Labour Watch

[Max B Gold]

Max’yyy is, I see, already at the “pretend not to understand when a question is designed to scrutinise his own thinking” stage, but to be fair, his own journey from apparent good faith engagement to belligerence and finally to “lol you fell for my joke!” can be measured in minutes rather than weeks

It literally took you months to work out the joke mate.

[Mick McQuaid]

I haven't actually argued that I 100% agree with the guidance, just that the actual issue has been willfully misrepresented.

The aim of the guidance is to reduce identified disparities that already exist, not introduce them. This seems to have been understood by the vast majority of people who responded to the consultation. Is it now just utter woke nonsense to feel the need to think about that at all?

The letter from the chairman of the sentencing council to Shabana Mahmood explains it much better than I can, and is a quick Google search away (although quite a long read).

The more important point for me is that the sentencing council is independent for very good reasons.

As for not being willing to argue a point to the death on here, Pammy has never knowingly made a sincere comment on here in 20 years and I literally can't keep up with rate of your replies which as a starting point would generally require going through all the things that aren't actually what I've said. I'm afraid, as infuriating as you find it, I'll stick to the occasional comment and snark.

[Mick McQuaid]

That was a quick delete Pammy.

That, as you are undoubtedly aware, the purpose of the guidance has nothing to do with two tier justice, and that while the wording could be improved, the furore has been largely manufactured by the right wing press because two tier Kier is something which, in that awful phrase, has cut through.

[Currywurst and Chips]

Morning MM

I note your change in approach from “It’s not happening” to “It’s happening but here’s why and here’s why the council’s independence is important”.

It’s a shame you didn’t take that approach from the start as we could have had an interesting discussion.

I think you’re right to trust your instincts and limit your posting on the matter.