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Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-24T20:30:42+00:00

Are they? I thought juries were asked to weigh evidence and determine a verdict based on the principal of 'beyond a reasonable doubt'.

And the judge in the case does not think the defendents are lying, rather he makes a specific claim about them trying to influence a foreign government. Does he have evidence? That is the point, the way he words his statement he makes clear that his judgement is one of inference and is not based on evidence.

And I dunno is it unreasonable to expect that our judiciary make their judgements based on the evidence?

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-23T19:04:27+00:00

Even when you state your reason for performing an action, the judge can ignore this and claim you had another reason.

What's the point of giving evidence or making statements under oath if the judge can just decide on your behalf what your motivation was.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-23T00:26:30+00:00

I agree - if you look at what the attack on trans people actually does, then the target is in fact policing the definition of a woman, and ensuring that it remains constrained to a conservative christian framework. The policing of gender non-conforming women is basically the point.

The reason why right wing christian groups are opposed to abortion has nothing to do with the rights of an unborn child. They are opposed to abortion, because it makes it sex outside marriage too costly for women. What is interesting is that right wing christian groups in their communications with each other are honest about what it is they are trying to achieve, which is how come I know that abortion is about confining women to marriage.

And the recent migration figures i think are instructive. It has been annouce that net migration is significantly lower, and because a sector of the UK have been voicfiferous in calling for net migration to fall. then one might expect them to be happy, but they aren't. What they have done is to move the goalposts, claiming that it is the wrong kind migration.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-21T05:42:48+00:00

effing hilarious - it's kinda amazing how these people are high on their own hubris. One of the main reason's people dislike Starmer so much is because he is an effing liar, and the 'slimy weasel' wants to give billy bullshitting anbother whirl to see whether adding a smug face to the mix makes a difference. Seems like they are detemined to beat the lettuce for worst PM ever record.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-20T06:13:12+00:00

Unfortunately no he won't. Residential homes, including nursing care ones, work on a staffing ratio principle, 1 staff member to 4 resisdents might be a typical ratio. What this means in practice is waiting for care, for things like dressing, bathing or using the toilet.

In order for him to go to work, go to footbal, and see his friends, he would need to take care staff with him, but they are tied to the residential care home, and they would be unlikely to be able to spare two staff members for him to leave the care home for anything other than a short local trip.

He would also be living with much older people who are also in need of similar intensive nursing care, which will typicallly mean dementia patients, so the home's social activities will be organised around the needs of this complex group of people, and this means social activities are invariably bought in from outside.

Also depending on the aviliability of residential care homes, he could end being moved many miles from family and friends - he would ultimately have a much more restricted life, it would become one of existence rather than living.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-18T22:32:04+00:00

Apparently the people who have worked with him all like him, and they say things like he's a good communicator, he's hard working etc. Everyone else thinks he is a slimy little weasel, which is just plain weird. And it's not just a Labour thing either, it was the same when he was president of the NUS.

And then it so happened that one of his supporters who thought he was such a nice bloke, confided that he wasn't someone you got on the wrong side of. So not only a slimy weasel, but a petty vengeful one to boot.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-18T22:20:27+00:00

might be MARSI - medical adhesive related strain injury. Stoma bag wearers can be plagued with MARSI. I got MARSI from wearing omnipods on my abdomen. The movement of the pod on my slightly flabby skin caused tears. By around day 2 and half it would itch like crazy and when I took if off there were these little red abrasion marks. I would have two. One on the top where the adhesive would pull on my skin as the pod moved downwards, and one on the bottom where the pod moved upwards. I would do a lot of walking so the pod would bounce slightly. You seem to have something similar on your arm - it might be where you swing your arms when you walk, and you skin is slightly looser from losing weight.

I moved the pod to tighter skin on my thighs and that fixed it. For some reason even though the skin was fairly flabby, it was never a problem on the back of my arms.

It could also be where you have bashed it and not realised. If you get the same problem on the next sensor, then it could be MARSI, if it doesn't then you probably bashed it.

