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Right, but it's provable JC did actually like a post about saving a mural loaded with antisemitic tropes.

You obviously can't prove whether he looked at a picture of the mural before liking the post, or whether he has ever seen any antisemitic cartons before. But you can prove if it happened or not.

Whereas to have a basis to substantiate some of those allegations you need more than a screenshot of a spreadsheet.

When the head eats the tail

Who's talking about substantiating anything? You don't need to. All you have to do is keep repeating the allegation, substantiated or not, and attribute it. Which, as we have seen, can totally happen in an all-channels, high-pitched screeching way designed to cause maximum damage. Should that be what the commentariat/media wishes.

I suppose it comes down to who they particularly want to harm and who they think deserves a 'nothing to see here' and it's not difficult to see which was which here, is it?

"Suella is what happens when you feed Priti Patel after midnight"

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Jesus.

I know by now everyone and there mum has said this, but I can't believe how out of touch this round of cunts are with not just the population, but even their own voters.

Studying Reefer Madness added to the national curriculum.

random drug testing in offices

lol wut

How many of the toilets tested positive for cocaine in the commons?

The rest of the world is decriminalising cannabis and generating revenue from it. Not to mention all the local takeaways

Yea, wtf

random drug testing in offices

Yet another good reason to work from home.

How does she intend to do that. Police raids on offices? I can't imagine there are many bosses who would want to implement this sort of thing across their workforces. That said, boards are often so out of touch that they may force their companies to do it.

I was quite shocked to find out that our interns in the US were drug-tested

I think signing up for a company that does it as a policy is one thing. Imagine if your company told you tomorrow morning that you were going to be tested randomly from now on. Batshit.

So awful. Is it in any way relevant to the work?

I worked for a company that asked me to sign a new contract, as part of a harmonisation process, which included 'drug testing'. There were other issues with the new contract which meant I didn't want to sign it so I made a long list of all the issues including which drugs weren't allowed. Would they be testing for paracetamol and caffeine?

It's just so regressive. Braindead repetition of measures that we know don't help anybody.

How does she intend to do that

Details, details. Don't be so neg, believe harder.

Edit: just realised this ^ is basically the 'substance' of 99% of tory policies.

When I left uni lots of big grad programs had drugs tests before commencing.

So Conor Burns is sacked as a minister and whip removed.

Johnson is proposing to give him a knighthood.

I’m not suggesting that the two are connected but really?

Johnsons honours list predates these allegations but a good bit but yeh it's not a good luck if they do knight him. Also Liz is apparently looking if they can defer some of the knighthoods as they would trigger up to 8 byelections and suddenly they don't want that for some reason

Who's talking about substantiating anything? You don't need to. All you have to do is keep repeating the allegation, substantiated or not, and attribute it

You can still be sued for repeating it, regardless of whether you're not the original source.

Good job we have a really funded and resourced police service, court service and prison system that will easily be able to cope

Damien Green is handsy at parties = actionable
Damien Green, who appears on the leaked Whip's office list as allegedly being 'handsy at parties' = not actionable.