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You really are a sad individual aren’t you? Most normal people accept that immigration is a good thing. Most normal do not have a problem with people of a different ethnicity. These views have nothing to do with where people live. I don’t know where you got your figure from but it is wrong. There is a very large Nepalese population in Ashford and if you were ever to visit the town (please don’t) you would see plenty of brown and black faces along with white Eastern Europeans. Where I live has absolutely nothing to do with Jenrick’s hypocrisy and blatant racism, but well done with your attempt at deflection along with your sad need to denigrate your stalker victims. I notice that you recently did it on another thread, dragging Verbal’s wife into a thread just to have a dig at him. You are not funny and you are not clever. Your feeble attempts to score points are clearly driven by your deep seated bigotry. I know that you have taken a deeply troubling interest in me so you will know that I spent the first ten years of my life growing up 1 mile away from Brixton. You will know that Brixton had a very large black population even back in the 50’s. You will know that I spent most of my life working in London, one of the most diverse cities on the planet. Robert Jenrick has just made himself look incredibly stupid, yet you chose to take time out of your day to try and turn that into an attack on someone who has never made an issue about who lives where dependant on their ethnicity. You really need to sort yourself out mate.

As you say you know much about the history of the conflict I guess you know that there haven’t been elections in Gaza since 2006?

Robert Jenrick. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/robert-jenrick-integration-problem-racist-111800050.html Two things that are particularly funny about his comments. The first is after having said that he didn’t see any white faces, the first five people that he interviewed for his documentary were all white. He also lives in a village with a population of 166 people…only one of whom is from a different ethnicity. Surely Robert you should also be complaining about the lack of diversity in your village?

True, I was just trying to make a distinction. When I worked for the CPS it wasn’t uncommon to refer to female police officers as WPCs as shorthand. It is no big deal though is it? She is a woman and she is a police officer. Update: one of her mates was arrested/suspended as part of the fallout from the documentary. Don’t know what the charge against him is yet. His first name is Lawrence, don’t know his surname, but if you think I am bullshitting Duckie his name will be released when they are legally allowed to do so. Oh, and I notice from you last post that you are still stuck in a 70’s time warp.

There were three waves of attack apparently. The first two were carried out by the “official” Hamas military and the third later on by a large group of opportunists who weren’t a part of the attack plan. Still no accountability for the massive intelligence failure on the part of the Israelis nor any figure put on the number of “friendly fire” victims caused by the IDF themselves. No surprise there. As long as Netanyahu can keep the war going he can use that as an excuse to keep proper accountability at bay. Even if Hamas do agree to the current peace deal, Netanyahu will find a reason to scupper it, either now or later. The IDF claim that they take great care in identifying their targets. They clearly do not and the buck needs to stop at the man at the top. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-07/israel-hannibal-directive-kidnap-hamas-gaza-hostages-idf/104224430 In an ideal world, today would see the peace deal implemented and an end to the hostilities by both sides. The moment that happens, Netanyahu and his government will come under greater scrutiny. He doesn’t want that. This is why. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-admits-immense-amount-friendly-fire-7-october

You clearly hate all Muslims. There are plenty of your posts which prove that, and well before the events of 7th October. Whether you are a racist or not is open to interpretation but you have plenty of previous in running to the defence of the likes of Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins. I don’t recall you calling out Farage for being the odious, lying scumbag he is. You used to use an avatar that was an alt-right icon and I don’t think that you were using it ironically. You constantly support posts that have what could be called a far right bias. You like to pretend that you are even handed and respect other opinions but your posts indicate where you are really coming from and have done for years. You just don’t have the guts to come out and say what you really mean. I am glad that others are calling you out now, but I saw through your facade years ago. No doubt you will profess your innocence, but you only have to look at the type of other posters who support you and who you support and it couldn’t be clearer where you are coming from.

