UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

Fungible penis · Aug 17, 2022

East_Clintwood said:
Crown Paints: Hannah & Dave ad prompts dozens of complaints

The advertising watchdog may investigate an ad which comic Jenny Eclair called "massively offensive".

www.bbc.co.uk

honestly they must fucking be loving the free advertising all the news stories are giving them.

There's those in no way humorless cunts being comediennes, again

Ly Erg · Aug 17, 2022

Johan Schmidt said:
Unironically, if Scotland left the union, the UK is just kinda fucked. There isn't really a UK anymore, Wales is just Little England extended; NI is this weird little tumour. The UK, is really just England and Scotland. Neither side would be benefited by the breaking of the union and it's weird how apathetic or outright hostile everyone is over it.

Well the UK would either cease and it would be England with the Wales vessel state or the UK government just keeps going as the UK with the other nations.

I wouldn't really see it as fucked as it is a needed shakedown. The two countries won't go back to killing each other post breakup and I have no doubt that the two countries would try and keep as many benefits of the union still in effect in some form.

Really this is more of an issue with the UK political structure as a whole than the culture, history and economic aspect of it. If the UK government wasn't an corrupt incompetent power hoarding spiteful bastard, it would of never have gotten to this point where the idea of independence has now more traction than it has in the last 300 years.

I much rather prefer the four nations work together but not in a centralised fashion. My vision of Britain is more akin to a Scandinavia viewpoint. Similar culture, history, languages while still keep each nation it's own in politics and economy.

teriyakiburns said:
Jokes aside, Scotland isn't likely to leave and I don't think anyone really wants her to. Scots certainly don't. I'm not sure they want to change anything. They've been consistent in voting to maintain the status quo in just about every recent vote and referendum they've had over the last twenty or so years.

In terms of devolution, Scottish people have always wanted more power and responsibilities devolved. This is going as far back 1979 when the first devolution referendum was done to now. The biggest problem is that the UK government can still overwrite or bypass the Devolved government and there is no framework to make sure that powers can't be stripped or just outright invalidate the parliament. While I am not a fan of the SNP, I still think it is our burden to bear and I rather not have a group I do wish to be in position get undermined.

As for the status quo? If that were the case, Labour would be in charge in Scotland, not the SNP. Independence/union support is still 50/50 and swings left or right all the time in polling. I don't think it's clear cut as you suggest, not without the underlining issues.

RealMuthaForYa said:
Keir Starmer is uncomfortable with Labour
MPs - yes LABOUR MPs joining a picket line

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Meanwhile down in Islington …

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I fucking hate blairites more than the actual socialists in the party. The left would of supported the picket line and this parade sure but blairites are horrified of the common man striking because of the cost of living but willing to suck LGBT dick to keep this fringe in.

Trig.Point · Aug 22, 2022

I don't know if anyone is familiar with the Food Blogger Jack Monroe.

She's a food blogger who blogs about making food on a budget from often sourced fromfood banks. She's said a lot of crazy self contradictory things since she made it big but the media love her. However she created a bit of a stir a couple of weeks ago. When she posted a recipie which involved making taking a can of Sphagetti Loops and washing them. (bear in mind a back of cheap dried pasta costs 32p in the UK)

Anellini Con Cacio e Pepe, or, Spaghetti Hoops With Cheese & Pepper, 41p | 15 Minutes | One Pan | JACK MONROE

This recipe first appeared in Tin Can Cook, my fourth cookbook, and one that started off as a passion project and ended up being my bestselling book to date, with around 20,000 copies donated to pe…

cookingonabootstrap.com

Anellini Con Cacio e Pepe, or, Spaghetti Hoops With Cheese & Pepper, …

archived 22 Aug 2022 18:45:18 UTC

archive.ph

Anyway she didn't like the reaction (she often gets a negative response but people laughing at her was too much)

Then someone posted this on medium, It's a history of Monroe and it's fascinating. I'm not sure how long it's going to be up... but if you're interested in how an internet chef comes to the stage where she's writing long blog posts about washing Spaghetti Loops under a tap, it's well worth a read.

Jack Monroe: Saint or Scammer?

