Off Topic News & Current affairs

I wonder how many illegal immigrants are currently residing in council properties in Thurrock ? Any more than zero and this needn’t be a story.

This is just one of the consequences of this country’s failure to tackle this problem effectively. There are many more.

There’s more to this story than is being portrayed anyway.

There are plenty of jobs out there. And having a smart phone and bleach blonde hair should not be a persons priorities.

 

I see France is continuing to spiral towards religious segregation and the inevitable social breakdown which will follow.

Mutliculturalism really is an experiment gone badly wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3g8kl8dd5o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p2nypzllo

How has France allowed itself to go from what it was 50 years ago, to what it is today.

 

Different cultures have lived side by side, and largely peacefully, everywhere in the World.
It tends to be political agitators who stir up trouble, rather than everyday folk just trying to live peaceful lives.

The new ingredient is not cultures mixing and co-existing, it is the effect of instant access to 'news' on the internet.
Nowadays every incident flashes instantly around the Globe, and inflammatory things go viral, regardless of how distorted the content is.

 

Just another reason why this Government is heading for a thoroughly deserved General Election drubbing....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-69031180

Absolutely typical of the mentality of the Prime Minister.
Personally £160 million richer than he was only one year ago, Rishi Sunak is happy for the DWP to chase and harass 150,000 unpaid carers for money they were paid in error, thanks to a benefits system that is not fit for purpose.

Sunak could repay the entire quarter of a billion pounds owed from his own pocket if he so wished.
And he would still be a multi-billionaire.
But instead the DWP will be allowed - even encouraged - to drive unpaid carers, who already perform one of the most stressful 24/7 tasks imaginable, most of them on a pittance of income, even further into debt and despair.
A leader with one ounce of sympathy, compassion or even basic understanding, would write that debt off.
Especially having just wasted twice as much on the bad joke that is the Rwanda scheme.

But this Regime truly are a bunch of heartless bastards.
The Nasty Party. Who deserve a nasty kicking right in the ballot box. And they are going to get it.

 

Reminds me of the last days of the Callaghan government. That sense of drift.

 

Having my own run in with the DWP I can confirm they’re a nasty bunch of cvnts - a bit like Horizon and the Post Office they don’t make mistakes

 

What the Papers say...

 

Read an interview with Andrew Malkinson recently, who served 17 years for a crime he was found to be totally innocent of. He's received NO compensation, is living off universal credit and food banks. It was only the public outcry that stopped him being told to pay off a debt to the prison service as rent for his accommodation. Every application for compensation comes up against legal barriers, and 55% of his fee for the interview will be claimed back by the DWP. I really think the corporate mentality takes away your soul.

 

By Helicopter is a dangerous way to travel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-69035051

You wouldn't get me in one.

 

Shapps states the bloody obvious.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69034451

Who's been in charge for the last 14 years?

 

FFS How many more people have got to die ?

Just ban the f*cking things completely. There is absolutely no need for these dogs to exist and no need for anyone to own one. If you want a decent guard dog just get a GSD or Doberman. They are easily trainable and don’t tend to rip their owners to shreds if they get annoyed by something.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-69041493

And to all the owners who will say how lovable their XL Bully is - wake up you f*cking idiots. These dogs are all capable of turning into killers. Just imagine for a few moments what it must be like to be ripped and mauled to death by two of these things attacking you.

What an absolutely horrific way to die.

 

I agree.

Many breeds of dogs make wonderful companions.
But I have never understood the attraction some people have for owning a dog which is so obviously a potential killer, and with the ability to literally tear a person to pieces - man, woman or child.
Or the way such owners will swear - contrary to ell evidence and even basic common sense - that their dog would never ever behave that way.
Until it does.

Needless tragedy follows needless tragedy. And nothing seems to change.

 

The infected blood scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-69037200

It's a strange thing isn't it.
The way politicians and top civil servants never seem to be held accountable for decisions that cost thousands of innocent people their very lives, and also ruin tens of thousands of other lives, condemning folk to a lifetime of disability, sickness and stigma.

This is the very worst example.
In some ways, the chilling methodology of experimenting on children without their consent echoes the barbaric experiments carried out by the likes of Doctor Josef Mengele. He stands condemned by history and rightly so for being an inhuman monster.
But he also stands as a warning of what educated scientists are capable of when they abandon all human compassion in pursuit of knowledge.

