Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Hainault Stabbings - Enter The Ghouls

At around 0700 hours today, a car was apparently driven into a house in the Thurlow Gardens area of Hainault, in north-east London. Soon after this, a number of people were stabbed by a man brandishing what looked like a Samurai sword. One of those stabbed, a 13-year-old boy, has since sadly died. The Police attended, Tasered the suspect, and detained him.

Greg Hands - cheap opportunist ...

They accomplished that, it seems, in just over 20 minutes of being called to the scene. This swiftness of response has not been enough to deter the ghoulish convocation of political opportunists and other bad faith actors, who have seen “stabbing” and “London” together, seen that there is a Mayoral election on Thursday, and put the boot into Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan.

So who would like to set the ball rolling? Greg Hands would. His majority in safe Chelsea and Fulham was just over 8,000 in 2017, and the way the Tories are going, or not going, he could lose the seat come the long-awaited General Election. “What has our great capital city come to when a 13 year old boy is killed in a sword attack?he blustered, to universal condemnation.

... Richard Tice - more of the same ...

The sub-text of the Hands attack is that Khan Done It. Except there is some plausible deniability there, which there wasn’t from Richard Tice (he’s not very nice), who at present leads Reform UK. “Appalling news about the killing of a 13 year old boy in Hainault today as well as multiple others seriously injured incl brave police officers. Our thoughts & prayers with all those affected”.

He should have stopped there. But he didn’t. “Our thanks go to those who bravely went to the attacker, to protect others. This collapse of law & order must stop. Enough is enough. [Sadiq Khan] has failed Londoners. Last week he laughed when warned of machete crisis. Now a child is dead”.

... Master Cole, setting the bar lower ...

Maybe he should have listened to someone called Isabel Oakeshott, who, the last time I looked, was Tice’s partner: “I want to know ALL about the person who murdered a 13 year old boy with a Samurai sword today. Public deserve to know who he is; where he's come from (UK born and raised or otherwise) and how he came to carry out this heinous act”. Good. But yer feller doesn’t.

Someone else sensing an opportunity, and looking as if he’s still Tory Bear at heart, was the odious flannelled fool Master Harry Cole, still continuing his pretence of being a real journalist by succeeding the non-bullying Tom Newton Dunn as political editor of the Murdoch Sun. “Sadiq Khan confronted over people ‘running around with machetes’ on the streets of London earlier this week: ‘I think the Tory candidate should stop watching The Wire.’

... to which Christian Calgie responds "hold my beer"

No tragedy left unexploited by the Murdoch mafiosi. And who was that Cole credited? Christian Calgie. Who he? Former apprentice sandwich monitor to the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines at the Guido Fawkes blog. Cole was, of course, Staines’ tame gofer. And what has Calgie had to say?

A week ago the Tory candidate for London mayor raised the machete crisis in London. Sadiq khan’s response? ‘I think the Tory candidate should stop watching The Wire.’ He doesn’t care. He thinks it’s a big joke. These words are utterly hollow”. Mayor Khan tried and sent down in one. But Calgie, like Master Cole, is not a disinterested bystander in this case.

During his tenure chez Fawkes, Calgie slyly edited one of his posts to remove what looked like an actionable smear of former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein. He also penned an item claiming that the BBC was a Quango, which it is not. But he is desperate to bash Sadiq Khan. Another sad Tory supporter.

All the time, what these less than august beings don’t report in their respective papers (Calgie must have drawn the short straw - a berth at the Daily Brexit, still called the Express), but the Observer does, is “Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse … Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories”.

Compared to which, the attack by Hands and his cheerleaders is positively mild stuff. Tories yah-boo well, but 14 years of failure tell their own story.


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19 comments:

  1. The likes of Oakensnob, sorry Oakenslob have made the usual ploy about it possibly being a immigrant, but I am just amazed they didn't make the usual racist batsh-t comment it was a certain ethnic group.

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  2. Wish you'd stop publishing photos of these goons, especially the apple cheeked squealer piglet Cole.

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    1. 18:44

      Well in JSA, well in. Superb invective.

      No soppy Grauniad nonsense in that.

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  3. Burlington Bertie from Bow30 April 2024 at 18:45


    That Sadiq Khan/Susan Hall 'debate' should be compulsory viewing for anyone voting in the London mayoral election.
    No ID necessary, just a quick check that you've actually watched the Tory candidate in action.

    Susan Hall must be the stupidest London mayoral hopeful since, ooooh, the last one: Shaun Bailey, star of many a Covid Partygate picture and now, ludicrously enough, The Right Honourable The Lord Bailey of Paddington, yep, Baron Bailey. Khan had no choice but to be flippant with Hall as her dimness made impossible any kind of serious engagement.

