rights, and thereby be able to determine future polices, unlike The Brexit Party which has registered supporters who have no say at all. It will will also have a local branch and regional network in place to foster the creation of an activist base, and we anticipate contesting the local elections in 2021 and beyond.
Hi Colin, yes I have been contacted and look forward to the next phase of the party’s launch. As I said to the prominent politician leading the party, Nigel was the master of spin! He assured anyone who would listen that The Brexit Party had loads of supporters, but never was there any proof of this – no membership numbers, no local branch or regional network, no local councillors, nothing but Nigel’s promise that it was all happening. It may have been happening – or you could assess the worth of a politican’s assertions! That must be up to each individual.
The new party will be different and I look forward to working with you.
Debbie, I think times have moved on since the Brexit Party was formed, which was in fact less than one year ago It had a very slick and polished front, but I am afraid to say behind the scene at grassroots level it was very disorganised. I was a Constituency Campaign Organiser and had no access to the details of registered supporters. In addition to that we had no money and everything was organised from the centre, and how we would have been able to fight a General Election on that basis I know not. As a consequence me and our PPC delivered 10,000 leaflets between between us prior to him being withdrawn along with 316 others. The Brexit Party did not develop in the way it should have done. The new party however will operate in a totally different way, and will follow the conventional way of how political parties operate and engage with their members.
Colin – Nigel lost a lot of support when he sold out to the Tories. Let’s hope the new party will gather those supporters.
Every undertaking is colossal amount of work/money. Ask anyone who has done it. or tried or failed.even the simplest or tiny.. Anything is possible but do you really want to kick away the first simple steps just because there are still some wannabe dogs in the manger. Who are equally unaware.
Oh Dear! Colin and Debbie………….Here we go again…………!
I’ve got an idea. Why not have a Political Party for each one of us who holds an opinion on the future of ‘Our Society’ or the country?
That way we can DEFINATELY split the vote.
Maybe we could have about a hundred ‘Paper Candidates’ in each Constituency (of which I was one for UKIP some time ago) all under a different name, banner, militant Group etc, and each following just a slightly different Agenda.
Each of them could be financed by a ‘Central Fund’ perhaps via Crowdfunding’? (Or maybe the British Georg Soros…
Someone like Richard Branson could fund it?)
Or we might ask Russia to support a Candidate; China; The Democratic Party; The Republicans; North Korea. etc, etc, etc……
We could put forward a candidate for instance which followed everything contained in the original UKIP Manifesto, but change ONE element from it to perhaps insert slight changes for each ‘different’ Party:
The LGBT voters Party;
Homosexual voters Party;
Black voters Party;
White voters Party;
The Asian Voters;
The British University Party;
Union Workers Party; (one Party for each Union)……..and so on and so-forth.
The ‘I Don’t Give A F*ck’ Party, etc, etc, etc……….
Then we have a Consolidation Party.
This way we will have a form of Proportional Representation only disguised by the subtle changes made to the UKIP ‘Manifesto’.
Oh, and then reduce the voting age to include say ten year olds?
Surely this will stimulate those who don’t normally vote, increase the overall numbers and take sufficient votes away from the ‘Big Three’ so as to steal votes away from each one of them.
Maybe so Mr Paul, but there are many of us who don’t have a political home at the moment. Farage has lost support, UKIP seems to be in a mess, the Lib/Lab/Con parties are really not worth voting for. Who would you have us vote for? BNP? I for one am not going down that route.
The BNP is on the verge of total collapse now anyway.
Well Debbie…I have heard it mooted that there IS another Party being formed.
As the man said “you can include me out” IF there is no sign of Gerard Batten for one – plus many of the other hard working, knowledgeable, articulate, brave, committed UKIPPERS of old – who were ‘drummed out’ of the Party for a catalogue of peculiar and often spurious ‘reasons’.
Once a ‘copper-bottomed’ agreeable, feasible and realistic Manifesto is declared or presented, by ANY Party, then THAT will be the Party I will follow and support.
First of all however, if that Party, from wherever it surfaces, FAIKS to openly declare clearly and forcefully that it will NEVER accept that this country will EVER be subject to Sharia Law, that it fails to denounce the evil of Islam and also the Islamic terrorists who perpetrate that evil on a daily basis, worldwide, then it will never get my support or vote.
It is my firm opinion that anyone who is not prepared to openly voice those principles will not have a chance in hell of getting the true grassroots support of voters of this country – and the Pantomime will continue.
NO! I have no hate for Muslims per-se, but I reserve my right to question the teaching they are given in Their Book.
I HAVE read it…. (I speak some Arabic!) I have studied it… I have discussed with Muslims their beliefs – in no way do their ‘beliefs’ concur with mine. If the time ever came (some chance!) when British Muslims openly supported the freedom of Christians, Jews and other religions to practise their religions freely in Islamic countries, and when they agree for churches and synagogues to be free to be built (indeed REBUILT!) and so to open their doors in Islamic countries, that will be the time when I may change my views. Meanwhile I will oppose the building of a single mosque in our country. Lex Talionis.
But of course, they always have Taquia to fall back on, as preached by their Leader.
The question is of course, is this Party likely to rise from the ashes of UKIP, within the next couple of years?
I NEVER say NEVER.
Watch this space!
If Farage is a member of the new party, maybe you can ask him a question?
Did he get the thirty pieces of silver I sent to him after his sell out to the conservatives?
