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Jenna Ortega off Scream films after co-star targeted for Israel/Gaza views

Jenna Ortega: she’s off the Scream films, but is it really because of a ‘scheduling conflict’ with Wednesday, or because her co-star was fired for pro-Palestine views?

It isn’t just a UK phenomenon, you see.

After Gary Lineker was attacked by pro-Israel social media users for supporting a well-argued claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, it seems Hollywood stars are also being targeted.

Melissa Barrera, a star of the Scream film franchise, was reportedly fired for making pro-Palestine comments and will not appear in the seventh instalment.

It seems that Jenna Ortega, who is currently riding a wave of popularity over her TV show Wednesday – and who also has pro-Palestine views, then quit the series in solidarity with her co-star.

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Alternative reports claim that she dropped out because of a scheduling clash with Wednesday.

Members of the public have been left to make up their own minds:

Also targeted was Hollywood royalty Susan Sarandon – but this is more complicated.

She said Jews in the USA were getting “a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence”.

In response, activists compared her with the Nazis and her talent company, UTA, dropped her:

Let’s listen to some of the other things she has been saying:

It seems possible that she may have misspoken in her other comment; perhaps she was not in possession of the correct statistical information. No doubt we’ll find out.

In the meantime:

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Did Green Party ‘hit list’ of MPs who didn’t vote for Gaza ceasefire really endanger them?

Keir Starmer: he says he’s afraid for the future of his family after he supported the continued slaughter of Palestinian families by the Israeli war machine.

The Green Party has come under fire – particularly from Labour – for publishing what some are calling a “hit list” of MPs who did not support calls for a ceasefire in Gaza at a Parliamentary vote last week.

Some MPs have been exposed to mass demonstrations outside their offices – and in some cases vandalisation of those buildings.

The victims – and others – have claimed that publication of their voting choice has endangered them.

But the way every MP votes in every Parliamentary decision is always available to the public. So why are they whining?

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MPs knew the vote was going to be contentious before they got anywhere near a voting lobby and were publishing their own commentaries on why they intended to oppose a ceasefire in advance of it.

Sadly, in many cases, their claims seem to have fallen short of the kind of understanding the public expects them to have:

After the vote, people were calling for heads to roll independently. Here’s comedian Francesca Martinez on Keir Starmer:

And here, Stats for Lefties calls out hypocrisy by a nonentity Labour frontbencher called Matt Western (who?):

But the Green Party ‘X’ post highlighting every MP who opposed a ceasefire attracted hate from the moment it appeared. Cllr John Haywood appears to make a good point:

The point seemed to be hammered home when this happened:

But then, consider this response to an MP’s employee:

Yes. Actions have consequences. A positive vote for a ceasefire could have led to more positive action that could, eventually, have put a stop to scenes like that which “Lady Blah Blah” highlighted. Employees of MPs who voted against that can’t really say they are working to improve people’s lives in such instances. Can they?

Labour leader Keir Starmer said he is not worried about his own safety but has concerns for that of his family – presumably as a result of this vote:

Of course, nobody should feel endangered as a result of a vote in Parliament. Equally, they need to remember that they are only in Parliament to enact the will of the people – and 76 per cent of the UK public (that’s more than three-quarters) want peace in Gaza.

If a member of Parliament votes against the will of their constituents – having been made fully aware of that will in advance of the vote – then they need to accept that there may be consequences. If those consequences are extreme, they may wish to implement defensive measures – especially if people cross the line into illegality.

This Writer is a journalist and has been for more than 30 years. In that time I have received threats of violence, death, “we know where you live”… the whole gamut. Mostly those have been nothing more than people letting off steam and nothing more came of them.

None of them stopped me from doing my job. But then, my job was always defending the vulnerable against powerful, vested interests. I was always in the right. Those who voted against a ceasefire cannot make the same claim.

Perhaps we should look for other reasons these MPs are complaining…

It seems likely, doesn’t it?

Is this the start of an attack on MPs’ accountability? If so, it must be opposed.

“People have a right to know how their MP votes in parliament. If these MPs do not like being held to account then they are in the wrong job.”

And here’s another thought:

Finally, the sound and fury over people who voted against a ceasefire has obscured the fact that people who voted for it have also been targeted:

Was this deliberate? Make a lot of noise about being victims so that other victims go unnoticed?

That would be utterly despicable.


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Tory NHS fail: they want to scrap most cancer treatment targets

Steve Barclay: if there is a problem with cancer in the English NHS, he is the tumour that needs to be removed.

How will Rishi Sunak be able to complain about the Welsh NHS now?

And is this just a shabby bid to boost private cancer treatments?

