It's amazing to think back a few years and reflect on what God has done with Venture. Ready to close the doors permanently, God picked his church up out of the dust, swept us off, gave us a new name and identity, and helped us sense his greater calling and vision not only for our church, but for our community and the world within our reach.
As I've said before, we can celebrate the people that God has brought in to call Venture home. He's rejuvenated our ranks with Christ-followers ready to serve. A church should always celebrate when God adds workers to the fields of harvest. Although we celebrate, we have to remember that adding people who already know Jesus to our church family is not our calling. If God brings in 150 more new workers in 2017, we can rejoice, but should also be wary of the danger that addition would pose.
What danger? Comfort. As we grow, our finances stabilize, volunteers are added to thinly staffed ministries, and more hands carry the load. Perhaps we start to feel like a normal church again. There may be some good in that, but God's intention for Venture was never that we'd grow into a "normal church," (whatever that is).
God's call for us is the same call he gives his disciples at the end of Matthew: "Go into all the world, making disciples and baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all I've commanded you." Unless we are a church actively and intentionally making disciples of those who don't yet know Jesus, we're not doing what God has called us to do. We may grow content with paid bills and full worship services, all the while forsaking the far greater call and reward of obeying God.
In recent years, God has healed a weary and broken bride. He's rejuvenated our people, identity, campus, and vision. He has called willing servants into the field of ministry. He's grown me as a leader and shown me how far I've yet to grow. He's equipping disciples for ministry and putting structures and strategies in place that will help us move toward his vision for Venture. He has done mighty things, and now he is calling us to respond in obedience, trusting Jesus to complete the work he began in us.
So where do we go from here? We go to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Let's be honest, the vision he's given us is impossible. Unless we trust Jesus to do the work to which he's called us, we will fail. Our church might get bigger as Christians move in from out of town or look for a new place to call home. Our budget might improve. We might hire more staff or add more volunteers. We might have more Bible studies and weeknight meetings. From all human perspectives, it might appear as though we're a successful church, but all the while we'd be failing to do the work Jesus has for us.
So here's to a year of growth. Not necessarily growth in numbers, but growth in spiritual maturity as we desperately depend upon the Holy Spirit. I, for one, believe the latter must precede the former. If we're to grow in numbers by winning the lost to Christ, we must first grow closer to Jesus. His burden is easy.


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The planned Costco store on Coit at Churchill could open in summer 2017.
The 13-acre site already has been cleared, and builder Robinson Construction Co. already put up a perimeter fence and construction trailer.
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But the store is expected to open by mid-summer, Kleinman says.
Costco received $3 million in economic development funds from the city of Dallas to buy the land, which previously belonged to the Texas Department of Transportation.
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New European Parliament report calls on China to review its policies in Tibet, asks EU to raise the issue of access
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Brussels – The European Parliament, at its plenary session today in Strasbourg, adopted a new report on EU-China relations that urges China to review its policies in Tibet and review and amend laws, regulations and measures passed in recent years that severely limit the exercise of civil and political rights of Tibetans. It further urges the EU institutions to take the issue of access to Tibet into serious consideration in the discussions on the EU-China visa facilitation agreement
The report, which was prepared by Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Bastiaan Belder (ECR, Netherlands) and was passed by 530 votes to 53 with 55 abstentions, gives a rather detailed and in-depth overview of the state of EU-China relations. It tackles issues such as trade exchanges, China's Belt and Road initiative, the 16+1 format, digital surveillance, climate change and sustainable development and the human rights situation in the country, and urges the European Union to rebalance its relationship with China, and to press Beijing to improve the overall human rights situation, including in Xinjiang and Tibet.
ICT's EU Policy Director Vincent Metten said: "The European Parliament's report on EU-China relations is very comprehensive, and we share its overall assessment of human rights situation in China and Tibet." Metten added: "We welcome the call of the European Parliament for a review of China's policies in Tibet, as well as the need for Europe to defends is democracies so as to better to face China's systematic efforts to influence its politicians and civil society."
Reflecting increasing concerns amongst EU policy-makers about the impacts of China's systematic influencing efforts in Europe -which were highlighted earlier this year by a substantial study of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) and Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)- the report indeed also calls on the EU Member states to "step up collaboration and unity on their China policies," in order to better confront these efforts. Last year, the lack of unity of EUMS had indeed led to the EU's failure to make a joint statement critical of China's human rights records at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Members of the Parliament also urged throughout the report for more reciprocity in the relationship, not only in terms of trade and market access but also in other areas such as press freedom and freedom of movement.
During the plenary debate prior to the vote on Tuesday, MEP Belder said: "A critical principle for solid relations between the EU and China is reciprocity, but preferably in all areas, for example as regards to market access but equally as regards to freedom of the press. Reciprocity fosters mutual trust, establishes a solid foundation for a strategic partnership between the EU and China that this very promising partnership honestly deserves. However, and this is clearly indicated in the report, reciprocity is an ideal image and the report makes it clear on certain terms, that from the European perspective there are concerns about the policy of the all-mighty Chinese Communist Party. Take for example Tibet, Xinjiang, the sinicization of all religions, the Social Credit System, the militarization of the South China Sea, the law on international NGOs, the display of tensions in cross-state relations with Taiwan… these are exactly the sensitive salient subject for Chinese censors."
With regards to Tibet in particular, the European Parliament makes the following assessment (§T): "Whereas the situation in Tibet has deteriorated over the past few years, in spite of economic growth and infrastructure development, with the Chinese Government curtailing a wide range of human rights under the pretext of security and stability, and engaging in relentless attacks against Tibetan identity and culture; whereas the surveillance and control measures have been on the increase over the past few years as well as arbitrary detentions, acts of torture and ill-treatment; whereas the Chinese Government has created in Tibet an environment in which there are no limits to state authority, a climate of fear is pervasive, and every aspect of public and private life is tightly controlled and regulated; whereas in Tibet, any acts of non-violent dissent or criticism of state policies with regard to ethnic or religious minorities can be considered as 'splittist' and therefore criminalised; whereas access to the Tibet Autonomous Region today is more restricted than ever for foreigners, including EU citizens, particularly for journalists, diplomats and other independent observers, and even more difficult for EU citizens of a Tibetan background; whereas no progress has been made in the resolution of the Tibetan crisis in the last few years as the last round of peace talks took place in 2010; whereas the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Tibet has led to an increase of self-immolation cases with a total number of 156 since 2009."
The report goes on to urge China to "review its policies in Tibet", calling on the Chinese government to amend laws and regulations adopted in recent years that limit the exercise of civil and political rights of Tibetans and to resume the Sino-Tibetan dialogue, amongst other recommendations. As the EU and China celebrate their joint year of tourism, Members of the European Parliament also reiterated their call for unfettered access to Tibet for EU citizens "in reciprocity to the free and open access to the entire territories of the EU Member States that Chinese travellers enjoy." (the full list of the report's recommendations on Tibet is available below).
