Tommy Robinson's far-right London rally will be festival of 'hate and lies' - The Mirror
Chris Rose on X - "Is The Mirror expecting: 528 arrests? Two stabbings? 11 guns to be seized? Over 40 knives to be seized? Oh no wait, that was Notting Hill carnival, which they described as “vibrant”."
Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴 on X - "Hearing that because the local hoodlums have plonked flags everywhere and put graffiti on roundabouts house prices have gone down in these areas. You can thank Grimes and Brooks et al later."
Mark Richards on X - "I would much rather have hotels full of undocumented rapey illegal males in my neighbourhood. People are much more attracted to the area when men are filming and masturbating outside the local primary school and following young girls home and trying to touch them"
Dad spends 6 hours painting cross of St George on house after flag torn down - "A dad who had an England flag torn down from his garden decided to go "one better" and paint a giant St George's cross on the front of his HOUSE. Simon Brocklehurst, 41, was left fuming when his flag was ripped down from his front garden in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts... "I had a flag flying on a pole but these people came along and ripped it down from my garden. "They were accusing me of being racist, which I'm really not, I've just always been proud of my country. "I had a St George's cross flying years ago but the council told me to remove it in case it offended somebody, it's just not right... "On social media I seem to be getting a lot of hate and abuse for it but in real-life most people seem to love it. "Cars go past honking their horns and giving me a thumbs up. People are saying 'good on you' and respond really well. "But some English people calling me disgusting, I wouldn't be surprised if I get a brick through the window or something. "It's mainly on Facebook where I seem to be getting stick for it - but everyone is entitled to their opinions. "That is what the flag represents, without this flag you wouldn't have freedom of speech, so I respect their right to say what they want about it. "But we shouldn't be treated like criminals just for flying our flag, over in the USA they do so with pride."
Wiltshire pub featured in Reform video ordered to paint over St George’s Cross - "A Lib Dem council demanded a pub remove its St George’s Cross painted on its white exterior an hour after it was featured in a Reform UK promotional video. Jerry Kunkler, the landlord of Moonrakers Inn in Pewsey, Wiltshire, since 1981 and the county’s longest-serving councillor, painted the current cross on the pub for the World Cup in 2022... Mr Kruger has criticised the council’s decision, emphasising that the cross “isn’t a political thing”, but that it is “an English pub in an English town with an England flag”. The email from Steven Jenkins, the council’s planning enforcement officer, said: “It has been brought to my attention that you have undertaken some unauthorised works to your property without first obtaining listed building consent."
Even if the cope is that it's a violation of building codes, it's amazing that it's a good thing to require government approval to paint your building
Reform UK: Schoolchildren told Reform is 'extremist' and St George’s flag is 'far-right exclusionary symbol' - "Schoolchildren have been told that Reform UK's policies are similar to fascism, leaked lesson material has revealed. Teaching material shown to pupils at academies operated by Orion Education, which runs eight schools across London and Kent, placed Reform UK's logo at the “fascism” end of the spectrum, just short of the British National Party and Nazi flag. The teaching material also claimed Reform UK supporters include people who hold "extremist views". Meanwhile, the Conservative Party and Labour Party were denoted as "mainstream", with the Green Party being described as holding concerns about the environment alongside other left-wing views. Another PowerPoint slide focusing on "extremism" pictured Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice... The presentation, which was delivered to Year 10 pupils as young as 14, also dedicated a section of text to the flag of St George. The learning material highlighted how England's national flag has been criticised as a “provocative and exclusionary symbol used by far-right groups”... “Left-wing teachers are breaching their employment contracts by imposing their deep socialist political bias on children. “They should be neutral in helping students learn all sides of politics. "It is notable that no reference was made to Antifa, nor violent extremism from the far-left. “I am appalled but not surprised by this bias from a primarily Left-wing academic community.”"
Meme - sandra @mrsDugskullery: "Robert Jenrick is doing the media rounds this morning saying, "This hatred has to stop... we're better than this" Not one of the presenters has asked him why he has spent the last month up a lamppost sowing division."
