Brits in London Protesting Today - Jolly Good

London was on fire today—not with bombs or bullets, but with voices. Ordinary people, the kind who pay their bills, raise their kids, and love this country with a stubborn loyalty, finally had enough.

The British have always been suckers for fair play. It’s in the blood. Generous, tolerant, forgiving—we’ve never needed lectures about kindness. We’ve lived it. We welcomed strangers, helped them, called them friends. And now? Laws twisted, speech gagged, citizens treated like criminals for waving the flag that built this island. Hypocrisy never looked so cheap.

Extremists slipped in the back door while the politicians cashed their checks. Creeps with smiles and fake compassion sold out the soul of the country. The ordinary man in the street? He wasn’t to blame for the wars. Hell, we fought them to stop bullies and save people who couldn’t save themselves. But try telling that to the keyboard fascists screaming online.

 They sound more like Nazis than the Nazis ever did.

This isn’t a nation of violence. It’s a nation of memory. Kids once played together—different colors, different accents—without the poison now being pumped into every headline. There was mischief, there were squabbles, but never this madness of fear and division.

And here’s the dirty little truth: it didn’t creep in from the Left alone. It happened under the Tories—fourteen years of greed, corruption, and indifference. They let it fester, feeding the beast while ordinary people paid the rent.

But the curtain’s coming down. The crowd is loud, defiant, and not in the mood to take orders. You cannot erase England. You cannot re-engineer the people who built it.

The voices on the street today? That’s the sound of a nation remembering who it truly is- not some twisted lie

liz lucy robillard

Don't Blame The British for Past Horrors

 Don't Blame the British Public for Old Colonial Horrors- why it's a mistake.

Responsibility lies at the top - not with regular people.

The empire was about big business. Pure and simple. It created huge wealth and now the collective hangover guilt- especially among our more compassionate voters- is clearly messing up - people being arrested for 'thought crime' is apparently actually happening in the UK (and affecting not the terminally rich and spoiled)

Thought Crime Arrests

It is a tragic and dangerous habit of human beings to mistake the sins of power for the sins of the people. And some injured parties want to see the destruction of the UK as is evident here-

Britain Being Destroyed From Within

When nations inherit the bittero memory of empire, the fury is often directed at those least able to bear it: the ordinary citizens, the neighbour, the single mum, the shopkeeper, the labourer, the soldier who fought and bled without ever once sitting in a cabinet room or signing a trade deal.

People place trust in their leaders. 'Blind trust' a lot of the time- trust that has sometimes been ill deserved -and horribly exploited. 

The history of corruption is not the history of *ordinary* average people.

 It is the history of those silly elites. The effete. Those with lots of money and no common sense- out of touch with their authenitic selves-blinded by guilt but sheilded by their greed and ego- that messes up our world.

Cultivate self awareness and you won't often go wrong.

It is the story of governments, corporations, charities, and institutions who pursued profit and power under the cover of legality and respectability that's at fault.

 And the evidence for this is not speculative—it is written in case law, in court judgments, in criminal convictions.

Consider Britain. The Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful.

 The expenses scandal put MPs in prison.

 The Post Office scandal ruined hundreds of lives because executives denied the truth about their own failed system.

 The High Court has struck down crony contracts—“VIP lanes”—in the awarding of public money. 

These are not fairy tales. They are judicial facts.

Look abroad too. Israeli prime ministers, South Korean presidents, American governors, Italian premiers—convicted of bribery, fraud, and plunder. 

The Philippines saw its president fall to corruption charges. The same pattern repeats itself everywhere. When power is unchecked, it is abused.

Even charities—those most trusted of institutions—have failed.

 Oxfam was found wanting in safeguarding.

 Kids Company collapsed under the weight of its own mismanagement.

 And the pharmaceutical industry, held up as saviour and science incarnate, has been fined billions for hiding data and promoting drugs unlawfully.

So what is the point? The point is this: the enemy is not your neighbour, not the citizen across the street, and not the immigrant who came to work in your town.

 The enemy is corruption at the top. It is the arrogance of leaders who manipulate nations for profit and control.

We must refuse collective blame.

 It is lazy, it is unjust, and it blinds us to the real culprits. The sins of empire were not authored by the people in the fields, the shops, and the factories. 

They were authored by elites who remain, even now, insulated from accountability.

A handful of decent lawyers, activists and journalists fight this- when desperately overworked and stressed.

