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Britain’s Leftist Government Blocks Law Outlawing Cousin Marriages in Effort to Appease Muslim Voters

Britain’s left-wing government has blocked a law seeking to outlaw first-cousin marriages.

As pressure grows on Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his government’s refusal to fully investigate the grooming gangs scandal in which mainly Pakistani men were allowed to groom young white girls, the Labour Party is seeking to shore up ties with their Islamic voting base.

Conservative MP Richard Holden, who proposed the legislation, wrote on the X platform that Labour has blocked any further advancement of his 1st Cousin Marriages Bill, which would outlaw marriages between first cousins that are common within Muslim communities.

Holden explained:

The Government today blocked any further consideration of the prohibition of 1st Cousin Marriages Bill.

They could have let it progress to committee stage when all the details could be thrashed out but they blocked it Labour will block it progressing on the 25th too and whenever I try and bring it back.

It’s sad because it was a Labour MP, Ann Cryer, who raised this issue 20 years ago and was shouted down then.

People will get off on calling me names but I grew up in the Pennine mill towns and I don’t want to see the children of the kids I grew up amongst going through this for another generation.

Thank you to the brave people who’ve reached out to me who are part of the communities where this is prevalent and who hate to see certain elements of the establishment continue to enable terrible practices for – at best – fear of causing offence or thinking it’s better to sweep issues under the carpet – or worse, because when the chips are down they simply don’t care, see it as a way of harvesting votes from gatekeepers, or have some screwed up views regarding cultural relativism.

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The Climate and Nature Bill will destroy the UK economy and end private property

The Climate and Nature Bill has its second reading in Parliament on 24 January 2025. If it becomes law, it will bring in compulsory re-wilding of more than 30% of the UK and place controls on travel and consumption.

“You may think that all the bills that have gone through Parliament already in the last six months have been disastrous and have been an attack on our way of life our culture and our economy. But there’s something else coming up which is as bad or even worse as everything that has gone before. And this is something called the Climate and Nature Bill,” David Kurten said.

“It will destroy the economy, essentially, and it will give the Government powers over your private property …  Because of [something to do with] the climate or … nature then the government can essentially take your property,” he warned.  “Because everything that happens in the country will have to be beholden to the targets in this Climate and Nature Bill.”

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Trans activist convicted for torture, attempted murder removed as UK Women’s March speaker after backlash

The UK Women’s March (UKWM) has removed a transgender-identifying male speaker, Sarah Jane Baker, from its lineup after organizers were informed of Baker’s criminal history.

The march, held in London on Saturday, was intended for “anyone who is an ally of women and believes in women’s rights” to march for gender equality. Marches were held in other cities across the country to “focus on advocating for women’s rights” in response to US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

When Baker was first announced to be speaking at the event, there was immediate backlash. Baker has served time in prison for kidnapping and torturing the 19-year-old brother of Baker’s stepmother. Additionally, the convict was handed a life sentence for attempted murder of a fellow inmate and served 30 years in 29 different male prisons.

The event’s organizers claimed they were unaware of the criminal past when they invited Baker to participate.

“There has been a lot of social media traffic about Sarah Jane Baker speaking at the UK Women’s March in London tomorrow,” the organizers said in a statement, according to The Telegraph. “We would like to clarify that after being made aware of Sarah’s criminal background in interpersonal abuse, UKWM and Sarah have mutually agreed that she will stand down as a speaker at the event.

“She will not be speaking at any UK Women’s March events tomorrow,” the statement added. “We want to reaffirm our steadfast commitment to standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, and this decision has been in no way affected by anything other than our stance against abuse, exploitation and violence.”

“This decision was not made lightly, but the safety and well-being of our organisers and participants must always take precedence,” the statement concluded. “We are profoundly grateful to everyone who has offered their support.”

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Keir Starmer’s Support for the Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies

There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line.

