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19 Mar, 9 tweets, 3 min read
A drunken off-duty police officer who attacked a terrified woman as she walked home alone was allowed to walk free from court.

PC Oliver Banfield, a probationary officer with West Midlands Police, grabbed Emma Homer on a dark street last July.
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/d…
“He used techniques taught during police training to try to tackle the mum-of-two to the ground and put her in a headlock” and called her “slag”.

Wait for it...

Wait for it.

He was spared gaol AND is STILL working for West Midlands POLICE.

WTF?
“A court heard the 25-year-old remains in his post with West Midlands Police despite admitting a charge of assault by beating.”

Surely, SURELY this cannot be true?
To be clear. I would be VERY surprised if he does not now lose his job.

What surprises me is that he is still in post all this time. What message is that sending to the community?
As for not getting Community Service to “spare him” the “difficulty of working with criminals.

The very VERY best thing for him would be to have to work with FELLOW criminals and experience their disdain.
Dear God.

This is a bit of the footage from the attack on @Channel4News

Crystal clear he is making himself out to be police.

What are we all to think?

How are we safe? Her children? Her friends?

What must decent fellow police officers feel?

Devastated. All of them
I’ve got to say, he might have been affected by drink but his diction is pretty clear. Doesn’t sound THAT drunk to me.

Did the court see this?

If so WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
It SEEMS this is the same judge.

Judge NICK WATSON.

Let’s NOT forget that name.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Mar
It’s the Gov behind the flag that induces shame

The flag can be taken to represent who we are.

Under the current regime that is untrustworthy, untruthful, destructive, reckless, harmful to its own citizens.

A different, better, more ethical, competent Gov could change that PDQ
Performative, tacky, needy, nationalism is no replacement for competent, ethical, trustworthy, patriotism and we don’t have that right now.

I hope that will change
To be clear. I am very proud of specific British people who speak up with clarity and courage about how Government actions are slowly (and sometimes very quickly) are strangling the very best of British in products, arts, fashion, professional services, trade.
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19 Mar
@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress It’s the Gov behind the flag that induces shame

The flag can be taken to represent who we are.

Under the current regime that is untrustworthy, untruthful, destructive, reckless, harmful to its own citizens.

A different, better, more ethical, competent Gov could change that PDQ
@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress Performative nationalism is no replacement for competent, ethical, trustworthy patriotism and we don’t have that right now.

I hope that will change
@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress To be clear. I’m v. proud of specific British people who speak up with clarity & courage about how Government actions are slowly (and sometimes very quickly) are strangling the very best of British in products, arts, fashion, professional services, trade.

Patriotism in action.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Mar
“In wave 2, living with children was associated with an increased risk of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection and covid-19 related hospital admission but was not associated with ICU admission.”

Of course it is the resulting onward transmission that further increases risk.
Interestingly “Living with children aged 0-11 years was associated with a reduced risk of death from covid-19 in both wave 1 and wave 2; we observed no increase in risk of death for those living with older children.”
Not SO surprising in that parents of younger children are likely to be younger & less vulnerable.

The risk of increased hospitalisation & deaths lies in the greater risk of onward transmission to more vulnerable people.

More transmission = eventually more hospitalisation/death
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Mar
Worth remembering, with all the vaccine spats that countries are all understandably very worried.

Look at these data from @Care2much18 (👏👏👏) on EU countries right now. Estonia has a population of under 1.4 million so 1.7k cases are like our worst day ever. 80k.
Czech Republic has under 11 mill citizens so 11,928 cases is equiv to nearly 70k here.

Poland, Hungary and Belgium (beware!) despite the earlier brutal waves will have to work hard to reverse an accelerating trend... as will France & Germany amongst others.
B.1.1.7 is a bugger and can reverse fortunes very quickly ..including here in the U.K.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Mar
“Despite the fiendishly difficult situation, and the lack of numbers that mean they can’t deal with almost any reported incidents of violence against women, the police have found the resources to protect the most vulnerable part of our society: statues.”

👏👏@mrmarksteel
“It is a dilemma we all face in our lives. You’re walking up the street, perhaps to get some bread and milk, and you see a group of mourners outside a church, remembering someone they loved. At that moment, we face a fiendishly difficult choice.”
“Do we pass by respectfully, or do we grab one of them, shove them face down on the floor, and handcuff them behind their back before hurling them into a van? These are the desperately awkward decisions the police are faced with.”

The answer was staring us in the face!
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17 Mar
Cummings wants to turn the UK into the ‘home of science’ – but ignored all scientists re lockdown

People tend to forget this because he has no qualifications beyond a BA in history has never done so much as an hour’s paid work in any kind of science job
independent.co.uk/voices/dominic…
“Another reason people tend to forget that Dominic Cummings is a scientist is because there are no actual scientists anywhere in the UK who think Brexit is anything other than the most damaging thing that’s ever happened to their industry.”
As for his latest money milking machine, ARPA...

I mean, that really was the reason for all those Brexit lies, wasn’t it?
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