"Gareth Southgate, right, went mad. In 2024, Gareth Southgate lost it. Big time. He started hearing voices in his head and shit, telling him to play Trent in midfield and shit, but he came back from it man, do you know what I mean? He fucking came back"
I disagreed strongly with Tony Blair re the Iraq war. But here, 2005, he hands Nigel Farage his arse on a plate. Farage's face is a picture.
#C4News#ConManFarage
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As I have been saying for the past couple of years, giving the police more discretion to impose conditions on protest will lead (and is now leading) to politicians pressuring the police to intervene in protests which they disagree with politically - not good for protest rights, not good for the police, and not good for society either.
The police have a hard enough job policing highly charged protests to identify criminal conduct - the idea that because they refuse to impose conditions where they do not consider they have a legal basis for doing so, they will be responsible for any criminality or disruption is really problematic.
It undermines of the police and also takes attention away from the personal responsibility of people organising and attending protests to stay on the right side of the law.
Overall, this adds to the impression that the right to protest is something which is granted on the good grace of public authorities (perhaps a hangover of the Covid years, where this was essentially true). It isn't - it is a right which should only be interfered with if necessary and proportion.
(ongoing) list of footballers who have shown support to benjamin mendy:
memphis depay (netherlands/atleticomadrid)
jack grealish (england/man city)
jules kounde (france/barcelona)
david alaba (austria/real madrid)
marcos alonso (spain/barcelona)
toni rudiger (german/real madrid)