Clown Job Posted October 9, 2022 Author Share Posted October 9, 2022 I read this as more of an excuse to jail poor people 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 In the years ahead, you can expect to see more attempts made to lock up as many paupers as possible. Might take a while, as the Conservative Party is almost certain to need a wee time-out to allow Labour to get blamed for the effects of their policies. When the bill becomes too high, the jails will be privately run, with the inmates performing forced labour to pay for the costs of their own incarceration. Who needs people working for their £80 a week when you can have slaves grinding out their food and board. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 9 minutes ago, BFTD said: In the years ahead, you can expect to see more attempts made to lock up as many paupers as possible. Might take a while, as the Conservative Party is almost certain to need a wee time-out to allow Labour to get blamed for the effects of their policies. When the bill becomes too high, the jails will be privately run, with the inmates performing forced labour to pay for the costs of their own incarceration. Who needs people working for their £80 a week when you can have slaves grinding out their food and board. IIRC Peterhead Prison was built by prisoners. Making cannabis Class A because it might lead to hard drugs is like banning the Daily Mail because it might lead to Fascism Hmm ... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Clown Job said: I read this as more of an excuse to jail poor people I look forward to Duterte style death squads cleaning up the streets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 5 minutes ago, coprolite said: I look forward to Duterte style death squads cleaning up the streets. They could at least do the decent thing and implement suicide booths for the folk they'd like to squeeze out of existence. Knowing the Tories, they'd only include the "slow and horrible" option, the dirty b*****ds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 I'd impose stricter laws on skunk. I used to regularly smoke hash but the stench o' skunk in a close is nasty as f**k. It seems to come through every wall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 1 minute ago, BFTD said: They could at least do the decent thing and implement suicide booths for the folk they'd like to squeeze out of existence. Knowing the Tories, they'd only include the "slow and horrible" option, the dirty b*****ds. I don't see why hard working taxpayers should have to fund humane termination for undesirables. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Clown Job said: I read this as more of an excuse to jail poor people Always thought cannabis was used more by the middle classes. I agree with her as it is a gateway drug to the harder stuff. Seems like you want decriminalisation? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Jesus f**k. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 She is a hypocrite. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 32 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Always thought cannabis was used more by the middle classes. I agree with her as it is a gateway drug to the harder stuff. Seems like you want decriminalisation? Calpol was my gateway drug. Should make that class A. Around the world more enlightened countries (and also the US) are going down the decriminalisation route. Why the f**k would we go down the route of further prohibition when the war on drugs has been such an utter failure? It's a nonsense spouted by reactionary arseholes with no real thoughts in their head. Braverman is the worst for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 51 minutes ago, coprolite said: I look forward to Duterte style death squads cleaning up the streets. Suella Braverman dreams of this when she's not dreaming of flying immigrants to Rwanda. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 1 hour ago, BFTD said: In the years ahead, you can expect to see more attempts made to lock up as many paupers as possible. Might take a while, as the Conservative Party is almost certain to need a wee time-out to allow Labour to get blamed for the effects of their policies. When the bill becomes too high, the jails will be privately run, with the inmates performing forced labour to pay for the costs of their own incarceration. Who needs people working for their £80 a week when you can have slaves grinding out their food and board. Using prisoners as slave labour has been going on in USA for years. In California they use them as the fire service but when they leave prison they can't become firemen, so much for rehabilitation 38 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Always thought cannabis was used more by the middle classes. I agree with her as it is a gateway drug to the harder stuff. Seems like you want decriminalisation? People who say it's the gateway drug know very little about it. Dealers make very little from it and would prefer and do offer harder (more profitable) drugs as they want more return, its all they are in it for. Cannabis should be legalised and the tax from it would be a welcome and considerable boost to public services. It would also mean it is taken out of hands of unscrupulous dealers who push harder drugs, so therefore increase the drug problem. I'm am an ex smoker and have seen the full picture. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 11 minutes ago, Father Ted said: Using prisoners as slave labour has been going on in USA for years. In California they use them as the fire service but when they leave prison they can't become firemen, so much for rehabilitation Aye, that's how I know it's coming! Nae danger of the Conservatives coming up with their own ideas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Can Braverman reclassify Cannabis from Class B to A on her own or would she have to get it passed through parliament? Is she serious or is this just an attempt to give DPB a semi and the opening shot in the race to be next Tory leader? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 1 minute ago, btb said: Can Braverman reclassify Cannabis from Class B to A on her own or would she have to get it passed through parliament? Is she serious or is this just an attempt to give DPB a semi and the opening shot in the race to be next Tory leader? I think she can, Blunkett downgraded it to Class C mostly off his own bat. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-decision-to-downgrade-cannabis-from-a-class-b-drug-to-class-c-drug If it’s an opening shot, it’s into her own face. Legalization’s very popular in the US, even in states which have large amounts of right wing loonballs (Oregon, Michigan, Nevada). The remaining opponents argument is ‘something something Jesus’ which doesn’t really fly in Blighty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 1 minute ago, carpetmonster said: 1. I think she can, Blunkett downgraded it to Class C mostly off his own bat. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-decision-to-downgrade-cannabis-from-a-class-b-drug-to-class-c-drug 2. If it’s an opening shot, it’s into her own face. Legalization’s very popular in the US, even in states which have large amounts of right wing loonballs (Oregon, Michigan, Nevada). The remaining opponents argument is ‘something something Jesus’ which doesn’t really fly in Blighty. 1. Fairy Nuff. 2 Get what you're saying but she may be pitching at the geriatocracy which elects Tory party leaders. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, btb said: 2 Get what you're saying but she may be pitching at the geriatocracy which elects Tory party leaders. That’s also a fair point. I think I’ve been reading the fever dreams about them installing Sunak as caretaker and working it whatever way to bypass having to go to the Tory membership and taking it as read for ‘new leader’ - obvs wouldn’t be the case if there was more than one candidate and surely even the Tories wouldn’t let Braverman stand unopposed. ETA - he said, with absolutely no degree of confidence. Edited October 9, 2022 by carpetmonster 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Boo Khaki Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Only a matter of time before 'perhaps we need to have a discussion about bringing back Capital punishment' sneaks back in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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