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  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    "Not being treated as terrorism" says to me that they know what's happened (it's personal etc.). It does not mean "we don't know for sure that it is terrorism."
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,959
    edited October 2024
    eek said:

    The one time I watched a bit of it I wondered who had let Janet Street-Porter near TV commissioning again. It felt like a poor quality Yoof program from the early 90s.
    BBC Three is still trying that....
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    edited October 2024
    Jenrick straight into it:

    https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1851294780304863449

    "Keir Starmer must urgently explain to the country what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it."
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,262
    Taz said:

    The T20 is also great for clubs like mine, Durham. We regularly get good crowds and it is great for the concessions in the ground as well as Chester itself. The street food and the other concessions do well and it is a great day out.
    "House Full" signs at Chelmsford, too. Usually.
  • RazedabodeRazedabode Posts: 3,080

    https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/security-services-may-look-at-russia-and-farage-in-riots-probe_uk_66ba2494e4b0eabd2393a9a1

    Farage falsely claimed the police were not telling the whole truth around the tragedies in Southport shortly after the stabbings first happened, and suggested the suspect was already known to the security services.
    I can understand why the police didn’t want to release this pre whatever that Tommy Robinson march was, but the perception I.e what some groups will do with this won’t help.
  • Farage (and far worse people) are going to make absolute hay over this Southport story, especially coming on the back of the Kaba story the other week. It all plays straight into the narrative they are pushing about cover-ups.

    Maybe they have a point. It's not just a narrative. From the top.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321
    tlg86 said:
    On one level three beautiful kids were murdered and that's the important bit. Quite what drove the evil bastard to do it is less important. But there is a problem if we get the impression that the authorities are not being 100 % upfront. They may have their reasons, but if feeds narratives.

    There is a parallel with Rochdale and the other "asian grooming gangs' where all too often a narrative has developed of cover-up etc.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,959
    edited October 2024

    The games that will get the crowds are the T20's. I would have the Championship running Monday through to Thursday and then T20 over the weekend, spread over the summer (so in parallel). Back in the day the counties played 6 days a week with few issues. If you need to rest players do so. But a 10 ten Championship Div 1 is 18 games if home and away, or back to 9 each in Div 1 and 2 so 16. Easy to accommodate.

    Sure that doesn't give the appeal of a shorter tournament but I think it a better way to develop players in the longer games (spread over the whole of summer's varying conditions) and getting the crowds in on Friday night, Sat and Sun afternoon.
    Its tricky in that the ECB what to attract families. Turning it into Friday / Saturday night event, is great for revenue, as it turns it into a social event / pre night out, night out. I am definitely more attracted to that and Hundred cringe fest.

    I think the worry for the ECB is they might get very fruity. T20 internationals I have been to have been a bit like that, groups of lads on the heavily on the beers.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    "House Full" signs at Chelmsford, too. Usually.
    All 150 seats taken? :D
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,292
    edited October 2024

    Surely you mean the Oxford University Chancellor Election… that’s the most important ‘other’ election going on right now… as a voter in it I’m intrigued as to who will win. Is there any plans to write a post on it? And does anyone know any betting markets on it?
    In case anyone’s interested I first preferenced Grieve…

    One of the candidates is a regular poster on Vote 2012.
  • England team for All Blacks

    Furbank; Feyi-Waboso, Slade, Lawrence, Freeman; M Smith, Spencer; Genge, George (capt), Stuart; Itoje, Martin; Cunningham-South, T Curry, Earl.

    Replacements: Dan, Baxter, Cole, Isiekwe, B Curry, Dombrandt, Randall, Ford.

    Slade break downs, going to be square pegs into round holes.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,292

    Kemi Badenoch...

    “After the Southport murders and the ensuing protests and riots, some people asked me why I wasn’t commenting. This is why.

    Too many on all sides rush to conclusions before all the facts are clear. As more information emerges, it is quite clear that there are serious questions to be asked of the police, the CPS and also of Keir Starmer’s response to the whole situation.

    Parliament is the right place for this to happen. While we must abide by the rules of contempt of court and not prejudice this case it is important that there is appropriate scrutiny.“

    Unfortunately the Internet is the epitome of a forum which allows people to rush to judgement. Yes, there are questions to be answered (there always were). I'm not quite clear what element of Starmer's "response" needs to be addressed.

    He presumably had access to information most of us don't and presumably this was correct information not the disinformation peddled by some on social media.
  • kamskikamski Posts: 6,163
    rcs1000 said:

    Half of voters expect to be better off under Trump.

    And people - 99% of the time - will excuse almost anything if they personally think they will be better off.

