namesake posted:

There's a pretty good chance that the Labour conference in late September will either be cancelled or will have a picket outside of it from Unite and GMB workers so no, Starmer will not soon start looking like a PM in waiting soon after. The left refuses to back a literal anti-worker party and the right wing make jokes about how the Labour Party doesnt even have to be in power to cause industrial action these days.

Communist Thoughts posted:

God that's the most British thing ever.

Uh oh prevent accidentally referred a white guy for uh... downloading pdfs, how about you do a patronising series of book reports young man

Sanford posted:

therattle posted:

Why aren't those police being prosecuted for perjury, as well as assault? (This is a rhetorical question, I sadly know the answer).

Bobby Deluxe posted:

A spectre is haunting the Labour party, apparently.

Honestly I'm beginning to think that both Labour and the Conservatives are assuming that they'll win by default and are using the opportunity to pursue their own agendas.

The tories are pursuing their ideological crushing of the poor and foreign because Labour is in dissarray. Labour are assuming that the tories ate being so nakedly evil that they can purge the left and gently caress about with internal structures and still win. The uniting philosophy on both sides is that 'now is not the time' for better things.

Umbra Dubium posted:

Wouldn't it be awful if someone without the proper credentials drove an HGV full of petrol into Scotland Yard.

Just terrible! Thankfully there are measures in place to make sure such a ridiculous scenario could never happen.

Necrothatcher posted:

If you prosecuted every cop who lied on the stand for perjury you wouldn't have a police force (not necessarily a bad thing).

One of the more common things is cops trying to beef up 'assaulting a police officer' charges by lying about the person being arrested spitting on them - which I've seen repeatedly disproved by bodycam and dashcam footage (like if the defendant was face down on the bonnet of a car the entire time). It's so commonplace that it's honestly not worth reporting, at worst the judge might say something about how disappointed he is in the police witness evidence, but you're lucky if you get that.

endlessmonotony posted:

So the current status of Brexit is "we'll force the criminals to drive the guzzoline rigs"?

Carry on.

Necrothatcher posted:

and then their cop buddy absolutely will not contradict them.

Like, cop witnesses will openly be sat outside courtrooms in little huddles getting their stories straight before giving evidence. It's not even something they bother to hide.