"Chinese authorities repress the Tibetans from exercising their fundamental rights and we don't know how many persons have been imprisoned for being dissidents over the past years", MEP Cristian Dan Preda said during the debate. "We must not stand by watching idly the brutal deprivation of the Tibetan people of its rights. Partnership with China is indeed desirable but it must be made conditional on the respect of human dignity as well as individual and collective human rights." MEP László Tőkés added.
The European Parliament's Report on EU-China relations is available here.
European Parliament's report on the state of EU-China relations
Recommendations on Tibet
"63. Urges China to review its policies in Tibet; calls on China to review and amend the laws, regulations and measures passed in recent years that severely limit the exercise of civil and political rights of Tibetans, including their freedom of expression and their religious freedom; urges the Chinese leadership to pursue development and environmental policies that respect the economic, social and cultural rights of Tibetans and are inclusive of local populations, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; calls on the Chinese government to investigate the ongoing cases of enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment of Tibetans and to respect their rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and freedom of religion and belief, in line with international human rights standards; stresses that the degradation of human rights in Tibet must be systematically raised at each EU-China Summit; calls for the resumption of a constructive and peaceful dialogue between the Chinese authorities and representatives of the Tibetan people; urges China to give EU diplomats, journalists and citizens unfettered access to Tibet in reciprocity to the free and open access to the entire territories of the EU Member States that Chinese travellers enjoy; calls on the Chinese authorities to allow Tibetans in Tibet to travel freely and to respect their right to freedom of movement; urges the Chinese authorities to allow independent observers, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to access Tibet; urges the EU institutions to take the issue of access to Tibet into serious consideration in the discussions on the EU-China visa facilitation agreement."


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The 8th Virginia Regiment
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Searching for Captain Knox
We only know the history that is written down. Some of the 8th Virginia's most valiant warriors left sparse records and have consequently been forgotten. One of the best parts of this project is the opportunity to bring some of their stories back to life. A case in point is the story of Captain James Knox.
Knox lived an amazing life. He used his inheritance to come to Virginia from Northern Ireland at the age of 14. He evidently entered Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap before Daniel Boone did. He was the leader of the famous "long hunts" into Kentucky in 1769, 1770 and 1771 before serving in Dunmore's War against the Shawnee in 1774. He then led the Fincastle (Kentucky) County company for the 8th Virginia in 1776. After his company was decimated by malaria in south, he was detached to lead a new company in Morgan's Rifles and took part in the first major American victory of the war at Saratoga. After the war, he served in the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky (after it separated from Virginia) and served in the Kentucky militia as a colonel. In 1805 he married the widow of his neighbor and friend, Benjamin Logan.
Knox died on Christmas Eve in 1822 and was buried near his wife and Logan. From there, this once-prominent frontier hero slowly slipped into obscurity. In 1923, a Kentucky historian reported that Knox's gravestone had "fallen from its base to the earth" where it lay "forgotten" in a "neglected and overgrown" graveyard. In 1964, the Commonwealth of Kentucky placed a historic marker two miles away on the Louisville Pike (Route 60). One side memorialized Benjamin Logan, the other (the back, officially) memorialized Knox.
On a recent trip to Kentucky, I decided to find the marker and—if I could—Knox's grave. The Kentucky Historical Marker Database said the Logan-Knox sign was four miles west of Shelbyville. I drove ten miles west of Shelbyville, but couldn't find it. An internet search found a newspaper account of the 2015 rededication of the Logan family burial ground (where Knox is buried), with vague directions. I thought, perhaps, the sign had been moved there—somewhere on Brunerstown Road.
Driving south from Shelbyville, Brunerstown Road was easy to find and the sign was right there at the intersection. Though happy to find it, I was disappointed to see it was literally posted in a ditch. Worse, it was falling over and situated so that the only way to read Knox's side was to get out of your car and walk into the field behind it.
Several shutter-clicks later, I drove the length of Brunerstown Road looking for the cemetery but couldn't find it. After a mile, the road narrowed and lost its markings—looking, probably, just the way it had in Knox's day but for the pavement. On my second pass, I encountered a man checking his mail box. He happily told me where the graveyard was—up on a hill overlooking the Bullskin Creek. Far from the road, it was inaccessible except through a neighbor's property, and they were not home.
I drove by the creek one more time and looked high up on the bluff on the opposite side. Through the trees, I could just make out a monument. Recognizing it from FindAGrave.com, I knew it was Benjamin Logan's grave marker. Knox's grave is up there too, but can't be seen from the road.
The Logan cemetery was cleaned up in 2015. Already "neglected and overgrown" in 1923, in 2015 it was described as "in complete disrepair; you couldn't even walk through it, you had to spread the trees and the bushes and the vines apart to even get through it." My search for Knox's grave is a perfect allegory for the story of the 8th Virginia. The story is out there, but it's frequently very hard to find.
Read More: "James Knox Was There Before Daniel Boone" (8/19/17)
8th Virginia Captain James Knox was among the very first European Americans to explore Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap, possibly before Daniel Boone.
The Logan-Knox marker has been relocated to the intersection of Taylorsville Road and Brunerstown Road, south of Shelbyville, Kentucky. It is leaning over in a ditch, with the Knox-side of the sign not visible from either intersecting road.
The grave of Benjamin Logan, just visible through the trees, high up on a bluff over the Bullskin Creek. This photo was taken with an iPhone at maximum zoom.
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Tourists banned from sitting on Rome's Spanish Steps
Published Time: August 9, 2019, 12:00 am
Updated Time: August 8, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Gulf Today: Tourists to the Eternal City will no longer be able to catch their breath on the Spanish Steps, after Rome banned people from sitting on the famous monument. Police could be seen blowing whistles to order people up and off the Steps in the historic centre on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported.
The marble steps, one of the architectural jewels of the Italian capital, have long been a place for weary sightseers to stop and watch the world go by — while possibly scoffing down a quick sandwich or slurping a milkshake. But in an attempt to crack down on slovenly behaviour, the council issued new rules earlier this summer banning all "camping out" or "sitting" on historic monuments, including the Steps and the "boat" fountain at its feet.
Transgressors could be slapped with a fine of up to 400 euros ($448) for everything from sitting, to going shirtless, bathing in fountains and dragging wheeled suitcases down historic steps.
The landmark, made famous in the United States by the 1953 film "Roman Holiday" starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, underwent a 1.5-million-euro renovation in 2016 financed by upmarket jeweller Bulgari.
The marble had been discoloured by years of pollution but also caked in chewing gum and stained by wine and coffee spills.
The Steps, designed by architect Francesco de Sanctis between 1723 and 1726 and dominated by the Trinita dei Monti church at the top, are a UNESCO site.
Last month, two German tourists were fined 950 euros for making themselves a coffee on the steps of the famous Rialto Bridge in Venice and asked to leave the city.
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Timothy DeStefano is an Associate Professor of Research at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. He is an applied economist with expertise in the areas of digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial robotics, firm productivity and trade. His research at Georgetown examines the effects of digital technology on firm reorganization and performance using a mixture of field experiments and observational data techniques.
