→ Will the real George Galloway please stand up?
A patriot on the streets, a raging anti-Zionist in the sheets. Following George Galloway’s shock Rochdale by-election win, a tweet has gone viral purporting to show two entirely distinct letters from the erstwhile Workers Party of Britain candidate.
One letter, for white households, looks as though it was airlifted straight out of the Tory manifesto. Centring on wooly themes of Britishness, family, and the importance of law and order, the letter reads: “I believe in peaceful change. I will fight for more and smarter policing. And I will expose any cover-up of crime”.
GEORGE GALLOWAY HAS DIFFERENT CAMPAIGN LETTERS FOR WHITE AND MUSLIM HOUSEHOLDS IN ROCHDALE pic.twitter.com/swSsfQxf2t
— saad ⸆⸉ (@crowndefensx) February 29, 2024
But in a letter purportedly for Muslim households, the tone is rather different: “A‘Salaam o Aleukum. The last 130 days have shocked the ummah to its core. The killing of thousands of our brothers and sisters in Gaza is a war crime, and Israel must be held to account”. Will the real George Galloway please stand up?
→ Covid celebrity despairs at termination of ‘5 day rule’
Better late than never? Four years on from the start of the Covid pandemic, the CDC has finally dropped its five-day isolation rule. It now advises US citizens to treat Covid as they would the flu or other respiratory illnesses. In other words, go and live your lives.
Unfortunately, the news proved a little too much for some. Covidian-in-chief Eric Feigl-Ding declared that he was “devastated” by the announcement, describing it as “complete bullshit crafted on thin flimsy data.” Drawing a bizarre analogy with condoms, he proceeded to call on his nearly 800,000 subscribers to pick up the phone and lobby the CDC to change course. Perhaps Dr Feigl-Ding should spend some time away from his computer and go outside. Vitamin D provides excellent protection against Covid.
→ A 14-year-old Canadian walks into a gender clinic…
What real reporting looks like: @iciradiocanada investigative team sends a 14-yr-old actress to a Quebec clinic. She claimed she was trans & got a testosterone prescription in 10 minutes. (This is the French arm of CBC. English CBC wouldn’t dare run this)
https://t.co/M0eS2fUOyv— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) March 1, 2024
Not only is Canada home to the world’s most permissive euthanasia regime, that title may stretch to gender too. A new investigation by Radio Canada, branch of Canada’s state broadcaster, the CBC, details a shocking account of how little scrutiny young people face before transitioning. Radio Canada explains how it sent a 14-year-old actress to a Quebec clinic where she told doctors that she was trans. Within 10 minutes, she was able to secure a testosterone prescription.
Will this report lead to any changes in the industry? Don’t hold your breath, warns Quilette’s Jonathan Kay. The fact that this investigation came out of the French-speaking arm of the CBC and not the English-speaking counterpart is telling enough. “English CBC wouldn’t dare run this,” he tweeted. Would the BBC?
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SubscribePity the Conservatives never adopted the sort of policies set out in the leaflet for white households. It’s very strange…why are the Muslims of Rochdale not interested in reopening Rochdale Infirmary and reviving the town centre? Why would they be preoccupied about a place they’ve never been to, thousands of miles away, when they are living in a town with lots of its own issues? What did Hamas ever do for them?
What do you mean, reviving the town centre? Have you visited the completely transformed and thriving centre? It’s had shedloads of money thrown at it, including new bars, restaurants, shops and other leisure facilities, river opening and town hall revamp. Don’t fall for the media negativity. The town has its problems but people making false conjectures about it doesn’t help.
Well apparently the town centre can’t attract Primark, which isn’t a great sign. If the town was in rude economic health, I’m not sure the mainstream parties would have been flattened in the by-election in the way they were. The point is the Galloway leaflet targeted at white households focussed on local bread and butter issues. The leaflet distributed to Muslim households ignored these altogether, confident that local issues were of no interest to Muslims, no matter how long they had been resident in the area. Strange.
Holy crap!! I can’t believe the CBC spearheaded the investigative report. Who said nothing good comes out of Quebec.
Not me. A lot of good things have had their origin in that province. Radio-Canada certainly does not tow the federal government party line, and what’s politically incorrect in English Canada may not be so in French Canada. Good for them for practicing old school investigative journalism.
Agreed. I was mostly being an ahole.
Yet the “gender affirming care” advocates insist that each child gets thoroughly vetted so are all “truly trans”. I call bs.