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I think it’s less acceptable for them to be racist, sexist, homophobic arseholes in public. A minor improvement.

But as always, anyone who aspires to be a police officer should be mistrusted.

But as always, anyone who aspires to be a police officer should be mistrusted.

Most of my family are police. I absolutely second this comment.

One of my neices is studying now, basically so she can work with the horses :(

Well, it's certainly unusual to aspire to being a Royal Protection Officer.

^rep

I remember at the time, the general view in the North was that the police were making so much money from overtime that they really didn't want to catch him.

Did anyone ever read the Red Riding Trilogy by David Peace (or see the brilliant TV adaptation)?

Hit the nail on the atmosphere around these cases. The attitudes of the time. Brilliant portrait of the rot of it all.

Shortly after being a student I did a trial day at a salad bar takeaway place, there was an Eastern European guy in the kitchen, he asked where I was from and after telling him "York" he called me "Yorkshire Ripper" for the rest of the shift. Fun guy.

Yep, brilliant series. I watched it soon after moving to the UK and have been terrified of 'Up North' ever since

cummings out

^

Laura Kuenssberg is going to have to find a new Downing Street source quickly.

^^ ah the ignominy of the cardboard box exit

doesn't she get it directly from the big fat blonde horses mouth

I'm sure he left detailed and clear handover notes on all of his projects.

and a dirty protest in his office

^

Sauce please?
Found it.

Totally self serving to get his image on the front page of every paper.

See this tweet -
https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1327304708235661313?s=19

wonder if cummings being told to do one is related to the fact that all their plans didn't factor trump losing the election and now they have to pump the breaks on their brexit bullshit because biden...

ugh... fuck 'em all into the sun.

Yep Sk* N*ws, unfortunately... tried to find another, but the story had just broken and choices were limited

It’s all that surely! A Biden whitehouse will require an entirely different approach.

I missed the detail before but on Tuesday evening Joe Biden called Boris, Ireland PM, Macron and Merkel in that order and shortly after Downing St melts down.

“Well here’s how its going to be Bozza”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54892505

It doesn’t add up that cummings is going now after Boris had to embarrass himself (more than usual) by defending him after the lockdown breach fiasco in the summer. Hoping the real scoop will come out

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/13/dominic-cummings-barnard-castle-brexit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Well brexit was always gonna be s shitshow better escape before proverbial hits fan.

Joe may have just reminded Boris of something he read in the Presidential Daily Briefing during the Brexit vote

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/13/priti-patel-departing-from-her-own-anti-trafficking-policy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Now Priti Patel gets bad news, starting to enjoy this 2020 Friday the 13th :)