How poverty in the UK became a one-person show

medium.com

frap · Aug 22, 2022

Trig.Point said:
I don't know if anyone is familiar with the Food Blogger Jack Monroe.
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She's a food blogger who blogs about making food on a budget from often sourced fromfood banks. She's said a lot of crazy self contradictory things since she made it big but the media love her. However she created a bit of a stir a couple of weeks ago. When she posted a recipie which involved making taking a can of Sphagetti Loops and washing them. (bear in mind a back of cheap dried pasta costs 32p in the UK)
View attachment 3634066 View attachment 3634076

Anellini Con Cacio e Pepe, or, Spaghetti Hoops With Cheese & Pepper, 41p | 15 Minutes | One Pan | JACK MONROE

This recipe first appeared in Tin Can Cook, my fourth cookbook, and one that started off as a passion project and ended up being my bestselling book to date, with around 20,000 copies donated to pe…

cookingonabootstrap.com

Anellini Con Cacio e Pepe, or, Spaghetti Hoops With Cheese & Pepper, …

archived 22 Aug 2022 18:45:18 UTC

archive.ph

Anyway she didn't like the reaction (she often gets a negative response but people laughing at her was too much)

Then someone posted this on medium, It's a history of Monroe and it's fascinating. I'm not sure how long it's going to be up... but if you're interested in how an internet chef comes to the stage where she's writing long blog posts about washing Spaghetti Loops under a tap, it's well worth a read.

Jack Monroe: Saint or Scammer?

How poverty in the UK became a one-person show

medium.com

I occasionally check Tattle for the latest news on her and they have a wiki for her too. They're not as good with archiving as KF and I've toyed with the idea of creating a thread here for her because she's constantly making a fool of herself and ebegging on Twitter despite being born and raised solidly middle class, but the thought of having to wade through her history just makes me want to take a nap.

Chaos Theorist · Aug 23, 2022

https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/schoolgirl-9-shot-dead-home-24828140

Stabmaster Arson · Aug 23, 2022

Chaos Theorist said:
https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/schoolgirl-9-shot-dead-home-24828140

Just sad. I'm betting he didn't even mean to shoot the young girl and only the bloke, who probably owed someone a lot of drug money I'm guessing.

East_Clintwood · Aug 23, 2022

Trig.Point said:
When she posted a recipie which involved making taking a can of Sphagetti Loops and washing them. (bear in mind a back of cheap dried pasta costs 32p in the UK)

I decided to go look it up to see what her reasoning was and it's even dumber than I thought it would be, which is impressive. The best part is I also decided to have a quick look at Asda's site (since she prices everything from there) and found this:

Now admittedly the tinned loops have been dropped down from 23p to 16p, but a big chunk of the tinned shite is gonna be the tomato sauce she's fucking washing off anyway.

I decided to have a look at some of her other recipes and a couple of things struck me. First she's a huge fan of using jewish accounting tricks to try and make shit look cheap. For instance her most recent recipe is a fish pie that serves 4 for 97p each. Except to get the 97p she prices everything using the fraction of the whole eg:
300g white fish, £1.79 (£5.95/1kg, Frozen For Freshness)
If you actually add up the cost to buy everything it's 18 fucking quid. Now obviously you'll have left overs and shit from the total that can be used for other stuff and what not, but given her stuff is aimed at people who can't even pay the extra 10p for non tinned pasta I'm guessing they don't have the 18 quid to lay out in the first place.

The second thing is it's not even that cheap. For less than the price of her stupid fish pie you can buy similarly sized frozen ready meals which don't require you to already have stuff or pay out the ass for ingredients you may or may not be able to use in other stuff. Hell I'm sure buying a combo of cheap tinned and frozen shit I could throw together stuff cheaper than her. May not be the most glamorous or fun food, but when we're talking about pinching pennies til they fucking squeak I'll take bland, boring but filling food any day of the week.

Goodbye Horses · Aug 23, 2022

East_Clintwood said:
I decided to go look it up to see what her reasoning was and it's even dumber than I thought it would be, which is impressive. The best part is I also decided to have a quick look at Asda's site (since she prices everything from there) and found this:

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Now admittedly the tinned loops have been dropped down from 23p to 16p, but a big chunk of the tinned shite is gonna be the tomato sauce she's fucking washing off anyway.