Over the last year, Tim has partnered with various businesses to construct and execute field experiments which measure the causal effects of AI on firm performance. Tim has also carried out a number of research projects that examine how fiber broadband and cloud computing impact firm productivity, organization and employment. He has extensive experience assessing policy interventions for multiple European and Asia Pacific governments on a range of economic outcomes at the region, firm, and individual levels.
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The redcoats are coming! They're wearing grey suits!
Jul 3, 2019 ~ Peter A Bell
Sometimes, things happen and you think to yourself how obvious it was that this would happen. There was never any doubt that the British establishment would respond to the Referendums Bill. The 'review' of devolution ordered by Theresa May is just the kind of response we might have expected and is, without doubt, partly prompted by what is regarded in London as a rather impertinent piece of legislation.
This is dominance behaviour. It is political scent-marking. It is a blunt and imperious message from the British state reminding us that they own devolution. They own the Scottish Parliament. They own Scotland. Devolution and all that has flowed from it – largely unanticipated by its architects – was a gift to her northern subjects from beneficent Britannia. And what is given can be taken away.
Scotland is being told to behave. Or else!
Look at who May has appointed to conduct this 'review'! Andrew Dunlop! Who, unless I am very much mistaken is the individual who, together with Alistair Darling, cooked up all the inane scaremongering about currency in the final stages of the 2014 referendum campaign. If the appointment of a British lord isn't a contemptuously calculated slap in the face to Scotland, then the choice of this particular example of that species surely is.
I say this 'review' of devolution is only partly a characteriscally high-handed and overbearing response to the Referendums Bil because this, or something similar, was inevitable anyway. As the British state prepares to exploit the constitutional implications of Brexit in order to restore and reinforce its grip on Scotland, there had to be an initiating act. It was never likely that the British political elite would simply close down the Scottish Parliament and declare the devolution experiment a failure. Although, as recent history teaches us, it would be unwise to discount anything as being beyond their capacity for arrogant idiocy, the British pride themselves on being devious and, from their own rather biased perspective at least, subtle.
A 'review' is as good a way as any to start the process of dismantling devolution. It is something that can later be referred to as if it justified the process. It helps to make suspending or closing the Scottish Parliament look like the outcome of a process that is rational and dispassionate. Or, at least, that is how it will be spun by the media arm of the British establishment.
Please don't say you weren't warned. Some of us have been warning about this since before the 2014 referendum. We recognised that the fate of Scotland's Parliament was sealed in 2007 when, despite all the precautions to ensure that it would never happen, the British parties lost control of Holyrood. When, in 2011, the Scottish electorate broke the system that was supposed to keep the Scottish Parliament on a tight British leash, its fate was confirmed beyond any hope of reprieve.
The No vote in the 2014 referendum gave British politicians licence to do as they pleased with Scotland. The Leave vote in the 2016 EU referendum created a need to redefine the constitutional status of UK; and an opportunity to unilaterally redefine Scotland's status within the UK. The nature of the Union ensures that neither the people of Scotland nor their elected representatives need be consulted.
Some may insist that saying the British state's moves against the Scottish Parliament were foreseeable is just a case of being clever with hindsight. They will point to particulars that were were not predicted – such as 'Dunlop's review' – and claim that this 'proves' the actions of the British state are such that nobody could have foreseen. But, quite apart from the fact that articles written as long ago as 2012 warning of the British state's intentions, are still available online, any appreciation of the imperatives driving the British political elite and the options available made it obvious what was coming.
I say all this, not by way of a big "Ah telt ye!" – although I do reserve gloating rights – but in the hope that, realising we were right before, people may heed the warnings being issued now. It is to be hoped that people will at least attend to the voices saying how urgent it is that Scotland get out of the Union and warning of the consequences of failure to do so.
There may well be another purpose to the 'Dunlop review' of devolution. We are assured that "the review will look at areas within the UK Government set-up and not at devolved areas". That, surprisingly, may actually be almost entirely true. It is difficult to see how any meaningful 'review' of devolution might exclude devolved areas. But the project makes perfect sense if the purpose of the 'review' is actually to gauge the preparedness of the 'UK Government in Scotland' to take over the powers and functions of the Scottish Parliament. It is unlikely that such a 'review' could be conducted in secrecy. So the sensible course of action is to announce it, but disguise its purpose.
And, of course, announcing the 'Dunlop review' means that it also serves the 'scent-marking' purpose referred to at the start of this article.
Be warned! The British government is gearing up to bypass and then eliminate the Scottish Parliament. It is preparing for an 'end game' in which Scotland's distinctive political culture is eradicated. This is the ultimate playing-out of the Greater England project which aimed to obliterate Scotland's national identity. All of this will come to pass because the imperatives of 'One Nation' British Nationalism demand that it must be so.
Be warned! Unless the Scottish Government, the Scottish National Party and the Yes movement act promptly and in solidarity to prevent it, the juggernaut of British Nationalism will roll over our land and crush Scotland's democracy.
Be warned! The consequences of acting and failing are now no different from the consequences of failing to act. And those consequences are catastrophic for Scotland. We must act now! We must #DissolveTheUnion!
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tcrosbie20 says:
Jul 3, 2019 at 10:01
Great piece Peter, and absolutely spot, this racist xenophobic British nationalism juggernaut, will roll over the top of any democratic process we care to put in the way, it will do anything to hold onto its northern subsidy cash cow.
Duncan Spence says:
Indeed. There are many more I'm sure who could say exactly the same: telt ye! But like you say, this is no time for gloating.
I fear that the more these hunts do what they intend, and as the level of collective fury rises, the greater will be the chance of some kind of "violence" or other conduct they deem beyond the democratic pale, thereby giving them the pretext to send in actual redcoats. The whole purpose of the Westminster parliament and everything it does is to preserve and legitimate the power of the British establishment, to justify its sense of entitlement. Its passive/aggressive attitude and disingenuous commitment to democracy are cynical tactics designed only to provoke reaction.
The anchor on your timeline to the moment when non Unionist opinion came to dominate the Scottish parliament is apposite, for this was when the British establishment lost control. It was also when real democracy was able to express itself. They didn't like losing control and they were particularly incandescent with the course the SNP government steered – towards inclusivity and greater democratic engagement.
They like to play with the idea of democracy, but they have no commitment to it. None whatever. I'm sure that I am not the only one who sees this. Nor probably am I alone in wondering why we still have to play nice. Why should we pursue our aims according to the rules of the game, when the rules are designed so we will never win? This is not a rhetorical question.
Again, exactly what these hunts would like. Even a peace loving, testosterone suppressed, relatively comfortably off, mindfulness infused, terminally ill old hippy like me is bordering on being provoked. There are hundreds of thousands much more angry than I am out there. The establishment knows this and is undoubtedly poised to respond with extreme measures as soon as somebody makes a "wrong" move. The redcoats are indeed coming.
You make a good point when you say that the British establishment is "particularly incandescent with the course the SNP government steered". We should not lose sight of the fact that British Nationalism isn't only about locking Scotland into the Union on the British state's terms. Nor is it only about securing Scotland's resources and maintaining control of territory which is both symbolically and geopolitically important. It is also about eradication a distinctive political culture which gives the lie to the British political elite's assertion that 'there is no other way' but the way that they choose. The way that serves the few at whatever cost to the many.