    Personally, I think the Harris campaign should focused on Trump's 10% tariff, and the impact it would have on prices of everyday items in shops. Because I think there are few things that will make average Americans poorer than that.
    What immediate impact would it actually have? Imports are only around 15% of US GDP (compare eg Germany almost 50%).
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,592
    https://x.com/Dominic2306/status/1851291937531445396

    Who could possibly have predicted that the 'mainstream' official sources/media were lying as usual about crime, terrorism, Islam. No10 will have known the truth almost immediately the police did, which will have been almost immediately.
    And who could possibly have predicted that the NPC pundits like Freedman and Portes and Katwala peddled all the official bullshit 24/7 while babbling the whole time about 'disinformation' and 'Islamophobia' from 'fascists' like
    @elonmusk
    & demanding people be locked up for spreading 'disinformation'!!!!
    NPC pundits ARE THE DISINFORMATION.
    It's being shoved out cos of the budget & US election, hoping most voters don't see how they were lied to by the official system yet again.
    *The system is working as intended*

  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    I can understand why the police didn’t want to release this pre whatever that Tommy Robinson march was, but the perception I.e what some groups will do with this won’t help.
    So they’ve put “Tommy” in prison, and are now saying that this attack was terrorism after all?

    Hope the police and Home Office are braced for the response, let’s all hope and pray it doesn’t get as ugly as it did earlier in the summer.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321
    Sandpit said:

    So they’ve put “Tommy” in prison, and are now saying that this attack was terrorism after all?

    Hope the police and Home Office are braced for the response, let’s all hope and pray it doesn’t get as ugly as it did earlier in the summer.
    Tommy is in prison because he broke a court order about something else. I suspect deliberately.
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,592
    Sandpit said:

    So they’ve put “Tommy” in prison, and are now saying that this attack was terrorism after all?

    Hope the police and Home Office are braced for the response, let’s all hope and pray it doesn’t get as ugly as it did earlier in the summer.
    It's cold and dark now, safe time to admit the hush up.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,262

    All 150 seats taken? :D
    Now, now. More like 6-7000.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    Its tricky in that the ECB what to attract families. Turning it into Friday / Saturday night event, is great for revenue, as it turns it into a social event / pre night out, night out. I am definitely more attracted to that and Hundred cringe fest.

    I think the worry for the ECB is they might get very fruity. T20 internationals I have been to have been a bit like that, groups of lads on the heavily on the beers.
    Didn’t the H*****d experiment with having large “Family Stand” areas, with no alcohol allowed, their own concessions, toilets etc, and plenty of security? That would seem a sensible approach to any Friday/Saturday night match.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,262

    On one level three beautiful kids were murdered and that's the important bit. Quite what drove the evil bastard to do it is less important. But there is a problem if we get the impression that the authorities are not being 100 % upfront. They may have their reasons, but if feeds narratives.

    There is a parallel with Rochdale and the other "asian grooming gangs' where all too often a narrative has developed of cover-up etc.
    Depends when the info was available, of course.
  • The Sky Sports contract is £220m per year. It's a lot of money.

    At £150 per ticket, for four days play, two Test matches at Lords (capacity 31,100) and one each at the Oval (27,500), Edgbaston (25,000), Trent Bridge (17,500), Headingley (18,350) and Old Trafford (26,000) you would generate just under £106m in gross revenue, but that's shared with the host ground, there are staging costs, and sometimes matches ends early or are disrupted by rain.

    It is hard to see how cricket in England could replace the Sky money. This kinda places Sky in a weird situation. They could drive a hard bargain, because there's no-one willing to pay half as much, but if they do so the game could really struggle, and they'd have a less valuable spectacle to show viewers.
    West Indies cricket collapsed when it went to pay tv and the free channels showed American basketball instead.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,137

    Outrageously poor form that the "other election" being discussed in November isn't my Central Buchan by-election for Aberdeenshire council.

    Ballot Box Scotland describes me / us as the "dark horses" in this election https://ballotbox.scot/preview-central-buchan/

    Better than being called the "slow horses" :wink:
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,152
    https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/1851297898610507807

    The Southport attacker has now been charged with Terrorism offences. Perhaps I was right all along.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    maaarsh said:

    It's cold and dark now, safe time to admit the hush up.
    The weather is set fair for the next week. Plenty of fireworks around too. (Not that I want it to kick off - I don't think it will - but if that was the thinking behind the lies, then the police deserve everything they get)
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    tlg86 said:

    Jenrick straight into it:

    https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1851294780304863449

    "Keir Starmer must urgently explain to the country what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it."

    The answer to those questions more likely putting Home Secretary Cooper in a difficult place than Starmer, as she done majority of talking at dispatch box and into TV camera’s - if saying one thing whilst knowing another then Starmer certainly has lost a Home Secretary for lying to the country, just over 100 days as PM.

