It’s all kicking off in Bristol

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Ahleckz said:
Anarchists or not, this bill is an absolute disgrace. It’s akin to something an authoritarian dictatorship masquerading as a democracy would pass. Absolutely criminal. Any consideration I had for voting conservative has completely evaporated with this latest power grab.
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Good post, totally agree!

I mean, banning a protest for being 'too noisy' or 'causing an annoyance' effectively bans virtually all protests.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
Important updates on the wrap thinking so far.

'Taka Taka' sounds rad, so good they named it twice. I'm suggesting 8, maybe even 8.5, out of 10 on name alone.
'Shake Wrap and Roll' is a let down. It's not even a comically bad/good name, vis a vis calling your salon 'Hair Today Gone Tomorrow' (a-ha!). It's a clunky 5 out of 10 I'm afraid.

Let's all wait patiently while @Nitefly and @Junglist do whatever it is they do with their lives when they're not providing evidence of best wrap in Bristol.
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The question that hasn't been answered is how far do they deliver...
 
I'm going to sue someone if they haven't already come up with and are actively using 'Taka Taka Takeaway' :mad:

e: Ooh, a contender appears! Athenian, hmm? Sounds posh or at least classical posh but then how posh do I want my wrap to be?
 
On the one hand these were a bunch of idiots that just wanted to cause chaos regardless of the cause. Feel free to give them the maximum penalty for the crimes they did.

It's a bit ironic that the Hong Kong national security law was condemned last year, Hong Kong nationals offered UK citizenship as a lifeline etc. When they see the direction this country is going it is an empty gesture.
 
hurfdurf said:
How would you have handled the BLM protests given the resources available nationally.

It’s really easy to criticise the police and their decisions that day, but the reality is it was a fantastic out come.

Resource wise the government has cut the police to absolute shreds. They did not have the officers on duty to handle any escalation.

Tonight showed that. The officers could not defend a police station and officers were bought in from other forces outside to help, which took time and resources away from every day policing.
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Police had enough resources, they decided not to intervene and were quoted saying that many times. Don't try and turn this into a funding issue, because it not.

It's been two tier policing, groups even slightly right leaning get full riot gear and the extreme left get police and politicians kneeling for them. I have no sympathy for the police at this point.
 
Really?

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My Deliveroo is suggesting that Taka Taka has closed? Surely it’s just not open yet... meanwhile Shake, Wrap and Roll says ‘opening later’.

Surely Taka Taka has not closed during lockdown :(
 
ebilcake said:
Police had enough resources, they decided not to intervene and were quoted saying that many times. Don't try and turn this into a funding issue, because it not.

It's been two tier policing, groups even slightly right leaning get full riot gear and the extreme left get police and politicians kneeling for them. I have no sympathy for the police at this point.
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Amy examples of this biased handling or just something you made up?
 
VincentHanna said:
Sadly a lot of people here only seem to support free speech when it allows them to say misogynistic/homophobic/racist things.
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Don't worry, soon we'll have a law here in England like Scotland, to go with the protest law, where disagreeing with government policy will be classed as hate crime. That'll sort out all the "bad" people who say mean things.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-53580326

On topic I guess it's not surprising things are reaching this point. People are getting angry at basically living under house arrest for over a year and groups on all sides of the political spectrum are starting to tap into this frustration for their own ends.
 
Nitefly said:
My Deliveroo is suggesting that Taka Taka has closed? Surely it’s just not open yet... meanwhile Shake, Wrap and Roll says ‘opening later’.

Surely Taka Taka has not closed during lockdown :(
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Nah I had one for lunch the other week. Unless they're running out of just the triangle one?
 
Do people genuinely believe that people are going to be slung in prison for 10 years for protesting. That if 50,000 people showed up to protest that we will have 50,000 people in prison for the next decade.

Sentencing guidelines and ranges are there to allow the law to deal with a massive range of crimes and severities of crimes.

There is a reason we can sentence someone to no punishment all the way through to life in prison for killing someone.

Being a police officer must be a grim job at protests. You have to protect the innocent people just protesting, you have to protect peoples property and try to contain the protest from spilling out over a huge area that you cannot monitor or control and then you have a large number of people who are there to wind you up, antagonise you, cause mayhem and in some cases hurt you. On top of that, anything that goes wrong is blamed on you.

People get trampled, polices fault. Protest turns violent, polices fault. Businesses trashed and property damaged, why didn't the police do more. They cannot win.

We are in the middle of a pandemic for christs sake. A few thousand people isn't going to stop a law being made. I want to protest against the utter ***** that are causing the lockdown to be drawn out due to their selfish behaviour.

Write to your local MP, sign petitions. Do something that might make a difference and doesn't put lives at risk.
 
chroniclard said:
Amy examples of this biased handling or just something you made up?
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Oh, hear they come, the denialists with massive blind spots.

If you're asking for examples for things that should be obvious then I'm not wasting time on you.
 
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