James Connolly @Irish_Bees: "How is flying his own flag, in his own country divisive? I think you were up too late last night celebrating your side's success yesterday."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
David Lammy has unintentionally performed a national service and it will cost Labour dearly - "One of David Lammy’s earliest symbolic acts as Foreign Secretary wasn’t to stabilise Britain’s standing, reassure allies, or confront the crises piling up on his desk. No — his priority was far more revealing. He marched into the Foreign Office and had the beloved late Queen Elizabeth ripped off the wall, only to be replaced by Pan-African flags. It was the most honest thing a Labour minister has done since taking power. Politics is full of petty gestures masquerading as statesmanship, but Lammy’s symbolic purge stands out for its clarity. This wasn’t décor. It wasn’t a harmless personal preference. It was a doctrinal announcement: Lammy didn’t merely remove a portrait. He tried to evict the single most beloved figure in modern British history from the very institution she dignified for seventy years. The gesture tells the world everything it needs to know about who is now running British foreign policy. Labour suffers a reflexive cringe at the sight of British greatness. It embarrasses them. Tradition, continuity, monarchy, sovereignty — these things are an itchy wool jumper the party cannot bear to put on. And the late monarch embodied those virtues with an effortlessness that made generations of politicians look small. Queen Elizabeth represented service without ego, duty without theatrics, national identity without politics. She unified Britain effortlessly. Which is precisely why Labour’s ideologues resent her. She proved that patriotism does not need Establishment permission to exist. She eclipsed the Establishment. Lammy’s decision to remove her portrait didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the natural instinct of a party that would prefer a Britain constantly apologising for itself, perpetually edited and re-edited to match the sensibilities of the modern progressive imagination. If Labour needed a face for its ongoing identity crisis, it has found it in David Lammy. His public persona has always depended on positioning Britain as a nation that must continually atone — a country defined more by alleged sins than by unmatched achievements. He speaks the language of “reckoning”, “accountability”, and “historic responsibility”, yet rarely manages a sentence celebrating Britain’s extraordinary role in global history. He approaches national pride as if it were a toxic substance requiring gloves and tongs... Here in the USA, we have seen this movie before, and let me tell you: it doesn’t end well. When Barack Obama first entered the Oval Office, he promptly removed the bust of Winston Churchill. When questioned, he hid behind diplomatic niceties, but everyone knew what was happening. A President steeped in progressive ideology could not abide a symbol of Anglo-American exceptionalism staring at him from across the room... Progressive governments — whether in Washington or London — cannot stand symbols that remind nations of who they were before the professional activist class seized cultural power... This is the same Labour Party that preaches endlessly about “restoring trust in institutions” and “respecting public life”. Yet its leading diplomat cannot even show respect for the one institution that consistently earned it. Labour’s reverence is selective; their patriotism conditional; their respect manufactured. They treat the monarchy the way a schoolchild treats homework: tolerable only when forced, resented at all other times. What Lammy has done may look trivial. It is anything but. Great nations do not fall because of arguments about paintings. They fall because their elites become ashamed of their inheritance... they remove the portrait and hope no one notices the deeper message: Your past is obsolete. Your heritage is embarrassing. Look away. Once a country begins erasing the symbols that anchor its identity, decline accelerates quickly. We learned that the hard way, until Trump brought national pride roaring back. Britain must follow this lead."
If you talk about dual loyalty, you're racist
Poppy sellers called racist while raising flags for Remembrance Day in Wales - "Paul Galsworthy, an ex-Navy diver, and Patrick Stanton, a former Able Seaman, said they had been working together to raise the flags and place poppies in Penarth town centre when they suffered the abuse... The ex-Navy officers raised “Lest we forget” flags, the White Ensign and flags for the Army and Royal Air Force, alongside Union flags and the Welsh flag. They also hung poppies on lamp-posts. However, the alleged abuse continued, Mr Galsworthy said, adding: “He wouldn’t have it and then he said, ‘We won it, we won in Caerphilly’.” The man’s comment came after Plaid Cymru claimed victory over Reform UK in a Welsh Parliament by-election."
Ethnic minorities ‘now view England flag as a racist symbol’ - "the majority of ethnic minority adults – 52 per cent – believe the St George’s flag has become a racist symbol, YouGov polling taken in October has shown... the majority of 2024 Labour voters – 58 per cent – believed the England flag had become a racist symbol, while just 19 per cent of Tory voters and 8 per cent of Reform voters said the same. Lee Anderson, Reform’s chief whip, said: “You’re more likely to see a Labour member fly the flag of Palestine than a St George’s flag. That tells you all you need to know.” Health leaders added to the row when they said the flags created “no-go zones” for NHS staff, claiming employees faced frequent abuse. Staff felt intimidated by the presence of the flags across the country, including when they were visiting people in their own homes to give them treatment, according to several NHS trust chief executives and leaders. One trust leader told The Telegraph that staff felt “deliberately intimidated” when St George’s flags went up over the summer."
