Saturday 28 February 2015

Voltaire's forgotten message



















After the awful murders of Charlie Hedbo, isn't it time we show these rotten people in a true light?  Does this woman really understand the mantra of Free Speech? Voltaire wrote: I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Is this the flawed Right we bestow on those who wish us nothing but harm?  No need to answer because the Authority that is supposed to defend our Rights, Parliament and through that establishment, the Correction Police, have clearly shown that the only people that Freedoms are universal to are immigrants and their followers.

The BBC again showed its bias by filling an audience with anti-Ukip and pro the lunatic Greens sympathisers who tried to deny a speaker the platform that OUR licence fees are intended to provide.

I would probably be more sympathetic to ALL political parties if they were all open and inclusive.  This childish labelling of classes is crass especially when there is a known enemy, protected by bad legislation and strong arm enforcements.  That enemy is that doctrine that wants to override my Freedom to dissent, my Freedom to criticise, my Freedom to MOCK and CHIDE the barbarism of totalitarianism, the infiltration of Islam and the violation of everything that is decent.


Wednesday 25 February 2015

Check your ELECTRICITY bills carefully

 For all those who trust their Service Providers, in this case NPower Electrical, this ought to open your eyes to the level of infamy that major providers sink.

Immigration Street - review Channel 4

This extract is taken from lasts night's programme review in The Independent.


Take Rafique, for instance, a British shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, whose parents first arrived here in the 1950s. He gave us a taster of the kind of entertaining but moot analysis we could have expected from a full series: "If it wasn't for immigrants after World War Two, your country, our country, wouldn't be where it is today. You'd all still be living in fish-and-chip shops." Ah, yes. The good old days of Empire when every Englishman had his own chippie to call home.

 Last Night Channel 4 inadvertantly revealled what so many have been saying for years.  The above insult by an immigrant is allowed because he is not British. Had a Brit said the same about an immigrant they would be charged with a hate crime.  Had viewers watched the programme all the way to its climax they would have seen wholesale intimidation against those prepared to talk in public.  The spirits that murdered the French Journalists in Paris still goes unchallenged in British Streets.  Those spirits are not the indigenous people of these once great set of tribes, but the threatening, missile and abuse throwing cowards in their masks.

What is the Police waiting for?  To arrest me for exprssing facts?  Or another Lee Rigby to left headless on another of the Queen's Highways?

In the 1950's my father was working on a pit face in Yorkshire, after losing his youth aboard LCI's freeing the Continents of Europe and Asia from Occupation.  Strange, as how the son of a liberator and also a former regular Forces Member, it is me who feels like an alien in the Country my parents and many past ancestors fought to Make Free. Oh! and myself.

"Make Free" in a Nation Fit For Heroes!  That is why, supposedly, WE served OUR Nation, for my family and my kin?  Not the alien despots and takers the film makers and media as a whole exposed to a sleeping nation paralysed for fear of antagonising the Correction Police.

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Blackpool MPs absent from debate on CSA and FGM



Yesterdays debate in Parliament into the Serious Crime Bill  only reinforced all the angst I have over today’s politicians playing around with The Law.

Quite simply, they have made a simple matter technically difficult. The laws on assault and battery are precise and well exercised, so I do not intend to go over them again as I have written several articles on the subject in the past.  Female Genital Mutilation under any definition is assault, as is Male Genital Mutilation.

The standard defence appears to be ethnic and religious.  As we have established norms within society, it is time that all those who live in these Islands either accept that British Law is the only arbiter or leave for the Utopian paradise from whence they came.
 Sir Bill Cash MP
Yesterday there were several notably contributions to the debate.  Again Sir Bill Cash led the way with a harrowing and sound attack on the dismal performance in England and Wales’s record of Care for vulnerable children, predominantly girls.  The figures of those vulnerable would give any compassionate person nightmares.  Hansards will eventually report and I will convey the debate to readers, but from memory Sir Bill was talking about 66,000 FGM cases and only 2 prosecutions, both unsuccessful.  
 Nicola Blackwood MP
 He was admirably supported by the erudite and articulate Nicola Blackwood MP Oxford West who is a champion in this cause. Labour MP John Mann weighed in with an emotional and damning attack of authorities and agencies that covered the much understated CSA.  Unfortunately they pleaded to an almost empty chamber; both Blackpool MPs were conspicuous by their absence.

