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Reply | No hope
at 17:21 17 Oct 2025
They were only given 1000 tickets. Even if a quarter of them are “ultras” I’m sure the police could deal with the situation. Let alone the population of over a million people. |
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Reply | No hope
at 17:14 17 Oct 2025
That suggests they don’t trust the local population of Birmingham to behave themselves. |
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Reply | Our country is Unbelievable
at 17:12 17 Oct 2025
It’s definitely football related if local authorities are banning football fans from attending games for political (and racist) reasons. |
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Reply | No hope
at 10:43 17 Oct 2025
There are lots of clubs with big reputations for hooliganism and their fans are still allowed to travel to away games and the authorities generally police it well. If it were Rangers they’d be allowed tickets and they smashed up Manchester a few years ago.
This decision has been made by the local council purely because the Maccabi fans are Jewish and the local area of Aston is made up of 90% “black and minority ethnic (BAME)” people, mostly of Pakistani origin. How 90% of people can be described as minority is beyond me but that’s a discussion for another day.
It’s a tinderbox situation because of the demographics of the local area, they are correct to have concerns but you can’t ban people from a football match simply because they are Jewish. It stinks. |
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Reply | Owain Glyndwr flags
at 18:00 16 Oct 2025
Thing is the “rabid nationalists” are nowhere near significant or numerous enough to even come close to win a general election. But if the polls are to be believed reform are sitting around 38%. There has been a massive shift towards ordinary mild mannered people who were previously pretty tolerant and welcoming of outsiders now saying this has gone way too far.
It’s assumed that reform are picking up a lot of votes from dissatisfied Tories which is probably true but if you look at the areas reform seem to be gaining most traction it’s the industrial heartlands where Labour have ruled for a century.
It’s the biggest seismic shift since Labour did the exact same thing to the Liberals in the 1920’s. |
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 16:19 16 Oct 2025
My mistake, for some reason I thought it was a Westminster by election. |
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 15:38 16 Oct 2025
It’s fairly irrelevant at this stage. Reducing labours massive majority by one will make no difference whatsoever. It will give them a bloody nose though and hopefully hasten Starmers resignation. |
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Reply | Owain Glyndwr flags
at 13:36 16 Oct 2025
I imagine they stand for Owain Glyndwr, a staunch ally of Richard II who fought alongside him and his English army in campaigns against the lords of Wales and Scotland. [Post edited 16 Oct 13:58]
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Reply | Caerphilly by-election
at 13:33 16 Oct 2025
It’s gone from an ultra safe Labour seat for a century to the prospect of them not even coming third virtually overnight.
The winds of change are a-blowin |
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Reply | Hostages and Prisoners
at 18:39 15 Oct 2025
Some might say you only care about Palestinians being killed or mistreated when you perceive Israel to be doing it? |
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Reply | Hostages and Prisoners
at 18:22 15 Oct 2025
Yes I drank there a few times, was a good pub but it’s gone downhill in recent years. But don’t change the subject.
You and others have been whining about the horrors inflicted upon the people of Gaza for two years. But now you’re actively condoning and justifying these same people being dragged into the street, having their hands and feet broken and in lots of cases shot through the skull.
You can’t have it both ways. You either want them to live in peace and freedom or you can condone the evil actions of Hamas.
Choose. |
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Reply | Hostages and Prisoners
at 18:04 15 Oct 2025
If you agree with the concept of arbitrary retribution against people that wrong you then surely you would support Israel’s right to take retribution against all the Palestinians that would do them harm?
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Reply | Tommy’s latest legal troubles.
at 17:58 15 Oct 2025
That would probably make it far easier for the police to gather info on him as a lot of stuff you save on your computer gets sent to the cloud, they wouldn’t need the actual physical device to monitor him. It’s probably the conversations he’s having over encrypted apps like WhatsApp that they are most interested in. They can probably get everything else already. |
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Reply | Tommy’s latest legal troubles.
at 17:50 15 Oct 2025
You have to wonder how on Earth it has made it to court in the first place.
It seems like the counter terrorism act is just being used to detain people arbitrarily for any reason. There’s nothing about this that even remotely suggests terrorism. I’ve seen comments online regarding the large amount of cash in his car, if they suspected money laundering or something along those lines they may perhaps have a case. |
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Reply | Hostages and Prisoners
at 15:56 15 Oct 2025
If we brought executing traitors back here your noggin would be the first on the chopping block. |
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Thread | Tommy’s latest legal troubles.
at 15:09 15 Oct 2025
I’ve made my feelings clear on this career criminal, petty thug and general grifter previously, but this one really doesn’t sit right with me. He was stopped by the counter terrorism police en route to the channel tunnel and then arrested when he refused to give them access to his phone.
The reasons they give for stopping him are thus:
“He was stopped by police on 28 July, 2024, using their counter-terrorism powers as he prepared to enter the Channel Tunnel while driving a silver Bentley Bentayga.
Officers from Kent Police said they did so partly because he was driving someone else's car and had not pre-booked his ticket.”
Now I note the use of the word “partly”, there may be more to it that is not in the public domain. But surely to detain someone for driving someone else’s car (perfectly legal with permission/correct insurance) and not buying a ticket in advance (again perfectly legal) seems a gross overreach of police powers and has little to do with terrorism and more to do with harassment because of who he is.
It just looks from the outside like a flimsy attempt to snoop through his phone for dirt/info.
Now he’s in court facing a potential gaol sentence. If he had committed an offence then fair enough, lock him up. But this seems very fishy on the surface at least?
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Reply | Hostages and Prisoners
at 11:58 15 Oct 2025
Seems like all the armed men wearing Red Cross outfits and those wearing vests with “journalist” written on them have disappeared over night. In other completely unrelated news Hamas fighters are back in uniform and are enjoying slaughtering Palestinian people again. |
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Reply | Hostages and Prisoners
at 14:42 14 Oct 2025
It’s easy to get elected when you have militants standing outside the polling booths with massive guns saying “vote Hamas or we’ll shoot you”. |
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Reply | That’s another fine mess Mr Starmer
at 12:08 14 Oct 2025
Well Starmer is having a “hands up who likes me” moment on a daily basis at the moment. No doubt he’s also got a runny bottom. |
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Reply | That’s another fine mess Mr Starmer
at 11:46 14 Oct 2025
He’s doing it deliberately I think, he’s humiliating him every opportunity he gets. I said when Labour sent hundreds of activists to campaign for Kamala that Trump wouldn’t forget it. All those years of Starmer and Lammy and all them queuing up to call Trump all sorts of names is biting them on the arse. |
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