Thousands of vulnerable haemophiliacs, many of them children, were effectively experimented upon without their consent from the 1970's onwards in this Country. Cries of alarm by concerned parties and organisations were systematically ignored. The machinery of Government and the Establishment rolled over these victims' rights and their lives.
And has any of the data gathered since this scandal began been put to wider medical use?
Did the Global medical profession gain knowledge that it has since put to use?

If the answer is yes, we should examine very closely our collective morality.
Medical knowledge gained by monsters using criminally unethical methods is a stain which can never be washed away from our collective understanding of the World around us.
I assume that NOTHING learned by Doctor Josef Mengele and his twisted colleagues has ever been used to advance medical science.
Ever.
But what does it say about us, if the data gained from the suffering and deaths of haemophiliacs, including children, has since been used to advance medical science in the UK or anywhere?

If this infected blood scandal had happened in the USSR or Communist China our politicians would be savaging the barbarity of those regimes. And calling for individual scientists and doctors (if they could be identified) to be censured, made International Pariahs, and prosecuted.
This is as bad as systematic State doping of thousands of Athletes. In fact it is worse than that.
And it happened HERE.
Yet nobody will be brought to justice because of it. I can guarantee that.

Deciding to send COVID infected elderly people to care homes from hospitals at the beginning of the Pandemic is another scandal that cost the lives of thousands of vulnerable folk.
And nobody will ever be brought to Justice for that crime either.
Sickeningly, one of the men behind it - still an MP - has even profited by going on a celebrity reality TV show, and writing a book about what a great bloke he is.
But one sliver of mitigation in that case was the fatal decision being taken almost as a panic one, in a volatile situation where top decision makers were under unprecedented stress.

The perpetrators of this infected blood scandal, and the people who covered it up, do not even have that defence.
This was done in a cold blooded, methodical manner and was supported over decades.
It is a Crime against Humanity.

 

The huge cover-up is another scandal, and involves the great and the good from both major political parties. So many scandals involve major institutions closing ranks to protect a lie.

 

The Heath Government
The Wilson Government
The Callaghan Government
The Thatcher Government
The Major Government
The Blair Government
The Brown Government
The Cameron Government
The May Government
The Johnson Government
The Sunak Government

All of them Guilty in one way or another.
I was a nursery school kid when this scandal began, now I'm in my late 50's.
The sheer scale of this disgrace boggles the mind.

If we only hear today that this Government will begin to set up a compensation scheme, that will be another scandal.
The Government was told one year ago to have a scheme ready to implement once the report was published.
Unless a scheme is ready now it will be just the latest example of Governments dragging their heels.
Rishi Sunak knows his days as PM are numbered.
If he is happy to let the incoming Labour Administration foot the bill after yet more delays, then he is a man without a moral backbone.
And his apology will mean nothing.

We had better not hear anything today that smacks of that same old time-wasting attitude.
Two people a week are still dying from the infections they were exposed to.

 

Whistle-blowing in a large corporation is a risky business though. You will probably end your career, and be looked on as a grass. It was civil servants as well as politicians kept the lid on it all.

 

Computers running generative AI software use 33 times as much electricity as computers running old style conventional programs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj5ll89dy2mo

Each of these new giant Server complexes being built to cope with cloud based computing sucks up as much electricity as a medium sized town with thousands of residents. This is no path to a more Eco-friendly World.

 

When will we be starting on this path to a more Eco-friendly world then ?

I see no evidence of it. And no desire for it tbh.

Even most of the JSO, ER and IB protestors don’t really want to give up the things that would start to make just a tiny, tiny difference.

And there’s no will amongst the wider public to give up all the trappings of modern life either.

Humans are not genetically programmed to turn the clock back on progress and innovation I’m afraid.

 

The great majority are completely oblivious to environmental issues. They hope that somehow "they" will sort it all out. Ignorance in this case really is bliss. Young people are generally a bit more aware, but even so they mostly don't let it affect their behaviour.

 

Admittedly, breaking the collective desire for a new smart phone every year and a new £50,000 SUV every two years would also help.

When Putin & the Chinese take over the World, we will all have to learn to be content with less.