 John Mann MP
So what is so wrong with this legislation?  It is but another layer of legalese that will only make lawyers richer and busier, and police happy that they are ignorant of their responsibilities.  Common assault and the threat of assault and mutilation are covered within existing laws.  All the legislature has to do is to remove all religious defence and add that violation of British Law under the guise of religious abeyance should be treated as aggravated assault and carry a mandatory higher tariff than for common assault.

Parliament will never do this because it is cow'd by the masses of immigrants that keep certain Parties in Westminster.  Britain's voice is being muted by the Defence of Alien Culture and Religion.  That is not hate mongering.  That is pure fact.

If you do not want British Law, do not live here.

Thursday 19 February 2015

Elderly cancer sufferer forced from home in Blackpool

Retired Blackpol lady, under treatment for cancer, forced to leave her home because Blackpool Council are too slow to prevent the interior of her council home turning black with damp.

Local councillors,  Labours Hunter and Conservative Henderson, have done next to nothing to assist.

Residents on the Molyneux Drive estate are angry at the lack of compassion and action to help one of their neighbours.

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Wednesday 4 February 2015

70% of Rotherham Cabinet disputed the evidence of CSE

 Why Rotherham Cabinet members must be charged with Malfeasance in Public Office

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401125/46966_Report_of_Inspection_of_Rotherham_WEB.pdf

Extracts from Louise Casey report on CSA in Rotherham




The good people of Rotherham and beyond Inspectors found many committed, hardworking and dedicated staff working for Rotherham Council including frontline staff and social workers. Inspectors acknowledge that it cannot be easy for them to go into work every day intending to do a good job, amid a stream of criticism of their organisation, let alone marches from the English Defence League (EDL) in their town centre. During the course of the inspection we came upon various individuals and organisations who were worthy of particular mention and praise by the inspection,

however we were conscious that to list them in this report may cause them difficulties either professionally or personally. However, our sincere thanks must go to two particular groups of people who spoke to us under the most testing circumstances; the individuals and whistle-blowers who came forward bravely to give evidence to us and of course, the victims of child sexual exploitation and their families who courageously recounted the awful things that happened to them.

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WHAT HAPPENED IN ROTHERHAM AND WHY IT MATTERS



“I think it’s quite sad, not just what happened to my daughter but how the system has responded. I was brought up to believe that when something bad happened, you told the police or social services and they help you - something would be done about it - that isn’t what happened.”



A victim’s father Professor Alexis Jay’s report in August 2014 set out a history of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham over 16 years. The Council commissioned the report following mounting concerns from outside bodies about CSE in the town. Over 2012 and 2013, Rotherham had been on the front page of The Times newspaper. RMBC’s Chief Executive and Strategic Director of Children’s Services had appeared before the Home Affairs Select Committee as had the police and

Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police. The then Police and Crime Commissioner had requested three reports into the poor handling of CSE by South Yorkshire Police and sexual exploitation in Yorkshire and the North West was a live issue.



The Home Affairs Select Committee report on 5 June 2013 on CSE criticised RMBC and South Yorkshire Police. “Both Rochdale and Rotherham Councils were inexcusably slow to realise that the widespread, organised sexual abuse of children, many of them in the care of the local authority, was taking place on their doorstep. This is due in large part to a woeful lack of professional curiosity or indifference.”

 “We have heard evidence that South Yorkshire Police Force have previously let down victims of localised grooming and child sexual exploitation— as a result, we would expect the force be striving to redeem their reputation.”



In August 2013, The Times ran a story regarding the Deputy Leader of Rotherham Council as having been involved some years previously in the handover of a girl to police who had been a victim of CSE.

In September 2013, the Council commissioned the Jay Report and the long standing council Leader apologised to the “young people and their families [who] have been badly let down by the Council in the past.”



Professor Alexis Jay was commissioned to establish what had happened in Rotherham. Her review’s terms of reference were very wide ranging. She was to look back at the past and see whether and how things had changed today.



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WHAT IS CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION?



