Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I read today that police in Preston have to ask Muslim community leaders for permission to go in to a part of the city to police the area ,, now i'm not sure i believe that i am hoping it's journalist clap trap because if it isn't we are already finished as a nation .

Didn't read it but Trump said British Police afraid of terrorists apparently , anyway think of Rotherham .

Post 66066, seems confused and based on false expectancies and associations.

Personally, I would prefer the Third World to raise their "statuses" and "expectancies".

Failing, in those countries which don't do so, probably, there will be an increase their populations' resentments and dissent with increasing the likelihood of "chaos" and "terrorism" as seen in the M.E and other parts of the World.

Pulling up the drawbridges around "little england" and trying to isolate it from Europe and other peoples' problems will not protect it.

It is based on short term greed.

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
MG

"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings."

MG

Why do you LIVE in little England then if you detest it so much why don't you feck orf somewhere else , please . Do you live anywhere near these future slums or you say all this stuff knowing your'e well away from it and comfy .

What has England done to deserve Fred, Birmingham especially. Go back to Wales if you no longer rate England. Don't worry Fred your annual reward 'Gobshite Of The Year (recurring)'has deservedly been won by a landslide. You must be so proud. LOL!!

I don't detest England, but I certainly find it difficult to like the views and actions of some of it's inhabitants.

Consider what I am doing is "missionary" work.

8-)

Ditto! knobhead.

It's quite simple to me , Foreign man come take white man women , money , soil , foreign man no like white man law , foreign man want own law , foreign man no like white man spit on white man , foreign man use white man law when suit , foreign man speak with forked tongue . Hows that then in plain little English .

I love little England just how you can go ten mile up the road and get a different dialect and character MAGIC . I must say I do appreciate a person of Indian extraction talking in a Yorkshire or Scottish accent . At least they have integrated .

Pretty good for you!

Now reverse the content!

Trust me this is Fred... Bleating miserable git .

MY arse .

JB and Vicky.

Probably, both have a greater resemblance to your mothers more than me.

Beginning to see where your problems in initiated from.

Mind, JB is showing signs of compulsive tendencies.

Must be having a bad day in the market.

Keep smiling.

8-)

OK . Keep hallucinating . Byee.

donald trump will be well integrated if he sticks his nose back in to scotland .... they'll make him into haggis ...... a visit to burnley might be more appropriate, as he'ld then be converted into black pudding

DT was not quoted verbatim, the media couldn't wait to report part of his speech, but forgot to add ''until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on''
The media does it's self no favours in their quest for FoS when they seek to sensationalise, knowing (as in this case) it would result in public outcry.
2517

Dahir and two other gang members preyed on the “frailty, vulnerability and isolation” of victims in their eighties to defraud them out of £600,000. Yet Corbyn wrote a letter to the judge asking for Dahir to be granted bail so he could spend Christmas at home, insisting his constituent wouldn’t abscond:

“He understands the need to be here. He has been here on every occasion.”

The judge ignored Jezza’s bizarre plea and the pensioner scamming b*stard will be behind bars on Christmas Day…

Manuel.

You have put me off black pudding!

Hays,

Can we see a copy of the letter?

A bit more information.

The Old Bailey today

Jeremy Corbyn's extraordinary plea to judge: 'Let Muslim fraudster who fleeced pensioners out of £600,000 spend Christmas at home - not in prison'

Fraudster was part of gang of three who targeted the elderly for cash
They told victims they could lose their money if they didn't move it
One of the gang handed letter from Corbyn to the judge in the case
Judge turned down Labour leader's pleas for conman to be given bail

Dahir's barrister Patrick Harte presented Corbyn's letter to the Old Bailey and said: 'He (Dahir) understands the need to be here. He has been here on every occasion.'

Dahir had been on bail throughout the trial following an earlier successful application involving the letter from Mr Corbyn, who has been Islington North MP since 1983.

But, this time, Judge Anuja Dhir QC was unimpressed and remanded him in custody, ruling that Dahir might not turn up for sentence because of his conviction.

It is understood Mr Corbyn wrote the letter after Dahir was charged with the offence in May. While Dahir was granted bail during the trial following Mr Corbyn's intervention, two others tried alongside him remained in custody.

The Old Bailey had heard how Dahir, along with Yasser Abukar, 23, Sakaria Aden, 21, convinced victims as old as 96 to transfer money out of their accounts by telling them they were about to lose it.

The trial heard how the victims, aged in their 70s, 80s and 90s and from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Bedfordshire, London and Kent, were phoned up by men posing as police officers investigating a fraud at their bank.

The victims were advised to transfer money or hand over cash for 'safekeeping', when in reality they were being ripped off.

One of the gang posing as a fake police officer might say they had someone in custody who was caught attempting to use a cloned card in a high street store such as Argos.

Mr Dent told the jury: 'Can you imagine your alarm on receiving a phone call like that from somebody purporting to be a police officer, saying there is fraud going on in your bank account?

'If you can imagine the alarm you might have, then think about the amount of alarm and distress to somebody considerably older than yourselves, perhaps less robust.'

Another member of the gang who received money through the scam, Mohammed Sharif Abokar, 28, blew thousands of pounds at the Hippodrome Casino in central London.

Abukar, Aden, and Dahir were found guilty of converting criminal property, while Abokar was convicted of money laundering.

One victim of the gang, William Gooding, who is in his 70s, was conned out of £9,000 after receiving a phone call from a 'PC Hopkins' based in Hammersmith, west London.

He was told his grandson was in custody and was told to transfer another £9,000 into a different account but staff at his local branch in Barnstaple, Devon, became suspicious.

Another victim, Michael Garrett, 70, from Weymouth, Dorset, was conned out of £113,000 by a fraudster posing as 'DC Adams' from Hammersmith Police Station.

He was told that his life savings were at risk from an 'inside job' at the bank and instructed to transfer them into 11 separate accounts operated by the gang.

Another 'clever, but simple' trick would be to suggest the victims dial 999 or phone their bank to confirm the fraudsters' story.

When the victims, in their 70s, 80s and 90s, hung up their phones and dialled the crooks would remain on the line.

Aden, of Stoke Newington; Dahir, of Finsbury Park, north London, Abukar of Holloway, north London, had denied conspiracy to commit fraud between 1 May 2012 and 7 May 2015. All three will be sentenced in the New Year.

Another ringleader, 23-year-old Makhzumi Abukar, has already admitted his part in the scam after being caught red-handed with cash taken from one of the victims.

Ibrahim Farah, 23, of north London, was cleared of conspiracy to defraud.