Help! I’m being bullied!

 

Honestly – I wasn’t going to do it! I wasn’t going to get stuck in the newsie news offered by our MSM, but some headlines were simply too delicious. I had to check out the text underneath. Look at the usual announcement by ‘staff’ to see why: “Newspaper headlines: Sunak under investigation and Charles’ Coronation quiche” (link). 

‘Coronation Quiche’ – really? Is that the ‘news’ which’ll make punters rush to buy the papers? Btw – the DM has helpfully published the recipe (link) and by gawd, ‘royal’ or not, you couldn’t pay me to eat that bland stuff, never mind make it! 

To give them their due, the editors of the DM had actually given over their print edition’s front page to the ‘General Alarm’ issue. It’s also at the top of their online edition, headlined “So which genius thought it was a good idea to terrify the whole country at 3pm on a Sunday?” (link). After providing helpful advice on how to switch the thing off on yer smartphones, after quoting every spokesperson from groups and NGOs who are concerned for valid reasons, one has to scroll all the way down to the bottom to find out who this ‘genius’ was:

“Oliver Dowden, the minister overseeing the scheme, said: ‘Getting this system operational means we have a vital tool to keep the public safe in life-threatening emergencies. It could be the sound that saves your life.” Tests have been carried out in Reading and East Suffolk. Around one in 20 participants subsequently opted out.” (link)

Ah! And the whole thing will cost us taxpayers £22m – genius indeed! Of course, the DM didn’t say that clicking on yon message on your smartphone will provide the government with lovely personal data from your ‘phone, or at least document how many ‘phones the government can thus access. I do wonder if we’ll be told on Monday how many have opted out.

There’s also been another colourful ‘protest’, at the Snooker World Championship. Two idiots of the group who recently poured tomato soup over a painting threw orangey-yellowy powder bombs on snooker tables, ruining the matches and presumably the tables (e.g. link, paywalled). Why our ‘authorities’ are incapable of stopping these terrorists is a question our MSM are unwilling to ask. 

Of course, given that MI5 will hopefully have their hands full finding actual terrorists amongst the ‘poor refugees’, and that he police forces have to chase up ‘hate speech’ and stuff means they cannot be expected to deal with such petitesses. It’s an indictment of the government and Whitehall, demonstrating yet again that they couldn’t care less of our, the taxpayers’ wishes and concerns. 

Meanwhile the subterranean campaign against Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, is gathering pace. Now that the ‘case’ of the bullying (allegedly) Dominic Raab is apparently coming to an end the Westminster lot needs another one. According to The Times, the top Raab-chaser, ‘we’ can soon expect to see the ‘report’: “Dominic Raab ‘bullying’ report expected in days – Deputy prime minister’s fate after inquiry will be decided by Rishi Sunak” (link, paywalled)

Note the reference to the PM. This is delicate because he’s now also ‘under investigation’, according to iNews whose front page graced the top spot in Auntie Beeb’s collection (link). Apparently, he’s not listed his wife’s shares on his parliamentary register: disgraceful! But let’s not quibble and be grateful that there are so many lefty eyes trained on government figures – for example, as mentioned above, Simon Case: (all emphases are mine):

“A former civil servant is suing the Cabinet Office and its head Simon Case for “direct discrimination and harassment”. Rowaa Ahmed, who used to work at the Treasury, has lodged two claims with an employment tribunal. The direct discrimination and harassment claim is on the grounds of “sex and race”, while a further legal claim is over alleged “victimisation”. The claims name the Cabinet Office and Mr Case, the Cabinet Secretary, along with three other mandarins.” (paywalled link)

So it’s not just Mr Case then, with ‘three other mandarins’ also being named. Let’s forget that Mr Case hasn’t worked at the Treasury. Above all, let’s forget that the tribunal rejected Mr Case’s lawyers’ argument:

“His lawyers said there were no “substantive” allegations of discrimination against him. But this argument rejected [sic!] by the tribunal, even though the tribunal found it was “clear” that the part allegedly played by Mr Case and two other parties was “relatively minor”.” (paywalled link)

Does this ‘tribunal’ not look at other ‘cases’? Are only those interesting for the Westminster Press which name Mr Case, be the allegations ever so spurious? Are only those ‘bullied’ by certain cabinet figures worthy of being mentioned in the press?

Instead of asking truly inconvenient questions of Whitehall and the current Cabinet, for example about the cost to the taxpayer of ‘being nice to climate terrorists’, we’re presented with concerted efforts by the Westminster ‘press’ to get rid of Case and Raab. Was nobody bullied by the Sedwills or Oily Robbinses of the May regime? Is nobody bullied in the MoD or the Treasury? 

Yes, bullying is bad, but there’s bullying and there’s bullying. Being told to work as expected ain’t it. And aren’t we taxpaying peasants bullied by the time- and money wasters in government, e.g. wasting £22m on a ‘general alarm’? The ‘Brecon Beacons Saga’ I mentioned yesterday is a fine example of bullying a whole nation in the name of ‘Net Zero’. 

That’s all I have for today. Perhaps someone ought to start a case of bullying against those climate terrorists: they’re bullies, and “we” must fight bullies wherever they crop up, right? Have a good day.