Starmer: After months of devastating bloodshed and countless lives lost, this is the long-overdue news that the Israeli and Palestinian people have desperately been waiting for. They have borne the brunt of this conflict – triggered by the brutal terrorists of Hamas, who committed the deadliest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust on October 7th, 2023.

Under no reasonable definition can the last 15 months be described as a “conflict”. The slaughter and maiming of hundreds of thousands of civilians, as well as Israel’s program to starve the rest of the population, should rightly be understood as a genocide, one the International Court of Justice began investigating a year ago, and one that has been attested to by every major international human rights group, as well as a growing number of Holocaust scholars.

Starmer does at least hint at the truth in conceding that the ceasefire is “long overdue”. The genocide in Gaza could have been brought to an end at any point by US pressure. Indeed, the outlines of the current ceasefire were advanced by the Biden administration back in May. It was Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu who blocked progress. Israel’s western patrons, including Starmer, rewarded him with weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover. If the ceasefire is “overdue”, Starmer is fully responsible for that delay.

Further, the “conflict” wasn’t “triggered” by Hamas’ attack of October 7, as Starmer claims. The “conflict” has been going on for more than three-quarters of a century, triggered by Israel’s continuous efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland, with western backing, in an explicitly colonial project. Israel wants us to believe the “conflict” clock started ticking on October 7. Only the ignorant, and contemptible politicians like Starmer, repeat that lie.

The killings on October 7 2023 weren’t “the deadliest massacre of Jewish people” since the Holocaust. That’s another cynical Israeli talking point repeated by Starmer whose sole purpose is to rationalise Israel’s genocide. The “deadliest massacre” for Jews since the Holocaust was, in fact, committed by the Argentinian junta, which disappeared and murdered thousands of Jews in the late 1970s. And unlike Hamas, whose victims were killed not because they were Jews but because they were Israelis and viewed as members of an oppressor nation, Argentina’s generals killed Jews specifically for being Jewish. Nonetheless, that massacre – inconvenient to the West – has been carefully memory-holed, including by Starmer.

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An independent energy expert explains how the UK’s “Net Zero” strategy will result in blackouts by 2030 – how the solution is nuclear and how natural gas could have reduced bills for decades

The UK plan is to shut down natural gas and so remove the back up to intermittent “renewables”.

Gas and nuclear rely on turbines rotating at 3,000 rpm to produce 50 cycles – renewables produce direct current – requiring an adjustment to convert to the alternating current used by the grid.

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Gas powered electricity accounts for at leas 50% at all times. The Marxist lunatics want to turn it off by 2030.

Here is a 47-minute video:

Will blackouts come to Britain?

On 8 January 2025, wind provided just 2.5 GW (out of the claimed 17 GW) and imports of electricity from overseas interconnectors could only provide 5.7 GW – demand was for 47 GW.

Loss of load probability was 29% – it is usually zero – meaning power blackouts were possible.

NESO = National Energy System Operator – a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation – QANGO – formed when the Marxist Labour government bought out the grid assets from National Grid plc – with taxpayers money a few months ago.

Demark had to defer maintenance in order to supply 700 MW (not GW) from Demark – thy dd the UK a favour – the Danes were under no compulsion to send the electricity over.

All about “where did the reserves come from and how much back-up is available?”

Prices on 8 January 2025 reached £5,500 per MW – normally 120-150 per MW – a power company made a few million pounds in a few hours – why would not ALL power companies take advantage of the price?

Don’t forget, the flip side, if the power from wind turbines is not needed, “curtailment fees” are paid to the wind turbine operator – for NOT producing energy!

The YouTube write-up says this:

“Did the UK only narrowly avoid a blackout last week? Freddie Sayers is joined by energy analyst Kathryn Porter to break down the National Grid numbers and find out how Net Zero might cause blackouts by 2030.”

The solution is to get KEPCO (South Korean Electricity Company) to build 8 nuclear power stations in the UK over the next decade and let everyone make out like bandits!