    Pressure on the next Tory leader too, if they let Labour get away with “can’t answer any questions on that, because in cunning Yes Minister form, we have launched a kicked into long grass… sorry I misspoke, I meant to say enquiry to get to the truth, so I can’t answer anything before it reports. And even when it reports, at time of my choosing, like in middle of Christmas, it will be heavily redacted so you still won’t know diddly squat.”

    Pressure on Tories over this is two fold, they need quick answers to get the Home Secretaries resignation quickly, allow an enquiry that takes ages makes the new Tory leader look toothless, and secondly, Farage is in the house, Tory leaders scrutiny and performance on this will be measured by all the media against Farage scrutiny and performance of this. Let’s not forget new Conservative leaders performance gets measure against Farage all the time from now.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    edited October 2024
    The state of this:

    https://order-order.com/2024/10/29/starmer-responds-to-southport-killer-terror-charge/

    The Prime Minister’s Deputy Official Spokesman said:

    “It is important that we let the police and CPS do their jobs and for a trial to establish the facts. Our focus is on ensuring that we get justice for the victims and their loved ones. We must let the police do their jobs and trial establish the facts. The government is focused on ensuring the families and all those affected see justice. First and foremost the Prime Minister’s thoughts are with those families and the communities. His thoughts remain firmly with them.”
  • maxhmaxh Posts: 1,546
    tlg86 said:

    The weather is set fair for the next week. Plenty of fireworks around too. (Not that I want it to kick off - I don't think it will - but if that was the thinking behind the lies, then the police deserve everything they get)
    I find some of the language and sentiments expressed by certain posters on here pretty unpleasant at the moment.

    Are you really saying that individual police officers deserve to be attacked with fireworks? Pretty shameful imo.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    Guido saying they were told to pull revealing the terrorism story on Friday:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1851296195244933250
  • tlg86 said:

    The state of this:

    https://order-order.com/2024/10/29/starmer-responds-to-southport-killer-terror-charge/

    The Prime Minister’s Deputy Official Spokesman said:

    “It is important that we let the police and CPS do their jobs and for a trial to establish the facts. Our focus is on ensuring that we get justice for the victims and their loved ones. We must let the police do their jobs and trial establish the facts. The government is focused on ensuring the families and all those affected see justice. First and foremost the Prime Minister’s thoughts are with those families and the communities. His thoughts remain firmly with them.”

    Missed 14 years of Tory failures, £22bn black hole, far right extremists....
  • No 10 denying prior knowledge of the decision by the CPS to charge the suspect with terrorism

    I expect an urgent question to the Home Secretary asking when she knew ricin and the Al Quaeda manual had been discovered in the suspects house
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    edited October 2024
    maxh said:

    I find some of the language and sentiments expressed by certain posters on here pretty unpleasant at the moment.

    Are you really saying that individual police officers deserve to be attacked with fireworks? Pretty shameful imo.
    Nope, I'm saying the powers that be having to ask their officers to deal with shit deserve everything they get. (If I were rank and file, I'd refuse to go out there after this).
  • stodge said:

    Unfortunately the Internet is the epitome of a forum which allows people to rush to judgement. Yes, there are questions to be answered (there always were). I'm not quite clear what element of Starmer's "response" needs to be addressed.

    He presumably had access to information most of us don't and presumably this was correct information not the disinformation peddled by some on social media.
    The police would have known within days and Starmer too. Yet they were happy to prod us towards a mental health problem or neurodivergence, always willing to tar people with mental health concerns, just to divert away from the real issues. Starmer was then piously talking about misinformation, while all the time misinforming us. Gaslighting.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068

    On one level three beautiful kids were murdered and that's the important bit. Quite what drove the evil bastard to do it is less important. But there is a problem if we get the impression that the authorities are not being 100 % upfront. They may have their reasons, but if feeds narratives.

    There is a parallel with Rochdale and the other "asian grooming gangs' where all too often a narrative has developed of cover-up etc.
    There is zero evidence so far that the authorities have not been 100% upfront. They weren't treating it as terrorism; they subsequently found further evidence.

    They said he wasn't an immigrant or an asylum seeker. He wasn't an immigrant or an asylum seeker. The rioters targeted asylum seekers, remember?

    I've seen nothing to support the claim he was previously known to security services.

    People trying to twist this to suit their narrative are the ones who are not being 100% upfront.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,296
    More money for Trump, price closing in on 1.5 now. God (!) this is a tester. I'm like a poker player not folding despite getting the raised eyebrow from the dealer. I really hope I'm Lancey 'the man" Howard not Eric 'the kid" Stoner. Perhaps the only time in my life I've hated the idea of being Steve McQueen.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,959
    edited October 2024
    tlg86 said:

    Guido saying they were told to pull revealing the terrorism story on Friday:

    https://x.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1851296195244933250

    Wonder if all papers were "reminded" about dangers to trying the future court case....
  • FossFoss Posts: 1,301

    Kemi Badenoch...

