Politics Thread 7: THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER - General Election 04/07/24

[Garth]

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[Squinty]

Toddlers, 3, attacked in ‘transphobic hate crime’ in Belfast

Horrible story this and no doubt a direct result of the transphobia the likes of JK Rowling and the Government are pushing.

Hate to say it but there is one side of the political divide in Northern Ireland that is pushing against the UK government and one that is backing it. There's scumbag kids on both sides obviously but it's the unionists who will openly speak against gender ambiguity and the LGBT community in general.

Could be youths from either community. Glenbryn is in Ardoyne, which is predominately catholic, but its also near an interface (with a protestant area).

Agree with the statement about the unionists side being retrogressive. It is generally just one side pushing this.

[Moggy]

A Metropolitan Police officer convicted of assaulting a woman as she was wrongly accused of bus fare evasion is a “huge setback” for the force, the assistant commissioner has said.

PC Perry Lathwood, 50, was on duty and helping ticket inspectors in Croydon when Jocelyn Agyemang and her son got off a bus.

She told a court how she had been wrongly accused of fare evasion, and then “manhandled” by the officer who placed her in handcuffs.

At Westminster magistrates court on Friday, Lathwood was found guilty of assault in the incident on July 21 last year in Whitehorse Road, Croydon.

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the verdict “is a huge setback to our ability to rebuild trust with Londoners”.

He added that the force “will learn lessons from this” and “we apologise to the woman and the wider community who were deeply affected”.

Deputy Senior District Judge Tan Ikram said it was “not necessary to grab the woman’s arm, arrest her and handcuff her.

“There were not reasonable grounds to suggest arrest was necessary.”

He added: “The officer made an error of judgment and overreacted.”

Mrs Agyemang, who was dropping her son off at her mother’s house before heading to an appointment in Marylebone, suffered a bruised arm in the incident.
She was asked to show that she had paid her fare by a bus inspector, did not hand over a ticket and simply walked off, the court heard.

“It is at this moment that PC Lathwood becomes involved”, said prosecutor Paul Jarvis.

He said Lathwood put a hand on her, but she moved away, so he then grabbed her arm and arrested her for fare evasion.

In footage of the incident shot by bystanders, Ms Agyemang can be heard asking the officer: “Can you get off me, please? Can you get off my arm?
“You don’t understand, I have done nothing wrong.”

Lathwood, who at one point called her a “daft cow”, continued to hold her, demanding she tap her card. He also handcuffed her.

Another officer took her Oyster card from her hand and went away with it to see if she had paid.

It was confirmed that Ms Agyemang had paid her fare and she was de-arrested at the scene.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m ... 58540.html

The Met have since tweeted this:




Hey Met Police! Do you know what might stop these "setbacks" in rebuilding trust?

1. Stop assaulting people, especially (with your history) women and black people. Especially if they are innocent!

2. When your officers get found guilty of assaulting innocent people, don't strawberry floating tweet that you will be supporting the banana split.

[Garth]

twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1791949154752643181

65th Tory standing down (not counting a few former Tory MPs).

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org. ... t-election

[Garth]

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[Moggy]

twitter.com/Geri_E_L_Scott/status/1792297472825430297

But not a married doctor?

[Qikz]

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Given how outwardly transphobic Starmer's labour have been until now I wonder what the hidden downside to this is.

[Lex-Man]

They'll be a big backlash to the changes and they'll change course.

[Tomous]

twitter.com/Geri_E_L_Scott/status/1792297472825430297

Given how outwardly transphobic Starmer's labour have been until now I wonder what the hidden downside to this is.

The process will be simplified by giving everyone who applies an instant rejection saying no.

[Knoyleo]

And it will be very slow if it's just a single doctor

[Gideon]

Russia offering to investigate the cause of the Iranian Prime Minister’s helicopter crash and subsequent death is hilariously transparent.

[Qikz]

Russia offering to investigate the cause of the Iranian Prime Minister’s helicopter crash and subsequent death is hilariously transparent.

Apparantly the flying conditions were terrible (extreme fog) and it looks like the guy forced the pilot to fly in those conditions which lead to them crashing into a mountain due to extremely poor visibility.

I don't think this is anything that was staged by Russia for a change

[Tomous]

Russia offering to investigate the cause of the Iranian Prime Minister’s helicopter crash and subsequent death is hilariously transparent.

Apparantly the flying conditions were terrible (extreme fog) and it looks like the guy forced the pilot to fly in those conditions which lead to them crashing into a mountain due to extremely poor visibility.

I don't think this is anything that was staged by Russia for a change

Perhaps their conclusion from the investigation is going to be "oh my god, America did it!"


But yeah, helicopters are much more dangerous than planes in poor flying conditions, I suspect this was just an accident.

[Gideon]

Russia offering to investigate the cause of the Iranian Prime Minister’s helicopter crash and subsequent death is hilariously transparent.