How long till flying the English flag becomes a hate crime?
It's telling that Labour voters hate their country more than ethnic minorities
Free speech in the UK is dead. It’ll take a constitutional revolution to restore it - "Free speech is dead in the United Kingdom. A widening wation of this fact is driving a deepening British domestic political crisis. The Labour Government, barely a year old, is the most unpopular in modern history. Reform, a newly founded, upstart party with just four MPs, is leading in the polls. The public has, for some time, sensed that the state has gone too far, using police armed with submachine guns, not to protect the innocent from the dangerous, but to protect ideological sacred cows from inconvenient ideas. Story after story in the media proves that, in the UK, whether a controversial idea can be expressed safely depends not on the content of the speech but the whims of a law enforcer. Parents have been arrested for complaining about school governance in WhatsApp groups. A protester has been convicted after silently praying in public. Hamit Coskun, a Turkish man, was recently fined after he burnt a Koran. In Scotland, new hate crime laws criminalise private conversations in the home. The UK’s Online Safety Act even dares to reach across the Atlantic, with its extraterritoriality provisions promising to punish American citizens with fines or arrest for exercising their constitutional rights."
Palak paneer: Indian couple win $200,000 settlement over 'food racism' at US university - "A dispute that began over heating a dish in a microwave has ended with two Indian students winning a $200,000 settlement from a US university. Aditya Prakash and his fiancee, Urmi Bhattacheryya, told the BBC they filed a civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado, Boulder, after they faced a series of "microaggressions and retaliatory actions" following the microwave incident. The harassment began, the lawsuit alleged, after a university staff member objected to Prakash heating up his lunch of palak paneer - one of northern India's most popular dishes, made of pureed spinach and paneer (considered an Indian equivalent of cottage cheese) - in a microwave on campus, because of the way it smelled... Prakash said for them, the point of the lawsuit was not the money. "It was about making a point - that there are consequences to discriminating against Indians for their 'Indianness'." The lawsuit has received significant media coverage in India since it was first reported last week, starting a conversation around what many have described as "food racism" in Western countries. Many Indians on social media have shared their own experiences of facing ridicule over their food habits abroad. Some have also pointed out that discrimination over food is rampant in India as well, where non-vegetarian food is banned in many schools and colleges over perceptions of it being impure or dirty. People from disadvantaged castes and north-eastern states often face bias over their food habits, with some complaining about the smell of the ingredients they use. And it's not just Indian or South Asian food - communities from Africa, Latin America and other parts of Asia have also shared their experiences of being shamed over their food habits. Prakash and Bhattacheryya claim their ordeal began in September 2023. Prakash, a PhD student in the Anthropology Department at the university, was microwaving his lunch of palak paneer when a British staff member allegedly remarked that his food was giving off a "pungent" odour and told him that there was a rule against heating foods with strong odours in that microwave. Prakash said the rule wasn't mentioned anywhere and when he later inquired about which foods were considered pungent, he was told that sandwiches were not, while curry was."
If you don't allow people to heat up fish in the microwave, is that discrimination against pescatarians?
If you ban surströmming, can Scandinavians complain about racism?
Jesus Was A Socialist Deconstructionist Feminist, Claims Socialist Deconstructionist Feminist Scholar | Babylon Bee - "Schraph, age 47, was amazed to find in his textual examinations that the Jesus he found virtually mirrored the things he himself believes about society. "When I strip away the things that obviously could not have been said by the Jesus of history, the Christ figure is practically an avatar of my own mind.""
