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Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Starmer's Hypocritical Child Protection Agenda: Banning Energy Drinks While Ignoring Grooming Gangs


In a move that reeks of political theatre, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has proudly touted his government's ban on high-caffeine energy drinks for under-16s as a bold step in safeguarding children's health. Yet, as families across Britain grapple with the horrors of grooming gangs that have preyed on vulnerable kids for years, Starmer's administration drags its feet on a promised national inquiry—failing even to appoint a chair or set a start date. This glaring hypocrisy exposes a Labour government more interested in low-hanging fruit like fizzy drinks than tackling the systemic failures that allow child exploitation to flourish. If Starmer truly cares about protecting kids, why the deafening silence on grooming gangs?

The Energy Drinks Ban: A Quick Win for Starmer's PR Machine

Let's start with the so-called "victory" Starmer is so eager to claim. On September 2, 2025, the Labour government announced a ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks—think Red Bull, Monster, and Prime—to anyone under 16 in England. Health Secretary Wes Streeting hailed it as a measure to combat childhood obesity, anxiety, and sleep disruption, with the policy set to make it illegal for retailers to sell drinks containing more than 150mg of caffeine per litre to minors.

Starmer himself took to X (formerly Twitter) to boast: "We're stopping shops from selling high-caffeine energy drinks to under 16s." It's a policy that originated from Labour's election manifesto in June 2024, and now, just months into his premiership, it's being rolled out with fanfare. Proponents argue it addresses real issues: excessive caffeine can harm developing brains and bodies, contributing to poor concentration and health problems in youth.

But let's be real—this is hardly groundbreaking child protection. Banning a can of Monster is easy; it costs little politically and scores points with health campaigners. Starmer's pride in this minor tweak to retail laws stands in stark, shameful contrast to his inaction on far graver threats to children's safety.

The Grooming Gangs Inquiry: Promises Made, Progress Stalled

Flash back to June 2025: Under mounting pressure from victims' advocates, opposition figures, and even international critics like Elon Musk, Starmer performed a dramatic U-turn and announced a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. These gangs, infamous for systematically exploiting and abusing thousands of children in towns like Rochdale, Rotherham, and Oldham, represent one of the UK's most egregious child protection scandals. Starmer promised a probe with the power to compel witnesses and uncover institutional failures—echoing his own past as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), where he claims credit for prosecuting some of these cases.

Yet, here we are in September 2025, and what has happened? Absolutely nothing of substance. No chair has been appointed to lead the inquiry. No terms of reference have been finalised. No start date has been set. Home Office Minister Jess Phillips admitted in Parliament that the appointment process is only in its "final stages," prompting accusations from critics like Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp that Labour has made "almost no progress."

This delay is not just bureaucratic red tape; it's a betrayal of victims who have waited years for justice. Whistleblowers and survivors, like those from Operation Augusta in Manchester, continue to decry the government's foot-dragging. Starmer's record as DPP has already faced scrutiny for alleged failures in handling these cases, and this latest inaction only fuels the fire. How can a leader who positions himself as a champion of child safety celebrate banning caffeine while letting an inquiry into real, predatory abuse gather dust?

Misplaced Priorities: Energy Drinks Over Exploitation?

The hypocrisy is staggering. On one hand, Starmer's government rushes to regulate energy drinks, citing concerns over children's mental and physical health. On the other, it stalls on an inquiry that could expose and prevent the kind of exploitation that scars lives forever. Grooming gangs aren't a hypothetical risk—they've destroyed countless childhoods through rape, trafficking, and abuse, often enabled by institutional blindness.

Critics argue this reflects Labour's broader child protection failures. While Starmer defends his past actions against "those spreading lies," the reality is damning: Victims' groups and whistleblowers like Maggie Oliver have called him "guilty as anyone" for systemic oversights. Elon Musk's public jabs earlier this year forced Starmer's hand on the inquiry, but without follow-through, it's all empty rhetoric.

This isn't about politics; it's about priorities. Banning energy drinks might make headlines, but it does nothing for the girls groomed and abused under the watch of authorities. Starmer's delay on the inquiry sends a chilling message: Some threats to kids are worth tackling swiftly, while others can wait indefinitely.