The remedy is not resentment. It is responsibility. It is sunlight. It is demanding open government, independent audit, real checks and balances. 

It is solidarity with your neighbours and friends- at the level of ordinary life—where most of us want the same things: safety, dignity, honest work, honest leaders.

Liberty is not chaos. It is disciplined resistance to unaccountable power. 

And until we remember that, we will continue to fight each other while those at the top laugh at you and tighten their grip.

'The pen is mightier than the sword' 

How to address the legacy of historical abuses

• Teach accurate history: distinguish between decisions of ruling elites and the lives of ordinary citizens.

• Build cross-cultural solidarity: recognise that working people everywhere share more in common with each other than with those who ruled them.

• Demand transparency: open records, archives, and inquiries into past abuses rather than burying them.

• Promote restitution through practical means: investment in education, healthcare, and trade built on fairness rather than exploitation.

• Reject collective guilt: no one should inherit blame for crimes they did not commit.

• Focus on present accountability: stop repeating the same patterns of cronyism, secrecy, and power-hoarding today.

Concrete corruption case law and convictions (examples only)

• Miller v Prime Minister (2019, UK Supreme Court): prorogation of Parliament unlawful.

• R v Chaytor (2010, UK Supreme Court): MPs jailed for expenses fraud.

• Bates v Post Office (2019, High Court): Horizon IT system unreliable, Post Office conduct condemned.

• Good Law Project v Minister for the Cabinet Office (2021, High Court): contract award unlawful.

• Good Law Project & EveryDoctor v Secretary of State for Health (2022, High Court): VIP lane for PPE unlawful.

Elsewhere

• Israel: PM Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery (2014).

• South Korea: President Park Geun-hye convicted and sentenced for corruption (2017, upheld 2021).

• Philippines: President Joseph Estrada convicted of plunder (2007).

• USA: Governor Rod Blagojevich convicted on multiple corruption counts.

• Italy: Tangentopoli / Mani Pulite investigations; ex-PM Bettino Craxi convicted in absentia

Corporate/Charities

• Oxfam GB: safeguarding failures confirmed by regulator.

• Kids Company: collapse due to governance failings, scrutinised by courts.

• Pfizer: $2.3bn settlement for illegal promotion (2009).

• GlaxoSmithKline: $3bn settlement for unlawful promotion and hiding safety data (2012).

Closing note- remedy

The remedy is not resentment. It is responsibility. It is sunlight- or umbrellas if in the UK...

 It is demanding open government, independent audit, real checks and balances.

 It is friendship at the level of ordinary life—where most of us want the same things: safety, dignity, honest work, honest leaders.

Liberty is not chaos. It is disciplined resistance to unaccountable power. 

And until we remember that, we will continue to fight each other while those at the top laugh and tighten their grip.

What you can do- support your neighbours, support small business- demand transparency- demand accountablity (in the most pleasant way you can) and above all- educate people.

Transparency and Anti-Corruption

◇Global Witness◇–investigations and campaigning regarding the climate crisis profits

Global Witness 

◇OpenDemocracy◇ (UK investigative journalism) –

https://opendemocracy.net 

◇Centre for Public Integrity◇- non partisan non profit news org 

Centre for Public Integrity

 

◇Transparency International◇ - global movement to end corrupt practice

Transparency International

Civil Liberties and Accountability

◇Liberty◇ (UK human rights org) –

Liberty Human Rights UK

◇Good Law Project◇ resists hate to bring justice and free speech

–The Good Law Project

◇Open Rights Group ◇–rights to privacy and free speech

 Open Rights Group

◇Free Speech Union◇

 - Free Speech Union- promotion

 

◇Whistleblowing International◇ - defending and support

Whistleblowing International

◇Protect◇

 https://protect-advice.org.uk/history

Watchdogs on Global Power

 ◇Human Rights Watch◇ –

 Human Rights Watch- legal advice

◇Amnesty International◇- legal & political

Amnesty International

Those are the sorts of organisations that align with our messages- plus you can write to your MP online easily here

 ◇writetothem◇

Contact a politician online

Tip: Use the 'Tor' browser- Tor Browser (not 'dark web') to see best anonymous search results- top business hogs the top of Google, Bing and others- burying the good stuff.

Liz Lucy Robillard Contact

Psychiatry Sweetie

 

Psychiatry, sweetie, is the ultimate high-society hustle. A bit of a scam at times- really. 

