All links to the UK police are blocked, even those from https://www.gov.uk/contact-police...

Both links work fine for me. I suspect they are just blocked from IP addresses outside of UK.

Both links work fine for me. I suspect they are just blocked from IP addresses outside of UK.

If I try using Tor browser to access the links, I am blocked which seems to confirm they are not allowing access from outside of the UK.

Same here when trying to reach https://www.met.police.uk/

They are clearly blocking access from outside of the UK.

Edit: Hmm, when trying again, an automatic Cludflare "verify", that I'm not a robot, and a security check, suddenly pops up, and then I'm able to reach the page, without having to do anything, but just wait for a few seconds.

Edit, added: I'm using Cloudflares DNS 1.1.1.1, and 1.0.0.1

Lots of days......

I wonder if we dare to talk about the U.S election, without the thread exploding?

When does the riot start?

10 minutes after the closing on the 5th.

I dread the thought of going through it all again if Trump loses! Almost as bad as if he wins.

If Trump wins, there's going to be hell for the next 4-years, for the entire democratic Western world.
If Harris wins, Trump and his followers will start hell immediately in the U.S. of A.

Interesting days ahead, starting tomorrow.

Interesting days ahead, starting tomorrow.

Or in about a week's time after all the legal challenges!

Oh dear.

In reply to Dave's message of 6 Nov 2024:

Oh dear.

Oh dear, indeed.
4 years of chaos again, sigh. This time, G7, and WTO, as well as the membership in NATO for the U.S. is on the table,
I wouldn't be surprised, if Trump wants to leave G7, WTO, and NATO, and bring the U.S into the Russia ruled BRICS instead.

And when it comes to Ukraine, Trump will try to force Ukraine into a very bad deal with Russia. It's going to be up to a more and
more divided EU, to increase the military help to the Ukraine. I have my doubts that EU will be able and willing to do that.

And with the Supreme Court, and now the Senate in his hands (don't know about the House yet), it's even more likely that Trump
will be able to rule as the Dictator he always wanted to be.

So, bad news all over, as a result of this election.

Three things frighten me about this:

1. The mainstream media completely failed to see this coming. There were hundreds of polls, but any of them that even hinted at this were sidelined and ignored.
   
2. The number of American voters that simply lap up tRump's assertions that he, personally, put everything back to rights with the powers at his disposal. As Britain (well, the Conservative party) discovered during Brexit, you can't change the behaviour of other countries by simply passing laws on your own side of the frontier: you have to negotiate and persuade as well.
   
3. tRump ignores the reasoning behind some of the policies he wants to reverse - notably Net Zero. If the USA goes back to polluting beyond the carrying capacity of the planet, that will rebound on the USA. I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.
   

In reply to Richard Haselgrove's message of 6 Nov 2024:

Three things frighten me about this:

1. The mainstream media completely failed to see this coming. There were hundreds of polls, but any of them that even hinted at this were sidelined and ignored.
   
2. The number of American voters that simply lap up tRump's assertions that he, personally, put everything back to rights with the powers at his disposal. As Britain (well, the Conservative party) discovered during Brexit, you can't change the behaviour of other countries by simply passing laws on your own side of the frontier: you have to negotiate and persuade as well.
   
3. tRump ignores the reasoning behind some of the policies he wants to reverse - notably Net Zero. If the USA goes back to polluting beyond the carrying capacity of the planet, that will rebound on the USA. I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.
   

Yeah, I forgot about the climate crisis. Of course, Trump will for the second time immediately take the U.S out of the Paris Agreement. Remember, Trump, his followers, and large parts of the Republican party, do not believe in climate change. No matter how many large hurricanes, or other climate events, that hits the U.S, and the world, they will continue to say it's all a part of the natural climate cycle. After all, they do believe that climate change is a hoax, and the scientists are all part of a huge conspiracy.

It's bad, really, really bad....

I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.

What is needed is for one to hit Mar-a-Lago. Ideally, well I could make a list of those who could do with being there at the time.

In reply to Dave's message of 6 Nov 2024:

I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.

What is needed is for one to hit Mar-a-Lago. Ideally, well I could make a list of those who could do with being there at the time.

Only after he dismantles FEMA!

No, I don't like what's going on in Amsterdam. It's still happening.

For you Brits.

Petition

Call a General Election

I would like there to be another General Election.
I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143

Sadly, under our current 'first past the post' electoral system, that could only have two possible outcomes:

1) The current lot stay in power, probably with a reduced majority.
2) The last lot get back in, which would be infinitely worse.

We don't do coalition governments, even during wartime. There was a brief flirtation between 2010 - 2015, but the Liberal Democrats got their fingers badly burnt by the experiment, and they won't want to repeat the experience for another century or two.

In reply to Richard Haselgrove's message of 24 Nov 2024:

Sadly, under our current 'first past the post' electoral system, that could only have two possible outcomes:

1) The current lot stay in power, probably with a reduced majority.
2) The last lot get back in, which would be infinitely worse.

We don't do coalition governments, even during wartime. There was a brief flirtation between 2010 - 2015, but the Liberal Democrats got their fingers badly burnt by the experiment, and they won't want to repeat the experience for another century or two.

Agreed. And despite some across the pond describing Labour as, "Far left" Starmer is more in Blair's mould and, "Tony Blair MP" is rather aptly an anagram of, "I'm Tory Plan B."