• foggy@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    What the fuck is up with all of the fucking kid touchers in positions of power?

    Eh, I guess the behavior is sort of aligned.

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    5 hours ago

    What a style! So classy that you immediately see he’s a British convicted paedophile, not just any convicted paedophile!

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    8 hours ago

    Convicted. Not even ‘alleged’ or ‘accused’, and these are the same party who are scared people are coming over on plastic dingys to cause harm. This guy’s and actual predator.

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    7 hours ago

    Denny had previously been convicted of possessing indecent images of children. The offence led to a community order and his placement on the Sex Offenders Register for five years . It was not a minor regulatory breach or an administrative oversight. It was a sexual offence involving children.

    Those things aren’t forever? Huh.

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        Well he joined the reform party so the racism is implied.

        The hate for brown people all depends on age, if they are older than about 15 then yes, he hates them completely.
        However if they are younger than 15 then no, he realllllly likes them. The younger they are the more he wants to ‘come into contact with his constituents’.

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      6 hours ago

      Starmer also appointed a pedo buddy, I wouldn’t clear non-conservatives that easily.

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        3 hours ago

        That assumes the leader of the Red Tories isn’t a conservative… He’s certainly not a progressive!

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    The Reform UK party has had this sort of thing happen over and over, where, despite them saying that they have the highest moral standards, one of them turns out to be a very immoral person. Usually they’re caught saying something incredibly racist.

    LBC’s James O’Brien recently imagined that their entire interview and vetting process must consist of only one question, “Are you a wrong’un?”

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      4 hours ago

      has had this sort of thing happen

      You say this like they just have bad luck. They’re actively making these choices.

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    9 hours ago

    Paedophiles makes me wonder if we should bring back branding as a punishment.

    Clearly any register you need to manually go and look up the person is too easily missed, but a brand on a shoulder would not be overlooked as easily.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, but I don’t want to force them further into crime to be able to survive.

        That is bad for society, I’d rather make sure that they would be able to feed themselves and not causing any more trouble.

        The brand would still be easy to check.

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        7 hours ago

        As I said in an earlier comment, that would just isolate them further from society, forcing them into further crime to survive.

        I’d rather they are able to feed themselves and contribute to society than to be a further drain on resources.

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    Politicians need to interact with the community, even at the very least to show up places and shake people’s hands and meet their children. Convicted child abusers are just about the worst possible choice for a job like that. I’m not saying their lives have to be over, they did their time paid for the crime, but then be a political adviser in the background, work on strategy in offices where there are no children. It’s just so batshit insane we have these paedos in all these public facing jobs, and yet important wealthy people trust them around their own kids and the public’s kids, it makes me feel like I’m the one going crazy!!