“I want you all to...look for the child that is unhappy, that doesn't want to be at school, that has no friends, that seems to be going out an awful lot, that could be driving around in cars, has more than one mobile, that has an attitude, that seems to have a lot of boyfriends and ask yourself, is this a victim of CSE?”



From a presentation given by a victim of CSE In order to look at how effectively RMBC was tackling CSE, Inspectors needed to have a working understanding of the issue. It is, undoubtedly, a very difficult problem for public services to deal with and there are many complexities involved. But that should never be used as an excuse for inaction.

CSE is a form of child abuse in which perpetrators develop total control over their victims. It starts with a grooming process, in which victims are showered with gifts and attention. They are treated like adults, for example, by being taken out in cars. The young person can believe that the perpetrator is their boyfriend and that they are in love. This is a powerful thing, especially for young children or young people who may have difficult family backgrounds and crave love and attention. As a result, they do not complain. The grooming process isolates the victim from friends and family.



At some point, drugs, alcohol and sex may be introduced. They are forced not only to have sex with their abuser but sometimes other men too. This is coupled with more overt coercion, threats and violence. By now, victims may be dependent on drugs and alcohol, afraid of their abuser, isolated from their family and scared that they will not be believed or that worse may happen to them or their families if they make a complaint.



The consequences of CSE are appalling. Victims suffer from suicidal feelings and often self-harm. Many become pregnant. Some have to manage the emotional consequences of miscarriages and abortions while others have children that they are unable to parent appropriately.

The abuse and violence continues to affect victims into adulthood. Many enter violent and abusive relationships. Many suffer poor mental health and addiction. The predators often target children with difficult backgrounds, including those in care, who are particularly vulnerable to grooming. But they are also sometimes able to exploit those from stable backgrounds. That families, despite their very best efforts, are unable to prevent the abuse reflects the power of the abusers and the degree of control they exert.



Tackling CSE is incredibly difficult. Noone should underestimate this. It requires spotting the signs, helping young people to recognise their experience as abuse and getting them to trust public services instead of their abusers, often in the face of serious threats. Then it requires supporting victims through the criminal justice system, where they may have to ‘relive’ the experience again. There are challenges in gaining sufficient evidence for prosecution. When child sexual exploitation is happening on the scale that it did in Rotherham, there will be multiple perpetrators and victims, and establishing a complete picture by fully appreciating all the links and connections, will be difficult.



CSE embodies issues which are incredibly difficult to deal with. First, serious sexual violence. Second, victims who may reject help. The grooming involved is a form of brainwashing, which means that even though the victims are being abused emotionally, physically and sexually, they can be loyal to their abuser, rather than their family or social worker. Third, the age of the victims involved. Teenage sexuality is a confusing issue for adults and adolescents alike. Many of these girls are on the cusp of adulthood and want to behave like adults but do not yet have the emotional capacity to do so. Abusers exploit this uncertainty.



Many local authorities and other services are struggling with this complex crime and as the OFSTED report on CSE found few have got it right. Given all the difficulties involved, this is not surprising. But CSE is a horrifying and brutal crime with devastating consequences for victims and their families. Councils and their partners must not give up on them.



Tackling CSE effectively requires a council and its partners to mobilise their services and powers together. The Council has a duty to safeguard the victims. It also governs the landscape in which CSE is played out including many schools, care homes, parks, taxis and take away food shops. Councils have powers of licensing and regulation which can be used to disrupt illegal activity in these places and keep the community safe. This is in addition to the duties and powers of the police. We accept all these challenges make tacking exploitation difficult. But they cannot be used as excuses.



Fundamentally, this is about the rape and abuse of children by adults. Victims cannot be abandoned to their abusers. Authorities cannot claim they are powerless to act.



CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION – A PICTURE IN ROTHERHAM



From a review of case file s and files on police operations, information from Risky Business, and from victims, parents and professionals, it is possible to present a picture of sexual exploitation in Rotherham as it developed.

Vulnerable girls, most frequently those with difficult family backgrounds, and or a history of being in care, were particularly affected. Girls were as young as nine when they began to be exploited.

Perpetrators in Rotherham appear to have been largely from the Pakistani heritage Community. Perpetrators used what is known as ‘street grooming’ to prepare their victims for exploitation.

Some of the exploitation was connected to a nucleus of men or gangs of men who were already involved in criminal activity, including supplying drugs, trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution across Rotherham and South Yorkshire.

