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[roydo]

Yeah me too to be honest. Genuinely I didnt know where it had come from as it was used to freely about a decade ago, in fact even as recently as last year I thought it was interchangeable with meff

Remember when Tiger Woods got called out for saying he played like a spas? Obviously unaware of the origin of the phrase. And the offence it could cause.

Very very similar with biff. Trouble is, both words could be seen to be derived from less offensive origins, so I guess its how precious we want to be.

We already have zero tolerance on two offensive insults that are not in the swear filter, so I guess, as the boss says, its context.

 

[orly]

Remember when Tiger Woods got called out for saying he played like a spas? Obviously unaware of the origin of the phrase. And the offence it could cause.

Very very similar with biff. Trouble is, both words could be seen to be derived from less offensive origins, so I guess its how precious we want to be.

We already have zero tolerance on two offensive insults that are not in the swear filter, so I guess, as the boss says, its context.

Yes like the 'm' word not getting picked up by the swear filter.

Starmer, good and bad, or something. Labour leader.

 

[roydo]

Yes like the 'm' word not getting picked up by the swear filter.

Starmer, good and bad, or something. Labour leader.

I honest to god didnt have a clue what thread we are in.

Starmer. Forensic apparently.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Very disappointed with Starmer sacking long bailey , i think he is playing to the pro Israel gallery and trying to impress the right wing media , think this is more about the purge of the left and now nobody who has Socialist views will be demoted or kicked out , i think this is back to blair days pfi iraq war etc

Did you mean anybody* mate? If so good Labour need to get back to the centre - we had it good under Blair lest we forget.

Starmer now needs to boot Abbott out the party - joker she is.

 

[davek]

Thought his job then was to interpret the law as delivered by parliament. And if anyone has ever gone near the law, it's an ass in the first instance, once solicitor lawyers barristers, it is best practice of what has happened before will be common conclusion.

Yes the CPS can act independently of Government of the day, however, they will be constrained by the manner in how th our law is constructed, parameters etc.

I dare say his experience of being Director of Prosecutions opened his eyes further, hence where he is now. His role then will always be a concern, and no doubt as we near the election 2024 it will be front page news.

That's just an excuse for failing to deal with human rights violations.

Dress it up all you wnat, Starmer was in the hot seat and made descisions that backed up violont acts by the state against citizens of this country and those abroad.

 

[anxiouswarrior]

Did you mean anybody* mate? If so good Labour need to get back to the centre - we had it good under Blair lest we forget.

Starmer now needs to boot Abbott out the party - joker she is.

Blair did some good things but he basically carried on the Thatcher agenda of privatisation , pfi projects plus got us involved in a disastrous war in the middle east , im not sure thats centre ground politics

 

[Clint Planet]

Blair did some good things but he basically carried on the Thatcher agenda of privatisation , pfi projects plus got us involved in a disastrous war in the middle east , im not sure thats centre ground politics

An illegal war. After doctoring dossiers and misleading parliament. An illegal, shattering war that led to well over a million deaths. Imagine that happening to this country - we can't even deal with a three month lockdown, never mind a devastating illegal conflict perpetrated by a foreign power.

 

[Tubey]

Blair started centre left, ended centre right. Did a lot of good things, but some spectacularly bad things.

It would be nice if he'd had owned up to his mistakes but he can't.

I was a Blair fan for years, but I disagreed with Iraq as soon as it was planned - I remember shaking my head watching the HOC debates as it was clear he'd sold his soul on that.

But for me his ideology in 1997 was broadly correct. The execution of it however went horribly wrong as he swung further and further right.

 

[Khalekan]

Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter, it seems.

 

[peteblue]

Blair started centre left, ended centre right. Did a lot of good things, but some spectacularly bad things.

It would be nice if he'd had owned up to his mistakes but he can't.

I was a Blair fan for years, but I disagreed with Iraq as soon as it was planned - I remember shaking my head watching the HOC debates as it was clear he'd sold his soul on that.

But for me his ideology in 1997 was broadly correct. The execution of it however went horribly wrong as he swung further and further right.

I think it’s wonderful where everything Blair did well is attributed by yourself to being left of centre, but everything he did badly is attributed to being right of centre. You and Millions of others voted him in 3 times. He was the same person. Don’t try to excuse yourself for voting him in or for the bad things he did.......

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Blair did some good things but he basically carried on the Thatcher agenda of privatisation , pfi projects plus got us involved in a disastrous war in the middle east , im not sure thats centre ground politics

The war aside I think we had it relatively good under New Labour - better than anything we have had under the Tories and certainly what we would have had with Corbyn and his rabble of far left loons.

 

[Clint Planet]

I think it’s wonderful where everything Blair did well is attributed by yourself to being left of centre, but everything he did badly is attributed to being right of centre. You and Millions of others voted him in 3 times. He was the same person. Don’t try to excuse yourself for voting him in or for the bad things he did.......

I voted for him in 97. That abject, sleaze-ridden Tory government would have had me voting for Coco the Clown if he'd been Labour party leader. I voted against my Labour MP on a local issue in the next election and then voted Socialist Alliance in protest at the illegal war in 2005.

So that's once in three elections he got my vote.

(although Labour were returned in 2005, they'd shed 4M votes since '97)

 

[Simon Buttle]

Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter, it seems.

The knee on the neck thing is very much a Krav Maga technique. Krav Maga is a military fighting system used by Israeli special forces. The main principal behind it is that an unarmed person who has to defend them self against someone with a weapon, much of it is about knife disarms, gun disarms and the such like. It's a very ruthless self defense system and it encourages things such as eye gouges, kneeling on the neck, proper choke outs (unlike in jiu jitsu were you just knock someone out for a few seconds)
Given that the IDF have spent time training certain US Police departments i have no doubt this will be origin of this tactic and even more so given how militarized the Police seem to be over there. I have done a bit of Krav Maga in the past and whilst not the greatest thing to use in a street fight i certainly don't think it or any part of it has any place on the street by anyone public or Police, it was designed for the battlefield and should stay there.

 

[dead_soft]

The war aside I think we had it relatively good under New Labour - better than anything we have had under the Tories and certainly what we would have had with Corbyn and his rabble of far left loons.

The war aside? It's quite a big aside though, isn't it?

I would suggest making immigrants a scapegoat, and people on benefits, and pushing prisons rather than reforming them, might also be not great things for a Labour government to be behind.

 

[evilwebby]

Maxine Peake: ‘People who couldn’t vote Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn? They voted Tory as far as I’m concerned’

The star of ‘Shameless’ and ‘Silk’ talks to Alexandra Pollard about her new film ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’, the government’s shambolic handling of coronavirus and why she believes we should rid ourselves of capitalism

www.independent.co.uk

There’s the article.

Why did she think sharing such a thing was a good idea.

What a disturbed woman. And I don’t mean RLB...