O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

It feels like the police are making a rod for their own back. They must have felt they had to something differently because of the misinformation put about after Southport by amongst others Nigel Farage.

Heres an idea after all incidents of this type; how about people STFU speculating and let the police and any other relevant authorities do their job?

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Originally Posted by BigFatPie

It feels like the police are making a rod for their own back. They must have felt they had to something differently because of the misinformation put about after Southport by amongst others Nigel Farage.

Heres an idea after all incidents of this type; how about people STFU speculating and let the police and any other relevant authorities do their job?

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If only!

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Originally Posted by BigFatPie

It feels like the police are making a rod for their own back. They must have felt they had to something differently because of the misinformation put about after Southport by amongst others Nigel Farage.

Heres an idea after all incidents of this type; how about people STFU speculating and let the police and any other relevant authorities do their job?

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There's always going to be speculation - it's human nature. Apart from normal people being genuinely curious, some less well intentioned people will fill any gaps with malicious rumours designed to create chaos.

They're damned if they do and dawned if they don't to be honest. Yes, they've made a rod for their own back in the future, but had they just said "a ''XX-year old man is in custody" yesterday they would probably be dealing with riots in the short term.

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Originally Posted by drillerpie

There's always going to be speculation - it's human nature. Apart from normal people being genuinely curious, some less well intentioned people will fill any gaps with malicious rumours designed to create chaos.

They're damned if they do and dawned if they don't to be honest. Yes, they've made a rod for their own back in the future, but had they just said "a ''XX-year old man is in custody" yesterday they would probably be dealing with riots in the short term.

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Yes speculation is normal. But we are not just talking about Dave down the pub here. We are talking about the hot favourite to be the next PM. He should be asked at every opportunity about why he chose to disseminate misinformation from such dubious sources about such a sensitive matter. And whether someone who does that is fit to hold any sort of political office.

Aside from him all the usual suspects on the far right were falling over themselves yesterday to cause trouble over the Liverpool incident even in the short time before the police said what the background of the suspect was. As you say the police cant win.

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Originally Posted by upthemaggies

I'd be really shocked if he turned up with the intention of killing and/or injuring people, but he's mighty fortunate to not be facing man slaughter charges.

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Update:

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car was driven into a crowd in Liverpool on Monday, police say. The 53-year-old, from Liverpool's West Derby, has also been arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs and dangerous driving offences.

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Originally Posted by drillerpie

There's always going to be speculation - it's human nature. Apart from normal people being genuinely curious, some less well intentioned people will fill any gaps with malicious rumours designed to create chaos.

They're damned if they do and dawned if they don't to be honest. Yes, they've made a rod for their own back in the future, but had they just said "a ''XX-year old man is in custody" yesterday they would probably be dealing with riots in the short term.

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It appears a 53 year old man as been arrested for dangerous driving and under the influence of drugs and attempted murder.

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Originally Posted by BigFatPie

We are talking about the hot favourite to be the next PM. He should be asked at every opportunity about why he chose to disseminate misinformation from such dubious sources about such a sensitive matter. And whether someone who does that is fit to hold any sort of political office.

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Surely Nigel is the future. He's said he'll raise the tax threshold to 20K, he'll reintroduce the winter fuel payments, and he'll introduce more generous tax breaks for married people and scrap the two-child benefit limit. What could possibly go wrong?

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Surely Nigel is the future. He's said he'll raise the tax threshold to 20K, he'll reintroduce the winter fuel payments, and he'll introduce more generous tax breaks for married people and scrap the two-child benefit limit. What could possibly go wrong?

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He?s willing to say absolutely anything for money and or power. Including Up The Ra.

Let?s just hope the media start at least offering some scrutiny to their dodgy numbers.

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Originally Posted by upthemaggies

IIRC there was a report published on the police handing of the Southport case that concluded that it was a mistake to withheld information about the attacker, that it only encouraged the rumour mill and helped to inflame the situation and in future they need to be more transparent with what they know. So you should expect a full description in future - with cases of this nature. It's not always going to be immediately apparent what religion they are though.

Will be interesting to see if they arrest and charge the guy who broke the driver's window, that action may well have escalated the situation. That's not to excuse the driver. His was apparently the only car that attempted to get through the area via that route and expect people to move out of the way. He is stationary at one point before taking off into the more populated stretch, long enough for his door to be opened, so I'd be really shocked if he turned up with the intention of killing and/or injuring people, but he's mighty fortunate to not be facing man slaughter charges.

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It was very fortunate that no one died, including the driver. I wouldn't want to have driven into a load of slightly merry football fans, especially with what has happened elsewhere, with an intent by certain people to cause carnage at public events.

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Originally Posted by drillerpie

There's always going to be speculation - it's human nature. Apart from normal people being genuinely curious, some less well intentioned people will fill any gaps with malicious rumours designed to create chaos.

They're damned if they do and dawned if they don't to be honest. Yes, they've made a rod for their own back in the future, but had they just said "a ''XX-year old man is in custody" yesterday they would probably be dealing with riots in the short term.

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Well that's not true is it because hundreds of people will have seen the man and probably heard his voice as well.