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FGM 'being performed on UK babies' + Will post-Brexit chaos drive Queen to evacuate?

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FGM 'being performed on UK babies'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47076043

EXCERPT: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is increasingly being performed on babies and infants in the UK, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told. FGM expert and barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman said it was "almost impossible to detect" as the girls were not in school or old enough to report it. [...] Dr Proudman said there was "a lot of anecdotal data which shows FGM is now being performed on babies. "These girls are not at school, they are not at nursery, and so it's very difficult for any public authority to become aware," she added. "By performing it at such a young age, they're evading the law."

[...] It is claimed children's services can be unsure when to intervene. Doctors are not always reporting it to the police - and even if they do, officers do not always know what to do. "People are concerned about cultural sensitivities, worried about being branded racist, and it's being performed on a very private area," Dr Proudman said, explaining why it has taken many years for the first UK conviction to arrive.

[...] In France, all children undergo regular genital checks until the age of six and doctors are expected to report any cases of physical abuse. "In [the UK] system you need the victim to come and complain, but how can you expect a child to complain against her parents?," she asked.

MORE: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47076043



Quexit? Britain has a Brexit emergency evacuation plan for the queen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/201...lan-queen/

EXCERPT: Queen Elizabeth II and members of the British royal family are to be secreted away to an undisclosed location outside London if a no-deal Brexit scenario incites riots, British media reported Sunday. With Britain’s scheduled exit from the European Union slated for March 29, Prime Minister Theresa May is running out of time, lawmakers can’t stop squabbling, and Brits are stockpiling items as varied as bicycle parts and bottles of wine.

Indeed, uncertainty is rife, but, thanks to plans dating to the Cold War, the queen, at least, will be saved. “These emergency evacuation plans have been in existence since the Cold War but have now been repurposed in the event of civil disorder following a no-deal Brexit,” a source from the British Cabinet Office told the Sunday Times, which chose not to reveal any additional details about the location...

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Will post-Brexit chaos drive the Queen out of London?
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/e...50von.html

EXCERPT: Is the British government planning to discreetly evacuate the Queen from London in the case of post-Brexit riots? The story, which ran in two weekend UK newspapers, was denied by Downing Street on Monday – a spokesman said it was “simply not true”. But with less than two months to Brexit, and the European Union still stonewalling British attempts to renegotiate its exit, the perils of a "no-deal" Brexit are making news every day...

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In the UK, FGM has been illegal since 1985. It happens thousands of times a year in immigrant communities in that country, yet until about a month ago there has never been a single conviction. France, with similar laws, returns hundreds of convictions every year. (Probably a small fraction of the cases where it happens in France, but still far better than Britain.)

British police are so deathly afraid of being called "racist" that they basically refuse to do anything. They insist that the problem is "nuanced" or that arresting a child's parents isn't in the child's interest (even when those parents have committed the worst sort of child-abuse by physically mutilating the child).  

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/01...s-nuances/

Since 2015, British physicians have been legally required to report it whenever they see it. Since then, 28,326 cases have been reported, of which 16,265 were new and previously unknown. From April 2017 through March 2018, 4,495 new cases were reported.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/07...nd-action/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017...red-to-cps

Yet to date, only one single conviction.
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Yazata Offline
(Feb 5, 2019 01:09 AM)C C Wrote: Quexit? Britain has a Brexit emergency evacuation plan for the queen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/201...lan-queen/

EXCERPT: Queen Elizabeth II and members of the British royal family are to be secreted away to an undisclosed location outside London if a no-deal Brexit scenario incites riots, British media reported Sunday.

Fake news. Just more of "Operation Fear".

In reality, for many decades the British government has had plans to evacuate not only the Royal Family, but the PM and top government officials, in times of emergency. They date back to the Cold War.

The United States has similar plans and we saw them put partially into effect the morning of 9-11, when helicopters were lifting cabinet secretaries out of Washington.

Quote:With Britain’s scheduled exit from the European Union slated for March 29, Prime Minister Theresa May is running out of time, lawmakers can’t stop squabbling, and Brits are stockpiling items as varied as bicycle parts and bottles of wine.

