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Vince Green

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  1. I got a phone call yesterday saying I had won a competition blah blah blah. Just hang up
  2. 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.
  3. Yes anything that obstructs your forward vision. But like so many things it never seems to get enforced.
  4. You are breaking the law if you touch the phone even if its in a holder. Also phones in holders cannot obstruct the windscreen. I think it's true to say the same applies to sat navs and dash cams
  5. 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
  6. Too many employers only too willing to exploit the cheap labour
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. She didn't say HOW she was going to do it though. Vote for me and everything will be fine
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. It's already happened at Local Government level in many parts of the country
  14. 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.
  15. Chatleys do larger size suits of a good quality
  16. ^^^^^ This the last thing her lawyers want to happen is for her appeal to succeed. That would be the end of the money trail
  17. The Hottentots was the name given by white settlers to one of the tribes in South Africa who lived along side the Zulus and the Matabele but they referred to themselves as The Kegali. So the word has become considered racist. For many years it was used as the official name for the tribe however we call the Inuit people Eskimos so is that racist?
  18. Why do we need a mayor? It should be a ceremonial role rather than a dictatorship
  19. As a londoner born and bred I don't get a sense that he is following a Muslim agenda but he is definitely pursuing an unacceptable Environmental policy and pushing it very hard. Also he is allowing the unions far too much slack and criticising the police at every opportunity despite being in charge of them. In truth he is in hock to the looney left for his support
  20. I know, inconsiderate bloody people. And the NHS suffers from the same problem
  21. This is correct, its a ponsi scheme. When it was introduced in 1909 (originally as the old age pension) it was only a very small number of people that lived long enough to collect it. Those that did only lived about an average of a year before they too died. Today its all got a bit out of control
  22. Purdeys are probably Hull Cartridge Co. They made cartridges for everybody back then.
  23. There is no such thing as democracy, there never has been Starmer should never have got himself in that position in the first place. It shows a lack of political judgement. very clumsy handling of the situation. Hoyle was wrong to try and bail Starmer out
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