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"A majority of the public think that the UK should bring back the death penalty, with the strongest support among millennials, a poll has found." (£)

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/majority-britons-support-death-penalty-poll-scw7glncg

God, youth of today.

One in 20 members of the public even backed using capital punishment against shoplifters.

That's the didn't read, lobotomised, wind-up artist, or nutter demographic, surely?

I recall one where several percent of African-Americans thought slavery was a good thing.

Slavery gets shit done.

Best feat in engineering are the Pyramids, all thanks to slave labour.

So Pharaoh Tut standing behind a board with "Kickstart economic growth" neatly written in hieroglyphs, declared "let's build a pyramid!"

That wasn't real growth, it was just a pyramid scheme.

So was that it, few quid for a mine in Cornwall, some new houses in Oxfordshire and a massive lengthy court battle ahead for rehash of rehash of a rehash of another runway at Heathrow.

I wish this government - heck, any government - would start taking a JFDI attitude to infrastructure.

"We, as a nation, have decided that LHR runway 3 / EWR / Thames Crossing / whatever is a nationally critical project. Enough enquiries have been done, and enough talk; we want bids in by the end of next month, CPOs by the end of the month after, and construction to have started in six months. Make it so."

It would have people howling, but it would get things done. Sadly, it'd almost certainly also be illegal...

Primary legislation….

I complained about Rachel from accounts yesterday. No longer. Far worse is what Teesside Tories have done. They called a pointless vote of Stockton Borough Council to call for a national grooming gangs enquiry. And are now promoting Facebook ads on community forums calling out Labour councillors who voted against.

In the comments - on Stockton Conservatives Facebook page - are people saying councillors are involved in grooming, are nonces, are rape gang supporters, should be abused in the street, should have people at their houses to shout at them.

Stockton Conservatives have decided to whip up a literal mob, with at least 3 female councillors having people banging on their front door shouting abuse, and one spat at in the street.

When one of their MPs was murdered they rightly were horrified. Now? Lets have Labour councillors targeted for votes. And the mind-numbingly stupid thing is that it will lose them votes. Because its highlighting the grooming gangs scandal which they themselves ignored and covered up. Create weaponised rage and all they're doing is handing more votes over to Reform.

Not sure whether today's Tories are stupid as well as trying dangerous as they try to get people attacked in their homes, but its going to backfire.

"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."

It's a mad world, my masters.

Is it bad that I want a war between France and America?

Would be the first time ever, France and America have never been at war before. We have been at war with both of course, indeed the French were allies of the American colonists in the Revolutionary War when they sought independence from the British Empire.

Macron is one of the few people in the world with as big an eco as Trump and France also has one of the biggest NATO armies and an independent nuclear missile deterrent so it is not a guaranteed easy US win.

I doubt anything will come of it though French troops in Greenland might put off the Americans

It's willy waving by both.

No it’s not. Surely we’ve all learned by now. Trump MEANS what he says - for good or bad. And this time he has surrounded himself with smart, cunning ideologues who fiercely agree - and who know how to do stuff

I can see a Trump reinforcement of the US base combined with threatened tariffs forcing Denmark to back off. Greenland will vote for Indy in April and then Trump will offer $$$ to its 54,900 people to become a kind of frozen Puerto Rico

France won’t do shit. Greenland isn’t even in the EU

Face.

The Danish government will not want to lose face. And the more the US threatens, the more the Danish government loses face by acceding to Trump's terms.

There is a deal to be had here, obviously. But as with Canada, the more the US throws its weight around, the more other parties will wish to demonstrate that they have agency.

I think I speak for all of PB when I say: all praise Donald Trump

We in the west need him to win these culture wars. He is fighting for our freedom. Fight Fight Fight!!!

I love him

Goodnight from The Goon, Burma

In what way is bullying Denmark a part of the culture wars?

'Cause here's the thing that pisses me off. If the EU had bullied countries the way that the US currently is, then people would be castigating them.

But because it's Donald Trump, and he's against woke, then it's OK.

No, it's not fucking OK. It's still fucking shitty behaviour.