 In Allen Frances’s book 'Saving Normal', the old (incredible) insider plays both sides. 

One moment he’s confessing that the DSM turned everyday quirks into gold-plated diagnoses. Then he’s condemning the system even more and telling us he's responsible for the autism surge. 

The truth? Diagnoses are invented in backrooms, voted into existence like casting calls at a Beverly Hills mansion.

 No blood tests, no scans, no hard evidence – just a committee deciding whether your heartbreak, your wild night, your traumatic abuse and it's injustices or your kid’s fidgeting- deserves a label not a resolution. 

 And every new label is another shot of champagne for Big Pharma- that let's face it- hasn't updated it's ethical framework in a while?

The drugs? Love- they don’t heal- they ,*mask* they sedate, they numb, they toy with your body chemistry like a bad boy with a trust fund. 

Akathisia, obesity, diabetes, kidney damage, anehedonia (subsequent suicide) early death – all hidden under sleek advertising that sells them as miracle pills. 

Antidepressants and antipsychotics sound glamorous, but they’re more like back-alley cocktails: unpredictable, addictive, and dangerous. Psychiatry knows this- but are they addressing it? 

Frances paints psychiatry as an innocent victim sometimes, manipulated by drug companies and insurance giants. Please.

 These psychiatrists aren’t babes in the woods – they’re power players in designer suits, cashing checks while telling us it’s all for our own good. 

The corruption - is big- and it runs deep.

 Characters with money, connections, and endless resources rising like phoenixes on Prozac. It’s fiction dressed up as science.

Here’s the real scene: millions of parents feeding their kids stimulants because schools can’t cope, while those same drugs are traded on the street like jewels.

 Millions of adults numbed, sedated, and told it’s “treatment" when the right nutrients and behavioural health plan would probably be way more helpful!

 Psychiatry has turned human pain into the sexiest industry in town – all gloss, no substance, and deadly underneath.

References

Moncrieff J. The myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment. Palgrave Macmillan. 2009.

Whitaker R. Anatomy of an epidemic. Crown. 2010.

Healy D. The antidepressant era. Harvard University Press. 1997.

Gøtzsche PC. Deadly medicines and organised crime. Radcliffe. 2013.

Kirsch I et al. Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: a meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. PLoS Med. 2008.

Angell M. The epidemic of mental illness: why? New York Review of Books. 2011.

Frances A. DSM 5 is guide not bible—ignore its ten worst changes. BMJ. 2013.

Hengartner MP. How effective are antidepressants for depression over the long term? A critical review of relapse prevention trials. Ther Adv Psychopharmacol. 2020.

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The Autism Mountain

 The so-called autism epidemic has been sold to the public as an unprecedented surge in children afflicted with a mysterious condition. In reality, it is an epidemic created by psychiatry itself. The numbers rose not because millions of children suddenly lost the ability to function in society, but because diagnostic boundaries were quietly expanded.

Dr Allen Frances, the psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV task force, has been unusually candid. He later said his “biggest DSM-IV regret” was that “our broadening the autism definition … led to such massive, careless over-diagnosis” (Allen Frances, Twitter, April 2023). In another interview he admitted he was “very sorry for helping to lower the diagnosis bar” (New York Post, April 24 2023). When the architect of the system admits diagnostic inflation—not hidden disease—is to blame, the foundations of the narrative begin to collapse.

Families have been trapped in this narrative for decades. They were not villains. They were misled. A child with sensitivities to sound, difficulty sitting still, or trouble making friends was suddenly said to be “on the spectrum.” Parents were encouraged to accept the label as scientific truth. And once that label was applied, an industry stood ready to sell services, interventions, and treatments. Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) became the flagship product. Marketed as the “only evidence-based treatment,” ABA was funded by governments, written into policy, and enforced in schools. Behind the slogans, it taught compliance, extinguished individuality, and often left lasting harm. Many autistic self-advocates have described ABA as abusive.

At the same time, it is crucial not to deny that real learning disabilities exist. Conditions such as dyspraxia, apraxia, dysphagia, dyscalculia, dyslexia, and other developmental challenges are genuine and can create serious difficulties in daily life. These conditions need recognition and support. But they require tailored responses—speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy—not a blanket autism label. Folding every difference into “autism” blurs the reality of those struggles and dilutes the help people actually need.

