Thread 5 Burnham: Be More Dolly (Title edited by MNHQ at the request of the OP)

[DuncinToffee]

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Agree, worrying if no one knew of the plans.
that must have been a frightening encounter Countrygirl hope you are ok
Marina Hyde did make me laugh with the toy phone in a Wendy house scenario.

That’s awful, @countrygirl99, I’m so sorry you went through that.

I'm fine. I knew they'd be trouble but thought they would just make it obvious they were ignoring me. I've known them through a hobby for 20 years and knew they were a bad lot with an unlimited sense of entitlement. But they are banned for life from 2 establishments which was being contemplated before, due to what they were caught out at, but is now definate.

It doesn’t seem very spontaneous to me.

Really? I quite often go to random places dressed all in black ski wear and balaclava in 20+°c heat and meet hundreds of others who decided to spontaneously do the same thing 😉

They really do have contempt for the electorate. Just because their voters are the words we mustn’t use - doesn’t mean the rest of us are!

And in a sentence that’ll please you lot - I’ve realise this past year as I’ve got older I’m becoming more left wing away from centre! 😇☺️

That article is pretty scary @DuncinToffee
I do hope MI5 and SO15 were absent to allow moles and further study rather than ignorance…

Vaguely reminded me of "Die Hard"

The scenes from the conference were appalling.
I couldn't watch LK but saw that Farage was listed as being on today and I wonder if she held him to account regarding this?
His smirking face whilst that young woman was assaulted was dreadful.

She was a lot harder on him than she has been in the past. He hated it.

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I’ve posted this elsewhere but the organiser of paramilitary cosplayers appears to be quite well known to the police

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/01/revealed-far-right-ukip-brexit-demo-organiser-convicted-kidnapper/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/flag-chiefs-migrant-sabotage-tommy-36326862.amp

I'm not alone in remembering stories of some police being in cahoots with the National Front in the 70s ?

Not sure why that popped into my head.

A little bit of John Crace for you all

Long-term allies and verifiable reality must make way for Saving Private Nige

Long-term allies and verifiable reality must make way for Saving Private Nige | John Crace | The Guardian

That is really upsetting.

@TemperanceWest it upset me, but it has the measure of these men, look how many of the rioters last summer had convictions for violence including against Women and Girls

Absolutely. The reality of it is what makes it so powerful.

Agree.

and they can deny it all they want but evidence points to the contrary.

Trouble in Portsmouth tonight.

A migrant boat arrived there today and people are trying to stop coaches taking them to Kent's processing centre.

Fucking hell. How thick do you have to be to prevent the police moving migrants to a processing centre so that they can begin the process of being returned, when you claim that you don't want thise arriving on small boats to be allowed to stay? Would they rather the police just let them wander free?

Bloody ridiculous behaviour.

Cross post there @DuncinToffee.

And AfD is set to win big in Saxony Anhalt (Eastern Germany)

Here's quite a good summary about what's going on in Portsmouth atm

Far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival | Portsmouth | The Guardian

They are in a stand off with the RNLI

https://bsky.app/profile/yeomans.bsky.social/post/3muuvbxdnds2m
Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this.

Organised again by Daniel Thomas - criminal conviction for armed kidnapping & mate of Yaxley Lennon.

Amazing how many men with criminal records have time on their hands to do this sort of thing. Wonder who pays for it.