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What kind of clueless people voted “Conservative” at GE 2024 anyway? 3 out of every 12 that voted at all did, though.
Three hundred ships (and smaller craft)? Impressive, on the face of it.
Not much to choose between the Arab and the Jew, in many respects, arguably. Both non-European and also, quite often, anti-European.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/30/taylor-swift-southport-stabbings-children
I do not know who exactly is that Labour MP begging for more migrant-invaders to be allowed to come and stay here. Just one of —probably— hundreds of similar type.
Broken Britain
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24483508.victim-speaks-ear-bitten-off-razorlight-gig/
“A man has said he will never return to Bournemouth after an attacker bit his ear off at a Razorlight concert.
“I was enjoying the night, watching Razorlight and having a good time, having a laugh with everybody when out of nowhere he’s tapped me on the shoulder a few times,” said Matt.
“I went in thinking he had something to say to me and the next thing I know he’s taken my ear off.”
Daniel Sykes, 46, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court, for inflicting grievous bodily harm, to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
He was also ordered to pay £500 in compensation, but Matt said this will not cover his counselling sessions and travel costs.
“He’s just walking the streets like nothing matters now to him.”
[Bournemouth Echo]
Regular readers know that I always say that I am not a “hanger and flogger” by any means, but a suspended sentence, and pitiful financial penalty, for a completely unprovoked and vicious attack of that sort in a public place, is inadequate; in fact it makes a mockery of law, order, and the courts.
We all know that prisons are full etc, but that sentence is just not good enough. Naturally, not all relevant facts before the court are printed in newspaper reports, but it is hard to see what mitigation could be sufficient on the facts that are known to newspaper readers to outweigh what the defendant did.
Incidentally, I had no idea what “Razorlight” might be. For those in similar difficulties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorlight.
Why would people aged 45+ even be at such an event? I do not know, but then I myself would pay to be able to avoid such a noisy gathering.
Late tweets
The pseudo-populist mass media (GB News, Talk TV etc are all an offshoot of the Israel lobby.
Would it really be so bad if a proper English/British government were in power and decided to solve this whole problem by [REDACTED]?
Late music
Ian Robert Millard 