Pro-Musician/Songwriter/Guitarist/Vocalist. Comic book artist/writer. Incredulous at the lies, greed and inhumanity which beset our daily lives.
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Jeff Jinx retweeted
My Jerry Lewis story made me question the BBC for the rest of my career.
As a student, I did work experience on a show investigating dodgy hypnotists. I travelled with two female BBC producers to Blackpool to interview a victim (you don’t want to know).
At the hotel, a man was walking out as I walked in. We both held the door and stared at each other.
“After you,” I said.
“No, after you, young man”, he replied.
I smiled, thanked him, and we passed.
I turned to the producers: “Do you know who that was?”
“Nope,” one said, in a tone suggesting I shouldn’t be making eye contact, let alone talking.
“That was Jerry Lewis.”
They stared. “Who?”
“Jerry Lewis. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis?”
More staring. “Never heard of him.”
“You’ve never heard of Jerry Lewis?” Internally, I was furious. Externally, I was still trying to get a job in TV.
“Is he someone we’re interviewing?” one asked.
“No.”
“Then I’m not interested,” she snapped. “Put the gear over there.”
What struck me wasn’t Jerry Lewis being in Blackpool (I found out later that he was filming Funny Bones). It was that these two women were producers with almost no knowledge of entertainment history, TV or film. I know this because I spent the rest of the week asking them very easy questions they couldn't or wouldn't answer. Yet they’re the people who decide what YOU should watch and what YOU’LL find interesting.
After 25 years of being stuck in tiny edit suites with people like this (and honestly, it’s the norm), I could write a book about idiotic TV decision-makers who think they’re the smartest in the room and make choices based on what they assume YOUR intelligence level is.
Jeff Jinx retweeted
Princess Eugenie and Beatrice got thousands of dollars from Jeffrey Epstein. They actually celebrated his release from jail with him and Sarah Ferguson, after he did his time for sexual abusing a small child. Jeffrey Epstein paid for Beatrice's birthday in Windsor. He paid. Many British Royals were present including Prince Edward and Sophie, Princess Anne and her children and others. Not once Beatrice and Eugenie took any distance from their parents actions. They continue to support them. These are people who took Sex trafficking money, coming from abused children.
Nobody is holding them accountable. Nobody is asking questions about them.
Meghan immediately cut off her pedophile father and was told there was an investigation. Even on her last letter to him she refers to the investigation. She took action. Unlike the Royals and the British press who still vastly support their Pedophile members.
Jeff Jinx retweeted
The media have ignored the Covid Inquiry outcome. All those deaths directly caused by Johnson and Hancock ignoring advice.
They need banging up. But we are moving on. Because the media say we should.
Failed 6yrs on by our media colluding with the vile Tories.
Jeff Jinx retweeted
I applaud their courage in coming forward and telling the truth about William stripping farmers of their livelihood, their homes and their mental health.
They know he only cares about his image and a shiny press release. He’s not fit for the job of duchy caretaker let alone king. DISGUSTING AND DISGRACEFUL
If you’ve ever read the community forums you’ll see how despised he is and the truth behind what he’s doing to these vulnerable people.
Jeff Jinx retweeted
#BorisJohnson really ought to be arrested, and urgently so since he intends to decamp to his native United States to avoid his accountability for his mass manslaughter in the #CareHomes. The Minister directly responsible for those was the now ubiquitous #HelenWhatley, who is herself planning to use the benefits system to commit homicide on a similarly industrial scale. davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/…
Jeff Jinx retweeted
There is a legal case to prosecute members of Boris Johnson’s government for misconduct in public office. There is evidence that they negligently contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands in care homes. I want to know why there is no prosecution ongoing. Why?
Jeff Jinx retweeted
The Times has blocked Disability News Service from alerting its readers to research which exposed how previous reforms to out-of-work disability benefits led to hundreds of deaths of disabled people in the early 2010s.
#TheTimes #WelfareInquiry #DWPdeaths
disabilitynewsservice.com/th…
Jeff Jinx retweeted
SHE DIED WAITING
Heather Earley, mother of three, has died waiting for her money. @PostOffice kept her waiting so long she ran out of time. Impressive logistics.
Lawyer @SimonMGoldberg (well worth to give him a follow) shared the sad news today.
Heather Earley was one of 555 postmasters who took the Post Office to the High Court and won, and she died before getting her redress, the money owed to put her life back together.
He points to a @BBCNews article from 2024 on victims who died before getting redress. Winning in court and never seeing the money is a rare talent.
Heather Earley was a mother of three who ran a local shop with a Post Office counter in Mossley, Newtownabbey, in Northern Ireland. In December 2013 the Horizon computer system said she was £10,000 short. A computer said so, and in the Post Office computers are never wrong..
She says one customer kept using a flaw in the system. Every time that customer withdrew £100, the system added £100 to the balance instead of taking it off. I wish my bank worked like that.
