https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/06/met-police-baton-rounds-black-led-events-foi-reveals

Starting off the week with some more of them bad apples 😐

comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/06/met-police-baton-rounds-black-led-events-foi-reveals

Starting off the week with some more of them bad apples 😐
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/frantic-footage-shows-cop-saves-30507049.amp

Starting off the week with one of those good apples

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/06/met-police-baton-rounds-black-led-events-foi-reveals

Starting off the week with some more of them bad apples 😐
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/frantic-footage-shows-cop-saves-30507049.amp

Starting off the week with one of those good apples
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What rank is he in the MET?

Sat Nav is so desperate to (not) defend them this is all he can come up with

Racial discrimination in hiring at the RAF - shocker

It's shocking that theover privileged brass escape without sanction for their botched legal advice.
Getting a red arrows fly-by on your retirement, excellent use of tax payer money.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 9 minutes ago
It's shocking that theover privileged brass escape without sanction for their botched legal advice.
Getting a red arrows fly-by on your retirement, excellent use of tax payer money.
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Indeed. Another member got promoted!

comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 4 hours, 45 minutes ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/06/met-police-baton-rounds-black-led-events-foi-reveals

Starting off the week with some more of them bad apples 😐
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Disgussin'

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 3 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/06/met-police-baton-rounds-black-led-events-foi-reveals

Starting off the week with some more of them bad apples 😐
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/frantic-footage-shows-cop-saves-30507049.amp

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Bussin'!

What a hero.

Asylum seekers have started to board the barge

Media regulator Ofcom has launched four new investigations into GB News after complaints that the channel broke impartiality rules.

Three episodes of shows hosted by Conservative MPs are being investigated in relation to a rule that politicians can't normally act as news presenters.

Programmes hosted by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Philip Davies and Esther McVey are among those being examined.


INJECT IT INTO MY COOOOCK

comment by Oscar #TeamFury. It’s Coming Homeeeee! (U12980)
posted about 4 hours ago
Asylum seekers have started to board the barge
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Did you see the latest drivel from the government is to send them to Ascension Island? Does that mean the Rwanda plan is binned?
The numbers of deportations from this country is through the floor, all this money wasted on pie-in-the-sky, populist, culture warrior policies could have been spend more wisely on immigration officers to decide on asylum claims.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 13 hours, 40 minutes ago
comment by Oscar #TeamFury. It’s Coming Homeeeee! (U12980)
posted about 4 hours ago
Asylum seekers have started to board the barge
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Did you see the latest drivel from the government is to send them to Ascension Island? Does that mean the Rwanda plan is binned?
The numbers of deportations from this country is through the floor, all this money wasted on pie-in-the-sky, populist, culture warrior policies could have been spend more wisely on immigration officers to decide on asylum claims.
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Hec

I watched this a few years ago. Ep:5 is the one on Ascension Island. Food costs a fortune as everything hub has to be shipped or flown in and there’s basically fook all on there.

This government really are grim. You’ve fled your own war torn country, left everything behind, trekked across Europe to then be flown 4000 miles to a remote island on the south Atlantic.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhCOPMQGqyKV4ScqdjjwDZWLsHZH7iz4E

Would help if I posted the link

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/britain-poor-people-leisure-victorian-workhouse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“ The result is the promotion of a kind of two-tier existence, where joy, relaxation and fulfilment are seen as the preserve of wealthy people – and life for the lower orders is one of labour and survival. This is class prejudice, of course, but it is also about a general lowering of expectations across the board. In a country where it’s now normalised for a home, access to basic utilities and regular meals to be out of reach for many, it’s easy to become convinced that hobbies and entertainment are unreasonable requests. Before you know it, celebrating Christmas will be a privilege saved for those in the higher tax bands.”

Think this is very true

We already have the laws, if you're not eligible for asylum you don't get to stay, enforce them!
We have laws against renting homes to ineligible migrants, about employing ineligible workers and we have a legal system using current laws to defend individuals, but this government have slashed public services to the bone that we don't have the professionals to ensure these current laws are enforced but according to them its, tediously predictably, the landlords, employers, lawyers and judges fault.

This othering, lumping the genuine with the ineligible, is nothing more than a culture war wedge issue from a weak administration desperate to retain power, but to what end? if they get reelected they'll still be 5hit and devoid of ideas. They have a massive majority ffs and its their own that oppose their uselessness.

The country is being run into the ground by halfwits, not one normal person can say their quality of life has improved in the last 13 years.

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 55 minutes ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/britain-poor-people-leisure-victorian-workhouse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“ The result is the promotion of a kind of two-tier existence, where joy, relaxation and fulfilment are seen as the preserve of wealthy people – and life for the lower orders is one of labour and survival. This is class prejudice, of course, but it is also about a general lowering of expectations across the board. In a country where it’s now normalised for a home, access to basic utilities and regular meals to be out of reach for many, it’s easy to become convinced that hobbies and entertainment are unreasonable requests. Before you know it, celebrating Christmas will be a privilege saved for those in the higher tax bands.”