The British stand to lose much more than just a source of revenue and an economic asset when the Union is dissolved. It stands to lose face and credibility and influence and much else that is not necessarily amenable to being calculated or expressed in monetary terms. But, even if the end of the Union were not a looming threat to the structures of power, privilege and patronage which constitute the British state, the ruling elites would still see Scotland as a threat due to risk of our distinctive political culture inciting and encouraging and arming the forces of progressive politics in England.
No-one should imagine that abandoning the independence project would get the British off our backs. They will not be content until Scotland succumbs totally to their 'One Nation' ambition.
Losing face will be inevitable. Their dream of sailing off into the seventeenth century on the good ship Empire, having removed themselves from Europe and if necessary jettisoned the bumptious Jocks, is obvious bollocks. So when this doesn't happen, they will be caught with their breeks down.
English/British domestic policy has always been based on securing the northern borders against creeping sedition or catholicism. Thank you for the timely reminder that our difference is enough in itself to rattle their cages, that any aspiration towards Scottish autonomy is in itself a threat to British nationalism.
I banged on about this a lot here:
https://duncanspence.blog/2019/06/14/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/
Good title for a blog – Banging on!
plundered …. respectfully of course
Jul 10, 2019 at 06:34
I meant to ask: do you know the work of George Davie on Scotland's distinctive educational tradition and its conflict with British Empiricism? His books The Democratic Intellect and The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect are about 19th and 20th centuries respectively.
I am not familiar with this man or his work. Perhaps I should rectify that, But my reading list is already taking me well beyond a normal life-span.
I know exactly how you feel. I measure my reading list in height of the stack and try not to think about the time involved in reducing its size. But if you do find the time, give the Crisis a skim. I think it'll be right up your street.
that "the review will look at areas within the UK Government set-up and not at devolved areas".
We must remember that some devolved areas have be taken, "temporarily", into WM hands
twathater says:
BUILD A WALL
Tol says:
Scottish Exceptionalism – the belief that it alone is immune from the brutality of what Westminster did to the rest of its empire – is just as sad and delusional as English Exceptionalism. Its like Scotland was infected by the virus but only managed a manky strain of self delusion.
THANK YOU for again sounding the alarm…I am sure you must feel like you are tilting at windmills.
I don't feel that any more. For a long time I did feel like I was tilting at windmills. Four or five years ago I felt like a lone voice. I wasn't, of course. But there were few enough people sounding the alarm that I'm sure each of us felt the same sense of isolation.
Not any more! Over the past year it has been like a mass awakening. It's as if everybody had been so in thrall to the noble ideals of the 2014 Yes campaign that they couldn't think about the dark side of things at all. Now, it is part of our everyday political discourse. It used to be that people only wanted to talk about how wonderful things would be with independence. Now, they talk about the hellish consequences pf remaining in the Union.
This may not be pleasant. But it is realistic. And essential if we are to campaign effectively.


If fitness classes were people, then I would be one of those commitment-phobic idiots wondering why I was still single. I have hooked up with a lot of classes and actually been pretty intimate with some of them, but I have yet to settle down. My gym bag has notches in it from aerobics, Jazzercise, aerial silk Pilates, Zumba, yoga, hot yoga, and all of the gyms. I have had a personal trainer (which rocks) and I once helped my girlfriend train for a charity walk across the state of Alabama. For weeks, we walked anywhere from one to five hours at a stretch around the city's neighborhoods. We were at various times attacked by a dog, threatened by a group of drunk college boys, and caught in a blinding rain that we just kept walking through because it was impossible to get any wetter.
Unable to talk a friend into joining me one night, I decided on my own to give it a whirl. I loved it! It is dancing, but with all of the irritants and self-consciousness removed. Dancing, yes, but not as regimented as line dancing or Jazzercise. It is movement, but not as militarized as step aerobics or as deliberate as instructor-led choreography. There is great music, pumped up loud like when you're alone in the car and your song comes on. It is pitch black in the room, so everyone is given a small, glow-in-the-dark "firefly" that you place on the floor at your feet. This is your marker, and you give yourself about four feet around it. If you wear a Fitbit, you are given a little piece of black duct tape to put over the light so as not to distract.
The creator of this class, Laura Interval Gaines, is so charming that you instantly forgive her for being tall and thin with perfect hair. She explains before class that if you need assistance, you are to wave your firefly around in the air and she will guide you to the restroom or whatever else you may need. On the final song, she busts out gloves that glow and leads the room in some simple but fun choreography.
During the first song, I sort of danced in place like I was at a casual party. The music went through Motown, Beyoncé, Madonna (in the fun "Borderline" days before she was British), plenty of killer salsa tunes, and some classic David Bowie. The final tune that we all danced to together by the light of the instructor's glow sticks was Aretha Franklin's "Respect." There was much whooping.
For my second class, I was ready. I was ready to burn calories in the mosh pit of my mind, and I decided I had found my latest shortcut to Thin Me. (Thin Me lives inside me with all the other mes. She is one elusive little witch and hardly ever comes out.) I was wearing my favorite yoga pants that my daughter had given me. They are not the innocuous black kind that flair out and allow you to run into the grocery store unnoticed. These are pants that say to the world, "I am not relaxing. I AM WORKING OUT." They have designs on them, zip down to the ankle, and mean business. Unless you are built like my 5-foot, 9 ½ inch 23-year-old daughter, they are pants best worn in the dark.
The beat dropped and I was ready. I danced like no one was watching. I was the love child of Jennifer Beale in Flashdance and Kevin Bacon in Footloose. When the Latin music kicked in, I was winning Dancing with the Stars. Gwen Stefani and I nailed it at our Super Bowl appearance. I was back on stage in my musical theater days, nailing a double pirouette. I was in the club in Miami at midnight in a short silk beaded dress and heels. I was Charlie's angel, kickboxing my way out of danger.
After about 30 minutes of this, I was exhilarated but exhausted, and I started to drop down to the floor to do some abdominal work. As I bent over, I was startled at the sight of a cluster of bubbles rushing up to my face, and I jumped. When I jumped the bubbles jumped with me, and I realized that my pants had glow-in-the-dark designs on them. They were on the outside of my right thigh, a cluster of bubbles that looked like they were powered by a 120-watt bulb. Laying on my back, I covered them with my flattened palm, and the room was dark again until I did a sit-up and found more on the outside of my left calf. Covering those with the other hand, I froze. I considered staying in that pose for the remaining half hour of class, but if I had that kind of abdominal strength, I wouldn't have been class shopping in the first place. I realized with disturbing clarity that while I had been dancing like nobody was watching, I had been the only thing visible in the room.
The second half of class felt different, pretty much proving Gaines's theory that anonymity unleashes freedom of expression. I haven't been back yet. I will return, though, because it is a flat-out blast. When I do go, I will have first examined my outfit while standing inside a dark closet.