Apparantly the flying conditions were terrible (extreme fog) and it looks like the guy forced the pilot to fly in those conditions which lead to them crashing into a mountain due to extremely poor visibility.

I don't think this is anything that was staged by Russia for a change

I have no reason to think Russia’s involved, I just think Russia’s offer to investigate it is hilarious. Give it 24 hours and they’d have photographic evidence of Biden and Zelenskyy showing off their Special Anti-Helicopter Guns while wearing DEATH TO IRANIAN HELICOPTERS t-shirts.

[Moggy]

Russia offering to investigate the cause of the Iranian Prime Minister’s helicopter crash and subsequent death is hilariously transparent.

Apparantly the flying conditions were terrible (extreme fog) and it looks like the guy forced the pilot to fly in those conditions which lead to them crashing into a mountain due to extremely poor visibility.

I don't think this is anything that was staged by Russia for a change

I have no reason to think Russia’s involved, I just think Russia’s offer to investigate it is hilarious. Give it 24 hours and they’d have photographic evidence of Biden and Zelenskyy showing off their Special Anti-Helicopter Guns while wearing DEATH TO IRANIAN HELICOPTERS t-shirts.

Either that or "THE JEWS DID IT!"

[Garth]

twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1792567760624472389

[Dowbocop]

Diplomats owe more than £143m in London congestion charges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckrrnz2gn3po

[Moggy]

Lee Anderson has spewed this nonsense out:

I want my country back.

Just sat on the train scribbling a few notes.

Tell me what you think

‘What exactly do you mean when you say you want your country back?’ This is the question every wet, woke and weak left leaning liberal individual asks me. The response they want is based on the colour of a person’s skin, their ethnicity, or their religion. These people are the race baiters who love nothing more than to describe anyone who does not agree with them as a ‘racist’.

So here are a few examples of what I mean.

I remember a time when children went to school and were not told that they could be a different gender, or they may have to use a different toilet and they did not have to sit down and watch a drag queen reading them stories. If people had been told this would happen 30 years ago then they would have been told you that you were insane. Yet it has been happening under our watch. I want this nonsense to stop, let kids be kids and let them grow and develop as they have always done. Just because a little boy picks a doll up it doesn’t mean he wants to be a girl and every girl that kicks a football does not want to be a boy.

I want my country back and the country I am talking about would not tolerate this stupidity.

Imagine telling people just 20 years ago that over 130,000 illegal migrants would cross the English Channel in three years and would be picked up by British boats then placed in 4-star hotels, given free legal advice, and then allowed to settle in our country. Then tell the same people from 20 years ago that over 90% of these arrivals would be young men destined for a life of crime and some would go on and murder and rape British citizens. Imagine telling them that the government of the day would pass three Acts of Parliament to try and stop these crossings, but the young men kept coming and coming.

I want my country back and the country I am talking about would not tolerate this stupidity.

Many people remember the 1970s when East German female shot-putters had to undergo a sex test to see if they were really females. Have no fear as sex tests are not needed these days. A six-foot 6 hairy arsed bloke can put on an ill-fitting wig, a charity shop dress, and a bit of lippy and enter sporting competitions alongside women. To make matters worse on his way home he can then nip into a lady’s boutique and try on a pair of size 16 stilettos whilst sat in a lady’s changing room.

I want my country back and the country I am talking about would not tolerate this stupidity.

Back in the 80s and 90s if you applied for a council house you would get the choice of three houses but nowadays you have literally no chance of even being considered for one, yet we are letting over 1 million people a year into this country. That’s hundreds of thousands of people putting extra pressure on our public services and whilst decent hard-working Brits struggle to get a GP appointment, a dental appointment, a school place for their kids the politicians tell them that immigration makes us all better off.

I want my country back and the country I am talking about would not tolerate this stupidity.

Back in the day if we had civil unrest on our streets, you could be rest assured that our boys in blue would be quickly on the scene to get stuck in so as decent folk could go about their daily business. Imagine telling folk on the picket lines of the 80s that in the future that a load of under nourished grey-haired vegans in their 60s could turn up in their Jesus sandals and bring London to a standstill whilst the Met police stood by and did nothing?

I want my country back and the country I am talking about would not tolerate this stupidity.

Don’t even start me on the pro-Palestinian marches.

I want my country back.

He also posted a photo of the worst looking breakfast imaginable and made himself upset that people might soon be claiming his breakfast is racist.

If that twat gets voted back in, then Ashfield needs to be nuked. And they'd only have themselves to blame.

[DML]

I don't know why 'don't get me started on the Palestinian marches' made me laugh as hard as it did. I half expected it to say 'and don't get me started on Meghan Markle'.

[Zilnad]

I don't know why 'don't get me started on the Palestinian marches' made me laugh as hard as it did. I half expected it to say 'and don't get me started on Meghan Markle'.

It was the line about 60 year old vegans in Jesus sandals that got me

Absolute embarrassment