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    End of jury trials?

    Especially decisions that aren’t challenged because the accused isn’t properly represented because of cuts
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    End of jury trials?

    Like conscription, state controlled media, people who are more right wing than you falling off high buildings, asylum policies, freedom of speech, no effective opposition Come off it, not even your missus would agree with that. Mind you re form haven’t been elected yet.
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    End of jury trials?

    Clive Ponting? Serious complex cases like financial fraud are arguably better dealt with by judges sitting alone Judges listen without deciding, magistrates decide without listening goes the old saying, Because the bureaucracy is still there, that said they are talking about two lay members...
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    The joke thread.

    What’s the difference between a tortoise and a turtle? One is a slow moving herbivorous land mammal that lives in a domed shell. The other is what you get when you add up a bill in Hull
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    What's the monarchy for?

    It symbolizes the old Empire and our quaint class structure. But the economic power of the aristocracy no longer exists. Amazon is the new God. The press want to control the monarchy, not destroy it, but the institution as we know it changed forever after Her Majesty passed. It retains some...
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    End of jury trials?

    The general view is that with the backlog in cases MPs on both sides will vote for the changes. But how will an establishment judge find the courage to say not guilty to someone brought to court on a blatantly political charge. In other words some juries deliver not guilty verdicts despite the...
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    Reform has a Russia problem

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/02/ukraine-war-live-trump-peace-deal-witkoff-to-meet-putin
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    Reform has a Russia problem

    Re form’s favourite peace monger saying it as it is
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    Gormless Gullis joins Tory 2.0 party

    Big neo con Christian influence in our right wing parties. The latest wheeze is that JC never mentions equality once in the bible
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    The Christmas thread....

    Don’t you mean the rational patriots? MC
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    Looks like they've found a sacrificial lamb/scape goat for Rachel.

    The good old GB news poll. Still if Sooty can become a member of the magic circle anything’s possible
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    Looks like they've found a sacrificial lamb/scape goat for Rachel.

    Trusk Nige and Trumpf seem share a view that politics overrides economics, which works fine if your Russsian but tends to make shi te of things if you claim to be a free marketeer. I don’t want the country lead by someone who believes motorway congestion is caused by migration
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    Looks like they've found a sacrificial lamb/scape goat for Rachel.

    The city and the markets trust them more which is what counts.
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    Looks like they've found a sacrificial lamb/scape goat for Rachel.

    Rache got rid of the OBR boss, but the OBR boss got rid of Liz T, the PM whose chancellor didn't bother to ask for financial forecasts before the mini budget because she knew the answer they would get. Expect Far age to dismantle the OBR if he ever gets near the levers of power.
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    I did when renovating a kitchen floor
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    Identify and remove the source of the leak first and let the floor dry out. Then screed and level on top of the dpm making sure it laps the wall dpc.
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    What on earth is this?

    It’s the ideal Xmas present for a diyer who has everything
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    Numbers in pictures game.

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    Greedy grasping Labour MP on the run.

    The whole process from charging to trial to conviction had the hallmarks of justice Trumpf style
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