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'With three distinct editions – 1762, 1774 and the Berlioz (1859) – plus various mix-and-match versions, a final choice is hardly straightforward. If you want a mezzo Orpheus in the Berlioz edition, go for von Otter with Gardiner. In the 1774 Orphée the Rosbaud recording still stands as a classic; but Minkowski offers a more complete theatrical experience. For Gluck's 1762 original with a countertenor hero, I'd go for Gardiner with the uninhibited Ragin. But to the crucial question in this opera: which Orpheus moves you the most? I'd have to answer Fink, who, transcending questions of gender, makes a tender, infinitely touching and intensely human hero. Gluck wrote of 'Che farò' that 'nothing but a slight alteration in the manner of expression is necessary to turn my aria into a puppet dance'. He would surely have had no qualms about Fink's performance, a distillation of loneliness and grief too deep for tears.' Read our overview of all of the recordings of Orfeo.


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Dehumanising language helped make the Holocaust happen. Why is Suella Braverman using it?
I was going to do an article on this myself, but Maximilien Robespierre got here first:
Elevating this above the normal Tory cock-up is the fact that the Home Office demanded that Freedom from Torture take the video clip down from the social media, saying it was heavily edited and didn't reflect the full exchange.
Here's the response:
After a video was posted of Holocaust survivor Joan Salter confronting Suella Braverman, the Home Office requested it be taken down alleging it had "been heavily edited and doesn't reflect the full exchange."
In response the full video has been posted online by @FreefromTorture: pic.twitter.com/JI4m6Ikvfo
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) January 15, 2023
Do you think the extra material excised from the original video changed what Braverman said, in any way? I don't!
This entry was posted in Government, Immigration, People, Refugees and tagged Braverman, clip, dehumanising, Holocaust, Joan, language, Salter, Suella, survivor, video on January 15, 2023 by Mike Sivier.
Led By Donkeys lifts the lid on the Michelle Mone PPE scandal. This is a MUST WATCH
She may have run away from public life but she can't run away from the evidence.
Led By Donkeys, the campaign group that posts billboards contrasting politicians' current stated opinions with those they have promoted in the past in order to call out hypocrisy, has created a new short film that you should watch.
It's about Michelle Mone, her connection with the company PPE Medpro, and the way she was apparently paid £29 million for inducing the Tory government, during the Covid crisis, to buy millions of pieces of personal protective equipment that was unfit to be used.
The information is highly revealing, as you can see for yourself:
The doctor presenting the video would be perfectly justified to be angry about this because – as she states in the clip – the waste of money meant it could not be spent on acceptable PPE that would have been used to protect NHS staff and Covid-suffering patients.
There is a high possibility that – because of the apparent avarice of Lady Mone and her associates, and the inadequacy of Michael Gove and the Tory "VIP lane" system of allocating contracts to friends of the Conservatives – many thousands of people died.
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Coronavirus, Media, People, Personal Protective Equipment, Scandal, Social Media and tagged clip, equipment, Led by Donkeys, Medpro, Michelle, Mone, personal, PPE, protective, scandal, video on December 15, 2022 by Mike Sivier.
The career of Jacob Rees-Mogg encapsulated. Just hope it's really over!
Rees-Mogg: this Hitlerian image fits well with his politics.
I can't believe I forgot to put this in the article about Rees-Mogg being out of the government.
Better late than never: this is a short video by Led By Donkeys, detailing the main beats – low and lower – of Jacob Rees-Mogg's life and political career.
If you ever start feeling nostalgic for the days of "good ole Moggie", just come back and watch this!
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, People and tagged career, clip, Jacob, Mogg, Rees, video on October 26, 2022 by Mike Sivier.
#ToryScum: MP whose inquiry into Tory Islamophobia never happened accuses left-wingers of racism
Sajid Javid: not only has he made himself look stupid, he has reminded us all that his political party is full of racists and reignited public fury at #ToryScum.
Conservatives who tried to claim on Twitter that left-wingers are racists have fallen foul of the facts – again.
Sajid Javid is the principle offender in this case – to judge by the number of responses to him, although James Cleverly was also involved, making it his second offence within the same day, along with a few other now-familiar Tory faces.
They were all responding to this clip, from the Twitter account @OneRuleForThem:
'DISHY RISHI'? YOU DECIDE.
This man is leading the fight within Government against @MarcusRashford's campaign to feed disadvantaged kids in the school holidays. @RishiSunak, a man of the people? You decide 👇 pic.twitter.com/Oa0STUSCtM
— One Rule For Them (@OneRuleForThem_) October 26, 2020
According to Javid, Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, and the instigator of the #ToryScum controversy Christopher Clarkson, that advert is racist. Can you find anything in it that refers to Sunak's ethnic origin at all, let alone in a negative way?
Neither can I.
But Javid responded thus:
The Left really, really do detest ethnic-minority Tory Cabinet ministers.
— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) October 26, 2020
Classic DARVO: "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender"
Javid is saying there's nothing dodgy about Sunak (despite the evidence in the clip). He's attacking "The Left" (not just @OneRuleForThem, I notice) with a claim that they are racist. And he's painting Sunak as a victim of that racism rather than the shady character his own history suggests he is.
Javid was joined by Cleverly, as this response shows:
It's a bit obvious, don't you think, Sajid? Makes you look like some brainless jerk who just does whatever Cummings tells him to. https://t.co/B2JCpDm8RM
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) October 26, 2020
Notice "The Left really" appears in both Javid's and Cleverly's tweets – because they were taken from the same source material?
At least the tweets from Clarkson and Tugendhat used different words – although that wasn't enough to save them from public scorn:
Not good enough to find the money to feed kids going hungry this half term… https://t.co/DC75AzTrIv
Tugendhat's tweet earned him a response from the clip's creator – that made him look the fool he is:
We made one about Johnson and Cummings when they stuck their fingers up to the country. It wasn't as good, but you can watch it here:https://t.co/npZilncayw
The simple fact is that this particular organisation didn't make a video about Hammond because it didn't exist when he was Chancellor. It joined Twitter last month.
So let's get back to the reaction to Javid. Here are a few examples:
You're wrong again Sajid. The left detest *all* Tory Cabinet ministers. And for very good reason. 👍🙂 pic.twitter.com/j5VoCsPg8M
— Crispian Wheldon 🍀 #GrassrootsVoice (@CrispianWheldon) October 26, 2020
No Sajid, the left hate this.
And don't start calling the left racists when right wing conservative supporters have bullied Diane Abbott for years because of the fact she's a black woman. https://t.co/p72yScB1BB pic.twitter.com/SNxFR93fTS
— Joe 🇵🇸 ☭ (@JoeSchofield_1) October 26, 2020
The front on this one.
Nah mate, divisive language once again.