The prospect of Nigel being a member of the new party is somewhere between slim and nil Biscotte.
Biscotte…..is there the remotest chance that the British public will accept that Nigel Farage EVER did anything right, worthwhile or positive in the last twenty years?
A young whippersnapper like the PRIVILEGED Millionaire Rashford enters the ring with his remarks on school meals and suddenly he is elevated to the heights of ‘media Sainthood’. A Knighhood next?
Nigel Farage has worked tirelessly for over twenty years to right the wrongs of the idiots who took us into the EU Guantanamo, and the country AGREED with him……….you MAY remember? AND THIS GOVERNMENT HAS STILL NOT CARRIED OUT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, and may STILL not do the job ‘as described’.
Most things that Farage has attempted in the last couple of years have been justified by the ‘goings-on’ of the successive UKIP hierarchy and their incomprehensible ‘Executive Decisions’. They have systematically destroyed any of the credibility Farage, and men such as Batten, expressed when they fought TIRELESSLY for our collective freedom via UKIP – Batten courageously staving off the ranting and raving which spewed from the clueless tongues of Cameron, Osborne The BBC, The Media, The Glorious (put-it-in-my-outer-pocket….the-back-one-is-full’) Millibands – and ‘The British Elite’ et al…………and confirmed those two clowns ‘jobless’ and his detractors, including The Bank of England, spineless, cowardly liars – whose EVERY prediction has been proven to be, not only wrong, but misleading, baseless and designed with their own self-preservation in mind.
The very least one can say about Farage is that he is not an habitual liar, that he ‘beards the lion’ when verbally insulted and attached by such as those overpaid harridans and cretins of the Press – in particular The BBC.
Only NOW their bias is coming home to roost and being officially recognised, at long last?………unelected cretins such as the grossly overrated and overpaid Ms. Brainless – Er, Maitlis, who runs the BBC,( on her days off), reading from a pre-prepared script – which she effortlessly strays from on a whim – can’t hold a candle to the likes of Batten or Farage – yet is allowed to prognosticate on everything subject known to man (Sorry! woman!).
And so men of the quality of Farage are looked upon as Judas………and kickers of inflated bladders are deified, and heroic by sometimes stating the patently obvious.
So! Who is surprised by our ‘unbiased BBC’ , when all of this vituperation is directed by them at honest men, instead of the vicious, mindless, terrorist paid morons and destroyers of BLM (Bullies, Liars and Morons) who are hell bent on destroying all of our lives?
The BBC is a gross anachronism – just as are the Conservative and Unionist Party and The Parliamentary Labour Party………….(now that’s positively laughable this mob is led by a Multi-millionaire Lawyer/Barrister/opportunist).
ALL have outlived their true base……but what chance does a new Party have, such S UKIP, when they cannot even temporarily ‘turn the other cheek’ when one of their own sometimes proves marginally, on occasions, not to toe the Party line? Self-inflicted-Purgatory.
Surely ANY new Party will need to suffer a much wider, freer-thinking Membership and be less critical of the men and women who can and do offer themselves to represent them in the cauldron of British politics.
More pipe-dreams.
PS lockdownsceptics.org is also well worth looking at
Black Lives Matter is, by definition, a racist organisation which has been allowed to carry out criminal activities without any effective response. Time for it to be classified as such and its leaders prosecuted. Anarchy cannot be tolerated in a civilised society.
Maybe they are being used by those fomenting unrest for their own evil ends. Destroy civilisation as we know it so that people will blindly accept any alternative, however bad that alternative might be.
Who funds BLM? It’s cover for a totalitarian society which suits the Marxists and the globalists. The foot soldiers are useful idiots who’ll get nothing and are being used. The police want violence and don’t really care if its their own men either who are being used. Great excuse for totalitarianism. Saturday’s demos were effectively authorised by the Met which announced on Friday that it had arranged for two rival demos separated by a barrier. I’m sure they thought the turnout by the opponents of cultural vandalism would be lousy and that’ll show em.
Soros almost certainly lurking in the background somewhere.
As always along with Gates and others prominent in the World Economic Forum as they call it.
Are there any more Marxists still around? Class war politics appears to be a thing of the past, replaced by the more fashionably metropolitan ‘identity politics’ of today’s neo-Marxists, who are not actually Marxists.
It’s worth noting that criticism from Boris and Priti is more scathing towards the counter protestors, who are constantly being labelled as ‘far-right’ and ‘racist’, while the other lot (BLM and Antifa) are considered to have a ‘just cause’. It’s all you can expect from this fake ‘Conservative’ government, which is just as much wedded to Cultural Marxism as those led by Theresa May and David cameron.
Quite true Jack Thomas. If political parties can be banned like BNP why can’t BLM be banned? Though I must admit banning any party/group does smack of totalitarianism. Your suggestions sound better.
The BNP was never banned; it’s merely gone into terminal decline due to its grossly incompetent, uninspiring leadership. the website is still there, but articles are simplistic, while comments have been removed for fear of criticism from its former and supporters.
“Councils do not have the legal powers to enforce a “local lockdown” …”
Thank goodness for that; they have been allowed too many powers already, especially those requiring the squandering of taxpayers’ money. Let’s have their powers returned to those they had in the 60’s and 70’s where the principle of “ultra vires” limited that which they could legitimately engage in.
I strongly recommend Big Brother watch ; https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
I think they are doing really good work.