As Scotland Yard suggest Christian Brueckner will likely never be charged over the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann, Matthew Steeples argues that the British government finally put a stop to funding this pointless search and instead feed hungry children
This morning on Twitter, @Oi_Its_Strikey pointed out that people should: “Remember this is the same government who spent £12 million looking for Madeleine McCann, but doesn’t want to feed children. Oh how the UK has fallen to the depths of hell.”
Aside from the fact that this person’s point is bang on the nail, what must be remembered is that every penny spent searching on the search for a child whose parents didn’t even lock the doors of the apartment in which they left three children alone is a penny that could have been used to actually seek out other missing children who could actually be found.
Now, with news this morning in the Daily Star that “Madeleine McCann’s parents have been told its ‘highly unlikely’ prime suspect Christian Brueckner will be charged over her disappearance,” those rightly outraged at the way in this case will again correctly cry foul.
According to the paper: “Scotland Yard detectives say there is ‘no evidence’ linking the German drifter to the crime 13 years ago” and added: “Police have warned parents Kate and Gerry not to get their hopes up that Brueckner, 43, will ever be brought to justice.”
As has been repeatedly pointed out, Brueckner is a thoroughly vile man, but his predilection appears to have been for much older victims. Equally, as his lawyer highlighted earlier this month, phone record evidence suggests this monster could not have been near the apartment in the 90-second window when the alleged ‘kidnapping’ took place.
Yet again, the authorities have played the ‘distraction card’ in this case and yet again all it does is bring shame upon them. Here we have a story where politicians and the police have repeatedly aided and abetted the hiding of the real truth of this almighty mess and here also we have a media who lap up the nonsense they are repeatedly fed.
It is now finally time to put a stop to the wasteful and fruitless search for Madeleine McCann and instead use valuable and scarce resources to actually achieve something – perhaps like feeding poor children.
On Twitter, @Oi_Its_Strikey highlighted the fact that the British government continues to fund a case where there is plainly no evidence whilst neglecting to back a campaign to feed poor, hungry children.
Christian Brueckner appears to be simply nothing other than the latest pawn in the ‘distraction technique’ that has repeatedly been used to continue funding for the road-to-nowhere search for Madeleine McCann.
Wife of ‘Naughty Tory’ turned replacement MP Natalie Elphicke turns to talking about filthy water (but avoids the topic of her jailbird hubby’s bottom groping)
Not content with shamelessly having bagged herself £25,000 for spilling her guts to The Sun about her dirty dimwit turned convicted sex offender hubby Charlie, nutty Natalie Elphicke OBE MP has now taken to penning articles about “filthy flooding and stinky sewage.”
Writing this morning for In Your Area Community News, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Dover and Deal pointed out the bloody obvious in suggesting: “Water flooding into your home is always unpleasant.” She then most usefully added: “Filthy sewer water flooding into your home is especially upsetting.” Thanks for that, Nat.
Bizarrely lauding the efforts of her “predecessor MP” without naming her ‘Naughty Tory’ groper husband, Mrs Elphicke then wrote of “the difficulties at getting to the bottom of reasons for the flooding” in her constituency – but understandably avoided talking of how the jailbird himself is now best known for grabbing the bottom of one of his victims in his and his wife’s Belgravia pad.
What’ll this immigrant hating wench touch on next? The topic of police chases (without mentioning her hubby drunkenly chasing his victims around their familial home)?
Filthy Natalie – Natalie Elphicke with her since jailed arse grabbing husband and ex-MP Charlie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUdZFJ97T3w
Natalie Elphicke was condemned by Alex Belfield on his ‘Voice of Reason’ YouTube channel for taking £25,000 from ‘The Sun’ to “play the victim” earlier this month. He slammed Mrs Elphicke as “really scummy” and Mr Elphicke as a “scumbag” and “filthy.”
