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No Harvey. I have voted mostly for the Lib Dem’s but not since that idiot Clegg handed power to Cameron which then led to the mess we are in now. I shall be voting for Starmer in the next election, not only to get the Tories out, but because we need a decent, solid person in charge who actually wants to improve the lives of ordinary people. You don’t have to be Faaaar Left to hate those of far right sensibilities. Anyone in their right mind should despise people like Braverman, Hopkins, Robinson, Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Trump, Anderson etc. and I make no apologies for posting against them and their enablers, even if it does upset the usual suspects on here.

More and more Brexit chickens coming home to roost. Has Kemi made an announcement about the failed Canada trade deal yet?

He has announced he is leaving Liverpool at the end of the season. Why on earth announce it publicly now?

It is well documented here. A while back I called out both of these characters for their far right rhetoric and he was straight in here having a go at me for doing so (despite pretending not to know who either of them were 🙄). His support for far right politics is all over this forum, he even used an alt-right avatar for a while. He is currently trying to tell us that Donald Trump isn’t as bad as most of us believe he is. Not once have I said that I wouldn’t want a black woman as PM. I have said I wouldn’t want someone like Badenoch, Braverman or Patel as PM, but as is perfectly clear if you have the basic level of IQ, you will know that is because of their politics and not their skin colour. His posting history makes it very clear where his sympathies lie, he is just too much of a coward to come out and say it directly. If you are in any doubt, go back over any thread covering politics and you will find evidence of his far right sympathies everywhere. He even uses the same tactics as Trump when challenged, shouting fake news and accusing his challenger as being mentally deficient.

As a reporter said the other day, the Trump movement is now a cult, a very large one that. The man himself has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that his cultish followers will blindly follow him no matter the lies, the felonies, the racism, the misogyny. We have seen it so many times before in America, but never in this scale. But the real danger isn’t the man himself, it is those who enable him either by direct support or by playing down his threat levels. Who in their right mind would like a Charles Manson figure (feel free to add any cult leader of your choice here) leading the most powerful nation on the planet? Sadly many do. I listened to a young black American guy the other day explain why he and his friends are actively supporting Trump. It was so depressing. He taps into the worst of people’s fears and exploits them for his own personal gain. What is frightening as that he couldn’t care less about these people so long as he gets their vote, but they still hang on his every word. We have seen it time and time again through history and we have yet another cult leader seeking power again with the same sheep prepared to give it to him.People who play the threat this man poses need to have their heads examined. Sociopaths show you exactly who and what they are. Trump has been doing it for years and getting away with it.

This is the same person who said a while back that he was liberal 😂. Given his well documented support of the likes of Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson his support for one of the nastier right wing Tories comes as absolutely no surprise at all.

The man is a convicted rapist, should be behind bars for numerous offences and who clearly was behind an insurrection is going to contest the next presidential election. This is beyond bizarre and for those deluded souls who think that he is just a pussy cat and not a really bad thing for America and the rest of the world really needs a reality check. The bloke is dangerous. Throughout history we have seen what unhinged narcissists with unlimited power can do. America and the world got away with it once but the man has had a taste of unlimited power, refused to give it up and if anyone thinks that he will not be worse this time, good luck with that. The world is a much more dangerous place now and having a deluded man baby anywhere near the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East is the stuff of an Austin Powers movie. That is where it belongs. Since Cameron we have had a series of Prime Ministers in this country who should be nowhere near power and the country and the vast majority of its inhabitants are paying the price. The problem here is when a superpower like the US has someone at the helm who is deeply unsuited and definitely unhinged, it is the rest of the world who could end up paying the price. (I love it when I get laughing emojis from the pile on crowd. It shows I must be on the right track)

I’ve just heard an interview on the radio with Jill Scott talking about how she and Gary Neville swopped Twitter accounts. The knuckle draggers told Neville (as Scott) that he should get back in the kitchen and she (as him) was treated more seriously. Priceless. There must have been a few red faces (as opposed to gammon) down at the local ale houses when they revealed the rouse. https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/14/get-back-into-the-kitchen-what-happened-when-jill-scott-and-gary-neville-swapped-social-media-accounts

It certainly has. The infrastructure is falling apart. We don’t build anything anymore. The NHS is failing. Good luck with finding an NHS dentist. Public services are on their knees. Local councils are going bankrupt. Everything is crying out for investment but what do we hear from this embarrassment of a government? Promises of a (cynical) tax cut before the next election. Change can’t come soon enough but while we have some measure of hope, it is looking increasingly like Trump could be in for a second term…God help us.

If there was ever any doubt about how odious you and your likeminded posters are Batman, it has been completely dispelled by this post.

Sunak recently said that under Labour we are in danger of returning to square one. Surely better than returning to the Victorian age Rishi? https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/britain-slipping-back-to-social-divide-of-victorian-era#:~:text=The UK is in danger,the state of the nation.

Other than you can see ice but you can’t see black ice, hence the description. When I was a kid I slipped on some black ice on a drain cover and broke my arm. Just be thankful that your car is concerned for your safety.

As Australia is doing with us?

Given the outrage when the marchers supporting the Palestinians chanted the same thing, the fact that the head honcho of the Israeli government says it too seems to have passed some by. One rule for one, another for the others? All we heard about was that Hamas wanted to scrub Israel from the map. It couldn’t be clearer that the current Israeli government want to do exactly the same with Palestine. There will be no effective peace settlement until both sides accept that they have to find a way of accepting that they both have the right to exist within agreed boundaries in peace. Who can see that happening whilst the existing Israeli government and Hamas hold sway?

