Apocalypse-zealots report that woman was arrested for sitting next to Just Stop Oil activists

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Apocalypse-zealots the Daily Mail are reporting that Royal superfan Alice Chambers was arrested – presumably by accident – after sitting next to Just Stop Oil activists. I’m sorry but I find this story very amusing, talk about guilt by association.

The architect, 36, said she had no idea she was sitting beside the environmental activists as they had not yet begun their planned protest.

As police swarmed on the group at 9am on Saturday, Ms Chambers found herself being handcuffed too.

She was repeatedly quizzed, physically searched, locked in a cell and officers took her mugshot, fingerprints and DNA in a 13-hour ordeal.

It wasn’t until she was interviewed by two senior officers at 7pm that police finally realised they had made a mistake and that she was an innocent bystander.

She was finally released at around 10pm from Wandsworth police station after breaking down in tears. 

I wonder if she got the cell with shit on the wall, a blanket full of scabies and a cup of tea and pubes treatment. I’ve been arrested a few times although the police are not anywhere near as nasty to me as they used to be.

ed: I think that I got discordant noise the last time that I was arrested (might have been the time before), many years ago now. I understand that discordant noise is military-grade torture.

later ed: The memories are coming back. I was arrested at Wandsworth police station once. It was a New Year’s Eve and I was arrested because the insane girlfriend I had at the time refused to pay for a black cab. I was put in a cage in a dog van with a barking police dog in the next cage. A fat policeman sat on me and very nearly killed me through suffocation.

So I do find it amusing that someone totally innocent had it.

8.10am 12/5/23

  1. It’s not amusing that somebody is arrested and abused.
  2. I don’t accept that she was arrested by accident. The police know who people are. It might be a message to architects, a joke about her being red-haired.
  3. The discordant music [22/5/23 noise not music] was when I was arrested at the 888 event. I was arrested by soldiers pretending to be police at that event. It’s likely that they were special ops from Hereford since 888 was a special ops event.
  4. I know why I was abused by police at Wandsworth police station and put into a d-o-g van. [ed: and many people have been killed for that reason, I’ve documented it elsewhere.]

9.30am 12/5/23

I can’t find the 888 post, I wonder if it was on the blog at a different host and not transferred over somehow. My blog at my previous host was also ‘hacked’ and posts were lost. That seems to have happened to me a few times for some reason i.e. first and second host.

888 was an event at Baldwin St, Bristol. From memory the date would have been something close to 8 August 2006 hence why I’m calling it 888. The story goes that somebody entered a Nationwide? building society branch demanding money and claiming to have a bomb in a bag. I was intending to pass this location and changed course at the last moment. I was arrested later by soldiers pretending to be policemen at this event.

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Just Stop Oil activists arrested in blanket ban on protests on London roads

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A Just Stop Oil protest in central London
A Just Stop Oil protest in central London

‘Your government has taken away your right to peaceful protest,’ the activists say. ‘If you are not outraged by this, you are not paying attention’

ACTIVISTS from Just Stop Oil were arrested during their daily action in Parliament Square today as they marched against the detaining of protesters and fossil fuel projects in Britain.

More than 40 protesters set off from Charing Cross in central London at 8am, but were forced to move their action onto the pavement after being approached by police officers who said they would impose conditions under the Public Order Act (Section 12).

A blanket notice under the Act was issued on all London roads ahead of the action, making protests unlawful.

The protesters returned to the road while marching past Whitehall before being told to get off the road once again.

They returned to the road for a third time at Parliament Square at which point around 12 protesters were arrested.

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Another incompetent profiteering train operator is brought back under public control

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/another-incompetent-profiteering-train-operator-is-brought-back-under-public-control

Unions reiterate calls to renationalise railways after TransPennine Express joins London North Eastern Railway, Northern, and Southeastern

THE government’s rail privatisation fiasco hit the buffers again today as yet another failed, profiteering operator was dumped and its operations taken under public control.

TransPennine Express (TPE) pocketed millions of pounds in taxpayer subsidies even as it cancelled one in six of its timetabled services leaving thousands of frustrated passengers stuck on platforms.

Almost a quarter of Britain’s rail services are now back under public control after failing miserably in the hands of privateers.

TransPennine, which is owned by First Group and operates coast to coast in northern England, joins London North Eastern Railway, Northern, and Southeastern services under public control.

ScotRail and Transport for Wales are run by the Scottish and Welsh governments.