This is how a market sustains itself. Once a diagnosis becomes currency, schools need it to justify funding, providers need it to secure contracts, and pharmaceutical companies need it to sell drugs. Psychiatry’s initial misjudgment metastasized into a self-sustaining economy.

The pattern is familiar. We have seen diagnostic inflation before. Homosexuality was once classified as a mental illness. Multiple Personality Disorder filled clinics in the 1980s before collapsing under the weight of its own excesses. “Recovered memory” therapy destroyed lives before being discredited in court. Even the chemical imbalance theory of depression, once repeated as fact, has been quietly abandoned by researchers who now admit the evidence was never there.

Frances himself warned during the DSM-5 debates that the process risked creating “false epidemics” through “soaring ambition and weak methodology” (Allen Frances, DSM-5 commentary, 2010). He has continued to describe the current surge in autism as a “false epidemic.”

The autism bubble is held up by the same scaffolding. And the resistance to questioning it will be fierce.

First, the money. ABA providers, diagnostic services, and pharmaceutical companies have billions invested in keeping the label alive. They will lobby, fund awareness campaigns, and publish friendly research.

Second, the shield of compassion. Critics will be accused of cruelty: “You are invalidating autistic people’s lived experience.” It is a rhetorical trap. The real question is whether the label itself helps or harms.

Simple preferences, sensitivities and or trauma are not autism- so very many things are simply not.  The authorities do know this. 

Third, the inertia of academia. Universities trained a generation of professionals in the autism framework. Few professors will admit they spent careers teaching a mistake. Counter-articles will appear, wrapped in jargon, to protect reputations.

Fourth, the emotional hold on parents. For some families, walking away from the diagnosis feels like admitting they were duped. Service providers know this, and they will weaponize it: “Don’t let anyone shame you for seeking help.”

Fifth, diagnostic creep. Even if autism diagnoses decline, new categories will appear: sensory processing disorder, social communication disorder, pragmatic language impairment. The system does not shrink; it morphs.

Finally, the law. In courts and tribunals, lawyers will argue that withholding a label or therapy is negligence. Councils and schools, fearing liability, will keep pressing for diagnoses.

These defenses are predictable. They can be pre-empted. The financial motive must be named first: this is not about children, it is about an industry. The compassion shield must be pierced: no one denies that people struggle, but struggle does not equal autism. Parent guilt must be lifted: the guilt belongs to the sellers, not the buyers. Diagnostic creep must be exposed as a shell game. And the legal fear must be inverted: what is truly negligent is forcing children into unproven and harmful interventions.

History suggests how this ends. Manias collapse not when insiders whisper doubts, but when the public hears them. Once the mainstream hears that the “autism epidemic” was built on expanded criteria, and that the man who wrote the manual admits it, the authority of psychiatry is punctured. Media outlets love the story of a lie exposed. Politicians, wary of wasting money, begin to retreat. And what once looked like settled science becomes yesterday’s scandal.

This is not to say there are no children in need. There are, and always will be. But their struggles are varied: learning disabilities, sensory differences, trauma, attention problems, immune issues. To funnel all of this into a single word—and then build an empire on it—is not medicine. It is commerce.

The collapse will not happen all at once. It will follow the familiar arc. At first, resistance. Then doubt. Then scandal. And then silence, as the industry moves on to its next invention.

The autism epidemic is not a surge in broken children. It is a surge in broken diagnostics, amplified by money, fear, and misplaced trust. The sooner we see it for what it is, the sooner families can be freed from a system that was never designed to heal them.

Liz Lucy Robillard

Are Charities Bent or Daft?

Are Very Dozy Sheep in Charge of Charities?

Do charities care more for their mortgages than you? Let's look at evidence of some that are meant to assist disabled kids.

Disabled kids are not being catered to properly and people -sometimes -tend to get wealthy on their pain and vulnerability- sadly there are no doubts at all about that. 

Communication devices to non speakers:

I had a fey-kind but watery- response from the government regarding this-an attempt to shut me up (lol) - absolute evidence I am correct about all this...

Proof that professionals get it wrong across the board- kids are unique -but the stupid, very, very, painfully, lazy training - hasn't allowed for this absolute science. 