Don't consider myself to be 'left' but I do detest an MP that uses a lift only for disabled people in the houses of parliament…
I shared it with you, Sajid 👍 https://t.co/TtAsv8ptFT
— Martin Hywood💙💛 (@HywoodMartin) October 26, 2020
I hope Sajid will use this as an opportunity to say what a great job Sadiq Khan is doing as mayor of London. Otherwise he's just making a cheap political point. https://t.co/ZARbgA80U1
— Paul Sharp (@Petersbrooking) October 26, 2020
Sajid … do you remember when they promised you an inquiry into Islamophobia in the #Tory Party? They promised you it on live TV. Did it happen? No. You know the truth … so don't come on here talking nonsense.
— Dr. Craig (@1CraigMorris) October 26, 2020
That's right – Javid did extract a promise from all the other then-Conservative leadership candidates that there would be an inquiry into Islamophobia into the Tory Party.
Once Boris Johnson was installed as leader (and new prime minister), the (also) newly-installed Tory chairman backpedalled on that promise. What was his name? Oh yes…
James Cleverly.
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Falsehood, People, Social Media and tagged @OneRuleForThem, #ToryScum, Christopher, Clarkson, Cleverly, clip, james, Javid, Mike, political, Rishi, Sajid, Sivier, Sunak, Tom, Tugendhat, Twitter, Vox on October 26, 2020 by Mike Sivier.
Home Office 'migrants' clip: "It's like Dad's Army but WE'RE the fascists"
Priti Patel: I was going to paint a Hitler-style moustache on her upper lip but let's be honest – there's no need.
[Note: The Home Office has taken down the offending tweet. However, that's no reason not to know what was in it. Let's discuss:]
Priti Patel's Home Office has taken a (goose) step too far with it's latest anti-migrant video.
It says – well, see for yourself:
It's like the opening to Dad's Army but we're the fascists. https://t.co/02XCQP6WIE
— Pete Redfern (@fatpete_86) August 27, 2020
The graphic really is like the opening titles of Dad's Army, but the message is perverse.
Behind graphics reminiscent of the old TV sit-com, that represented the UK's older (and younger) citizens fending off the Nazi hordes, the Home Office comes across as having been taken over by the Nazis,
"We are working to remove" – take note of that language, remove. It means the Home Office is sending people back to the home countries they fled to seek asylum in the United Kingdom – "migrants with no right to remain in the UK". Migrants like Mercy Baguma who, rather than being removed, was starved to death in her Glasgow home after the Home Office removed her right to remain but then did nothing, leaving her in limbo without any way of feeding herself?
"But current return regulations" to which the UK signed up "are rigid and open to abuse…" If they're "rigid", then it shouldn't be possible to abuse them; they'd mean one thing only. Is it not more likely that the current regulations simply don't allow the Home Office (as run by Priti Patel) to just kick people out willy-nilly?
"… Allowing activist lawyers" – activist? Activist? Apparently an "activist" is a person who campaigns to bring about political and social change. The use of the word suggests that this is a bad thing. But if the current regime is keen to expel innocent people to an uncertain future – on the basis of questionable information (what are the facts on which the Home Office seeks to deport these people, anyway?) then it seems to me that political and social change is not only desirable but demanded.
"… to delay and disrupt returns…" Good for them!
Then it starts to get really sinister: "Soon we will no longer be bound by EU laws and can negotiate our own return arrangements." Doesn't this suggest that the Tory-run Home Office, overseen by Priti Patel, is looking forward to the freedom to treat Johnny Foreigner with extreme prejudice? To treating migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers as people with no rights at all?
I fear for the future of anyone falling into the clutches of such a regime. Fascism comes very strongly to mind.
Of course, we are British – and the clip is already getting the treatment it deserves:
Gammon Porn #ScapegoatingKills@pritipatel @ukhomeoffice pic.twitter.com/N7BNQOm3TY
— The Agitator (@UKDemockery) August 27, 2020
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Fascism, Government, Politics, Refugees and tagged asylum, clip, Dad's Army, fascist, home, migrant, Mike, Nazi, office, political, refugee, seeker, Sivier, tweet, Vox on August 27, 2020 by Mike Sivier.
While Johnson blathers about schools being safe, a pupil is caught saying what we all think
Speak no evil: but it was while Boris Johnson was speaking that a pupil at a Leicestershire school voiced what we all think of him.
Congratulations to the ITV microphone-jockey who picked up this little gem.
Much has been made of Boris Johnson's visit to Castle Rock School in Leicestershire – strangely a week before term started; I wonder how the kids were enticed in. If they were hand-picked, then I expect one choice is being regretted now.
This is because – as Johnson waffled his usual piffle about schools being perfectly safe, one child was picked up by an ITV microphone describing him in exactly the same terms many of us would use:
Give this lad a medal! Schoolboy calls Boris Johnson an ars*hole as the incompetent buffoon peddles his 'schools are safe' nonsense… pic.twitter.com/lR3dMftMwp
— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) August 27, 2020
Considering the fact that there is no evidence to support Johnson's wild claim – he's only saying schools are safe to get parents back to work making money for his fatcat big business friends – I can only side with the kid.
And this *rsehole's demands could cause a lot more trouble after term starts properly.
This entry was posted in Children, Conservative Party, Coronavirus, Education, Media, People, Politics and tagged *rsehole, *sshole, arsehole, asshole, Boris, clip, coronavirus, COVID-19, Johnson, Mike, political, safe, school, Sivier, Vox on August 27, 2020 by Mike Sivier.
VIDEO – Johnson's greatest flops: it's been a bad week to be a Tory
Hand over mouth: It's the only way he can stop himself putting his foot in it.
The first full week of the general election campaign could not have gone worse for Boris Johnson.
It was like a re-run of the Conservative government's greatest flops since it came into office in 2010, starting with Boris Johnson's disgusting failure to respond to the flooding crisis in the north, and ending with the Bolton blaze, accelerated by cladding – two years after dozens were killed in Grenfell Tower.
The opinion polls might have said the opposite, but he started out in a terrible situation – caused by his own government's misbehaviour over a period of years:
You're just a bunch of liars and spin artists pic.twitter.com/wHU1hmmU56
— Chelley Ryan – #FindBertie (@chelleryn99) November 14, 2019
Mr Johnson tried to undertake a tour of the UK, but few members of the public seemed to want to talk to him…
Everywhere you go…… you always take the weather with you…. A catalogue of all the times Boris has been Booed.. pic.twitter.com/P3E7dHUddt
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) November 15, 2019
… and many of the appearances seemed to have been arranged as if in secret.
Why do tweets of this video keep going missing? pic.twitter.com/8u8YPUUt1s
— Robin Wood 🌹 Free Range (@WOODHEAP) November 14, 2019
His television appearances were a similar disaster, with the prime minister coming across as a stumbling zombie:
https://twitter.com/hardcastIe/status/1195267953610149888
It seems he's hopeless if he hasn't got a script. This radio interview is even worse:
The most incompetent interview you will ever hear. pic.twitter.com/o9Fj8oJERW
So, after the first full week of campaigning, this is the verdict:
A Glastonbury butcher wants to give Boris Johnson the chop #GE2019 🌹 #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/IbzusM0KjZ
— Ben Claimant 💚 #joinaunion (@imajsaclaimant) November 14, 2019
There are many more clips I could have used in this piece; there will be many more to come. I'm looking forward to seeing Mr Johnson cock up his response to the Bolton blaze, for example.
