It looks like Labour will never be in power again, because they're wedded to wokery that the public, including most of the left, can't stand. People replying to Butler's tweet mostly said they were Labour, or had been, but were backing Liz Truss for blindingly bloody obvious reasons. Meanwhile Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy says male rapists must be put in women's prisons if they randomly self-identify as women. You can imagine how that kind of thing goes down in, say, Hartlepool.

As few people know, Butler's pet 'charity' Stonewall actually opposed gay marriage, quite ferociously. First they said it was 'divisive among our members' and then, when they found out 96% of members approved, they fell back on the bizarre argument that it was 'too expensive' and would allow heterosexuals to have civil partnerships. Stonewall has been unfit for purpose for quite some considerable time.

https://www.queerty.com/stonewall-ch...nsive-20100921

In the last couple of days, North Wales Police, the Post Office and Swim England (the first sporting body to resile) have announced they've cut ties with Stonewall. So the dominos continue to fall.

Sucks. We need a decent opposition.

...and a decent government.

Decent government and decent opposition kind of bring each other about, and we don't have either.

Up in Nicoland, the McStasi, as I gather Police Scotland are now known, have run accountant and mother-of-two Marion Millar in, charging her with 'malicious communication with hate-crime aggravator', which is very bad news in terms of sentencing, for six tweets dating back to 2019 and 2020, on the word of a sole complainant, and, though full facts won't be known until Marion appears at Glasgow's Sheriff Court on 20 July, it appears the main charge relates to a tweeted photo of purple, white and green suffragette ribbons, tied round a tree near a BBC studio. That's... it.



https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...eets-5293jhg6v

The complainant appears to be a former Holby City actor called David Paisley, a misogynist trans rights activist, who has clearly been cyberstalking Marion Millar and has claimed that the suffragette ribbons resembled a noose and made him feel unsafe. It looks as though Police Scotland, represented by activist PC Laura Daly, member of a police LGBT lobby group, have charged the wrong person. That is, they've charged the female victim of harassment rather than the male perpetrator, which is what tends to happen under woke rules.

https://gcn.ie/river-city-david-pais...hobia-britain/

Paisley claims, weirdly:-

Yeah, well, lying to the police probably does make you a bit nervous, even if you're a narcissist with a few cogs missing and the police are totally Stonewalled.

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p...theyve-charged

At least we have a few decent back benchers. I understood (but did not support) the cut to 0.5% during a period of huge economic uncertainty.

Given we are now looking at a huge economic boom, there is no reason to not revert back to 0.7%.

Foreign aid: More Conservative rebels join bid to reverse cuts

Yes. Not sure if the government understand soft power. They know that HMS Queen Elizabeth, now on her first operational cruise with RAF and USMC jets aboard, can project both hard and soft power, that being kind of the point of naval flagships, but it's not clear that they get it in regard to foreign aid (which is quite cheap at the price).

That's earlier than 5 minutes before deciding. And a lot better than after. The government is improving

Delay on 21st is so no **** sherlock.

Maybe but preparing for it in advance is like 2 major leaps forward

I'm w/e about a delay. However, as long as everyone has had the opportunity to book an appointment for a vaccine, then we should probably open up. We're going to have to live with this for the foreseeable future, and we can't keep locking down every time people get spooked by a spike in infections, provided this is not leading to a significant increase in hospitalisations.

We're probably at the point where heard immunity is a viable strategy - not politically obviously, but it's better for those who chose not to take the vaccine to gain immunity by getting ill now rather than during flu season.

Did anyone in here have side effects from their Covd jab? I never slept a wink the night after I got it. Didn't feel unwell, I just couldn't sleep.

Sore arm and mild tiredness the next day, but I was able to work fine.

My kid bro was laid flat with flu-like symptoms for a day after his first AZ jab, but got nothing after his second. I got a sore arm after my first Pfizer and nothing after the second. About 1 in 10 get those flu-like symptoms. Like they tell you, 'It just means your immune system's working.'

I'm getting mine tomorrow, thanks for the heads up re pfizer jab

I was told you're more likely to get side-effects (though nine out of ten won't) after the first AZ jab or the second Pfizer jab. Side-effects should only last a day or so and may be more likely if you're younger because your immune system is more fighty.

Ofsted has cut ties with Stonewall after the charity criticised it for not indoctrinating all five-year-olds with transgender ideology.



In the last day or so Channel 4 and several councils and law firms have cut ties with Stonewall, the Times now referring to the charity's unlawful advice as a 'scandal'.

The Ministry of Justice has gone as well.



The Government's expected to rule next week on whether all Whitehall departments should sever ties. As an indicator, Tory MPs are incandescent over the Telegraph's revelation, from FOI declarations secured by feminists, that Stonewall has been ordering employers to delete the word 'mother' from all workplace documents and substitute 'birthing parent' or 'parent who has given birth.' There are of course two things you can't go up against, motherhood and apple pie, and apple pie isn't as symbolic in the UK as in the US, so Stonewall have chosen the worst possible target. And Labour MP Dawn Butler's Twitter poll, 'Who do you trust, Liz Truss or Stonewall?' didn't work out among Labour supporters either.

UCL and Anglian Water have quit Stonewall today -- I think the first university and the first big business to secede from our overlords.

Michael Biggs, associate professor of sociology at Oxford, has written the Vice-Chancellor a letter explaining why Oxford should secede (https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/u...-Stonewall.pdf) and also a paper explaining how ludicrous and how damaging Oxford's compliance programme has been.

I had my second jab of AZ first thing this morning. No symptoms 14 hours later.

I had a bit of a sore arm yesterday and that was it but today have very mild flu symptoms, but nothing major, took a lemsip and I'm grand so far.

A nurse I spoke to said Pfizer is worse after your second dose, AZ is worse after your first dose.

As previously advertised, Labour will not gain office for the foreseeable, and maybe never.

Starmer, whose polls are now as bad as Corbyn's were at a similar point in his leadership, has committed most honorable electoral hara-kiri by saying that Labour would enact gender self-ID, allowing male predators unfettered access to women's and girls' spaces and erasing women and girls from existence as a legal, political and social class. Way to lose half the electorate.

And he chose to make this woke declaration despite the recent revelations about Stonewall and on the website of Pink News, a quite fanatically misogynistic outlet owned and controlled by gay tech nerd Ben Cohen, who doesn't see the point of women at all, having no personal use for them, and who made a humungous arse of himself on Radio 4's Today programme yesterday.



Bye, Keir.

From the BBC, on Biden meeting Boris
“ One thing the two men do have in common is that both men are Roman Catholics - though as one wag noted drily - one is a practising Roman Catholic; the other is in need of a lot more practice.”

Johnson has been practicing withdrawal all of his adult life, unfortunately.

To show how out-of-step Starmer is, Maya Forstater has won her case at the Employment Appeal Tribunal. This means that gender-critical beliefs are protected in law and employers can no longer discriminate against gender-critical feminists.



The American CEO of Forstater's former employer is bitching about it, but, since she was trying to impose weirdo US gender-identity theology on this country, she can just do one at her earliest convenience.