… after a preventable crime
Today the nation is being treated to a hefty dose of utter hypocrisy. There’s one theme only for our glorious MSM: the death by shooting of a nine-year-old girl in a gangland killing in Liverpool (link). I say this is blatant hypocrisy because that poor little girl was shot down on Monday evening, thus the MSM could have indulged in tearful outcries yesterday already but didn’t.
All print editions (the Star being the exception) have this horrific murder on their front pages, making themselves look suspiciously like a government press, doing as they’re told. I wonder why there’s no outcry about the fact that there’s now a gun ‘culture’ here in the UK. I wonder why there’s still no outcry about the police forces preferentially dealing with such heinous crimes like ‘hate speech’ on social media, or with ‘celebrating’ some Alphabet-Group festivals with dancing on Tik-Tok.
Honour where honour is due: the DM has a general report about the killings in Liverpool where we learn that the little girl wasn’t the only victim of gangland shootings (link). They also report that this was a tit-for-tat shooting for an incident that happened three weeks ago (link). There’s one more report about another shooting in that city which happened on Sunday when a young woman died (link).
So why, I wonder, has the death of this little girl been taken up by all papers when the other killings haven’t? Why have the equally unnecessary deaths of kids in London, killed by stabbings, not become a national outrage? It surely couldn’t be because this little girl is white while the others aren’t? That would be racist, innit. Or do all those eminent papers, do the MSM refrain from reporting on those London killings because accusing the current Mayor of negligence would be racist? Who can know, nowadays, what is racist and what isn’t!
I’ll of course refrain from mentioning that “we” have other fear issues to pay attention to, such as the still ongoing ‘wannabe PM race’, or inflation, so gun crimes are ‘local’ and not really worthy of national attention. I am of course not going to mention that the mayors of London and Liverpool happen to be Labour who’ve been in office for some time and have other problems to deal with so cannot be expected to address drugs and gang culture.
There’s one other aspect to this sudden concern: the poor girl was shot. So where are those guns coming from? Why do our MSM not asking that simple question? We do have strict gun laws in this country, do we not? Perhaps our Westminster MSM need help in connecting dots?
Let’s see if we can help: there were reports a few weeks ago that those poor dinghy-refugees were smuggling guns into the UK. There were reports – not in the MSM – that Ukrainian military were selling arms on the black armament market – arms given by the gullible Western governments. Obviously, we cannot expect the Border Force and all our police forces to deal with such security issues like gun smuggling, not when they’re working so hard to protect the alphabet groups from being bullied by hurty words.
I leave you with one other example of blatant hypocrisy. We know that the water companies have again imposed hosepipe bans in various areas. We know that they haven’t addressed the scandal of losing billions of litres of water through leaking pipes. We also know that the bosses of said ‘industries’ have been raking in huge stipends as ‘bonus’ for doing eff all to address these problems which have been known for years.
So now one of the most derelict companies, Thames Water, is pointing the finger at a new culprit which they now blame for ‘water crime’ (yes, really!):
“Thames Water is investigating the water consumption of data centres, in an effort to cut down the wastage that comes from cooling them with drinking water. “Our main objective is to reduce the amount of water required to run a data centre,” John Hernon, Thames Water’s strategic development manager, said. “It isn’t necessary for data centres to use potable water for cooling. We want to look at how non-drinking water can be used and reused.” (link, paywalled)
There’s more – here’s a nice comparison, i.e. numbers of estimates according to which:
“ […] a medium-sized data centre can use as much water as an 18-hole golf course. Between 2017 and 2018 water use by Google increased by almost half to 15.8 billion litres per year, enough to fill a cube with sides the height of Canary Wharf.” (link, paywalled)
Take note: this water consumption for one centre was known in 2018 already. Clearly, especially given all the WFH in the covid years, those cloud services and data centres were more busy than before, needing more water – so unforeseeable that even after the end of lockdown nothing has been done. Hosepipe bans affecting vast numbers of people are so much more effective …
Nothing at all being done by government, power and water companies, police forces and MSM which are so keen to ‘protect’ sacred cows: that’s the story of this government!