Thread by @Grummz on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "DnD creators, Gygax and others, are erased and slandered at the same time. WoTC and Hasbro just released the new Players Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide, as well at the 40th Anniversary "Making of DnD" book whose foreward slams the original creators and attempts to distance themselves. I spoke with one of the original creators, Rob Kuntz @threelinestudio , about the problem. 🧵
One of the main issues, cited Rob, the last surviving member of the OG crew, were the "DnD Historians" who write books and articles about the hobby and are left-leaning and continually slam the "problematic" creators and early books. The problem? Not once did they ever reach out or ask to interview Rob or many other original creators. Rob met Gary Gygax when he was a teenager, and joined the company soon after. He co-authored "Deities & Demigods with Jim Ward (whom I had the pleasure of playing in his recreation of the Greyhawk campaign. He is greatly missed.). Rob also assisted Gygax with the creation of the Greyhawk campaign setting. Rob was so upset by the foreward in "Making of DnD" that he posted a rebuttal on his X account. There are a few big lies in the Forward to the official WotC DnD history book:
- DnD promoted slavery.
- DnD made evil dragons female to be misogynistic.
- DnD culturally appropriated Deities and made players fight them in an act of (deliberate) disrespect.
These claims were "backed up" by DnD "historian" @BenRiggs_ in his viral thread attacking OG DnD creators, and were echo'd and amplified by others, widely spreading the lie. The first claim is largely based on the module "Slave Pits of the Undercity", but one glance at the cover shows that the players are fighting AGAINST slavers and called them "the forces of evil." But that didn't stop Ben or the Foreward from claiming that DnD was "making light" of slavery in his foaming attack thread. The claim about deliberately making Chaotic dragons "female" to be "sexist" in fact shows that the cultural insensitivity is not from the original authors, but out of pure cultural ignorance by these modern day DnD authors and "historians". Rob explained that Tiamat (the Queen of chaotic dragons) from Dieties and Demigods, which was blasted as "sexist" is actually canonically female and that there was no sexism present, it was simply accurate. Hailing from ancient Mesopotamian culture, Tiamat is also referred to in the original myths as the "primordial goddess of the ocean" representing chaos. Rob wrote the book, so he should know, but again, that did not stop DnD "historians" from completely getting it wrong and lying again. The final big lie in the DnD anniversary Foreward is that Deities and Demigods was culturally appropriating, and that players were expected to kill these Gods in some kind of insensitive and offensive manner. First of all, Cultural Appropriation is a myth, perpetuated by predominantly white authors on "behalf" of the supposed offended cultures who, in fact, have mostly no issues with this in their native countries. But Rob explained that these myths and gods were painstakingly researched, in an age before the Internet, with many trips to the library, and with great care. "Nobody was killing gods, you were supposed to be champions of the different gods. They set this up as a false narrative....You have to include HP and AC (for them) in case someone brings the battle to the God, like God vs God. Gods fought each other, they are always trying to kill each other (in myths)."
The other claims about DnD being against including women, are debunked by Rob, and Gary's own comments need to be viewed in light of the times. It was the 70's, and the media was hyping up feminism, especially radical feminism hateful towards men. They even had a big network game show at the time "Battle of the Sexes" and everyone had an opinion. While Gary was definitely against radical feminism, he was inclusive as far as DnD and his company was concerned. Rob explained: "This thing starts from a niche of a niche, wargaming. When its niche, it started with men, women were not excluded, but they didn't want to play, they excluded themselves. We were thrilled when women wanted to play." In fact, it was a challenge to get women to play: "Gary was not against women playing either. These women were not interested in little toy cannons and shooting toothpicks. They thought it was amusing that their men were playing these things. " Rob said that they were very grateful for a woman, Lee Gold, for promoting DnD in the early days and getting the attention of more female gamers: "they claim there is no women activity, but it was the Science fiction fantasy fandom and her articles were a big part of that. wargamers were only 10,000 people." Lee Gold founded and editing "Alarums and Excursions" which was one of the first amateur press associations dedicated to role-playing games and was fully supported by Gary's company, TSR. The lie told by DnD "historians" also erases the contributions of women like Lee Gold, and others who participated in, worked at TSR, and helped make DnD a success. "He hired women all over the place at TSR, even his wife worked there. Mary Dale as gamer during the playtest. 2/3 artist who did illustrations for the box set were women. One was Gygax's sister and Cookie Cory." A quick search also shows notable early DnD women such as Laura Hickman (illustrator) and Jean Wells (designer) who worked on White Plume Mountain as editor and wrote for the Sage Advice Column in Dragon Magazine.
