Comments by "David McCulloch" (@davidmcculloch8490) on "BlackBeltBarrister" channel.

  1. Given that the purpose of the license is to fund the BBC, surely viewing only BBC programmes should be prohibited without a license. A complete travesty.
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  2. This driver needs a mandatory course on defensive driving and a fine (and points) for endangering other road users. The same should apply to anyone caught tailgating imo.
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  3. Another example of our flawed planning process. Totally agree about the lack of consultation, which apparently amounts to a failure in the council's duty of care. There is the wider question of why we allow such installations before adequate research of potential health risks is completed.
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  4. The first reaction is to watch the cyclist's position, from the way the video was shot. Watching the car closely, I agree with you and the police. The motorist should be driving defensively: both position and speed too aggressive.
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  5. Never expect accountability from councils or government. That would expose us to the danger of transparency and democracy.
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  6. I can only say, that's the only option I would have to help the woman against an armed man, due to being older and not at full strength and fitness. I would likely do the same thing. Ibrahim was acting as a good citizen. Too many would walk away.
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  7. The price cap fails to protect consumers as it takes no account of excess profit (only wholesale costs.) Companies took the rip with the last increase, as the cap regulates the unit rate but not the daily supply rate, which was increased substantially. Quite simply, the market is broken, as Martin Lewis has stated.
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  8. How critical to this case is computer hacking? If the information was obtained by other methods would he be free? Or is it more a question of America's dirty secrets being exposed and investigative journalism being stifled?
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  9.  sean sean  don't get that. From what I saw the cyclist was on a clear road before the car overtook him then braked hard. The motorist caused the unsafe distance by pulling in early then brake testing.
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  10. Firstly, an apology is meaningless without taking responsibility. That means resignation, not only for an abject breach of his own government rules, but for misleading parliament. Next: all those in breach to pay the fines from their own pocket - no donor bailouts and no expenses claims.
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  11. When considering levels of greed (including illegal scams) just remember Thatcher's claim that "There's no such thing as society."
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  12.  @iansmith6086  ah! Notices (on lampposts??) Is that adequate consultation? Seems like a flawed planning system.
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  13. The new rule seems crazy. The old one, when turning left, should be clarified, published and enforced.
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  14. For a perfect example, watch PMQs. Plenty of material there.
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  15. At a guess: short term profit.
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  16. Thought I'd reached that point when I stopped paying for the licence at 70. Then after a couple of years, the b'stard Tories stopped the funding for this and blamed the BBC for making us all pay.
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  17.  @stephenhughes3652  it's strange how such strong scientific argument is not accompanied by adequate research on the actual health effects.
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  18. Perhaps checking facts would be helpful before trotting out the last part of your post. There are laws against the destruction or defacement of property and these are applied. Now why would the police pick on poor misunderstood Tommy? Something to do with precedent?
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  19. Starmer makes some payback while Honest Bob takes 75 grand from an off-shore shell company with no employees. Ban all donations.
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  20. Yes. As Dickens wrote: the main purpose of the law is to make business for itself.
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  21. Why not? When research has not been completed?
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  22.  @asseyez-vous6492  well. Certainly 43.6% of voters would fall in that category. Lol
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  23. And Boris replied....
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  24. That's opinion and not proof. So I'll tell you that Tommy is not a victim, he has absconded after a warrant. Not quite the saint or victim your whataboutery suggests.
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  25. At least Mark Thatcher got lost with Michelle Mouton for company.
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  26.  @tommy5675  good point. I'm acutely aware of it and in full agreement with you
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  27.  @fredsmith5473 I agree with much of what you say. It takes will to change legacy systems. Not too difficult from that point. Political interference gives the Tories the state media they crave, and we must all pay for it without age exemption. Austerity is a convenient tool to manipulate opinion and create division.
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  28.  @qasimmir7117  In many cases what you call "superior judgement" is necessary to avoid the result of poor anticipation. Not just the number of years driving, but the number of miles on different roads in different conditions builds experience of safe and defensive driving.
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  29. Foghorn never speaks in the public interest. Just his own, irrespective of the wider damage. This may prove interesting.