    “After the Southport murders and the ensuing protests and riots, some people asked me why I wasn’t commenting. This is why.

    Too many on all sides rush to conclusions before all the facts are clear. As more information emerges, it is quite clear that there are serious questions to be asked of the police, the CPS and also of Keir Starmer’s response to the whole situation.

    Parliament is the right place for this to happen. While we must abide by the rules of contempt of court and not prejudice this case it is important that there is appropriate scrutiny.“

    It's possible (probable?) that she's known for a while under Privy council terms.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,081
    @whstancil

    Elon Musk admits that he and Trump will crash the economy, but it’s okay, because they’ll build a better world from the rubble. Not exaggerating, he just said it.

    https://x.com/whstancil/status/1851265385909092565
  • spudgfshspudgfsh Posts: 1,561

    No 10 denying prior knowledge of the decision by the CPS to charge the suspect with terrorism

    I expect an urgent question to the Home Secretary asking when she knew ricin and the Al Quaeda manual had been discovered in the suspects house

    I suspect she found out quite late on. even with high profile cases like this there'd be little to no communication with the home secretary about operational matters.
  • No 10 denying prior knowledge of the decision by the CPS to charge the suspect with terrorism

    I expect an urgent question to the Home Secretary asking when she knew ricin and the Al Quaeda manual had been discovered in the suspects house

    That is very carefully worded.
  • maxhmaxh Posts: 1,546
    tlg86 said:

    Nope, I'm saying the powers that be having to ask their officers to deal with shit deserve everything they get. (If I were rank and file, I'd refuse to go out there after this).
    That isn't how your previous post reads, to me at least.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    edited October 2024
    tlg86 said:

    The state of this:

    https://order-order.com/2024/10/29/starmer-responds-to-southport-killer-terror-charge/

    The Prime Minister’s Deputy Official Spokesman said:

    “It is important that we let the police and CPS do their jobs and for a trial to establish the facts. Our focus is on ensuring that we get justice for the victims and their loved ones. We must let the police do their jobs and trial establish the facts. The government is focused on ensuring the families and all those affected see justice. First and foremost the Prime Minister’s thoughts are with those families and the communities. His thoughts remain firmly with them.”

    Not a good start to the week, suspending an MP for punching over and continuing to pummel a constituent - constituent who had hands in pockets when assault started - and now Home Secretary on verge of resigning. And it’s only Tuesday.

    The pressure seems misdirected at the PM at the moment though, not Home Secretary who is surely far more exposed to this botched cover up?
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    edited October 2024
    carnforth said:

    You can also get it - through Sky budget subsidiary Now, at least - without a contract. I pay £35 twice a year for the two months the Tennis is on Sky.
    ....
    Sandpit said:

    So they’ve put “Tommy” in prison, and are now saying that this attack was terrorism after all?

    Hope the police and Home Office are braced for the response, let’s all hope and pray it doesn’t get as ugly as it did earlier in the summer.
    Yaxley-Lennon was jailed for contempt of court.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,081
    @Liz_Cheney

    Thank you, Barbara Bush, for standing for truth, decency, and freedom.

    George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Pierce Bush Endorses Kamala Harris: Exclusive

    https://x.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1851254056171552945
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,284
    edited October 2024

    Missed 14 years of Tory failures, £22bn black hole, far right extremists....
    Didn’t Holly from Red Dwarf once say that black holes are a bit like buses. In deep space for three million years and not a single one, then suddenly five of them turn up at once.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068
    Sandpit said:

    So they’ve put “Tommy” in prison, and are now saying that this attack was terrorism after all?

    Hope the police and Home Office are braced for the response, let’s all hope and pray it doesn’t get as ugly as it did earlier in the summer.
    Tommy claimed the crime was committed by a made-up Muslim name. It wasn't. Tommy claimed the attacker was an asylum seeker. He wasn't.

    Tommy is in prison for a contempt of court, to which he pled guilty, unrelated to this case.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421
    maxh said:

    That isn't how your previous post reads, to me at least.
    "Not that I want it to kick off"

    Obviously, police don't have much of choice, so I will retract any suggestion that they deserve it. But this is a cover up. And it is an absolute fucking disgrace.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068

    Tommy is in prison because he broke a court order about something else. I suspect deliberately.
    Absolutely deliberately. He's said so and pled guilty.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Jon Stewart, as usual, can see the funny and take the piss out of everyone.

    https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1851246197287092555
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,782
    edited October 2024

    Not a good start to the week, suspending an MP for punching over and continuing to pummel a constituent - constituent who had hands in pockets when assault started - and now Home Secretary on verge of resigning. And it’s only Tuesday.