I decided to have a look at some of her other recipes and a couple of things struck me. First she's a huge fan of using jewish accounting tricks to try and make shit look cheap. For instance her most recent recipe is a fish pie that serves 4 for 97p each. Except to get the 97p she prices everything using the fraction of the whole eg:
300g white fish, £1.79 (£5.95/1kg, Frozen For Freshness)
If you actually add up the cost to buy everything it's 18 fucking quid. Now obviously you'll have left overs and shit from the total that can be used for other stuff and what not, but given her stuff is aimed at people who can't even pay the extra 10p for non tinned pasta I'm guessing they don't have the 18 quid to lay out in the first place.

The second thing is it's not even that cheap. For less than the price of her stupid fish pie you can buy similarly sized frozen ready meals which don't require you to already have stuff or pay out the ass for ingredients you may or may not be able to use in other stuff. Hell I'm sure buying a combo of cheap tinned and frozen shit I could throw together stuff cheaper than her. May not be the most glamorous or fun food, but when we're talking about pinching pennies til they fucking squeak I'll take bland, boring but filling food any day of the week.

There's also the fact that her shitty recipes have fuck all calories or other nutritional value and if you try living off them you'll end up with malnourishment and scurvy.

Chaos Theorist · Aug 24, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...d-by-blue-green-algae-as-toxic-as-cobra-venom

teriyakiburns · Aug 24, 2022

Chaos Theorist said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...d-by-blue-green-algae-as-toxic-as-cobra-venom

This problem started under Labour, who ~~privatised the distribution aspects of the water authorities and then~~ pulled all of their other responsibilities into a unitary national body (which part the graun thought was a good thing and wanted all the water management in the same body). It was a complete disaster, just like the rail privatisation that split the management between infrastructure and rolling stock, leaving a disjointed mess. They need to bring back the water authorities and put them back in charge of managing everything within their catchments again.

Of course, it'll never happen. The tories will just privatise aand quango things more, while the labourites will just establish another enormous, national body to mismanage things from afar.

Turns out I was wrong about labour privatising things, but they definitely made it all worse. We just don't do competent government in this country.

Johan Schmidt · Aug 24, 2022

East_Clintwood said:
I decided to go look it up to see what her reasoning was and it's even dumber than I thought it would be, which is impressive. The best part is I also decided to have a quick look at Asda's site (since she prices everything from there) and found this:

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Now admittedly the tinned loops have been dropped down from 23p to 16p, but a big chunk of the tinned shite is gonna be the tomato sauce she's fucking washing off anyway.

I decided to have a look at some of her other recipes and a couple of things struck me. First she's a huge fan of using jewish accounting tricks to try and make shit look cheap. For instance her most recent recipe is a fish pie that serves 4 for 97p each. Except to get the 97p she prices everything using the fraction of the whole eg:
300g white fish, £1.79 (£5.95/1kg, Frozen For Freshness)
If you actually add up the cost to buy everything it's 18 fucking quid. Now obviously you'll have left overs and shit from the total that can be used for other stuff and what not, but given her stuff is aimed at people who can't even pay the extra 10p for non tinned pasta I'm guessing they don't have the 18 quid to lay out in the first place.

The second thing is it's not even that cheap. For less than the price of her stupid fish pie you can buy similarly sized frozen ready meals which don't require you to already have stuff or pay out the ass for ingredients you may or may not be able to use in other stuff. Hell I'm sure buying a combo of cheap tinned and frozen shit I could throw together stuff cheaper than her. May not be the most glamorous or fun food, but when we're talking about pinching pennies til they fucking squeak I'll take bland, boring but filling food any day of the week.

ASDA pasketti (couldn't find the hoops) is only 177 grams of pasta per tin, per 19p. It's not even cheaper than the dried stuff if you wash away the sauce. She's a fucking sped.

Dambusters' Dog II · Aug 24, 2022

Trig.Point said:
When she posted a recipie which involved making taking a can of Sphagetti Loops and washing them

I think we found hamburger boiler Kengle's perfect woman.

Trig.Point · Aug 25, 2022

frap said:
I occasionally check Tattle for the latest news on her and they have a wiki for her too. They're not as good with archiving as KF and I've toyed with the idea of creating a thread here for her because she's constantly making a fool of herself and ebegging on Twitter despite being born and raised solidly middle class, but the thought of having to wade through her history just makes me want to take a nap.