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  30.  @NorfolkSceptic  I'm perfectly aware that short supply or excess demand affect price under normal market forces. This has been exacerbated by conflict and we suffer cost push inflation, compounded by the drive to profiteer and take advantage. Under such exceptional circumstances, you can either leave the market alone, or you can intervene to protect society. Your point about investment is interesting, as we have a cash cow from a captive market and companies choosing dividends and reward over investment. Quite simply and bluntly: the market is broken. To additionally pretend that the green levy is significant is a joke. It's a pittance in relative terms and climate change will not wait for us. We have a government playing footsie with business, in a token break from holiday and infighting, while many face despair.
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  31. Thanks for what you do, barrister. Good and helpful work from the best of motives.
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  32. Welcome to a world where customers are no longer treated a human beings. Customer service has become an oxymoron, in the case of many large companies.
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  33. Fully agree. We refuse to use automatic tills because they ultimately result in people being labelled "benefit scroungers."
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  34.  @evaahh9584  I take your point. Regrettably that's not the BBC. Seems more like state media every day. Only my opinion, of course.
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  35.  @EnochPowellsLibrarian  Alan Sugar compared Corbyn to Hitler. The main point being, they both breached impartiality.
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  36. How is council tax corrupt? Should we not pay for council services?
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  37. Thanks for the clarification. I suspect that some politicians may deliberately conflate the two acts of protest and damage as an excuse to abandon EHCR.
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  38.  @blankroomsoup666  a radio is not a synchronous communication device; a phone is. If the phone can be used in voice activation mode, hands-free, then it is safer to operate it.
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  39.  @evaahh9584  "Publicly funded" does not necessarily mean a license, with vague exclusions.
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  40.  @esecallum  Yes. He said he is a Muslim. So what? So are some of our best friends.
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  41. No comment on brown envelopes. There should be an onus on local authorities to provide sufficient parking on a new development, instead of planners allowing builders to cram more housing for profit. Once again the government is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted and penalising the easy target: motorists.
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  42.  @canuck3169  Grow up. He's not stupid enough to fall for that. He recruits rent-a-thug, alerted by social media. Is it a coincidence that the thugs are never far away? Protecting a cenotaph from what?
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  43. Good to learn that the rules also apply to BMWs lol.
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  44. As someone who drove many miles in my work, I found rubber-neckers (even without a phone) equally hazardous.
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  45. Perhaps you called it out before the law was passed, when used as an excuse against Just Stop Oil and other environmental protests. Amazing how we complain when it affects the hard right. Unfortunately there is a precedent with poor misunderstood Tommy: Wherever he goes, rent-a-thug follows.
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  46. After turning right???
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  47.  @stephengraham1153  I also read it the same way
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  48. Seems like a conflict of interest. A bit like trusting an MP to answer a question honestly. Lol
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  49. Andrew Neil; Alan Sugar. Neither of them sacked.
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  50. Personally I always question pseudonym accounts and give them less credence. This is after experiencing their content ... often extreme: either vacuous rhetoric or irrelevant shape-shifting verbosity. Perhaps someone will disabuse my perception.
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  51.  @pollyparrot8759  fair enough. I'm sure your posts are lucid. In which case I would certainly answer you. Thanks for sharing.
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  52. Yes. That was also suggested by Gordon Brown.
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  53. ​ @bush_wookie_9606 he obviously heard about the significance of gold in a fiat economy before you and many inept journalists did. What do you think it cost us?
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  54. ​ @starwood213 Not "de-banked," offered an alternative account
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  55. ​ @lectorintellegat "De-banked?" Offered an alternative account!
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  56. So what? Was Hunt? Even ministers don't have to be professionally qualified.
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  57. By offering him an alternative bank account. How would that work?
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  58. Funny how the political content has appeared on this channel after a new government took power. Did I miss it under the Tories? Was this an issue then?
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  59. The old rules of giving way to pedestrians already in the road were sensible, and I clearly understood and respected them as a motorist. On such a change of rules, the government should surely educate, with TV adverts or short programmes on such changes. Otherwise we may get serious injuries or even fatalities.
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  60. The law is, indeed, ridiculous. Yet unfortunately there is a precedent with poor misunderstood Tommy. Wherever he goes, rent-a-thug follows.
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  61.  @blankroomsoup666  I'm not defending the law. You asked the difference. Operating a phone rather than a built in radio with steering wheel controls creates more distraction - unless using voice controls or hands free operation. Personally I stop to make or take a call unless using hands free. Your choice.