There were other less organised groups of predatory men who would seek out young girls and form emotional bonds with them. Girls would be contacted initially by phone or by text, often by a young adult male who they had met on the street, or in the shopping centre or park. These younger men who carried out the grooming weren’t always the abuser. Girls were misled into believing these men were their boyfriends.

Once their trust had been gained, the girls were vulnerable to sexual abuse and were even shared and passed around other men or groups of men. Victims would start to receive phone calls from numerous other males wishing to meet them and engage in sexual acts, and be pressured by their ‘boyfriend’ into doing what was asked. They would be picked up in taxis and cars, from schools or children’s homes or from their own family homes. Girls would go missing from home regularly and for extended periods. They would be taken to restaurants or to other properties where they would have sex with one or more men.



They were given drugs and alcohol which they then had to ‘pay for’ in sex. If they did not concur, they would be subject to rape, multiple rapes, rape with physical violence, and threatened with weapons.

Perpetrators in Rotherham generated real fear. They were often perceived to be connected to other forms of criminality and violence and victims and their families were too frightened to speak and did not feel the police could protect them. They were threatened and intimidated into silence. Victims and their families speak of groups of men in cars waiting outside their house or outside children’s homes, sometimes attempting to break in. Phone calls and texted threats, including threats to rape other members of the family, were described to us.



Fear was also evident at times among professionals, teachers, hostel workers and youth workers.  Some children needed to be placed out of the area and others in secure units for their own protection. The grooming was so effective that, despite the abuse and violence, victims would continue to attempt to return to their abusers.



Other patterns in Rotherham involved lone offenders targeting under 16’s. Adult males, and on occasion females, with dysfunctional lives allowed girls and boys to gather at their properties, supplying them with drink, drugs and cigarettes.  Vulnerable children often became subject to sexual abuse in these environments.

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RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR JAY’S REPORT - DENIAL


Professor Jay’s Independent Inquiry into CSE in Rotherham was treated with disbelief and evasion of the issue. When Inspectors commenced work in Rotherham we were struck by the overwhelming denial of what Professor Jay set out in her report. This attitude was so prevalent that we had to go back through many of the aspects of her work in order to satisfy ourselves that the Council had no grounds upon which further action could be delayed. We soon discovered, however, that RMBC has a history of denial. We deal with this later in the report.

Inspectors noted four distinct forms of denial which arose in interviews with both Members and officers. These were striking in their frequency and their similarity. Even some of the same expressions were used.



These were:



1. Denial of the accuracy of Professor Jay’s methods and findings.

2. Denial of the extent of the issue of CSE, particularly in Rotherham.

3. Denial of culpability and belief that CSE was ‘being dealt with elsewhere’.

4. Denial that CSE remained a significant problem, although acknowledging that it may have been in the past. Denial of the accuracy of Jay’s methods and findings. The clearest manifestation of denial was that Member after Member and officer after officer disputed the methodology of the Professor Jay’s report. The numbers of victims were challenged, the cases she referred to were questioned and the interviews she had undertaken were queried.

When asked, 70% of the current Rotherham Councillors we spoke to (including those in the Cabinet) disputed Professor Jay’s findings. Officers complained that Professor Jay had got their employment dates wrong, or used the wrong job title, that she had got the attendance list for a meeting wrong, that she had not spoken to someone they considered important or had spoken to someone who had an axe to grind, or that she had not spent enough time with others.

One officer, when called to interview, brought a copy of the Jay report which he had scrutinised line by line. He then proceeded to emphasise what he believed were its flaws and inaccuracies

A Blast from the Past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RPPO-c1vU G 

Monday 2 February 2015

The Haircut

The Haircut (from an anonymous email)
 
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut.  After the cut, he asked about his bill,
and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community
service this week.'  The florist was pleased and left the shop.  When the barber went
to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses
waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again

replied, 'I cannot accept money from you; I'm doing community service this week.'
The cop was happy and left the shop.  The next morning when the barber went to
open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen doughnuts waiting for him at his
door.

Then an MP came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again

replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.'
The MP was very happy and left the shop.  The next morning, when the barber went
to open up, there were a dozen MPs lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of

our country and the politicians who run it.