‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

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    One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

    “Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

    Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.

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      I keep talking about this whenever it’s vaguely relevant to spread knowledge, especially amongst my fellow Brits.

      In the 1980s Thatcher, our then PM, decided to have a war with the National Union of Mineworkers…they were the largest union in the country and held too much power.

      So strikes went on for years and coppers were marking cars and pulling them over if thought that they were on their way to a strike….

      There was a strike at a coking plant in a place called Orgreave, and it was the complete opposite, with coppers even guiding people on where to park.

      So strikers are milling about, doing striker things, and the coppers attacked the strikers, then the BBC played the footage that they recorded backwards, to make it look like the strikers attacked the coppers. There was recently a documentary on it called Miners Strike 1984; The Battle for Britain, and a film on it called Faith.

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      Well for that to be true, the cops would need to see 2 unrelated things and then assume a black person committed a crime.

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    The UK really has become an unmitigated shithole ever since the conservatives managed to make Brexit a reality. Nowadays I appreciate the island for having the decency not to touch us, and to serve as both a warning and an example to Europeans about what could happen on the mainland if we let it.

    Fuck the UK (gov) and fuck the Tories.

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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      “Are your parents TERFS? Homophobic? Racist? With this one simple trick you can remove them from your life!”