The Tory government reckons it is being advised by clinicians and cancer charities to scrap six out of nine treatment targets – but two such charities have objected to the plan, just in the BBC’s article announcing it!

The head of the Radiotherapy UK charity said she is “deeply worried”.

Pat Price, who is also an oncologist and visiting professor at Imperial College London, said… “the clear and simple truth is that we are not investing enough in cancer treatment capacity”.

Naser Turabi, Cancer Research UK’s director of evidence and implementation, said… “Despite the best efforts of NHS staff, it’s incredibly worrying that cancer waiting times in England are once again amongst the worst on record.”

He blamed the missed targets on “years of underinvestment” by the government and called for more cancer staff and a clear strategy.

“Without bold action, more people will miss out on lifesaving services,” he said.

We have seen recently that restrictions on NHS services – such as those that are likely to be imposed if treatment targets are scrapped – tend to “nudge”* people into taking private treatment, even if they can’t afford it.

Personally, This Writer thinks Barclay is simply putting more patients between a rock and a hard place: what difference is there between waiting for help that may not arrive in time and putting up with a private ‘specialist’ dancing around you, waving his beads and rattles?

*Remember the Tory “nudge unit” that was attached to 10 Downing Street under David Cameron before it was privatised, and recommended ways of… shall we say “persuading”?… people to do things they would not consider in the normal scheme of things? Clearly, making it impossible for patients to get life-saving treatment in time is a way of “persuading” people to fork out extra cash for private treatment that they would not otherwise have considered and should not need.


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How will Starmer impose targets on an increasingly-privatised NHS?

Keir Starmer in a hospital: his policies belong there – on life support.

This seems straightforward – but it isn’t:

Keir Starmer can’t “do the same thing” as the last Labour government because of the exponential increase in privatisation demanded by the Tories since 2010.

As prime minister, he would not have the ability to force private companies to do anything; they could simply tell him it’s their way or no way – threaten to leave him without vital health services that the Tories gave away to them over the years since 2010.

There is no regulator of health services in the UK – and even if there was, it could not enforce any arbitrary targets set by a UK government. Look at Ofwat’s record in getting the privatised water companies to do… well, anything!

Come to that, look at the current, Tory, government’s failure to get any results from private health firms, despite having paid them huge amounts of money.

Starmer must know this, if he has paid any attention to what has been going on with privatised utilities and services in the UK.

So when he says he’ll introduce targets for the health service, he’s either stupid, or lying. Or so it seems to me.


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Does Therese Coffey really know nothing – apart from how to take donor cash?

Therese Coffey: not the best person to ask for a crackdown on smoking?

Therese Coffey proved her worthlessness as deputy prime minister in an interview with Kay Burley of Sky News.

Asked if the government was abandoning its target for building affordable homes, she said she didn’t know anything about it.

Burley then reminded her that, as deputy PM, she should:

Meanwhile, the Guardian has claimed that Coffey, as Health Secretary, is ending plans for a campaign to crack down on smoking.

Could this be because she herself smokes and has accepted hospitality from the tobacco industry?

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Is this what Coffey wants the NHS to be? Volunteers and chemists rather than doctors?

Now we see how Therese Coffey expects to get GPs to see patients within the two-week deadline she claims to have set (but was in fact set by a prior health secretary): work will be taken by volunteers and by chemists.

The problem is clearly the lack of staff. Is this because of Brexit?

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Someone tell Therese Coffey: two-week target to see GPs is in place ALREADY

Coffey and liquor: this is the Tory minister who reckons she’s going to get the NHS back on track.

This is more smoke and mirrors from the Liz Truss Tory government.

Health Secretary Therese Coffey has announced a plan to improve access to GPs, with a target for everyone making an appointment to be seen within two weeks.

But that is the target at the moment:

Note that the David Cameron Coalition government reduced the target to this from Labour’s earlier target of just two days, back in 2010.

It seems likely the move was intended to pre-empt an expected worsening of services when Andrew Lansley brought private, profit-making healty companies into the NHS in his bid to turn it into a cash cow for extremely wealthy shareholders.

No wonder GP leaders are saying the announcement will have “minimal impact”.

So let’s have one more tweet to sum up the situation:

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Racist Patel strikes again: Jamaicans are being targeted for deportation by Home Office

Patel: see the posters behind her? The only UK aid she likes is helping foreigners off British soil. Odd, considering she is herself the daughter of immigrants.

Priti Patel’s Home Office has been disproportionately targeting Jamaicans for deportation.

And it seems clear officials know their actions are racist. Otherwise why would they have spent a year trying to withhold the information after The Guardian made a simple Freedom of Information request?

