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The Guardian today, reports:
Lawyers in the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales have trivialised teen sexual abuse, are “obsessed” about the credibility of rape victims and used victim-blaming language, according to a critical official examination into how the service deals with serious sexual crimes.
The report is the first major independent examination into how the CPS prosecutes rape since a promised overhaul of the criminal justice system. It warns of a reliance on “new myths” about modern sexual practices, and says mental health is still acting as a barrier to victims receiving justice.
The report does not offer any data.
Here they are.
The police in Scotland recorded 2,529 rape or attempted rape crimes between in 2022/23, compared with 2,498 rape crimes in the previous reporting year, up from 1 900 ten years before.
All things being equal, per head of population with 11 times that, we might expect there to have been 27 819 cases in England & Wales.
There were 68 949, up from 16 038 ten years before. Between two and three times as many.
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Women who cohabit, the majority, do not have equal rights. That leads to abuse. Women have to stay in abusive, unsafe places. Letting agencies, demand six months + deposit upfront rent. This leads to abuse and homelessness.
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completely off topic……but why is this not featured on “Scottish Media”? https://www.businessscotlandmagazine.com/glasgow-airport-crowned-best-airport-europe-5-10-million-passengers Would it be that it is too much of a good news story?
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MSM Monitor Twitter account tweeted tday:
“Anas Sarwar has told BBC Scotland that hating your political opponents is dangerous and claimed he doesn’t hate any of them. In 2014 Sarwar boasted that he hated the Tories and also claimed that most people in Scotland did. He won’t be called out on his lying, he never is.
How noble….how righteous….how duplicitous of him (Sarwar)…..
Labour party examples of “hating your political opponents“
Emily Thornberry at a public meeting stated ” I hate the SNP…I hate the SNP”….and for emphasis she said it not just once but twice.
Angela Rayner “Tories are scum”
Baron George ‘I pee’d my pants at a Hearts football game’ Foulkes making a “hating your political opponents” type of comment in December 2023 where he tweeted this “It appears that Humza Yousaf’s policy is determined by Nadia El-Nakla” which was in reaction to a tweet questioning how the First Minister’s stance on a ceasefire in Gaza would work……BTW he, Foulkes, is “doing it deliberately too”..…as this is far from a solitary example in his usual tone, manner and overall preferred style of expressing his hostile opposition as one who clearly hates the SNP as a party in opposition to his party…….all from the noble lofty towers of the HOL where he, like other, past their sell by date Labour MP’s, now are beneficiaries of the political gravy train aka HOL’s.
Retired Labour councillor Alex Gallagher once shared a video on Twitter of the popular SNP MP Mhairi Black alongside the phrase “How many SNP MPs are just neds?”……also very much a tweet that could be defined as “hating your political opponents”…No ?
Google ‘Jackie Baillie and the Scottish Daily Express’ and see the amount of results that you get where mostly it is the epitome of a political opponent hating their opposition aka the SNP headlines…and talking of ‘Hating’ well that is something the Daily Express and their …..checks notes….Scottish edition LOL….are experts at……and they do so hate what they often love to call us i.e. “Nasty Nats”….time and time and time and time again…..big Yawn…..change the record and they really should note the quote that states ““He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”…….rephrase that quote as you will to fit them as a snooze paper…..
So really no amount of faux virtue signalling from Anas Sarwar will be convincing as he , who tries, yet fails to convince much of the public that somehow Labour are the exception to the rule as a political party who do not promote hate against their opponents…..the evidence is out there to contradict this……like for example the “Bain principle” also exemplifying this as a practice we associate with the Labour party’s dogmatic opposition against the SNP….Labour always fail to see themselves as others see them but that is what happens when you are so proficient at ‘playing politics’ as a political party……alas for them we and others see them for who they really are!
I mean no one is fooled really into believing or thinking that they, Labour, are a party for “Change” because all that they clearly now stand for is simply retaining much of what we have already seen, heard and suffered via the Tory party as the UK government…..and for Anas Sarwar to state he “does not hate” any of his political opponents when he once claimed in the past that he (and Scotland) “hated the Tories” is basically what we have come to expect time and time again from both him and them, Labour, as a party….Lies and hypocrisy.
Once Scots do wake up (fully) then and only then will parties like Labour (and the rest) and their client media no longer be able to manipulate, brainwash or take us all for fools ever again…..Vote SNP and vote for Independence…..only way to make it and them all stop! (For Scotland)……
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