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Steve Kinnock has campaigned against the Tories in Port Talbot, and to preserve the Winter Fuel Allowance. Steve, as you mention in this campaign clip, you know that removing it will impact 10,000 of your most vulnerable constituents, so why did you vote against them on Tuesday?
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A little girl was leaning into a lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, all under the eyes of her screaming parents:
A biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.
Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.
A BBC reporter, Laura Kuenssberg, had watched the whole event.
Laura, addressing the Harley rider says. "Sir, this was the most gallant and bravest thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.”
The Harley rider replies. "Why, it was nothing, really. The lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.”
Miss Kuenssberg. "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a BBC journalist, you know and tomorrow's news will run this story. So, what do you do for a living, and what political affiliation do you have?”
The biker replies. "I'm a British Army veteran, a Conservative and I voted for Brexit.”
The journalist leaves.
The following morning the biker turns on BBC News to see if it indeed brings news of his actions.
BBC Headline: RIGHT WING UK VETERAN ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH.
And THAT pretty much sums up the fucking BBC's approach to the news these days....
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It would be a terrible shame if this was widely shared.
Magistrates’ courts could grind to a halt if thousands of motorists exploit a legal loophole unwittingly exposed by a Welsh driver.
Magistrates had no choice but to find Phillip Dennis, of Whitford, Flintshire, not guilty of speeding when his case was heard on Thursday.
He had omitted to sign the standard form which is sent to the owner of each vehicle caught by a speed camera – and Mold magistrates said they couldn’t accept the form as evidence.
Police have no power to compel car owners to sign the form and have been expecting someone to spot the loophole.
Yesterday the Association of British Drivers, representing about 2,500 motorists, predicted drivers would soon get wind of the court case.
“Motorists are always very quick to seek any way to avoid paying for their speeding ticket, particularly when they’ve been caught by cameras because they resent very much the way the cameras operate,” said spokesman Tony Vickers.
“The cameras have very much reduced public respect for the police and local authorities.
“People are only too glad to find a way to beat the system.”
He said motorists who receive a speeding ticket after being caught on camera could opt to have their case heard in court, rather than pay the fine without quibble.
“If a lot of people take up this option it will have another side-effect, which will be to clog up the magistrates’ courts with hundreds or thousands of motorists all trying to avoid paying the fine.
“The implications for the legal system are interesting, to say the least.”
Although the ABD did not condone breaking the highway laws, it said it would place details of the loophole on its own website for other drivers to read.
“I’m sure a lot of people will try it on and see whether it gets them anywhere.”
The prospect of using the loophole could look especially appealing to people who already had endorsements on their licences, said Mr Vickers.
“They should bear in mind that if they fail, they will end up paying the full fine rather than the 50% they would pay if they put their hand up.”
When a police camera takes a photograph of a speeding vehicle, the vehicle’s registered owner is sent a form asking who the driver was at the time.
It is an offence not to complete the form and name the driver – but the owner does not have to sign it.
If the form has not been signed, the courts cannot take any notice of it.
Magistrates in Mold were asked to prove a case of speeding against Phillip Dennis, 34, of Gwibnant Farm, Downing Road, Whitford, near Holywell.
But clerk Paul Conlon pointed out that the form naming the defendant as the driver was unsigned.
The driver had provided the information required of him but there was no requirement under that section of the law for the form to be signed.
Magistrates said they were not happy but had to find the defendant not guilty in his absence.
Chairman John Beard suggested the police should go back to defendants and ask them to sign the form.
But he was advised that as the law now stood the only requirement was to stipulate the name of the driver, and that there was no legal requirement to sign it even if police did go back and request a signature.
Nobody was available from North Wales Police to comment yesterday.
But one police source said there had been concern that once the loophole was spotted “it could open the flood gates.”
He said, “The police generally have been waiting for someone to appeal against a conviction on this point but no one has yet.
“We have basically been keeping our heads down.
“Some of my colleagues say we should just make sure people sign the forms but others are a bit concerned that to do that is tricking people into something they do not have to do.
“The trouble is when this is highlighted they will all be sending the forms back unsigned.”
RoadPeace, the charity for road-accident victims, said the loophole showed that cameras and computers were no substitute for a police presence on the roads.
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Dearest readers of Westminster and beyond…
Let me tell you today a few facts that you may not know about Keir Starmer’s right hand woman, Sue Gray and a little favour she asked for during the party gate inquiry and how that changed everything. I will post the second part to this letter this evening as there is so much more to write…who escaped Gray’s ire and why and to come over following tweets…The story of the MP who ran gay sex orgies for straight MPs and journos. I have all the names, really, your constituents expected better of you in Westminster.
The MP with the secret landline, who called it and why.
I do this in an effort to ensure my party cleans up its act in future if it ever wants to govern again.
Sue Gray is a close ally of Gove and it was Gove and those allies in No10 who insisted that it should be Gray who wrote the party gate report. The same people who are today running Badenoch’s campaign.
