Making the news today....

[Mick Dempsey]

17 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I stand by the statement Mick - especially as relates to foreign holidays. 
 

Whilst over dramatisation and poetic licence are notably favoured delivery methods, it was not a deliberate act of exaggeration in this case. 
 

I genuinely believe you’d be gambling against losing your booking to cancellation, having additional quarantine or travel restrictions imposed dependant upon emergent circumstances AND playing fast and loose with the potential of prolonging the global impact

I think this opinion is influenced more by your world view before the COVID thing than any concern over the virus.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

12 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I think this opinion is influenced more by your world view before the COVID thing than any concern over the virus.

Not really, I’m just “tight” and the threat of losing deposit / holiday or incurring additional expense is probably the greatest influencing factor. 
 

I’d doff my cap to your reference to my world view though. 
 

If the glorious Empire still controlled great swathes of the globe maybe the rest of the world wouldn’t be in such a shambles 😂

Edited March 21, 2021 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[Mick Dempsey]

Where’s the risk in a ferry booking? 100 squid? Refundable.

[Mark J]

18 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Career anarchists, rabble rousers and ne’er-do-wells. Anything other than getting a ‘king job. They’ll just move on to the next “cause” - anything anti imperialism / capitalism / white privilege seems to be de rigueur...

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

18 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Datestamp on that pic Mark?

 

I take your point of course, I’m not sure you grasped mine though....

 

Your pic doesn’t really highlight a cohort that moves from 1 protest group to another without any apparent ‘loyalty’ to what ever the cause actually is. 

[Mark J]

5 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Datestamp on that pic Mark?

 

I take your point of course, I’m not sure you grasped mine though....

 

Your pic doesn’t really highlight a cohort that moves from 1 protest group to another without any apparent ‘loyalty’ to what ever the cause actually is. 

Ah, so it's alright to be a cohort so long as the 'cause' is a racist one? EDL/ National Action/BNP/Combat 18/Britain First etc....

It'll all be a thing of the past if Patel and her lot get their way: 

What is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and how will it change protests?

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Public protests have pushed the government's controversial new police bill into the spotlight.

 

Edited March 21, 2021 by Mark J

[Khriss]

11 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Uck off you Marxist unt!

Clearly yr readying for the Cornish Feudal Transition (  wot with house prices creeping up past Town prices) whats going to be next on the agenda Kev?  K

[Khriss]

Frankly the thing that got me most annoyed were the clearly well positioned shots of that woman being held down by the Police, good quality and similar to the other  crowd shots she can clearly be seen in...... K

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Ah, so it's alright to be a cohort so long as the 'cause' is a racist one? EDL/ National Action/BNP/Combat 18/Britain First etc....

It'll all be a thing of the past if Patel and her lot get their way: 

What is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and how will it change protests?

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Public protests have pushed the government's controversial new police bill into the spotlight.

 

OK I'll take the bait....

 

I know you're not that obtuse.

 

There are those - ranging from aunt Molly to Sid the Nazi that have (currently) an absolute right to protest regardless of how engaged / sympathetic, or otherwise, the 'rest of us' might be with their cause.

 

That is just a matter of the reality we live in.

 

There is also a quantifiable mass of anti establishment / anarchist / new hippy / dead legs that float between any public protest, regardless of the cause, with the premeditated intention of sparking, contributing to and/or amplifying lawlessness and criminality.  

 

That is the cohort I was being critical of - but you absolutely knew that already treacle...  

 

I'm (probably / almost) as concerned as you probably are with the potential for new restrictions on the right to protest but I'm not constrained by thinking it is only 'unjust' for the type of protest that I might be sympathetic too - it has to apply equally to all regardless of how personally disinterested one might be in the subject of the protest.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

49 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Clearly yr readying for the Cornish Feudal Transition (  wot with house prices creeping up past Town prices) whats going to be next on the agenda Kev?  K

Rumour has it the town and parish stocks are being readied for any "strangers" that might start sneaking in before lock down is eased...