I think washing Spaghetti loops and then sperging out when people started laughing might be a milestone for her. She's still whinging on twitter

East_Clintwood said:
I decided to go look it up to see what her reasoning was and it's even dumber than I thought it would be, which is impressive. The best part is I also decided to have a quick look at Asda's site (since she prices everything from there) and found this:

View attachment 3639447
Now admittedly the tinned loops have been dropped down from 23p to 16p, but a big chunk of the tinned shite is gonna be the tomato sauce she's fucking washing off anyway.

I decided to have a look at some of her other recipes and a couple of things struck me. First she's a huge fan of using jewish accounting tricks to try and make shit look cheap. For instance her most recent recipe is a fish pie that serves 4 for 97p each. Except to get the 97p she prices everything using the fraction of the whole eg:
300g white fish, £1.79 (£5.95/1kg, Frozen For Freshness)
If you actually add up the cost to buy everything it's 18 fucking quid. Now obviously you'll have left overs and shit from the total that can be used for other stuff and what not, but given her stuff is aimed at people who can't even pay the extra 10p for non tinned pasta I'm guessing they don't have the 18 quid to lay out in the first place.

The second thing is it's not even that cheap. For less than the price of her stupid fish pie you can buy similarly sized frozen ready meals which don't require you to already have stuff or pay out the ass for ingredients you may or may not be able to use in other stuff. Hell I'm sure buying a combo of cheap tinned and frozen shit I could throw together stuff cheaper than her. May not be the most glamorous or fun food, but when we're talking about pinching pennies til they fucking squeak I'll take bland, boring but filling food any day of the week.

Her paypigs are people that don't actually know/or care about the price of groceries. I was talking to someone recently who believed that processed food was cheaper than whole ingrediants, she even referenced an American documentary. When I pointed out that 1KG of carrots was 40p in Asda and a head of celery 60p she just looked at me funny.

Nobody actually makes her recipies, and ala Jack Scalfani I suspect a lot of the pictures on her blog are stolen. She just fits the trope of how the great and good think the working class should behave.

teriyakiburns · Aug 25, 2022

Trig.Point said:
She just fits the trope of how the great and good think the working class should behave.

This all reminds me of when Delia Smith did a series on the basics of cooking. Everyone, all the media commentators and the great and good, ripped the absolute shit out of her because her book included a page on how to boil an egg, but at the same time they would slobber over every half-wit "budget"-conscious TV cook that made dishes with a dozen exotic ingredients and a can of soup, because OOOH CANS OF SOUP THAT'S WHAT THE POORS EAT!

Weeb Slinger · Aug 25, 2022

Someone walkout they saw were who waved

Trig.Point said:
I don't know if anyone is familiar with the Food Blogger Jack Monroe.
View attachment 3634044

She's a food blogger who blogs about making food on a budget from often sourced fromfood banks. She's said a lot of crazy self contradictory things since she made it big but the media love her. However she created a bit of a stir a couple of weeks ago. When she posted a recipie which involved making taking a can of Sphagetti Loops and washing them. (bear in mind a back of cheap dried pasta costs 32p in the UK)
View attachment 3634066 View attachment 3634076

Anellini Con Cacio e Pepe, or, Spaghetti Hoops With Cheese & Pepper, 41p | 15 Minutes | One Pan | JACK MONROE

This recipe first appeared in Tin Can Cook, my fourth cookbook, and one that started off as a passion project and ended up being my bestselling book to date, with around 20,000 copies donated to pe…

cookingonabootstrap.com

Anellini Con Cacio e Pepe, or, Spaghetti Hoops With Cheese & Pepper, …

archived 22 Aug 2022 18:45:18 UTC

archive.ph

Anyway she didn't like the reaction (she often gets a negative response but people laughing at her was too much)

Then someone posted this on medium, It's a history of Monroe and it's fascinating. I'm not sure how long it's going to be up... but if you're interested in how an internet chef comes to the stage where she's writing long blog posts about washing Spaghetti Loops under a tap, it's well worth a read.

Jack Monroe: Saint or Scammer?

How poverty in the UK became a one-person show

medium.com

The first time I heard about Jack Monroe, she seemed like a Southend girl made good. I know some people in town who grew up in abject poverty - who lived in the Queensway tower blocks and the Palace Hotel back before it was renovated, when it was used as dumping ground for Romanian refugees that the council didn't know what to do with.