We absolutely do need immigration Whitey. How do you think the NHS, the service industry or the countless other low paid jobs would be staffed if it weren’t for immigration?

Meanwhile… https://www.apil.org.uk/press-release/Child-sex-abuse-survivors-kept-waiting-for-justice No front pages for these people.

There is a reason. This government want to make it as difficult as possible for asylum seekers to seek asylum here. That is why they limit the safe procedures and have been dragging their feet about processing the claims of those already here. They have been deliberately mismanaging it for years so that they can then claim that migration is a “major issue” and label people who are perfectly entitled to seek asylum here as “illegal”. It’s straight out of the Tory playbook. When things get difficult, blame the foreigners.

Jess Phillips made a very powerful speech yesterday comparing the hundreds of thousands of pounds it will cost the country via the Home Office to send people to Rwanda, if it ever happens, against the forty odd quid it spends per child on the victims of child sexual abuse. I suppose the xenophobes and racists will probably think that is a better way to spend our money but here’s a thought, perhaps, if the Government put the same resources into dealing with child sexual abuse as it does trying to deal with asylum seekers, perhaps the perpetrators would find themselves in front of a judge quicker and vulnerable children would be safer? Tell me this, why is stopping the boats a bigger issue for the Tory Party than dealing with the sexual exploitation of vulnerable children?

There has been a boundary change in our constituency and we have gone from a safe Tory seat to a cast iron safe Tory seat. The sooner that there is a move towards PR the better. Whilst the boundary commission is independent, the new boundaries favour the Torys in terms of votes at the last election. When you consider that the way the current system works Tories need less votes per seat than the opposition parties it makes a mockery of democracy.

The judiciary have already said it is down to them how they use the judges, not the government. There would also be a backlash from the many serious cases that are waiting for many months, sometimes years, to reach court. If you were going to fast track something at all, then surely rape cases should be a priority rather than a pantomime scheme dreamt up to cover up the fact that the government have completely failed to deal with immigration properly. As for Labour not having a plan. They do and have talked about a great deal. It was pathetic to listen to Sunak flailing around in PMQ’s today. All he had was that Starmer didn’t have a plan. Their plan is to ramp up (ie actually make it work properly) the smashing of the trafficking gangs in France, to open up more and efficient routes to enable those who wish to apply for asylum here to be able to do so with risking their lives on the channel and to make the processing of outstanding claims more efficient. We are already spending a fortune on a system that not only doesn’t work, but the current Government are not putting proper resources into it to make it work. They prefer to pretend that the Rwandan plan is a perfect deterrent. As Chris Bryant says, if the prospect of dying in the channel doesn’t deter them, the slim chance that they might be deported to Rwanda certainly isn’t going to. The only thing the Tories have got is the hate of Johnny Foreigner wanting to come and live here and the knowledge that talking about it appeals to a number of their voter base. The fact that they are spending so much time and effort focussing on the ridiculous Rwanda bill rather than the ongoing cost of living crisis tells you all you need to know.

Help me out here Batman please. I have been reading various reports on Andy Burnham’s published report on the Rochdale grooming gang but I have yet to find an account that states that these people weren’t being investigated or prosecuted particularly because they are Asian. I can’t find the exact thread but you were posting regularly on this matter and if I have missed something I am sure you will correct me, being the forum expert on these matters. I have even checked a report in the Express but apart from using the term Asian gang at every opportunity they seem to ignore the original position that they were allowed to continue because of their ethnicity and the fear of the authorities to appear as racist.

More grim news. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brexit-fallout-finally-dawns-on-london-s-stock-market/ar-AA1mTHyl?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=a816fa32892c436ba455dc9e0cf8347d&ei=30 (Another laughing emoji Lord Legohead. I’m glad you think it’s funny to see the country go to the dogs, but then you think that the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is very funny too, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised).

Sad news. I can’t believe that she was 83. As they say, another one bites the dust 😢

I am old enough to remember the famous phrase - “They smell delicious. If you try that recipe at home I hope all of your doughnuts turn out like Fanny’s”.

There were something like 4 million cases prosecuted during his tenure as DPP and he is expected to be across all of them! It was made very clear that the person heading up the organisation doesn’t get involved in day to day operations when he was accused of not prosecuting Savile. There are a number of Chief Crown Prosecutors over various regions who are responsible for the cases prosecuted in their regions and below them are an area manager and the reviewing lawyer. It appears that the CPS prosecuted 11 cases. It is there job to prosecute if it is deemed to be in the public interest to do so and there is a fair chance of a successful prosecution based on the evidence provided by the police. It should be remembered that some of the post mastrr er s prosecuted for fraud were actually guilty. It should also be remembered that the CPS present the cases but it is down to the court to bring in the verdict. More complaints to Ofcom against the GB News attempts to smear anyone that isn’t a Tory. Farage and Rees Mogg are quick to point the finger at Starmer and Davey but not a word about the numerous Tory ministers who have been involved in this over the years. We even had Sunak having a dig at the leader of the SNP in the Commons yesterday accusing him of politicising the scandal yet not much earlier Lee Anderson stood up and did exactly that at PMQs, calling for Davey to quit. No bias or doubled standards here, no sir.