Tom Hunter
No Minister
Make the Population Stupid
Make sure that the products of the old system are the part of the group that destroys it, that way nobody can accuse you of being hateful outsiders who just want to destroy what they don’t understand.
The Mail on Sunday’s analysis of entries in Who’s Who found that 36 Labour MPs who went to a private school fail to declare it opposed to 18 who do. Some notable examples of non-declaration:
– Lisa Nandy: Moor Allerton Prep School.
– Hamish Falconer: Westminster
– James Murray: St Paul’s
– John Healey: St Peter’s School, York
– Kanishka Narayan: Eton College
– Miatta Fahnbulleh: Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells
Because state schools are just so awesome nowadays.
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Make the Population the Enemy of the Police
The whole world is already aware of the Henry Nowak case where the cops could get away with treating a young white guy like a piece of meat until he died, while ignoring his non-white attackers, because they wouldn’t be accused of “wacism”. But there are other factors too, as shown in this interview with PC Lydia Ward (4m 29s).
She said she’d never been more frightened than during the attack by Mohammed Amaaz in July 2024 as she and another female and male police officer tried to arrest him and his mates at Manchester Airport. He smashed her in the face, breaking her nose and has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. She’s confused:
LW: I just don’t understand why. There was no need to to punch me in the face. I mean, that felt like it, you know, it was a targeted assault on myself.
It felt like it was a targeted assault? Of course it was, though not in the personal sense. It’s called “resisting arrest” and you’re supposed to be trained to expect it, even if it doesn’t happen all the time. But if an arrestee thinks he can get away with it – and if he’s bigger and stronger than the female cop he’s dealing with he will think that she’s an obvious target – he’s going to resist.
LW: It is important that people know that policing isn’t about being a ninja warrior and being able to, you know, take people down. It’s about showing empathy towards people in some of the worst days of their life.
Sure, but apparently she walked into this situation thinking that empathy would be the trick.
LW: There’s a place for women in policing in all manner of different roles. And there is some women that, you know, are even better in them sort of situations than some men.
I’ve heard the same from male cops. But arresting multiple young males is a role for people who have experienced at least some physical violence in their life, even if no violence happens.
How many men, even in today’s supposedly gentler world, following decades of education about not fighting, have been punched in the face playing a contact sport like rugby, or even just as little kids in school? I’d be willing to bet that almost every male cop, at least up until the last generation, had experienced violence like that in their life. It’s not like you get used to it but it doesn’t freak you out. Unless you’re five years old and it’s the first time, you don’t scream and cry – as she does in the aftermath. If anything you probably want to go after the bastard who hit you and give him a taste of his own medicine.
By contrast, even when you take into account men assaulting woman in relationships, many woman still don’t experience that sort of casual violence at the same rates as men, so I’m sure for most woman it is a hell of shock when it happens, just as it was for PC Ward. So will her attitude be different next time?
LW: I want to understand, I would have liked to have understood why he did what he did. And I want him to understand how that him doing that impacted my life. Maybe for him to take some responsibility for what he’s done, show some remorse, an apology.
Nope. She still doesn’t understand. In fact she still thinks that empathy will work and hopes for empathy in return from the people she’s arresting.
But there is some learning going on, which is why you get incidents like the following: two smallish female police officers instinctively know that it’s easier to tackle one white guy than the three blacks who were smacking him around. Perhaps they’ve been through PC Ward’s experience.
Or this: Scottish police Search for “Tanned European” Rapist. Hey, it’s an improvement on either saying it’s a white guy or refusing to include racial/ethnic characteristics in the description – which is code for ‘non-white’.
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Shut the Population Up When They Complain
Which also involves the police. In case you don’t get the reference, Minority Report is 2002 SF film where Tom Cruise is part of a special police unit that arrests people before they can commit a violent crime.
In the old days you arrested people who got angry and started fights and riots because someone insulted their sports team, mother, or religion – not the person doing the insulting. This was held to be especially true in the West as Blasphemy Laws were eliminated, allowing atheists to gleefully insult Christians and laugh about it. As you can see these laws are back. Don’t call Muhammed a paedophile in front of a British Police Office.
And there’s more to come, including crack downs on VPNs and forcing everybody to log into every app to prove you age – and thus enable you to be tracked in every detail.
[Andy Burnham’s] close ally, Lisa Nandy, is spearheading plans to force social media companies to prioritise the promotion of what the government deems to be “trustworthy” news sources.
When Josh Simons – the former MP for Makerfield who resigned to allow Burnham to return to Westminster – was head of Labour Together, he oversaw a project that targeted journalists who wrote critically about the think tank and his political master at the time, Keir Starmer.
Now, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Lucy Powell is calling for the effective censorship of social media platforms during election periods.
They’ve already got one big scalp:
For 12 years, Kathy kept open a space where writers could say what the respectable press would not say. She did not have a wealthy institution behind her. She did not enjoy the protection given to fashionable magazines of approved dissent. She did not flatter the establishment. ...
Call something misinformation and the work is half done. Advertisers panic. Platforms throttle. Donors hesitate. Investors vanish. Readers are warned off. A lawful opinion becomes a reputational hazard. TCW lived through this before the system was fully formed. It can now be seen as a test case in practical censorship. It showed how a lawful dissenting publication can be worn down without ever being formally banned. ...
The closure of TCW as a daily site should shame every politician who claims to care about free speech. It should shame Conservative MPs who cheered or tolerated the Online Safety Act. It should shame ministers who mouthed support for liberty while online dissent was being throttled. It should shame the broadcasters who now expect to be treated as ‘trusted news’ while they helped create the climate in which dissenting outlets were cast as dangerous. ...
A heroine of free speech has been forced to retreat from a platform she built by steely resolve and courage because Britain’s censorship state has made the cost of dissent too high. TCW was not defeated. It was starved of oxygen by people who could not answer it.
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As a Last Resort, Replace the Natives
Admittedly the pressure has grown so strong that even Labour is feeling enough heat to talk about restricting immigration – but it’s just talk:
There was a furore in 2022 when the Guardian revealed that the Home Office had paid a private company £2.5 million to charter boats and crew to pick up people trying to cross the Channel. That number has since ballooned…
Mahmood’s Home Office is four years later paying £30 million to the same company – usually serving the offshore wind industry – for a one year contract (extendable to three). Contract documents show Border Force wants seven vessels total from Aeolian Offshore: five “Migrant Rescue Vessels” to rescue and transport migrants recovered from the Channel.
But these immigrants will not be going to certain places, darlings:
As always in England, the lower classes will bear the brunt, as this man’s story reveals:
My name’s Dave. I’m 38, born and raised round here in Shropshire. I work a manual job – long days on the tools, building sites, fixing stuff, whatever pays the bills. My wife works too, part-time when she can, but looking after our two kids comes first.
We’ve been on the council housing list for over four years now. Four fucking years of filling in forms, chasing up, living in a cramped rental that’s costing us a fortune and never feels like home. The kids share a room, we’re saving every penny, and every time something breaks or the landlord puts the rent up, we wonder how much longer we can keep going.
Then I hear about the new estate down the road in Stoke Heath. Nice new-build houses, £250,000 each, 21 of them. We thought, finally – some decent family homes for people like us who’ve waited our turn. People from round here, paying taxes, working hard, part of the community.
Turns out they’re handing them over to 83 illegal immigrants instead. One family’s already moved in. Brand new houses, nice finish, in our village. And we’re still fucking waiting.
Such replacement also includes the police, in this case Irish, but Great Britain is likely already doing this:
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Act All Surprised When It Explodes in Your Face
This article was originally published by No Minister.