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6 Jun 2020

Of course Cummings is involved in the policy decisions of Number 10.! What do you think his job is?! Of course he is involved in the writing of the rules. The problem with the lack of resignation of Cummings/sacking of him by Boris is that it sends out the message that if Cummings can hypocritically break/bend rules that he has been involved in formulating then so can everyone else. ...

6 Jun 2020

No double standards Burneside. For.They. Are. Not. Part. Of. The. Group. Which. Makes. The. Covid. Rules. (apologies for using a two syllable word  - I did try very hard to use only one syllable ones in order to aid your comprehension) PS Rosie Duffield did the honorable thing and resigned her post as a Labour whip. Unlike a certain unelected SPAD. PPS and then there's the matter ...

6 Jun 2020

Did the authorities take any action against Dominic Cummings? No. And neither did Boris. So is it any wonder that people are doing what the hell they like. I'm only surprised that you seem surprised.

6 Jun 2020

The number of police killings in the US disproportionately affects African Americans. Despite only making up 13 percent of the US population, Black Americans are two-and-a-half times as likely as white Americans to be killed by the police. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2020/05/mapping-police-killings-black-americans-200531105741757.html About 20 percent of ...

6 Jun 2020

Truly appalling. But did they then kneel on his neck and suffocate him? No. George Floyd, as I understand it, was already handcuffed and on the ground. If the police officer wished to further control him, if  Floyd was resisting arrest, then the  police officer could have have had a gun pointed at Floyd given that the US police are armed in that way.  Or had him tasered perhaps. Or used ...

5 Jun 2020

The question still remains: would he have been dealt with in the same way if he had been white?

5 Jun 2020

Ah! So it was his, Floyd's, fault all along! Doh! Silly me. The question is: would he have been dealt with in the same way if he had been white?

5 Jun 2020

BLM  - Newton Abbot. 1pm-2pm @The Clock Tower Sat 6th June

5 Jun 2020

You could also ask what is the point of posting on this website. But, like me, you do. In fact it was you who started this thread.

5 Jun 2020

To save you the bother I've done it for you. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by blacks during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws - ...

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