    The pressure seems misdirected at the PM at the moment though, not Home Secretary who is surely far more exposed to this botched cover up?
    I tend to agree that Cooper will have to address the HOC on this and what she knew and when

    Though ultimately Starmer is PM and needs to be honest
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    Tommy is in prison because he broke a court order about something else. I suspect deliberately.
    Did I read it right that he got locked up for failing to unlock his phone for police?
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068

    https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/1851297898610507807

    The Southport attacker has now been charged with Terrorism offences. Perhaps I was right all along.

    Farage is trying to re-write history.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    spudgfsh said:

    I suspect she found out quite late on. even with high profile cases like this there'd be little to no communication with the home secretary about operational matters.
    Seriously? It’s not just this week the rice in the Tupperware and a manual was found is it? These were found hours after the attack.

    I’m with Big G on this one. Urgent Ricingate questions for Cooper to answer, what did she know and when.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,959
    edited October 2024
    Sandpit said:

    Did I read it right that he got locked up for failing to unlock his phone for police?
    No, that is a separate case that hasn't been tried yet.

    He got banged up because he keeps repeating claims about a viral video, which the court has said are false and has been told not to repeat, but then he made a "documentary" about the wider case, the narrative being its a massive cover-up, which he keeps promoting / playing at gatherings.

    He couldn't exactly plead not-guilty to the fact he made a film which has now been viewed many many millions of times online, so not exactly like he was over heard repeating the false claim to a mate in the pub.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    There is zero evidence so far that the authorities have not been 100% upfront. They weren't treating it as terrorism; they subsequently found further evidence.

    They said he wasn't an immigrant or an asylum seeker. He wasn't an immigrant or an asylum seeker. The rioters targeted asylum seekers, remember?

    I've seen nothing to support the claim he was previously known to security services.

    People trying to twist this to suit their narrative are the ones who are not being 100% upfront.
    And to be clear I am not suggesting that they have not been upfront. However they get into difficulties because of the rush to the phrase "not treating as terrorism (related)" when it later turns out to be. Don't give the racists the chance. Just say "no comment" or "its too early to say". We should all be able to respect the police enough to let them do their job.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    .... Yaxley-Lennon was jailed for contempt of court.
    The guy is an arse, but why do you choose to use that name, rather than the name he uses?
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321
    RobD said:

    Didn’t Holly from Red Dwarf once say that black holes are a bit like buses. In deep space for three million years and not a single one, then suddenly five of them turn up at once.
    IIRC they were smudges on the windscreen...
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,152

    I've seen nothing to support the claim he was previously known to security services.

    If that's the case, why not? We have over 40,000 people on terror watchlists. Why wasn't he one of them?
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792

    Absolutely deliberately. He's said so and pled guilty.
    It is strange that otherwise intelligent posters like @Sandpit aren't au fait with Google.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c704eedkqkvo
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    Absolutely deliberately. He's said so and pled guilty.
    Presumably he was struggling to find a place to rent, so took the HMP option...
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068

    No 10 denying prior knowledge of the decision by the CPS to charge the suspect with terrorism

    I expect an urgent question to the Home Secretary asking when she knew ricin and the Al Quaeda manual had been discovered in the suspects house

    Police investigations and prosecution decisions are and should be independent of govt
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    Police investigations and prosecution decisions are and should be independent of govt
    Especially if it relates to drinks at No 10 during lockdown...
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792

    The guy is an arse, but why do you choose to use that name, rather than the name he uses?
    That is his name: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Tommy Robinson is just a stage name, he was tried under his real name.
  • spudgfshspudgfsh Posts: 1,561

    Police investigations and prosecution decisions are and should be independent of govt
    and very little of the operational details can be, will be or should be shared with the politicians or civil servants at the home office.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    That is his name: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Tommy Robinson is just a stage name, he was tried under his real name.
    And do you refer to everyone who has a stage name in the same way?
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,592
    Nigel Farage says:

    “In the wake of the horrific murder of those three girls in Southport in July of this year I asked some questions saying: ‘Please tell us the truth, stop the online speculation.’ Well it’s taken a long time to find out more about the individual. He’s now been charged, believe it or not, under the Biological Weapons Act because the police have found ricin in his home. He’s been charged under the Terrorism Act, alleged to have downloaded Al-Qaeda terrorist materials. But the murder of the girls and the serious injury of the others that is still being treated as a non-terror incident because they don’t know what the motives were. We’ve also been told this afternoon there are other facts that we don’t yet know because the CPS say they will come out in good time in court and are not to be discussed now. So that’s all right then that all makes sense to you doesn’t it? Yes, absolutely.”
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792

    And do you refer to everyone who has a stage name in the same way?
    Why is it such a big deal? He was tried under that name, and is referred to in the court report as Yaxley-Lennon. I'm not really sure of your point TBH!
  • kenObikenObi Posts: 245

    The guy is an arse, but why do you choose to use that name, rather than the name he uses?
    He's had 5 different names or alias.
    Best to use his originl name to avoid confusion.

