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Nick Diable

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UK based criminal defence lawyer

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I had no idea coke owned Costa, although it does make sense why Costa is the worst coffee shop on the high street.

23.08.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farage is no patriot. Patriots don't go abroad to tell lies about the country they love.

Farage hates our country, and everything it stands for.

23.08.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules

23.08.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 8

People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.

β€’ Abu Hamza
β€’ Abdullah el-Faisal
β€’ Lucy Connolly

Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.

23.08.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 752    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

🀬 Woman who admitted incitement to violence and racism on Social Media and in Court was jailed for 2.5 years.

Gets released early and British TV and media repeating what she said originally, give her prime spot on TV.

Britain wonders why they have a problem which every day is getting more extreme?

23.08.2025 07:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1892    πŸ” 446    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 22
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Allison Pearson never apologised for claiming that Omar Salem, the man with a sick daughter who confronted Boris Johnson at Whipps Cross hospital, was wearing a microphone. (Sep 2019)

Eye witnesses, photographs and audio of the exchange, proved conclusively he wasn't.

fullfact.org/online/omar-...

23.08.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Hang on a minute. What happened to all the yanks telling us Brits that this sort of thing meant we have no freedom of speech or something like that?? Turns out they're doing exactly the same thing!!

23.08.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These people need to answer a lot of questions. First, how did they find a bank branch?? Second, how did they know the exact five minutes it would be open today??

23.08.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't vote for Labour and I'm not very impressed by them so far. But, they're far better than the corrupt incompetents they replaced. Pretending they aren't is just bizarre.

23.08.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lucy Connolly tried to claim in her appeal that she didn’t know what a guilty plea would mean.

Her first lawyer brought *comprehensive* receipts demonstrating that wasn’t true. As Sunder says, she’s repeating claims a court very clearly found to be false.

23.08.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 307    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

She'll be standing as a Reform candidate at the earliest opportunity.

23.08.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we can accept Judge Inman has been proven entirely correct on the lack of insight.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

23.08.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

So Nigel Farage’s β€˜new’ plan is in fact… Rishi Sunak’s old plan - which was exactly what caused the explosion in use of asylum hotels in the first place.

23.08.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 602    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 7

All being protected by the same police they were attacking during their riots last year.

23.08.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"We are Bristol! who are you? We are many, you are few!"

Around 40 fascists surrounded by hundreds of counterprotesters

23.08.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

22.08.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2156    πŸ” 574    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 8
Xmas wreaths in a garden centre

Xmas wreaths in a garden centre

No

Just…NO!!

23.08.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 0

Our local garden centre usually gets Xmas stuff out in July!!! I've not been there this year so I don't know if they've done it again but they have every other year. I can't work out why anyone thinks this is sensible.

23.08.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We need to learn from Australia.

23.08.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think it's defamatory to state an opinion that you think someone is in the wrong. Even if it were, it doesn't damage her reputation since we can all see it's a moronic and simply wrong opinion.

23.08.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You just know that this woman - who called for asylum seekers to be burned to death & accepted that made her a racist - is going to be a Reform candidate at the next election.

23.08.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death

23.08.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1128    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 18

Farage? Jenrick was out with a nazi the other day. He looks a lot more like Nick Griffin to me. Mind you, Farage is pretty Griffin-y himself.

23.08.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at Epping anti-refugee protest Robert Jenrick pictured with Eddy Butler, former member of Nazi terror group Combat 18 EXCLUSIVE Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has attended a

Genuinely baffled as to what Bertie Jenrick would have to do for any of the one in ten Tory MPs from an ethnic minority to go β€œsteady on”. Turn up at their house in a Klan robe?

23.08.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 804    πŸ” 240    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 9

I see Farage is pretty much parroting the National Front/BNP's old line of "send 'em back where they came from". I really worry about the future of this country when this stuff doesn't exclude them from mainstream politics.

23.08.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excel Parking firm pays Β£10,240 after losing court appeal Excel Parking loses a court case against 22-year-old Hannah Robinson for a second time.

"When contacted by the BBC, Excel still insisted Miss Robinson was in the wrong".

No she isn't - you are, which is why courts keep telling you that you're wrong!! Idiots.

BBC News - Excel Parking firm pays Β£10,240 after losing court appeal - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

23.08.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In what circumstances can the crown appeal a not guilty verdict there?

22.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The sheer, crass, dangerous stupidity of parroting the nationalist right’s narratives again on display here. It is absolutely not a matter of democracy that the judiciary does as the government says. It is the total opposite. Without an independent judiciary there is no democracy.

22.08.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics

22.08.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5948    πŸ” 1273    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 68
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Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at Epping anti-refugee protest Robert Jenrick pictured with Eddy Butler, former member of Nazi terror group Combat 18 EXCLUSIVE Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has attended a

On Sunday evening, Robert Jenrick proudly attended a xenophobic rally in Epping involving Callum Barker of neo-Nazi group Homeland.
Also in attendance: dedicated follower of fascism, Eddy Butler (BNP, Combat 18, For Britain)

Butler later posted: β€œAt the Bell Hotel riding shotgun for Robert Jenrick"

18.08.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

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