But it’s worth considering, who are the real victims of racism. Is it black teenagers being kicked in the head by police? Or it it frothing middle aged white snowflakes who seem to think a descriptor referring to a shade of pink caused by frothing rage is a racial insult?
It’s the first one, isn’t it.
I do wonder how much Harry Enfield went to popularise the modern idea of a gammon.
Latest footage…
White people comparing the flushing of other white peoples’ faces to gammon is racist? 
That’s almost as funny as the ‘Goodbye fellow reds’ thread
Oh and let’s not forget why ‘Goodbye fellow reds’ happened in the first place.
Reform MPs are sharing this footage and sending pressure letters to Yvette Cooper as if it makes it OK that the police officer kicked a clearly incapacitated man in the head.
What they are strategically forgetting, is that the officers in question, like all police officers, are expected to behave professionally in all circumstance, even in the face of extreme provocation. The fact that they were attacked, does not mean they have licence to behave as if they are in a pub brawl, or decide unilaterally that the lad in question’s prior behaviour deserves a sly (and potentially fatal) kick to the head once he is down and immobile.
This is a good thread on the subject
This sort of thing wouldn’t happen under a Labour government.
No, quite clearly police officers are permitted to dispense force as they see fit. Don’t you know, they’re always the heroes?
Was the lad on the floor brown?
Black and blue by the time that they finished with him.
I was tempted by the same joke, but I disregarded it as distasteful.
A lot know will be about compensation claims by the injured parties, versus, plea bargain deals in the offing, against the certain jail term the same guys will be getting for assaulting the police, while they were attempting to do their duty…!
If Karius can claim a concussion excuse from a sly Ramos elbow, if it could even be called that, the policeman that lashed out, may use the same defence, after he was pummelled, as to why he reacted as he did…!
It will remain intriguing for a little while yet me thinks
I think the defence is going to be ‘I wasn’t sure he was incapacitated and I feared for my safety’. He might get away with that. I think it would be bollocks, but a tribunal might go for it.
I suspect that they will look at previous conduct. If there are previous incidents he is probably for the high jump.
Oh well…I can wear an extra jumper I guess.
Here is the chancellors full statement.
Unbelievable mess and makes me honestly ask where is the retribution for such reckless management of uk plc? If i did anything like tgat in my job i’d be looking for a new job.
Really not a surprise - the market rendered this verdict when Truss tried to ignore the fiscal balance for her tax cuts. A Labour government doing the same on the spend size could expect a similar meltdown, and with the projected decline any government that fails to confront it is at risk of the same.
It really reminds of Canada 1993, I was involved in that campaign and the expectations when the Liberals came in was a sea change on social spending. What happened instead was and is the most dramatic reduction in government net spending the country had ever seen. The first two years were brutal, however the corner was turned fairly quickly - partially the good fortune of unrelated economic events, but also falling interest rates from improved confidence created more fiscal room while allowing debt to be paid off more aggressively.
It is striking to me how often it ends up being centrists who need to do the work of cleaning up after the rightwing governments that profess to be better and more prudent managers of the economy.
Given that politicians like to refer to the state pension as a benefit (which it clearly isn’t), I sincerely hope that they dont lose the winter fuel payments.
It clearly is because that is how it is defined in legislation.