Unions reiterated their calls for renationalisation of the whole rail network.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/another-incompetent-profiteering-train-operator-is-brought-back-under-public-control

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Left Foot Forward

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Left Foot Forward is one of this blog’s favourite blogs and is recommended. A selection of current stories from Left Foot Forward for your delectation ;)

Transport secretary called out over rail dispute mistruths on BBC Question Time

The transport secretary Mark Harper has been accused of “muddying the waters” by presenting misleading narratives in the rail dispute, on BBC Question Time last night.

When answering questions on resolving the rail strikes, Mark Harper attempted to shirk responsibility by referring to train drivers pay and unused ticket offices.

It comes as the RMT union smashed their latest mandate for strike action, meaning members working for 14 train operating companies could strike again over the next six months. 

It is their third mandate in the National Rail Dispute, with the latest receiving a 91% yes vote.

Mick Lynch, RMT general secretary said the mandate sends a clear message to employers of the “huge anger” amongst rail workers.

Union leader accuses government of ‘punishing’ civil servants in pay dispute

‘Why are they treating their own staff worse than anyone else?’

The government has been accused of ‘punishing’ their own staff and ‘making an example’ of civil servants by the leader of the union for civil service workers.

In an ongoing dispute over pay, job losses and redundancy terms, civil servants with the union Prospect are on strike today for a second time in what is the largest industrial action the union has taken in over a decade.

Their members’ pay has declined by up to 26% in real terms since 2010, with civil servants on some of the worst pay settlements in the public sector, having been dealt a recent 4.5% pay offer by the government.

The union have called for a ‘serious pay offer’ that recognises the cost-of-living crisis that their members are facing.

Rishi Sunak slammed for using taxpayer-funded helicopter for trip that would have taken just over an hour by train

The train ticket would’ve cost Sunak £30 return, yet he opted to travel by air, at a cost to the taxpayer in the region of £6,000.

The Tories would like you to believe that they care about climate change and the effective use of taxpayers’ money, yet their actions show the complete opposite.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is fond of taking helicopters and private jets for short trips and is now once more being slammed for using a taxpayer-funded helicopter to make a journey that would have taken little more than an hour on the train.

Sunak took a chopper to Southampton to attend a GP surgery and pharmacy to promote the government’s latest intervention to reduce the strain on GP practices.

According to train timetables, had the Prime Minister taken the 8:35am train from Waterloo he would have arrived in Southampton at 9:50am. That Sunak decided to fly to the port city and back via helicopter has led to some Tory MPs fearing that it will cement Sunak’s image as an out of touch Prime Minister.

The train ticket would’ve cost Sunak £30 return, yet he opted to travel by air, at a cost to the taxpayer in the region of £6,000.

One Tory MP told the Guardian: “Is it unfair to say that the weekend was about a powerful unelected individual who is unfeasibly wealthy and lacks the common touch … and King Charles III?”

Bid launched to revoke GB News’ broadcasting licence

‘The segment of concern gave a wholly biased account of the verdict in the trial of Donald Trump for sexual assault’

Ofcom has been sent a strongly worded letter from two leading Green Party politicians, calling for the media regulator to revoke the broadcasting licence given to GB News after the scandal hit channel was once again found to have breached broadcasting regulations.

Molly Scott Cato, Green Party Speaker on Economy and Finance and Councillor Jack Lenox, Parliamentary Candidate for Lancaster, have shared a picture of their letter on Twitter, with Lenox tweeting: “Jacob Rees-Mogg’s defence of Donald Trump’s sexual abuse is disgusting. And his brazen attempt to mislead the public is a grotesque abuse of our broadcasting regulations.

“Today @GreenPartyMolly and I have written to Ofcom asking them to revoke GB News’ broadcasting licence.”

Ardent Brexiteer Rees-Mogg has been slammed for his GB News broadcast on the Donald Trump sexual assault trial. Rees-Mogg emphasised that Trump had been found ‘not guilty of rape’, and also questioned the US legal system. Rees-Mogg was joined on the programme by Kari Lake, a top Republican and well-known 2020 Election denier, as well as Nigel Farage.

A jury found that Trump had sexually abused magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s. The jury also found Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer’s accusations “a hoax and a lie”.

Reacting to Rees-Mogg’s comments on Trump, James O’Brien tweeted: “When Owen Paterson broke Parliamentary rules, Jacob Rees-Mogg attacked the rules.

“When a jury decided Donald Trump was a sex offender, Jacob Rees-Mogg attacked trial by jury. There’s a pattern here.”

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