It was good to have a strident local voice who was not only speaking up on these issues, but offering practical advice to those who were living in a precarious state of extreme destitution

The more you look at Jack, the harder it is to ignore how she is continually on the backfoot. There is always some problem beyond her control that requires a massive amount of time and resources to resolve. Or there is someone who is failing to make reasonable accommodations, or who is ripping her off.

She successfully sued Katie Hopkins for defamation, to the tune of £24,000. Currently she is suing the Tory MP Lee Anderson in relation to his claim that she has made a fortune from the poor.

While I doubt that she is rolling in money, there seems to be a disconnect between her success and her life as she portrays it on social media. If she is to be believed, she is perpetually spinning her wheels and never getting anywhere. Unless she has mismanaged her affairs to a chronic degree that clearly can't be the case.

At one point a few years ago she announced that she was standing as an MP for Southend West under the auspices of the National Health Action Party. Southend West is a Conservative safe seat. At the time the incumbent was Sir David Amess who was murdered in his surgery in 2021. Monroe later withdrew from the race citing a chronic health condition and death threats. At best she would have split the independent vote and drawn support away from the Labour and Liberal candidates. As a former NHS worker I would not have supported her, despite her pro-NHS platform. I think she would have been an absolutely dreadful member or parliament.

I am sure that she won't appreciate the comparison, but she reminds me of Trump in the sense that she is a popularist who inhabits an eternal present which shares only tenuous and mutable links with the past. Reading her social media posts is like watching a child telling a rambling story where they are the main character.

If you squint hard Jack Monroe looks very good on paper. The issues she champions are important. She has a flair for publicity but often burns out quickly on projects. She is one of those people who you like to begin with and then like a lot less the more you see of them. A clear case of heart in the right place; head somewhere else entirely.

Goodbye Horses · Aug 26, 2022

Weeb Slinger said:
The first time I heard about Jack Monroe, she seemed like a Southend girl made good.

She's a middle-class grifter that's never known a day's real hardship in her entire life, that cosplays at poverty so that credulous Guardian readers will fund her lifestyle of sitting on her arse posting bullshit on twatter all day.

Morethanabitfoolish · Aug 30, 2022

Chaos Theorist said:
https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/schoolgirl-9-shot-dead-home-24828140

Stabmaster Arson said:
Just sad. I'm betting he didn't even mean to shoot the young girl and only the bloke, who probably owed someone a lot of drug money I'm guessing.

He absolutely did not mean to shoot her since the guy he was out to shoot broke into the house. It wasn't his home, he was just fleeing people who wanted to shoot him and as a result the girl was killed and her mother was caught in the cross fire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-62645810

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a nine-year-old girl was fatally shot in her own home.

Olivia Pratt-Korbel was hit in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of their house in Dovecot, Liverpool, on Monday.
Police said a 36-year-old man from Huyton had been detained after an operation involving armed officers in Merseyside on Thursday night.
He was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.
Olivia was killed after Cheryl Korbel, 46, opened her front door on Kingsheath Avenue at 22:00 BST in response to a commotion outside.
The intended target of the attack, 35-year-old Joseph Nee, was being chased by a gunman.

Joseph Nee has been named as the intended target of the shooting that killed nine-year-old Olivia
The men - complete strangers to the family - burst in and Olivia was fatally shot.
Ms Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door, she has now been released from hospital.
Nee, from Dovecot, was shot in the upper body and taken to hospital in a black Audi by a third man.
Once his treatment is completed, Nee will be recalled to prison for allegedly breaching the terms of his licence conditions.

The convicted drug dealer was jailed for three years and nine months in 2018 for burglary.
He was also previously convicted of two counts of theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified.
Olivia was described by her family as a "unique, chatty, nosey little girl who broke the mould when she was born".
In a statement, they said Olivia "lived [life] to the most she could, and would blow people away with her wit and kindness.
"We as a family are heartbroken and have lost a huge part of our life."

Media caption,
The home secretary says Merseyside Police is getting "a lot of national support"
Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen, of Merseyside Police, previously said there was a sense of "disgust" in the city about recent shootings including 28-year-old Ashley Dale who was killed in the Old Swan area and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer who died in Dingle.
[the article neglects to note the 3 shootings happened over 1 week]

Karen Dempsey, 55, was also found stabbed in a pub car park near Kirkby on Monday. Her son has been charged with her murder.
The government has announced it will allocate £500,000 for Merseyside to counter crime and provide mental health support following the killings.
During a visit to Liverpool, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the whole country had been "appalled at the spate of violence".