Heather Earley called the police, and the customer was prosecuted and convicted. That put the blame on the customer, and the Post Office still demanded the £10,000 from her, took money from her wages and refused to give it back even after the conviction. Crime solved, victim billed ...
She borrowed from family and maxed out three credit cards just to buy stock for the shop. She cashed in £50,000 of her pension to save the house and clear her debts. Her village lost its post office and its shop, a truly generous service to the community.
In 2019 the Post Office settled the group case for £57.75M. Around £46M went on legal and funding costs, which left roughly £20,000 for each of the 555 people. The judge, Mr Justice Peter Fraser, had said the Post Office at times acted as though it answered only to itself, and it seems to have taken that as a challenge.
Reports say at least 350 Horizon victims have died before their final payouts, so at this pace the scheme will finish the moment nobody is left to be paid.
Heather Earley wanted justice and enough money to rebuild what was left of her life. Simon Goldberg says the lawyers and other parties who held up and nickel and dimed her redress should feel nothing but shame, though shame does not appear to be billable. Stop fighting these people and pay them before it is too late.
Heather Earley never got her cheque.
RIP Heather
Jeff Jinx retweeted
Lula vs. Bolsonaro: I was held in solitary confinement for 1,901 days for revealing the truth about the U.S. government's killings and espionage, including against Brazil and its industries. Out of power, Lula fought for my freedom. In power, Lula discussed my persecution with Pope Francis, who decided to meet with my family and offer help. After my release, Lula and I met in Rome to mourn the Holy Father's passing. Lula was kind to my children and asked for nothing in return. In contrast, Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro did nothing and said nothing. Yet without the ability to say no to Washington and Tel Aviv, there can be no domestic policy, only foreign instructions. Those orders are always the same: "Expand our theft of resources and wages, and keep your mouths shut about us murdering children." Sellouts will surrender everything in exchange for a cut, even their own tongues.
Jeff Jinx retweeted
"We don’t need a TV experiment to see disabled people treated as a burden" - My thoughts on Channel 4's #TheExperiement for @IndyVoices
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ALT a screenshot from The Experiement showing Sophie Morgan a white blonde woman in a wheelchair and Matt fraser, a white grey haired man with an arms limb difference walking through an old aktion t4 centre. the headline reads "we don't need a tv experiment to see disabled people treated as a burden"
Jeff Jinx retweeted
There was a deliberate plan by UK media - led by Piers Morgan, Dan Wootton, Caroline Graham and in which ALL "royal commentators" from Dickie Arbiter to Tom Sykes took part - to turn Thomas Markle into a saintly cudgel to attack Meghan.
Now Thomas has imploded, media quo vadis?
Jeff Jinx retweeted
COMPUTER SAYS PAY
HMRC is set to get powers to take unpaid tax straight from people's bank accounts, @thetimes reports.
Postmasters were once told a computer proved they owed money. It didn't.
Who checks HMRC's figures before the money goes? @HMRCgovuk
EXCLUSIVE from @oliver_wright
People who fail to pay their tax bill will find the money taken directly from their bank accounts under new powers to be given to HMRC at the budget
In an attempt to recover up to £4bn of small unpaid debt John Healey, the chancellor, will announce that HMRC will have the authority to automatically deduct money from current and savings accounts when they fail to engage with the taxman
It is the latest move to close Britain’s £60bn tax gap — the difference between the amount of tax that should in theory be paid to HMRC and the amount that is collected
At present HMRC has limited powers to take money directly from taxpayers without their consent
The tax authorities can only take money from bank accounts if it would leave someone with at least £5,000 remaining after the debt had been recovered and if the debt owed is more than £1,000
But ministers are concerned that the high threshold means a significant number of taxpayers are deliberately ignoring HMRC demands for money in the knowledge that the taxman is unlikely to come after them
Under the new rules HMRC will be given powers to automatically deduct instalment payments from people with lower-value debts who persistently do not engage with the taxman. The threshold for debt recovery will be lowered to as little as a few pounds and the deductions could also include repaying fines and interest
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Jeff Jinx retweeted
Someone on British Tv just had the audacity to say “My God Harry, what kind of family have you married the Royal family into.”
The audacity of middle aged white men.
The Queen literally used tax payers money to pay off the young girl Prince Andrew was accused of molesting.
Jeff Jinx retweeted
#HostileMedia
#TheTimes
The Times has blocked Disability News Service from alerting its readers to research which exposed how previous reforms to out-of-work disability benefits led to hundreds of deaths of disabled people in the early 2010s.
disabilitynewsservice.com/th…
Jeff Jinx retweeted
This is why disabled people fear going into hospital
A 37-year-old man with a severe muscle-wasting disease has been trapped in a hospital for more than 13 months because of a dispute over his care.
Ravi Mehta has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and used to receive NHS funding that allowed him to hire his own carers and to live at home.
Now that has been taken away from him, and he is threatened with being put in a care home.
#Duchenne #NHS #Care #Channel4News #C4News