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Interesting. Heard his interview on the James OB pod and he’s plainly a very capable man. Seems to properly understand the issues afflicting prisons.. 

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11 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:


Interesting. Heard his interview on the James OB pod and he’s plainly a very capable man. Seems to properly understand the issues afflicting prisons.. 

 

He's gonna have his work cut out. Some suggestion that one of the reasons Sunak went early on the election is that the prisons overcrowding crisis is about to come to a head. 

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45 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

He's gonna have his work cut out. Some suggestion that one of the reasons Sunak went early on the election is that the prisons overcrowding crisis is about to come to a head. 


He hires loads of ex cons in his shops iirc

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1 minute ago, Kid Dynamite said:


He hires loads of ex cons in his shops iirc

That's right, aye. Big into rehabilitation, which will be a nice contrast to the lock them all up and throw away the key bullshit from the other side. 

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10 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

He's gonna have his work cut out. Some suggestion that one of the reasons Sunak went early on the election is that the prisons overcrowding crisis is about to come to a head. 

It absolutely is. It’s not scaremongering at all. It’s practically one in one out. You’re at the point too where the court backlog has meant people being tried for very serious offences have had 5 year delays. Then been found guilty but there is no space for them in prisons. It even impacts the ability of police to arrest people because they’ve got convicted criminals being temporarily held in their cells. The prison governors association (as I think they’re called) recently wrote to the MoJ perm sec (because there were in effect no ministers in the pre election period). This was to warn them the prisons are days away from breaking point. This is, of course, on top of underfunding across the whole sector, whether that be police, public prosecutors, court clerks, prison officers or whatever. With declining salaries in real terms and massive staff retention issues. Plus their actual day to day jobs. It’s a microcosm of the Tory mishandling of the business of government but also probably the most pressing matter. But you know, stop the boats. Which was actually one of their 5 priorities (and they couldn’t even make any progress on that). 

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14 hours ago, PaddockLad said:


Interesting. Heard his interview on the James OB pod and he’s plainly a very capable man. Seems to properly understand the issues afflicting prisons.. 

Inspired appointment IMO

 

As is appointing a non-politician AG

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Starmer has announced a news conference for after this morning's cabinet meeting. Wonder if there's some snap policy announcement coming? 

 

There probably won't be, but they've played things pretty close to New Labour so far, and day 1 for them brought the BOE independence thing which was a total surprise - hadn't been in the manifesto or mentioned at all during the campaign. 

 

We'll see, probably not. 

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Sorry, don't normally like to ask for money on here but if anyone would like to donate to this I'd be grateful as it's a cause close to my heart. Thanks in advance, folks. :good:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

BOE independence was week one, not day one iirc :cuppa:

 

You're right, it was the Tuesday or Wednesday post election. 

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If the greens got the same media exposure that the Russian stooge did for as long as the useful stooge got they might be a lot closer to the lib dems than reform or ukip is/was.

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Imagine being either Reform or Green/Libdem. :lol:

 

"I just cannot make my mind up between Nigel Farage and Ed Davey. Nigel this time!" 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

 

Thread. @Kid Dynamite

 

 

 

 


UKIP died when Brexit happened tbf. And they didn't have the idiots poster boy, Farage as an MP. Leaving the ECHR will be their next grift so it remains to be seen how much traction they get between now and the next election. Hopefully about as much as UKIP did

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WOW!

 

Just watched Kiers first presser and we have our own Jed Bartlett. What a Prime Minister this bloke is going to be.

 

Absolutely dripping with honesty, home truths and a very genuine drive to sort the UK out.

 

Not seen anyone this good in politics before except for TV drama.

 

So impressed 

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

I am once more selling some magic beans, CT

 

'Didn't have magic beans, used tesco's beans instead.' 

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1 hour ago, Christmas Tree said:

WOW!

 

Just watched Kiers first presser and we have our own Jed Bartlett. What a Prime Minister this bloke is going to be.

 

Absolutely dripping with honesty, home truths and a very genuine drive to sort the UK out.

 

Not seen anyone this good in politics before except for TV drama.

 

So impressed 

 

 

Not this fucking Jonah again. 👆

;) 

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4 hours ago, Christmas Tree said:

WOW!

 

Just watched Kiers first presser and we have our own Jed Bartlett. What a Prime Minister this bloke is going to be.

 

Absolutely dripping with honesty, home truths and a very genuine drive to sort the UK out.

 

Not seen anyone this good in politics before except for TV drama.

 

So impressed 

 

 

 

 

Fuck. Off. 

 

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