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told a press conference on Friday the club's "thoughts and prayers are with the [Olivia's] family".
"I cannot even imagine how it must feel - it's absolutely horrible."
Speaking after Everton boss Frank Lampard and team players issued an appeal against gun and knife crime, Klopp said: "We have to realise it is our city so whatever we can do together, we have to do.
"I don't like the moments when [crime] happens, but I like the fact that we are then united and do really support with all we have."

Earlier, former Liverpool striker Ian Rush and ex-Everton player Ian Snodin left flowers in Kingsheath Avenue on behalf of both clubs.
On the flowers from Everton FC, a message read: "RIP Olivia. No words will lessen the pain or explain such a tragedy.
"Our city stands united. Forever in our thoughts."
While a card on the floral tribute from Liverpool FC read: "Rest in peace, Olivia, with deepest sympathy from all of us at Liverpool Football Club.
"You'll Never Walk Alone."

The police, knowing the fact that they have no control over the city and it's gotten obvious again to the general public, are doing what they did when Rhys Jones got shot 15 years ago and trying to crack down. So naturally the upper echelons of the organised crime are fucking off for a holiday for a bit.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11153101/Liverpools-gang-bosses-flee-foreign-villas-Olivia-Pratt-Korbel-murder-police-crack-down.html

Liverpool crime bosses have been fleeing to their foreign villas as the code of silence that stops people tipping off police has been shattered by the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.

Sources revealed that gangsters are also rushing to get weapons and drugs out of the city as police crack down on organised crime with a series of raids in their hunt for the masked hitman who killed the nine-year-old on Monday.

Last night, two men, aged 36 and 33, were released on bail after being arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder.
In 2007 there were dozens of high-profile arrests after the gun murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones shone a spotlight on Liverpool's organised crime families. And now they fear their big homes in expensive suburbs will be again be swooped on as the horror of Olivia's murder smashes the traditional wall of silence stopping the public from talking to police about illegal activities.

'Right now they will be worried about having their homes raided. There will be a lot of sudden holidays to Spain and Turkey,' said Dr Simon Harding, director of the National Centre for Gang Research.

On Monday evening, a masked gunman had chased heroin dealer Joseph Nee into the home of the schoolgirl's innocent family.

As Olivia mother Cheryl desperately tried to shut their front door, the gunman opened fire, with one of the bullets blasting through her wrist and into Olivia's chest. Nee was also wounded.
The Mail on Sunday understands the name of the alleged gunman circulating locally is that of a convicted armed robber whose brothers are believed to be drug kingpins. Police declined to comment.

Olivia's family has said in an emotional statement: 'If anyone knows anything, now is the time to speak up. It is not about being a snitch or a grass, it is about finding out who took our baby away from us.'

The crowd at Liverpool's Anfield stadium stood and applauded Olivia in the ninth minute of yesterday's victory over Bournemouth, then sang You'll Never Walk Alone. Skipper Jordan Henderson sported an 'RIP Olivia' shirt.

Dr Robert Hesketh, a criminologist at Liverpool John Moores University who researches gangs in the city, said its organised crime is run by established families who 'don't get their hands dirty' and live in big houses in Crosby, Formby and Southport.
'These are not kids hanging around on street corners,' he said. 'These are the guys in upmarket houses. They wear suits. None of them will be happy at all. They will be laying low for a while.

'That has been warranted by the fact that the police have got leads – if it had been any ordinary event the police would have been up against it.'

Liverpool's organised crime is run by local families, while cities such as London have seen foreign gangs from countries such as Albania move in.

Merseyside has long been associated with gun crime, and gangsters are still able to access handguns in a way they cannot in other places.

National Crime Agency analysis revealed that 70 per cent of links to weapons led back to Liverpool and the North West.

And while I was digging into the Liverpool cess pit I noticed there had been some motion on negligible numbers of other criminals from years ago.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/extradition-crew-merseyside-men-accused-24447596

This week a suspected cocaine trafficking kingpin was finally extradited to the UK from Dubai more than a year since he was arrested.