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  62.  @blankroomsoup666  I agree that the last part is stupid. Not convinced that fiddling with a phone is as easy as adjusting a built in sound system though. The acid test is whether you can drive with due care and attention I guess
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  63. Not subsidised; we own shares, which we could sell.
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  64.  @Jack-fs2im  depends what you mean by "right" and how you define society. Perhaps considering the effects of Neoliberalism, which she imposed, will add insight.
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  65. As ever, customers will pay; shareholders won't. What's the point of privatisation when the market is clearly broken?
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  66.  @imconfused1237  and the millions of pages are where? How many checks on public health? Who funded the research? I'm not saying 5g is good or bad. Just questioning the amount of verification and transparency. Moreover, who put this eyesore on a pavement? Aesthetics are important, as are obstructions.
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  67.  @CGKBettz3  Or greed to reduce the number of staff for more profit.
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  68.  @fredsmith5473  I understand the history. Your point being?
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  69. Not all. Checked your facts.
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  70. Wow! That car wash was impressive. Beats our hose pipe and even our power wash.
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  71. It funny that you never claimed two-tier policing when stop and search was used disproportionately for any non-whites. Where is the evidence of this right wing excuse? Vandals are not victims. They are damaging property and threatening life.
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  72. ​ @tayclift5322 Farage is treated with kid gloves and gets media attention when he farts through his mouth. How is he a victim ?
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  73. It's an inevitable fact that Labour policitians are held to a higher standard. (Where is the furore about Jenrick's latest £75k bung?) Starmer worked within the rules but the rules should be changed FOR ALL politicians.
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  74. Means testing the winter fuel allowance will not fill any black hole. It will chuck in a spade full of rubble: 1.5 billion in a hole of 22 billion. Taxing wealth would easily fill it. Listen to the patriotic millionaires and the Mile End Road economists. Starmer and Reeves have messed up...crass stupidity.
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  75. Totally impractical in our local area - an old Lancashire mill town with many narrow streets and virtually no common parking areas. Even newer estates lack both adequate road with and visitor parking facilities, allowing developers to cram more housing for profit. Put more onus and local authorities to plan for adequate parking, instead of penalising the motorist. To me the law should stop cars totally blocking the pavement: allowing enough room for a pram or a wheelchair. Totally banning pavement parking will simply cause traffic chaos in many areas. Once again, Planet Westminster is divorced from reality. Yet another government consultation that was poorly published and dependent on a Web search, when not all users have internet access or find out in time. Such a consultation is simply a sham.
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  76.  @FFVoyager  are you volunteering as a parking attendant?
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  77.  Christopher Moore  then the simple solution is to allow enough room for prams or wheelchairs. Simple enough to legislate. Parking on a 2ft wide pavement should be banned
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  78.  Christopher Moore  then don't change the law. Just enforce it.
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  79. Of course they don't want to encourage solar. We become self-sufficient and the suppliers can't change us for what we use from solar. Who funds the Tories? Follow the money.
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  80.  @jordanomasuin8023  OMG! You've done the barrister's job for him. If only life were so simplistic.
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  81. Rules are made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of the wise. (Unfortunately this doesn't work as a defence if caught speeding.)
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  82. We have a TV licence only because of abject Tory government austerity. After they cut the BBC subsidy for over 75s we had to buy one. Now we have the double whammy of them freezing the triple lock on some of the lowest state pensions in Europe. Seeing Buffoon on TV hardly adds to our enjoyment and generally pisses me off. Happy days.
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  83. Apparently the police were formed to protect property... mainly of the rich. Back to reality.
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  84. Where are these devices safe? What protection must the rider use (helmet, high Vis etc?) What regulations under the highway code? What qualifications to ride? Yet again technology is ahead of our infrastructure and we fail to manage it. People are using them on pavements and roads and currently they are dangerous.
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  85. Writing for a Tory sh1t-rag causing reputational damage. Pure irony. After all, it was a Tory PM who failed to adequately implement Leveson.
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  86.  @lmaoroflcopter  sources and references?
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  87. It's obvious. The Mercedes always has right of way. Lol. Just one more d1ck on the road. No shortage of them. Perhaps an introduction to the concept of defensive driving would help.