And finally: the photo which graces this morning’s front page of the DT, with a rare glimpse of BJ (link). The entrance to No 10 has been decorated with a huge flower arrangement in the national colours of the Ukraine – because it’s their ‘independence day’. Do I detect the fine hand of Mrs J here? I wonder how much this arrangement has cost. I wonder where those flowers were grown and how, given the water shortages.
I wonder how come I missed similar arrangements for other nations. I wonder why “we” celebrate yon nation with such a display when more and more of us are struggling with paying bills, when people aren’t allowed to care for their gardens because of those hosepipe bans. Are the inmates of No 10 who ordered this display so tactless and indeed shameless that they needed flowers rather than flags to ‘show solidarity’?
Yes, we need beauty in our lives. No, we don’t need a splashy, costly display when we peasants have no money to afford a bunch of flowers for our homes because we can’t pay for food. You couldn’t find a better example than this display, demonstrating the shamelessness of our ‘governing elite’.
The gun laws are completely skewed favouring the criminals of course. Between the seventies and mid nineties I was a member of two gun clubs, .22 and full bore, and actively participated in regular competitions often with the winning teams. I owned rifles which were licensed and subject to an annual inspection in the early years, and could prove membership of an authorised club. Then in the nineties I was constantly harassed by the police who tried but could find anything wrong with my weapons and where they were stored. After my third child was born time became more of a premium, and the constant visits, and increased costs got me down and I reluctantly decided to sell my weapons. The point of the story is that I did everything by the book and was still being bothered excessively, whilst the criminal fraternity don’t have that inconvenience. What a warped world we live in.
At last a fight back against the climate change myth:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/23/declaration-saying-there-is-no-climate-emergency-trends-on-twitter-greenies-have-meltdown/
That’s some consolation Jack Thomas. Let’s hope it “has legs” so to speak.
In the competition for Tory leadership, between the fully signed up globalist and she of flimsy knowledge, I had to lean towards the latter and keep my fingers crossed but with no real hope.
However she had made a few good points, though none underpinned with answers. She:
berated Tom Newton Dunn and the MSM for their left wing bias;
called out wokeism and snowflakeism – ‘real life doesn’t come with a content warning’;
condemned the ‘grooming’ scandal’ (unfortunately using the euphemism but at least she said it) and the officials who turn a blind eye;
called Nichola Sturgeon an attention seeker who should be ignored;
said businesses must not stop accepting cash;
said correctly 5yrs ago (although the idiot Left dredged it up to embarrass her, it had the opposite amongst those with a brain) that the British should work harder for better productivity (especially pertinent now that people are loath to return to work and would rather like permanent furlough – which is of course UBI which is a WEF goal);
appears to be pro-fracking, but she is no Thatcher to stand up to the myriad vested interests.
Against her is her war-mongering and slavish driving of the Ukraine narrative. It may be ignorance or obedience to the deep state, but can be discounted in ‘the race’ since everyone in and around the Westminster bubble thinks the same.
But now she has recommitted to HS2, FFS!
So what started out as an EU project, part of the TransEuropean Network, and could now be cancelled instantly, is perpetuated because virtue-signalling; and of course money is no object for an already way-past bankrupt nation. If it was cancelled it would be screamed that the nasty Torees don’t care about levelling up, innit. Notwithstanding that we all know they don’t care anyway, and that the whole premise is nonsense – it will simply allow richer folk to commute to London from further afield. Mind you the reasons cited for it in the first place have morphed more times than ‘global warming’ has been relabelled, in both cases as each one was shown to be unsustainable, to us that word correctly for once.
So £120bn and rising that she could repurpose towards any combination of our myriad current national crises (though not the NHS as that should be made to cut its own vast waste, starting with the legion of diversity officers and energy consultants (sorry Harry) is now baked in.
The purpose of HS2 is the national delivery of goods by electric train. Electric long distance trucks are impractical a the moment.
RUBBISH H A.
HS2 is for passengers not freight.
If it was to carry goods there would be some point to it.
Phil O’S at 2.44pm. I agree with you.
What a disappointment that she has repeated her ‘support Ukraine’ nonsense AND backed HS2.
Unfortunately even she doesn’t have the guts that Maggie had.
Sack a civil servant and destroy his computer and save it’s water.
Gun laws: I still think we should have The Right To Bear Arms, as in some parts of USA (although even there this right is being taken away in some states, while much of the population apparently applauds this). We need this right to protect ourselves from the biggest terror threat of all, a tyrannical Government.