For voters everywhere, there can be only one conclusion: This man and his party must be removed from office on December 12.
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Election campaign and tagged bad, Boris Johnson, bungling, campaign, clip, dumb, election, general, inept, Mike Sivier, political, stumbling, stupid, stuttering, tour, video, Vox, Vox Political on November 16, 2019 by Mike Sivier.
BBC digs out Remembrance Day clip from 2016 to avoid showing up Boris Johnson. What happened to impartiality?
Now you see it: An image from yesterday's commemoration service, at which Boris Johnson showed contempt for our Armed Forces by laying his wreath face-down.
Now you don't: An image from the BBC's coverage today, showing Mr Johnson laying a wreath in 2016.
Remember a few years ago, when Jeremy Corbyn laid a wreath at his first Remembrance Day as leader of the Labour Party? The BBC revelled in criticism of his behaviour (which was in fact impeccable) and his manner of dress.
Fast-forward to this year, and we all saw Boris Johnson looking scruffy and disshevelled, stepping out of line at the wrong time and laying the wreath upside-down.
That's unless we watched BBC coverage of the event after it happened, of course.
Because the BBC decided to look for images of Mr Johnson at a previous Remembrance Day event – in 2016 – and use them instead, in what is a clear breach of reporting rules and election impartiality; this was an attempt to hide information that – properly – makes Mr Johnson look bad.
Why on Earth did anybody at the BBC think they would get away with it?
The substitution has sparked a wave of outrage which began with this tweet:
Slide One is Boris Johnson, yesterday, laying a wreath upside down on the Cenotaph
Slide Two is the footage BBC News are rolling with this morning – bizarrely, it's from 2016. pic.twitter.com/8BrOyA9Kyr
— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) November 11, 2019
Here's the actual footage used, from 2016, courtesy of another Twitter user:
This is probably the most shocking Tory propaganda the BBC has done to date. Be sure to share it. https://t.co/AfuQKIu0Ha
— Mr Ethical (@nw_nicholas) November 11, 2019
Suggestions that there was an innocent explanation were batted aside…
Innocent explanation my foot.
Absolute proof of @BBCBreakfast bias towards Tories and Johnson.
Disgraceful.
— Jonquil (@JonquilLucy) November 11, 2019
… as was the BBC's ridiculous claim that this was a "production error":
You're liars and we know you are. You lie about things big and small, but always to Tories' advantage.
We don't believe a word you broadcast, because we have no reason to.
You're corrupt, rotten and dishonest, and everyone knows that now.
Labour will reform you.
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) November 11, 2019
Let's have a few other comments. Here's Matt Bailey: "A production mistake… Where you mixed up yesterday's VT with one from 2016 that you had to search for in the archives? Yes, that's very plausible. Thank you for making it clear….."
Author and scriptwriter Stephen Gallagher offered this: "Editorial policy of 'Since what actually happened doesn't make him look good, we'll substitute something that didn't but does'."
And ex-BBC/Sky/Reuters/PA journo Julian Shea weighed in with: "'Footage from less than 24 hours ago? Where am I expected to find that? What's that you say, three years ago? Easy, it's saved on my desktop.'"
The BBC's claim to have made an innocent mistake is risible. As Evolve Politics notes:
"The BBC would have needed to search through their archives to find the 2016 footage – making the excuse that it was simply a "mistake" highly implausible.
"In addition to BBC Editors 'mistakenly' searching through their archives to use footage from 2016, they also appear to have overlooked the fact that the video also showed numerous politicians in attendance who have long since left their positions:
Theresa May – who is no longer PM
Angus Robertson – who is no longer the SNP Westminster leader
Tim Farron – who is no longer the Lib Dem leader
David Gauke – no longer a Cabinet Minister
Michael Fallon – no longer a Cabinet Minister
Amber Rudd – no longer a Cabinet Minister
Liam Fox – no longer a Cabinet Minister
Chris Grayling – no longer a Cabinet Minister
"Clearly an easy 'mistake' to make."
It seems likely the BBC will be deluged with complaints like this:
Second complaint today @BBCBreakfast
Shocking, just shocking.
I look forward to your response. pic.twitter.com/m7pFwPOQKb
— Gayle Letherby 🌹 #BlackLivesMatter (@gletherby) November 11, 2019
The written complaint, sent to https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint states: "I cannot accept that this was a 'production mistake' not least because it is clear in the 2016 footage that Theresa May and not Boris Johnson was the Prime Minister. Additionally, it surely takes some 'skill' to mix up footage from yesterday with footage from three years ago. I, and I know many others, can only conclude that your intention was to present the PM as more statesmanlike, more respectful, than yesterday's performance showed him to be.
"Bias."
As this is a clear breach of impartiality, I hope the same people complaining to the BBC are sending their complaints to Ofcom, which is still (as far as I know) conducting an inquiry into whether the BBC has breached its own rules on this.
This Writer missed the BBC Breakfast coverage. So I watched Politics Live in the hope of seeing an apology and explanation.
Did anybody else see one? I didn't.
So I sent a tweet to the show's editor, Rob Burley:
@RobBurl I was looking for the #PoliticsLive apology for BBC Remembrance Day coverage showing images from 2016 rather than yesterday, which someone clearly had to go and find, to use it instead of the shots of @BorisJohnson showing contempt for our veterans. Where is it please?
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 11, 2019
No response so far…
There is only one conclusion to be drawn here:
The BBC has outed itself as a propaganda arm of the Conservative Party. Its election coverage – and other news output – should therefore be avoided on the basis of prejudice, and should be reported to Ofcom.
This entry was posted in Bias, Election campaign, Media and tagged 2016, BBC, bias, Boris Johnson, breakfast, clip, Conservative, Mike Sivier, political, propaganda, Remembrance Day, Tories, Tory, Vox, Vox Political, wreath on November 11, 2019 by Mike Sivier.
The report on Damian Hinds' first year in Education isn't good
Damian: A bad omen for the Department for Education.
This is a terrific effort from Labour:
This week we looked back at @DamianHinds' first year on the job as Education Secretary. Here's what you missed 👇 pic.twitter.com/CAT56582oO
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) January 12, 2019
But you know what? People are going to find fault with it.
They'll say, "Where's the evidence to back up what's said here?"
And they're right to do so.
Anyone coming out with criticism – especially of a political rival – needs to be able to back up what they say.
It needn't take much effort. Obviously – if the information in the video is accurate – somebody has already researched this topic and has all the relevant web links.
So why not tweet them out along with the video clip?
It would prevent a lot of headaches.
And it would sort out the liars from the leaders.
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, Education, Labour Party, Politics, Social Media and tagged clip, Conservative, Damian Hinds, education, evidence, Labour, Mike Sivier, report, secretary, social media, Tories, Tory, Twitter, video, Vox Political on January 14, 2019 by Mike Sivier.
