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Reply | Town players as eponymous film titles, and a brief synopsis of the plot.
at 08:20 21 Jun 2025
Beat
A complex heist movie where the gang target the Buttermarket safety deposit boxes. Only to all fall apart as they are slowly pursued by the intense pressure of the unstoppable DCI Kevin Beattie. Sumptuous shots of a holiday cottage in Thorpeness jar against the gritty urban scenes between Crown Pools and the Curve bar. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 20:06 19 Jun 2025
Wouldn't be fair to say without something more detailed on that particular case.
People are also becoming wise after the event, even if there's nearly 15 years disconnect between the events and their analysis on here.
It could be that what was raised was badly worded, prejudicial or just not very clear and as it goes up the chain it gets harder to place in the right hands. It could be malevolence from an individual, or simply poor communication between agencies. All of those are possible.
The bigger issue is that one aspect such as being picked up by strange men happens in public, the school raises it but it no crime has been commited in that specific instance, and no one takes responsibility for it. One piece of the puzzle falls away here, and another falls away somewhere else.
We had a shisha bar in our community which was flagged a few years ago. It was letting in underage girls, was looked into and shut down. The easy assumption to make is that girls were groomed/attacked but it may have been a risk that was averted, rather than ignored. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 16:57 19 Jun 2025
Your article literally says teachers were discouraged from reporting.
The culture of turning a blind eye is not encouraged at all, in fact it can lead to serious sanctions and being banned from the classroom.
Your posts are offensive and ignorant, you again don’t present facts but seem to want a narrative that makes you feel better. It’s scummy and unsavoury to say the least. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 18:10 17 Jun 2025
I’m sure you were, and I simply don’t remember it. But if that’s so, it’s weird your tone on here and the last thread fit this pattern you’re now affronted by. I mean it’s not like you were gagged from expressing that, or your concern and expertise about what’s happening now.
I mean, it’s not like you chimed into this thread taking potshots at people and are now upset to be challenged on it. But, of course you’re not celebrating a win in your eyes and are concerned for the victims first and foremost. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 17:54 17 Jun 2025
Probably not hiding the child sex offences amongst his ranks and close friends. Maybe actually campaigning on a platform that joined those looking at child protection as a whole, he was only interested in monetising content and raising his profile.
There was nothing in SYLs crusade that was for the victims, it was exploitative and cynical at its most base. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 17:50 17 Jun 2025
It’s not abuse is it? Your tone on here is staggering. Almost celebratory- this isn’t some minor party issue, this is serious sexual assault and you’re trying to keep score with dishonesty thrown in to the mix.
Literally no one has said this was “invented” by the far right, but the misinformation, ignorance and rhetoric certainly was.
The fact you keep trying to muddy people on here and still couldn’t explain why you weren’t critical of the situation under the previous government is incredibly telling. If you’re going to parrot the far right talking point and attack lines towards people, you can’t then be dismayed and affronted when you’re called out on it.
This isn’t an issue where anybody wins, but your behaviour now and the last time it was discussed is pretty sickening. If you can’t see that, fair enough, but there’s a few on here that seem to want to exploit the plight of victims and speak for them a little too readily as to be distasteful. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 17:30 17 Jun 2025
Andrew Norfolk? (RIP)
A brilliant piece of investigative journalism and whose work should be widely shared and read by everyone. He’s the forgotten man who can no longer speak on this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ge33q71q7o.amp
If you’re trying to suggest Yaxley Lennon was “calling this out” for any other reason than racism and a distraction from deep rooted child sex offences in the EDL and his friendship groups, that’s way wide of the mark. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 17:24 17 Jun 2025
Whilst I see lowhouse is trumpeting the weaponising of grooming gangs, much like the far right have been, I’m still yet to see these people explain why a new inquiry was needed instead of the recommendations being implemented from the last one. Why there was no anger or calls towards the Tories who buried it and tried to send it into the long grass.
I can’t decide if Labours recent attempts to call their bluff now is a long term election strategy or panic. But the crackpot on here going on about teachers specifically clearly doesn’t know how safeguarding works in schools, or the amount of stuff we’ve had to do since these crimes. The lack of joined up thinking towards the politics and the on the ground practice is depressing.
The desire for blood I get, but there seems little talk of justice or restorative practice here or in the media. A minority here, and on social media, seem to want their own personal victory or satisfaction in this issue and that’s terrifying in the main. |
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Reply | Blue Action Tifo’s 2025/26
at 22:08 16 Jun 2025
You're allowed to do all of those. I'm not the one getting teary and downarrowing everything in sight. You just sound incredibly selfish and entitled is all. |
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Reply | Blue Action Tifo’s 2025/26
at 20:42 16 Jun 2025
Mate, the team are walking on the pitch - they do it every week. This whole being happy to be in the Prem and it all being happy just to be there, acting like tourists etc was the one thing that made this season sh1te.
Like I said, if you want that, don't sit in the North stand then moan. |
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Thread | Reforms record reads like an update to that Henry VIII rhyme
at 18:12 16 Jun 2025
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-councillors-expelled-suspended
After reading this and hearing Zia’s complete car crash on the newsagents following his temporary resignation, it’s worrying how they’ll take anyone and not vet them. He got absolutely eviscerated but the simplest questions and just talked in corporate nonsense, or shouted over the interviewer.
As easy as it is to laugh at these crackpots, the nasty racist core they all orbit around is nothing but bad for our country.
I’ve been really disappointed to see Starmer treat them like the opposition and not the fringe party they are. |
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Reply | Blue Action Tifo’s 2025/26
at 17:56 16 Jun 2025
Really? If seeing players walking out is a novelty or important for someone they must live a charmed life. If the game was in play etc sure, but people thinking they aren’t part of the atmosphere, spectacle etc when it suits is typical of fans nowadays.
I get the North is full of grizzly old dears and that, but if you stand there you shouldn’t be expecting a vicars tea party. It’s what kills the atmosphere for me. Either retire gracefully to another stand or put up with it I say.
That’s why away days are so good when we are on it. Proper fan interaction when it works is brilliant. |
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Reply | I'm going for 15-0 here
at 17:25 15 Jun 2025
As a former Auckland resident, I don’t remember FC at all or an equivalent, there was only Wellington Phoenix and a friendly when Beckham came to town (maybe LA galaxy I’m presuming)
This is such a weird spectacle, I can’t imagine it does much to establish football in the Kiwi national mindset either. |
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Reply | Josh Brownhill - Burnley….
at 09:20 15 Jun 2025
Would be an amazing coup, I thought he was excellent at Brizzle. I also assumed there'd be no chance, quality player and would add some leadership. |
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Reply | Emmental Cheese
at 13:15 14 Jun 2025
You believed marketing and advertising people, that’s on you. |
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