I'm sure this has gone down well... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html In other news, it's hilarious to see Tommy Robinson's followers trying to get IAmTommy trending on Twitter in the wake of him being permabanned due to being nothing more than a troll with a following.
Meanwhile, on Facebook... please log in to view this image Of course the usual defences of "It was a joke!" and "Freedom of speech REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" followed when the post was reported - only for the admin to shut down the page anyway, which may or may not have had something to do with the post being forwarded to the police.
The irony being that he's not Tommy. Stephen Christopher Lennon is probably too long for Twitter, though.
The fact they couldn't bring themselves to use JeSuisTommy because that sounds foreign is quite amusing too...
I see the head of the Parole Board has been hung out to dry, sorry "resigned". He was on the radio this morning explaining that he was effectively sacked. The head of the PB did not have any control over the decision in the case that got him fired. He's basically had to take responsibility for what others under him have done. This is I suppose correct thing to have happened, although it would be nice if MPs held themselves up to the same degree of responsibility. The ex-head also said that there were mistakes by other departments too, but clearly thought that the PB were being hung out to dry, presumably to offset the ire of the public / media. My main point is that whichever government figure told him to resign (Justice Secretary?) then they had better hold themselves up to the same level of scrutiny.
The obvious candidates are either... David Gauke, Justice Secretary David Lidington, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Justice Secretary between 11th June 2017 and 8th January 2018 (Worboys release was signed on 4th January) Amber Rudd, Home Secretary The Dire Leader On the subject of the Dire Leader, she has said that post Britait she will bring the UK closer together...this being the same Dire Leader who has publicly supported her political secretary Stephen Parkinson after he publicly outed a whistleblower in a blatant attempt to intimidate him into silence, actions which I am sure will bring the disparate communities of Britain further together!
Suppose the Parole Board had a list of other alleged offences that were not those used in the conviction of Worboys, and the guy said "wasn't me" . Should they have released him ?? If he had said there were other offences, he is hardly going to be released is he, given the nature of the offences. The PB decision should have been : release, subject to the CPS confirming very low confidence in successfully prosecuting any of the other alleged offences. I assume the CPS are going to try to prosecute some of those cases now ...
It's also worth remembering that, after the initial decision to release Warboys was announced, it was very quickly brought up how several of his victims whose cases weren't included in the original trial were willing to bring fresh prosecutions against him. It's worth pointing out that the QC for the original trial (who also brought up the additional cases) has stated that Gauke bears no small amount of responsibility for systematic failures that led to this situation - although, as pointed out above, Gaulke isn't the only one who bears responsibility as he wasn't Justice Secretary at the time Worboys was granted parole.
And this is the stupidity of it. If a review/decision date of D was given for Worboys, then the procedure should be that some weeks before D, the CPS should be doing a nominal reassessment of prosecuting any of those offences. That means contacting the alleged victims to tell them of potential prosecution etc, but not indicating the reason is due to a planned parole hearing for the accused.
Gosh. Politics stinks.Then you think"well there's always sports" to think about until you hear of someone rubbing a cricket ball with sandpaper.....and that someone says sorry.He loves the sport!
I see our ex-chairman is doing his bit for proving that only complete dickheads who have no place in the political sphere can Apprentice judges...
Proof that it's possible for two people to make complete dickheads of themselves while talking about the subject, yet do so for different reasons. First we have Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham taking to Twitter to mock Parkland survivor David Hogg for failing to reach the GPA in order to get accepted to UCLA, which for some strange reason backfired so badly that several advertisers cut ties with Fox News before Ingraham announced she would be taking a week-long holiday effective immediately - which of course has nothing to do with advertisers dropping Fox News like a hot, faeces-covered stone the second one of their employees started publicly bullying somebody who survived a high school shooting for not getting good enough grades. Then we have Ted Nugent describe them as "soulless" - this being the same Ted Nugent noted for being rabidly pro-gun, making countless sexist, racist and homophobic comments over the decades his career has mystifyingly lasted, who notably **** his pants to avoid going to Vietnam (yes, really), and has a penchant for having sex with underage girls, so the odds of him knowing what in the name of ungodly **** a soul actually is are as minimal as his album sales in the past five years. And bonus point, the NRAzi Party have settled on their latest smear of the Parkland kids: that every single one of them at the March for our Lives were actually bullying Nathan Cruz at school and the whole campaign is them crying foul because Cruz, the poor innocent victim in all of this, fought back - although they seem to have trouble comprehending that their own argument explicitly say that Cruz somehow managed to cold-bloodedly murder seventeen people who weren't even the ones he was "justified" in shooting. That, Ted Nugent, is what a soulless person looks like.