    Maybe you can chip into his crowd funder if its hurt his feelings
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068
    tlg86 said:

    "Not that I want it to kick off"

    Obviously, police don't have much of choice, so I will retract any suggestion that they deserve it. But this is a cover up. And it is an absolute fucking disgrace.
    What specifically had been covered up?
  • Police investigations and prosecution decisions are and should be independent of govt
    Are you saying that there is someone being charged with terrorism offences (who has also been charged with killing three children) and the Home Office and HS are finding out at the same time as us?
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    edited October 2024

    I tend to agree that Cooper will have to address the HOC on this and what she knew and when

    Though ultimately Starmer is PM and needs to be honest
    Starmer already got form for chucking Boris Slayer Sue Gray under a bus, soon as he felt heat on his skin, Cooper likely to be asked to fall on her sword to save Starmer from repeated hits from a long drawn out Ricingate Scandal.

    And we are only a hundred days in.

    Coopers resignation will be a huge Honeymoon boost to the new Conservative leader, provided they don’t let Cooper and Starmer avoid answering good question due to ongoing inquiries.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321

    Why is it such a big deal? He was tried under that name, and is referred to in the court report as Yaxley-Lennon. I'm not really sure of your point TBH!
    I just find it a bit odd that some do this, specifically with him. Like he's not allowed to call himself Tommy Robinson, or as if its somehow cool to use his original or given name.
  • kamskikamski Posts: 6,163

    And do you refer to everyone who has a stage name in the same way?
    If the real name is as well-known and you don't like act - why on earth not? Why does it bother you is the more interesting question
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321
    kenObi said:

    He's had 5 different names or alias.
    Best to use his originl name to avoid confusion.

    Maybe you can chip into his crowd funder if its hurt his feelings
    Surely he is most prominently known as Tommy Robinson?
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068
    edited October 2024

    Not a good start to the week, suspending an MP for punching over and continuing to pummel a constituent - constituent who had hands in pockets when assault started - and now Home Secretary on verge of resigning. And it’s only Tuesday.

    The pressure seems misdirected at the PM at the moment though, not Home Secretary who is surely far more exposed to this botched cover up?
    The Home Secretary is not on the verge of resigning.

    What specifically do you think has been covered up?
  • eekeek Posts: 29,399

    What specifically had been covered up?
    The discovery of Ricin - alongside which Guido is claiming he knew on Friday and was ordered not to publish...
  • Police investigations and prosecution decisions are and should be independent of govt
    Of course, but Merseyside Police have confirmed ricin and an Al Quaeda manual were found in the suspects home and it is only correct for Yvette Cooper to make a statement to the HOC and explain when she knew of the discovery and indeed was it a Privy Council matter
  • MJWMJW Posts: 1,996

    The games that will get the crowds are the T20's. I would have the Championship running Monday through to Thursday and then T20 over the weekend, spread over the summer (so in parallel). Back in the day the counties played 6 days a week with few issues. If you need to rest players do so. But a 10 ten Championship Div 1 is 18 games if home and away, or back to 9 each in Div 1 and 2 so 16. Easy to accommodate.

    Sure that doesn't give the appeal of a shorter tournament but I think it a better way to develop players in the longer games (spread over the whole of summer's varying conditions) and getting the crowds in on Friday night, Sat and Sun afternoon.
    The Hundred was an utter fraud from the start, given it was always conceived in the way that it was, as opposed to revamping The Blast alongside other comps, for reasons of financial jiggery pokery. Namely that it was always going to be easier to flog supposedly new 'entities' that only played T20 than a county.

    All the PR about new audiences and bringing more money into the game was just that - the sums just didn't add up without overseas money bankrolling it like it bankrolls numerous otherwise unsustainable T20 leagues around the world.

    The problem being, it'll be disastrous for English cricket as franchise cricket is a bubble that relies on Indian and oil money - which will always come with strings attached. So they'll take the money and sell off the summer, but what then? The casual fans they pitched at attracting will easily be drawn away by the next thing, especially if the spectacle's a bit second rate. While those who loved cricket before - who previously bankrolled the game by paying through the nose for Sky, tickets, and memberships - will no longer be as loyal.

    Personally, the horrific Hundred needs to be stopped before its too late - even if it takes boycotts and interruptions of test matches, if we want a decent domestic game in this country.

    Then I'd add 3 'counties' (Ireland, Scotland, AN other) so we can have a 3 division championship of 7 teams each. That's a 12 game season playing home and away. Add 3 more minor counties or invitational Associates to a 24 team One Day Cup - played with 6 Groups of 4 like a football Euros then a knockout - so not too many games but loads of meaningful ones. Play group games in a week early in the season then knock out rounds over the next weekends. Final in June.