Think this is very true
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Labour, survival… then plugging in to the culture industry, which social media has now become part of, via your phone/laptop/TV in your downtime.

Six hours of homogenised, mass-market content selling hopes, fears and longings (this man went from rags to riches! beware the terrorists! imagine a holiday in the Maldives!) and manufacturing an unending desire for consumer products. Then back to the work you go!

Don’t worry though - work hard(er than the guy next to you), save diligently, and you too can survive your retirement!

Not a lot has changed in most of Europe in the last century. Are people materially better off? On average, yeah, many in the middle are. Do they work fewer hours? Some in the middle do. Healthcare provision is certainly better; but has access improved in the last 50 years or so? Are they any more free than they were? Some in minority groups unquestionably are, but whether we are as a society is highly debatable.

Whilst it’s still in mind, for anyone who isn’t familiar, I’d strongly recommend looking up Adorno and Horkheimer’s writing on the culture industry.

It’s 75 years old now (their book Dialectic of Enlightenment was published in 1947) and is more relevant than ever.

From Wiki’s summary:

“…popular culture [becomes] akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate* mass society into passivity.

“Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.

“The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism…”

Again, little has changed in 75 years. The media channels and the pervasiveness (now you have streaming services/social media on your phone so you can consume content on your way to work and on your breaks/lunch). But the model is a very, very successful one for the capitalists, so why change it?

*Care required with this word, which I wouldn’t have used. Adorno is clear that there’s no grand conspiracy involved in this ‘manipulation’. The passivity is only an unfortunate side effect of the interminable delivery of content designed only to bring readers/listeners/now watchers back to consume again.

‘Higher food prices may be here to stay, the Bank of England's chief economist has said.

Huw Pill said that the rate at which food prices are rising was expected to slow to "about 10% by the end of the year".

But he warned a return to cheaper food was "something we may not be seeing for a while yet, if in the future at all".’

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66433014

Supermarkets in Quite Enjoying Record Profits shocker!

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernançalvemiro triumvirate (U17054)
posted 2 minutes ago
‘Higher food prices may be here to stay, the Bank of England's chief economist has said.

Huw Pill said that the rate at which food prices are rising was expected to slow to "about 10% by the end of the year".

But he warned a return to cheaper food was "something we may not be seeing for a while yet, if in the future at all".’

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66433014

Supermarkets in Quite Enjoying Record Profits shocker!
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This guy talking bullsheet, yet…again….. he’s just a parody of left wing talking points.

The CMA points out that operating profits in the retail grocery sector during 2022-23 were down 41.5% on the previous year and that average operating margins in the sector fell from 3.2% to 1.8%. Put another way, for every £100 of sales, the typical supermarket is making a profit of just £1.80

https://news.sky.com/story/supermarkets-never-had-a-question-to-answer-on-profiteering-but-their-suppliers-do-12924315

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernançalvemiro triumvirate (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Whilst it’s still in mind, for anyone who isn’t familiar, I’d strongly recommend looking up Adorno and Horkheimer’s writing on the culture industry.

It’s 75 years old now (their book Dialectic of Enlightenment was published in 1947) and is more relevant than ever.

From Wiki’s summary:

“…popular culture [becomes] akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate* mass society into passivity.

“Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.

“The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism…”

Again, little has changed in 75 years. The media channels and the pervasiveness (now you have streaming services/social media on your phone so you can consume content on your way to work and on your breaks/lunch). But the model is a very, very successful one for the capitalists, so why change it?

*Care required with this word, which I wouldn’t have used. Adorno is clear that there’s no grand conspiracy involved in this ‘manipulation’. The passivity is only an unfortunate side effect of the interminable delivery of content designed only to bring readers/listeners/now watchers back to consume again.
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Excellent introduction to Adorno and Horkheimer’s work here:

https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/the-culture-industry

Philosophise This! I also very highly recommend for those with even a passing interest in philosophical thought, from year dot right up to the present day. It’s an amazing resource.

Deputy chairman of the Conservative party and all round numpty Lee Anderson has said to ASYLUM SEEKERS “f*** off back to France”.
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk insisted the Conservative party’s Deputy Chairman had said “nothing unreasonable”.

What do conservative party voters think?

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 14 minutes ago
Deputy chairman of the Conservative party and all round numpty Lee Anderson has said to ASYLUM SEEKERS “f*** off back to France”.
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk insisted the Conservative party’s Deputy Chairman had said “nothing unreasonable”.

What do conservative party voters think?
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A moronic thing to say and pretty disgusting.

https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-living-latest-sky-news-blog-12615118

'Cost of living crisis coming to end' as inflation forecast to fall behind wage growth

The term ‘military age’ when it comes to refugees is such a naaazi-like red flag. I see it used more and more on Twitter by people who know exactly what they’re doing. I’m sure this is just the beginning how vitriolic the right wingers get.

"Military age" will be exactly the reason some asylum seekers are fleeing their country.