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  88. The Met has finally awoken after the threat of legal action from the Good Law Project.
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  89. Respect for what you do, BBB. interesting and informative.
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  90. ​ @catherinegrimes2308 How did he get it wrong on the Farage Riots? Accepting gifts (albeit significantly less than Jenrick) is stupid. The winter fuel allowance and a lack of transformative economics is pathetic.
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  91.  @djsylambert  No. Whatever gave you that idea?
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  92.  @lectorintellegat  I didn't say that the bank acted correctly. Whether he should have been offered an alternative account is between them and him. Foghorn's vanity was hurt but to claim he was de-banked or forced to leave the country is the Orwellian part. Banks operate secretly and there is a banking ombudsman. Many homeless people can't even get a basic bank account. Now that's "Orwellian' and concerns me more than an attention seeking wazzock being inconvenienced.
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  93.  @lectorintellegat  No, they did not. But the attention seeking wazzock wasn't "de-banked" or forced to move abroad, as some claim. He was offered an alternative account. We have righteous indignation for Foghorn from the media, while people are going hungry and homeless people can't even get a basic bank account. Anger created by deflection.
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  94. Can't pay for petrol; can't fasten a seatbelt. Who is this wazzock running the country?
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  95.  @gallyman100  That's probably because the richest don't pay their fair share, while the economy is generally mismanaged.
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  96.  @gallyman100  so, mismanagement rather than corruption
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  97. I agree that the method is wrong, perhaps should be based on income as in the US. But corrupt?
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  98.  @meatabolichealingUK  The wrong method? possibly. Mismanaged? Often. But corrupt???
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  99.  @johnchristopher3544  Evidence, please!!!
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  100.  @johnchristopher3544  Evidence, please...
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  101.  @meatabolichealingUK  Of course not. Unfortunately we can't decide what our personal tax is spent on. The fault is in our undemocratic system. I'm more concerned about the richest avoiding tax and paying proportionately less in tax on investments
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  102.  @johnchristopher3544  Part to vulture capitalism; part to fund mass slaughter? Hard to know with these charlatans.
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  103.  @tez6693  "flawless" and Farage in the same sentence? Not "de-banked" but offered an alternative account. His ego drives a campaign of misdirection.
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  104. "Flawless?" Really!!! He was not "de-banked" but was offered an alternative account. How does that force him out of the country? His ego is driving a campaign of misdirection. I know that's unusual for old Nige. Lol
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  105. The real travesty is the amount of publicity and frenzied activity when Foghorn Farage makes a scene. I'm less concerned about his vanity and more for the simple fact that most homeless people are denied a basic bank account. Foghorn was offered an alternative account.
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  106. So the car is self-driving but if you trust it to do its job you could end up in the do-do. Lol.
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  107. Selfish and disgusting behaviour. I'm also appallled by it.
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  108. Trial by government is a step too far. Johnson and his cabal aspire to fascism.
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  109. Pedestrian crossings offer a sensible solution to a problem that is exacerbated by the stupidity of the new HC rules. Drivers were always expected to give priority to pedestrians in the process of crossing but this new rule and the inept implementation of it cause chaos.
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  110. This is Britain. Why would we expect a suitable infrastructure for electric vehicle charging before encouraging people to buy them? Let's charge people for overstaying because we can't organise a p1ss-up in a brewery.
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  111.  @Jams848484  as one of "you people" my hatred starts and ends with the promotion of fascism and division by an incompetent minority-elected government. In other words, I don't hate the people they want me to. I Just hate the behaviour of the cabal of crooks and charlatans in power.
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  112.  @Jack-fs2im  That's such a narrow view. What choice did they have when council houses were sold off at preferential prices? Some bought by private landlords. Now the collective consists of private landlords. Society is about far more than housing.
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  113.  @Jack-fs2im  and look at the long term effects of the reduction in social housing, instigated by Thatcher, continued by Blair, followed by Neoliberal governments. Housing is only one aspect.
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  114.  @Jack-fs2im  It took far more than changes in housing to influence our attitudes, as we are fundamentally social animals. Yet society exists when people work together to save lives, when people band together in charitable support. In spite of the promotion of greed and consumerism, there is altruism and society. Thatcher declared a goal demanded by Neoliberalism, instigated at a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947. If available choices are reduced, it's harder to blame people for the choice they make. Sadly if opportunity is reduced and society fractures, crime increases.