Though Darren Grimes is frankly nothing but an irritating Brexiteer brat, the Metropolitan Police investigation into his conduct as an interviewer is nothing but ludicrous
Darren Grimes, quite frankly, is someone nobody rational would normally feel any kind of affinity with. Aside from his grating nasal tones, this ropey right-wing Brexiteer brat defended the indefensible when he blubbed: “This is actually breaking my heart” over Dominic Cummings’ Barnard Castle incident and his involvement in the 2016 referendum itself was nothing but a disgrace.
Whilst the personal views of Grimes, like those that inspire him including Milo Yiannopolous and Andre Walker, are undoubtedly laughable, no supporter of democracy would justifiably prevent his right to hold such opinions. Equally, investigating him for what was essentially a discussion where a historian made a clearly racist remark is anything but rational.
As O’Neill points out in his analysis: “This is about the fundamental right of journalists, reporters and podcasters to discuss anything they want with anyone they choose. For the police to investigate a journalist simply for facilitating a discussion, for asking a public figure questions, is an extreme act of authoritarianism.”
The Metropolitan Police need to see sense and cease their investigation into Darren Grimes. To do otherwise will simply be yet another own goal by their crackpot chief Cressida Dick and another nail in the coffin of rationality and reason.
Extinction Rebellion activist Benjamin Clark deserved more than a fine for painting the word “racist” on a statue of Churchill
In spite of being the son of a pastor, 18-year-old Extinction Rebellion activist all-round petulant prat Benjamin Clark is a youngster completely lacking in sense.
Plainly a wannabe Greta Thunberg, Clark took it upon himself to paint the word “racist” on the plinth of the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square on 10th September and in doing so disgracefully caused £1,642.03 worth of damage.
As he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Clark’s legal representative, Laura O’Brien, ridiculously tried to defend the teenager. She ludicrously and obviously incorrectly tried to argue that “he did not attend the scene with the intent to damage the statue.”
O’Brien continued: “This case is not about Winston Churchill and it is not about the motivation of using that word, it is about the damage that was caused. This is not a case about offending the history of this country… We are here to deal with a small amount of spray paint on a statue.”
Deputy chief magistrate Tan Ikarm, however quite rightly saw through this utter nonsense and sensibly remarked:
“You were part of an Extinction Rebellion protest, as a result of which you became in possession of some yellow chalk paint which you then sprayed on the base of the statue.”
“You’ve caused great offence it appears to a lot of people and I’m told it has provoked a very strong reaction.”
Benjamin Clark – who claims to have been subject to death threats since the incident – was deservedly given a £200 fine and ordered to pay £1,200 in compensation for his actions. He was also slapped with £85 in court costs and a £34 victim surcharge and now should jolly well grow up.
Conservative MP for Kensington Felicity ‘Flicka’ Buchan should be utterly ashamed of herself for voting against safety measures to prevent another Grenfell Tower disaster
Last night, the Conservative Party disgracefully led the way to beat the Fire Safety Bill in the House of Commons by a margin of 318 to 188.
Most surprisingly, leading the way against a proposed piece of legislation that would have put the “official fire safety recommendations made during phase of the Grenfell inquiry put into law” was Felicity Buchan MP – whose Kensington constituency includes the very same tower where 72 people died and 74 others were hospitalised as a result of a catastrophic fire exacerbated by flammable cladding.
Summed up best last night by Evolve Politics, the perfectly sensible recommendations rejected by Buchan (‘Flicka’ to her friends) – a woman who previously said “up yours” to her 69% remain voting constituents – and her colleagues included:
Creating national guidelines for carrying out partial or total evacuations of high-rise buildings during emergencies.
Urgent inspections of fire doors contained in all multi-residential buildings.
A legal requirement for the owners or managers of multi-residential buildings to check fire doors at least every three months to ensure they are working effectively.
A legal requirement for the owners or managers of high-rise buildings to provide details of external walls and the materials used to the local fire service, and inform them of any changes.
A legal requirement for the owners or managers of high-rise buildings to provide paper and electronic versions of building plans to local fire services.
A legal requirement to ensure all high-rise buildings have a premises information box which includes a copy of floor plans.
Regular inspections of lifts required for use by firefighters and the mechanism that allows them to take control of it.
