Sephiroth

Yep. All true But none seem to be able to cast the same spell over people that Trump does

Clearly his health is going to do for him long before any legal/electoral comeuppance

So - after spending weeks lying about everyone else, not to mention yesterday’s disgusting comments about Rob Reiner, Trump is officially suing BBC for 10 billion the gall of that creature. And anyone who defends him. He cares nothing about “truth” Telegraph/guardian/times all reporting 10 billion. However in bbc news they are saying 5. Hmmmmm

Lifelong violent thug dies. Not sure why it’s “tragic” tho. He wasn’t killed by some unforeseen circumstance while he tried to help someone less fortunate than himself https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/well-known-bristol-football-fan-10699651

No the article doesn’t specify but their actual name amounts to the entire ethos of Reform and the type of people fixing flags across neighbourhoods Given their name and their tactics I doubt they are voting libdem they are almost certainly Reform leaning (or even more extreme than that) https://thewaltermittyhuntersclubhq2.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/veterans-in-need-ltd-and-another-ben-mills-charity-scam/

I googled “We R Blighty investigation” and well. Wow also reform are massively ahead in the polls People need to start calling out people for what they are and stop pretending reform, the flag hangers and related charities are somehow a normal political party/movement dark forces are rising

Not especially shocking - not to immigrants like me anyway but a dreadful experience for your husband Pugwash

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

That isn’t what the budget did if it did the markets would have reacted very differently but if you believe that’s what the budget did then nothing I or anyone else can say here will persuade you otherwise.

No the leaks came after the apocalyptic of some on here - the whole leak/non leak and obr problem aren’t great - but ultimately a wash and not that relevant. journalists should be analysing what the budget did and didn’t do but as per everything since 2016 is just personal psychodrama and college-boy sniggering

the speed at which critics of labour have switched last week from "the economy is toast because of Reeves!" to "the economy is doing well and it's Reeve's fault!" I don't think it was a great budget and it was tinkering and won't deliver many of the things the country needs - but it wasn't the disaster some people on here have been predicting for months either and they hysterical reaction from the likes of Dan Hodges and cronies is embarrassing