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There are. They are quietly going about, giving their time in thier communities to those less fortunate than themselves, or just to make others lives more pleasant such as running community halls, social groups, youth clubs or just litter picking. Those are the patriots.

There is this parallel world in Britain where profoundly damaged individuals like Allison Pearson actually get rewarded for saying divisive, misleading, bigoted and utterly grotesque hate. At 9:46pm on 1 September, Pearson quote-tweeted a Sky News report: a baby girl found dead at a Holywell Heights address had died of stab wounds, seven people arrested on suspicion of murder, aged 15 to 38. The full article is a model of restraint. It gives an address, an age range, a cause of death, confirmation that two of the seven had already been bailed, and a statement from Detective Chief Inspector Tom Woodward speaking only of the investigation's difficulty and the force's commitment to "secure justice for her." No names, no charges, no motive, no community, no culture, nothing that could remotely support a claim about who these people are or why this happened. Pearson filled that vacuum instantly and completely. "Do you get the impression there is this parallel world in Britain where forced child marriage and other monstrosities take place? The offenders clearly feel above the law and are allowed to operate according to what Andy Burnham calls 'other norms'." She closed by mourning the "high-trust society" of her youth, now supposedly "finished." None of that came from the article she was quote-tweeting. It isn't an inference stretched from the available facts; there were no facts in the piece capable of producing it. It came from a disgusting pre-loaded script, dropped onto a story that supplied nothing but an address and an age range. Pearson's "other norms" phrase is a compressed and sharpened version of a real Andy Burnham quote, but from a completely unrelated context. Defending government leaflets that explain UK law to new arrivals, Burnham said such arrivals may have "different norms to us." He was talking about migrants and the reasoning behind an orientation leaflet on things like women's legal equality and public conduct. That remark has been circulating online for about a week, repeatedly rewritten by critics into the claim that Burnham thinks migrants' "norms include rape." Pearson's tweet borrows that already-distorted version and welds it, wholesale, onto an unrelated stabbing case. (Btw, it’s also worth noting this is not a novel category of document, nor one reserved solely for migrants/asylum seekers: in November 2025, the UK MoD introduced mandatory training for all British soldiers on consent, misogyny and Incel culture). The next day, the CPS announced charges against four adults and a 15-year-old: Andrea Skopova, Peter Horvath Jnr, Peter Horvath Snr and Nina Horvathova, charged with murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, and perverting the course of justice; the 15-year-old girl charged with perverting the course of justice. The names point to a Central/Eastern European, possibly Slovak/Hungarian/Czech, a community with no connection to Burnham's leaflet comments, to forced marriage, or to the migration/asylum framing Pearson's "parallel world" language invokes. There is nothing in the charging announcement about custom, religion, or "other norms" of any kind, only a horrific individual crime now before the courts. It's the same move seen repeatedly in coverage of breaking crime stories: an evidence vacuum gets filled immediately with a racialised script, the script is treated as if it were the finding, and when the actual facts arrive they are simply ignored because the narrative has already done its work. Pearson didn't wait for who was charged. She didn't need to. Until shameless damaged ghouls like her stop being incentivised to post grotesque, divisive, bigoted bullshit, they'll just keep doing it.

Typical Reform preaching again ..

Yet another domestic abuser @essexpr is friends with. Yet another domestic abuser @essexpr is silent about whilst he blames brown people for sex offences. This is more than just a coincidence now, Adam.

I’m glad you mention that because you can get massive discounts on the petrol powered Audi A6 Avant, like this pre-registered Sport version with £20k off! But there’s no rush because it’s been sat unsold since March because no one wants one, apparently. autotrader.co.uk/car-details…

As the Nissan Exec who brought the Nissan LEAF to the U.K., weakening the U.K. ZEV mandate would be a profound mistake @Heidi_Labour . It will be presented as “pragmatism”: protecting consumers and manufacturers from weak EV demand. But it will achieve precisely the opposite — higher costs, less innovation, greater oil dependence and a weaker British car industry. Start with cost of living. Yes, EVs remain too expensive to buy in many segments. That is the problem we should fix. Once bought, they are considerably cheaper to run. HMRC’s benchmark for home charging is around 7p/mile. A petrol car doing 40mpg at £1.50/litre costs about 17p/mile — roughly £1,000 more over 10,000 miles. Why slow the transition to the cheaper-to-run technology? The problem is purchase price — and demand is price elastic. Put an EV beside an equivalent ICE car with a £5,000 premium and of course demand suffers. Close the gap and demand rises. The mandate creates pressure to achieve the scale, competition and battery cost reductions needed to close that gap. Then there’s the claim that the mandate is crippling manufacturers. Show us the evidence. The ZEV mandate deliberately includes banking, borrowing and credit trading. Manufacturers have met their obligations within these flexibilities in all years and likely in 2026. If OEMs say this is costing billions, publish the TPVA data. Show actual transaction prices, not list prices. Show the real incentives on BEV versus ICE. Show the contribution margins. Demonstrate that incentives really are higher and profits lower on EVs. Industrial policy involving billions of pounds of investment shouldn’t be rewritten on anecdotes. And then there’s China. You don’t protect an industry from technological change by protecting yesterday’s technology. China became formidable by investing relentlessly in batteries, motors, power electronics, software and manufacturing scale. Weakening our mandate doesn’t keep Chinese manufacturers out. It risks giving them more time to increase their cost and technology advantage while we continue investing in two powertrains. Consumers will ultimately buy the best technology at the best price. British and European manufacturers must compete, not retreat. Recent events around Iran add another dimension: energy security. Around 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz. A crisis thousands of miles away can therefore increase the cost of driving in Britain. An EV can run on electricity generated from wind, solar, nuclear, gas or hydro. Electrification gives transport something oil never can: energy diversity. And climate change hasn’t disappeared because the politics have become difficult. Transport remains one of Britain’s largest sources of CO₂. The physics hasn’t changed. Finally, consider investment. Automotive product decisions are made five or ten years ahead. Factories and battery plants require billions in capital. Constantly changing policy tells international boards considering Britain: the rules might change again. Fix expensive public charging. Accelerate infrastructure. Bring EV purchase prices down. And if manufacturers can prove the mandate is damaging them, examine the evidence. Don’t mistake difficulty executing a transition for evidence that it’s wrong. If the problem is affordability, make EVs cheaper. If it’s manufacturer profitability, show the data. If it’s China, compete. If it’s energy security, reduce oil dependence. If it’s climate change, decarbonise. Britain will not protect its car industry by slowing technological change. We protect it by making sure British engineers, factories and suppliers lead it. If we slow down while China speeds up, don’t be surprised by who wins. @Heidi_Labour changing the mandate doesn’t makes investment in the U.K. car industry more likely - it makes foreign owned Boards further distrust U.K. policy makers and their reliability

He won’t answer. Meanwhile AutoTrader report should discounts on Petrol is higher than EV. Source cited below. Petrol discounts reached 11.7%, overtaking electric for the first time. plc.autotrader.co.uk/media/f…