The Steeple Times contacted Miss Buchan for comment via Twitter early Tuesday. Tellingly, ‘Flicka’ has yet to respond as to why she failed to support measures that – if they had been in place on 14th June 2017 – could most definitely have saved her constituents’ lives.
Flicka-ing off the Safety – Twitter users unsurprisingly rounded on Felicity Buchan and her Conservative colleagues over the outcome of the vote.Flicka-ing off the Safety – Nick Thomas-Symonds MP described ‘Flicka’s’ decision to vote against the recommendations as “appalling” and suggested: “Many of her constituents will feel let down and have serious questions to ask.”Flicka-ing off the Safety – Another Twitter user named Nile pointed out her behaviour was that “of a sociopath.”
Boris Johnson should be ashamed of himself for allowing the Tory MP accused of rape to carry on working; his decision is utterly wrong
The Conservative Party was once a bastion of civility. Whether you liked or loathed its politics, you could respect it for a degree of honesty and some form of moral compass.
Now, with news that an unnamed alleged rapist Tory MP is being allowed to carry on working without suspension and will not have the whip removed, we can now say that the party has gone completely wrong. The alleged criminal has “voluntarily agreed not to attend the House of Commons,” but frankly this is simply not good enough.
In any other workplace, someone accused of such a serious crime would not be allowed to continue working at all. They would be placed on leave and they would not be welcomed in any sense.
Boris Johnson has shamelessly protected this man – just as Theresa May did with the “I’m a naughty Tory” Charlie Elphicke – and now he deserves to be condemned for this utterly shocking error of judgment.
Aside from the fact that 36 Conservative MPs were “named and shamed” on a list of “sex pests” by the Guido Fawkes blog in 2017, today came further bad news for the party. An inquest into the suicide of an activist, Jade Smith, 21, heard that she was “threatened, victimised and harassed by senior officials” and “feared being raped or sexually abused” at Conservative Party conferences.”
Bang Wrong Boris – The case of the convicted sex offender and ex-MP Charlie Elphicke and his now MP wife – whom happily accompanied him to court – should have been embarrassment enough for the Tories. One would have thought they would have learnt, but plainly they have not. Shame on them.
Matthew Steeples finds himself in shock and agreeing with Jess Phillips MP after she calls out Tory hypocrisy over their failure to withdraw the whip from an unnamed MP arrested for alleged sex crimes
A cataclysmic and likely one-time only event occurred last night: I found myself agreeing with the normally bombastically bonkers Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips.
“In any other organisation, were this investigation to be going on, this police investigation, somebody would be suspended while the investigation was taking place.”
Meanwhile elsewhere, with news that Boris Johnson’s crony Crispin Odey – a man until now best known for spending the ludicrously ostentatious sum of £150,000 on a chicken shed and giving over £870,000 to support the campaign for Brexit – has been charged with assaulting a women aged over 16, comes further bad headlines for the Prime Minister.
Though Mr Odey denies the allegation, “will strongly contest this matter” and deserves to be subject to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the mere fact that so many Conservatives are even being accused of such crimes is proof only that this once great party has sunk deeper into the quagmire of sleaze than it did even in the days of John Major.
Jess Phillips MP got it right in calling out the shocking hypocrisy of the Conservative Party in failing to withdraw the whip from the unnamed Conservative accused of a number of alleged sex offences. The same unnamed MP’s constituency party has also come out and announced they will support said individual.Natalie Elphicke MP – whom replaced her husband as the member for Dover – stood by her husband Charlie Elphicke during his trial. She suggested she did so because she feared he might “kill himself,” but frankly that she plainly knew he was guilty is proof of her hypocrisy.Tory supporter Crispin Odey remains innocent until convicted, but the fact that there are so many allegations floating around only helps portray Boris Johnson’s government as one of sleaze.
As manipulated millennial Darren Grimes gets himself into yet another racism storm with the help of his beloved bigot Dr David Starkey, one has to ask: “Who is this cretin’s puppet master?”
“I wish I’d caught it at the time,” blubbed Darren Grimes after his failure to notice the bigot Dr David Starkey CBE spouting racist bile and shockingly complaining about their being “so many damn blacks” in Britain on his Reasoned UK channel.
