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I left home aged twenty at the end of January 1990 (same day as we drew at the stadium of copyright infringement) ... a callow youth, I was destined for AWE Aldermaston as a maintenance technician. This place was guarded by the civil nuclear constabulary, as are all other nuclear sites in Britain. I was required to go through positive vetting. Am fairly sure that phrase for security clearance no longer exists but the extent to which I was investigated was huge.. this was the same level as senior police officers, army officers, senior civil servant etc. I was interviewed by an ex army officer who at that point was the poshest person I'd ever met. The advice from the workshop was "don't be a daft bugger and say anything controversial " so I didn't, played the game. I was required to give the name of my school so he could visit there & the name & address of a farmer who I'd worked for every year for most of my teens . Looking back, this was to ascertain the nature of my character, to see if there were any red flags in my background that may leave me open to blackmail by bad actors etc. All financial records were also looked at. I know for a fact this bloke visited the farmer because he told my old man about it in the village pub and so would've undoubtedly visited the school on the same visit up north. If I was subject to all that at the age of 20, what the fuck has happened to the vetting process in the intervening 30 years that allowed the individual they yeaterday threw away the key on to be cleared to work at the same place? The cleaners at Aldermaston were cleared to the same high level back then ffs ...

MY manager.

Our official FB page put a post on about his retirement as well ffs A load of mouth breathers shouting “ALLWAYS PLAYD FOR THE SHIRT NOT LIKE THE ONES WHONDONT NOW” like he wasn’t absolutely fucking horse shit

Ryder's going to break YOUR jaw when he sees you've copied HIS idea for HIS Taylor tribute article tonight.

We won’t ever forget THAT goal against Cardiff, Andy Carroll breaking his jaw, and THAT goal line save against Villa.

Change ‘hearing’ for ‘match’ and that’s his normal POV

Nah, maybe you have something in the legal profession for him? Sounds about as suited to that as he does football management.

This. The whole "all men" rhetoric is likely all down to the fact that we don't fucking call our peers out often enough when they're acting inappropriately. The result is folk like this cunt Couzens get a string of rapey allegations to the point their colleagues (supposedly) refer to him as "the rapist" and it's all just a big joke until he actually actually murders someone after raping them.

Given my post above, I’ll sit this one out.

I got cleared to work on Sellafield in 2012, so things were already taking a dive back then.

Hard to believe that he was only 30 when he signed for them and then made his debut for their reserves where he scored an OG and was pulled at half time.

BBC News - Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58746703

Why weren’t we told yesterday ffs?

Yeah, clearly that's the theory/message being put out, but it's a bit reductionist, and far from being "the only reliable way" to fix an issue that is deep seated the world over. In the UK this issue links to the jobs for the boys culture and lack of accountability that runs through the police and right up to the likes of Boris and his boys in government. We've had decades of page 3/lad mag/Geordie Shore culture telling our young men it's a right laugh to love tits and to bang as many women as you can. Multi-generations of scumbag blokes who think it's acceptable to knock women about because that's what they saw their dad doing. It's all part of it, there's not just one reason that women are disproportionately killed by men. People like Wayne Couzens are broken at a deep rooted level. Being pulled on being a creep more often isn't going to convince him not to be a rapist, it's just likely to make him less brazen about it. And I'd dare say the vast majority of blokes are decent and DO modify each other's behaviour if it oversteps the mark. Although that begs the question, who is the moral arbiter of where this imaginary mark is? @Monkeys Fist is fucked in that case. We've been laughing at his booby posts on here for years

I think an important qualifying aspect to this which people leave out is the notion that yeah, many men might be able to make a sexist joke or an objectifying comment and laugh off without feeling the need to go and rape someone, but some other fellas have a far lower threshold. So when we say all men need to police each other's behaviour, it's not because we think all men might be closet rapists - it's because it's the only reliable way to weed out or shut down the ones that are. And for the men who feel put out about that - yeah it sucks that you have to be policed in this way, but surely it's better to have it set up like this than another woman is brutalised at the altar of "lad culture". Men need/have to stop taking this as some kind of attack on them as men, and see it as a collective exercise in protecting women

There will of course have been similar cover ups in the past but what needs to happen now is that police officers need to be held to a higher standard than the average man rather than a lower one which has traditionally been the case.

I’ll give you Penny Smith and raise you a Susanna Reid…

Future captain for England tbh.

Fucking finally! See you suckers, I’m off to see who is paying over the odds for me to toot around on a forklift all day

Isegrim, fancy doing us a favour?

Six days later...

I only killed sheep with a tank and that was by accident?

We heard it here first.

Yesterday, September 29th ,was the 3rd anniversary of a Sad Makem Bastard shouting ‘cheat’ at the Jimmy Hill statue outside Coventry’s ground.

That’s exactly what needs to be looked at. What sort of processes are there available to confidentially report someone within the police? It’s a boys club so the ability to do so discretely is important. What is more pressing is how he was accused of indecent exposure in 2015 yet remained a police officer and even more worrying is that he was twice linked to indecent exposure in the weeks leading up to Sarah’s murder and yet no action was taken. Incidents like this are thankfully incredibly rare and there have been a lot of overreactions on social media but the Met have had six months to think about this and have come up with no plan whatsoever to help prevent such awful crimes happening again.

Luckily for you they don’t check all the registers.

Cracking tits but nowhere near as attractive as Penny Smith imo.

I don’t disagree with everything he says by any means but that’s just kicking the hornets nest to further his own career imo. Or maybe that’s giving him too much credit

Yeah, it was him. She was a canny bit smarter than Welch like

Are you offering him another job? You are a star.

Ffs, everyone knows it’s a UKIP of moles.

How was she supposed to know that an officer nicknamed 'the rapist' was a wrong 'un?

I'm sure he'll be as big a success as Steven Taylor was at Portland Timbers.

If he can keep fit deserves to be in capital letters not brackets

Nightmarish. Imagine accidentally finding yourself as an adult and getting carted back home to yer parents.

it's what they wanted

We were on exercise in Germany, I was on guard at about 1am and a boar was wandering about saw me and charged. I was right next to a tank so I jumped on it out of the way. I stayed there for the next 1.5 hours.

Sounds a bit far fetched but her hips back up her story.

Yeah I think it was the same week….bought screamadelica & nevermind on the same day from Tollcross woolies in Edinburgh…can’t remember what I did on Tuesday mind but there you go

Don’t worry, Dominic Raab has promised that every paedophile in the country will have their forklift license by Christmas.

It’s amazing how little knowledge this lot have of any sort of trained work, isn’t it?

What could possibly go wrong?

Bono & The Edge walk into a pub the barman says "Not U2 again"

If anyone thought that was the end of the matter and it will never happen is daft