Good day to bury bad news - 20th jan 2025

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Guess what's happening on the 20th jan 2025 ?

Trump's Inauguration Day of course and given the fact all main stream media will be bleating on about it from the week before till the week after, how easy it would be for these events to be missed.

• Manchester duo trial ( close but not quite 16th not 20th). Charges authorised over Manchester Airport incident | The Crown Prosecution Service

• Southport attacker trial. LIVE Southport stabbings murder suspect named as he appears in court - Manchester Evening News

• Mentally ill man who attacked the army officer trial. Kent soldier stabbing: Trial date set as victim leaves hospital - BBC News

• That cheeky little councillor trial who suggested some needed a close shave. Who is Ricky Jones? The ex-Labour councillor who has appeared in court | The Standard.

So keep it simple and ask yourself how all the events above that all occurred at different times all now start at the same time.

How convent for all these things to start on the same day a huge worldwide event. I think its government steered and definitely not unreasonable to think these events have been scheduled then to hide bad news

So the then DPP sought and changed court cases running order and added additional courts to deal with the break down of law and order. You know act as a deterrent.

Perhaps things like attacks on armed police officers in a potential terrorist target is equal to the attacks on police of criminal thugs at an illegal migrant hotel.
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you still think it was a fight at an airport. ?

The immigration statistics were part of the SAME story. Of course the media will cover them on the same as the reports critical of the handling of migration numbers

You haven't really followed trial reports, have you? The reality is that they don't really get into the meat of trials till the second day, and the main evidence certainly does get reported. Just have a look back to a few prominent trials that have taken place over the last couple of years.

But to get them all out in a single day, perhaps allows the uninformed to be embarrassed when they say nothing has been done, when in fact the trials have been started. ( or the hearing, but more importantly legal action has been started)

If the uninformed choose to start ranting that nothing has been done without taking the very elementary step of checking their facts first, that is absolutely on them and no-one else. Google is a thing, you know.

Your comparator doesn't work. The riots cases weren't "rushed through" because they didn't have trials as they were pleading guilty. The timing was therefore absolutely standard.

Do you think the Southport killings were covered well at the time?

It's amazing how the justice system really does manage to coordinate and kick up a gear when it comes to "far right rioting" and tweets, nobody believes strings weren't pulled in that instance.

No matter the outcome of the election, it was known when the inauguration would be. To make such a weak point undermines the rest you have to say on the issue.

As someone who has worked within the court system... LOL at the idea this could be a coordinated government plan!

Yes of course. You heard about them didn’t you?

get a grip!

you've got 4 trials, which aren't even starting the same week, let alone the same day, out of the thousands that take place in the UK every single week. I accept there might be some coverage of the inauguration on the 20th but the Southport trial, for example, is expected to last 4 weeks and the army stabbing 3 weeks. The papers won't still be covering the inauguration, let alone to the expense of al other news, then ffs!

I heard about them in a manner that I thought very odd and clearly an attempt to obfuscate and skew the narrative away from facts that wouldn't go down well with the public. The Christian Welsh choir boy who looked nine years old and absolutely no connection to Islam or any potential terror motivation. It looked like a duck and quacked like a duck and the BBC insisted it was definitely not a duck. But have slowly been forced to concede - kinda was a duck.

I never had twitter before this event, but it was such a brazen attempt by the BBC to sow misinformation I created an account to see if I was the only person who thought this.

If you believe that coverage did anything other than further destroy trust in mainstream media then I don't know what to say.

The media can only put out what the police tell them. Not sure how it’s the BBC’s fault that the Islam aspect wasn’t disclosed?

The starting point of all three trials on the same day as the inaugaration is fairly pointless, though. During the trials there will only be a summary of the evidence given on the media (Contempt of Court Act 1981) . The real noise and fuss will be after the verdicts. These trials last for different lengths of time, and the verdicts (whatever they are) are highly unlikely to be in the same week as each other, and two at least won't probably even be the same week.
It would be incredibly difficult to "fix" trial start dates at four different courts for four different cases. Trial dates don't come from stone tablets sent by the MoJ, they are set by listing officers in each court organisation according to the availability on the court's diary, and (depending on a case) police, witnesses, expert reports, counsel, etc. It is likely attempts to manipulate it could fail, and it would take an immense amount of effort to fiddle these all to start on 20th January. And there's little point anyway.

Contrary to your prognostications, OP, the Rudakubana trial is being extensively reported today, and took up a large section of the TV news at lunchtime. How do you feel about that?

What is it about these news items that makes them controversial and so all happening on 20th ? What am I missing here 🤔

In the Southport case, it's reasonably clear OP wants to be able to blame it on Moslems and/or immigrants, and therefore made out the government was in on some dastardly plot to keep the trial quiet because it would come out that the perpetrator was both. Which of course hasn't happened anyway.

OP has disappeared