Fresh from threatening esteemed writer Peter Jukes with legal action in May for utterly no good reason, ‘Dim Grim’ continued: “I am still learning the ropes, I will be much more alert to challenging this kind of thing in the future.” He then attempted to justify his failure with a throwaway: “I am very new to being the interviewer rather than the interviewee” line.
Turning to having stupidly lauded Starkey’s shocking remarks in the hours after uploading the sorry excuse for an interview, the awkward agitator and failed trainee hairdresser declared: “I’d appreciated his history programmes growing up, which did a lot for me as a kid in a really crap state school with precious little way of history.” Earlier, of the very same interview, Grimes had also commented: “It’s so good I’m watching it back again… They say never to meet your heroes, well, I virtually met one of mine and it was bloody fantastic… I love him.”
Known for banging on about “white privilege” and how he comes from a fatherless home and has a mother who bought a council house (as if such actually is relevant), lily-livered Grimes has previous. On May 25th, after Dominic Cummings was deservedly lambasted over his coronavirus lockdown rule breaking drive to Barnard Castle, the tinpot twerp tweeted: “This is actually breaking my heart. The media are monsters. Utter monsters.”
As the Cambridge educated freelance writer Mic Wright concluded of this “miniature Milo Yiannopolous” this morning: “Who is Darren Grimes? Not even he knows,” but more importantly one is left asking: “Who are the far-right manipulators pulling the purse strings that continue to enable this silly little boy?” It’s time we had some answers.
Since Darren Grimes has deleted the parts of his interview with Dr David Starkey that have been deservedly deemed offensive and racist, we share here a YouTube feature by Aaron Bastani with the bits ‘Dazzer’ wants erased from history. In response to criticism, cowardly Grimes tweeted: “The much more detailed and nuanced discussion on current events that I’d had, during a conversation that lasted over an hour, is not well reflected in that one, damning and distressing clip, that has been shared online – I regret missing that part and it has now been removed.”
“I fought them and won” – Manipulated millennial Darren Grimes just cannot help but make a prat of himself. At every turn, he trips himself up with delusional drivel fed to him by his puppet masters.
One Twitter user replaced Starkey with Hitler and showed Darren Grimes nodding along. Frankly, the clip sums up the whole shebang backing this noxious runt up perfectly.Prior to interviewing the racist Dr David Starkey, Darren Grimes announced: “I will have to resist the urge to tell him I love him.” Pass the sick bucket.Explaining he’d removed the racist “part” that he regretted “missing,” Grimes conveniently suggested his re-editing of history would get him out of the dung heap. Sadly, for him, it had already gone viral.Darren Grimes subsequently claimed: “I will be much more alert to challenging this kind of thing in the future.” Instead, it might better if his manipulators replaced him with someone with half a brain if they truly desire ‘Reasoned UK’ to be a success.In another tweet, Grimes stated: “I have been told I’m too thick, uneducated and Brexity to be supported.” He’s not far wrong there.Grimes has also suggested: “Many on Twitter are desperate to see me bugger off.” He’s wrong there as many actually view him like a car crash – so awful that people just (‘have to’) watch.Previously, Grimes put his heart on his sleeve for Dominic Cummings. He could, perhaps, have chosen a better individual to form a vehicle to help him along in his transparent desire to become popular. “I am, alas, only human and those seeking nothing short of my destruction can make it all feel like a lonely game” suggested Darren Grimes on 29th June. The poor lamb really does need to seek a safe space (or return to working in the food hall at Marks & Spencer).
Rolls-Royce owned by “maverick” Demon Internet dot-com millionaire Cliff Stanford to be auctioned; an au pair he employed was tragically murdered by a British serial sex offender in Spain; he was convicted of “email spying” in a scandal featuring gerrymanderer Dame Shirley Porter
Cliff Stanford is best-known for having established the early dot-com success story Demon Internet in 1992. He had a (boom, boom) “demon touch” and sold the company for £66 million in 1998.