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UK Doctors Group That Pushed COVID Shots for Teens Hid Payments From Pfizer

The U.K.’s Royal College of General Practitioners (GP) failed to declare payments it received from Pfizer while it was advocating that children be given the COVID-19 vaccine, The Telegraph reported last week.

The Royal College of GPs, which represents 54,000 GPs, is the U.K.’s professional body for general medical practitioners, similar to the American Medical Association in the U.S.

In 2021, Pfizer gave the organization 102,820 British pounds ($125,558 USD at current exchange rates) through “donations and grants” and “benefits in kind.” That was more than double the 49,324 pounds ($60,232) Pfizer gave the organization in 2020, up from only 4,309 pounds ($5,262) in 2019.

In September 2021, the U.K.’s chief medical officers, the highest-ranking government public health advisers, asked parents to vaccinate their children to keep schools open, according to The Telegraph.

They issued that advice even though the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises the government on vaccination, opted not to recommend universal vaccination for 12- to 15-year-olds. The JCVI said the benefits of vaccination for that age group were only “marginally greater than the potential known harms.”

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London Council Admits It Will Discriminate Against White People In Job Advert

Westminster City council in London has advertised a job opportunity and admitted that while it is open to everyone, white British people will not be favoured over people from a “Global Majority (GM)” background.

The position, which has a starting salary of £54,684, is for an “Executive Assistant.” 

The ad states “The council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.”

That’s a lot of words to say ‘A DEI hire is preferable.’

It continues, “We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities (formally known as Bame, Black, Asian and Multiple ethnic) background.”

The listing then admits that white people shouldn’t expect to be selected if they’re up against candidates from such backgrounds.

“Whilst the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit,” the ad asserts.

“Positive action.” 

Let that sink in.

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Privatization (When It’s Not)

For the first time in Royal Mail’s long history, stretching back to the 1500s, its owner will be based overseas. Daniel Kretinsky, a Czech billionaire, has acquired ownership over Royal Mail after a £3.6bn takeover. Royal Mail has been performing badly for years now after it was “privatized” in 2013. The company has suffered heavy financial losses as mountains of customers complain that they do not regularly receive letters like important medical documents or crucial legal documents on time.

Onlookers and stakeholders can see with sublime clarity that the company is headed towards dire straits unless major change is gambled on. Individuals inclined towards the socialist worldview blame privatization, but their cause benefits from the public not wishing to dig a bit deeper to understand Royal Mail’s situation; this market is not what it seems.

For most, privatization conjures an image of fat, avaricious capitalists grabbing companies, obtaining full and unopposed control of all their resources, grinding every penny from them before moving on to the next victim. It is a picture that aids statists who seek to take control of the private economy for “the people’s” benefit. Actual details scupper much of this picture.

The government has retained what they are calling a “Golden Share.” This gives them critical veto power over decisions like relocating the headquarters outside of the United Kingdom, changing the tax residency to abroad, and the Universal Service Obligation. The Universal Service Obligation is a legal obligation to guarantee the delivery of letters and parcels six days a week across the United Kingdom at a uniform price. Included in the deal were provisions to safeguard existing employee rights like pay, working conditions, and pensions. The dog is still on a leash, and yet they would have you believe it frolics freely.

A nationalistic sentiment infests this deal as the government seeks to ensure the public that Britain will be maintaining British heritage within this widely appreciated “public good.” This translates into the government leveraging a huge say in key decisions of the company. Since most statists believe the government reflects the people, the government effectively owning the company equates to the people owning it. There is no coherent idea of ownership based on this idea and it is one of many reasons why it is more than probable that the new owners will not be able to work the miracle that the government claims.