Strange thread recently. To state the obvious, the idea that security forces can keep on top of every terrorist thread is patently impossible. As the saying goes, a terrorist only has to get lucky once. The security forces have to get lucky every single day of the week. There are countless operations being carried out all of the time, many with positive results, but it is physically and technically impossible to stop every attack. There isn’t a single security force on the planet that has been able to prevent every single attack and, due to the nature of these attacks, there never will be. I am sure we all understand that, apart from one poster who seems to think that all Muslims are a potential threat therefore we should provide the resources to monitor them all, all of the time. And yes hypo, I am being flippant (and I am referring to you).

I would have bet my mortgage on you replying immediately. You really are a pathetic, sad little man. I have mentioned her before in a thread that you replied to. It was in relation to her height (she is quite small) and her being in the Met. That was some effort on my part to make up a story and lay the foundations months ago eh? As of February 2025 there were 33,201 serving members in the Metropolitan Police Force. There are currently 13,930 members on this site with many more contributing non members. Even with the most rudimentary understanding of mathematics surely even you must realise that the odds on someone here knowing or knowing of someone serving in the police force must be quite high? Incidentally, her eldest son is a butcher and her youngest son has recently become a serving officer in the Kent police force. If I get the inside track on any butcher related stories or Kent police rated stories please refer back to this post before you accuse me of being a purveyor of “pony.”

Mrs SOG’s bestie was here last night. Her daughter is a WPC in the Met working out of Charing Cross nick so I was hoping for a bit of inside info. All she said was that there had been lots of rumours circulating about something big happening and some colleagues didn’t turn up for shifts which created more rumours. I asked about her reaction to the documentary and she said her daughter had not seen that kind of behaviour on her shifts. It was often a bit “edgy” as you would expect but nothing as clear cut as what we saw. She and a few colleagues went out for a drink with the undercover reporter but fortunately for them they behaved themselves. She said the reporter was egging them on and trying to encourage them to be a bit outrageous. From what we saw some of them in the documentary didn’t seem to need much help. Her former skipper was one of those arrested. I guess we shall hear a bit more when the dust settles.

I think that is an issue for every PM to a lesser or greater extent. There will always be factions within parties who are not happen with certain policies or direction of travel. The Labour Party are probably more likely to have internal divisions due to its history and the advent of New Labour. Starmer’s main issue for me is that he is a pragmatist rather than an idealist. Corbyn is an idealist and appeals to those with deep rooted socialist principles. Starmer is a socialist but wants to solve problems without being hamstrung by ideology. Hence what are seen of a number of unborn like decisions in his first year. He inherited a poisoned chalice isfter 14 years of austerity, misrule and corruption. He was never going to address the main issues and remain popular in the first phase of his administration. No one could. But as with football managers, if you don’t set the world alight after 6 matches people want you out. Every government bring in their unpopular policies at the start knowing that they are safe for a few years and then bring in the sweeteners as another election approaches. Starmer’s problem is that, by his own admission, it will take two terms to address the problems we face. He won’t be given the time because too many people want everything better now. Farage, despite not having a clue how to govern, is selling quick fixes that he doesn’t have. There have been some high profile mistakes in his first year, but also a number of good things which get buried as the media is bent on doing all it can to diss him, especially the Mail which has plumbed new depths of mostly unsubstantiated bile. He has a big task in his second year to fight the rise of populism, racial hatred and to get over the more positive messages. He looks the part on the international stage and has managed to make us look like we belong on the world stage again after a succession of clowns (just imagine Farage representing the UK in similar circumstances). He needs to bring that to his domestic performance. He has been fortunate that Badenoch is such a poor leader of the opposition as she and her party sink lower and lower into obscurity. The LibDems are still suffering from Clegg’s momentous error to get behind Cameron and look unlikely to pose a real threat to Labour. Hopefully Farage will be a busted flush soon. It is all Labour’s to lose and they and Starmer clearly need to up their game. His problem is that he needs to persuade more of his party that the emphasis should be more on fixing and less on ideology.

