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I totally agree, we went to Iraq on a pack of lies, Tony Blair should be in prison in my opinion.

He was just starting to impress me, but Trump has gone too far with his criticism of Ukraine. Blaming them for being invaded and not doing a deal 😡. I get at some point the reality of what's achievable by Ukraine needs to be addressed, but to blame them for trying to defend their own country from an invasion is disgusting. How would trump feel if a foreign power was holding a state of the USA.

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I agree. I'd go as far as to say I feel sorry for the French, the main reason their country is full of illegal immigrants (other than EU membership of course) is them wanting to get to the UK. I also feel for the migrants themselves (the ones who don't commit further crime after arriving here), it must take some amount of desperation to get on a dingy to cross the channel. The blame lies squarely with the government, both Labour "smash the pensioners" and Conservative "restrict net migration to tens of thousands" for allowing it to happen.

I expect the really juicy ones will have been burnt long ago.

I think it does, particularly if your American. The past it might be, but if I lived there, I'd want to know if my government was capable of such a heinous act against not only those directly affected, but also the population. In short am I living in a democracy or a cleverly disguised dictatorship. Like Tightchoke says above, we probably will never know.

With the recent announcement of further releases on the JFK assassination (and others), what does the PW massive think happened? Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone? Cia? Or something else entirely?

Easy fix guys. Get reform in at the next election and don't forget what both Labour and Conservative have done when they both make new promises they never intend to keep.

Reform are a new party and I'm sure will have many teething issues and will never be perfect. But everyone who is criticising them needs to ask themselves if they think there's any way they could possibly be any worse than Labour or the likes of Lammy. Because the only way to break the Tory, Labour cycle with neither of them carrying out the majoritys wishes is to get Reform into power.

Your right, it's a cycle and we need to break it. One word, Reform!

Apparently the Chagos islands 'deal' is going to cost us 50 Billion pounds. Yes, 50 Billion for the privilege of giving away our territory. A territory with huge strategic importance, particularly in relation to China. All while Labour is freezing our pensioners to death over a fictional funding blackhole. You couldn't make it up.

A very well presented insight, with much of your point proven right by the thousands of miscarriages of justice in the travisty that was the post office scandal. I think many in the uk are waking up to the fact our legal system, like many other institutions in the UK, far from being the envy of the world, are in reality, not as great as we've been led to believe.

As for Lucy Letby, if someone had asked me a few years ago in a case like hers whether I thought there was a chance she might be innocent, I'd have said not a chance. Since the latest scandales however, while still of the belief she probably did it, I'm not so sure. Like everything else in this country, the legal system is clearly broken. I was going to go into that and your quite right, a two tier system for the rich and powerful and everyone else is very clearly still alive and well.

And it is that attitude that the system is more important than an individual that leads to cases like the grooming gang and post office scandals, which ironically does far more harm to the system than if genuine miscarriages of justice were corrected at the earliest opportunity. I wonder if Lord denning would hold the same views if he were banged up for nothing, what a disgraceful individual.

Normally I'd agree. But when the rule makers were flouting their own laws. People were locked in their own homes, people denied seeing their loved ones before they passed away and life saving hospital treatment cancelled. If your someone affected by things I've mentioned, it's a very bitter pill to swallow.

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Yes really, just worded differently 😂

Thats pretty much the reasons I gave 🤔

I think the vast majority who voted to remain were either uninformed and followed the government advise, or had vested interests like job reliance on EU membership, the very wealthy, those with holiday homes ect. When you think about it, it stands to reason, why else would you want your country ruled by foreign powers.

Hypothetically, I wonder what would happen in such a scenario if someone claimed they were being approached by a hostile individual with a gun before the line going dead. They surely couldn't ignore that 🤔

Not really, the police don't only turn up after it's kicked off. They will attend peaceful protests and it's very easy to have one rule for one protest like blm and another for others. I don't condone any poor behaviour at protests and certainly not riots, but we currently have two tier policing and that is also wrong and will only drive anger.

Because criminals know they can act with impunity. It's this pink fluffy policing and prioritising minimising harm instead of preventing crime. Here's an example:- a police persuit, criminals know that if they drive dangerously enough the police will break off their persuit of them. The polices reasoning is that it's safer. Imo it's not, if every criminal was within reason persued in a car chase and harsh sentences given out for dangerous driving and failure to stop. The criminals would get locked up and not be on the streets to commit crime, they would stop fleeing as they'd know their not going to get away and be punished servery when caught. Not pursuing therefore makes more danger in the long run by creating lawless criminals with no fear of being caught and ultimately bought to justice. Multiply that by many offences these days, coupled with 2 tier policing and the end result is what we have today.

They should have all had their details taken and been ordered to leave the land for a mixture of aggravated trespass and criminal damage, anyone refusing, details (or if the provided details were in doubt, or offering resistance, should have been nicked. If a couple of units were sent initially and faced any issues with gathering evidence, backup should have been sent, so the criminals be dealt with properly. Whats so radical about that. The public wanting criminals to face justice?

Yes I did see that video and noted not all the cops there seemed to possess the attitude and determination needed to do what was necessary to protect themselves, the public and detain and control the incident. I also noted they tried to scapegoat the one officer who was up to the task, I and I'm sure most of the public thought he did a fantastic job, which shows how broken modern policing is. Would they depart at the sight of police vehicles, maybe, maybe not. But they'd soon start to if everytime criminals were violent towards the law, it ended badly for them. If the clash were still writing songs, I don't think it'd be about the law winning. Do I still think police are allowed to use necessary force. Sometimes, but often, unfortunately not, I think ultimately, they don't get found criminally guilty, but the process they face after using serious force is enough to put them off doing what's needed and creates a system that encourages the police not to do their job for certain cases. I also believe some who are recruited aren't capable, with some being very efficient at paperwork and building files, but utterly useless in a confrontation with a violent criminal. which is my point, policing prioritys seem to have gone in the wrong direction the last 20-30years. Your last paragraph is the problem with modern policing, "I can't see any offences", or "there's not enough evidence", the reason for that is the police don't turn out to gather the evidence anymore and hardworking, decent, normal, everyday people are left to suffer at the hands of criminals while offenders and poor copers drain the police, using them like a mental health service.

I've also seen it, they can turn out en mass when it's been 'graded' as needing the response. The problem seems to be their prioritys.