Listen and watch as two British comedy greats skewer Theresa May and Brexit
Legends of British comedy have lined up to deal staggering blows to Theresa May and her plan for the UK to leave the European Union, as MPs prepare to vote on it.
Mike Harding used to be all over TV and the radio when I was younger, but seemed to have taken a step back from broadcasting in recent years.
That changed when a letter he wrote to prime minister Theresa May, in response to her missive to the nation demanding our support, went viral.
It's a powerful piece – listen to the author reading it, if you don't believe me – he recorded it for LBC's James O'Brien. I'll copy the text below.
The other comedy legend who slammed Brexit this weekend is Stephen Fry.
He shared an 11-minute animated video on YouTube and Twitter, detailing "the story of how a mythical EU dragon was conjured up" and outlining the "myths" that were spread by the campaign to leave the EU.
These attacks on Mrs May and Brexit – both of which have gone viral, gaining huge popularity with the general public – are critically important at this time.
Today (December 3), Parliament will find out whether Mrs May can be bothered to honour a binding vote by MPs, demanding in the name of the Queen that she make available all legal advice given to her on her Brexit plan.
On @RidgeonSunday I warned the Government that it is heading for deep water if it doesn't publish the full legal advice on the Prime Minister's deal, as ordered by Parliament. #Ridge pic.twitter.com/q1eGkkKd8C
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) December 2, 2018
When a Cabinet source is in the Sunday Times saying "the legal advice is very bad which is why they don't want anyone to see it", the govt position on not publishing is pretty obviously untenable. https://t.co/Ko0gDSk5qU
— Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) December 1, 2018
Failure to provide the information will trigger proceedings against Mrs May and her government for contempt of Parliament, which used to be a serious matter but may now be worth very little.
More importantly: If she refuses, we will take this as tacit admission that the advice suggests her plan is not only bad, but disastrous.
That may be vital in swaying MPs to vote against it in the "meaningful vote" on the Brexit plan, to take place next week (December 11? 12? Thereabouts).
The information provided here by Messrs Harding and Fry could be instrumental in helping swing MPs against Mrs May's plan – if you, as constituents, send it to your MPs in support of your own call for them to vote it down (assuming that this is what you want. If you support the plan, you'll have to find your own supporting information. Good luck with that).
If the plan is voted down – and some commentators are suggesting that Mrs May could lose by a margin of as many as 400 votes – then Labour will demand a vote of "no confidence" in the government.
Glad we've confirmed we will be calling for a vote of #NoConfidence in Theresa May when her withdrawal agreement fails to get through the house. No, I can't see us having the numbers, but who'd imagine an extra from Home Alone 2 somehow become the leader of the 'free world'?
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 2, 2018
It seems the Conservative government is exerting pressure on its local party memberships to demand that MPs support the plan:
I am told by Tory MPs that full force of Conservative Party machine is being mobilised to put pressure on party associations and their respective chairs to put maximum pressure on their respective MPs to back @theresa_may and her Brexit deal. How many rebel Tory MPs will buckle?
— Robert Peston (@Peston) December 1, 2018
Ultimately, it may be a matter of reminding all our Parliamentarians that their behaviour will be a matter for discussion by future historians. The names of all those who take part in these crucial votes will be recorded – and may be vilified if the decision they take proves to be as disastrous as Messrs Harding and Fry suggest.
Does any MP – even the most spineless of the party faithful – want to be remembered as a toady who brought ruin down on the country?
I suppose we'll find out in the very near future. We'll have the names of all such representatives – if that's the right word for them – before Christmas.
I don't think there will be many, though. I think the arguments against the plan are persuasive, and that MPs will accept the need for a change of government rather than risking everything for the weakest and worst prime minister in living memory.
It would be ironic if a couple of comedians were responsible for swaying such a serious matter – but it would also be quintessentially British. Let's make it so.
Here's the text of Mr Harding's letter – from the LBC website:
"Dear Mrs May,
"I am in France having a break having come here on the train all the way from Settle. I just read your letter to me and the rest of Britain wanting us all to unite behind the damp squib you call a deal. Unite? I laughed so much the mouthful of frogs legs I was eating ended up dancing all over the bald head of the bloke on the opposite table.
"Your party's little civil war has divided this country irreparably. The last time this happened Cromwell discontinued the custom of kings wearing their heads on their shoulders.
"I had a mother who was of Irish descent, an English father who lies in a Dutch graveyard in the village where his Lancaster bomber fell in flames. I had a Polish stepfather who drove a tank for us in WW2 and I have two half Polish sisters and a half Polish brother who is married to a girl from Donegal.
"My two uncles of Irish descent fought for Britain in N Africa and in Burma.
"So far you have called us Citizens Of Nowhere and Queue Jumpers. You have now taken away our children and grandchildren's freedom to travel, settle, live and work in mainland Europe.
"You have made this country a vicious and much diminished place. You as Home Sec sent a van round telling foreigners to go home. You said " illegal" but that was bollocks as the legally here people of the Windrush generation soon discovered.
"Your party has sold off our railways, water, electricity, gas, telecoms, Royal Mail etc until all we have left is the NHS and that is lined up for the US to have as soon as Hannon and Hunt can arrange it.
"You have lied to the people of this country. You voted Remain yet changed your tune when the chance to grab the job of PM came. You should have sacked those lying bastards Gove and Bojo but daren't because you haven't the actual power.
"You have no answer to the British border on the island of Ireland nor do you know how the Gib border with Spain will work once we are out.
"Mrs May you have helped to divide this country to such an extent that families and friends are now no longer talking to each other, you have managed to negotiate a deal far worse than the one we had and all to keep together a party of millionaires, Eton Bullingdon boys, spivs and WI harridans. Your party conserves nothing. It has sold everything off in the name of the free market.
"You could have kept our industries going with investment and development – Germany managed it. But no – The Free Market won so Sunderland, Barnsley, Hamilton etc could all go to the devil.
"So Mrs May my answer to your plea for unity is firstly that it is ridiculous.
"48% of us will never forgive you for Brexit and secondly, of the 52% that voted for it many will not forgive you for not giving them what your lying comrades like Rees Mogg and Fox promised them.
"There are no unicorns, there is no £350 million extra for the NHS. The economy will tank and there will be less taxes to help out the poor. We have 350,000 homeless (not rough sleepers – homeless) in one of the richest countries on Earth and you are about to increase that number with your damn fool Brexit.
"The bald man has wiped the frogs legs of his head, I've bought him a glass of wine to say sorry; I'm typing this with one finger on my phone in France and I'm tired now and want to stop before my finger gets too tired to join the other one in a sailors salute to you and your squalid Brexit, your shabby xenophobia and Little Englander mentality.
"Two fingers to you and your unity from this proud citizen of nowhere. I and roughly half the country will never forgive you or your party.
"Mike Harding."
This entry was posted in Brexit, Democracy, Media, People, Politics, Social Media and tagged 'No', Brexit, clip, confidence, legal advice, letter, meaningful, Mike Harding, Mike Sivier, Stephen Fry, Theresa May, video, vote, Vox Political on December 3, 2018 by Mike Sivier.