| Topic: Brutal knife attack in Belfast |
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| 61. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sun 21st Jun 2026. 15:41 Dandy Warhol, Sun 21 Jun 08:17 ☝🏻 ultimately that’s it. Yet the same faces on both sides making political statements and a whole bunch of parrots and seals echo their noise COYP Reply |
| 62. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Sun 21st Jun 2026. 16:46 This has only become a whataboutery thread because for some unknown reason the crime of hacking away at people who may have looked like possibly being Muslim with a blade by a white man didn`t warrant getting its own thread started. In fact I`ve heard very little on the news about this , certainly in comparison to if it had been a brown skinned man hacking away at people he thought were Christians. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 63. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sun 21st Jun 2026. 19:16 The One Who Knocks, Sun 21 Jun 16:46 It’s just more whataboutery though Why in my opinion hasn’t this stabbing had more news coverage than that stabbing? And let’s be honest, it’s always slanted the way that causes the most outrage. The issue to me is the stabbing in the first place. I also think the motivations behind the stabbings (especially the Edinburgh and Belfast ones) are basically moronic. You can’t look at a video of a boy running up and down the street topless with a knife and think that guys of sound mind. Same as watching someone trying to behead someone with a Stanley knife. He’s obviously wired up wrong. Both individuals need dealt with but both cases are being politicised by basically every politician and political commentator and it’s not achieving anything. It’s just noise. COYP Reply |
| 64. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sun 21st Jun 2026. 20:15 The Edinburgh stabbing is arguably worse - he made his way from Broomhouse (where he stabbed 2 men post evening prayers) to Crewe Toll (where he attacked a taxi), on to ferry Road (where he flipped shelves in the BP) then onto Leith Walk where he caused carnage attacking 3 more men. Where were the police in all this? It took place over a half hour period throughout the city…..worrying knowing I was in those areas a couple of hours later working on my own. Reply |
| 65. Author: twin par Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 00:22 That’s a very good question,where were the police? That area is rife with crime. Reply |
| 66. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 11:13 twin par, Mon 22 Jun 00:22 It was a fairly big area he covered but I`m pretty sure there`s still an police station at Gayfield. It`s interesting how the different stabbings have been reported. Reply |
| 67. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 11:30 jake89, Mon 22 Jun 11:13 Theres the old police college at Fettes, which is now a station…..right smack bang in the middle of it all and 30 seconds from the 2 petrol stations 😂 also one on Ferry Road in Drylaw…. Post Edited (Mon 22 Jun 11:31) Reply |
| 68. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 12:13 Want a better police force? Need to drop the net zero and DEI stuff while also increasing their funding. Right now all they can do is cherry pick low hanging fruits. Steal something from a shop - get away with it. Say something slightly controversial that may or may not breach the online safety act 2023 or the Hate crime and Public order (Scotland) act 2021 and there’s a fair chance someone will chap your door. They already had the Communications Act 2003 but the 2 mentioned previously make things much less transparent and much easier to use. COYP Reply |
| 69. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 12:33 Net Zero is 0.2% of the UK GDP. Public Sector Reform will see even bigger cuts to save money in the public sector. Reply |
| 70. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 13:03 jake89, Mon 22 Jun 12:33 Net zero is £75k for 2 charging stations at a police station that didn’t have any electric vehicles or any room in the budget to buy vehicles. I can’t tell you where or how I know but that’s what it was. BTW £75k is ridiculous for charging stations but the demands for H&S, documentation, sign offs and design changes total up to £75k Im all for looking after the planet, cutting down on pollution but net zero in reality isn’t what it’s been sold as. COYP Reply |
| 71. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 13:18 NMCmassive, Mon 22 Jun 13:03 So that £75k does 2 charging stations for what? Life? Unless, of course, they get damaged/need repaired. That £75k would get you 2 officers for a year - just. Or one officer for 2 years. Don’t think a couple of charging ports are the issue tbh. Post Edited (Mon 22 Jun 13:18) Reply |
| 72. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 13:27 Dave_1885, Mon 22 Jun 13:18 Yeah, cos net zero spending stopped at £75k… Put it this way, most Friday nights in Dunfermline there’s 1 squad of police on duty. 1 squad = 2 police in 1 car. COYP Reply |
| 73. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 22nd Jun 2026. 17:30 £75k for two charging stations suggests crap procurement by Police Scotland if that`s the correct price. Imagine it costs more for commercial ones, but residential ones are under a grand to install. If all stations were to have two, presumably there are economies of scale? From what I can see online the cost should have been closer to £40k but Police Scotland run a fleet of Hyundai Kona`s so need to charge them somewhere. Reply |
| 74. Author: Dandy Warhol Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 09:13 So, white guy attacks "terrorist incident". A doctor or an engineer, it`s a mental health episode. Thank goodness i`m permanently leaving this country because we`re being gaslit left right and centre, it`s an utter clown show. I don`t wanna go down like disco. Reply |
| 75. Author: ipswichpar Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 09:17 I assume you aren`t moving to Jerusalem? Reply |
| 76. Author: NMCmassive Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 10:42 jake89, Mon 22 Jun 17:30 Each station procures for its own needs. Doesn’t work at scale because the install and infrastructure are different at each station. Also add in the costs for CDM and associated regs plus H&S and you get £75k for 2 chargers. Apparently it’s all in the name of sustainability. COYP Reply |
| 77. Author: NMCmassive Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 10:49 Dandy Warhol, Tue 23 Jun 09:13 The double standards are shocking. I think it’s the same throughout Europe/the west at the minute. The only reason I can find is they’re simply chasing a GDP number so they can borrow more at a lower rate - basically kicking the financial can down the road a little further. Each kick gets heavier though. Add on top things like celebrating the shutting down of Grangemouth as a great moment for “Green” something or other and then having to import the same amount of materials from elsewhere. It’s like selling of the last of your heavy industry to a country who doesn’t manufacture to the same environmental standards then shipping it back on diesel powered vehicles and celebrating that the UK now creates less C02. Like we’re literally running a country by cliches and wondering how our living standards and earnings are going backwards. The World Cup in the USA might just give some folk an insight into how far behind them we are. Hampden, Celtic park and Ibrox look about 30 year behind them IMO If you don’t mind me asking, where are you moving to or thinking of moving? COYP Post Edited (Tue 23 Jun 10:50) Reply |
| 78. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 10:55 Dandy Warhol, Tue 23 Jun 09:13 Which country are you moving to? Reply |
| 79. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 10:57 NMCmassive, Tue 23 Jun 10:49 Last doctor convicted of mass murder in this country was Jeffrey Archer - which race was he again? 🤔 or if you want more recent, Lucy Letby - whats her origins? Reply |
| 80. Author: NMCmassive Date: Tue 23rd Jun 2026. 11:35 That’s a braindead argument right there. Yes there are murderers and rapists that already live here. Does that justify importing more? You do realise for every illegal we put up in a hotel we reduce our capacity for helping someone that needs help? COYP Reply |