The Brexiteers call that "Operation Fear". The British news media has been pounding the message that if a "Hard Brexit" occurs and the UK just up and leaves the EU, all trade and communication between the UK and EU will simply cease. British ports will empty, imported goods will disappear from store shelves, British travelers will be stranded on the Continent, and Britain will collapse in short order, with riots and civil disorders.

Which is hugely unlikely.

The US trades massively with the EU, despite not being an EU member. Airline flights fly across the Atlantic every day. Ships dock in each other's ports. People pass through customs and immigration without huge hassles. Britain leaving the EU just means that it reverts to a status like that of the United States, Australia and the rest of the world when dealing with the EU. Trade would continue under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

Significantly, any ill effects on Britain from Brexit won't be the direct result of Britain leaving the EU. They will come as a result of whatever retaliatory measures the EU enacts to punish Britain for leaving. Punitive tariffs, border closures and trade embargoes perhaps. It reminds me of a man telling a woman, "Love me baby! Love me or I'll hurt you! I'll hurt you real bad!!" The whole thing seems exceeding Unclear on the concept. It just underlines why the British are right to leave.

If Theresa May was smart (something that seems totally beyond her) she would take President Trump up on his offer to make a big mutually beneficial trade deal between the US and UK. She wouldn't have gone out of her way to antagonize him as she's done, always signalling her politically-correct virtue. If Germany and France want to embargo Britain, one of their major export markets, let American products take their place. I'm sure that the Japanese would love to take up a lot of that slack too. Australia and New Zealand certainly would. (Canada is more iffy under its current leadership.) If a new trade and political alliance could be forged out of the 'Anglosphere' and Japan perhaps, I suspect that it might be a lot more dynamic than Europe. Certainly larger in aggregate GDP and stronger militarily, with more geographic extent and clout on the world stage. So other disaffected European countries, from Italy to Poland, might think about ditching the EU too in favor of joining the new grouping.

My own guess is that most of the apocalyptic talk is just that, talk. It's meant to scare the voters and sway public opinion in Britain. A Hard Brexit will probably be just as much of a non-event as the original Brexit vote was. The date will come and go and most people won't notice any upheavals at all. (Maybe they will have to use a different line at European airports and will be required to show a passport. But Americans like myself live with that.) Remember how the British stock market and the value of the pound were going to collapse if people voted 'Leave' in 2016? Didn't happen. Britain is actually out performing most of the rest of Europe. The predicted zombie apocalypse never swept London. No riots, no disorders, no evacuating the Queen in the middle of the night.
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Syne Offline
Good post, Yaz.
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confused2 Online
Of Brexit..

From Sky News (just one of many sources pointing out the same thing)-

https://news.sky.com/story/why-the-irish...t-11615155

Quote:... if the UK has separate trading and customs regulations and standards from the EU (say to meet those necessary for a trade deal with US), then checks become necessary on all borders [which includes the border between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland] between the UK and the EU.

But up against that is the implicit commitment in the Good Friday peace agreement never to have a hard border on the island of Ireland.

A peace agreement is an agreement to end a war. Break the peace agreement and the war [in Ireland] starts again. In the absence of a hard border the south can pretend Ireland is united and the north can pretend Ireland is divided.

An Irish government statement sums up just how serious all this is.

"We will not accept a hard border on this island and therefore we are not planning for one," it said.

I wouldn't for a moment intend to suggest that the Irish are insane - I would leave that to the skill and judgement of others. In fairness to every politician involved - none seem keen on the idea on the idea of a customs border between Northern and Southern Ireland [and breaking the Good Friday agreement [ceasefire]] when the likely consequence of creating such a border is the reawakening of (quite recent) hostilities between rival factions who may or not be insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bo...ce_process
These people (who may or may not be insane) target people they don't like as well as random civilians. Politicking aside - I don't think many people want to be on the hit list of a bunch of people who may or may not be insane.
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Just treat Southern Ireland like a free trade zone and enforce EU customs upon entry into continental Europe.
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