Council sacks tree surgeon who put up Union flags

A parish council has cancelled its £9,000 contract with a tree surgeon after he put up Union flags and St George’s crosses.

Billy Crotty, from Wimpole in Cambridgeshire, hung about 300 flags on lamp posts near the town of Royston, Hertfordshire.

His tree surgeon business had been working with Steeple Morden parish council for more than a decade and had been commissioned to remove conifers.

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How sick is the American left? This sick.

Leftists are so sick that when two National Guardsmen are shot by an Afghan welcomed into the U.S. by Biden, they blame President Trump for having deployed the Guard to D.C. for badly needed crime abatement. Said deployment worked marvelously. Murders, robberies, carjackings, etc. dropped massively. But our left is doing everything in its well financed power to see Trump run out of office by any means necessary.

Leftists are not bothered by the escalating crime. Can we say “color revolution”?

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Hero firefighter who allowed colleagues to use the term ‘fireman’ after woman complained loses unfair dismissal case

A senior firefighter who was disciplined after a female colleague was subject to a ‘longstanding campaign’ of offensive comments by bosses has lost an unfair dismissal case.

Simon Bailey, who was previously praised for his bravery, was issued a written warning in July 2023 by a tribunal after he oversaw an ‘openly sexist’ workplace environment which included failing to challenge staff who used the term ‘fireman’ instead of ‘firefighter’.

The 27-year veteran of Avon and Somerset Fire Service was disciplined after his colleague Sasha Acheson complained about the behaviour of her peers in 2021.

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Toronto suspends contractor with $200M in city projects in the past five years over rules breach

A company that has been awarded almost $200 million worth of contracts from the city of Toronto in the past five years has been temporarily suspended from bidding on further work while the municipality investigates it over an alleged breach of procurement rules.

Capital Infrastructure Group Inc., a Woodbridge-based civil construction firm, as well as five of its affiliated companies, were quietly suspended on Oct. 17, according to the Toronto’s public listing of disqualified suppliers. Another affiliate, Capital Sewers Services, has been suspended since June 30.

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Are you an Indigenous Non-Binary Transvestite Quantum Computing Guru?

Here’s your ticket to career advancement: The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for nomination to a Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, in Quantum Computing. Applicants must be full-time (primary budgetary) tenure-stream Assistant or Associate Professors in the Department of Computer Science (St. George campus).

Just Self Identify!

h/t Mauser

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High School Assistant Principal, Brother Accused of Plotting to Murder ICE Agents

A pair of brothers, one of whom is an assistant principal at a Virginia high school, are accused of plotting to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials reveal.

On November 19, law enforcement officers arrested John Wilson Bennett and Mark Booth Bennett, both American citizens, and charged the brothers with conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.

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