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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/10/saudi_arabia_accused_of_detaining_prime_minister_of_lebanon_as_fears_of.html
The Middle East conspiracy stories I'm reading don't seem all that far fetched...
1 The UK no longer having to make any payments to the EU
2 The UK being able to negotiate its own FTAs with countries outside Europe
3 The UK no longer being subject to ECJ judgements
4 The UK being able to pick and choose which EU citizens can come to live and work in the UK rather than their having an automatic right to do so
5 Keeping the City of London as Europe's biggest and most important financial centre
Top 5 priorities of Remain voters in order from the Brexit negotiations
1 Making sure the UK and EU having similar rules on financial services, so UK firms can easily do business in EU countries
2 Ensuring UK and EU countries have common rules and safety standards on things like consumer goods
3 Ensuring the UK and EU have a common approach to workers' rights
4 Ensuring EU citizens already in the UK can remain here permanently
5 Ensuring UK citizens already in other EU countries can live there permanently
https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/11/lord-ashcroft-voters-are-losing-confidence-that-a-good-brexit-deal-will-be-secured-for-britain.html
https://twitter.com/sam_lister_/status/929038689979850752
Absurd!
Not sure whether that's harassment or stalking but either way it's despicable
Did she tell him it was unwanted?
Bit of a pest, no ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/02/labour/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/10/michael-flynn-trump-turkish-dissident-cleric-plot
We have already had a sad and unnecessary death here in North Wales and it should be a warning to all sides on how serious misunderstandings may become a real tragedy
The potent nature of abuse allegations make it important to treat both the complainant and the alleged perpetrator with the same duty of care until such time as guilt is established or not.
I am not in any way saying that any of the current allegations are in any way fraudulent - but careers can be ended now just by allegations on Twitter. In no way does that represent justice for anyone.
We need a radical rethink about the whole issue of anonymity in such cases. I appreciate that naming alleged abusers can encourage others to come forward - but that would surely be stronger if a conviction had already been secured and other victims could see that the justice system can work.
At the moment, things are being said that cannot be unsaid. Mud will stick. For many, very justifiably. For others - completely unfairly.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/photos/meet-the-9-women-who-have-the-most-money-influence-and-power-in-the-world-right-now/ss-AAuwIyB?ocid=spartanntp
There is absolutely room to debate the manner of investigations - but in this case the allegations were quite public.
Which cases do you have in mind as being "little short of ludicrous" ?
(The catastrophically handled Welsh case can hardly be described in that way.)
In the case of Carl Sergeant, the whole point is that the “basic facts in question” do not appear to be available to anyone other than Carwyn Jones and a few others.
Just one question - isn't he err married though
I wouldn't seek for a moment to defend how the Welsh case was handled by those in authority - that was unforgivable - but it is not how most of these cases have been handled.
Surely Mrs Pulpstar permits Pulpstar to go out to lunch with females -- even if they are “attractive, intelligent and charming”.
Twitter or news conferences are not the place to make serious allegations - they should be made to the authorities first. Social media is not the place to report a rape, it really isn't.
Yes there is a lot of frustration at past failings - but now that a worldwide conversation has been started, the focus should be on getting the allegations properly logged and, as far as possible with historical cases, thoroughly investigated. Trial by media doesn't achieve justice. It never has and it never will. And we are perilously close to that now.
To equate the Weinstein affair -- truly industrial scale sexual harassment, assault and allegedly criminal activity over a period of 20 years while collaborators and cronies stayed silent -- with anything we have so far heard from the HoC seems to betray a complete lack of proportion.
Kelvin comes across as misguided and sad.
But I’d rather be misguided and sad, than cruel.
She could have requested Kelvin to stop as the cards were making her uncomfortable. Did she?
As I said below, it's a mess, but I don't think it fair to blame women, whose complaints up until now were ignored, for speaking out. Or to dismiss them as largely ridiculous.
Powerful, strong, stable wonderful
Hope Solo says the former FIFA president grabbed her backside, but a spokesman for Blatter says the claim is "ridiculous"."
https://news.sky.com/story/us-football-star-hope-solo-accuses-sepp-blatter-of-sexual-assault-11121706
“... but it is precisely because, up until the Weinstein affair, accusations kept confidential were frequently ignored, that women have been making them public ...”
What is the relevance of the Weinstein affair then in the above statement?
I am of the opinion that MPs have not emerged for this any differently than 650 professors or middle managers or lawyers.
The only accusation that seems to me to warrant comparison with Weinstein is the Bex Bailey affair, where indeed we have heard an allegation of rape and then the allegation of a cover-up.
Largely, there seems to me be an undercurrent of the settling of political scores in what has happened (in both the Tory and Labour parties)
That is partly why I am so suspicious of the Carl Sergeant affair.
I really don't see how you understood my comment as "a direct comparison", but to be clear, it was not.
The Weinstein affair represents watershed because the nature of his alleged offences was so extreme, they were so numerous, and one or more of them was known of by so many people. It was thus a graphic illustration of how sexual harassment or worse is covered up or dismissed.
That the example of his alleged victims speaking out should encourage others to do the same does not mean that everyone speaking out is has a grievance of equal measure - indeed the very wide range of subsequent allegations, from rape to an unwelcome hand on the knee, has been widely debated here.
Every case is different; some are crimes; some do not rise to that level, and of those so,e a more serious, some less so.
I hope that makes my comment more clear for you.
He is the only victim of this business. Everyones lives to talk and laugh another day.
He died without knowing who had accused him, and of what he had been accused. He died without being given an opportunity to clear his name.
He died because of a witch hunt. There were so many people with lighted logs ready for the burning.
The witch hunt has been fanned by the media (probably to distract attention from the Weinsteins in their midst) and the politicians themselves (who are fighting Brexit by proxy).
If you are interested in Weinsteins, go look for them in the entertainment and modelling businesses which have long treated pretty young boys and girls as easy meat.
Or, to give another uncomfortable parallel, go look for them among the working-class girls in northern towns whose systematic abuse and rape were covered up by councils and the police for years.
PM's don't always lead no, Cameron led Brown, Blair led Major etc.
“A number of options are under consideration, including changes to vehicle excise duty which could hit drivers who already own diesel cars instead of those who buy new models, campaigners have been told.“
God he’s useless. Stick stick stick and no carrot.
Plus of course Callaghan still did better against Thatcher than either Foot or Kinnock did so replacing him would not have made any difference for Labour just as replacing May is unlikely to make much difference for the Tories.
It is good to know that nothing escapes the eye of the WitchFinder General.
When the result of the referendum on membership in the EU was announced in the UK, many commentators immediately announced that it had been delivered by the ‘left-behind’ white working class. The equivalent constituency in the US was subsequently argued to have secured Trump the presidency. Yet in both places it has been demonstrated that the white working class vote was less significant than that of the white middle class.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/11/10/why-are-the-white-working-classes-still-being-held-responsible-for-brexit-and-trump/