Keir Starmer today vowed to undertake ‘unconscious bias training’ for racism saying he is determined to ‘lead by example’.
The Labour leader revealed that all party staff will be offered the training as he insisted he does not regret ‘taking the knee’ in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests.
This idiot thinks that the alligator won’t eat him, but it will, it’s just saving him for dessert.
Still at least there are people around who have a spine.
Ferrari’s Monegasque driver Charles LeClerc, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen from the Netherlands and 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen of Finland, were among those who refused to take a knee, moments before the season opening Austrian Grand Prix.
We need to see more of this refusal to capitulate to the mob.
Just trying to compensate for backtracking on his support for blm. Problem comes when employers ‘offer’ unconscious bias training to their workforce, woe betide those who don’t take it up.
Weatherspoons Field Report.
Went for breakfast at a smaller Spoons today 8.15am, In the IN entrance, Keep Left to the bar, screens round the tills, no masks anywhere.
“Large breakfast, pay by card please”.
Out the OUT entrance for a smoke, back in the IN entrance, had breakfast (‘food alright Sir ?’ still irritates) and leave. WOT no Track’n’Trace Register ! So fairly normal actually.
That’s actually a good indicator. I was out and about yesterday and no one seemed to be playing the game.
Equally encouraging was a conversation with a hotel worker who spoke of 75% occupancy on Saturday, mostly visiting family and young couples just getting a change of scene. Also quite a few single occupancy bookings this week which indicates business/IT people back on the move.
A guy called Martin commenting over at Tim Worstall’s place below a piece about drunk people not doing social distancing very well:
“Really don’t want to inherit money by losing 24 members of my family. Have had them isolating since January, all still safe for now. Despite government.
I’ve not seen any of them in 10 months, probably won’t see them except through a window for a couple of years or more.”
He seems to be living like a frightened mouse, terrified that he, or everyone he knows is going to be taken out by the bug. No clue about actual risk or how it compares with the risk of getting zapped by something else.
The answer to his idiocy is “protests” after all there should have been a second wave by now.
Yes, and people going to the beach and getting back to work, bars, restaurants and hairdressers re-opening. There doesn’t seem to be any effect on the numbers of new cases, down to 516 as of yesterday.
Waiting for the Second Wave will become the new Tuvalu sinking beneath the waves.
A resurgence in winter will not be The Second Wave, rather proof that Covid is just another seasonal flu variant
I fully expect it to return in the winter, but with less virulence.
I see that Timmy has not taken too kindly to our responses. Oh, well, his gaff and all that. I make no apology though. Martin was being a dick (whatever his personal circumstances and exposure to risk) and got the kind of contemptuous response his comment deserved. I stand by every word. My tolerance to this nonsense long since ran out.
What concerned me about ‘Martin’ was that however justified his concern given his personal health problems it also appeared to apply to his whole family. Do they also share his paranoia, has he projected it onto them? Or is it to be inferred that the health problem is hereditary? In which case why have five children?
As to tolerance of this nonsense I agree. The only was to counter it is to be less tolerant, avoid shops that have more than a token adherence to guidelines. If other people take it seriously they can more out of my way.
Quite so. As I mentioned in my response, cold air is dealt with by the nasal cavities. Wearing a mask doesn’t warm it. Also, whatever his circumstances, his exposure to risk is still small and the rest of us are not obliged to buy into his paranoia. My response may have been terse, but it was justified.
UtbB said < Woe betide>. I’m SURE, that Sir Keir Starmer would NOT wish to be accused of “racism” – and will ensure that ALL party staff (are equally encouraged to) accept his offer. I look forward to his publication of the success-rate.
And i won’t be taking the knee either !
I always think that Starmer looks like he’s his own caricature as drawn by Steve Bell. He behaves that way too.
The cynic in me found the behaviour of the F1 kneelers rather amusing… They’ve obviously not done much “research” on BLM, otherwise why would a group of massively-privileged multi-millionaires be paying obeisance to a marxist organisation whose avowed aim is to smash capitalism and all the trapping of privilege attached to it.
As with the footballers.
I’ve often thought that a great ability at a particular sport or other pointless physical activity is borderline idiot-savant in a lot of cases
I would rather watch “citizen khan” (if you’ve never heard of it please don’t look it up. Some things just can’t be unseen) on continuous loop than football, F1, your de france, olympics etc etc.
Bending the knee to a puddle of rancid marxist swill. Somebody told them this was smart, which sort of says it all.
“Taking the knee” annoys me. Not just because it’s showing respect to a violent criminal but because I learnt the correct term for it when I was very young, probably before I started school. The correct term is genuflection. Catholics do it to show respect to God. I stopped doing it when I realised that there is no God. I don’t intend to start again at my time of life.
Likewise.