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More than half those are kitchen knives. Mass hysteria and panic, everywhere.
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@No-Quarter said in British Politics:
The replies to that tweet are solid gold.
Just outstanding stuff.
It's funny as all hell..but consider this.
You write something 'edgy' on social media, like 'Islam is bad' or 'Women don't have a penis' etc. Enough to have the police to come around but not enough to have you charged, you get a little lippy at the ridiculousness of it all and they use that as just cause to do a weapons search of the house.
They find your massive weapons stash in the top kitchen drawer.
The Guardian/Mirror/Independent/Buzzfeed then release simultaneous articles on a white supremacist transphobe arrested with a weapons stash in central London.
Politicians then use this as evidence to further restrict freedoms and access to cutlery!
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
@jegga I'm guessing BBQ's are out of the question this summer too.
Also how much damage can an Epée do? If a bloke in a dark alley came at me with one of those I might actually laugh.I’d imagine @Bones being from Eastbourne sees an epee as a fighting knife .
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This is bloody annoying.. turns out everytime I call @Hooroo a spoon, I am actually calling him a weapon? FFS.
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@jegga said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
@jegga I'm guessing BBQ's are out of the question this summer too.
Also how much damage can an Epée do? If a bloke in a dark alley came at me with one of those I might actually laugh.I’d imagine @Bones being from Eastbourne sees an epee as a fighting knife .
How very dare you. I think you'll find sir that in my trusty hands, that's a wmd.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback but did you call him a big spoon or a little spoon!?
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There is like 64 'weapons' there. Of those only 2 you could even class as weapons and that's assuming they are sharp/made of a firm material..and considering this police farce are literally trying to palm off multiple bread knives as a weapons haul then I'd say there is a better than decent chance these aren't weapons either.
What the he'll is going on for them to think this was a good idea?
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
When you see it
edit.
Oh my god. I just realised these weren't taken from individuals..but a charity shop.
I wonder if the police are aware of the true scope of the weapons problem in the UK, I've heard rumours that every single UK resident has at least one if not multiple weapons of this magnitude.Is that little cutlass type thing a letter opener?
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@jegga said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
When you see it
edit.
Oh my god. I just realised these weren't taken from individuals..but a charity shop.
I wonder if the police are aware of the true scope of the weapons problem in the UK, I've heard rumours that every single UK resident has at least one if not multiple weapons of this magnitude.Is that little cutlass type thing a letter opener?
And steady on where you're waving that knife sheath. Especially if you're trying to sharpen the mini carving fork on the knife sharpener!
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Searches brain ... searches internet ... searches soul.
Nup, nothing I can do to defend Britain from TSF onslaught this time!
Thats because all your knives have been confiscated. And some of the forks too. And at least one spoon.
First they came for the knives and I did nothing because I was not a knife. Then they came for the forks and ...........
#cutlerypurge.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
There is like 64 'weapons' there. Of those only 2 you could even class as weapons and that's assuming they are sharp/made of a firm material..and considering this police farce are literally trying to palm off multiple bread knives as a weapons haul then I'd say there is a better than decent chance these aren't weapons either.
What the he'll is going on for them to think this was a good idea?
Again you see this massive disconnect between the establishment and normal people. Only someone completely removed from the world outside would think that this was a good idea
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
There is like 64 'weapons' there. Of those only 2 you could even class as weapons and that's assuming they are sharp/made of a firm material..and considering this police farce are literally trying to palm off multiple bread knives as a weapons haul then I'd say there is a better than decent chance these aren't weapons either.
What the he'll is going on for them to think this was a good idea?
Again you see this massive disconnect between the establishment and normal people. Only someone completely removed from the world outside would think that this was a good idea
I think of it as Trickle Down Bollox
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@booboo said in British Politics:
Surely "Regent Park Police" is a parody account?
You would hope so but no. Here is another gem from them.
One male processed for riding his moped on the foot path. He HAD to do it because the road was closed. Not good enough & dangerous. A fine will be coming his way in the post. When told to read the Highway Code the response was “what’s that,never heard of it
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@Salacious-Crumb said in British Politics:
More than half those are kitchen knives. Mass hysteria and panic, everywhere.
A kitchen knife is still a knife.
Good to see everyone missing the point in the rush to point the finger at perceived overkill and look clever.
The picture is NOT of confiscated weapons or even of items deemed illegal/dangerous by the police.
This is a collection of items that a charity shop doesn't want the responsibility selling (as they are staffed by volunteers) and the subsequent legalities around selling (age verification etc)To ridicule them for taking a sensible step and handing them to authorities for disposal is stupid.
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
@Crucial For some though, me certainly, the ridicule is the self congratulatory tweet. So what, you've picked up some junk from a charity shop when they asked you to do it. Hardly medals all round.
That's just usual PR shit as done by some young communications grad and totally to be expected.
Obviously tasked to try and show any positive toward knife crime.
I doubt that kind of OTT 'look at us' post is restricted to the Police. Some of the tweets the company I work for are cringeworthy rather than newsworthy as well.It was the 'ooh look there are kitchen knives in there' comments I was taking aim at.
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