"A reminder.
After the August 2011 riots in the U.K., police & my prosecutors examined all the video evidence for MONTHS identifying & bringing offenders to justice - 1000s of them
Some didn’t get arrested till a year later!
Prison was the usual sentence.
My boss was someone called Keir Starmer."
Nazir Afzal,
Former Chief Public Prosecutor,
U.K.
In the U.K. the regional Police and Crime Comissioners are elected.
The pro is that people get to participate in the local electoral process and choose how policing is led.
The con is that you get people like Tory councillor Donna Jones in Hampshire elected who has no policing experience, has no idea of the issues and is more interested in inflaming the situation further by sending out populist right wing bat signals to her mates.
She has to go.
Recycling of materials has always had a role in construction (underpinning architectural salvage shops/dealers around the country), but what if we widened such efforts so at dismantle all buildings at the end of their lives rather than just demolish them?
The re-use of generic (rather than specialist) material(s) is one key aspect of turning construction greener, requires no special equipment; just time & effort.
An interesting proposal?
#construction #recycling
https://theconversation.com/demolishing-buildings-is-bad-for-the-planet-heres-an-alternative-223596
I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...
Hmmm... I can just imagine what these business owners say about 'benefit cheats;, while all the time claiming tax credits for innovations that are very much not.....
As always, when businesses defraud such schemes its seen as an error, or unfortunate; when the poor are even suspected of doing something similar they are treated like criminals & forced through ever more stringent checks.
Its (once again), one law for you & another one for us...
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