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Anti-Free Speech Separatist Who Wants Fewer White People in Office Now Leads Scotland

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Humza Yousaf, a left-separatist who has pioneered anti-free speech legislation and lobbied for fewer white people in high office, will be sworn in as the leader of  Scotland on Wednesday.

Yousaf has succeeded Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which leads Scotland’s devolved government — roughly equivalent to a U.S. State government — in coalition with the even further left Scottish Greens.

He saw off Christian rival Kate Forbes, who was pressured over her private opposition to same-sex marriage during an internal leadership campaign, falling short in the first round by scraping over the halfway mark with 52.1 per cent of the vote after the votes of an eliminated third candidate were redistributed to him under a complex Single Transferable Vote system.

The controversial politician is perhaps best known for championing anti-free speech laws which criminalise “stirring up” so-called “hatred” even in a person’s private home, declaring:  “Are we comfortable giving a defence to somebody whose behaviour is threatening or abusive, which is intentionally stirring up hatred against, for example, Muslims? Are we saying that that is justified because that is in the home?”

Yousaf is also somewhat notorious for a viral rant in the Scottish Parliament against the number of white people in high office in Scotland — which is 91.8 per cent White Scottish/British, plus another 4.2 per cent Polish, Irish, Gypsy/Traveller, or ‘White: Other’ in the last census — and asserted that “Scotland has a problem of structural racism.”

Yousaf may be off to a difficult start as leader, as he has already committed to attempting to revive controversial laws on gender self-identification which many believe precipitated the fall of his predecessor.

The British central government, led by the notionally right-wing Conservative (Tory) Party, made a rare use of its reserve powers to veto the Scottish legislation, arguing it would impact the United Kingdom at large and undermine women’s safety.

Yousaf has already confirmed he will challenge this in the courts — possibly to appease the Scottish Greens, who have threatened to collapse the coalition government if the SNP do not continue to pursue a woke gender agenda.

Compared to Forbes, Yousaf curiously emerged as the candidate of choice for vocal transgender activists within the party and wider separatist movement, despite having allegedly skipped a vote on legalising same-sex marriage due, allegedly, to pressure from a Glasgow mosque.

The first Muslim national leader in Britain, Yousaf has received warm congratulations from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the first Hindu national leader in Britain, saying he looks forward to working with the leftist on “issues that matter to people” once he settles into office.

His ascension has been less well-received by small-‘c’ conservatives such as Nigel Farage, who remarked of Yousaf’s election: “The SNP have decided to continue with failure.”

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UK Inflation Spikes to Over 10 Per Cent Amid Rising Food Prices

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UK inflation rose again in February to over 10 per cent amid rising food prices, the country’s office for national statistics has confirmed.

Inflation in the UK is once again on the rise, with it reportedly breaching 10 per cent again in February over the same time last year according to data published by the country’s office for national statistics. The revelation that inflation was running higher than predicted prompted the Bank of England to put baseline interest rates up yet again, a move they believe will cool inflation by constraining new borrowing and reducing the supply of discretionary income.

One of the key factors driving the increase is reportedly the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which saw a rise in price closer to 20 per cent over February last year.

According to the ONS report, the 12-month Consumer Prices Index hit 10.4 per cent in February amid the rising price of food, which is estimated to have risen by around 2 per cent since January this year.

Overall, the price of food and non-alcoholic drinks was 18.2 per cent higher last month than they were in February 2022.

Such a spike is in turn explained by the agency as being down to an ongoing vegetable shortage in the country, with bad weather in Southern Europe and Africa combined with sky-high energy prices strangling supply across Europe.

“These price movements resulted in an annual rate of 18.0% for vegetables in the year to February 2023, the highest rate since February 2009,” the government organisation’s report explains.

The rising price of food in the UK could likely not come at a worse time for many in the UK, with large numbers of people left struggling as a result of extremely high energy prices over the last number of months.

Britain’s Green Agenda-obsessed Conservative Party has not exactly helped matters either, with previous reports partly blaming the lack of vegetables on the fact that UK farmers simply have not been putting crops in the ground due to it being too expensive to do so.

Instead of fighting tooth and nail to help solve this imbalance though, the Tories have instead been campaigning for many farmers to grow even less food and instead focus on fighting climate change.

Despite fears about Western food security in the face of the Ukraine War, the government has pushed for many farms throughout the country to stop growing food and instead fill their land with solar panels to generate renewable energy.

Politicians have also committed themselves to pushing so-called “habitat management” in the country, paying farmers to look after local wildlife and flora. While laudable in of itself, these policies can tend to come at the expense of food production.

Scotland’s hardline progressive government has taken such measures even further, with a senior green party minister in the country outright ignoring warnings from farmers last year that its environmentalist policy combined with the war in Ukraine could result in food supply shortages.

Describing the country as facing a “nature emergency”, green bigwig Lorna Slater waved away suggestions that farmers could be allowed to grow more food to offset coming supply shortages, which now appear to have materialised.

