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In March 2017 PC Keith Palmer was killed while defending Parliament from a terrorist. In August 2019 PC Andrew Harper was killed while investigating a suspected burglary. These are only 2 of the 50 police officers killed between 1990-2010. Few of us face the risks ordinary police officers run. This does not excuse what is set out below. It does explain why it is so necessary, if their work and sacrifices are to be worthwhile and the public gets the policing it is entitled to, that the issues raised below be properly addressed.
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... though is it possible to be elected to that post in more than one area at once ?
So Root's original declaration ought to have stood.
I can live with it because it was hilarious, but if you were truly OCD...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/feb/14/england-australia-cricket-world-cup-error-james-taylor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
There are actually elections this year.
Or indeed the dot in rule 15.3 .
As a scorer annoyed me when umpires miscounted too.
The 100 is going to break me with the final over being ten balls.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/frank-biden-leveraged-famous-business-gain/story?id=68202529&cid=clicksource_77_2_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
Now after Biden's son we get Biden's brother.
Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list
Exclusive: Non-violent groups named in anti-extremism training guide designed to catch would-be terrorists
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/17/greenpeace-included-with-neo-nazis-on-uk-counter-terror-list?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The problem is fundamentally about power, and that is intrinsic to the structure of society. Put people in power and some will abuse it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/17/eu-eyes-temporary-ban-on-facial-recognition-in-public-places
Now, this proposed EU law might be good. Or bad. I dunno. But why is this even an EU power anyway? When did we hand this to them? When was our big national debate on giving this unaccountable organisation such huge influence on our lives, in such a crucial area?
I must have missed it. Or we didn't have one
And who proposed this new EU law banning face recognition? Where do these ideas for laws come from? They seem to appear like smoke, out of nowhere. They magically materialise, and they pass into EU law, and after that they can never be repealed. And our national debate is zero, and our sense of control is zero, and our input is precisely zero.
This is why we must get out of the EU, and why Boris must refuse alignment. OUT OUT OUT
Perhaps there should be a greater separation of influence between those who govern us and those who police us so that the police can get on with the job without fear of politicial intimidation, demonisation or retribution, all of which have been endemic since the Blair government.
https://mobile.twitter.com/amyewalter/status/1218185847985659906
The police, though, possess extraordinary powers over potentially any of us. That such abuses can take place so regularly, blatantly and repetitively, and effectively remain unresolved, ought to be a major political issue.
Sir Julian Beresford King KCVO CMG (born 22 August 1964), a British diplomat and civil servant who served as Ambassador to Ireland and France and Director General of the Northern Ireland Office. On 8 July 2016, he was nominated by David Cameron to succeed Jonathan Hill as the British European Commissioner.
What should I (responsibly) do with it?
Trump team for impeachment trial to include Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz and Robert Ray, a person familiar with the matter said. https://on.wsj.com/38kQSxD
You can have two bowlers in each over though, which may cause a breakdown in itself.
WHY on earth would SNP Scotland, having (say) gained indy from England, then seek to throw it all away and immediately join this thing, the EU, a far more opaque and distant Union, with much less democracy, a place where Scotland would have zero influence, unlike in London.
It beggars belief. But we all know belief trumps logic.
OK I'm gonna watch the next ep of the Morning Show. It is very good
The thought of Wrong-Daily being in TV screens for the next five years fills me with dread. I will have to vote for the least annoying of the lot which (now that Brexit will get done) is SKS.
He's pretty annoying but the best of a bad bunch.
One of the reasons I’m boycotting the hundred.
Some lawyers do seem to gravitate towards that kind of client, though.
Why on earth would police officers ignore hundreds of glaring cases of rape, trafficking and other serious crimes in the North and Midlands otherwise?
Its blatant intimidation by politicians, who hold all the power and all the cards.
My view is the police shouldn’t have been granted extra funds and officers (the 20,000 “new” ones) until the governance and leadership has been fixed to the satisfaction of the NAO and an independent government commission. No point chucking good money after bad.