After pocketing £30 million personally, one of Stanford’s first moves was to buy a private plane and “one of the most lavish Rolls-Royces then available.”
He paid the equivalent (with a discount) of £265,000 today for the opulent Rolls-Royce and declared it: “My favourite present to myself.”
The 1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur is now to be auctioned for less than a tenth of that price with a lower estimate of just £18,000.
Stanford’s Spanish au pair was tragically murdered in 1999 and subsequently in a totally unconnected series of events, he was convicted of “email spying” on notorious Conservative politician and gerrymanderer Dame Shirley Porter and her son.
According to his personal Twitter account, Stanford is now based in Tallinn, Estonia; he recently tweeted in support of Dominic Cummings, but neglected to mention if he would have loaned his motor for the spinner’s infamous Barnard Castle drive.
In 1998, “flamboyant” Internet pioneer Cliff Stanford paid the equivalent of £265,000 in today’s money for a brand-new motor. He did not opt for the eco-friendly kind-of-car that today’s tech titans drift around in, but instead slam dunked and went for the ultimate symbol of flash – a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with every conceivable extra.
Stanford’s long wheel base ride – a vehicle that would have been the envy even of Charles Frere, the business tycoon bounder of Howards’ Way, in terms of its lavishness – personified excess and reflected the persona of a man whom “laughingly” considered getting the numbers ‘666’ incorporated into the dial-up for his Demon Internet company’s software.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit and the longer wheelbase Silver Spur (and their Bentley equivalents) were the favoured mode of conveyance of business moguls in the 1980s and 1990s. Charles Frere (played by the late Tony Anholt, died 2002), a stereotypical example of such a character, was regularly seen in such motors in the BBC classic ‘Howards’ Way’ also.
Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, Clifford Stanford started his career as an accountant, but “found his way to the Internet via a love of computers.” He hit the jackpot with Demon Internet in 1992 and after selling that company to Scottish Telecom for £66 million, claimed his empire would be “bigger than Branson’s” according to the Guardian.
Speaking to the paper in December 2001, he continued: “I always wanted to be wealthy. Money doesn’t buy happiness but lack of it can lead to misery. Now I really enjoy my life, I do whatever I like and no-one tells me otherwise” and next he set up another venture, Redbus Investments, with Dame Shirley Porter’s son, John, as chairman. It listed on the stock exchange in March 2000 and the company’s activities included not only Internet hosting, but also a landmine disposal system and forays into football and popular music.
Redbus, according to ZDNet in Sept2005, was where “Stanford’s trouble seemed to start.” Kiss-and-tell scandals involving a “champagne fueled romp” at Claridge’s and his being banned from the hotel ensued, whilst in 1999 his Spanish au pair was murdered by a serial British sex offender named Tony King – who was only jailed in 2006 after a previous wrongly convicted suspect was cleared in 2002.
In 2001, the Guardian reported on the tycoon’s associations with Max Clifford – with a plainly hoodwinked Stanford remarking: “Max always has loads of really interesting people at his events” of the long since disgraced and now thankfully dead paedophile – and mentioned an unsuccessful investment of £1 million in a “badly managed” girl band called Girls@play. It had The Apprentice’s Alan Sugar’s niece as its lead singer, but ultimately was “a complete disaster really,” the businessman lamented.
By 2005, Redbus had unraveled spectacularly and in September that year, Sandford was convicted of intercepting emails belonging to his former friend John Porter. He tried to claim his actions were legal, but after being given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay a fine of £20,000 and £7,000 in prosecution costs, a later appeal was denied.
Divorced, a father of two and reinvented as an “innovation strategist” according to his LinkedIn.com page, Stanford is now is based in Tallinn, Estonia with his American-German science fiction writer partner Sylvia Spruck Wrigley. Aside from a website named May.be that lists their many projects, the tech expert is an enthusiastic chess player and user of Twitter.
As well as tweeting enthusiastically about a “clean break Brexit” and complaining about Amazon, Turkish Airlines and the Estonian take on fish and chips on the social media site, he recently came out in support of Dominic Cummings. Of Boris Johnson’s puppet master’s recent problems, Stanford surmised: “Witch hunt.”
