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Reply | Verdicts from the riots
at 23:12 25 Sep 2024
I don’t think this indicative of a trend or a conspiracy / double standards, the CPS have simply failed to prove the case and secure a conviction, they were up against a very tough defence team, the quality of which wouldn’t often be seen in Magistrates Court.
I’ll be honest and say I’ve never heard the term coconut being used before
Court is very adversarial and as OHL has said on more than 1 occasion justice isn’t always served and proceedings can look to many to be a bit of a game. On this occasion, I suspect the CPS have been out gunned and out manoeuvred by the defence team which contains some seriously experienced and highly capable lawyers including a KC and Gareth Pierce who has bags of experience in really serious cases.
Most of the sentences we’ve seen handed out to the rioters are because the defendants have pleaded guilty. I don’t think many if any cases of violent disorder have been listed for trial at the Crown Court. |
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Reply | Strange Laws
at 22:46 25 Sep 2024
Seen a few horror stories about people being asked to cough up for a damaged church roof, I think we had to take an indemnity policy on our place to cover it. |
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Reply | Service ! Best and worst restaurant you have ever been to ?
at 22:43 25 Sep 2024
I’m by no means someone who eats out regularly, but off the top of my head one of the nicest meals I’ve had was at the Santa Fe Steak House in Davenport Orlando, great food and great service.
The worst, well I’ve had a few shunky curry’s over the years but there’s 2 that stand out. The first was a family get together at Tay Barns, the second is going right back in to the mists of time when wifey and I went to the Whitehart in Llanddarog, poor meal and rude staff. |
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 23:31 24 Sep 2024
Interesting article reporting that Robert Jenrick front runner from r the Conservative leadership has taken three substantial donations from a company with a questionable history, very little trading history, never made a profit, based in a tax haven which total £75k.
From where I’m sitting that’s wors3 than the clothes issue because we’ve no idea who’s behind the money. It’ll be interesting to see if the Daily Mail or Telegraph report on it.
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/09/20/robert-jenricks-top-donor-received-loan [Post edited 24 Sep 23:34]
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Reply | Pandoras box is now open
at 23:27 24 Sep 2024
Mick Lynch bumping his gums off at a fringe event and it’s being reported in the impartial Daily Mail - let’s not get too riled up with articles like this and let’s actually see how things pan out. If Starmer allows the unions to rule the roost, then in 4 years time he’ll be outers and we’ll have a different government.
It’s early days. |
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Reply | Verdicts from the riots
at 23:09 24 Sep 2024
Where’s the evidence that today’s police are turning a blind eye and not protecting young girls? We have questions quite rightly been asked about Rochdale, but things have quite rightly moved on since then.
The streets should absolutely be safe from predators regardless of whether they’re from a minority community, a majority community or someone in a position of power like Wayne Couzens. The law’s the law and it should be applied without fear or favour. [Post edited 25 Sep 7:41]
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 22:47 24 Sep 2024
My neighbours daughter joined the police a couple of years ago, he reckons quite a few officers in her Division are quitting it which is pretty much unprecedented down our way.
Lots of today’s recruits have degrees but they still have to undertake further studies for some kind of qualification and those that don’t degrees have to study for one as part of their probation and confirmation. Add in shifts, stress from mountains of paperwork, stress from studying, low wages and it’s a recipe for haemorrhaging staff. They can earn more money in the private sector and have a better quality of life. |
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 19:43 23 Sep 2024
A significant number of the doctors on wards are F1 and F2 and while they are in tra8ning, they carry a fair degree of responsibility. They are on relatively poor money and the ones I feel who needed the rise, the more senior clinicians are doing ok as you point out.
The problem we have in the U.K. is retention, if we want to retain our doctors we have to come close to getting what they can be paid elsewhere, or we end up in a situation similar to where we’ve been before. |
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 19:37 23 Sep 2024
The £500k figure you quote is around 3.5 times the highest NHS salary band, I’d like to know how many are on that and where. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 10:24 23 Sep 2024
I’m not a VG fan by any stretch of the imagination, but to me the headline is very poor and unfair as it suggests the charge is all about the 1 company who made the donation to VG when it isn’t, there are numerous companies involved.
Cardiff City Council are at fault andyou are right it’s the ratepayers /tax payers who’re going to have to pick up the tab - it’s poor and people should be held to account. |
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 08:38 23 Sep 2024
The train drivers are employed by private companies so Labour haven’t caved in to the unions.