The government’s deal with Kretinsky effectively imposes a strait jacket on the company’s owners. The government’s expectation is that the new owners will be able to rearrange resources, change how Royal Mail operates, and work some fancy business voodoo so the government can claim a political victory for the work of others. This is an utter fantasy. A normal company making significant losses akin to Royal Mail would have to fundamentally change the way it operates, but the deal takes away so much flexibility for the new owner to right the ship. Prices in a market are signals. On a basic level, the huge financial losses incurred are a signal to the owners that some of their resources are being badly misallocated. Prices and double-entry bookkeeping show where the misallocation is, but the deal renders these signals almost useless.

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Climate and Nature Bill is the UK’s version of the UN’s Agenda 2030

On yesterday’s episode of Trending, Gareth Icke and Richard Willet dive into the UK Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill, currently sneaking its way through Parliament without scrutiny.

Very much like the WHO Pandemic Treaty, the CAN Bill would give unelected bodies sweeping powers to take over land, prevent travel, and control meat consumption, among other draconian powers, in the event of a “climate emergency.”

Icke and Willet also discussed the Los Angeles wildfires and the possible connection to the LA Smart City 2028 agenda, the BBC’s climate change propaganda, including the vilification of family pets as a cause for climate change, and the UK’s release of a new two pound coin to commemorate the life of 1984 author George Orwell. The coin features the Big Brother eye.

In the following, we focus on Trending’s discussion of the CAN Bill.

The Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill has largely gone under the radar. It was reintroduced in the UK House of Commons by Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage on 16 October 2024 and has its second reading scheduled in 9 days, on 24 January.

“The reason it’s gone under the radar is they don’t want any scrutiny of it. The reason they don’t want scrutiny of it is because it ain’t going to be very good for us,” Icke said.

The Bill is a rebadged version of the UN Agenda 2030. The Bill includes provisions for forced rewilding, which is another way of saying that the government will grant itself powers to seize land from farmers and others if they do not meet sustainable goals.

It also includes retrofitting of homes, which would require homeowners to make changes such as installing insulation, heat pumps or solar panels at their own expense.

Of course, the rules which allow the government to grab land and property or require homeowners to make changes to their homes are made by a select few using arbitrary arguments and can change at a whim.

The Bill aims to ban fossil fuels, which would lead to pressure on the energy supply and drive up prices, making energy unaffordable for some people.

The government would have control over various aspects of people’s lives, including energy use, food consumption, travel and what can be fitted or not fitted in their homes, with smart meters playing a role.

“They’ll be able to order you not to travel, not to leave certain areas, not to fly …  they’ll be able to control food consumption what you’re allowed to [eat] … What will also tie into this is what you say,” Icke said. “Another thing that’s on there is energy use, so they can control how much energy you use.”

“It should also be pointed out,” said Willet, “This will all be monitored on your digital ID system.  So all of this data will be collated on a digital ID system.”

Usually, a bill has two or three sponsors.  The CAN Bill has over 200 sponsors in Parliament, indicating strong support for it to pass in Parliament. 

The acronym “CAN” could easily be a psychological trick, so the public views the Bill with a positive connotation, even though in reality it is sinister.

The justification for the CAN Bill is to address climate change, but the reality is it gives the government power to declare emergencies, and then implement policies and control people’s behaviour in response to that emergency without public input.

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Far Left UK Government Proposes BANNING “Controversial” Conversations

The leftist Labour government in Britain has proposed radical reforms to the rights of workers that could include classing ‘sensitive’ topics of conversation in the workplace such as religion, women’s rights, or transgenderism as ‘harassment’.

The proposed legislation would force employers to prevent workers from being subjected to such subjects by third parties, such as customers. 

If they are found to have failed to do so, they could face lawsuits under the legislation.

Watchdog The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned that if it comes into the force next year, the proposed law could significantly impact freedom of expression and even be applied to “overheard conversations” such as those between two or more people in a pub.

The EHRC has noted that applying the harassment law in cases involving a “philosophical belief” could lead to problems owing to the fact that many employers do not understand such topics are protected by equality law.

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