    She won't get in but she will still have, and has had for some time, a position of some sort in the running of the UK capital.She'll be Dame Sarah in Sunak's end-of-term dishonours for sure.

    As the Twitter gammons have been bleating all day: how has it come to this? Enough is enough!

    (Pace Anonymous: I realise that there's no difference between them,they're all the same, quiff Quisling, treacherous metropolitan meffs, red Tory jellied eels and liquor, Old Kent Road, Alf Garnett, Gnome Counties etc, etc etc..........)

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    1. 18:45.

      There y'go me old Micawber. That final paragraph shows there's a glimmer of hope for you yet. All you have to do is clear the cobwebs from inside your head. It's not much, but it's a start. Gets you away from the tedious chairmanship of the local Neighbourhood Watch and Curtain Twitchers Association.

      See if you can keep it up without writing to the Rothermere Heil.

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  4. Burlington Bertie from Bow30 April 2024 at 22:41


    'Superb invective', Anonymous? Swiftian, eh? We *are* getting elevated!

    Certainly on a different level to your customary hate-filled, festering bile so possibly a model you could find useful.

    However, that picture of Cole has become so familiar that it's lost its effect for me. The one of that proto-Cameron, sponge-faced and blow-dried little mummy's boy ( Cretin de Calgary?), on the other hand, still has the emetic powers that only little tossers like him are capable of.

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    1. 22:41.

      Tsk tsk, me old Micawber....."...hate-filled, festering bile..."

      Still not OK r u, Hun.

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  5. Mildly surprised that Rachel Riley didn’t pile on and blame it on the Usual Suspects.

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    1. You and me both, squire. Except I'm mightily surprised rather than mildly.

      Still, I suppose (in due course) we'll be told how those US students are baby-baking murderers or somesuch.

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  6. Why stop now? All through the campaign the orcs have concentrated on personal attacks, bigotry, and, as usual, a large dollop of lies. The orcs know full well that Khan has no control over the policing budget, and crime targets are set by Einstein Cleverlys dept. What should depress people though, is the London campaign is exactly how the national campaign will be fought. With a hefty dose of scapegoating and victimization.

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  7. Burlington Bertie from Bow1 May 2024 at 13:24


    Sorry, 22.14 , I hink I misjudged you and thought you were Old Tankie of the Sisters of Perpetual Opposition.

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    1. 13:24.

      Gosh.

      Yet ANOTHER bad spelling.

      All those terms at the Micawber School are haunting you even unto ageing angry trolling. Must be all those mashed potatoes.

      But just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not after you.

      Tsk tsk.

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  8. Burlington Bertie from Bow3 May 2024 at 13:32


    Flattered that you're still studying my modest Zelo contributions so assiduously, o bitter one.
    But in fact 'I hink' is echt Bow demotic and what we liquor-lickers prefer to the stereotyped Cockernee 'fink', the more obvious choice of the type of people who attempt humour in unfunny cab-driver parodies on political blogs.

    Btw Commiserations on the news of Labour's success in the Blackpool by-election. It must be a source of grave disappointment to you that the treacherous red Tory Quiffed Quisling's protege has denied Sunak's lad or Tice's boy their rightful place on the green leather benches.
    Chin up!

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    1. Mark Hayhurst3 May 2024 at 20:40

      I'm no expert but I doubt this poster is either Reform or Tory based.

      Any more than you have a degree.

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  9. 13:32.

    Nope, me old Micawber. It's plain bad spelling. In your hasty trolling you just won't admit it. Plus the usual dose of 1950s ale house McCarthyism.

    2 out of 10. Must try harder.

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  10. Burlington Bertie from Bow4 May 2024 at 14:38


    Oh no! And it looks like the treacherous Quiffed Quisling's red Tory chum Sadiq
    Khan has won the London mayoral election too!

    What's wrong with all you soppy, Guardian reading, eel-scoffing, typo-making curtain twitchers? Are there really no ageing CP nostalgics left daaaahn saaaahhhhf?

    Tsk tsk.

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    1. 14:38.

      Nah. But there's plenty of red tory paranoid Quisling McCarthyites.

      1 out of 10. Must improve.

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  11. Burlington Bertie from Bow4 May 2024 at 18:12


    West Midlands mayoral subject to a recount in Coventry!

    Call me paranoid but I think there's still some hope for the Infantile Disorder community if there's been enough takers for the vote-for-the-most-reactionary-candidate-in-order-to-hasten-the-crisis-which-precipitates-the-pre-revolutionary-conditions tactic.

    It's an old trick, Anonymous, but it might just work!

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    1. 18:12.

      Well done, me old Micawber. At last you realise your paranoia.

      4 out of 10. Improving but must work harder, especially on spelling.

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