Gloucester Saint

When they started chucking statues into the harbour at Bristol, yes, I did.

Even for a weak GOP, the prospect of MAGA yobs who attack police officers being rewarded was a step too far.

Albert is a talent worth persevering with. Tom Prest is incredibly frustrating - at least was getting starts earlier in this season but not even getting those in white ball. Had plenty of opportunities too. Might get one year on squad wages which might be the kick up the backside he needs. Or start again at one of the smaller East Midlands counties.

Fair point, we’ve seen a bit more trouble in Springbank when heading through to Swindon Village for shopping but purely anecdotal. None of it is exactly South Bristol, Patchway, St Paul’s or parts of Brum. Cinderford in the Forest is probably the most deprived in Gloucestershire I’ve seen on a smaller scale.

Agree with you on your longer post about the politicisation of the police in all directions. Left, right, Zion/Arab - none of it good. Stephen Lawrence was a watershed, and Henry Nowak should be one as well. No excuse for Robinson and Fox though. Arrest them and throw the book at them.

Should be ok from here, Wood decent, Manny slightly short, Currie and Fuller crap, Dawse very good, on for MOTM with his 50.

Actually, where is Soggy? Haven’t seen him for a few days. Not going to pop up on ITV News lobbing a wheely bin at Laurence Fox is he?

Tabloids have never forgiven him for prosecuting the hacking and Milly Dowler scandals, Coulson going to jail and Mail losing tens of millions defending court cases for its criminal behaviour. He’s clearly crap as PM but the reactions from the newspapers is shite.

Bet a certain poster is having a right old series of wanks at the presence of Tommy in Southampton. Kleenex supplies are low. Robinson and Laurence Fox are revolting cunts though tbf, especially after Mr Nowak asked for his son’s memory not be to used to stir up further hatred and violence. Says everything that a minute’s silence couldn’t even be observed before trouble erupted. Hants Police have shat the bed, and seriously fucked up. But Robinson and Fox don’t give a shit about the murdered young man. It’s all about their sick agenda.

Lowe lives in Withington, circa 20 minutes from here, Radley College educated. Barton, Tredworth, Westgate or Springbank (worse than anything in Gloucester) it is not. Like Farage, has also made a lot of money at the elite banks and hedge funds. Nothing wrong with that but men of the working class they are certainly not.

They’re doing it at an underlying level because their real incomes haven’t gone up since the 2008 crisis, and their high streets are going to rats (literally in parts of the Midlands) because of online shopping and loss of key public services with austerity. They’re getting stirred up in the foreground by culture war rhetoric on social media but the level of unrest around is only seen (Toxteth, Broadwater Farm, Blackbird Leyes) when the economy is in the crapper. They bought a load of BS about Sunlit Uplands and fictional red buses in 2016 when illegal immigration then soared and the boats are a lot more visible than refugees suffocating in lorries (which took off during the pandemic). They weren’t doing it mid-late 80s and pre-2008 because the standard of living was rising. But the examples above and the recent examples are during sharp recessions or times of low/no growth.

Trouble is though, if you are say a Chief Inspector in the Bradford area and you’ve got murders/sexual assaults to solve, being able to have a dialogue with different communities is more likely to solve those serious offences and get more co-operation with people who look like them. And it’s not that long since BBC were undercover in Hendon with trainees making Hitler salutes. Let alone the Stephen Lawrence debacle. We can debate the volume and necessity of the posts (I think it’s slightly too many which could be put into the frontline) but the police racism and corruption of the 1970s, 80s and 90s led to this point. Sadly it’s still going on today https://news.sky.com/story/two-metropolitan-police-officers-guilty-of-gross-misconduct-over-stop-and-search-of-team-gb-athlete-and-her-partner-12992204

MAGA influencers are too busy fighting British Asians in London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v2qyp5pzro Lively by name, lively by nature.

135/5 with 4 to go. Dawson 52 no. 10 an over the aim = 175. Could be competitive.

It’s being used a hate-symbol by the Raise the Colours (it has to be said for balance a very small minority albeit vvocal and visible) lot https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21ev78ng4o https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/raise-the-colours-founder-charged-with-murder/ Of itself, someone having a St George’s or Union Jack on a flagpole in their front garden is not racist nor wrong. But defending them illegally put up on street lamps with extreme violence is.