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Groundhog said:
You guess correct, very much a figurehead role as per the UK. Can dissolve governments, and refer bills to the supreme court if they believe it unlawful, but not much more. Our current president has been in the role 14 years and is generally well liked, so it will be a big change.

Pretty uninspiring list of candidates going forward, but at least not full blown psychos either.
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Yeah but our head of state is unelected and wears a crown. 💪
 
BBC News - Graham Linehan arrested at Heathrow over his X posts
www.bbc.com

Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X posts

Graham Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and bailed pending further investigation.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

When asked about the arrest, Starmer's official spokesman said: "that's an operational matter for the police"

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Also 5 armed police for anti trans comments? Seems excessive.
 
Ragey Erasmus said:
BBC News - Graham Linehan arrested at Heathrow over his X posts
www.bbc.com

Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X posts

Graham Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and bailed pending further investigation.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

When asked about the arrest, Starmer's official spokesman said: "that's an operational matter for the police"

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Also 5 armed police for anti trans comments? Seems excessive.
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Part of met heathrow so routinely armed. Still two cops could have easily done it.

At least he wasn't arrested for offending milk men.

Detention centre for 29 days seems excessive as well.

www.theguardian.com

Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants

Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
I thought I would look for an update on the Uyghur situation in China seeing as there is actually a country that is literally setting up real, actual, concentration camps, sorry, the left don't do concentration camps, they do "reeducation camps" and I can't find an article since April/May. Go figure.
 
Linehan has been was left by his wife and kids wont talk to him because hes a such a ****.

Suspect the 5 tweets are one of those "here a pattern of behaviour and these are the worst offenders"
 
Welsh Exile said:
I thought I would look for an update on the Uyghur situation in China seeing as there is actually a country that is literally setting up real, actual, concentration camps, sorry, the left don't do concentration camps, they do "reeducation camps" and I can't find an article since April/May. Go figure.
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Which was all condemned in the west.
 
McTallshort said:
Which was all condemned in the west.
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I'm sure it was but you wouldn't know given the complete lack of reporting. It's like no one actually cares about it. Conversely, we know what time Netenyahu takes a **** and what he eats for breakfast and comparing them to Nazis and what not.

Meanwhile there are actual camps in China where people are getting killed, tortured, sterilised, forced into labour, forced to have abortions etc etc.

I mean, Al Jazeera has a whole section on it yet when you go on it the last article was in Feb. You'd have thought they, and the UN, would care about Muslims being rounded up and put in camps but no, silence. Makes me think that if China was run by Jews it would be a bit different. And not just Al Jazeera (who are a joke anyway) but western media as well (which naturally disappoints me a lot more)
 
Welsh Exile said:
I'm sure it was but you wouldn't know given the complete lack of reporting. It's like no one actually cares about it. Conversely, we know what time Netenyahu takes a **** and what he eats for breakfast and comparing them to Nazis and what not.

Meanwhile there are actual camps in China where people are getting killed, tortured, sterilised, forced into labour, forced to have abortions etc etc.

I mean, Al Jazeera has a whole section on it yet when you go on it the last article was in Feb. You'd have thought they, and the UN, would care about Muslims being rounded up and put in camps but no, silence. Makes me think that if China was run by Jews it would be a bit different. And not just Al Jazeera (who are a joke anyway) but western media as well (which naturally disappoints me a lot more)
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Didn't the BBC expose it when interviewing the Chinese ambassador? Not disagreeing with what you are saying but this was exposed at the time and was big news. There is a media fixation with Israel this is true. Perhaps people expect better from the Israeli government than the Chinese or Russian ones.
 
McTallshort said:
Didn't the BBC expose it when interviewing the Chinese ambassador? Not disagreeing with what you are saying but this was exposed at the time and was big news. There is a media fixation with Israel this is true. Perhaps people expect better from the Israeli government than the Chinese or Russian ones.
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Yeah, it’s been going on for a while (since before Covid I think) so maybe there’s a time element to consider here as well (as in it probably was reported more a few years ago than now)

But I think there are more nefarious, sinister factors at play here as well, sadly.
 
Welsh Exile said:
Yeah, it's been going on for a while (since before Covid I think) so maybe there's a time element to consider here as well (as in it probably was reported more a few years ago than now)

But I think there are more nefarious, sinister factors at play here as well, sadly.
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I remember a massive effort online by China to defuse and misinform at the time so it was obvious they had been caught out. Similar to the one the Russians did after Salisbury
 
Ragey Erasmus said:
BBC News - Graham Linehan arrested at Heathrow over his X posts
www.bbc.com

Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X posts

Graham Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and bailed pending further investigation.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

When asked about the arrest, Starmer's official spokesman said: "that's an operational matter for the police"

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Also 5 armed police for anti trans comments? Seems excessive.
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The tweets are ridiculously low quality with regards to hate speech, the first about trans women in women's bathroom is clearly a joke about punching them in the balls, the 2nd was laughing at the smell of protestors, and the 3rd was anti mysoginy wasnt it?!

FML we need a reset, if 5 officers are waiting for your plane to land for that, we are ******!
 
TRF_Olyy said:
Who would even take over from Starmer, though?
Rayner would probably be even less popular
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jeremy corbyn GIF


Return of the King
 
dirty harry said:
The tweets are ridiculously low quality with regards to hate speech, the first about trans women in women's bathroom is clearly a joke about punching them in the balls, the 2nd was laughing at the smell of protestors, and the 3rd was anti mysoginy wasnt it?!

FML we need a reset, if 5 officers are waiting for your plane to land for that, we are ******!
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I’m with you on this one. This seems ridiculous and very OTT to the point I would actually go as far as to say it is concerning.

I do love Father Ted so could be my bias talking, though.
 

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