Meanwhile, closer to home, Michael Gove is in a spot of bother with Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr... please log in to view this image Sarah Vine's probably writing her Mail hatchet job on Cadwalladr as we speak...
Let's see how much of this list gets mentioned by the BBC by May 3rd (cribbed from Matt Thomas) Abuse & Violence Coun Tom Davey - Multiple Abusive Facebook Messages Coun Chris Joannides Expelled - Comparing Muslim Women To Bin Bags Coun Gareth Compton Arrested - Said Muslim Should Be Stoned To Death MP James Heappey - Told Schoolgirl To **** Off Back To Scotland Coun Margaret Bassett Suspended - Offensive Online Messages Coun Val Roberts Suspended - Offensive Social Media Comments Coun Ken Hawkins Suspended - Suggesting Hanging Grenfell Activists Coun Leonard Fulcher Fined £620 - Twice Threatening To Kill Council Staff Coun Penny Jackman Guilty Of Hitting A Pensioner - Fails To Pay £70k Costs Coun Brian Coleman Fined £270 - Assault On Female Cafe Owner Coun Jon Herbert Fined £1315 - Two Counts Of Common Assault Coun Douglas Hellier-Laing Jailed 3 Years - Beating His Wife With A Mallet Coun Asif Ayub Jailed 5 Months - Assaulting Ex Partner Five Times Coun Thomas Monument Fined £485 - Punching & Head-Butting Ex Partner Coun Harvey Jennings Suspended - Charged With Assaulting Ex Wife Coun Ian Carr Resigns - Street Brawl With Fellow Councillor Coun Chris Humphries Suspended - 5 Counts of Mistreating Staff Coun David Turtle - Charged With Murdering His Wife Coun Stephen Canning Suspended - Allegations Of An Assault On An MPs Aide MP Craig Whittaker Arrested - Accused Of Assaulting His Son MP Philip Davies - Accused Of Physically & Verbally Attacking An Interviewer Coun Alan Mellins - suggested "Execute them" when asked about local travellers Sexual Assault Coun George Lord Jailed 4 Years - Multiple Sexual Assaults Coun Martin Fisher Jailed Twice - Sex Offences & Breaching Court Orders Coun Allan Vizor Jailed 6 Months - Sexual Assaulting A Man Coun David Burcombe - Guilty of Sexual Assault Coun Robert Benson Fined £200 - Sex Act In Public Fraud Coun Mark O'Keeffe Jailed 18 Months - Defrauding Clients of £70k Coun Daniel Smy Jailed 1 Year - Falsely Claiming £35k Expenses Coun Jezz Baker Jailed 1 Year - Taking Planning Application Bribe Coun Jim Speechley Jailed 18 Months – Planning Fraud To Increase Value Of His Land Coun Richard Smalley Jailed 2 Months - Faking Address Coun Johnathan Woodley-Shead Jailed 3 Years - Stealing £155k From Employers Coun John Morgan Jailed 5 Years - Stealing £150k From A Pensioner Coun Jeanette Mann Jailed 15 Months - Defrauding £20k From 2 Pensioners Parl Candidate Ben Pickering Jailed 6 Years - £5m Property Fraud Coun Candidate Cencizham Cerit Jailed 12 Months - Electoral Fraud Southport Treasurer Paul Wilding Jailed 21 Months - £48k Fraud Coun Michael Mills Jailed 2 Years - Claiming £21k Of Late Wife’s Pension Former MP Bob Spink 6 Month Jail Suspended - Electoral Fraud Coun Monika Juneja 14 Month Jail Suspended - Forgery Coun George Ringrow 4 Month Jail Suspended - £32k Benefits Fraud Treasurer Barbara Hare 2 Year Jail Suspended - £130k Fraud Coun David Stansfield Expelled - £4000 Benefit Fraud Activist John Hall Fined £1000 - Election Fraud Coun Peter Lawless Fined £400 - £5000 Benefit Fraud Coun Chris Boothby Guilty - £1500 Benefit Fraud Coun Tony Ramsden Jailed 10 Months - Breaching Bankruptcy Laws Coun Robert Payne Jailed 2 Years - £91k Fraud Lord Taylor Jailed 12 Months - Expenses Fraud Coun Phillip Brown Jailed 12 Months - £50k Fraud And Theft MP Craig MacKinley - Facing Charges For Election Fraud Policy Forum Director Hannah David - Police Investigation Into £13m Fraud Coun David Richard Barton - Accused of Money Laundering & Multi Million Fraud Coun Simon King Suspended - £1500 Excessive Travel Expense Claim Coun Kerri Harold Fined £600 - Breaching Planning Enforcement Notice Historical Fraud MP Jeffrey Archer Jailed 4 Years - Perjury MP Jonathan Aitken Jailed 18 Months - Perjury Lord Conrad Black Jailed 6.5 Years - Fraud Lord Hanningfield Jailed 9 Months - Expenses Fraud Racism Coun Gerry Forsbury MP Anne Marie Morris Coun Robert Fraser Lord Dixon-Smith Coun Peter Edwards MP George Gardiner MP John Townend Coun Booby Good - Nazi Tattoo Coun Alastair Majury Suspended - Various Sectarian, Racist, & Sexists Tweets Coun Rosemary Carroll Suspended - Sharing Racist Facebook Post Coun Nick Harrington Suspended - Racist Twitter Post Coun Jeff Potts Suspended - Sending & Retweeting Racist Tweets Coun Ray Bray Suspended - Abusive Islamophobic Tweets Coun Michael Watson Suspended - Endorsing Multiple Racist Tweets Coun Alan Pearmain Suspended - Diane Abbot Racist Tweet Coun Andy Dransfield Suspended - Racist & Sexist Comments To A Firefighter Coun Jim Marsh Suspended - Racist Comment On Online Petition Coun Robert Davies Suspended - Racist Comments Coun Bob Frost Suspended - Racist Comments Coun David Whittingham Expelled - Racist Comments Oxford Tory Union Member Vitus Van Rij - Tells Women “Go Back To Washing The Dishes” MEP Daniel Hannan - “People Unsettled By Barack Obama’s Exotic Background” Coun John Cherry resigned - racial profiling of schoolchildren Activist and former Secretary for Coulsdon South Conservatives Stephen Lees - said all muslims should be "expelled" and every mosque demolished Coun Jim Buckley - racist tweet about Sadiq Khan Coun candidate David Bishop - tweeted "It's good to be anti-Islam" Historical Racism MP Patrick Mercer "Black Soldiers Idle And Useless" MP Boris Johnson "Africans Piccaninnies With Watermelon Smiles" MP John Townend "Immigrants Were Undermining Society" MP Oliver Letwin "Black People Have Bad Moral Attitudes" Coun Bob Fahey - Racial Slur Against Asian Councillor Coun Simon Benson - “Too Many P***s In His Town” Coun Peter Hobbins - “No Candidates With Ordinary English Names” Coun Bob Allen (Again) - Compares Asian Councillor To Gorilla Coun Shaun Smith arrested for racist incident at Manchester Airport MP Norman Tebbit - numerous racist remarks against Asian immigrants Antisemitism Coun Candidate Guizabeen Afsar Suspended - Anti-Semitism MP David Wilshere compared expenses scandal to treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, with references to gas chambers UCL Conservative Society - investigated for antisemitism, islamophobia and racism Coul for Bishop's Stortford - posted antisemetic tweet Sectarianism Coun Richard Nelson (pic with ‘friend’) - Discussed Shooting Catholics Coun Neil Graham Suspended - Sharing Sectarian Facebook Posts Nazism Jacob Rees Mogg Supporter Paul Townsley - Hit Woman & Dressed As A Nazi Tory Student George Wright Who Campaigned With Amber Rudd - Doing Nazi Salute MP Aiden Burley - Nazi Stag Do Coun Mike Gardner Deselected - Dressing Up As Hitler Coun Matt Snape Resigned - Sending Hitler Tweet Coun Jonathan Farmer 21 Month Jail Suspended - Possession of Nazi Firearm Homophobia Coun Rachael Hogg - Accused Of Transphobia Coun Joao