Sean Madden

The US isn't party to the Rome Statute because... *gestures generally across the world*.

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I think other forces have shown greater discretion than the Met, but the point about operational decision-making still stands. They've used austerity to justify prioritisation, but there are always resources for these sorts of operation.

Police say 365 people arrested at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Met officers and other UK forces form ‘significant presence’ in largest protest since group was proscribed as terrorist organisation

Police will constantly complain about resources and then draw officers from forces around the country to arrest hundreds of peaceful protestors.

Yeah, it's a despicable law, but it also emphasises the extent to which policing protects power and not people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

And Villarreal tomorrow...

Today a far right protest is expected to take place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Bristol

Let me be clear: the far right are not welcome in Bristol. They don’t represent us, or what we stand for

But I also want to be clear about what’s driving this wave of unrest...

That's the spirit.

Because it's a *physical impossibility*, Jonn.

And building social housing means not only more choice in where you live but also more chance of owning your own property, because prices would come down, rather than paying for someone else's mortgage.

Councils are struggling because of central government decisions. A massive reduction in the LG precept. Houses are being built now, but by developers. Landlords buy these up, pushing up prices for everyone else. That's money that doesn't circulate in the economy. All these are political choices.

Every solution is wishing the world was different. All of politics is about wanting the world to be different. What's so outrageously unbelievable about the possibility of building more social housing?

That's because of the paucity of social housing, sold off and never replaced. In the 1980s it was much easier to access social housing than now.

GPT also doubling down on BS.

I think suppressed wages over the last decade and a half, and obscene utility costs play a part. Public ownership, more social housing, and wage increases, whilst house price rises slow, might be the best way all-round. But that'll take a long time without some serious - and necessary - pay jumps.

Absolutely. Tinkering around the edges is pointless when we know it's fundamentally indefensible.

But also, sooner we get rid, the sooner people aren't forced to rent because they're priced out of the housing market.

For which there's no incentive whilst a large proportion of MPs are BTL landlords. I think before the last GE it was more than 1 in 5? As a first point of call we need to get rid of this vested interest.

But that isn't the model for BTL. Even if it somehow were, you'd still end up with someone owning the property who's paid none of the mortgage.

I agree we should build more social housing, yes.

How do you take the job and *have* a BTL portfolio?

Surprised at that discussion. Clubs shouldn't be allowed to spend unlimited amounts, but revenue shouldn't be the metric by which it's decided given City & Chelsea have spent 2 decades building revenue unencumbered by rules. Also, if anything, Utd are evidence the virtue of prudence doesn't matter.

'Sudden Acceleration Syndrome'?

Will we ever stop looking for new ways to turn people who kill with their cars into the victim?

Motonormativity is the pathology here, not driver error.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Finally, someone's standing up for the rights of industrial agriculture to destroy the planet while raking in billions in subsidies. Something about knowing where their bread's buttered?

"The path to solving hunger is the thing I'm selling, after buying it with your cash."

Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal

What’s it like to be an asylum seeker inside a hotel where racist mobs chant for your removal outside?

What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country.
Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

Always the anonymous cowards.

People who consider this an issue shouldn't be able to describe themselves as adults.

Or anyone with common sense.

What kind of Labour government criminalises peaceful protest against genocide whilst sympathising with violent neo-nazis? A contemptible, amoral husk of a party.

You can absolutely see why Carla Denyer wouldn't want to tie herself to Adrian Ramsay any longer than necessary.