No it isn't a made up word and if you know “plenty about the history of the conflict” as you say, why not display some of that knowledge, pal? Look up Christophobia and Hinduphobia too. At the moment you just sound like an apologist for Netanyahu and genocide. You have an issue about Islam and it being “medieval.” Where do you stand on the practice of male genital mutilation (or circumcision as it is widely known)? Would you class that practice as “medieval” too or are you only interested in dissing one religion? There is plenty to criticise in other religions if you can be bothered to look. You and people like you are why we are where we are today. You stoke and thrive on division and hatred. Whether you target Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, people with brown or black skin, gays, trans people etc., it all comes from the same place. You are proud of being a bigot. Little wonder you follow Farage and his ilk. 3 people died in the incident in Manchester yesterday. 53 people were killed in Gaza yesterday. 56 lives lost, and for what?

Don’t listen to conspiracy theorists, especially anti-vaxers! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77dmp3jjepo.amp Not only do you find the death of tens of thousands of innocent people funny nic, you also find it funny that a young girl has died when it is entirely possible that she could have lived. But then as a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxer yourself I expect that you would side with her mother.

If you know anything at all about the history of this conflict you will know that both sides have been killing each other for longer than decades. Given your support for Farage I am not surprised by your comments though. It’s a bit early for point scoring though isn’t it? Perhaps show a bit of respect for those who have died and have been injured and leave it a while before you start with the Islamophobia eh? We can then also talk about the tens of thousands of people from that “medieval religion” who have also lost their lives recently. PS. The Jewish, Islamic and Christian religions all pre date medieval times.

Netanyahu has since come out and refuted that he will accept a Palestinian state and that Trump is of the same mind. He also says that the IDF will not be withdrawn from Gaza. As one commentator has written, this proposed peace deal is more of a fantasy and what we have come to expect from anything that Trump is involved with. Just hearing that there has been a stabbing at a synagogue in Manchester with the perpetrator having been shot.

I am surprised that Batman hasn’t picked up on this story given that he is so concerned with two tier policing. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j9vwvz71o.amp

Nothing to say about Starmer’s speech yesterday? After many dour pronouncements I thought it was an excellent and rousing speech . Hopefully this is the beginning of a consistent fight back against the creeping racism that has been growing for a while now. Good to see Farage called out for what he is on a national stage. No surprise to see the far right media still lying about what Starmer is saying. He is not and has never said that it is racist to be concerned about immigration and control of our borders. He called real racism out what it is and Farage sounded, finally, a bit rattled, by the criticism. Starmer was spot on. All he has got (Farage) is grievance. He offers nothing other than division and hatred. It was a good move to reclaim the flags from the flagshaggers. It is entirely possible to be proud of your country without feeling the need to denigrate immigrants or hang flags from lampposts. It is one thing to preach to the converted, another to bring the country with you. I hope that we will see more of this from Starmer and Labour going forward. It shouldn’t be an issue to call a racist a racist yet it has become so. The other big thing to come out of the Labour conference is the almost complete disappearance of the Tory Party. Hardly any mention of them at all. The guns were aimed at Farage and Reform. It’s incredible how a party who have governed the country for such a large part of the last hundred years have become so insignificant so quickly. Badenoch is clearly not the answer and if they go with Jenrick they will be worse than they are at the moment, if that is possible. It’s hard to see a way back for them. So then, the “loony left” and the so called Antifa threat we seem to be importing from Trump. Anyone know who the far left equivalent of Tommy Robinson is? Anyone know how you sign up for Antifa? I’m struggling with this. As a so called “lefty” I haven’t got a clue who I am supposed to be supporting considering that many in the Labour Party consider that Starmer isn’t “left” enough. Final point. Farage, like Trump, keeps banging on about “Free Speech” up until the point that people use their freedom of speech to criticism them, then they throw their dummies out of the pram. Can’t have it both ways lads.

Going back in history, where do your draw the line? The Arabs, Jews and others have ruled that land at different times over the last few thousands years. The Romans ruled this land before the Anglo-Saxons. Perhaps we should cede the UK to Italy? The Palestinians have just as much right to live in that area as the Israelis. They have just as much right to use Jerusalem as a religious centre as the Jewish community. Both need to find a way to live side by side in peace. If Netanyahu has a problem with that, he needs to stand down. The Palestinians need to find a leadership who will also accept living peacefully with Israel as Hamas have no future. Sorry if you find it all so confusing nic.