Parreria - Accused Of Transphobia MP Roger Gale - Blames Female Journalists For MP Sex Scandals Coun Ben Harris-Quinney Suspended - Speaking At Anti-Gay Conference Coun Ken Gregory Suspended 6 Months - Homophobic Attack Activate - WhatsApp chat about how they should gas "homo chavs" and "run medical experiments on them" Sexism Coun Tina Knight Suspended – “Sex Assaults at Presidents Club Were Hilarious” Child Abuse Coun David Whittaker Jailed 6 Years - Multiple Child Sexual Offences Coun Stephen Holmes Jailed 10 Months – Indecent Child Images Coun William Barber Jailed 14 Years - Abusing 8 Children Coun Peter Stidworthy Jailed 21 Months - String Of Child Sex Offenses Coun Richard Willis Jailed 16 Months - Sharing Child Abuse Images Coun John George Reaney Jailed 16 Months - Sex With 14 Year Old Boy Coun Bob Bate Jailed Twice 3 Years & 9 Months – Indecent Child Images Coun Arthur Hodgson Jailed 27 Months - Sexual Assaults On Children Coun Julian Mineur 3 Year Community Order - Indecent Child Images Coun Andrew Lamont 6 Month Jail Suspended – Indecent Child Images Coun Ben Redsell 3 Year Supervision Order - Sexual Assault & Indecent Images Coun Ian McKellar 3 Year Supervision Order - Indecent Child Images Coun Heathcliffe Bowen Jailed 5 Years - Grooming Boys Coun Matthew Sephton Jailed 33 Months - Distributing Child Abuse Images Coun John Hawthorn 4 Month Jail Suspended - Possessing Child & Animal Abuse Images Coun Matthew Lock - Guilty Of 19 Child Sexual Offences Coun Neil Thorneywork 2 Year Jail Suspended - Indecent Child Images & Theft Coun Michael Jamieson Suspended & Charged - Indecent Child Images Bullying Coun Patrick Rochford Suspended - Bullying and Intimidation Of Fellow Councillor Coun Geoff Driver - Arrested Conspiracy To Pervert Justice & Intimidation Youth Coordinator Mark Clarke - Accused Of Bullying Linked To Suicide Selling Illegal Goods MEP Tom Spencer Fined £600 - Smuggling Drugs & Pornography Coun Wayne Whittle Fined £2500 - Selling Counterfeit Goods Coun Donal Hassett Jailed 33 Months - Part Of A Drug Gang Drink Driving Coun Peter Le Maistre Fined £170 Banned 30 Months - Refusing To Provide A Specimen Coun Adrian Hardman Fined £350 Banned 16 Months Coun Peter Whittaker Fined £1100 Banned 12 Months - Causing 3 Car Crash Coun Ian White Fined £440 Banned 12 Months Coun Stuart Towner - Affair With Sixth Former & Banned 20 Months Drink Driving Coun Shaun Smith (again) resigned - failing to provide a sample after a drink drive arrest General ****ishness Coun Dom Peacock Suspended - Said He Would Donate Steam Of His Piss To Jo Cox Fund Coun Paul Dakers Jailed - Refusing To Pay Council Tax Coun Jonny Bucknell Fined £32k – Landlord Providing Uninhabitable Accomodation Tory Student Ronald Coyne - Burnt £20 Note In Front Of Homeless Man Coun Ian Tait Fined £175 - Obstructing Police Blackpool Party - Suspend Own Councillor While In Hospital With Collapsed Lung Coun David Meikle - accused SNP of antisemitism for opposing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land Activate - WhatsApp chat describe the poor as "vermin" Historical ****ishness MP Margaret Thatcher - branded Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" Conservative Research Department trainee David Cameron went on jolly to South Africa paid for by a firm lobbying against imposition of sanctions against apartheid regime
I assume there are kindred lists for Labour and the Lib Dems compiled with a similar degree of diligence and widely known about ...
