Confirmation that the Dublin Regulation, that allows us to return refugees to the first EU country they entered, will no longer apply to us, once we leave the EU. If I was the French, wishing to clear the camps at Calais, I would book a block of ferry tickets and give them to the refugees as a parting gift for Priti Patel.
It’s by Mark Steel, so you know it’ll be good: https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...ls-migrants-priti-patel-johnson-a9680111.html
I went to see my doctor for a check up today on my my many physical complaints and he always tries out his Alzeimers questions on me. He is now convinced that I have Alzeimer's because when he asked me who the Prime Minister was I said "I haven't a ****ing clue. I haven't seen him in months".
Loving the Mrs America series Just watched the penultimate episode where Alice, one of the Right wing, antI Women’s Libbers ends up off her head in a Gay Cafe singing “This land is my land” and one of the Libbers points out it was written by Woody Guthrie, a socialist and she’s been belting out a Marxist song. “But it’s patriotic” she says, “Exactly” comes the reply Love it and I hope I’ve conveyed it well enough to get the point across, but maybe you need to see it
I watched it a couple of weeks ago after being prompted by my wife. Absolutely brilliantly written and acted, one of those series you are grateful to have been given the chance to have watched. And Cate Blanchett. Just, wow. Surely her finest work?
Loved the phone call from Hopalong Reagan telling her she didn't get the job n the 1980 administration. Should be a lesson to Tory supporting plebs everywhere that they are just useful idiots.
The best parts are always the baddies A lot of other great performances too I’ve got the last episode to go
Worth watching to understand why the EU Brexit negotiators are digging their heels in on some issues, and they are right to do so.
Just a reminder of how much money stands to be made out of Brexit/No Deal, by Johnson’s hedge fund supporters. Makes me sick to the stomach. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/09/11/...al-crash-out-by-boris-johnsons-leave-backers/
Leaked by accident or by design? Testing the waters for a public response, like Johnson did when talking about letting covid run it’s course? Gove being quoted as saying “We got Brexit done with a great deal in January”. Is that the same great deal they are trying to renegotiate because they suddenly realised it isn’t that great? https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...eveals-fear-of-no-deal-and-second-wave/23/08/
The American justice system, a thread: For those who don't wish to read the totality: the author is a public defender. They have a client who is in jail awaiting trial for attempted murder, though no one in the system seems to believe that the kid will be convicted...rather, the charge itself is the punishment, because it means that the kid will have to wait in jail for a lengthy period (thus far almost a year) awaiting trial. Public defender presents evidence of police malfeasance in the case, and then suddenly finds a warrant out for their arrest, from a place where they haven't been in years. A warrant that would require the lawyer to be jailed for 14 days without bond. Paperwork seems to have been completely falsified (it involved a bench warrant for missing a court appearance on a date where court could not have been in session) and the warrant against the lawyer was dismissed. Police refuse to hand over any documentation concerning how any of this came to be. Does all this sound highly improbable? It should, because in a functioning society this stuff simply wouldn't happen, but it isn't uncommon in the US. Hell, it's happening in plain sight right now, as a police department in Virginia is trying to hang felony charges on a bunch of opponents, including a state Senator, public defenders, leaders of the NAACP and others for felony damage to a monument, despite there being no indication that any of these individuals participated in the damage of a Confederate monument. But they were all vocal supporters of police reform: https://www.pilotonline.com/news/cr...0200820-62euq7bbhrfoxergv4ewpigiou-story.html So what will happen in these cases? Literally nothing. The felonies against the lawmaker and others will likely be dropped, message sent. The kid in prison will likely see the attempted murder charge dropped as well, but will have no recourse for the year or more of their life spent in prison for a crime no one seems to believe they committed. The public defender has a slim chance of winning a civil suit, but it's unlikely. No one's losing their job never mind facing legal consequences for using the cover of law as a weapon against any of these people. The killings get most of the attention, and they should be featured prominently. But the rot goes far deeper than that. The police act in their own interests, not the interests of the communities they are meant to police. Sunday, they allowed a group of Trump supporters (including members of a couple hate groups) show up armed in Portland, pepper spray protesters, beat them with batons, and point firearms at them. The police didn't step in until the Trump supporters left...after which they declared the remaining protest to be unlawful. Because the Proud Boys and III Percenters and the QAnon wackos support the police, so the police support them, even if they're actively and blatantly violating the law.
