Sephiroth

Basically. the whole thing is repugnant on every level. And that’s before we get to any whim of Trump about countries in the summer first time Ireland are in the pot for 24 years and instead of being excited I just don’t wanna look

Yesterday’s presser as referenced is the perfect example

Give his position in the polls the bigger question should be “do U.K. voters tolerate candidates' bigotry and racism...?”

yeah they do, and anecdotally my own experience shows them improving but they still ignore sometimes. Some are worse than other (evri are shocking)

People don’t go out of their way to leave their valuables out on the porch they are most likely at work when a delivery company decides on their behalf to just leave it on the doorstep. They are the problem not “people being surprised when their items disappear”

3 o clock in the morning posts about a congestion charge - unlikely to bode well

The good thing about the racism remarks from so so long ago is that as leader of the reform party, Nigel can take action against his racist councillors and prove to everyone he isn’t racist in 2025 because no one would want to vote for a racist PM at next election right? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/03/reform-council-leader-ian-cooper-accused-racism-alleged-remarks-sadiq-khan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

judges are, by definition, a much narrower strata of society. The temptation to "rattle through" numbers, regardless of right, wrong or justice is fundamentally changed If we trust judges that much, why have we ever bothered with juries in the first place? (that's a rhetorical question btw - there is no sane answer which goes along the lines of "good point, judges only FTW"

Well, this is it isn’t it? this does see to be an ongoing problem since oooh I’m gonna say 2016. For some reason governments playing to a populist right wing media without foundations in reality, all in the hope of a supportive headline that will never come

This might help, sue https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/abolishing-trial-by-jury-why-is-the-government-overlooking-the-obvious/

You pay tax to fix problems you underfund stuff my faking tax cuts and the breakdown of the system is what you get there are no cheap or easy fixes. It will take money and time - and people lack patience

I know we are off topic here but the Stallone 95 movie is awful the Dredd movie from 2012 is fantastic

Is that a McManus Dredd drawing? He was great but on topic - it’s an overreach which takes too much and gives too little

Not looking great so far I don’t rate Lammy that much, I think people on here have touched on the many many problems years of underfunding the justice system have made us reach this point - but these proposals would be problematic even if they were effective in tackling the problem. Which - based on anyone I know involved in the legal system - they won’t https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-courts-law-starmer-labour-reeves-budget-obr-uk-politics-live-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I’m not denying taxes were raised im saying they weren’t raised just to give it all away on “benefits” and I backed that up by saying if they did the markets would have reacted very differently