General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

[Gulliver Foyle]

What are you talking about now?

What they did was a lot more serious than holding up traffic for half an hour, and what they intended was even more serious. I suggest you read the judge's sentencing remarks, and then take it to a thread in Trials and Errors. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/R-v-Hallam-and-others.pdf

The only thing I need to know about the judge in this case is that he perverted the course of justice to prevent the defendants from raising valid defences.

Again, how is a slight inconvenience worse than having your whole life's work being burnt down by a bunch of neo-nazis (or in the six counties unionist terrorists)?

 

[jeremyp]

26 months for the guy who got bitten on the arse by a police dog apparently.

A nurse friend of mine told me that A&E at Bristol Royal Infirmary had to deal with nine people who had dog bites last Saturday evening.

 

[jeremyp]

The only thing I need to know about the judge in this case is that he perverted the course of justice to prevent the defendants from raising valid defences.

Again, how is a slight inconvenience worse than having your whole life's work being burnt down by a bunch of neo-nazis (or in the six counties unionist terrorists)?

The judges don't dream up the sentences out of thin air you know. Each different law has a different range of sentencing options, and then there are various factors that can influence the actual option chosen (like did they plead guilty).

If a law says you can only serve a maximum of three years for this crime, the judge can't give a sentence of five years just because somebody else who committed a different crime against a different law got five years and you happen to like that convict's politics more.

 

[junkshop]

Crunchies?

Oh, you're one of them.

Noted.

 

[Andy_Ross]

#FarageIsAFanny has replaced #FarageRiots as the number one trending for the UK.

 

[zooterkin]

#FarageIsAFanny has replaced #FarageRiots as the number one trending for the UK.

He'll love that, I'm sure.

I don't know if Twitter has changed, but searching on that hashtag finds many posts that don't include it.

 

[Susheel]

Evidence?

I heard that there were people shouting it...as a response to the bigotted invectives being flung by the rioters...

 

[angrysoba]

Are we actually officially allowed yet to say that some of these folk really are not that bright?

They are not sending their best.

 

[Andy_Ross]

They are not sending their best.

Yes they are

 

[jeremyp]

Yes they are

No their best are directing operations from places like Cyprus. These are just the redshirts.

 

[Vixen]

And don't forget the Tragic Roundabout in Blackpool https://x.com/colemandesign/status/1821281906421592573

"We hereby declare the Tragic - ahem, Magic - Roundabout of Blackpool, the English Protectorate of Dougal and Zebedee.

National anthem: the Magic Roundabout, of course.

Patron Saint: St. Greggs.

National emblem: the Gregg croc.

Olympic Gold Medallist in the Gregg Sausage Roll 100-yard Sprint:

Gregory McGregFace (sole contestant).

Religion: We worship at the feet of the mighty cop in our sacrifice of the Burning Bin.

Motto:

Boi-nnng! "Time for bed."




I'll get my coat.

 

[zooterkin]

No their best are directing operations from places like Cyprus. These are just the redshirts.

Farage and Yaxley-Lennon aren't the top of the tree, there's the people that are actually funding them.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Farage and Yaxley-Lennon aren't the top of the tree, there's the people that are actually funding them.

This^ I'd love to know, rather than just strongly suspect who else they fund, past & present, and I'd love Farage & Yaxley-Lennon's supporters to know who they're really going to prison for.

 

[jeremyp]

Farage and Yaxley-Lennon aren't the top of the tree, there's the people that are actually funding them.

Ok and I should have put "best" in inverted commas.

 

[jeremyp]

Religion: We worship at the feet of the mighty cop in our sacrifice of the Burning Bin.

I have to say that photo alone explodes the myth of white supremacy given that the police officer not prostrate on the ground has distinctly non Anglo-Saxon features and is probably thinking "you stupid bint".

 

[Ethan Thane Athen]

I have to say that photo alone explodes the myth of white supremacy given that the police officer not prostrate on the ground has distinctly non Anglo-Saxon features and is probably thinking "you stupid bint".

And given that the bloke with her heroically legged it and left her to her fate - and least as far as the clip shows...

 

[Mojo]

Farage and Yaxley-Lennon aren't the top of the tree, there's the people that are actually funding them.

A wunch of bankers.

 

[sinnikal]

Of course, it was inevitable that someone would do a 'Downfall' parody.

Here it is.

https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1821835822913438162

 

[Darat]

Of course, it was inevitable that someone would do a 'Downfall' parody.

Here it is.

https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1821835822913438162

One of the better ones.

 

[Vixen]

Of course, it was inevitable that someone would do a 'Downfall' parody.

Here it is.

https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1821835822913438162

"My Fuhrage"