In a special UK Column Extra we are joined by Chaka Artwell, better known to his friends as Artwell, an enthusiastic activist from Oxford. Highly knowledgeable about his local council and their activities, Artwell has recently been challenging implementation of the Oxford LTN Low Traffic Neighbourhood. He describes this initiative as East Oxford’s road block and anti-car policy, and he highlights that by shutting off side road connections with the main arterial routes through the city, the council is creating mayhem for drivers and local people alike.

Artwell is also deeply concerned about the loss of wider freedoms in our Constitutional Monarchy and he sees that Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are frequently to be found at the core of Oxford’s, and other councils’ policies. Supposedly designed to make the lives of local people better, in practice, they quickly seem to do the opposite.

Artwell’s upbeat and challenging approach to contentious matters within Oxford recently made him the focus of an Oxford Mail article, written by politics reporter Albert Tait. In what should have been an article recognising the importance of Artwell’s questions and challenges to unwelcome Oxford Council policies, Tait attempted to smear Artwell and his former hard work as a prospective parliamentary candidate, by dismissively calling him a ‘Former MP Wanabee.’

In fact Artwell had discovered that so sensitive was Oxford Council to his challenges, his emails, setting out questions that he had wanted to ask at formal council meetings, had been ’disappearing’ into an ‘un-monitored' council inbox. Without Council acknowledgement of his questions, Artwell was subsequently denied his rightful attendance and participation as a member of the public in those supposedly democratic meetings.

Please join Brian Gerrish, Alex Thomson, Mark Anderson and Artwell in our relaxed UKC News Extra conversation and learn more about Artwell and the importance of simple local activism in a uni-party world.

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-extra-29th-january-2024

There is something pathetic about the techosphere (which might be a new word). Nobody has sufficient imagination or creativity to make up new words for things. We are left in a blancmange of confusion, unsure of the meaning of tablet, mouse, ram, chip and the rest of it.

Here, it looks as though this chap is opening his mouth to accept the cookies on offer.

A note on Andrew Bridgen, following the swirling comment in relation to the posts of ‘tweets’ from his wife.

Everyone has their own definition of what it is to be controlled opposition and what the potential consequences of such a situation are. As far as I am concerned, the argument Bridgen has chosen is not the one I would have pressed. He is vaccine harmed. Given his position in the first instance, which was that he was mostly in support of Government restrictions, the jabs themselves and—even—mandates for healthcare workers, it looks as though he has only changed direction because of the effect on him, personally.

It also looks very much like he is, in principle, supporting the Government’s position that ‘vaccines’ should be imposed on people and that the only reason that he does not is that these ones are not ‘safe and effective’. Only retrospectively—as well as on wider issues—has he suggested that the freedom to make choices on such matters rests with the individual. As far as I am concerned, this is the ONLY point which matters, as it may not be subverted by circumstance. Looking back, this is precisely the reason why the ‘vaccine passport’ was available to those that had not been jabbed but had, in effect, signed up to the scheme by taking part in a clinical ‘trial’ or by getting a medical exemption. The underlying message is that ‘we would have got the jab if….’

However, the specific issue upon which he is campaigning is the harm and excess death created by these pharmaceutical products. Since he is the only MP in a chamber of 650 to speak out about this, to dismiss him outright looks a lot like cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. It is a message which needs to shouted from the rooftops and I think it is a mistake to imagine that it detracts from the core message surrounding liberty, choice and risk. Remember, these are Members of Parliament we are talking about; a collection of the most narcissistic, self-interested and small-minded individuals in the country. How much are they likely to care for their constituents’ views on their individual freedoms?

Andrew Bridgen will forever be tainted by his support for the unsupportable and for his failure to speak out about the wider point. He is also rendered extremely vulnerable by a number of bad smells which follow him around. But, if he stops banging the drum on excess deaths and vaccine harms, complete silence will fall upon Westminster and I really cannot see who benefits in such an eventuality.

The bizarre and undignfied spat with his wife on Twitter may well signal the beginning of the end for Bridgen. Or, it may not. Either way, may I recommend spending a little less time concentrating on whether you think Bridgen a good bloke or a prize ratbag and a little more time concentrating on how you can amplify the message that there is a very specific reason for the excess death toll? The more people that understand that message, the more people will question the direction they were being pushed in in the first place.

He'll need quite some movement off the seam to get out of this one.

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Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan sentenced to ten years in prison https://www.rt.com/news/591517-imran-khan-pakistan-jail/

With an oblique reference to Bridgen, this shows why it's important to follow the message and not the man.

It is, though, funny to see Walsh and many of his compatriots consider their country's greatest achievement as being the idea of sending three rather underwhelmed men to a place where not much happens.

He must be quite chuffed to own the branding of the next pandemic for no cost whatsoever.

This one’s managed a capital ‘U’.

Very on brand, they’ve really captured the Malet tone 😝

Admirable honesty!

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I got an elephant!

In an environment segment on this afternoon’s UK Column News, I made reference to DEFRA’s pledge to 30by30 which, rather than being something a builder would use, is a pledge to commit 30% of the UK’s landmass to ‘nature recovery’ by 2030.

Quick as a whip, Debi Evans has pointed out that this has come from the then Prince Charles’s Terra Carta aims. Once all the food has run out, at least this sort of knowledge might get you over the line in a pub quiz. A virtual pub quiz, of course.

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https://www.sustainable-markets.org/TerraCarta_Charter_Jan11th2021.pdf