The junior doctors were on a starting salary of £29k per year until the pay award, they are the ones working on the hospital wards and not the doctors working at the GP practices. Primary Care isn’t working and needs to be changed and made more accessible.
Agree with you about train drivers not being worth £70k per year and that there are more worthy people out there. |
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Reply | Bulet for the Bullet
at 19:35 21 Sep 2024
After the Swans commentary finished Radio Wales switched to Nathan Blake and their commentator at the CCS. Blake was scathing of the way Tan and the Board were running the club and gave the distinct impression the club was a complete and utter shambles. He thought Bulet was a goner. Their start to the season is the 4th worst in the Championship history apart from the clubs who were deducted points.
I reckon they’re going down this season, how did the Swans drop points against these? [Post edited 21 Sep 21:33]
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Reply | What a surprise. Fayed was what we thought all along...
at 11:58 21 Sep 2024
Guy was clearly a wrong un, it’s a pity these issues weren’t highlighted when he was alive, if there were lots of people coming forward back then maybe we’d have seen him end up in the dock.
Al Fayed, Saville, Prince Andrew are 3 people I can think of off the top of my head who’ve been accused of skullduggery and on top of that we’ve had Rolf Harris, Huw Edwards, Weinstein and Trumpster all convicted of skullduggery in one Court or another. |
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Reply | What a surprise. Fayed was what we thought all along...
at 00:25 21 Sep 2024
Starmer was the DPP, but it appears he wasn’t involved in the decision making. According to the Telegraph the case was handled by Rene Barclay, the CPS’s then director of complex casework, whose role included handling cases deemed “high profile”. The Met investigated the allegation and a file was passed to the CPS who determined that no further action should be taken.”
It appears that part of the reasoning behind the decision to NFA the case was because the alleged victim had got the day of the week wrong in her description of when the assault happened.
The prosecution rate for sexual offences is usually very low as offences invariable take place when there are just 2 people present - the victim and the offender and unless there’s really strong supporting evidence cases are usually discontinued because in many cases it’s 1 word against the other and proving beyond reasonable doubt very difficult or nigh on impossible.
In terms of extremes, on the one hand we have offenders like Saville and now Al Fayed and on the other we have Leon Britain, Ted Heath and others who were innocent but subject of a malicious and fabricated allegations. In between those extreme examples are hundreds of thousands of genuine victims who will struggle to or never get justice.
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 20:15 19 Sep 2024
That’s a tidy deal too.
I prefer flying from Cardiff and that’s my first stop, but if they haven’t got what I want (which is often the case) then it’s Bristol and the tunnels. I’m loathed to fly short haul from further afield. Jet 2 are excellent, I used them last year for the first time and I was really impressed, first class from start to finish and much better than Ryanair and Easy Jet. |
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Reply | Cardiff Airport
at 19:03 19 Sep 2024
That’s god to know, £34 is decent because airports can be extortionate. |
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Reply | Is Number 10 dysfunctional?
at 18:59 19 Sep 2024
Going back to the OP, Considering the role, her experience and comparative salaries while it is a lot I don’t think it’s that excessive, the Chief Executives of our county councils are on similar salaries.
Cummings was pulling around £145k four years ago, allowing for inflation that would now be higher than what Grey is now earning. I don’t think it’s case of Cummings eat your heart out at all. [Post edited 19 Sep 19:00]
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Reply | Is Number 10 dysfunctional?
at 18:43 19 Sep 2024
I’d have a lot more faith an a career civil servant than a politician, especially someone like Boris the liar. |
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Reply | Is Number 10 dysfunctional?
at 18:40 19 Sep 2024
Absolutely not, but if Letwin’s frustrations with Grey were because the Conservative regime were trying to cut corners, deviate from protocol, do dodgy deals, slot people in to key posts without due process etc etc then that puts another context to his comments. |
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Reply | Is Number 10 dysfunctional?
at 18:32 19 Sep 2024
Where’s the evidence that she was hiased? I seem to recall that her investigation in to the Downing Street parties identified a culture of sleaze ( which most people could probably see from the stories in the press and on TV, Cummings antics etc). As the ethics it was claimed her integrity was beyond reproach.
I’d suggest that based on what we saw under Boris, there was a need to reshape that culture and with her background in ethics and propriety she’d be a good shout. |
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