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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,836
shmmeee said:
I can never read Gillian Keegan’s name/face as Education Secretary. It always screams “dodgy TV nutritionalist”. This is apropos of absolutely nothing.
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Is it cos her name is similar to professional poo sniffer Gillian McKeith?
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,837
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Is it cos her name is similar to professional poo sniffer Gillian McKeith?
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Doubt it
 

TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,838
Very hard to continue with my belief that the death penalty is wrong while people like Lucy Letby continue to breathe. Pure evil. Hopefully she's killed while inside.

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Deleted member 5849

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,839
TomRad85 said:
Very hard to continue with my belief that the death penalty is wrong while people like Lucy Letby continue to breathe. Pure evil. Hopefully she's killed while inside.

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You might not enjoy this article

Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby

Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,840
TomRad85 said:
Very hard to continue with my belief that the death penalty is wrong while people like Lucy Letby continue to breathe. Pure evil. Hopefully she's killed while inside.

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Did Watkins die in the end?

TBH not according to any moral compass, but I’d rather people like that die being shanked and told they’re evil cunts than put to sleep on behalf of the state.

But this is possibly why I’m not a judge.
 
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TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,841
shmmeee said:
Did Watkins die in the end?

TBH not according to any moral compass, but I’d rather people like that die being shanked and told they’re evil cunts than put to sleep on behalf of the state.

But this is possibly why I’m not a judge.
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I agree, my problem is really that i don't want the state having the power to kill people rather than i don't want bad people dead. Maybe someone will do us a favour with this bitch.
 

TomRad85

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,842
Deleted member 5849 said:
You might not enjoy this article

Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby

Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Fucking dreadful, i think there need to be jailings here, sackings will not suffice.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,843
TomRad85 said:
I agree, my problem is really that i don't want the state having the power to kill people rather than i don't want bad people dead. Maybe someone will do us a favour with this bitch.
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Perhaps we can campaign for the Fuck Around And Find Out Act 2024 to legalise prison revenge for certain crimes.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,844
shmmeee said:
Perhaps we can campaign for the Fuck Around And Find Out Act 2024 to legalise prison revenge for certain crimes.
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Count me in.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,845
Guess we need to take part then

UK gun lobby accused of helping to ‘skew’ consultation on tightening laws

BASC and Countryside Alliance advising supporters how to answer consultation launched after Plymouth mass killings
www.theguardian.com
 

stupot07

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,846
Deleted member 5849 said:
Guess we need to take part then

UK gun lobby accused of helping to ‘skew’ consultation on tightening laws

BASC and Countryside Alliance advising supporters how to answer consultation launched after Plymouth mass killings
www.theguardian.com
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This one? Firearms licensing: a consultation on recommendations for changes made to the Home Office (accessible)

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clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • #30,847
TomRad85 said:
Fucking dreadful, i think there need to be jailings here, sackings will not suffice.
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Heard a report on the radio driving home regarding the warnings ignored by senior management and it was shocking.

This is dead babies they were being warned about for fucks sake, it's heartbreaking, unbelievable and maddening all at once.
 
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David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 22, 2023
  • #30,848
One bad apple

Former Met police officer jailed for rape of female colleague and 16-year-old girl

Judge says force protected Adam Provan by ignoring officer’s complaints, allowing him to attack teenager
www.theguardian.com
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 22, 2023
  • #30,849
David O'Day said:
One bad apple

Former Met police officer jailed for rape of female colleague and 16-year-old girl

Judge says force protected Adam Provan by ignoring officer’s complaints, allowing him to attack teenager
www.theguardian.com
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Remember when Khan was widely criticised by the right for saying he didn’t have confidence in Cressida Dick? The Tories even ordered a sham enquiry into it. Imagine doing that to the backdrop of a police force that clearly had/has serious issues and a commissioner who was clearly in denial about it. Patel as Home Secretary must have had details about how bad things were in the Met so failed in her duties by trying to politically stitch up a mayor who was not only right to say he had no confidence in the commissioner he would have failed in his duties as mayor if he hadn’t have said that.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 23, 2023
  • #30,850
David O'Day said:
One bad apple

Former Met police officer jailed for rape of female colleague and 16-year-old girl

Judge says force protected Adam Provan by ignoring officer’s complaints, allowing him to attack teenager
www.theguardian.com
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The whole institution needs to be abolished

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chiefdave

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  • Aug 24, 2023
  • #30,851
Remember not to ask for a pay rise or inflation will be your fault

Top UK CEOs handed 16% pay rise as millions of workers squeezed – as it happened

Data from the High Pay Centre thinktank showed FTSE 100 bosses collected an average £500,000 pay rise last year, taking their median pay to £3.9m
www.theguardian.com
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 25, 2023
  • #30,852
Really interesting/frustrating thread about why British infrastructure costs so much:


In a nutshell: over zealous NIMBYs at the planning stage, dithering politicians at the policy stage, with constantly changing requirements (I’ve heard this complaint in govt IT too), and an insistence on doing things our own way.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Aug 25, 2023
  • #30,853
shmmeee said:
Really interesting/frustrating thread about why British infrastructure costs so much:


In a nutshell: over zealous NIMBYs at the planning stage, dithering politicians at the policy stage, with constantly changing requirements (I’ve heard this complaint in govt IT too), and an insistence on doing things our own way.
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read that earlier, thoroughly depressing. when I go to events I always look at the public transport options first and I don't think I've had a single instance where using public transport is far more expensive and takes far longer

there was this as well

 
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dutchman

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  • Aug 26, 2023
  • #30,854

No wealth tax under Labour, Rachel Reeves pledges

Shadow chancellor rules out higher levies on property, capital gains and top earners as her party seeks to grab the centre ground
www.telegraph.co.uk
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 27, 2023
  • #30,855
dutchman said:

No wealth tax under Labour, Rachel Reeves pledges

Shadow chancellor rules out higher levies on property, capital gains and top earners as her party seeks to grab the centre ground
www.telegraph.co.uk
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How on Earth does this qualify as the 'centre ground'?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 27, 2023
  • #30,856
So many words, so little said

Nadine Dorries' resignation letter in full

The Tory MP published the eviscerating letter she wrote to Rishi Sunak.
www.bbc.co.uk
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 27, 2023
  • #30,857
Brighton Sky Blue said:
So many words, so little said

Nadine Dorries' resignation letter in full

The Tory MP published the eviscerating letter she wrote to Rishi Sunak.
www.bbc.co.uk
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She has a disturbing infatuation with Johnson
 
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fatso

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  • Aug 27, 2023
  • #30,858
TomRad85 said:
I agree, my problem is really that i don't want the state having the power to kill people rather than i don't want bad people dead. Maybe someone will do us a favour with this bitch.
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I agree.
Strange how we trust a load of evil criminals to cary out "justice" before we'd trust the state.


..... then again, is there really any difference?
 
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fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 28, 2023
  • #30,859
shmmeee said:
Really interesting/frustrating thread about why British infrastructure costs so much:


In a nutshell: over zealous NIMBYs at the planning stage, dithering politicians at the policy stage, with constantly changing requirements (I’ve heard this complaint in govt IT too), and an insistence on doing things our own way.
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Inertia from the treasury's inability to forward plan as well

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chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 28, 2023
  • #30,860
shmmeee said:
Really interesting/frustrating thread about why British infrastructure costs so much:


In a nutshell: over zealous NIMBYs at the planning stage, dithering politicians at the policy stage, with constantly changing requirements (I’ve heard this complaint in govt IT too), and an insistence on doing things our own way.
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Fucking hell, reading this its a miracle we get anything at all
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 28, 2023
  • #30,861
The worst thing is, if all that came out of the planning system were well designed, environmentally sensitive buildings I’d probably accept it. But we get absolute shite still and we can’t build anything in less time than the average cats lifespan.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,862
Grant Shapps new Defence Secretary. Surprised they didn’t install Mogg, he’d have us aiming cannons and muskets at Russia and sending the light brigade into Crimea
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,863
Shapps has now been Defence Secretary, Transport Secretary, Business Secretary, Home Secretary and Energy Security Secretary in just the past 12 months. A truly indispensable leader of our times.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,864
Is Grant Shapps the one who used to sell get rich quick schemes on the internet under numerous alias’?
 
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CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,865
SBT said:
Shapps has now been Defence Secretary, Transport Secretary, Business Secretary, Home Secretary and Energy Security Secretary in just the past 12 months. A truly indispensable leader of our times.
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Frightening for the highest quality MP let alone Shapps. It’s why I give up with politics…how can constant change of ministerial roles be good for those departments and more importantly the country ?!
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,866
skybluetony176 said:
Is Grant Shapps the one who used to sell get rich quick schemes on the internet under numerous alias’?
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No that was Michael Green
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,867
Shapps’ pension must be astronomical by now.
 

skybluetony176

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  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,868
Putin must be shaking in his boots at this appointment

 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,869
People on Twitter were having a right go at Penny Mordaunt (as she seemed to be angling for the Defence job) as being hopelessly unqualified for the role. And then they do THIS???
At least knows what a military base looks like (and not just, while Transport Secretary, as a place to park lorries waiting to cross the Channel because your Brexit-busting freight provider doesn't actually have any ships).
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 31, 2023
  • #30,870
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
People on Twitter were having a right go at Penny Mordaunt (as she seemed to be angling for the Defence job) as being hopelessly unqualified for the role. And then they do THIS???
At least knows what a military base looks like (and not just, while Transport Secretary, as a place to park lorries waiting to cross the Channel because your Brexit-busting freight provider doesn't actually have any ships).
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Not that long ago people were touting her for PM because she carried a sword.
 
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