Prior to his capture by the United Arab Emirates authorities in April 2021, Michael Paul Moogan, from Croxteth, had been on the run for eight years after being named as wanted following a raid on a Cafe in Rotterdam in October 2013. But detectives and prosecutors across the UK are still awaiting the return of several other suspects for questioning over a series of despicable crimes.

Perhaps the highest profile Liverpool suspect currently awaiting extradition to the UK is David Ungi Jnr. The now-30-year-old was picked up by police in the town of Coin in Malaga, Spain, on May 6 this year. Spanish officers arrested Ungi in a gym within a shopping centre complex as part of a join operation involving Spanish police, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) and Merseyside Police.

Ungi had managed to evade capture for seven years after the murder of Garston teenager Vinny Waddington on July 15, 2015. Vinny, 18, was the pillion passenger on a motorbike which was rammed by an Audi A3 car on Banks Road, before a single shotgun blast was fired from the passenger side window by one of three men inside the vehicle.

Vinny was struck in the chest, and despite managing to run a short distance and jump a fence, he quickly collapsed and died of catastrophic injuries. The rider of the bike, Francis Humphries, was also struck but his injuries were not life-threatening.

Two men, Luke Kendrick and Ryan Bate, were convicted of murder at Liverpool Crown Court and jailed for life in 2016. But during the trial, the jury were told detectives suspected Ungi had been the third man in the Audi.
However the NCA revealed he had boarded a ferry in Dover within 24 hours of the attack and fled to the continent. Ungi, formerly of Melbreck Road in Allerton, remains in Spanish custody.

The ECHO understands it may be some time before extradition proceedings can begin.

Another man wanted for questioning over a murder on the streets of Liverpool is Jason Curry. The Toxteth native is sought by detectives in relation to the shooting of 18-year-old Yusuf Sonko on June 2, 2017.

Yusuf was standing with a group of friends in Tagus Street, off Lodge Lane, at around 8.30pm when he was struck in the head by a bullet fired by one of two men on bikes.

Despite a number of arrests, no-one has yet been charged with Yusuf's killing, even after a £20,000 award for information was offered. The shooting caused devastation in L8 and Yusuf's grief-stricken parents, Khadija and Papice Sonko, have relentlessly begged for those who know what happened to come forward.

In the weeks after the shooting, Merseyside Police circulated images of then 22-year-old Toxteth man Jason Curry, who was urged to hand himself in for questioning. Curry remained at large for three years, until he was arrested by Spanish police in the Costa del Sol in late 2020, in connection with a robbery which involved a 70-year-old British ex-pat being shot in the leg.

It is understood Curry remains in custody.
Another Merseyside man in custody abroad has not yet been officially named - but a UK police force has confirmed he is wanted in connection with a particularly savage murder.

The 44-year-old is being held in Greece after he was arrested in an armed raid on a luxury villa in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, where police seized 300kg of cocaine which had been hidden in a shipment of bananas. He was detained alongside three other British men, none of who have been named due to strict Greek privacy laws.

However, at the time of the arrests on June 9, Greek media began reporting one of the suspects was wanted for a murder in the UK involving a man being "tortured and burned alive". After the ECHO made enquiries, West Midlands Police confirmed they had been seeking one of the suspects over the murder of 45-year-old Polish national Tomasz Samel.

Mr Samel died in a specialist burns unit at Whiston Hospital on June 21, 2019, weeks after he was kidnapped from outside his home in Handsworth, Birmingham. Two men posing as Interpol officers had knocked on his door early on March 27 that year, tricking Mr Samel into climbing into the back of a white Peugeot Boxer van.
The exact mechanics of what happened next are not clear, but during the course of that day Mr Samel was driven 97 miles away to an isolated spot near Bickerstaffe, West Lancashire, where he was dumped with horrific injuries.

The stricken victim was able to find a house and bang on the door for help. He was rushed to hospital where doctors concluded he had suffered 75% burns to his body.

Detectives were able to speak to Mr Samel in the weeks before his death, but have not revealed what he told them or how much useful information they were able to obtain before he eventually succumbed to his horrific injuries.

One man, Kevin Wooden, was named as a suspect in the case but has yet to be apprehended, and no-one has been charged over the murder. The man arrested in Greece is not Wooden, however, who remains at large.