    Then for T20 I'd take the 21 'County' teams and split them into 3 groups of 7 by region, as The Blast is now. Top 2 qualify as of right. with 3rd and 4th in each group playing off for the remaining 3 spots in a finals league that fills The Hundred TV friendly slot over a few weeks in August. To ensure big test grounds are used if teams don't qualify have 'magic weekends' there. Then finals day as is now.

    The women's game could then mirror it but with fewer teams, say an 8 county professional FC comp, and a development Div 2. A 16 team ODC, and a T20 like The Hundred now with some weekend double headers with men's games.

    Job done. Slightly less cricket, but much more meaningful cricket. Plenty for Sky to get their teeth into. Though of course it won't be done as the ECB are only interested in lining their own wallets, not cricket.
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,592

    What specifically had been covered up?
    The police are still claiming the literal massacre of the innocents has an unknown motive, after the bloke who did it has ricin and islamic terrorist manuals found at his home.

    Briefing the likely motive was mental health related at the time can be forgiven as naiveity or incompetance, but still saying they don't know what happened now is pushing it a bit too far.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321
    kamski said:

    If the real name is as well-known and you don't like act - why on earth not? Why does it bother you is the more interesting question
    It doesn't bother me. I just wonder why people do it.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,399

    Of course, but Merseyside Police have confirmed ricin and an Al Quaeda manual were found in the suspects home and it is only correct for Yvette Cooper to make a statement to the HOC and explain when she knew of the discovery and indeed was it a Privy Council matter
    WTF would the Home Secretary know any quicker than anyone else?
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    kenObi said:

    He's had 5 different names or alias.
    Best to use his originl name to avoid confusion.

    Maybe you can chip into his crowd funder if its hurt his feelings
    Yes, only Grant Shapps has more aliases than Yaxley-Lennon.

    Weirdly, though, Yaxley-Lennon's latest moniker 'Tommy Robinson' is rather weirdly named after a real person. Tommy Robinson was/is a Luton Town football hooligan.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421

    What specifically had been covered up?
    The police said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cevwgqz0x41t?post=asset:7aba2675-24b3-45ec-958a-af31e7a040cc#post

    "We can also confirm that the incident is not currently being treated as terror-related and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

    Now, if you say it's not being treated as terrorism, it can only mean it's because you have a good idea of what it is (e.g. personal, he knew the woman taking the class etc. etc.). I.e. it would come as a huge surprise if the motivation turned out to be terrorism.

    The weasel words "not currently" don't mean anything.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,152

    What specifically had been covered up?
    We were told that it was disinformation to link the crime to Islamist terrorism. Now it seems to be the truth.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068

    The police would have known within days and Starmer too. Yet they were happy to prod us towards a mental health problem or neurodivergence, always willing to tar people with mental health concerns, just to divert away from the real issues. Starmer was then piously talking about misinformation, while all the time misinforming us. Gaslighting.
    Do you have any actual evidence as to when either the police or Starmer knew? You just appear to be offering assumptions.

    People assumed the attacker was an asylum seeker. He wasn't. They assumed he was an immigrant. He wasn't they assumed the silly made-up Arabic-sounding name was correct. It wasn't.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,959
    edited October 2024
    tlg86 said:

    The police said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cevwgqz0x41t?post=asset:7aba2675-24b3-45ec-958a-af31e7a040cc#post

    "We can also confirm that the incident is not currently being treated as terror-related and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

    Now, if you say it's not being treated as terrorism, it can only mean it's because you have a good idea of what it is (e.g. personal, he knew the woman taking the class etc. etc.). I.e. it would come as a huge surprise if the motivation turned out to be terrorism.

    The weasel words "not currently" don't mean anything.
    This is still the official line...

    Counter Terrorism Police have not declared the matter a terrorist incident.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05zpdq0lzgo

    Obviously was just a hobbyist chemist on the side.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,321
    MJW said:

    The Hundred was an utter fraud from the start, given it was always conceived in the way that it was, as opposed to revamping The Blast alongside other comps, for reasons of financial jiggery pokery. Namely that it was always going to be easier to flog supposedly new 'entities' that only played T20 than a county.

    All the PR about new audiences and bringing more money into the game was just that - the sums just didn't add up without overseas money bankrolling it like it bankrolls numerous otherwise unsustainable T20 leagues around the world.

    The problem being, it'll be disastrous for English cricket as franchise cricket is a bubble that relies on Indian and oil money - which will always come with strings attached. So they'll take the money and sell off the summer, but what then? The casual fans they pitched at attracting will easily be drawn away by the next thing, especially if the spectacle's a bit second rate. While those who loved cricket before - who previously bankrolled the game by paying through the nose for Sky, tickets, and memberships - will no longer be as loyal.