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Polio is Back: London Re-Launches Vaccination Campaign Against Previously Eradicated Disease

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Authorities in the UK are set to re-launch a child vaccination campaign in London in response to a polio outbreak in the capital.

British authorities are to re-launch efforts to see every child in London aged from 1 to 11 vaccinated against Polio after an outbreak of the disease last year.

An initial campaign to see all children jabbed was started last year after the formerly extinct disease was found in the city’s sewer system, with the virus thought to have possibly re-entered open-borders Britain from abroad.

Despite this attempt to get the population most vulnerable to the disease vaccinated, uptake for the childhood polio jab in London remains well below the national average, with the country’s National Health Service now set to renew efforts to get more children inoculated against the virus, which can cause paralysis and even death.

“Until we reach every last child, we cannot be sure that we will not see a case of paralysis,” The Telegraph reports Dr Vanessa Saliba of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) as saying regarding the outbreak.

“Even a single case of paralysis from polio would be a tragedy as it is completely preventable,” she continued. “Only by improving vaccination coverage across all communities can we ensure resilience against future disease threats.”

Initially detected in the city last summer, the ongoing Polio outbreak is thought to be the result of the live oral polio vaccine (OPV), a form of inoculation that involves the administration of live but weakened forms of the polio virus to the individual given the vaccination.

Although the vaccine is reportedly effective in preventing polio infections, it also results in the person who takes it shedding a “vaccine-like virus” in their stool, which can then sometimes mutate into a far more harmful “vaccine-derived” poliovirus that can once again cause great harm to humans.

Scientists now reportedly believe that, while the OPV is not used in Britain, the outbreak can nevertheless be traced back to this inoculation method as someone may have been administered this type of vaccine abroad before entering the country.

As a result, London has now seen a return of a virus that had previously been rendered completely extinct in Britain since 2003, with experts now fearing that the country could see its first case of paralysis caused by polio since 1984.

The good news is that experts in the country believe that while the virus is still circulating amongst the London population, recent sewage samples appear to show that such transmission is down compared to last year.

Virus particles have also still only been found in samples gathered from parts of east and north London, suggesting that the disease has yet to see any sort of significant spread to other parts of the city.

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UK’s Top Police Force No Longer Trusted by the General Public – Report

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Britain’s top police force no longer has the trust of the general public and needs major reform, a review of the organisation has found.

An investigation into the state of the London Metropolitan Police (Met) has found that the force no longer has the support and trust of the general public.

It comes shortly after one member of the force was convicted as a serial rapist and sexual abuser, being said to have frequently used his position inside the force as a way to abuse women.

According to the review published on Tuesday, the Met police force is no longer providing the services it is meant to, with a combination of financial cuts and complacency resulting in a serious deterioration in frontline law enforcement.

“London no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service,” the report explained, adding that women and children in particular have been poorly served by the force, and left in danger as a result.

The police are in “denial” about the problems they face and have institutional roadblocks to improvement including “hubris” — believing only they really understand what it takes to police London, and therefore refusing to take external criticism or help — and “optimism” manifesting itself as glossing over issues. Protecting the reputation of the force is seen as more important than actually having a good police force, Casey says.

As well as these failures, the report also zeroes in on accusations of systematic racism, sexism, and homophobia. The fact that black officers are considerably more likely to face disciplinary procedures than white officers, and that black Londoners are more likely to have an interaction with the police than white, are both identified as evidence of racism within the force.

Nevertheless, while black Londoners are more likely to have a negative view of the force than their white neighbours, the report found this trust gap was rapidly closing as trust in the police to do a good job was falling among white Londoners.

Overall, the report reckons that overall confidence in the force has now dropped below the 50 per cent mark, with it ultimately expressing doubt as to whether the Met can still operate a model of “policing by consent”.

The report said: “The model of policing by consent, pioneered in London and admired and copied around the world, requires the Met to both earn and maintain public trust in everything it does. However, there is declining public confidence and trust in the institution.”

The fact that public confidence in the Met has collapsed is rather unsurprising considering a recent slew of inexcusable scandals coupled with rising violent crime. The litany of serious sexual crimes committed by members of the force has brought it into disrepute with the general public.

Tuesday’s report even goes so far as to describe itself as being ” book-ended” by such rape scandals, with it starting shortly after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of Met police constable Wayne Couzens.

Couzens abducted the 33-year-old woman under the auspices of arresting her for breaching COVID restrictions, before raping and murdering her.

The report now comes out only a little more than a month after another office for the force, David Carrick, was sentenced in court for being a serial rapist and sexual abuser, pleading guilty to two dozen rapes in January this year.

Carrick is said to have used his position in the force to gain the trust of women before raping them, with some of his victims being subjected to prolonged instances of sexual assault.

Some victims are even said to have been locked inside a small cupboard for significant lengths of time with no food.

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