Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "BlackBeltBarrister" channel.

  1. Yes, these letters are seriously distressing. I wonder how many of their '24 million' licence payers only pay because they're frightened out of their wits?
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  2. Thank you for this video. A vital subject. I still feel uncomfortable about telling my children that there's Father Christmas and the tooth fairy. Without honesty, families and societies just don't function well enough - we see that dysfunction and its results all around us every day. It's at the heart of why modern life is such a struggle. Indeed, BBB, in all my life experience I've found that too often people just do not want to know the truth, or they know that honesty can have punitive repercussions. Ask anyone who's been a whistleblower in some (or many?) of our institutions. Meanwhile, my children seem to have recovered from my parental mendacity, one even has a career in an official truth-seeking and prosecutorial role.
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  3. There are exceptions - rich, famous, or prominent women who are stalked don't get any special treatment. When Lily Allen was being stalked she was treated very poorly. She was reported as saying 'If the police treat me like this [like a nuisance,dismissively], what the hell happens to everyone else?!' Women MPs, doctors and other prominent women are routinely left to get on with it - just like every other women in the UK. It certainly is 'pick and choose' as far as police are concerned.
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  4. Worst company of all.
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  5.  @alicemilne1444  Monetisation/demonetisation is indeed directly linked to visibility.
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  6.  @yes-me6yg I was reading through the comments here and thinking that it's quite easy for some to say it's all about fair and impartial justice and to imagine that everyone gets a fair crack of the whip. But in reality there are more and more things that ordinary folk simply cannot afford to appeal nor litigate. Legal Aid is all but gone. Yet, if you're a Prince with loads of resources you're allowed to take up several days' Court time just sitting in the witness box relating mostly unsubstantiated perceived grievances! Those levels of inequality are fast rising. It doesn't make for a healthy society.
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  7. Well said. We know where this leads....
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  8. Thank you Edward, for rightly re-focusing us.
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  9.  @michaeljay3846  💯
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  10. Agree, though how do we supervise doctors? Each year, an average of 52 doctors are struck off for sexual assault. That's more doctors than police apparently.
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  11. I actually prefer longer, information-rich videos and long form discussions. But repetitiveness is a trap that many content creators get into. Difference between professional and amateur broadcasting - latter have no editorial guidelines and no editors. Latter is often repeated opinion and no fact. Compare the short clips commercial news agencies produce: you can cram a huge amount of info into e.g. a 3min clip.
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  12. I look forward to the Casey Report on the poor treatment of patients and junior staff in the NHS. The culture of discrimination, abuse and bullying is out of control.
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  13. I have concerns about the use of all sorts of personal data as used by Ancestry and all the other companies in that same market. It all seems to me to be mostly unregulated or regulated only in favour of the big companies.
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  14.  @alangibb9785  Very interesting point there Alan....
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  15.  @Cosmic-lover293  And you, Donna ❤
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  16.  @kalpat5753  Please edit to correct your post! NOT instead of now! Thanks!
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  17. The king won't refuse to sign. This law suits his purposes too.
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  18. This gov missed the writing on the wall in 2016 when public services held a major national emergency drill. They made recommendations which this gov ignored. Primary on that list should have been making the NHS resilient and legislating to bring vital utilities, transport and food supplies under state control in such a national crisis as we're facing now.
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  19. Oh please do get on your high horse BBB! My knowledge leads me to strongly suspect that the police largely dislike victims of crime nowadays. The less they bother with these non-politicised usual crimes, the more emboldened offenders become. We have become a lawless society for most usual intents and purposes.
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  20. Then wouldn't the fairest way be through a levy added to income tax? It would probably be cheaper because admin and 'enforcement' costs would be much lower.
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  21.  @brolohalflemming7042  Yes, I agree. The real issue is that the government has a tame mouthpiece and doesn't want to let it go.
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  22. It most likely would have been an offence under the PFH Act 1997
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  23.  @CristiNeagu  I didn't make my point clearly enough. In unscrupulous hands or the hands of those wishing to eradicate inconvenient evidence, this theory can be used to negate ANY memory. See 1984. Our whole justice system is based on word of mouth description of memory of what happened. Taken to its endpoint, if people's memories are undermined, discredited then justice is denied. It's been contentious but e.g. the EU Directive 2012/29 on victim's rights insists that crime victims' reports be taken seriously, at face value. This deliberately addresses the most common failing of the CJS and other services: ignoring or dismissing victims' reports.This practice is endemic: the UK's Equalities and Human Rights Commission identifies it as "the culture of disbelief". No doubt the proponents of this theory are sincere psychologists of integrity and, used in the service of truth, their theories are interesting and a reminder of human fallibility. But any further than that is very concerning. Their ideas can be used in nefarious ways.
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  24. @jerrydowdall958 Excellent and entirely relevant points, in my experience.
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  25.  @CristiNeagu  Indeed, you give a good example - and this is exactly how and why such well-meaning theses can be taken out of context and used against the innocent or those who don't or can't be forced to hold the same views as the antagonists/the accused.
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  26. Aww...have a bit of faith in them...! They didn't do too badly what with the plandemic, war in europe, price gouging us into a cold winter and inflating all our food...
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  27. I've come across that too. Outright, blatant libel in fact. Given the £multi-billion cost of negligence claims every year, the NHS cannot be held up as any sort of champion of honesty. Quite the opposite indeed. As you say, just one lie can lead to exponential suspicion and the degradation of relationships and all the social structures that are necessary to hold society together. How many people trust the government and the media after 2 yrs of covid?
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  28.  @andycooper4485  And you landed here in an insane hell...
