South London fun (West Norwood)

⁠Grievance politics is ethnic politics

Ever get the feeling that much of history is used by socialist academics to create an anti-European narrative?

https://nypost.com/2019/06/18/man-nabbed-for-bronx-rape-allegedly-said-she-deserved-it-for-slavery/

⁠Good

⁠In fairness to David and Floella, we feel this is a somewhat incomplete list of what this wave of immigration brought to Britain.

Some of the difficulties in overcoming issues for the next generation?

Is it not wholly appropriate to keep this away from children (and most adults too)?

Absolutely disgraceful. This grotesque visual monstrosity should not be allowed anywhere near so symbolic a location as the British seat of government at the Palace of Westminister.

(And 'Big Ideas' is run by an ex-BBC producer and British Council employee)

The government has been accused of rigging its campaign to build a £100 million Holocaust memorial next to the Houses of Parliament.

Thousands of positive comments about the scheme have been submitted to Westminster city council since a company called Big Ideas was hired at a cost of £118,000 to the taxpayer to help with “public engagement”.

The council is expected to grant planning permission for the largely subterranean monument and education centre in Victoria Tower Gardens in the autumn, despite opposition from the Royal Parks, Historic England, the Environment Agency and Unesco.

Since Big Ideas was taken on, there has been a remarkable shift in the number and nature of comments. The Save Victoria Tower Gardens Campaign, representing local residents, said the government was “paying consultants to rig its own planning application”.

From January 8, when public consultation opened, until May 13, the council website received 144 comments supporting the application and 866 comments opposing it: a ratio of six to one against. From May 14, when Big Ideas started its campaign in earnest, to June 18, 2,824 supportive comments were received, with 160 in opposition: a ratio of almost 18 to one in favour.

The average number of supportive comments a day leapt from 1.15 to 122.74 since the public relations firm was engaged. Many were just a few words long.

Paul Diamond, a leading barrister specialising in public law, believes that there are legal concerns over the nature of the consultation process, not least because the comments need to be taken in context. He argues that under the Sedley Requirements, a set of legal tests, the views of a local resident, who might be affected by extra traffic, deserve to be given more weight than those of someone who has no stake.

“It’s not like going down the pub and giving everyone a fiver for their opinion,” he said. “The purpose of consulting is to ascertain public views. It is not an extension of government policy. You cannot have a public body using public funds to engineer a political result. If this comes before the courts they will also consider how, under the European Convention, governments have to act fairly when infringing public rights.”

The Ministry of Housing, which is supervising the project, responded: “We don’t recognise these allegations. Big Ideas is being funded to encourage local and national conversations on the proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. The final planning decision sits with Westminster council.”

Despite the opposition, the project, instigated by David Cameron in 2016, has been backed by all five living prime ministers. The memorial, which had to be redesigned by its architect, Sir David Adjaye, in April, has also received support from 174 MPs and peers, including the Labour peer Lord Dubs, a Kindertransport refugee, Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, and local rabbis.

“We know there are strong feelings on both sides of this application and it will be considered in the same way we would any other sensitive scheme,” a Westminster council said. “We have processes in place for handling, and giving the appropriate weight to, organised campaigns.”

Big Ideas was approached for comment but did not respond. Previously, when asked about the claim of “rigging” the consultation, a spokeswoman said Big Ideas was trying to “support access to accurate information and opportunity to comment”.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pr-firm-big-ideas-hired-to-rig-decision-on-holocaust-memorial-site-fpmfkwlkv

The kind of people who like to humiliate small white boys

⁠The Silicon Stasi are a dangerous electoral influence that is not being addressed.

Perversely, false accusations against Russian meddling was the excuse for them to do it.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/project-veritas-exposes-youtube-for-electoral-manipulation-prior-to-abortion-vote-in-ireland/

⁠Does one need to be the reincarnation of several lives to grasp this fairly simple point?

The Tibetans have more experience than most

"The Dalai Lama has claimed 'Europe is for Europeans' and that the continent could become 'Muslim or African' if migrants are not sent back to their home countries."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7187235/Dalai-Lama-warns-Europe-Muslim-African-migrants-not-returned.html

"The liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights are these? Every crime must have its punishment. So, the liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population," he said.

Mr Putin said Russia was not homophobic, but that a Western willingness to embrace homosexuality and gender fluidity seemed excessive to him.

"Traditional values are more stable and more important for millions of people than this liberal idea, which, in my opinion, is really ceasing to exist."

Mr Putin also said he had the impression that liberal circles were set on using problems being experienced by the Catholic church to destroy the church.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/28/vladimir-putin-says-liberalism-has-become-obsolete-praises-donald/

In the UK we know a fraction of "hate crime" reports are prosecuted, even fewer found guilty.

But the Left still waves the headline totals about saying "government and social media companies must regulate our political enemies and give us funding"

Fake statistics. Fake politics.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-more-common-than-you-think-11561503352