Strict gun laws on their own surely don’t stop/reduce incidents like this Liverpool one.
I think many USA citizens don’t value their 2nd Amendment. as I found after talking to some of them.
Mary- total agreement. And not just of 0.22 hand popguns.
When working in Norway, most of the population had guns. And shooting championships televised.
Canada has more guns than most.
Almost all the Americans I know have / want guns.
When the Obarmessiaha limited gun magazine capacity, gunshops sold out in advance of all the ‘big’ mag vervisons.
One thing to keep in mind is the recording of gun deaths. I understand that in the uSA, suicide using a gun goes on the gun death register. Whereas other countries do not include it as though it was part of a turf war, mentally defective lone wolf killer, or similar.
For many years now it has been perfectly clear that successive governments have activally and positively encouraged drugs and the attendant crime. Any reasons are kept a closely guarded secret and the attendant crimes. disappear into a swamp Could it be that criminal kids are cleverer,more innovative, wealthier. and needed.Or are they already in control? Could it be that they have tried the obvious trials. Could they have used a Fergusson model. Are all our MPs starry eyed. etc. etc..etc. I am convinced that every single member of the powers that be has a boat full of coke on the high seas from Afganistan, or columbia or etc.
Whatever. Tis passing strange.
Indeed Mary; we need that threat against tyrannical government, exactly the purpose of the US Second Amendment. That doesn’t mean we need to use it except in extreme circumstances.
The floral display around the door to no 10 is quite shocking and not just for looking plastic and out of place against the backdrop of that building. It is a visible reminder of how the public sector plays fast and loose with our money, of how they treat our money as a form of tribute do with as they will. It symbolises the self-serving attitude of our elites, their continuing self-indulgent immodesty even as real hardship looms for many citizens who fund the jamboree that is much of the public sector.
Entitlement may always have infected the governing class but it has infused its way through the ranks thanks the introduction of the credit card in 1966. Back in the days when cheques has to be signed, civil servants had to fill in purchase orders which had to be counter signed by a manger and forwarded to a purchasing department wherein the purchase was not merely processed but checked for necessity againt a budget. Nowaday, credit cards proliferate with departments having dozens or hundreds in some cases. A department’s needs are decided by a legion of lower rank purchasers and motivated reasoning can justify, especially retrospectively, all manner of purchases that in days gone by might never have been considered. Online accounts are now also common. When the Home Office spent its first £35m on home working – ipads, office chairs and desk for homes etc – this level of profligacy would not have been possible, and the speed of it in particular, would not have been possible in the days of the cheque book with limited signatories.
Public finances have been corrupted not by criminal intent of civil servants so much as by technology induced cultural changes that reached an zenith in the Treasury and Department of Health losing control of billions during the pandemic as fraud ran out of control. The moral imperative for thrift, for true fiduciary responsibility over citizen’s money, began to erode in 1966. It was the year the Rolling Stones released their “19th Nervous Breakdown” which, we now see, was not a summary of where we had got to by that year, but a prediction of where we were heading.
The banks are desperate to get rid of cash/shrapnel.
Then they can close all their remaining ranches, sack 90% of their staff and get rid of cash machines.
They won’t have to be harassed face o face with customers with a grievance.
The Gov. want to get rid of cash too in order to be incontrol of every transaction you make.
Remember Cyprus where the gov. took 10% of everyone’s savings?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyprus-banks-idUSKBN1K3242
They didn’t get their money back either. (European Court ruling again.)
The same system is coming to the UK soon
Have a read at this:-
https://www.addleshawgoddard.com/en/insights/insights-briefings/2022/finance/bank-of-england-first-bail-in-recognition/#:~:text=The%20Bank%20of%20England%20further,force%20on%2014%20May%202021.
Stout. I daresay you are right in what you say.
I am just pig sick of how the Government, Civil Service and probably the whole Banking sector, from the BoE all the way down, have imposed high taxes on productive people and businesses.
So that the country produces less and less of any true value and we pay more and more for it.
ENERGY is the most blatant example.
Of course Bojo’s Carbon Neutral nonsense is a major factor there.
Come to think though. It is a bit like Charles 1st, over taxing the Merchant Class, which was the major cause of the civil war!