Billboard Chris & the English policeman

Chris Elston was a guest on the Spiked podcast this week. An extract:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/28/they-want-to-use-violence-to-silence/

Is he in Ireland still

Infinite personalities- love it! Much better than infinite genders.

Irish broadcaster Niall Boylan spoke with Billboard Chris and Independent Senator Sharon Keogan on his podcast at the weekend, video is here, audio is here. Gript have a write-up/summary of the episode here.

A big bunch of flowers for your cousin @ProudTERFcousin 💐 oh and a beer! 🍺

Thanks datun for posting that excellent interview. He is able to cut straight to the point. "I believe there are 2 sexes, 0 genders and infinite personalities". Yes!

Love that the police officer has a Mumsnet connection!

@WickedSerious

I'd venture that a lot of them cut their own hair in the dark too.

As an ex girlfriend used to say:

It looks like she put her makeup on in the dark. Sat in a rocking chair, wearing boxing gloves.

It's such a relief to see such a knowledgeable, insightful police officer in action - and dealing so effectively with those overgrown toddlers.

Very articulate bloke. Not a wasted word.

That's brilliant 😂 just sent my aunt this thread she'll be chuffed with his MN rating.

I'd like to have met Billboard Chris gutted I wasn't in town today.

He needs a ‘Mumsnet Rated’ badge!

Oh and the punting...

I feel really old now.

Reckon you did! I couldn't get over the lack of clubbing! Lots of house parties, but also lots of Mandelbrot sets and classical music.

Should have come out with the town lot rather than the gown we knew how to party 20+ years ago.

The police officer is my cousin I couldn't be prouder!!!

I'll be sending him this thread he did well.

I was there 30 years ago. We weren't the average student then, either. Lots of geeky stuff- board games, role playing games, larping, drama, music, debate... there used to be an annual city wide water pistol hunt that ran over a month on an elimination basis.

No dancing. No clubbing. Lots and lots of talking and silliness.

@toomanytrees I would entirely agree with this. I know of someone who is partway through a PhD at Oxford, after a lengthy academic career. I'm sure she is studying, but her primary role is training the next generation of activists. Literally lecturing on how to behave when arrested, what to say to the police, and so on. She has multiple convictions for supergluing herself to stuff and otherwise being annoying but, if you challenge her views at all, she bursts into tears and tells you she feels threatened.

It really is immensely tedious and it is very much both learned and taught.

Good grief. Colouring? Making soft toys? Are you sure you hadn’t stumbled into a pre-school by mistake?

I don't think a person like this activist is ill educated or stupid. I think they are manipulative and dangerous. They are learning to be effective activist leaders, running a team of sad sack young people to do their dirty work. I see someone honing such skills as lying convincingly, presenting a case on TV, and using the magic words to claim faux victimhood. These people learn just how far to push, how close to stand, etc. Such a person reminds me of the man in the Laughing Auditor video, older than the other activists and seemingly in control.

Here is Chris's youtube clip from GB News.

A week on this place would set her up for life.

She's using that turn of phrase in order to try and get him arrested, for a public order offence. I don't believe for a second that she is actually feeling any of those things or that she doesn't understand what they mean. It's manipulative behaviour.

Goodness knows how anyone is supposed to provide evidence that they are actually alarmed or harassed or distressed, given that those are internal feelings!

IKR 🙄She says "I'm pretty harassed, alarmed and distressed right now"...over a bloke wearing a billboard with the definition of dad on it 😆So either she doesn't know what the meanings of harassed, alarmed and distressed are (in which case she doesn't deserve a place at Oxford Uni), or if she actually does feel harassed, alarmed and distressed then perhaps her parents should spend some money on getting her a bloody good therapist to help her get a bloody grip. Or at least she should get an appointment with her GP to discuss why her MH and resilience is so poor.

That article you linked to @NicCageisnotNickCave - whilst about a tragic death - reads like a weird parody of that sort of press report as you read further down - especially the bit about 'miraculously' locating his bike and the fundraiser. Very odd.

I wonder if part of what is going on here is arrested development and these students wanting to cling onto childhood a bit longer. I happened to attend an lgbt event at Oxford. There was no drinking, that wouldn’t be a safe space. It was filled with nerdy looking women and men who a few years ago would probably have been emo. Lots of dyed hair, rainbow hoodies, pokemon t shirts. The activity was crafting and colouring and making plush toys. It really didn’t seem like the kind of social event that students usually do.