Historics Classic and Sportscar Auctioneers will sell Cliff Stanford’s Rolls-Royce Silver Spur on the 18th July and have set an estimate of just £18,000 to £22,000. They describe the vehicle as “one of the highest specified cars we have seen and presents well in black with black leather seats, carpets and headlining,” but neglect to detail any of the high jinxes that this larger-than-life character no doubt conducted from its rear seating area.
Cliff Martin Stanford (born 1954) – The Names & Numbers
18th July 2020 – Cliff Stanford’s one-owner-from new 1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur – registration S110 NGN – to be auctioned by Historics Classic and Sportscar Auctioneers with an estimate of £18,000 to £22,000 ($22,200 to $27,100, €19,800 to €24,200 or درهم81,600 to درهم99,700) at their Windsorview Lakes sale.
June 2009 – Co-founded Power Ethernet. He describes this firm as bringing “disruptive technology to fruition.”
September 2005 – Convicted and given a suspended sentence of 6 months and a fine of £20,000 ($24,700, €22,000 or درهم90,600). A later hearing denied leave to appeal in February 2006.
2003 – Charged under the Computer Misuse Act and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 with the interception of emails between Jonathan Porter, one-time chairman of Redbus Interhouse, and his disgraced mother, Dame Shirley Porter – a woman best known for the “homes for votes” scandal in Westminster.
March 2000 – Floated Redbus Interhouse on the stock market.
October 1999 – Stanford’s Dutch-Spanish au pair, Rocío Wanninkhof (1979 – 1999), is abducted and stabbed to death. He offered a £50,000 ($61,000, €54,000 or درهم224,000) reward immediately and then doubled the sum in September 2003 “to anyone who could provide information” according to The Independent. After the estranged female lover of Wanninkhof’s mother was wrongly convicted for the murder in 2001 and subsequently cleared, a British sex offender, Tony King, was jailed for the killing in 2006 for 19 years.
1998 – Cliff Stanford paid £150,000 ($185,000, €165,000 or درهم680,000) for a 1998 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur, the “last production chassis number for UK sale.” He supposedly secured a discount of £20,000 ($24,700, €22,000 or درهم90,600) on the list price from dealers Jack Barclay and added extras including “a wine cooler to rear armrest, centenary door panels, picnic tables with separate stowage compartment, TV monitor/video to rear compartment and electrically adjustable lumbar support.”
1998 – Founded Redbus Investments four days after the sale of Demon Internet.
1998 – Sold Demon Internet to Scottish Telecom for £66 million ($81 million, €73 million or درهم299 million) with 172,000 subscribers. Stanford became an early dot-com multi-millionaire, personally netted £30 million ($37 million, €33 million or درهم136 million) and moved to Brussels “to avoid capital gains tax” according to the Guardian.
June 1992 – Cliff Stanford founded Demon Internet with 200 subscribers. He had been brought up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex by his single-parent mother and began his career in accountancy.
The turbo-charged long wheelbase Rolls-Royce Silver Spur is described as a “classic machine.”The interior is in as new condition.The black leather seats have been well-cared for.The model was the first Rolls-Royce to feature a retractable Spirit of Ecstasy mascot on its bonnet.Rolls-Royce gave the car a 6.75-litre V8 engine.
Steve ‘Stop Brexit’ Bray captures Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Jaguar limousine getting rear-ended by his security Range Rover in Parliament Square
In footage captured on Wednesday afternoon, someone filming Steve Bray – better known as ‘Mr Stop Brexit’ – captured Boris Johnson’s very own security team smashing their Range Rover into the back of his armoured Jaguar XJ Portfolio V8 LWB in Parliament Square.
Caused supposedly after a Kurdish protestor ran out, the Jaguar subsequently was able to drive away but clearly displays a bash in the boot. No injuries were thankfully reported.
‘Bosie The Clown’ will no doubt forward the repair bill to the same people who are dealing with his ever-growing Brexit balls-up. If asked otherwise, just as with Marcus Rashford, he’ll just claim he didn’t know it had even happened.
