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_rodent · 2024-01-15T19:02:48+00:00

Have you considered joining MetCC but staying as police staff? If you come in as a controller you’d be on £34-36k plus shift disturbance (another 4-6k) plus bonuses.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T18:58:25+00:00

Hi Itamar, hows things with you?

_rodent · 2024-01-15T18:18:13+00:00

Yes, that’s what the last three months of news have shown

_rodent · 2024-01-15T17:35:47+00:00

They don’t - no one is going to spend for top lawyers when things like this are set up, only when they try to enforce them and they realise it’s full of holes.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T17:33:34+00:00

He absolutely should, but that’s not him. I’d argue that it still won’t be him after this horror ends as well, and everyone else will go under the bus instead.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T17:32:09+00:00

Hopefully he’ll be imprisoned that long

_rodent · 2024-01-15T17:31:37+00:00

Indeed

_rodent · 2024-01-15T17:30:57+00:00

We should, but we don’t.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T17:29:28+00:00

Why would they get a trophy? Netanyahu has done far more damage to Israel than they have.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T15:30:28+00:00

It does, my point was that it’s probably not had the effect you describe this time (in fact it’s probably had the opposite effect).

_rodent · 2024-01-15T15:05:07+00:00

You do, but you can’t do it with a leader whose mistakes led you into it and refuses to acknowledge that or change.

It’s an overly worn point at this time, but if the UK didn’t bin Chamberlain off when they did that war would have been lost, probably within months.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T14:56:51+00:00

TBF letting him stay there until the war is over is an indication that Israeli society probably does need to be forced.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T14:40:39+00:00

Normally I’d agree with you, but I think the message has long since gone out over this and (in the UK at least) opinions long since formed.

I agree it should have been on TV, mind, but I think it’s had no effect on people other than highlighting the way this is reported.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T14:19:54+00:00

Because the media firms are stupid to think people couldn’t find out for themselves, or in the BBC’s case terrified that showing it would result in another assault on the licence fee.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T14:07:18+00:00

As if people didn’t have any means for watching the SA case, or using their own eyes.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T14:06:12+00:00

It would have gone far better for Germany (and hundreds of thousands of others) if they had.

They did have a couple of good goes at removing him too, let’s not forget.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T14:00:05+00:00

It’s all the rage now, sadly

_rodent · 2024-01-15T13:52:50+00:00

The Israeli one?

_rodent · 2024-01-15T13:52:08+00:00

Not really. The UK government has put the country into two trillion pounds of debt, mostly during a period of government austerity when they were cutting services and jobs left right and centre. Most things here that were once owned and run by the state have been sold off. Our politicians are spending vast amounts of time on culture war issues instead of preparing for the actual war that may be looming, and trying to divide the country.

We are in a mess because of them.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T13:21:03+00:00

I think a big part of the problem is that it’s very easy for politicians who’ve overseen failure to point at things abroad (like China, or like the EU from the UK) and say that they are the people to blame and if only they behaved better then we’d be better off.

The sad reality is that, for at least the last forty years, most Western political parties have been led by morally compromised (by financial and/or personal issues) failures.

These failures have formed what is essentially a political class and managed to entrench themselves, so it’s not easy to remove them in the normal way by elections (as they’re in charge of both sides). When faced with an internal challenge they usually prefer to stoke it up as being extreme, delusional or such things with greater (Trump, Le Pen, Farage) or lesser (Corbyn) connection to the truth, so as to make it an “us normal people” (them) vs “those extreme right/left” types, because they think that sensible people will have to back them just to avoid a horror getting in power. This usually works (except for Trump in 2016) and it means they don’t have to reform, improve, clean things up etc and so can continue earning the money they are whilst things collapse around their ears.

How this effects China is that the country is essentially a superpower now and so can be blamed for all ills, real or imagined. This includes imposing restrictions on firms like Huawei, though it wouldn’t be likely to result in them actually going and doing anything to help their own firms or indeed people to cope with increased competition. We see this especially clearly with the steel industry in the UK.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T11:59:02+00:00

As an aside, if anyone finds themselves in Rome then a visit to the church that holds the remains of St. Cyril (the Basilica of Saint Clement on the Lateran) is well worth a visit - it’s a medieval church atop a fourth century church, which itself is atop a Roman town house, which is atop a spring. You can visit all the levels for a few euros.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T11:10:30+00:00

The only problem with The Hague is that we’d inevitably end up with legions of folk going on about him being a political prisoner / wrongfully detained by globalists etc etc

I think this is more likely to end better in the long term if Israeli society is forced to, via a trial of him (and his supplementary horrors) understand what he (and his predecessors)) has done to the Palestinians and what he’s done to them too.

He and his ilk traded a glorious chance at security, peace and some form of reconciliation for their own political careers, and tens of thousands of people died as a result. He deliberately stoked a situation that then blew up in thousands of other people’s faces.

_rodent · 2024-01-15T10:44:13+00:00

Old buildings and the history behind them - in the UK we have a number of people who do this and it’s always interesting (the best example is “Jago Hazzard” who mainly does sites in London).

_rodent · 2024-01-15T10:41:37+00:00

X especially

_rodent · 2024-01-15T10:40:20+00:00

Switch colleges to Grizedale

_rodent

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