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Yeah it was a toss up
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I got a phone call yesterday saying I had won a competition blah blah blah. Just hang up
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As a former Magistrate I believe that if you 'use' that phone by touching it, whether or not it's in a holder, it is an offence. The law is a blanket ban, it offers no exemptions for where it is or what it is being used for. Hands free means literally that hands free. Using it as a sat nav makes no difference its still a mobile phone. But you always have the right to argue the point in court if you get stopped. But I think they are missing a trick using a lorry. We live near a big junior school and the mums on the school runs are the world's worst for using their mobile phones while driving.
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A lot of it is done by debt. They don't pay the traffickers they owe them for the rest of their lives. Like pay day loans
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Too many employers only too willing to exploit the cheap labour
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People who commit one crime are also much more likely to be committing others. Pulling people over for phone and seat belts is a very good starting point for a bit more investigation. These 'fishing trips' often turn up a lot more than just the offence they were originally stopped for. It makes good sense But policing is about numbers these days, 39 convictions in one day looks good on the performance tables.
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The trouble is that no party can control the pressures that are causing things like inflation, fuel prices, food prices, immigration etc. These are global issues. Other countries in Europe are facing the same pressures and are equally unable to control them. Politicians across the world are now much more closely scrutinised by the media. For the most part, they are not coming out of it looking good. Virtually all of them are hopelessly incompetent
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She didn't say HOW she was going to do it though. Vote for me and everything will be fine
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There is no point in trying to prosecute the bulk of shop lifters. They are mostly from the "floating poor' with no permanent address, shared accommodation, cash in hand landlords, sofa surfers etc. They don't turn up in court, don't pay their fines and the courts don't have the time or resources to track them down. If they are asylum seekers they are virtually immune from prosecution anyway because they will already have been allocated an immigration solicitor and the CPS won't want to waste money pursuing a case this small against a solicitor they know will raise all sorts of expensive delaying tactics.
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Professional pest controllers trap foxes on their clients ground and drive them a few miles up the road and release them. Reason being A) they have no legal way of killing them. B) they have no legal way (cost effective way);of disposing of the dead fox. Easiest way is just drive and dump
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The poll tax addressed the rising tactic by Labour of registering non existent 'ghost' voters onto the electoral register and then using their registration to generate postal votes. It was rife, it still happens today. The voting fraud in Tower Hamlets in 2014 identified thousands of fake names on the electoral register. Labour couldn't afford to lose so many votes so the protests and riots resulted
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It's already happened at Local Government level in many parts of the country
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M&S have dramatically reduced their range of sizes in all their men's wear. They have cut out completely all the larger sizes keeping only to the middle of the size range which presumably sells the quickest. At one time, not that long ago, they did all the sizes up to very large but I suppose it makes sense from their point of view.