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naked gunman in Waffle House

Go America!

Is that an indie band?

That link is a reference to the Blue Waffles

Well worth looking up

More here
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/988332144723312641?s=21

questions that require begging fail. who is this nincompoop?

arieh's double fedora profile pic means no one comes out of this looking good.

Labour candidate for Worcester

Fedoras make any neckbeard look good.

The Windrush affair spreads into several related sectors. Data protection:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/23/home-office-data-exemption-sparks-fears-of-renewed-windrush-scandals

On May and Rudd:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/22/government-aware-for-years-that-hostile-environment-hurt-windrush-generation

Voter ID:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/21/identity-checks-election-disenfranchise-ethnic-minorities

I think it's important to link these two things. The experience of the US shows what happens with voter ID.

Probably also privatisation, but I haven't been keeping track of which contractor is doing what there.

Obviously, nobody's resigning over it--only a few deaths and a couple of thousand lives made a misery, so nothing to see here.

One slightly brighter spot in the Tories, as usual, is Sayeeda Warsi:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/22/pressure-grows-on-theresa-may-and-amber-rudd-over-windrush-scandal

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/windrush-immigration-theresa-may/

Hey Stephen Lawrence day got announced on a good day didn't it?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/23/prince-harry-and-meghan-attend-stephen-lawrence-memorial-service

amazing. even when a story has fuck all to do with these overprivileged, tone-deaf shitwipes - there they are, getting that sweet headline action.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/988431486977282048

royalist scum!

Unlikely to be:

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2018/04/selection-mandy-richards-exposes-longterm-problem-how-labour-vets

The Alfie Evans case which has been going on for a while now is pretty horrible all round.

Alfie has serious degenerative brain damage and will not survive without life support, and the doctors have recommended his life support be ended.

His parents disagree but have lost court cases all the way up to the ECHR.

Protesters are now threatening to storm the hospital, other parents of children at Alder Hey are getting upset, and the family are going to try and sue the hospital and the doctors.

It must be unimaginably hard for the parents, but also for the doctors and nurses who are trying to do the right thing and getting harassed on their way to work and threatened with legal action.

It's awful that the hospital's care is the only thing keeping the kid alive, but they're being called murderers for arguing that there is no point prolonging things.

Yeah, horrible situation. But the fact it's got to the point where police have to protect the hospital from the protesters is pretty sickening.

The protesters should be ashamed of themselves, trying to storm a children’s hospital/ morons who should be given a good sticking

You have to wonder what they hoped to achieve once they had made it inside.

Indeed. Fucking morons who think their life has some purpose now they have a cause

Proposed, that’s true. Still batshit insane.

twitch

The local place for terminally ill children is claire house its a centre of excellence as is the hospice on the other side of clatterbridge . As to this alfie case it smacks of max clifford if he where still around. And i think Someone is puppeteering the whole show.

afaik, there are American and European pro-life groups involved as well. Some of those guys aren't hugely bothered about attacking hospitals.

And i think Someone is puppeteering the whole show.

The Russians?

Maybe the Elders of Zion?

Martians?

The Marionettati.