Time for Accountability: Starmer Must Act Now

Keir Starmer's child protection agenda is a farce—a shiny ban on energy drinks masking a rotten core of inaction on grooming gangs. Victims deserve better than platitudes and procrastination. Appoint a chair. Set a date. Start the inquiry. Anything less is an outrageous abdication of duty.

If Starmer wants to be seen as a protector of children, he must match his words with urgent action. Until then, his hypocrisy will continue to erode public trust in a government that talks tough on caffeine but goes soft on predators. Britain’s kids can’t afford this double standard.


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Friday, April 04, 2025

Don't Fly With Me - The Net Zero Zealots: A First-Class Hypocrisy


Caroline Lucas, the Green Party’s perennial scold, has taken to Twitter—or whatever we’re calling it these days—to demand a halt to Luton Airport’s expansion. Her reasoning? People shouldn’t be jetting off abroad for holidays; they should keep their hard-earned cash in Britain’s soggy confines instead. Not to be outdone, the chair of the Climate Change Committee has chimed in, declaring that the rich—those dastardly one-percentres—should be banned from flying off on their luxurious getaways altogether. The message is clear: the skies are for the virtuous, not the vulgar.
 
This is the latest salvo in the war on common sense waged by Britain’s Net Zero zealots—a crusade so steeped in sanctimony it could make a saint blush. Let’s unpack this, shall we? The idea that halting an airport expansion will somehow save the planet is laughable when you consider the global reality. Aviation accounts for roughly 2% of global CO2 emissions, a fraction dwarfed by industrial behemoths like manufacturing or shipping. Luton Airport isn’t exactly the linchpin of climate catastrophe—it’s a modest hub for budget airlines ferrying sunburnt Brits to Málaga, not a private jet playground for oligarchs. But why let facts spoil a good moral panic?
 
Lucas’s prescription—stay home, spend local— reeks of the kind of parochialism that would’ve made medieval peasants nod in approval. Never mind that tourism abroad supports millions of livelihoods in poorer nations, or that cultural exchange might just broaden the horizons of a nation increasingly obsessed with its own navel. No, the Net Zero faithful would rather we all hunker down in Skegness, clutching our pounds and shivering under a grey sky, than dare to seek a week of sunshine. It’s austerity dressed up as altruism.
 
And then there’s the Climate Committee chair’s class-war twist: the rich shouldn’t fly. It’s a deliciously populist soundbite, dripping with envy and righteous fury. But peel back the rhetoric, and the irony shines brighter than a Mediterranean sun. Who, exactly, gets to define “rich”? And who, pray tell, will still be soaring above the clouds when the plebs are grounded? Here’s a hint: it won’t be you or me. It’ll be the politicians, the NGOs, the climate conference jet-setters, and—naturally—the virtue-signalling celebrities who preach carbon penance while posing for selfies at 30,000 feet.
 
Picture it: Caroline Lucas, fresh from a taxpayer-funded jaunt to some urgent climate summit, tutting at a nurse who saved up for a Ryanair flight to Alicante. Or the chair of the Climate Committee, sipping champagne at a gala, nodding approvingly as Taylor Swift’s private jet touches down for her next “sustainable” tour. The Net Zero elite don’t want to end flying—they want to monopolise it. The skies, it seems, are reserved for those who can afford the hypocrisy.
 
This isn’t about saving the planet; it’s about control. It’s about shaming ordinary people out of small joys while the anointed few jet off to Davos or COP-whatever-number-we’re-on-now. The zealots peddle a vision of sacrifice that conveniently exempts themselves, a moral high ground built on the backs of everyone else’s grounded dreams. If they truly cared about emissions, they’d target the real culprits—industrial polluters, not holidaymakers—but that wouldn’t make for such a snappy tweet.
 
So, let’s call it what it is: a power grab wrapped in green dogma. Luton Airport’s expansion isn’t the end of the world, but the Net Zero zealots’ hypocrisy just might be the end of reason. Next time you’re dreaming of a cheap flight to somewhere warm, remember: the only ones allowed to take off are the ones telling you to stay put. Isn’t that a gas? Or, rather, a sustainably sourced biofuel?