Of course, Gray always denied that she had a secret agenda to topple the Prime Minister (Johnson) but the circumstantial evidence to the contrary is now overwhelming. First, she lulled him into a false sense of security – just as she told all witnesses who contributed to the Gray report untruthfully, as it turned out, that they would not face any penalty as a result of what they said or the information they gave her.
Time after time, she came in to see Boris to inform him about the progress of her inquiry.
She repeatedly told him that she did not think there was anything to justify police involvement. She stressed that she had found absolutely no evidence or heard any testimony that suggested Boris knew about any rule-breaking.
She gave the firm impression, in fact, that she thought it was all a fuss about nothing.
However, on their second meeting she said suddenly: ‘Once this is all over, I hope you will make me Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland office, Prime Minister.’
Unclear what was happening, an amazed Boris thought he was being offered a fudge –and pretended he had not heard.
It was only later he discovered that Gray had been turned down for the job – blocked, possibly, by Simon Case, which one can assume is where her own particular renowned dislike of Case began. After this meeting things turned nasty and her report eventually declared that she had heard about events that really should not have taken place. None of which, of course, were known to Boris Johnson.
In the transcripts of her interviews she can be seen asking witnesses if the PM had any knowledge of gatherings, even when the question seems totally irrelevant, as though trying to drag Boris in. The witnesses always said no. It cannot be stated often enough, Boris Johnson was as surprised as everyone else to learn that so-called parties had taken place in No10 when he had left Downing Street for his official residence, at Chequers.
The Met police investigation fined him for being behind the desk he had sat behind all day as they fined Rishi who walked up to the desk.
Never let it be forgotten that Sue Gray was herself in 2017 described as the ‘woman who runs the country’. Her role in the Cabinet Office as DirectorGeneral of the Propriety and Ethics team who reported directly to the Cabinet Secretary, had a wide-ranging remit over the operation of ministerial offices, public appointments and government ethics. A close friend of Gove, she had advised him in 2011 that conducting government business via his private email would make such emails exempt from freedom of information requests. Absurd advice which was investigated following complaints bythe information commissioner and overturned.
As a Government ethics tsar, she had never previously been hostile to the occasional workplace relaxation, as can be seen in the photographs of her using the very karaoke machine she later complained about in her report. Boris Johnson, of course, had no idea of the machine’s existence.
More tonight…
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🚨🇬🇧 “Why are you refusing to let me withdraw my OWN money”
In the UK banks are now refusing large individual cash withdrawals.
There will be a run on the banks & simple fact of the matter is - THEY DONT HAVE YOUR MONEY.
Have you tried recently to withdraw more than £2,000 cash lately?
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Good people can only take so much abuse! Then💥
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Video is a staged prank from 2015 by Trollstation. This was not one of the royal guards. His uniform is not correct. And this stunt took place in several locations.
reuters.com/article/idUSKB…
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LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THESE BINS FULL OF HEALTHY FOOD BEING THROWN AWAY AT AN IMMIGRANT HOTEL
Whilst everyone is struggling with the cost of living and can't afford 3 meals a day, the Holiday Inn Heathrow which is housing illegal migrants is throwing £1000s of pounds worth of food away weekly
This is just a 2 minute clip of what's happening at these hotels up and down the country whilst we all struggle
SEEN ENOUGH YET?
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Will this go VIRAL?
Absolutely brilliant and accurate statement about the WEF and it’s mad leadership.
@Nigel_Farage @charliekirk11
@GBNEWS @mrmarkdolan
teapawt.net/ScottyGoesAgain/status…
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Follow these guidelines
If you want to stop the government from being able to access your phone from the 23 April
iPhone :
Settings
Notifications
Scroll down to the bottom
Turn off extreme and severe alerts
Android :
Settings
Notifications
Advanced settings
Wireless emergency alerts
Turn off extreme and severe alerts
What they haven’t told you is they have to have permission to access your phone and in the latest updates it was written into the small print that there will be access to these notifications and by turning them on you are accepting that by receiving them you are in turn allowing access to your mobile device
Turn them off now
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Dennis Waterman, star of TV shows Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks, has died aged 74, his family says bbc.in/3wag2fT
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The United 'Pingdom' has been brought to its knees by a tyrannical government. The People have a right to be angry. The elderly have been emotionally abused, families torn apart, businesses destroyed, job loss massive, emergency surgeries cancelled, suicides through the roof..
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Everyone should know the international sign for Help me. Let’s make this famous #HelpMe
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A friend has sent me this seen as I don’t watch the bbc!
The government is fixing the numbers! #covid
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Woke kids are a product of a generation of parents who wanted to be liked instead of preparing their children for the real world.
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This man reported his 5-year-old-son missing after his ex-partner stopped him seeing him.
What happened next is unbelievable… #ReportedMissing