    Personally, the horrific Hundred needs to be stopped before its too late - even if it takes boycotts and interruptions of test matches, if we want a decent domestic game in this country.

    Then I'd add 3 'counties' (Ireland, Scotland, AN other) so we can have a 3 division championship of 7 teams each. That's a 12 game season playing home and away. Add 3 more minor counties or invitational Associates to a 24 team One Day Cup - played with 6 Groups of 4 like a football Euros then a knockout - so not too many games but loads of meaningful ones. Play group games in a week early in the season then knock out rounds over the next weekends. Final in June.

    Then for T20 I'd take the 21 'County' teams and split them into 3 groups of 7 by region, as The Blast is now. Top 2 qualify as of right. with 3rd and 4th in each group playing off for the remaining 3 spots in a finals league that fills The Hundred TV friendly slot over a few weeks in August. To ensure big test grounds are used if teams don't qualify have 'magic weekends' there. Then finals day as is now.

    The women's game could then mirror it but with fewer teams, say an 8 county professional FC comp, and a development Div 2. A 16 team ODC, and a T20 like The Hundred now with some weekend double headers with men's games.

    Job done. Slightly less cricket, but much more meaningful cricket. Plenty for Sky to get their teeth into. Though of course it won't be done as the ECB are only interested in lining their own wallets, not cricket.
    21 county teams? I know of 18 and then the minor counties.

    I always considered the Hundred as the first step to getting rid of counties and getting to a system more akin to Aussie cricket at the top level.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,198
    tlg86 said:

    Jenrick straight into it:

    https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1851294780304863449

    "Keir Starmer must urgently explain to the country what he knew about the Southport attack and when he learned it."

    It's called opposition.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,773
    edited October 2024

    AI ‘Will Enhance’ Nuclear Command and Control, Says Stratcom Boss https://t.co/RfftjPMAxw

    — Air & Space Forces Magazine (@ASForcesMag) October 29, 2024
    The comments below are predictable..., :O

  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792

    I just find it a bit odd that some do this, specifically with him. Like he's not allowed to call himself Tommy Robinson, or as if its somehow cool to use his original or given name.
    As others have said, he's had a multitude of aliases over the years. I'll call him Wayne King if you prefer, as that was one of them.
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,592
    Incidentally, gilts have shot up again today and I'm guessing it's not because investors think we're about to embark on a golden age of growth.

    At least Truss had to give a budget to crash the economy.
  • maaarsh said:

    https://x.com/Dominic2306/status/1851291937531445396

    Who could possibly have predicted that the 'mainstream' official sources/media were lying as usual about crime, terrorism, Islam. No10 will have known the truth almost immediately the police did, which will have been almost immediately.
    And who could possibly have predicted that the NPC pundits like Freedman and Portes and Katwala peddled all the official bullshit 24/7 while babbling the whole time about 'disinformation' and 'Islamophobia' from 'fascists' like
    @elonmusk
    & demanding people be locked up for spreading 'disinformation'!!!!
    NPC pundits ARE THE DISINFORMATION.
    It's being shoved out cos of the budget & US election, hoping most voters don't see how they were lied to by the official system yet again.
    *The system is working as intended*

    What does Dominic Cummings mean by NPC in this tweet?
  • eek said:

    WTF would the Home Secretary know any quicker than anyone else?
    On a matter of this importance I would expect she would have been informed by the police in the first instance
  • We were told that it was disinformation to link the crime to Islamist terrorism. Now it seems to be the truth.
    The disinformation was primarily that he was an illegal/boat person.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,421

    This is still the official line...

    Counter Terrorism Police have not declared the matter a terrorist incident.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05zpdq0lzgo

    Obviously was just a hobbyist chemist on the side.
    They've completely lost the plot.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,068
    Sandpit said:

    Did I read it right that he got locked up for failing to unlock his phone for police?
    No. He has been charged with that, but that goes to court next month.

    He was locked up for contempt of court. He told lies about a kid. A court case decided they were lies and told him to stop saying them. He kept on saying them. Contempt of court. He pled guilty.
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,592

    It's called opposition.
    Meanwhile centrist Kemi maintaining her standoffish say nothing stance, except to suggest that this justifies her saying nothing whilst the misinformation was being spread by the establishment.
  • What does Dominic Cummings mean by NPC in this tweet?
    Non player character.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,959
    edited October 2024

    What does Dominic Cummings mean by NPC in this tweet?
    Non-Player Character. In alt-right land, it is used as critical term for those unthinking uncritical individuals who just repeat the "authority" line on everything, like an NPC in a video game just follows a very limited scripted path.
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