Another point, the elected police & crime commissioners haven’t worked. At all. No-one knows who they are or how to hold them accountable.
Either they’re nobodies (who don’t do anything) or they’ve gone native and have been subject to producer capture, and I’ve seen one or two on TV trotting out the same old tired shibboleths.
How many have led genuine fundamental change leading to a step-change in performance?
https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Calvinball
The police operate a bit like a closed shop (scabs etc) in my view and pursue the path of least resistance to the easiest convictions, and not the right convictions.
So many people have told me to be careful what I say to a police office as they love to use the honesty and integrity of middle-class minor offenders against them to up their detection/clear-up rates, and they know we’ll pay and turn up to court too.
1. Mcpherson
2. Midland
3. Rape, murder and trafficking in the Midlands and the north.
Two of the three were the result of gargantuan abuse of power by politicians, and were not the fault of the police.
Personally I'd sell a gas guzzler and buy a Tesla Model 3.
Also never accept a caution.
If they had such a strong case they wouldn’t offer you a caution.
So many people have said the same thing, the rozzers say accept the caution and you can leave here without a stain on your character, you really don’t want a trial with your name in the papers.
It was the politicians who put the middle class in the dock by ramping up banning and minor offences.
Does that help?
Do you need the money in the next 2-3 years? If so, stick it in a savings account & accept a small loss to inflation.
Otherwise, open a Vanguard ISA, stick £20k in their US/EU/UK stock market tracker. Wait three months for the new tax year. Stick the other £20k in. Walk away and forget about it until you need the money.
Maybe keep 10% back as play money to invest in silly things if you feel the urge to "manage your own investments".
Unless you have some personal insight into a particular field (I mean, you are commenting on a betting site...) that makes investing there worthwhile, avoid the temptation to manage your own portfolio at all costs. It ends badly for the majority of people. Even the ones that claim to have won big are often keeping quiet about the investments that didn’t make money (much like the betting world!).
It’s how they do it and what they focus on that’s the issue.
What Phil said - or Nutmeg (with their socially responsible fund) and a risk setting of your choice.
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They may not set the pulse racing, but you probably don’t ever want your pension fund to do that.
Scottish MPs helped the government stay in office in the last parliament, and made a great contribution in Westminster. In the present parliament, the Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster is Scottish and Scottish fishing interests will feature large in the Brexit negotiations.
True, Scotland isn’t supplying many MPs for all the big offices of state right now - that’s what happens if you vote for separatists - but there’s nothing stopping them changing that in future and becoming very influential again.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of Mcpherson, governments have used it to take an almightly power grab of police independence. It was tolerated by the public because of the desperate state the police were portrayed as being in.
What we see now are the effects of that power grab.
Scots have exactly the same rights and privileges* as the English as citizens of the U.K. Exactly the same. It’s just there are more English than Scots - that’s it.
(*arguably they have more as they have a fully devolved parliament as well covering the vast majority of domestic policy areas, which the English don’t have, given Scots the best of both worlds.)
That’s actually genuinely very helpful.
1. An alternative to putting it in an ISA is to put it into a pension fund (either an existing pension fund or open a SIPP, which is very easy to do). That way it immediately gets increased by the currently very generous tax relief. (For a £40K contribution you would need to check your annual allowance, though, depending on what other pension contributions you've made through your employer). Of course, that assumes you can lock away the £40K until retirement age. Or you can stick some in an ISA and some in a pension.
2. On the point about insight into a particular field, it's usually best not to go down that route. The academic research shows that people who invest in an industry about which they know a lot do worse than those who just invest in a general fund. That is probably because they over-estimate their own knowledge or give too much emphasis to one point (such as "Company X has a great technology"). [Having said that, my best ever investment was in a field I'm an expert in...]
I'm not.
The fact is, the EU is next door to us and it is a regulatory super-power - even powerful enough to impose its regulation on US mega-corporations. Ain't no getting away from that.
