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FYI for our factually challenged posters who frottaged themselves into a frenzy yesterday.

For those determined to see "2 tier justice" because Ricky Jones was granted bail & Lucy Connolly was not, the facts are these:

Jones was arrested on 8th & charged on 9th August. He was refused bail and remanded in custody to 6th Sept.

On 6th Sept he appeared in the Crown Court via video link from prison. He pleaded not guilty. It seems that he was again remanded in custody.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed on 14th October 2024 that he had been granted bail, presumably sometime shortly before that.

By way of comparison, Lucy Connolly was remanded in custody on 10th August. Her guilty plea was entered on Sep 2nd and her sentencing adjourned, with her in custody, to Oct 17th

Before his not guilty plea was entered, and for some time afterwards, Jones was remanded in custody.

The idea seems to have got around that he had bail from the moment of his first appearance in court. He did not.

https://x.com/Barristerblog/status/1956786350054617537

What a load of straw-manning and diversionary bollocks

FYI for our factually challenged posters who frottaged themselves into a frenzy yesterday.

For those determined to see "2 tier justice" because Ricky Jones was granted bail & Lucy Connolly was not, the facts are these:

Jones was arrested on 8th & charged on 9th August. He was refused bail and remanded in custody to 6th Sept.

On 6th Sept he appeared in the Crown Court via video link from prison. He pleaded not guilty. It seems that he was again remanded in custody.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed on 14th October 2024 that he had been granted bail, presumably sometime shortly before that.

By way of comparison, Lucy Connolly was remanded in custody on 10th August. Her guilty plea was entered on Sep 2nd and her sentencing adjourned, with her in custody, to Oct 17th

Before his not guilty plea was entered, and for some time afterwards, Jones was remanded in custody.

The idea seems to have got around that he had bail from the moment of his first appearance in court. He did not.

https://x.com/Barristerblog/status/1956786350054617537

So there’s something of a grey area in the process by which Mr Jones was granted bail.

Good to see it confirmed. No transcripts of a hearing, or reporting from when it happened? Because there were definitely not hundreds of journalists following all these cases at the time…

Just what was said in the Beast ?

I'll never forget how a longtime friend of mine—a Trump-supporting member of the Republican National Committee!!—called me up after seeing @realDonaldTrump's beaten-dog-like demeanor and posture at Helsinki.

My friend asked, "Do you think Putin really has something on Trump?"
https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1956751251787415783

Putin was a KGB agent. He’ll be saying nothing and touching nothing in a known enemy car.

No chance the US spooks didn’t have that car totally wired for audio and video.

That was not Putin in that car.

Is anybody explaining quite why Vladimir Putin would send an impersonator to meet Donald Trump in Alaska?

Er, because he's terrified of dying? Of being killed? And every time he ventures from his underground leadlined bunker this possibility becomes horribly real?

Recall he has had hundreds of powerful rivals hurled out of windows, or blown out of the sky, and he is also attacking a large sovereign nation with quite menacing intel and military capaiblities

Millions of people want him dead, and lots of them have money and bombs and some of them might have smuggled agents into his inner circle

One of the few consolations of this evil and sorry business is that Putin's final decade/s are being spent, by him, in miserable paranoia. Good

Sir Keir has spoken.

https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1956692156099244329

To give him credit where it’s due, this is one issue on which he can’t really be faulted. Thankfully UK support for Ukraine is almost universal and across party lines.

Thankfully Boris Johnson beat Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, I suspect the old commie’s attitude to this conflict would have been quite different.

Except the party leading the polls.

And this is the curious thing.

Its perfectly possible to have a pro-western, strong defence patriotic, reform as an alt-right party.

In fact it would likely have greater potential support than the anti-western putinism that Farage dabbles in.

The putinism of the Christian ethno-nationalists is even more baffling as it is Putin's strategy to encourage more migration to the western world.

It's because they see Russia as a bastion of traditional values. It's white, Christian, antiwoke. In their mental word-cloud "muscular" and "unpolluted" would be prominent.

You said Sir Keir was “muscular” as well! Are these tough guys smothered in baby oil when you think of them?

Hang on, Boris surely. And it was that Philip Tompkins not me.

@kinabalu May 18

"No messing about there. Polls will confirm (or not) but a word that probably leaps to many people's minds when thinking about Keir Starmer is "muscular". He'd take that, I reckon, if it turns out to be the case."

https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5210589/#Comment_5210589

"Muscular" in the sense of a mussel - having the personality of a bivalve mollusck.

Moulecular definitely works better..