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said "We will be liaising with Greek authorities and other agencies, as our investigation into the murder of Tomasz continues."

A number of people have been arrested as part of the investigation, but no one has yet been charged.

Fucking Liverpool.

Chaos Theorist · Aug 30, 2022

I mean the Scousers basically control the drug trade in the North via controlling the ports and their connections to the Dutch drug manufacturers

Morethanabitfoolish · Sep 1, 2022

No lawsuit for you!

Ambulance driver who sued after someone said '10 a penny' loses case

Matthew Johnson complained that the phrase was 'a reference to slavery'.

metro.co.uk

A black ambulance driver has had his claim for racism rejected after he alleged that the phrase ‘ten a penny’ was related to slavery.

Matthew Johnson told his boss Dan Price that he would be going on a month-long honeymoon shortly after taking the job in 2018.

Mr Price, who is white, was not pleased at hearing this and said words to the effect that he ‘would not have employed’ him if he had known this and used the expression ‘ten a penny’ to refer to drivers like him.

Mr Johnson complained that he this phrase was ‘a reference to slavery’.

However, Mr Price claimed that he used this phrase with everyone and it was nothing to do with Mr Johnson being black.

The case was heard at an employment tribunal in Watford, where Mr Johnson also alleged other instances of racial discrimination.

He said he was drug tested twice after incidents involving patients when neither of his crewmates had been.

In addition, he said that he drove a Porsche and his boss said to him he ‘must be a drug dealer to be able to afford a car like that’.

But the case was dismissed this week, with a panel finding that DHL, who employed him to transport NHS patients, had not been discriminatory.

The tribunal decided that Mr Price made the remark to suggest that ambulance drivers like Mr Johnson were easy to find.

Although Mr Johnson insisted the commonly used idiom is racist, the ‘highly skilled’ driver had his case thrown out after a judge ruled that none of his bosses had any idea the phrase was potentially connected to slavery.

According to the Readers’ Digest, the related phrase ‘dime a dozen’ was first used for advertising purposes in the late 1700s when it was intended to mean a good deal, e.g. a dozen eggs for a dime. It acquired its more negative meaning of something being cheap and common in the 1900s.

The tribunal heard that Mr Johnson started work at the company in March 2018 and had the conversation in question the following month,

‘(DHL) submitted that the general understanding of the expression does not have any racial connection but refers to something that is common or easily available and the likely meaning of the above expression, if made, was that ambulance drivers with (Mr Johnson’s) experience and skills were easy for (DHL) to find’, Employment Judge Paddy Quill found.

He said that the evidence suggested Mr Price had used the expression many times to many different employees, at least some of whom were white.

‘Mr Johnson has not proven that he meant another black employee, and he has not proved that Mr Price was any more likely to respond with these words to Mr Johnson as a black employee than had a white employee informed him of a four-week absence for honeymoon shortly after commencing work.’

Regarding the Porsche remark, the tribunal heard it was made after Mr Price and another senior figure told Mr Johnson that he couldn’t park his car across two parking spaces in the company car park.

The hearing was told that Mr Price was later involved in a number of incidents, involving an accident with a stretcher and a car colliding with an ambulance.

On a visit to a patient’s home, an incident with a wheelchair resulted in a colleague being concussed and Mr Johnson was disciplined, the tribunal was told.

In January 2020 Mr Johnson issued a grievance about his treatment complaining that he had been discriminated against in relation to these two incidents by being drug tested by the company twice when neither of his crew-mates had been – when he said they had been the ones ‘responsible’.

While still an employee the ambulance driver took his employers to the tribunal claiming racial discrimination, harassment and victimisation. He has since left the company.

Regarding Mr Johnson’s claims of racial harassment by drug tests, Judge Quill added: ‘Mr Johnson has not convinced us that [DHL]’s conduct was related to race.’

In dismissing the case, Mr Johnson was ordered by the tribunal to pay £1200 towards DHL’s costs.

Chaos Theorist · Sep 1, 2022

Morethanabitfoolish said:
No lawsuit for you!

Ambulance driver who sued after someone said '10 a penny' loses case

Matthew Johnson complained that the phrase was 'a reference to slavery'.

metro.co.uk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd
I mean you would think they just refer to how currency used to work under pre-decimalisation

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