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Monday, November 28, 2022

BBC Hypocrisy Alert


 

Dear old Auntie is getting her knickers in a twist over the zero covid crackdown and protests in China.

Auntie is, quite correctly, reporting on the protests there and the heavy handed treatment by the regime of protesters. Auntie also notes, quite correctly, that the policy of zero covid (and lockdowns) don't work.

How "ironic" is it not that when the UK had its lockdowns, Auntie sought to downplay protests in the UK and criticised those who did protest?


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Thursday, November 10, 2022

COPCON27 - Plebs Banned From Flying


 

As you can see, private planes and those who are wealthy/powerful don't damage the environment when they fly.

Only the plebs like us damage the environment, as such we will not be allowed to fly!


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Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Nurse Ratched Will Kill You if You Don't Vote The Right Way


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Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Genuflections To Be Stopped in Time for Qatar

 


 

There's IRONY for you!


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Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Irony Klaxon - Auntie in Full Panic Mode


 

Auntie has been spooked by the threat of the abolition of the licence fee.

As such all her well paid celebs etc have hit the airwaves and Twitter (there's a small irony for you!), to tell us how much value for money we are getting by paying their salaries via our licence fees to tell us how much value for money we are getting by paying our licence fees!


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Thursday, January 13, 2022

Auntie Gets a Taste of Her Own Medicine!


 

 

What goes around comes around!


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Friday, October 22, 2021

IRONY KLAXON - GPs To Strike if Forced To See Patients!


 

As I noted yesterday, there is a coordinated campaign by FAKE SAGE, certain sections of the media and political activists posing as doctors to force the government's hand into bringing in more restrictions.

I also noted that 

"It is important to remember that those pushing for greater restrictions have a political agenda, they are using Covid as a cover to push that agenda!"

Right on cue, the GPs (backed by the partisan BMA) have upped the ante. 

GPs are threatening to go on strike in protest at the government’s efforts to get them to see patients face to face. The British Medical Association says it has been “left with no alternative.”

It is remarkable that they fail to grasp that their job is to see patients.

The NHS is taking the piss out of those who fund it. 

Its role is to protect us, not the other way round!

So long as the government doesn't buckle to this coordinated campaign, once the cases start to fall in the coming weeks these people will be finished!


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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Virtue Signalling - Masks Off/Masks On


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Tuesday, July 06, 2021

IRONY KLAXON - Beth Rigby


 

The woman who broke lockdown restrictions to party with her chum Kay, now says that it is "reckless" to lift lockdown restrictions.

It is quite clear that the qualifications for working for Sky "News" are:

- having an irony bypass, and

- having a PhD in Hypocrisy.


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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Recollections May Vary - Meanwhile Back in 2019


Someone had better tell Oprah!


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Thursday, March 04, 2021

Toxic, Macho, Out of Touch? - But it's " Saviour of 'is Country " When the Guns Begin to Shoot


Channel 4 can, quite rightly,  hire and fire who they like.

They and others are free to despise him, and people like him, for representing everything that they claim to hate.

However, be under no illusions, they will be the first to beg for help from him and his comrades if, god forbid, we are ever in need of his services!

I WENT into a public 'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, " We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, go away " ;
But it's " Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's " Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, wait outside ";
But it's " Special train for Atkins " when the trooper's on the tide
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's " Special train for Atkins " when the trooper's on the tide.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap.
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, 'ow's yer soul? "
But it's " Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin to roll
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's " Thin red line of 'eroes, " when the drums begin to roll.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, fall be'ind,"
But it's " Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's " Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! "
But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An 'Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

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Thursday, October 01, 2020

Adam Bates Nails It!


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Monday, September 28, 2020

Nanny U Turns on Parliament's Open Bars

 

Nice try Nanny, you almost got away with it!


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Nanny's Hypocrisy - Parliament's Bars Don't Shut at 10PM




 

Well blinkey, blonky, blimey!

It appears that despite having ordered the rest of us to stop drinking at 10PM Nanny, in the shape of our "respected" MPs, is not applying the rule to her own private (taxpayer subsidised) bars in the Palarse of Westminster.

Quelle surprise!


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