Wonderful. If only ICE were rounding up drug dealers, rapists and murderers ahead of grannies, home depot workers and school teachers.

Despite Trump’s ridiculous rhetoric yesterday, what are the chances of peace actually braking out in the Middle East? Given that Netanyahu and those in his cabinet have no intention of recognising the state of Palestine and have shown zero appetite in stopping the killing and destruction in Gaza and aggression and expansion in the West Bank, it’s hard to see it happening. It is in Netanyahu’s interest to keep the war going. He will find a way of playing Trump and derailing the peace process as he has done before. I hope that I am wrong, but I can’t see this working until Netanyahu is out of office. Strange to have peace talks when one of the main players is not involved in the talks. Hamas either agree with what Trump and Netanyahu want, or Trump stands back and lets the IDF carrying on butchering innocents and flattening what is left of Gaza. Not much of a negotiation is it?

Whilst I totally agree that Reform get far more coverage than the other minority parties, as much as it sickens me they are now leading in the polls and need to be taken seriously. The far right are drowning out the moderates and if we don’t want to go the way of America we need to get behind those fighting against right wing extremism. The moderates in the Tory party have vanished and that party is dead electorally. As frightening as it sounds, Starmer is right to target Reform as his biggest threat at the next election.

No one is going to bite our hand off for Stephens.

They’re eating the cats, the’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the swans 😂. 77 million Americans voted for the Mango Mussolini. All these figures prove is that you can never underestimate the number of turkeys who will vote for Christmas. The fact is that Trump is clearly the worst US President in history and embarrasses his country more and more everyday. Our electorate can see this every single day yet some of them are prepared to vote for our very own Poundland version which makes you understand why Socrates was so critical of democracy. Apparently there are still some people who swallowed Farage’s bullshit about Brexit who still think that it was a good idea 🤪. When people tell you who they are, believe them. Trump and Farage have told us exactly who they are. The people who vote for them deserve all they get.

Farage believes that Sharia Law will be introduced into the UK. How does he know this? A taxi driver told him. Seriously. He doesn’t trust science but he trusts what random taxi drivers and Andrew Tate tell him. Yes nic, it is laughable isn’t it?

But he cost us a cheap goal with an unenforced error playing Russball? Anyway, the two times I have seen Quarshie and Wood play together they looked decent and solid. I thought that Quarshie looked particularly good last night. I would start them both on Saturday. Flynn Downes my MotM.

My point was, and is, that my original use of the phrase “picked on” is perfectly valid. Let’s put this into perspective. There are about 341 million people in the US. This 73 year old lady has complied consistently with the requirements made of her. She has been resident in the US since the 1990’s, has worked and raised a family there. The current regime has decided to get rid of the “worst of the worst” illegal immigrants as a priority, which of course is their right. Two points. How does this lady qualify to be in this worst of the worst category now, after more than 30 years, given her apparent excellent record as a resident? Second point. Why arrest a 73 year old lady in handcuffs and put her in a detention centre for “processing” when she is clearly not a flight risk and is willing to comply with the deportation order? She is being treated the same as the “worst of the worst.” I don’t think it is unreasonable to say that she is being picked on. I’d be interested to hear why so many of her appeals have failed over such a long period of time. Still, handcuffing and incarcerating a compliant older lady, who is prepared to do whatever she is told to do by the authorities, is shameful. Moving on. Another example of what a dreadful and divisive country the US of A has become under Trump’s regime. This is a direct quote by someone whom the President has hailed as an “American hero.” ”I am also going to offer some context and some nuance about the death of George Floyd that no one dares to say out loud, which is that this guy is a scumbag. Now, does that mean he deserves to die? That’s two totally different things - of course not.” Say the same quote but exchange the name Charlie Kirk for George Floyd and the President and his gang will denounce you and call for you to lose your job. As I type this Trump is blatantly lying in a speech at the UN and is also dissing them!