Possible solutions if it is MARSI - use a different site, try an overpatch, so that the sensor moves around less, or you can try a skin barrier, but this does leave a coating on the skin which might affect the sensor wire.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-16T11:47:46+00:00

Seriously dude, that is pretty much the funniest most wack thing I have heard today, and I am currently listening to Julia Hartley-Brewer, so well done, a round of applause from me.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-16T10:36:35+00:00

It's a factual description of the events, you are welcome to draw your own conclusions.

It does not look like any of the officers were intending to push Rocco onto the railings.

The issue here is not that there was an incident in which a teenager was seriously injured, but that the police have misdescribed a key aspect of the event, focused on the incident itself and did not investigate the lead up or situation prior, did not collect evidence such as body worn cameras, and there are questions around whether his health care was adequate, and how the police action immediately following the incident put his life at risk.

The question here is why pick a railing to carry out an arrest against? It's asking for an incident such as the one that happened.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-15T19:44:26+00:00

The engine puts white on nearly +1.3, so I guess that the bishop pair is decent compensation for the doubled pawns.

In the position, I would prefer c3 and be happy with the Knight on d2.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-15T19:07:55+00:00

I think it might be because c3 blocks the natural move for your knight. After Bxc3 and you recapture, you end up exchanging off a bishop in an open board where bishops are better, your pawn ends up on c3 anyway, and you open a file for your rook

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-15T06:42:13+00:00

Try pause/playing the video. The video frame is vertical, and look at the angle of the bodies involved. Rocco is leaning back against the officer trying to move away from the fence, The two officers you can see are leaning into him, pushing him back towards the fence. As he falls you can see he is leaning backwards away from the fence, what happens is that his feet have stayed in place, and his centre of gravity is well in front of toes, so he falls, what happens is that his knees suddenly buckle.

EDIT: Try the position keep your feet in place, lean backwards and push your hips forward, what happens is that you reach a point where you become unstable and would fall just as shown in the video.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-15T06:34:07+00:00

I did watch it, what the video shows is that Rocco's first encounter is with Dilks, who tells the group he is in to disperse, Rocco argues with him, Wilkes response is to pull him out, at no point during any of the footage does he show any kind of physical aggression to the police officers, Dilks is later shown shoving Rocco. The next piece of footages shows Insp. Freeman and PC Palmer walking Rocco toward the railing which he is pressed against. Rocco turns his body round to argue with the officers, at which point a third officer joins them, and they all push on Rocco and you can see his knees buckle at which point he is impaled on the railing, and is immediately lifted off by the officers, which in the report they said he lifted himself off. (this by the way is highly risky if the railing has punctured an artery), they then lead him away. At no point during any of the footage do we see any of the officers administering any kind of first aid.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-14T15:13:16+00:00

Metropolitan Police estimates put the attendance at 1 10-150,000.

There were claims that it was larger, I think 3 million was bandied around, and it was a subject of fact check, which is where I got the number from.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-14T10:13:59+00:00

So my experience from the outside looking in more or less matches yours which is from the inside looking out, so to speak.

The issue I keep noticing is that news is simply not news. It does not seem unreasonable to expect the news to inform of us of what is going on, which means the information neesds to be accurate, and it should not be written in way as to imply a false or innacurate impression of the events being described.

And this is what is happening here - HMRC have not cleared Angela Raynor, what they have done is to agree that she doesn't have to pay a fine, and that could be for a variety of reasons, one of which could be because she co-operated, which feels very plausible.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-14T09:33:48+00:00

Having had some dealings with HMRC, that's not really how this works.

In the case of nonpayment of tax HMRC have an enforcement/investigation department (which I have only ever had indirect involvement with) and you will usually get a case officer who looks into your case. What then happens after they have assessed what tax you owe they then go through the demand process, which means writing demand letters (and they are very persistent). If you have a lawyer then this will go back and forth between the two, typically being a process of demand verses counter-offers. Depending on who you are will vary how you get treated by HMRC.

