Views on the world and things in it.
I started writing the blog as a way of keeping track of information when fact checking things and to formulate my thoughts. It is still that, I'm no great writer.
Just playing devils advocate as I really don't know whether in or out will be best for UK as a whole.
So far we have only seen negatives but we haven't actually left yet. Will it get better or worse after we leave, well even Rees Moog thinks it'll take some time before we see the benefits??
So if the UK had a vote to go parachuting, never been done before, but you'd all been told everything will be OK parachutes are all tested and checked there will be no problems and better still everyone will benefit financially from doing the jump ....
3 years later The day of the jump comes but you've now got other information to hand, the parachutes ain't checked, they were never tested and there is conflicting information as to whether they will work or everyone will gain out of doing it. People are saying we had a democratic vote we should all still jump .....
To reiterate.....
The parachutes ain't checked.
They were never tested.
There is conflicting information as to whether they will work.
There is conflicting information that everyone will gain out of doing it.
Your life is now on the line ...Would you still jump?
I can’t believe it, how this story of a person being forcibly ejected from somewhere they shouldn't be has been spun into some sort of violence against women project and I cant believe Im defending a Tory but hey ho.
Bearing in mind that I’m a lefty and have no love for
Tory policies, however I don’t agree with people throwing stuff over politicians nor
do I agree with them being knifed and killed, nor do I agree with terrorists
blowing people up nor do I agree with domestic abuse or intimidation. Now having got that out of the way.
Under the Criminal
Justice and Immigration Act 2008, people can use "reasonable force"
in self-defence, to defend someone else, to prevent a crime or to assist in the
arrest of someone.
The law says you do
not have to wait until someone is attacked: Fear of attack or fear that someone
else could be attacked may be sufficient.
How much force is
reasonable comes down to the circumstances of each case.
So Let’s stick to the facts shall we.
Was this person in a place they should have been = NO
Did mark Field seek out this person with the intention of using violence or intimidation = NO
Do we live in unprecedented times with regards to terrorists = YES
Is our security alert status at one of the highest levels = YES
Could this person have been carrying a knife = YES
Could this person have been carrying a bomb = YES
Could this person have been carrying an acid spray = YES
Was the person injured, whilst being removed = NO
If they weren’t injured was there an inappropriate use of force = NO
Do we each have a responsibility to not put ourselves in harm’s way = YES
If you study the video you can see in the first few seconds
Field is struggling with where to put his hands.
"Yes but everyone knows that Greenpeace are peaceful
protesters"…. sorry unfortunately these days it only takes one crank to decide
to change that.
Many are jumping on the band wagon trying to insinuate this
is similar to domestic abuse. It’s not, whilst domestic abuse is abhorrent this
is a totally different situation for the 10 reasons I’ve listed above. It’s
actually insulting to victims of domestic abuse to suggest that it’s similar.
The rest of the protesters were ejected in a similar
forceful manner, nothing being said about them.
At the end of the day none of the protestors were injured,
this is all about publicity which they achieved and now others are jumping on
the publicity bandwagon.
At the end of the day the question "was reasonable force used" can only really be answered in a court. As no one is pressing charges that wont happen.
SOAPBOX OPINION
No one was injured therefore reasonable force was used.
The person shouldn't have been there and certainly shouldn't have been trying to approach the main table.
SOAPBOX UPDATE
Some people have suggested that the protester was walking slowly handing out leaflets.
This is plainly not true as the person is walking quite quickly and definitely not handing out leaflets.
Fields spots the person at the last moment and puts out arm to stop them. Protester continues to try and force their way through.
Fields responds with force to stop them and marches them out.
Ill reiterate again No one was injured therefore reasonable force was used.
I know ....lets vote in someone who was member of a club that thinks fcuking pigs heads and burning £50 notes in front of homeless people is good sport. Great idea sounds like the perfect candidate..... Oh he's also been sacked twice for lying and has a history of misinformation you could list on a bog roll ..... Great even better sounds perfect ....... ....and he's going to give us all a tax cut ...well not all ...just ..you know ...US
Thought id do a little checking on this meme from 2016 doing the rounds again I'll give it 3 out of 6 that are provablyfactually correct.
1. Donald Trump sheltered Jennifer Hudson rent free after her family was murdered.
POSSIBLY TRUE:As the reports stem from the man himself in comments made to Peoples Magazine its difficult to know the truth. Many media reports say that he did but hudson has never, as far as I can tell, confirmed or denied it.
2. Donald Trump sued the city of palm beach when he bought a segregated club, Mar A Lago, to open it to Jews and Blacks.
NOT TRUE: Half truths and misinformation worded to throw a different moralistic light on a situation. However if we go by the actual statement that Trump bought a segregated club to open it to Jews and Blacks. He didn't. When he bought it in 1985 it was an estate and not a club. It wasn't until over 5 years later that Trump moved to change the property into a private club in the 90s. So did he buy a segregated club to open it to Jews and Blacks - NO
3. Donald Trump paid to ensure a Mexican American boy would graduate from college when he saw a news story about his terminally ill Mom.
NOT TRUE: Trump was a financial partner in Fundanything.com whist Trump promoted the boys plight via twitter after meeting Melisa Young 2005 Miss Wisconsin. He never paid any money himself and the money was crowd funded via fundanything.com. The crowd funding page was started by Chelsea Cooley AltmanMiss USA 2005.
4. Donald Trump dispatched his plane to fly a sick jewish boy for special care when he heard no airline would accommodate his medical equipment.