Jamaicans are 10 per cent more likely to be deported than people from other countries, even though the same rule applies to all of them:

Under the UK Borders Act 2007, foreign nationals who are jailed for a single offence for at least 12 months will normally be considered for deportation on their release, with exceptions under human rights rules – for example, having children in the UK, and for people who have been trafficked.

A comparison of Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Home Office data between 2015 and 2020 showed that once people from European Economic Area countries were excluded, as they are not covered by the act, an average of 65% of overseas nationals jailed for at least 12 months were deported.

For Jamaican nationals, this proportion rose to 75%, however, despite the much greater likelihood of their having significant ties to the UK. For other former British colonies in the Caribbean, such as Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia, the rates were higher still.

The statistics also showed that 90% of Nigerian nationals were deported, and 76% of those from Ghana. For Albanians, the rate was 90%, and for Vietnamese nationals 84%.

Concern has also been registered about deportations to Albania and Vietnam, which have known issues with human trafficking connected to organised crime.

The Guardian reported that it had only been able to publish its findings after “a year-long freedom of information battle”:

While the MoJ supplied the information within weeks, the Home Office refused, saying that to do so would be “likely to prejudice diplomatic relations between the UK and a foreign government”, and could hamper the operation of immigration controls.

The Guardian appealed to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which ruled against the Home Office, calling the department’s arguments “vague” and “generic”, and noting that no attempt had been made to substantiate them. “The commissioner will not accept at face value assertions made by a public authority that, in her view, require a proper and fuller explanation,” the ruling stated.

Even now, the Home Office has tried to justify its disproportionate targeting of people from Jamaica: “We do not target specific countries.”

The record states otherwise – because the Windrush scandal showed how the Home Office deliberately destroyed records proving that people of Jamaican origin had the right to remain in the UK, and then pursued an aggressive policy of deportation against them.

It seems Priti Patel has kept up the deportations, despite protestations of fairness.

Source: Disproportionate targeting of Jamaicans for deportation from UK, data suggests | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

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Crowdfunder by wheelchair user who was attacked in Hull hits target straight away

Karl Dean: this image was taken shortly after the incident on August 23, showing the head injury he sustained.

A wheelchair-user who was tipped out of his chair in a disablist attack by a thug has launched a crowdfunding appeal to replace equipment that was damaged – and it has already hit its target.

Karl Dean asked for £3,000 to replace the talker machine he uses to communicate, along with his head switch.

He also wants to put CCTV cameras on his wheelchair. This Writer can only conclude that this is to ensure that anyone carrying out attacks in future may be identified easily afterwards.

The appeal has passed its target with 27 days left, thanks to contributions from 125 supporters.

It doesn’t surprise me. One of the commenters to the Vox Political Facebook page is a friend of Mr Dean and described him as “a lovely man”.

So I would urge anyone who wants to show their support to contribute a little to the crowdfunder as a sign of solidarity.

And a man has been arrested for the crime.

Alex Procter, 20, was set to appear at Hull Magistrates Court today (August 27), charged with causing Actual Bodily Harm, common assault and criminal damage.

If you want to contribute to the crowdfunder, please visit this site: I was tipped out of my wheelchair by cruel thugs – a Charities crowdfunding project in Hull by Karl Dean

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Why are the Tories refusing to tell us how many people they are testing for Covid-19?

Matt Hancock: incomprehensible and incompetent.

You know it has to be a big fail when the Tories have spent more than a month adding to it, every day.

This story goes back to April 5, when Boris Johnson promised that 100,000 people would be tested for Covid-19 every day by the end of the month.

On April 30, the Tories duly lied to the nation – and their claim was instantly debunked by, among others, This Site. The claim was that nearly 130,000 tests were carried out; in fact the total was only slightly more than 70,000, if I recall correctly.

The rest were tests that had been sent out – but the government had no idea whether they had actually been used.

And of course there is a huge difference between the number of tests that were carried – and/or sent – out, and the number of people who have been tested.

The Tories continued failing to meet their target for a further fortnight, then gave up completely and simply resorted to saying the figures were “unavailable” – every day for a month.

Then today – June 30 – Matt Hancock appeared on the BBC’s Breakfast News, where he gave the following incomprehensible explanation for failing to provide the facts:

Gobbledygook!

And he was called out on it by Piers Morgan and Susannah Reid on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, a show that has been boycotted by Tory politicians for many weeks now, because they are afraid they will be asked awkward questions.

That’s an attitude that opens them up to awkward criticisms instead, viz.:

At the end of the day, we’re no wiser about the number of tests being carried out or what the results may mean.

We can be sure of one thing, though:

The UK’s Conservative government is utterly incompetent.

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