Off Topic Politics Thread

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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Slighty off topic, but it always annoys me that I get charged if I am over 23lbs per bag if I travel. I weigh 11 stone 2 lbs and i may be sitting next to someone weighing 20 stone. I am putting less weight on the plane, but get penalised.
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Maybe the person sitting next to you is also 11 stone 2 lbs, but they're wearing all the clothes they plan to use whilst away, rather than putting them in their case. Check their unfeasibly large pockets for spare pairs of shoes, wash kits and the like...
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Slighty off topic, but it always annoys me that I get charged if I am over 23lbs per bag if I travel. I weigh 11 stone 2 lbs and i may be sitting next to someone weighing 20 stone. I am putting less weight on the plane, but get penalised.
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Im sure there is an airline that weighs people before they fly and charges the heavier ones more. Was big outrage from all body positive people about it
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Slighty off topic, but it always annoys me that I get charged if I am over 23lbs per bag if I travel. I weigh 11 stone 2 lbs and i may be sitting next to someone weighing 20 stone. I am putting less weight on the plane, but get penalised.
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... AND now they're going to get free drugs at your expense TOO

Life's a Bitch!

And anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something
 
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My name is Billy said:
Well, in that case we may as well shut the board down, as there is nothing else to see.

The leftie moaners on here spent 14 years deriding literally everything they could about the right.

I initially came on to this thread a fews years back with the view to educate myself, as I have never given a **** about politics - nor truly understood it.

That was the worst mistake I made in years.

I may, like you, have a right leaning view, but my irk on here was the harsh, vitriolic attacks that were occurring daily, or weekly at the least - these being of a very personal nature. I found it pretty disgusting to be fair, and was (although maybe I should not have been) disturbed that people could take things so seriously and post things like that.

Since Labour lied their way into power, a few people have rightly provided good natured information about lies and corruption - no one has gone anywhere near the over the top personal attacks that used to come (from memory so apologies if I get this slightly wrong) - deleted as dont want people pissing their knickers - but you know who they are...

The attacks, and I am sure you recall as I am sure we had a DM or two about it, were horrific, and relentless.

So my discomfort about the way people did this, to which I called them out for, led me to be derided into appear to be a Boris loveboy, Tory fan boy etc.

Most of my posts are so tongue in cheek and light hearted, and I recall refusing to use blue ink as that was like asking a comedian to state they were telling a joke every time they told one, that if people took them seriously then more fool them for taking this stuff way to seriously.

So excuse me if, now the shoe is on the other foot, that we can call is just semantics - the left took this waaaay too far over the 14 years.

And if anyone is offended by my post, go ban me or go **** yourselves - people should have a proper look at some of the stuff they have posted over the last number of years.
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Two things I would like to pick up on in your very humourous post. I don't think Labour lied their way into power. If we study the % of votes gained, it was only a few percentage points up on the last time. So they arrived in power not by an overwhelming desire of the populace but the drop in the Tory vote who either stayed at home or went for Reform. So for me, they arrived at the seat of Government almost by default. As for being a "BorisLoverboy", I would not wish that on anyone. And I can see that you have better taste than that.
 
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The Ides of March said:
Two things I would like to pick up on in your very humourous post. I don't think Labour lied their way into power. If we study the % of votes gained, it was only a few percentage points up on the last time. So they arrived in power not by an overwhelming desire of the populace but the drop in the Tory vote who either stayed at home or went for Reform. So for me, they arrived at the seat of Government almost by default. As for being a "BorisLoverboy", I would not wish that on anyone. And I can see that you have better taste than that.
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Thank you Idea. Very good post :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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Going to side with righty brothers tonight, I am sure, when I say it is great that the officer who shot Chris Kaba has been found not guilty of murder. Trying to ram through cars while police stand in front of you is not, as the BBC shamefully are still declaring, “unarmed”. It is very much armed.
 
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Going to side with righty brothers tonight, I am sure, when I say it is great that the officer who shot Chris Kaba has been found not guilty of murder. Trying to ram through cars while police stand in front of you is not, as the BBC shamefully are still declaring, “unarmed”. It is very much armed.
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While I agree with you, this isn't politics. Please revert to off topic thread where I posted about it earlier.
 
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I think it is pretty political. Off topic is the most random assortment of things - how is anyone going to find it?
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It was very political when it happened. We had one poster give his totally non partisan, completely and definitely objective view on Police firearms tactics. I wonder if he'll repeat them now the BWV has been released.
 
Ian Thumwood said:
The reports I had read a;; stated that Chris Kaba's car was boxed in by the police so he was unable to move the car. There was no attempt to ram the police cars. I believe a police officer got out of his car and fired a shot at point blank range through the windscreen which instantly killed Mr Kaba. My understanding was the the whole incident from the blocking in of the car that was being pursued to the shooting was a matter of seconds and it is unlikely that the police could have faced let alone assessed a risk to life incident that necessitated Mr Kaba's life being terminated in such a miniscule time frame . The period of the officer leaving his car to firing the fatal shot was supposedly less than 5 seconds. There was no record of Mr Kaba being armed in any shape or form and it would appear that no warning was issued to Mr Kaba prior to him being shot. This smacks of an extra-judicial killing.

The link to "The Critic" piece is interesting because it mentions Mr Kaba's association with crime. As far as I know, this has not been mentioned at all in any of the mainstream media. The only element of criminality appertained to the car which was no owned by Mr Kaba which was alleged to have been associated with a fire arms incident. At worse, he could have been driving the car with no insurance. I totally agree with Bell Rebeiro- Addy's comment that....

"The press have said he was a drill artist, as if that’s a way of justifying why he may have found himself in that situation, or that he’d been arrested before. But we have to realise that with our justice system, if you’re Black, from a working-class background, you’re more likely to go to jail. "

For me, this is the nub of the problem. The statistics for convictions against people of colour and the percentage of black people in jail is totally out of step with the proportions of race within society. If you are black, the police will utlimately "get you" if you commit a crime. If you resist arrest, there is a good chance there will be a threat to life. I am not condoning criminality. However, I think that the way the police dispense justice is a two tier system and the fact that Mr Kaba's life was considered by the police officer's assigned to the case to have been worthless is demonstrated by the events. White people like to pretend that the police enforce the law and that you have nothing to fear if you have done nothing wrong. They have confidence in our police services. I do not believe that people of colour, espeially from the Black / Aftica / West Indian backgrounds would feel quite so assured when we are repeatedly seeing instances when the people who are being killed by the police are largely from their own community. I whole-heartedly subscribe to the idea of no justice, no peace. I cannot understand how any upstanding and right-thinking person of whatever colour could feel different. The swiftness with which the incident took place shows the total lack of due deligence and professionalism in the manner in which the police carried out this operation. The other fire arms officer's are totally wrong to support their colleague and the fact they have downed tools in sympathy undrscores exactly why Black people can have no confidence in the police. This amounts to a shoot-to-kill policy- regardless if we are talking about murder or manslaughter.
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Yep, as I said at the time. Completely wrong from start to finish
 
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