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Thornberry didn't make it. Phew.

To be fair, he was a great deal younger than me at the time.

I prepared a delicious meal for my wife tonight for Valentines. Starter: prawns, salmon and smoked salmon presented in a sea shell. Main: Venison stake in chocolate butter sauce a with spinach mornay. Desert: Elderflower and pear cheesecake. Washed down with a bottle of fizz. Went down a treat and I have just banked a ton of brownie points. Thank you Waitrose. And all for 20 quid. Bargain!

No wonder Alps doesn’t post much anymore!

Watching the SE news earlier and there was a report on the council in Maidstone stopping the use of monitoring the CCTV cameras in real time due to the expense. Not great. As a side note, they showed some old footage of some guys in white overalls and masks trying to smash in the window of a jeweller with sledgehammers. I was on my lunch break at the time and me and another guy chased them down the road. I had no idea what I thought I was going to do if I caught up with them but thankfully they jumped into a van a drive off before we found out. The police did catch them though. They stopped at a red light and were blocked in before the lights changed!

Sad news. I remember him scoring a screamer for Stoke in our 4-3 win against them at The Dell not long after he left us. Quality player.

Indeed hypo, indeed.

I’m not confident about this one. We struggle against teams who sit back and Burnley often turn us over. Be happy with a draw.

Ask the people who brought it up again. Perhaps some people on here are worried about having an Asian in charge of the country’s money?

I am sure that he doesn’t need you standing in for him but as you have he has a record of wading in on Muslims and ignoring the wider issues. Are you saying that Muslim men have the monopoly on misogyny? Look at the domestic violence, rape and sexual assault record in the Western world. I really don’t think we can take the moral high ground.

Back on the beat? No wonder you are still stuck in the last century. The days of the cheery local Bobby giving a the local oiks a clip around the ear is long gone, along with chicks and birds. You need a highly mobile and well equipped force nowadays. The community officers were supposed to give local support to communities, but your party have cut numbers so much that that doesn’t happen as it should. Perhaps if we had a government full of “snowflakes” we would have the funding for the policing we need.

What about rape in general? Or is it just Muslim gang rape that upsets you?

If it was about ego why not keep you job and ditch the minions?

Apparently Gao is the 9th richest owner in the Prem.

An unelected advisor seems to be running the country.

If it was I think we would have heard about it on here from a usual suspect. No. He is a Christian.

I have have added the the whole Criminal Justice System has been decimated, not just the police but the CPS, the probation service, the court service, the lot.

Good to see at least one Tory has a moral compass.

So true. I worked closely with a number of police officers for 8 years and moral dropped year by year as the spendings cuts bit.

An ex monk has just been jailed for sexually assaulting 3 boys under the age of 13. After the first occasion he admitted his offence to his elders. Instead of reporting him to the police they just sent him to another parish and he consequently reoffended. Anyone outraged?

Give it a rest mate.

Kent Police have to cut their budget by £9m in the next financial year which isn’t helpful. When I was on the Parish Council I got to know the local officers. They were very helpful but due to cuts in numbers had to cover large areas so we didn’t see much of them. If deployed correctly they can play a useful part in local policing but as with the full police officers, there aren’t enough of them out and about. Even if the recruitment figures are to be believed, the numbers will be well below what they should be.

What planet are you on Whelk?

Just looked at the proposed journey times. There doesn’t seem to be a huge saving in time given the cost. It cuts nearly an hour off of the journeys to Scotland but flying will still be quicker and cheaper. As for Brum and Manchester, again will the quicker times be worth the expense and the cost of the ticket?

From a Newcastle grooming gang court case, the judge concluded that the gang selected their victims “not because of their race, but because they young, impressionable, naive and vulnerable.” Their victims included girls with learning difficulties and mental health issues.