What's his evidence going to be?

Yeah it was entirely social, didn't see any work being done while I was peering in through a fackin kitchen window.

I bet if I peer in through the kitchen window of any place of work I won't see people working ffs.

It's Delingpole's son isn't it?

Think the police can tell he's lying

I used to live round the corner from Christopher Pincher for a short period when I bought my first house. I was once invited to a BBQ party by a neighbour where he was present. He was a bit of a pr ick so I avoided him, but by the sounds of it, I was lucky I wasn't sexually assaulted.

Six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by former Conservative deputy chief whip Chris Pincher have emerged, days after he was suspended from the party for allegedly groping two men.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62025612

More allegations stretching back a decade coming out against him now.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 19 minutes ago
It's Delingpole's son isn't it?

Think the police can tell he's lying
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I think it’s more likely this.

Practically, rather than, “We think that any fines may be contested, so would you be prepared to repeat your allegations in court?”

It’s, “We think your story is a load of bollox, sonny. Would you be prepared to repeat it under oath?”

Over the past few years, doctors in California have begun to voice concerns about the repercussions of increasing cannabis use. In particular, how the laissez-faire approach is fuelling a surge in addiction and mental illness.

Many are particularly concerned about Los Angeles, where teenagers use the drug more often than in any other Californian city.

I spent a week travelling across LA and beyond, meeting emergency doctors in the eye of the storm, as well as devastated parents who say their families have been torn apart by cannabis.

Part of my journey followed in the footsteps of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who recently visited a number of LA's dispensaries on a 'fact finding mission'. He announced that a new group would be set up to look at the benefits of legalising cannabis in the UK, although Home Secretary Priti Patel dismissed the suggestion, saying he had 'no powers' to make any such changes.

Perhaps Khan would benefit from a chat with Dr Roneet Lev, an emergency doctor at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, who tells me: 'We've been seeing the problems for a while now: depressive breakdowns, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, all related to cannabis. The patients are regular people, not down-and-outs.

'I want people to know the truth about this drug. We've been sold a lie, that cannabis use is harmless and even has a multitude of health benefits. It is exactly the same as what happened with tobacco. The industry told the public it was good for their health at first, before it was proven to be deadly.'

In California, hospital admissions for cannabis-related complications have shot up – from 1,400 in 2005 to 16,000 by 2019. In California, and the other 18 states that have legalised cannabis, rates of addiction are nearly 40 per cent higher than states without legal cannabis, according to research by Columbia University.

A study published on Thursday suggested recreational marijuana users were 25 per cent more likely to end up needing emergency hospital treatment. And, according to data from the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System, the risk of being involved in a cannabis-related accident is significantly higher in states where the drug is legal.

There are other concerns too, not least about the black market that has grown by nearly 100 per cent since cannabis laws were relaxed, as bootleggers sell products at a lower price, undercutting the registered shops.

Experts say these problems are mostly down to record levels of cannabis use – with roughly 40 per cent of Californians now saying they've dabbled at least once, according to a California Department of Public Health survey.

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Can not be allowed to be legalised. Not sure why Khan is even still suggesting it once again this weekend. Especially given he’s asthmatic and is pushing for ULEZ to clean the air up, but what, wants it replaced with marijuana ffs

If he wants places like north London and east London to be green and smell nice and take away the fried chicken and sewage smell then plant more trees and/or flowers. Statistically they both have 1/3rd and 1/4 of the amount of the amount of Shrubbery, Trees and flowers that West & South London have, and 1/10th of Surrey just outside

Lovely day for a smoke this 😎✌️

Marijuana plantations then?

We were one of the biggest producers of legal cannabis but think other more forward thinking nations have taken the lead now while we've dragged our feet and political discourse has been bogged down by a useless PM and his useless brexit

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
I used to live round the corner from Christopher Pincher for a short period when I bought my first house. I was once invited to a BBQ party by a neighbour where he was present. He was a bit of a pr ick so I avoided him, but by the sounds of it, I was lucky I wasn't sexually assaulted.
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if a bloke tried to sexually assault me, he'd end up on a drip in hospital

Can't believe how these weirdos get away with it without serious damage to themselves

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
I used to live round the corner from Christopher Pincher for a short period when I bought my first house. I was once invited to a BBQ party by a neighbour where he was present. He was a bit of a pr ick so I avoided him, but by the sounds of it, I was lucky I wasn't sexually assaulted.
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if a bloke tried to sexually assault me, he'd end up on a drip in hospital

Can't believe how these weirdos get away with it without serious damage to themselves
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Of course they would, tough guy.

I can't believe a self confessed sexual predator like Pincher is still in a job.

I certainly wouldn't be.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
I can't believe a self confessed sexual predator like Pincher is still in a job.

