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There is always a tweet :-)

What a week this has been. This is the difference a Labour Government makes.
https://x.com/Jess4Lowestoft/status/1981730264423280730

It’s nice isn’t it, the quiet?

Glad to have the grown ups back in charge

This week the Government's failure to find a solution to the Maccabi ban was then overshadowed by the revelation a small boat migrant had returned after less than a month, which in turn was overshadowed by the collapse of the rape gang inquiry, which in turn was overshadowed by Labour's collapse in Wales, which in turn was overshadowed by the conclusive proof Starmer lied over China, which in turn has been overshadowed by the revelation the Epping sex offender is on the loose. One week. One. Week.

https://x.com/dpjhodges/status/1981761305015910871?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q

Trump plans to name his $300million ballroom after himself after demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House. Officials are referring to the grandiose building as The President Donald J Trump Ballroom, according to ABC News. Trump is set to keep the name when construction is finished.

I suppose is slightly better than the Sofi Manscaped Harley Davison Prime Energy Donald J Trump Ballrom brought to you in asociation with our official webhosting Squarespace, VPN provider NordVPN....

...whilst using Ionos and Ground News and playing War Thunder and Evony: The King's Return...

(seriously, has anybody ever used Manscaped? Why in the name of the Lord above would you want to? Is anybody's scrotum so attractive that you wish to display it shorn?)

Turns on R5, random member of the public brought on to the show...what are they worried about...racist migrant hotel protests.

The problem is political activists are far more likely to phone in to these shows. For many years I didn't realise that and thought they were just average people.

More than that, call-screeners ask them first and select the juicy calls. See also Voxpops and the editing thereof.

Google is so shit these days it won't tell me who said "Editing is a medium" but it's true.

Try Bing

Regarding the subject of the header, as people here know, I don't subscribe to the cultural reason for the grooming gangs phenomena.

I don't care how mediaeval your cultural hinterland is, if you step over the mark and get very harshly punished, you stop.

Look at the recent epidemic of shoplifting. We don't need to go raking through our culture for a history of shoplifting - shoplifting happens because of the absence of consequences.

I believe that if the enquiry is genuine, the blame will be placed overwhelmingly on the police, and others in authority, whose inaction or collusion led this to reach massive proportions.

I think that is why the authorities would like to widen the enquiry's scope - not to avoid the finger of blame being pointed at minorities, but to avoid it being pointed at themselves. Indeed, if push comes to shove, I firmly believe the Jess Phillips of this world will stab community relations in the back and blame it all on culture.

I don't think most people on here realise how fundamentally broken the care system is in the UK.

Kids don't get easily taken from their parents. And if they do, they mostly get sent to other family members,

If you end up in the care system proper, then you are almost certainly the victim of abuse and neglect. You will probably have been excluded from school. You will likely have substance issues.

Social services does their best, but these are exceptionally damaged kids, who have been fucked over by every adult they've ever gotten close to. Not to mention the fact that the girls are regularly sexually abused by the boys.

I knew a kid at Cambridge who had come out the care system. He was one of the most traumatised people I've ever known. His stories would be unbelievable to anyone on here who doesn't know social care.

He was the exception. I doubt a fraction of 1% of people in the care system make it to any kind of university. Most reach 18 and graduate from these homes go straight into a life of benefits and petty crime.

This is still going on today.

The police know how fucked up social care is. They know that the girls have been abused and some have been picked up for soliciting. They know they are inarticulate and make poor witnesses. Even without the ethnic element, they were lazy because these were not easy cases to make.

I would love it if - now we know about the grooming gangs - that kids (particularly girls) in care were less likely to be raped and abused. Sadly, I think it is hghly unlikely. As a society, we've chosen to pretend these problems don't exist, because they are really difficult problems to solve.

Another mess

https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1981748229357047911?s=19

He's still to explain, as far as I'm aware, why that's relevant when the alleged offences were committed before Starmer was in government.

Anyone ?

Because the issue isn't that offences were committed, but the reason why the prosecution collapsed.

He says prosecutors were asking 'not what the then Government was prepared to do, or did, say in public about China (whether framed as its policy or otherwise, and whether as a matter of fact true or not), but rather whether China was - as a matter of fact - an active threat to national security'