It's clear from talking to Rob Kuntz, and playing with Jim Ward in his campaign, that early DnD was male dominated not because of exclusion, but because women simply didn't want to play these "toy games." But Rob, Gary and the other DnD creators bucked wanted women in gaming, wanted them in their sessions, and hired many of them to help promote and create the original game. The slander and lies out there are simply that, and it is intolerable that WoTC and Hasbro are deliberately spreading these lies in their official books. If you look at the current roster (some laid off already), you can see that the current creators of DnD have an agenda and false narrative that they wish to promote. Don't let them. DnD was ALWAYS inclusive, and the original creators should be applauded for their work, not memory holed."
Elon Musk on X - "Nobody, and I mean nobody, gets to trash E. Gary Gygax and the geniuses who created Dungeons & Dragons. What the fuck is wrong with Hasbro and WoTC?? May they burn in hell."
Gamer's JoyRide on X - "Newest Star Trek show called Starfleet Academy set in 32nd Century.
- White woman, single mother.
- With a mixed race kid.
- No father in sight.
- Mother gets jailed for working with criminals.
- Kid runs away and becomes criminal.
What does Star Trek mean by this? 🤔🤔"
"Imagine being a broke single mom in a post-scarcity utopia 🤡"
Jamie Sarkonak on X - "Tragic manslaughter case out of Ont: a woman was just sentenced 3 years for leaving her toddler unattended in a full bathtub, causing him to drown. But she's Jamaican, so the judge included "systemic discrimination" as a mitigating factor.
"I accept that there is some connection between the systemic racism identified in the community and the circumstances that explain Ms. Henry’s conduct in this case." Court logic offloads criminal blameworthiness onto society when the accused is Diverse."
Tyler Johnson on X - "I find this baffling. Ms. Henry is disabled and had a brutal upbringing, that should suffice for mitigating circumstances. Her testimony on racism was "She says that she has been called the N-word several times. She has been referred to as the “whitest Black person”. She has felt that some people were “not inclusive or sensitive to her cultural needs”." Nothing there is connected to abandoning her kid and to imply it puts the justice system in disrepute. Her race is irrelevant to this case. We don't need or want this type in race based injustice."
Tragic manslaughter case out of Ont: a woman was just sentenced 3 years for leaving her toddler unattended in a full bathtub, causing him to drown. But she's Jamaican, so the judge included "systemic discrimination" as a mitigating factor. : r/Ontario_Sub - "Isn't this the woman who was warned by a health care professional not to leave her baby in the bathtub unattended, and then did it anyway?"
"You are correct. Just for this specific issue alone, leaving her, not yet 15 month old baby boy unattended in a full bathtub, CAS gave her two separate warnings and instructions not to do this again! Not only did she obviously do it again, she left him alone, closed the door, and put fckn headphones on?!"
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 on X - "Reminder that even mainstream economists and urban researchers (here Ed Glaeser at Harvard) agree that—at least in some instances—white flight was driven by active hostility by organized black communities and political machines, to the immense detriment of the city’s economy."
Amelia Adams on X - "The reaction to this is insane. If you don’t like surrogacy, don’t be a surrogate. If you don’t like abortion, don’t get one. If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t marry somebody of the same sex. Your personal beliefs do not dictate how other people live their lives."
Hunter Ash on X - "Liberals genuinely cannot model other people’s beliefs. Even when I have a lib-coded opinion on an issue, I can at least understand people who take the other side. “You think everyone else, all the Jews and Muslims and Hindus, should convert to Christianity? How dare you!” I’m not Christian, but to be a Christian is to believe Christianity is true and other religions are false, and that this is the most important fact in the universe. “You don’t like an abortion? Don’t get one!” I’m largely pro-choice, but pro-lifers think abortion is murder so obviously this won’t be convincing to them. “Your personal beliefs don’t dictate other peoples lives” except when liberals want them to. The belief in vaccine efficacy (which I share) *is a belief*, and it is one that liberals frequently want to legislate based on. Same with the *belief* in systemic discrimination as an explanation for group differences (which I don’t share), which motivates a bunch of policies that absolutely impact my life and the lives of many others They cannot comprehend that beliefs they disagree with are as sincere and heartfelt as their own beliefs. They speak as if they are mere aesthetic preferences, favorite flavors of ice cream. They do not understand that it really is all up for grabs, that other people genuinely disagree with them on a fundamental level and that their positions and actions are motivated by these beliefs."
The "empathy" crowd are unable to understand how other people think
