moonraker

You need to understand the difference between illegal immigration and asylum. The right wing love to use incorrect terminology to justify their illegal plans deliberately using illegal immigration and asylum as one and the same thing, another is saying foreign courts should not rule on UK matters, when the courts they are referring to are International Courts, i.e. courts within which the UK has equal representation to all the signatories of the agreements that set up the courts in the first place, they are not "foreign". Ironically International Courts were originally championed by UK governments including tory ones.

The thing is these prosecutions were private prosecutions totally in the gift of the post office. The CPS had no involvement in making the decision to prosecute. Given that the the evidence against the individuals came directly from the PO and the Software house and has been shown to be unsound and unsafe I fail to see how one can point the finger at the CPS. There are a number of "Organisations" who can bring such prosecutions, a hangover of Victorian public bodies charters, somewhat belatedly the Gov are talking about removing these arcahic rights.

Major difference was Adkins had had a whole season with the team, Martin is having to sort out the shitshow from last season.

So please can you expand on what the EU could have given us, we already had one of if not the best deal, what is that you 5hink we deserve more than the other countries and why?

Our Bath City loanee got MoM fire the Romans today, kept them in it with a string of Greta saves. Big difference in leagues but you never know😉

Where is this from, Sky reporting Saints have requested he play.

75% according to BBC, still irrelevant if we don’t convert it.

Tells us nothing

Dodd also played for Bath City, we purchased him from there.

It may be an “immutable fact” but it also a big assumption that the record matters to JWP. He has never seemed to me to be focused on glory hunting, of course I am sure he would love to get the record. The key is no sensible offers.

He is preimiership player, we are in the Championship if the chance him to return to Prem arises that is right for SFC that does not negate the service he has given to us. He will always be a Saint, is Mike Channon not a legend? JWP has been a shinning example of a loyal player.

Bit more high tech, especially the deployment system.

Correct, however the purpose was to stop high speed suicide / autonomous boats and nothing to do with refugees and asylum seekers boats.

Well, I don't see any great competence, efficiency or effectiveness from the the private sector. They have a monopoly and still they can't run it, only priority is dividends and bonuses. In public ownership ministers are directly responsible for performance. Thatcher's privatisation experiment with national infrastructure and utilities has failed, and we will pick up the bill while shareholders and senior executives count their winnings.

My God that man needs sectioning

If the choice is between an octogenarian Biden and a terminally narcissistic Trump then I’ll take Biden. He is not a cult, he is not a narcissist, he is not a liar (at least not in the Trump sense), he does not rely on the support of the dimmest least educated red neck gun touting weirdos the English speaking world possesses for legitimacy. It’s a poor choice, but sometimes that is the hand you are dealt, and sometimes that is the hand you created. Bless America!

Their ship numbers are a concern, however there is a big difference in having lots of kit and being able to maximise its potential. The USSR, and its successor have made numerous attempts to develop Naval Air power and failed. I am not complacent but judging a nations armed forces by numbers is fraught with problems. The real world is not top trumps.

But even you I hope can see that 75 % of cuts since 1985 are down to the Tories. That includes Thatcher despite the Falklands, if it were not for the Argentinians John Knott a Thatcher would have gutted the military in 1982/3.

That’s sounds reasonable, however you stated you wanted a genuine recall act, there are problems as I see it. One it is that it is difficult enough to get the electorate to engage in the democratic political process especially “ordinary joes (and Jill’s)” 20-40% is typical local election turnout territory. There would also have to be a trigger to initiate such a recall, in the case of Johnson and the charge he misled Parliament unless this were first “proven” to at least civil court standards should the electorate have the right to recall him? There would have to be a process that demonstrates that the reason for a recall is genuine not here say or biased media reporting. Johnson choose not to take the findings of the inquiry to his own electorate. Despite all his wailing and winging he has avoided the one part of the process that you deem would be democratic. To be genuine it must have a real prospect of succeeding, and as you rightly state must not be a mechanism for political activists to cause mischief. If in some future hypothetical recall scenario a sitting MP decides to jump before the process has run its course that cannot be seen as admission of “guilt”. Without due process of inquiry, evidence, witnesses and informed judgement an otherwise good MP may decide to move on and avoid having to defend themselves against baseless accusations and biased media reporting. So my initial view that whilst it passes the reasonable test it fails totally on the fairness, practical and due process test.

Please could you outline what a genuine recall act would look like, I am serious, because if you have one in mind I am sure we would all be interested in it.

I would concede it was extreme political naivety to make the pledge. The LD did not for a government the propped up a Tory one, by far a bigger act of naivety than the pledge and failed to extract key policy concessions from them, that was naive.

I would also add the time required to draft, debate, scrutinise and vote on legislation is so much more complex compared to a general manifesto of policy intent and direction.

You really do not understand how parliamentary democracy works do you. A manifesto is not a pledge, it is statement of policy intent, every Government has been in a position where it cannot deliver on some of its intent, there are numerous and valid reasons for this, but trying to discuss them with you has no intellectual or mind broadening value.

Blair certainly lied. Nick Clegg did not lie about tuition fees. It was in the LD manifesto however the Government whilst a coalition was led by the Tories and to form a coalition as the junior partner the LDs did not have sufficient leverage to retain everything in their manifesto. Of coarse you know that but as usual choose to be deliberately ignorant of reality. And as anyone who has a passing interest in politics knows manifestos are not promises but a statement of policy intent provided the circumstances following an election allow. The Tories have been in power for 13 years and we are in a far worse state than we were in 2010 but carry on believing in the unicorns and sunlit uplands your social superiors keep telling you exist. The sad thing about Clegg it was not parliamentary process that did for him but right wing press.

And he didn’t consult Acroba, more disregard for Parliament and democracy. He should have asked them for clearance to accept this job, apparently he informed them 30 mins before he accepted the post. Either he believes it outside their remit and therefore he had no need to tell them, or he knows he needs their OK but left it to the last minute, you decide which one the slimy entitled hog thinks. It would be so joyous if the6 blocked his appointment especially after the gas lighting over Sue Gray.