Heavy handed?

[Nick]

Did he smash up anything?  From what I recall, he was just carrying a bat of some kind, although the media didn't say whether it was a cricket bat or a child's plastic bat.

Was he hoping a game of cricket broke out? 🤦 

[papasmurf]

Smurf you aren't a bad person but you are a cantankerous old sod who  cannot stand ever being told you're wrong..

I've known you a long time and on a forum now long defunct and well over a decade ago you were arguing with another poster about when you could pick truffles and insisted you were right all based on your regular trips to Brittany.

So I contacted the French tourist agency who put their expert on to me who gave me chapter and verse in an email which I put on the thread which you dismissed as all lies .

I have never mentioned truffles on ANY internet forum, because I do not like them. So there is something badly wrong with you memory. (Plus France is not Brittany.) Also there are no  truffles in Brittany it is the wrong area.
Truffles are found in Burgundy, Dordogne, Provence Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comte, and Lorraine.
Britain as a description does not include NI, which is why I used Britain.

[cromwell]

Yes I did, deliberately. That you did not understand my precision is not my problem. My point still stands, tear gas, baton rounds, water cannon have not been used in Britain, (British Mainland by definition.) That is not because police British police do not have access to tear gas and baton rounds, and the riot guns used to deploy them. They do. The L104A1/A2 37mm riot gun is in the possession of many British police forces. 

Smurf you aren't a bad person but you are a cantankerous old sod who  cannot stand ever being told you're wrong..

I've known you a long time and on a forum now long defunct and well over a decade ago you were arguing with another poster about when you could pick truffles and insisted you were right all based on your regular trips to Brittany.

So I contacted the French tourist agency who put their expert on to me who gave me chapter and verse in an email which I put on the thread which you dismissed as all lies .

[papasmurf]

Yeah of course you did

Yes I did, deliberately. That you did not understand my precision is not my problem. My point still stands, tear gas, baton rounds, water cannon have not been used in Britain, (British Mainland by definition.) That is not because police British police do not have access to tear gas and baton rounds, and the riot guns used to deploy them. They do. The  L104A1/A2 37mm riot gun is in the possession of many British police forces.  

[cromwell]

I was not proven wrong you were. I used Britain deliberately as it does not include Northern Ireland.

Yeah of course you did 

[papasmurf]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,I know you love splitting hairs when proved wrong,stands by for an excuse of a post to justify.

I was not proven wrong you were. I used Britain deliberately as it does not include Northern Ireland.

[cromwell]

NI is not Britain.
The UK, Britain, Great Britain, The British Isles, England - what's the difference? (historic-uk.com)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,I know you love splitting hairs when proved wrong,stands by for an excuse of a post to justify.

[Scott777]

I was commenting about anti-vaxxers, whose lies and propaganda was a social menace.
Where you get:- "The jury is still out over whether it did anything at all." you really do need to explain.
More at link:-

Who's eligible for the 2024 COVID-19 vaccine, or 'Spring Booster'? – UK Health Security Agency (blog.gov.uk)

According to World Health Organization data, 400,000 lives in England are estimated to have been saved up to March 2023 due to the COVID-19 vaccine programme.

I bet you didn't even try to investigate this WHO claim, or look at the evidence, did you?  The WHO has a conflict of interest, and therefore biased in favour of vaccination.  You really should look into the claims before you make them.

[Scott777]

One of them from Southport is 69 years old and now in prison for 3 years. Smashing up his own town. Lunacy.

Did he smash up anything?  From what I recall, he was just carrying a bat of some kind, although the media didn't say whether it was a cricket bat or a child's plastic bat.

[Scott777]

No I do not agree he is more authoritarian than the Tories. 

And yet 2-tier Keir was asking for MORE laws to stop protests which he doesn't want to hear.    More than what the Tories were asking for, or enacted.  🤔

[papasmurf]

Can you explain how people who declined Covid jabs were a danger to society?
The reason I ask is because the jabs neither prevented the contraction or transmission of the virus.
The jury is still out over whether it did anything at all.

Regarding proper vaccinations, such as MMR, polio for example, I know that a high take up is good as these proper vaccinations actually prevent people catching the disease.

I was commenting about anti-vaxxers, whose lies and propaganda was a social menace.
Where you get:- "The jury is still out over whether it did anything at all." you really do need to explain.
More at link:-

Who's eligible for the 2024 COVID-19 vaccine, or 'Spring Booster'? – UK Health Security Agency (blog.gov.uk)

According to World Health Organization data, 400,000 lives in England are estimated to have been saved up to March 2023 due to the COVID-19 vaccine programme.

[Barry]

Not at all, I agreed with Starmer then and I still do. Frankly anti-vaxxers are danger to society.

Can you explain how people who declined Covid jabs were a danger to society?
The reason I ask is because the jabs neither prevented the contraction or transmission of the virus.
The jury is still out over whether it did anything at all.

Regarding proper vaccinations, such as MMR, polio for example, I know that a high take up is good as these proper vaccinations actually prevent people catching the disease. 

[papasmurf]

If you include NI that's not true

NI is not Britain.
The UK, Britain, Great Britain, The British Isles, England - what's the difference? (historic-uk.com)

[cromwell]

Quite, in Britain no rioters have been shot, tear gassed and/or had baton rounds fired at them, or had water cannon deployed against them.

If you include NI that's not true

[papasmurf]

As an aside, if Americans are laughing at the UK, they are obviously failing to notice how most of the rest of the world is amused and laughing at the way their weird political and legal systems are unravelling...

Quite, in Britain no rioters have been shot, tear gassed and/or had baton rounds fired at them, or had water cannon deployed against them.