A Political Thread pt. 2

[Welsh Exile]

Ex-Colorado police officer who put handcuffed woman in car hit by train avoids jail

Jordan Steinke will serve 30 months on probation following the 2022 incident.

www.bbc.co.uk

Police in the USA follow a completely different set of laws to everyone else. Recklessly parks their car on ******* train tracks, handcuffs someone and puts them in said vehicle that is then hit by a train. Oh a bit of community service for you. Anyone else does anything even approaching that level of negligence and it is prison time.

The USA really has to get their act together with properly prosecuting police and it's a lesson for us to learn in this country too. Those who enforce the law should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

Don't we have a pretty bad record of imprisoning our own police, though?

I could be totally wrong on this but I swear I remember reading some mad statistic about how we've only imprisoned a very small number of police in the last 50 years or so. Sorry, I should dig it out if I'm mentioning it (il see if I can find it later) but even intuitively I feel that the police get an easy ride over here too.

 

[SG59_]

what? The clowns are at it again.

 

[Reiser99]

The sad thing is, people have short memories and will probably vote them back in once they try blaming Labour for everything.

I love it when people go "well Labour would be worse". Yes they might, but they might not, that's all hypothetical. What we do know is who is ******* up right now and has been ******* up for over a decade.

Honestly it's a ridiculous argument.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

‘Cognitively impaired’? Trump’s confused attacks on Biden start to backfire

Trump has portrayed the president as too old and too mentally fogged to occupy the Oval Office, but his tactics rebounded on Friday

www.theguardian.com

WW2? and beat Obama back in 2016? Yeh and he says Biden is losing it.

 

[Amiga500]

1,000 Met Police officers suspended or on restricted duties

The crackdown follows a string of scandals, but a senior officer warns it'll take years to root out corruption.

www.bbc.co.uk

1 in 34 met officers suspended/restricted due to corruption etc.

Wonder how many of those were of the Couzens/Carrick ilk.

 

[SG59_]

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Rugby star Simon Zebo apologises for social media account ‘liking’ 9/11 and Russell Brand conspiracy posts

Simon Zebo has apologised after his social media account ‘liked’ a slew of posts promoting anti-vax and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

m.independent.ie

"no it's my infant children that are the conspiracy theorists!"

 

[McTallshort]

Rugby star Simon Zebo apologises for social media account ‘liking’ 9/11 and Russell Brand conspiracy posts

Simon Zebo has apologised after his social media account ‘liked’ a slew of posts promoting anti-vax and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

m.independent.ie

"no it's my infant children that are the conspiracy theorists!"

Up to him what he likes on social media

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

‘Cognitively impaired’? Trump’s confused attacks on Biden start to backfire

Trump has portrayed the president as too old and too mentally fogged to occupy the Oval Office, but his tactics rebounded on Friday

www.theguardian.com

WW2? and beat Obama back in 2016? Yeh and he says Biden is losing it.

Remember the American revolutionaries took control of the airports too.

 

[The Seeker]

 

[The Seeker]

 

[Amiga500]

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According to Donald Trump, Lincoln was defeated in the first world war by the Sioux at the Alamo. So he was a loser President. Unlike him.

 

[The Seeker]

 

[The Seeker]

Five Americans freed in Iran prisoner swap land in US

The four men and one woman return to the US after $6bn of frozen Iranian funds were released.

news.yahoo.com

 

[The Seeker]

 

[General Melchett]

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Liking this on behalf of James Lowe.

 

[SG59_]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Rishi Sunak delays petrol car ban in major shift on green policies

The prime minister claims the changes will support "hard-pressed families" but opponents accuse him of "selling out".

www.bbc.co.uk

So just kicking the can down the road for another 5 years and for a future Govt. to reverse or deal with. 12 years to really get the charging infrastructure around the country right. Of course Rishi not doing this as a vote winner after Uxbridge by-election.

 

[SG59_]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

And rates held at 5.25%.