@johnmcdonnellMP No John I don’t endorse either of these situations, but if someone was jailed for years within days during the recent unrest for lobbing a bin that hit nobody, then the sentence for these 4 is proportionate given they caused criminal damage and attacked police with sledgehammers
@ZackPolanski Nonsense. Direct action is a classic facist tactic, used when the arguement isn’t strong enough to survive scrutiny or debate re: the blackshirts and SA. Also, criminal damage and attacking police with sledgehammers is not covered under the right to protest.
Politicians are intentionally deluding themselves into thinking this isn't organic.
Normal people have had years of being told a million immigrants a year is good actually, and if you don't agree you're a nazi. All while being taxed into oblivion, not being able to afford a house and, if they are lucky to work, watching their earnings stagnate.
Then they turn on the news or social media and see Pakistani rape gangs, Sudanese beheading attempts and asylum seekers blowing up concerts with bombs paid for by benefit fraud.
And if they have the temerity to complain, they risk 6 officers showing up at 4am to have a stern word, search thier PC and log a non crime hate crime.
These rioters feel no different to most people, they are just the ones with the least to lose by acting. They certainly aren't being inspired by anyone, in the same way BLM rioters weren't, they are naturally angry.
The social contract is broken and it's getting worse, but those in charge show no interest in fixing it. They don't even want to acknowledge it exists.
Black pilot, West Point graduate, and combat veteran Wesley Hunt delivered a masterclass response:
“Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here.
I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Suggesting that Black pilots, engineers, doctors, or leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard.”
He ended with a powerful line:
“Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.”
This is the kind of clarity and backbone America needs right now.
He's not trying to be accurate.
People have recognised you can make money and gain power by appealing to morons. A retard industrial complex.
You just say things that are clearly wrong that appeal to their bias. Genocide in Gaza, MMT, capitalism and billionaires are evil etc
@JeremyBrookman2@MattMacKinnonUK@PlaidExposed Better question… would Plaid’s first job after independence be removing @RhunapIorwerth before he has to create a border force to stop mass immigration of English people coming to colonise the “Nation of Sanctuary” - nobody is illegal after all.
@JeremyBrookman2@MattMacKinnonUK@PlaidExposed I take your point. But I find it hard to believe there isn’t a significant deficit in that scenario that would be painful. Arguments aside, ideologically I wouldn’t currently support independence. I would however support a federal UK of equal partner with more devolved power.
Still can't believe someone on a student Visa was elected to the Scottish Parliament.
What country allows non-citizens in it own legislature to make and pass laws?
Scotland deserves better than that.
Thousands of non-British citizens will today exercise their right under law to choose local and national governments across these islands. This is an absurd provision which cannot be defended. It needs to be scrapped.