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  29.  @languagetruthandlogic3556  :goodvibes: Indeed, though education, along with its product, critical analysis, are circling the drain now. That's an even bigger debacle, IMHO!
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  30.  @djmattblack  People who struggle to keep their residual 1.75 gr of brain matter functioning you mean?!
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  31.  @elizabethconvey3242  Ah, thank you Elizabeth, good to know that my senses were on point. Dinner tonight was a slow affair. I'm even more persuaded given that I also live in the WP area where you've noticed power flux too. Tell me, do they charge the same for brown-out power? I am a complete ignoramus wrt to electricity. But if we're getting less power then shouldn't we pay less per Kw/hr?
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  32. Yes, last time I looked it was well over 70% females prosecuted. Far more women are also jailed for non-payment of BBC fines too. It's the coercive threat plus low income. So much for all the anti-discrimination and inclusion that the BBC preaches.
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  33. I'm sorry, BBB, but I'm just as confused now but in different ways. To clarify: I can watch You Tube live streams from anyone/any company that is NOT on that OFCOM list? TY
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  34.  @tomhollins5303  Bizarrely, the police aren't keen on honest, decent folk. Seen it too often in the last few decades.
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  35.  @DJWESG1  Oddly enough, I have wondered about that possibility given the high incidence and prevalence of the crime and the way the police most often ignore it (only 5% of all cases are prosecuted). Coupled with the profile of some victims. Evidence needed though.
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  36.  @psychologicalprojectionist  I think you may have missed my sarcastic tone in my previous post. Like you, I would think that the arrested woman is known to the authorities. It seems like she would have known or ought to have known that standing in the vicinity of this clinic on more than one occasion would be of some concern to the staff and clients. I'm not altogether sure that anyone these days would get away scot free in circumstances that could be construed as an anti-abortion clinic protest - even if silent and all in the mind! We're living in an increasingly politicised and partial world. It sounds like you are not so familiar with how the police work nowadays. I envy your faith in their fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality whilst upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people. I only wish that they actually did.
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  37.  @chriscodes1  Hear hear!
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  38. Because no government in the last 50 years has wanted to grasp the painful nettle of practicalities v. rabid eco warriors and virtue signallers. They sidestepped the problem and became virtue signallers and net zero fantasists.
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  39. Yes, this is all going to get unimaginably worse.
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  40. I watched Tim Davie a few weeks back telling a Parliamentary Committee how all their viewing demographics and statistics mean that the vast majority of the public think that the BBC is wonderful and essential. I seriously think the BBC is deluding themselves. So no wonder the goons are too. I've lived without live broadcast tv for over 17yrs. I 'd bet serious money that I'm far more well-informed about what's going on in the world than the average BBC licence payer is!!
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  41. Yes, indeed. It's a failed organisation. Which operates a hierarchical bullying blame culture straight out of the 1950s. Staff sick leave highest in the country.
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  42. I've had that foil reflector stuff behind all my radiators for the last 6 years. I'm not sure that it actually does make much difference. At least, not going by bills.
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  43. The average reading age in the UK is cited as between 9 -11years. With respect, you'd have to search high and low to find a 9-11 yo who could make sense of your post. Equally, the BBC's manipulative and misleading use of language in their letters and 'guidance' is shamelessly confusing and inaccessible for many. Their persistent threats alone cause fear, alarm and distress to many and would constitute harassment if you or I were to send such letters out on a regular basis to targeted individuals. Apparently, defendants in the BBC's cases are required to travel long distances to a central location to defend themselves. None of this connotes a fair and just system. Ditto, your aside is similarly revelatory of an unjust system. The CPS often considers cases to be likely to achieve convictions. Just as often they don't. Innocent until proven guilty is a right.
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  44. It would have made very good sense some 30 years ago to legislate that every new build was constructed with a full complement of solar panels. Volume would have brought down manufacturing costs. In fact I did ask an eco-specialist about this years ago. He said that the oil and gas companies would have been furious to have their markets cut....
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  45.  @retroclickmedia4422  Exactly so. It was an appalling class divide. Making the well off comfy and making those at the coal face and the margins take endless risks. They should have got danger money.
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  46. What if...what if.... 'net zero' is all just a scam to rake in more tax money because the treasury's coffers have been running low for a long while?
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  47. She was really, really silly. If she'd just signed up for the ordinary course, chances are the trainers/facilitators would have suggested a private session. Because to have the Home Office Minister in a group of a dozen or more members of the public would have greatly distracted them all. The security excuse is nonsense because her officers would have been sat behind her in the training room. Because she's asked for Special Treatment she should be fined to the max, with penalty points. That's what would happen to us plebs if we'd tried to put that sort of pressure on the police or other official.
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  48.  @gypsygem9395  Our experience. They stepped over the bounds of legality, mendaciousness, threatening, bullying, thuggish doorstepping, no systematic way of sorting out issues, endless confusion, they even invented a dept for us to 'talk with'. All because a house conveyance went wrong through no fault of ours. They'd not like this one to go public.
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  49. A Statutory Inquiry is absolutely the right way to deal with this. NHS managers are so well practiced in spinning, covering up, lying, gaslighting and bullying that a mere 'investigation' would certainly not get anywhere near the truth. The Parliamentary Ombudsman is also to be greatly applauded for calling for powers to eradicate the abysmal and highly injurious culture and practice of fear that reigns supreme throughout the NHS and is inflicted on staff and patients alike. It is not hyperbole to say that there has been an atrocious Reign of Terror for decades whereby clinical staff have been coerced and even suborned, on pain of losing their careers and reputations, to comply with the diktats of the administrators. This has had countless disastrous effects on those at the bottom of the feeding chain, patients - who invariably come off worst.
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  50. What's a reactor?
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