Do you have any serious suggestions?
And the recently reported Manchester case seems to have been the result of the Chief Constable not giving a damn, rather than any particular political pressure.
Sure, politicians impose targets which are perhaps unnecessary, or downright counterproductive - and there was undoubtedly a climate of misguided political correctness towards minority cultures which contributed to what happened in Rotherham, Rochdale etc. - but there is an institutional rottenness in the police which is if anything a result of political neglect, not pressure.
I think there is a fundamental debate about the kind of policing we want - some might like an armed officer on every street corner. Others simply prefer a policeman (or woman) "pounding the beat" instead of going round in groups in vans.
The closure and sale of so many Police stations under the Coalition and subsequently is, I think, regrettable as the Police station was potentially a place of refuge or safety (the same was true of ticket offices in tube stations - they were of course to be closed to provide "exciting retail opportunities" - more Johnsonian bollocks).
The disconnection between Police and community may be more obvious in areas of London like mine - Mrs Stodge goes to the Neighbourhood Police meetings and comes back telling me crime is rampant and brandishing reports showing me it isn't.
A lot of criminality isn't judged to be criminal - personally, I'd hunt down every fare dodger and exterminate them but that's a shade draconian even for this mealy-mouthed wishy-washy liberal. So much of nuisance behaviour falls into the "civil" category - fly-tipping is another huge problem. The death penalty for fly tipping may again be too much for the namby-pamby soft on crime Tories but it's the kind of irritation that irritates (well, it would).
It's the notion that low-level criminality no longer matters - we had that ludicrous moron Greg Hands pontificating in the Standard this week that we should vote for the useless Shaun Bailey in the London Mayoral election and he would instigate the approach on crime that worked for Giuliani in New York in the 90s.
Yeah, right. One Tory mayor closes Police stations and cuts Police numbers, the next one will apparently bring in a policy where you'll be arrested for walking on the cracks in the pavement - fine, you can get carted off to the nearest Police station - oh, wait....
First, I’m paying only 2% interest on my mortgage and think I can do better. Also, I lose almost all liquidity when I do that until i remortgage.
Second, if I add it to my pension pot I can’t touch it (I don’t think) until I’m 55 and I will probably want it before then to fund my kids education.
I think stocks and shares ISAs are probably the answer.
So pensions get taxed on exit & ISAs on entry. Which means which is preferable is a bit hit or miss. If you're a contractor & run your own limited company then you get to skip employers NI as well as all the other taxes which makes pensions win out, but for everyone else, I think the extra freedom & lower cost of ISAs means that they edge out pension funds.
On 2) Totally a fair point: it’s actually really hard to know that you have a genuine edge. Investing in market trackers is the sane thing to do for almost everyone.
Thanks cyclefree
Also if you are interested in learning how to invest then it is good fun and just like betting enjoyable when you pick a winner especially if you get a 10 bagger or above.
If you go the fund route check the costs, seeing as computers make most of the decisions nowadays decide whether you want to pay over the odds to perhaps be the next Woodford.
Along with Vanguard already mentioned another source of low cost funds is iShares (run by Barclays).
But like everything else, you can lose your shirt if you don’t know what you’re doing!
You posted something that you wanted to say something about you instead.
Oliver's testimony says that they were expressly told some communities in the north were effectively untouchable
Do you really think the chief of any police force would dream up the policy to immunise some communities from any form of sanction by the law whatsoever - -all by his or her lonesome??
Its a stinking rank political decision by politicians anxious to scapegoat officers for their own decisions.
One aspect which doesn't get enough attention in the media is how much the culture varies between different police forces. Certainly in the past it has - West Midlands were of course notoriously bad, and the Met not always much better (although the Met are under special pressures). I suspect that it remains the case that there is a big gulf between the best and the worst of our police forces, and it would be interesting to know why, and how the best practice can be used to improve the worst forces.