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You are known by the company you keep.

There are many issues making this worse; one is oversubscribed remand cells due to the backlog in Court cases, that itself is made worse by Court buildings being closed due to RAAC meaning their cases have to be relocated, causing knock on congestion in schedules. Some Courts are having to ask Police forces to allow the use of holding cells for remand prisoners because there is nowhere else to put them. And people expect a quick fix.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/12/over-10000-prisoners-freed-70-days-early-sunak-government

Anyway, as a more serious response, as Starmer said when questioned over prisons, "Yes something needs to be done but I don't have a spare prison in my back pocket". People will see a stonking majority backing up a lot of promises and think 'instant win', but the Ship of State is a lumbering near wreck, and to bring her about she first needs to be patched up and the tiller re-connected.

Please SOGgy, you know what happens when you start threads ;-(

We might also have scouted Mbappe for all that it matters. All well and good spotting the players that will be snapped up by the big clubs, we need to find those that are likely to come to St Mary's.

And he will be equally as irrelevant, given Labour's majority. Farage is only concerned with one thing, himself.

Part of potentially 'showing interest' in reform is working out how the process of addressing such reform might occur. Of course Reform UK want it, equally the 2 major parties will fight against it if only to keep Reform on the fringes of power, I'm not sure the LDs are quite so keen on it now as they might have been on July 3rd, The UK already has alternative electoral systems in the devolved assemblies, how well are they received, how well do they work ? ( I truly don't know ). You have to accept that this is far more complicated, politically and constitutionally, than many proponents are suggesting. Yes Brexit was a result of pressure, but much of that was actually pressure on the Conservative Party from within it's own ranks. The pointless AV referendum was a concession to seduce the LD's into propping up the Cameron Government. In both of these cases there was an incentive for the incumbent Government to do something in order to survive. PR is not creating such pressure, and is not likely to do so any time soon.

MJT complaining about Biden saying he is 'putting Trump in the crosshairs' has obviously forgotten this;

Trump appointed judge with a history of ruling in Trump's favour in other Federal cases.

Decay

Are you claiming you know your onions ?

Who decides that we will have your Commission / referendum if it isn't Parliament ?

20 minutes after Pog crossed the line today, only 22 riders had finished.

We must have the most friendly attack in the tournament.

Somerset 80 0, halfway there in less than half their overs.

Today's ride was the coldest July ride I have done. More like November.

Try re-reading the text you quoted; this year would have been the first Presidential election he would have voted in. He was old enough to vote in the midterms, which strangely occur Mid Term of a Presidential cycle, as indeed his voter registration indicates - 'Date of last vote 11/8/2022'. You must try harder to keep up.

But they have also killed the key witness, a la Lee Harvey Oswald.

Yes. It is horrific that a 20 year old can be so mentally screwed up that he wants to shoot somebody, and equally so that he finds it so easy to get access to an automatic rifle so he can act out his delusions. I wonder if this will change Trump's opinion on gun control.

These two pictures on the BBC show the shot came from Trump's right.....

Trump did make a big deal over vote rigging.

He apparently had a 'Stop the Steal' patch on his shirt, and a neo-nazi eagle emblem. The irony of looking at Trump stood on the podium with people behind him holding placards saying 'Your fired'.

If only the people in the crowd had more guns it might not have happened.