Comments by "Rahere" (@JelMain) on "Daily Mail World"
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@TheCam920 One of the responsibilities of Government is the fruitful and creative use of excess growth. The UK creates about 2 million million pounds a year, which has to be put to wise use, and this is one such: not doing so creates rampant inflation. Tax simply redistributes it. Not all people can create it, but are part of the Nation and should be cared for, to a limited extent.
Because the Government hasn't drained the energy companies sufficiently, inflation has indeed set in. To claim that increased gas prices justify rampant electricity hikes, for example, when gas is only a part of the generating costs (nuclear, wind, hydro, solar all being low-cost energy resources) and much comes from our own reserves, is obscene. The competition management has failed, and many customers, encouraged to shift by government policy, have ended up on extortionate rates as a result of supplier failures.
This Party has failed. We can expect little better from Labour. FFS, it's time to change the system. Most government policy comes from outside advisers, make them Ministers and hold them accountable.
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@marionmoore665 Until they discovered we'd found a viable way to stop them ourselves, legally. Article 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 codifies the ancient Common Law right of Citizen's Arrest, essentially allowing anyone to make an arrest themselves if a copper cannot do it, for whatever reason, at the risk of being prosecuted themselves for wrongful arrest. Article 134 of the Highways Act 1980 makes obstruction of the highway at the appropriate degree of criminality, an indictable offence, so with phone evidence and a clear warning of intent, it's very possible for drivers offended to arrest the obstructors. That may, for example, take the form of surrounding them with a human chain and simply jostling them off the road: any attempt to wriggle clear is evading arrest, a far more serious offence.
It's also wise to arrest the notionally independent observer, as they rarely are, and are often the ringleader.
Since this started happening, and with the Courts finally putting legal sanctions over their heads, the protests have stopped. As I say, I've actually done something useful to create a way forwards for all: sometimes politicians can be stupid and create opposition, though.
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@vthomas375 I've never had any illusions. Literally my first task in any kind of military, finding myself a uniform, also found tge uniforms used in the filming of Oh! What a Lovely War. My last act was saying No to the SAS, because of what Fred Mullet had done to the previous job holder, Robert Nairac, for daring to suggest Stormont. Twenty years and over 1500 lives later...
But with my skills, I found I'd become an economic diplomat instead. The SAS look for Tier One individuals, and brother! When the Head of Bilderberg summons you by your first name into the circle of European Heads of State, there is no doubt, you are their peer.
Right now, I'm entirely aligned with Rory Stewart. He discovered me from my activity stabilising one of his interest areas, and when we finally met, we were off the same page. However, the world doesn't happen without people at the wheel for when the autopilot goes wtf, people who are fast and competent. I was one.
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@hissingsidll750 It's a latter of proportion; According to the Prosecutor, they drove in a bike lane, and a chase started, during which further violations of the traffic regulations happened. Eventually they were snarled in traffic, the cops, doubtless fueled by adrenaline, pulled their guns, and when the driver panicked, shot him.
Their reaction was clearly disproportionate, the red fog of war. I qualified as an infantry officer long ago, and if any of my guys did that, they'd be gone. The Army's long years in Northern Ireland hammered home indelibly the lessons of Northern Ireland, the safety's on your weapon for a reason, switching to fire is a deliberate act precluding any possibility of accidental discharge. A case might be made that being jostled by the car restarting could have caused the discharge, but it fails for that very simple fact, it was not on safe. The reported threats from the coppers then become an aggravating circumstance.
The fact is that sufficient evidence exists for the examining magistrate to have authorised the public prosecutor to hold the copper who shot him on grounds of intentional manslaughter. In French Law, that's the equivalent of an arraignment hearing, with the added onus that he's failed to win his presumption of innocence at that hearing, and may now legally be considered possibly guilty. The trial will normally have its say. That is the legal position.
The rioting on the streets is a different matter. I live on the edge of a drill warzone in London, and relations with the police are similarly low: many in the community see them as little better than another gang. It's been 35 years since the death of Stephen Lawrence proved London's Metropolitan Police was endemically racist, and projected his mother into a seat of great authority on the House of Lords: it's taken that time to reveal another suspect in the case, who was the lead attacker.
This dissociation is terminal: they're seen as closer to Nazis than the forces of order they should be. In the French case, it's literally true, some of the powers used date straight back to Vichy.
Policing is by consent. French policing has lost that, probably irremediably. Time to start over, a complete clear-out.
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@Гоша hiss I used to, but now, because they keep it tight, it's become a pressure cooker. Panorama was free, and not known, now it's ticketed. Just five bands, way down.
Looking through the browser gave the following in London alone: Pan Nation, Pantonic, Metronomes, Melodions, Ebony, Pandemic, Real Steel, Mangrove, Allstars, Stardust, Croydon, Phoenix Rising, UFO, Finchley - well, enough to wonder.
I'm a former Stage Manager, and used to attend in the 80s. It's still the same old setup issues. To be honest, the easiest would be to work off floats.
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