The funds go to pay all the bloody professions and NOT to the disabled kids themselves!!! It is RAMPANT exploitation by people with nice homes thank you- who purport to live and breathe for good causes- as long as they get all the mod cons and 4 holidays a year in Corsica and staff to do the - well- the 'work" of pushing around old data, re-worded but always the same *paperwork* that defies modern science but puffs the pockets of the- terminally dim -quota and paper pushers.

Huge lots of charities have done *not very f*cking much* to get effective and modern apps and communication devices out to kids who feel lost, alone & isolated -who do not have the correct devices to help them- shame on group-think, policy, speech therapists, educational psychologists (*&^$) - child shinks of *all descriptions* - shame shame shame on you short-sighted automatons! Stop being bloody sheep! 

Communication Rights for Disabled Children – Failure of AAC Provision

I am writing to demand urgent action on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for disabled children in the United Kingdom.

Every child is unique. Yet our current systems flatten children into averages as it fits the narrow frame that pays them- handsomely. 

 Charities, speech therapy services, and public bodies prefer blanket policies because they look neat in reports.This pays their salary.

But children are not data points. Or 'Targets'!

They are *individual HUMANS with rights*

Legal duties already exist. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by the UK, requires states to accept and facilitate AAC (Article 21). 

The Equality Act 2010 requires reasonable adjustments in communication. NHS England has issued a Specialised AAC Service Specification confirming these duties. The law is clear.

 The problem is compliance, not lack of law. (Thank you law)

The evidence is equally clear. Autism and developmental conditions are heterogeneous (Lord et al, 2020, Lancet Commission). 

Reviews confirm that AAC does NOT hinder speech; Speech 'often improves' (Millar, Light & Schlosser 2006; Schlosser & Wendt 2008). Success depends on matching the tool to the child and training the child’s circle of support (Baxter et al 2012).

More importantly (much more) we also have the testimony of AAC users themselves:

• DJ Savarese: “Begin by asking me a question and offering me a few choices written on a piece of paper.”

• Ido Kedar: “I communicate by typing on an iPad or a letter board.”

• Carly Fleischmann: “I am autistic but that is not who I am.”

• Amanda Baggs: “They are rich and varied forms of communication in their own right.”

• Jordyn Zimmerman: “I am only one nonspeaking autistic person… I can only share my experience.”

• Jim Sinclair: “Don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real.”

These are just a few voices that prove that lack of speech does not mean lack of thought. Get that in your F****** HEAD!!

Yet in practice, large charities such as Mencap, Scope, and Sense have failed to ensure AAC provision. This is vital to note.

Their focus remains on ads, branding, conferences, and awareness campaigns- but implementation? That's left to teaching assistants- mostly-low waged, under appreciated- stars -who sometimes fight huge battles unseen for their charges- when they don't have the tools they should have- empower them- they actually *care* and make a huge difference in lives that can be full of hardship and vulnerabilities.

 Thousands of children still sit without a reliable means of communication at home, school, and in hospital. 

Speech therapy services ration devices, dismiss typing and text AAC as unscientific, and force children into blanket programmes. 

This is not science at all. It is neglect by proxy. It is state sanctioned harm.

What needs to be done is simple:

• Presume competence. Offer AAC early without waiting for “proof of readiness.”

• Provide tools that fit the child—letter boards apps, text-to-speech, access to all modern apps, smartphones with 'Fluid' app for fun ( non-verbal folks like fun too!

 *also watch Neuralink.com and Elon Musk for developments

• Train families, teachers, and peers. A device without trained partners is useless.

• Protect rights by enforcing UNCRPD Article 21 and the Equality Act.

• Measure outcomes that matter—autonomy, social connection, and participation.

• Involve AAC users in policy decisions as equal participants.

In the UK context, regional AAC hubs exist (ACE Centre North, Barnsley Assistive Technology, Kent and Medway, and others). 

Local Trusts are expected to provide ordinary AAC. Yet provision remains a postcode lottery. *Take note London councils. The law is most definitely sniffing around YOU.

The Care Quality Commission has already flagged inconsistency. Big kudos.

I ask you directly:

• What steps will you take to ensure that every disabled child has timely access to AAC?

• How will you enforce compliance with existing law and specifications?

• When will AAC access be treated as a safeguarding issue by regulators?

Children are not averages. Communication is not a privilege. It is a right. The UK has the law, the evidence, and the testimony.

What is missing is enforcement. Who is responsible?  A seedy or stupid sort?

I ask you to act. Today. 

Yours sincerely,

Liz Lucy Robillard PS >

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