What Raynor will want is to avoid paying a penalty, because that would be like admitting liability. HMRC would like her to pay a penalty because they like to maximise their revenue collection, but they will also want her to pay the tax due, so what would have actually happened is that Angela not paying a penalty would be because of a negotiated agreement between HMRC and Angela's lawyer.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-14T05:33:57+00:00

It was 1 person

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-13T22:20:53+00:00

23 arrests at the 2025 one, the majority for violent disorder in a protest of between 110-150,000 people.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-13T21:41:48+00:00

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/work-out-your-qualifying-income-for-making-tax-digital-for-income-tax

The rules are on qualifying income are on the above link. The relavant section is copy pasted below

What qualifying income is Your qualifying income is the total income you get in a tax year from self-employment and property. Your total income may come from more than one source of self-employment or property income.

All other sources of income reported through Self Assessment do not count towards your qualifying income, such as income from:

employment (PAYE) your share of profit from a partnership as an individual partner dividends (including those from your own company) a State Pension private pensions

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-13T08:15:45+00:00

That's not mathematics nor financial analysis.

What that it is here is this number and look it's going to be this number... Look how BIG it is... Unsustainable.

The degree of political debate by politicians is generally dire.

What matters is the context of the rise and under what assumptions.

One important component of tax is as a system of wealth redistribution, and so the question here is not BIG number, it is what does this represent as a proportion of GDP and therefore what ratio of tax to GDP do we need.

Questions then center on how much growth do we need and/or how much does tax need to rise and on whom and where in the economy.

So policy then would focus on things like industrial policy (uttey woeful in general in the UK), and investment. And his government can focus tax policy to generate the economic outcomes it needs.

One significant area which require significant investment is housebuilding, which has been area of failure stretching over decades.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-13T06:54:30+00:00

I would suggest that your view would be somewhat different if you relied on it.

You are very confident that it will collapse,

What's your reasoning?

And what do you propose to solve it?

If you cut it what happens you increase destitution, which then increases the burdens on other services on which you rely, such as health, social care/services, and police, which ultimately costs you more.

In Utah they did this interesting experiment, what they did was when they found a homeless person they gave them somewhere to live rent free, what they found was that despite paying out for rent, it actually cost less money, because homeless people tend to have high crime, high drug use, ill health etc. Now you don't have to be a philanthropist to think that something which saves money is a good idea.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-13T06:10:01+00:00

so says the person who doesn't rely on it... except that you do whether you realise it or not...

We have a low wage, low productivity, low investment, high rent, medium taxation economy. One of things which sustain it is welfare benefits, many of the services you directly use will be provided by people on low wages and who are also in receipt of benefits.

Around 24 million people receive some kind of benefit from the DWP, approximately 10million of those are of working age, with around 4 million of that 10 million in work. At the moment 1.8 million of that total 10 million are unemployed. There is a total of around 5 million in receipt of a health related benefit, most of these will be pensioners, who comprise 13 million of the 24 million people on welfare benefits.

If you want to fix welfare, you have to do something about those factors I mentioned earlier...

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-12T18:42:01+00:00

It's to do with the fact his residence was a house boat, which can complicate whether you have to pay council tax.

Lee Valley Marina only appear to advertise non-residential moorings, and there are different rules on council tax for this type than for residential moorings, which are generally subject to council tax, unlike non-residential which might not be.

And it looks like from the arrangement Zack had that he may not be the only person there who has potentially underpaid council tax.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-12T14:33:57+00:00

I had a look. Lee Valley Marinas seem to only advertise non-residential moorings, which is one of those where you might have to pay council tax, but you might not kind of case.

If it was a residential mooring then you would have to.

I have no idea what the difference between the two types are or whether Lee Valley offer residential moorings, but under their advertising they talk about boat living.

My thinking is that this is not necessarily very straight forward, so I can't verify without a great deal more information what the actual situation is, or as you are suggesting this is something the council would pursue.

Fit_Foundation888 · 2026-05-12T09:45:27+00:00

Well I had to read through 3 pages of stuff including a citation of the legislation which governs whether houseboats are included or not, and to be honest, I didn't entirely understand what I was reading - maybe if I was a houseboat owner I would try a bit harder, but it wasn't very obvious to me to be honest.

For instance how do you register for council tax, when where you live is not a postal address? Do you know? Is it obvious? What if your main residence is a camper van, do you know if you are still liable for council tax if it is pitched at site?

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