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  115. Farage knows how to appeal to racists, within legal boundaries. He effectively said that muslims do not share British values, but some and not all muslims. Firstly, what are the mythical British values? If they include respect and tolerance then Farage himself fails that test. We have close muslim friends, whose children are British born and well integrated. Perhaps someone will ask him what British values he is talking about. He was made to look like a vacuous schoolboy in the brexit dabates by Nicola Sturgeon, who told him that the foreigners are not to blame for everything. To my knowledge, xenophobia, bigotry and hatred are not illegal, so farage fuels them for his own gain. The unellected self-styled man of the people (a privately educated ex financial trader) gets airtime to spout his bile at the drop of a hat.
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  116.  @tnexus13  sounds plausible. Is that taking back control?
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  117.  @imconfused1237  I haven't researched 5g, which means I have not come to a conclusion about it. I've been told by someone serving in Army signals that there is a valid reason to check potential side effects, which makes me cynical about both extreme positions: abject dismissal and scaremongering. My main concern is about our shoddy planning laws and their abuse - having researched the flawed process and experienced related abuse and incompetence.
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  118.  @evaahh9584  we should be able to watch other channels live without a licanse
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  119. Yet telling lies to a serial grifter has a dubious irony.
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  120. Nigel demands ATTENTION! Any motive beyond that is questionable.
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  121. Of course there is no defence and limited chances of mitigation but the application of speed limits and use of cameras for speed, instead of concentrating on the more dangerous matter of tailgating is frustrating. In our area the hard shoulder of the westbound motorway has been coned off with a 50mph limited applied and never any workers present. The same coning applies to the eastbound carriageway yet no speed limit is imposed. I urge more complaints to the Highways Agency when such idiotic restrictions are imposed. The more hassle, the greater the chance of better management.
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  122. Great clarification, thanks.
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  123.  @Tim_Small  carry that argument to its logical conclusion and driving a car is selfish.
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  124.  @Tim_Small  as you say "most" may be selfish, but not all - provided there is sufficient room for a pram or wheelchair to pass
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  125. Dirtiest! Wait for the investigation into COVID contracts before you make such a judgement. On a different scale and involved PUBLIC MONEY rather than personal donations.
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  126. How to create the perfect Mexican standoff. Designed by people at a desk, intent on confusion and mayhem.
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  127. Ah! Serco! Another outsourcing giant with dodgy connections to our corrupt government. Another day; another nose in the Tory trough.
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  128. Stop it all for every politician then watch them scream: Tories and Reform especially. All this media hype while the covid enquiry goes virtually unreported.
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  129. We have a cabinet of sociopaths in a broken society. Some would view selling off state assets as an act of treason. I view it as part of the Neoliberal con (featuring the lie of trickle down.) Privatisation has not offered effective competition, other than possibly in telecoms. Energy, water and rail should be publicly owned.
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  130. And I was told that all prats drove BMWs LOL
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  131. So a new excuse? Too busy chasing fraudulent claims to process new ones? On the other hand the government uses their creaking systems as an excuse to deal with the cost of living crisis. How much of this alleged fraud is conducted online because of these creaking vulnerable systems? Another populist announcement from our operationally incompetent and inhumane government
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  132. Capturing people engaged in what was considered legal protest concerns me, along with the change in such legislation by our fascist government.
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  133. More disorganised chaos and government mismanagement. In may areas this is impractical. Why not legislate to stop cars fully blocking the pavement, ensuring sufficient access for prams and wheelchairs? Also ensure adequate parking in any new development areas. Britain continually fails to invest in its infrastructure and penalises the target of least resistance: in this case the motorist.
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  134.  @ansc6472  Yes. Generally harder on the left? Where is your evidence? Poor misunderstood Tommy didums...
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  135.  @BruvaBob  of course there is a two tier policing system but not necessarily in the weighting of the tiers you mention. I won't comment without factual evidence and I've only seen part of the story, which was clear and obvious.
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  136.  @MrDwright550  And when did that happen and where is your evidence? I'm not the one who broke through the police barriers.
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  137. As was Johnson with Russian money. Sunak with his family interests. Our latest crop of politicians are self-serving sociopaths.
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  138. ​ @sh.4409 proof and source, please...
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