I certainly wouldn't be.
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Rob Roberts was found guilty of sexual harassment and is still allowed to be an MP. Politics is the one profession that allows you to get away with murder.

comment by Ignacio Varga (U11781)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
I can't believe a self confessed sexual predator like Pincher is still in a job.

I certainly wouldn't be.
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Rob Roberts was found guilty of sexual harassment and is still allowed to be an MP. Politics is the one profession that allows you to get away with murder.
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There's a murderer in Parliament?

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Ignacio Varga (U11781)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
I can't believe a self confessed sexual predator like Pincher is still in a job.

I certainly wouldn't be.
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Rob Roberts was found guilty of sexual harassment and is still allowed to be an MP. Politics is the one profession that allows you to get away with murder.
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There's a murderer in Parliament?
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The PM and his cabinet definitely when it came to locking us down late 2 years ago.

Or trebling the rate at which people with disabilities were dieing overnight by cutting their PiP

I don’t know if I’m the only one who missed this, but apparently in media guidance sent to NHS trusts last year, the Department of Health and Social Care said a "new hospital” can be defined as:

1. A whole new hospital on a new site or current NHS land (what you could correctly call, in English, a “new hospital” )

2. A major new clinical building on an existing site or a new wing of an existing hospital (what you could correctly call, in English, an “extension of an existing hospital” )

3. A major refurbishment and alteration of all but the building frame or main structure (what you could correctly call, in English, a “renovation of an existing hospital” )

Unless the definition of the word ‘new’ in the English language has been changed and I’ve missed that too, 2. and 3. do patently and inarguably not represent “new hospitals” in any way.

The media just can't help themselves can they!

A guy in his 50's goes out gets ratarsed and behaves inappropriately and somehow that's somebody else's fault. I have a team of men and women that I manage (many of whom I have employed) and how they behave socially is on them not me.

Like many I think the pm should be long gone but the determination to blame him for everything and anything is ridiculous.

Had this been a Labour mp would Starmer be getting the blame?

"Pincher by name, pincher by nature" is how the PM described him previously.

I'm finding Bojo's faux shock and surprise hilarious.

comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted about 2 hours ago
The media just can't help themselves can they!

A guy in his 50's goes out gets ratarsed and behaves inappropriately and somehow that's somebody else's fault. I have a team of men and women that I manage (many of whom I have employed) and how they behave socially is on them not me.

Like many I think the pm should be long gone but the determination to blame him for everything and anything is ridiculous.

Had this been a Labour mp would Starmer be getting the blame?
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If Starmer employed someone to a senior position who he knew had a history of groping and sexual assault and joked about it to other people; then I would be perfectly happy for him to get flack for it like the PM is if allegations surfaced.

I genuinely thought pawl was going to go a whole post without mentioning Starmer

Labour ready to fight Johnson over effects of Brexit, says Starmer https://t.co/HuaJX0AzJY

Oh good

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
I genuinely thought pawl was going to go a whole post without mentioning Starmer
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I don't fully get Pawl's argument to be honest. No one is blaming Johnson for Pincher's groping as Pawl has implied. They are blaming him for putting him in a senior position whilst knowing about his past allegations.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 27 minutes ago
Labour ready to fight Johnson over effects of Brexit, says Starmer https://t.co/HuaJX0AzJY

Oh good
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If your plan is about “making Brexit work” for Britain, and rejoining the SM and CU isn’t at the heart of it, you’d better re-market your plan, because the first is absolutely dependent on the second.

“Someone has stolen the engine out of my car!”
“dOnT woRrY wE cAn StIlL mAkE iT rUn FiNe!”

No, no you can’t. There are three choices I can see for any of the UK parties:

- Straight up lie to the public and tell them that there are changes that can be made without rejoining the SM and CU that might make any kind of material impact on the economic future of the country outside the EU. (This appears to be Labour’s current position.)

- Tell the public that the only practical way to materially improve the economic future of the country outside the EU is to rejoin the SM and CU, but that the result of the ref was the result of the ref, the current TA is about as good as we’re going to get, and we basically have no option without rejoining the SM and CU but to suck it up and focus elsewhere.

- Tell the public that the only practical way to materially improve the economic future of the country outside the EU is to rejoin the SM and CU, and that [insert party] will look to do so.

^ We facking knew this would happen before the referendum, just to remind everyone - we knew that leaving the SM and CU would absolutely whack Britain economically, and that there was, and there could be, no practical alternative that would prevent or even materially ameliorate the damage it would do. None.

We knew this because economists and academics on both sides of the divide, including the govt’s own advisers, told us so.

We’ve all known it for the best part of a decade, and it’s beyond time that politicians of all colours stopped pretending that they know better.