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Yes, video footage from the incident shows UK police directing a woman away from her street while walking her dog, as Muslim protesters nearby complained about dogs being offensive. This aligns with reports of officers prioritizing protester sensitivities over local residents' routines during demonstrations. It's not a nationwide policy but highlights selective enforcement in tense situations.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this draconian legislation is that arousing suspicion is actually the offence. It does not matter if the suspicion turns out to be well-grounded or not. The suspicion could be totally wrong, but if you aroused the suspicion on “reasonable grounds” in a policeman’s head, you are guilty.
The_Deplorable says
Well, since Ireland just elected a leader who believes in mass importation of Muslims, we may finally see Ireland and Northern Ireland joined, as a united Islamic republic.

The British grooming-gang scandal might be the clearest example of what happens when an entrenched system tries to suffocate a story in the age of crowdsourcing. Westminster’s every effort to tamp it down has only made it louder. Ministers slow-walked official reports, they diluted findings, and they lovingly lacquered the false narratives— yet social media instantly began tearing those narratives apart like a sweater with a loose thread.
Ordinary citizens didn’t wait for London’s carefully staged disclosures; they built their own parallel investigations.
Alert British volunteers cross-referenced documents, archived leaks, mapped patterns, and shared their results faster than Whitehall could schedule a press conference. And now, the fallout is politically overwhelming: Starmer is the least popular prime minister in modern British history, and this scandal alone has enough kinetic energy to bring down his entire government.
The story surmounted every institutional effort to bury it, because the institutions no longer control the shovels. In this era, truth doesn’t stay suppressed— it crowdsources its way to daylight.
Washington has also noticed. This week, the State Department astonishingly announced it will begin treating governments that permit mass migration as potential human-rights violators — a geopolitical response driven by citizen-exposed failures like Britain’s. Newsweek, yesterday:
Trump Admin Gives Mass Migration Warning to US Allies: 'Existential Threat'
The announcement arrived one day after the citizen-led grooming-gangs scandal re-erupted in the UK and shamed Whitehall. The U.S. flipped the script.
Progressives used to call mass migration a humanitarian issue. But as Newsweek explained, “the State Department has ordered its embassies to report on the ‘human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration’ across U.S. allies, highlighting notorious sexual assault cases involving migrants in the U.K., Sweden and Germany.”
On X —i.e., on social media— the State Department called mass migration an existential threat to Western civilization. It continued, warning European government to stop censoring citizens who are doing the work their government won’t:
See? State isn’t responding to any official European government finding or to any mainstream media report. They’re responding to crowdsourced citizens, digital protests, independent researcher-archivists, viral documentation, AI-assisted investigations, and massive public disgust.
The grooming-gang scandal, once neatly “contained,” is now a stress fracture visible from orbit. In one very keen sense, when citizens can crowdsource the truths that governments once buried, global power structures must rapidly adjust or they’ll be yanked offstage by a giant hook.
George Galloway has been elected to parliament seven times, and on many issues is one of the most conservative politicians in the U.K. But when he criticized the Ukraine war, he was detained by British police and had his property confiscated. He’s now in exile.
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- almost no homeless, saw just one so far
- lots of trash though
- prices seem reasonable, a bit lower than SF, but that's because the pound is so low against the dollar
- the majority of people on the street are clearly not English; they are from everywhere else on earth
I did not know there was a Saint Chad: