Newspapers delayed as Extinction Rebellion blocks printing presses
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54038591
Love it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54038591
Love it.
Westminster Politics
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As is the concept of truth and honesty. Trust in politics must be at an all-time low.
Every cloud has a silver lining. And why would anyone want to waste their money on buying a paper. Full of made up stories and advertising.
Save your money folks.
Normally I would agree with you but the Covid thing is throwing up so many different 'events'* that it means the government is always riding a transient wave at an unknown amplitude and frequency and as yet no steady state in sight. There are supposedly trying to follow the science, but then is it health or economic science? It certainly not political science that's for sure.
* always recall Harold Macmillan when asked why he couldn't complete something and why he seemed to change his mind, his reply was " events dear boy, events"!
And if it is the result of events, then it is understandable.
But in many of the cases, it is not simply the result of an unforeseen event. It is primarily the result of incoherent and muddled thinking. With not enough forethought or in-depth analysis.
On another note, how long before people will be outside protesting against the Guardian
If it had just been the Guardian or Observer that were prevented from being delivered, you wouldn't have heard a peep out of Priti fecking Patel
They should be grateful that they onlynstopped them printing for a day rather than putting a bullet in their head
Who wrote that, because it shows a hilarious political illiteracy to talk of an anarchist hierarchy.
That family must have mental house parties. I bet they stay up as late as 10pm and put out TWO dips for the carrot sticks.
Ha ha! From the man who unlawfully suspended parliamentary democracy.
I would have thought that a man whose previous comments on the holocaust had caused the heiracty of xr Germany
To distance them selves from him
And the heiracht of xr uk were forced to issue a statement saying
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-50501941
Now skipping the fact that both organisations having spokespeople and indeed even a conflict team it would seem to imply a certain level or organisation and heirachy.
But having to come out against one of the founders does show his views on the holocaust were an issue... and this same person is now saying there should be a bullet to the head of those people who "run the elites" ... who could he be referring to beyond the antisemitic tropes?
I would have thought that was a bigger issue than how an article was written... nevermind you will have another opportunity to denounce antisemitism when the ehrc report is published (presumably in the next couple of weeks?)
I don't think XR count as an anarchist group. It's a decentralised, loose coalition of groups, some more hierarchical than others. But it speaks to the intellectual credibility of Guido that they can call a group anarchist and in the same breath talk about its hierarchy. It's like criticising the sharpness of the corners on a circle.
I have issues with XR, although not the same ones you do. They have done some outstanding graphic design work though.
So Priti and Boris release statements condemning protesters blocking the Sun but nothing on their far right chums closing down Dover.
Only half a page up we have tweets about Tory MP’s demanding the BBC stop taking the piss out of them in comedy shows. And that Panorama shouldn’t be doing things like exposing government incompetence on PPE.
24 hours later, Tory MP’s moaning about blocking free press. feck them all.
24 hours later, Tory MP’s moaning about blocking free press. feck them all.
Either people will notice this and this government will not last long.
Or, we have been dumbed down and distracted so much as a nation over he last few decades, so they can get away with anything and it is forgotten in the next news cycle.
Definitely the second one. The hypocrisy seen on a day to day basis has just become normal now.
Take XR for example. When they staged protests and blocked roads, there was a lot of people annoyed by this, which I understood, despite loosely agreeing that radical action is probably the only way of getting attention.
Now today, you’ve got the right marching and blocking roads in Dover. Guarantee all of them were completely slaughtering XR for doing the same thing.
What a surprise:
Great to see him use his reach in the way he does. Absolute class.
So Extinction Rebellion is going to be labelled an organised criminal group if the government has its way because thy wanted to draw exposure to the fact that the country’s ‘free’ media is an illusion, increasing minimum wages are financially impossible but MPs will still happily bend over for companies who have already pulled their pants down using tax havens, then allowing the, to use Covid relief funds.
feck the state of this world!
feck the state of this world!
I blame Kevin Bacon for that one tbf.
Is that not because in Britain about 80% of the bandwidth is used to enter people's brains and track/kill them???
Rather than put resources into the courts system to help clear the backlog, the Government resorts to this. Pathetic.
Given covid, cleaning requirements and social distancing would you be able to put more people through the courts at the moment?
It was a problem of their own making before Covid.
Yes but given i don't think making a time machine is a viable policy they either let people out without charge or they extend the time... neither are great but if somebody released without charge then goes on to do something that would be arguably the worst outcome
which countries use Huawai kit as isnt their stuff better than the alternatives ?
Or they could open more courts to clear the backlog, which they created themselves.
But of course they picked the option where innocent people get locked up longer awaiting justice.
The rise of fascism. There are many red flags.
How quickly could they open them and staff them with qualified people out of interest? - the secret barrister book seemed to imply they were pretty flat out as it was often only getting cases the morning they were supposed to court ?
That seems more indicative of limited 5g rollout coverage, rather than the speeds people get when actually connected to 5g. I'm not sure how we compare to the other countries mentioned in terms of population/geographical coverage.