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I know an excellent gardener if the happy couple need one.Maybe the neighbours could give them a hand?

 

They'd need a lot more seats for all Jezza's mates.The neighbours might give a helping hand if the price was right and they were allowed to dig the dirt.

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They'd need a lot more seats for all Jezza's mates.The neighbours might give a helping hand if the price was right and they were allowed to dig the dirt.

 

Amazon were seen delivering a job lot of stethoscopes this afternoon,to the neighbour’s.

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JRM was referring to the people who rang the police, not the Class War numbskulls. It was utterly disgraceful of him to do so too so I'm not surprised you "love it". Every single person who hears what they think could be DV - whether it was or not in this case is immaterial - should be ringing the police or staging some kind of intervention. For JRM to make comments that could discourage people from reporting possible DV is a) utterly unsurprising and b) utterly repellent behaviour. If one good thing was to come out of this it would be the coverage given to women who have suffered DV speaking out about how neighbours calling the police saved them (or, sadly, could have saved them) and JRM jeopardises this with his crass and witless comment.

 

Can the abused men speak out too?...... or just women.

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Dealing with noisy neighbours, advice by Which is to record every happening, so on the 3rd or 4th time the neighbours were ready. The council can do nothing without evidence. Seems to have worked the noise has left for temporary accommodation. Whoever is Chancellor will know what to expect.

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Julia Hartley-brewer.

 

I think since Friday the key divide in this country is no longer Leave/Remain or North/South but between - People who think a late night screaming row between a couple is domestic and - People who’ve been married.

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Julia Hartley-brewer.

 

I think since Friday the key divide in this country is no longer Leave/Remain or North/South but between - People who think a late night screaming row between a couple is domestic and - People who’ve been married.

 

If I ever cause my wife to scream "get off me" so loudly that neighbours on both sides can hear it, I sincerely hope that someone does call the police. I also hope that those people aren't vilified by ****** on the internet. The responses to that filth's tweet are far more interesting

 

@MPSBarnet

You are NOT interfering! If you are a neighbour & you hear, see or believe Domestic Violence/Abuse is happening...then call us. We WILL come. Recording Audio or Visually is NOT interfering...it’s Evidence.

 

I've called the Police on the couple next door.

The Police arrived and knocked. The ladies screaming stopped. She answered the door but wouldn't let the Police in.

They noticed she was bleeding and made their way in. Her attacker was behind her with a blade. Glad I called them.

 

Or idiots who think that calling police is a reflection of political belief and not concern for the safety of a woman screaming 'Let me go'. You've just sunk lower Brewer. Congrats

 

This is a badly informed tweet. I’m afraid it may haunt you one day. Please consider and maybe just research how many women are killed by domestic violence a year.ot will shock you. People shouldn’t be discouraged to call police.

 

If I'd heard a neighbour screaming 'Get off me' in the dead of night and got no response from knocking on the door I absolutely would call the police, it's basic common decency, something we know you lack

 

An ‘argument’ between a couple that disturbs and worries neighbours so much they call the police is NOT the sign of a healthy relationship. I’ve been married 28 years and no neighbour of mine needed to call the police. Grow up.

 

My Mum and Dad were married and he would regularly beat her and she would scream for help, as a child to witness this a fearful sight. I still now have flashbacks of these beatings an my mum screaming You truly are a vile individual and my mum is worth a million of you
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Interesting view from one of Johnson's previous bosses.

 

I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister

Max Hastings

 

Six years ago, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark published a study of the outbreak of the first world war, titled The Sleepwalkers. Though Clark is a fine scholar, I was unconvinced by his title, which suggested that the great powers stumbled mindlessly to disaster. On the contrary, the maddest aspect of 1914 was that each belligerent government convinced itself that it was acting rationally.

 

It would be fanciful to liken the ascent of Boris Johnson to the outbreak of global war, but similar forces are in play. There is room for debate about whether he is a scoundrel or mere rogue, but not much about his moral bankruptcy, rooted in a contempt for truth. Nonetheless, even before the Conservative national membership cheers him in as our prime minister – denied the option of Nigel Farage, whom some polls suggest they would prefer – Tory MPs have thronged to do just that.

 

I have known Johnson since the 1980s, when I edited the Daily Telegraph and he was our flamboyant Brussels correspondent. I have argued for a decade that, while he is a brilliant entertainer who made a popular maître d’ for London as its mayor, he is unfit for national office, because it seems he cares for no interest save his own fame and gratification.

 

Tory MPs have launched this country upon an experiment in celebrity government, matching that taking place in Ukraine and the US, and it is unlikely to be derailed by the latest headlines. The Washington columnist George Will observes that Donald Trump does what his political base wants “by breaking all the china”. We can’t predict what a Johnson government will do, because its prospective leader has not got around to thinking about this. But his premiership will almost certainly reveal a contempt for rules, precedent, order and stability.

 

A few admirers assert that, in office, Johnson will reveal an accession of wisdom and responsibility that have hitherto eluded him, not least as foreign secretary. This seems unlikely, as the weekend’s stories emphasised. Dignity still matters in public office, and Johnson will never have it. Yet his graver vice is cowardice, reflected in a willingness to tell any audience, whatever he thinks most likely to please, heedless of the inevitability of its contradiction an hour later.

 

Like many showy personalities, he is of weak character. I recently suggested to a radio audience that he supposes himself to be Winston Churchill, while in reality being closer to Alan Partridge. Churchill, for all his wit, was a profoundly serious human being. Far from perceiving anything glorious about standing alone in 1940, he knew that all difficult issues must be addressed with allies and partners.

 

Churchill’s self-obsession was tempered by a huge compassion for humanity, or at least white humanity, which Johnson confines to himself. He has long been considered a bully, prone to making cheap threats. My old friend Christopher Bland, when chairman of the BBC, once described to me how he received an angry phone call from Johnson, denouncing the corporation’s “gross intrusion upon my personal life” for its coverage of one of his love affairs.

 

“We know plenty about your personal life that you would not like to read in the Spectator,” the then editor of the magazine told the BBC’s chairman, while demanding he order the broadcaster to lay off his own dalliances.

 

Bland told me he replied: “Boris, think about what you have just said. There is a word for it, and it is not a pretty one.”

 

He said Johnson blustered into retreat, but in my own files I have handwritten notes from our possible next prime minister, threatening dire consequences in print if I continued to criticise him.

 

Johnson would not recognise truth, whether about his private or political life, if confronted by it in an identity parade. In a commonplace book the other day, I came across an observation made in 1750 by a contemporary savant, Bishop Berkeley: “It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.” Almost the only people who think Johnson a nice guy are those who do not know him.

 

There is, of course, a symmetry between himself and Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn is far more honest, but harbours his own extravagant delusions. He may yet prove to be the only possible Labour leader whom Johnson can defeat in a general election. If the opposition was led by anybody else, the Tories would be deservedly doomed, because we would all vote for it. As it is, the Johnson premiership could survive for three or four years, shambling from one embarrassment and debacle to another, of which Brexit may prove the least.

 

For many of us, his elevation will signal Britain’s abandonment of any claim to be a serious country. It can be claimed that few people realised what a poor prime minister Theresa May would prove until they saw her in Downing Street. With Boris, however, what you see now is almost assuredly what we shall get from him as ruler of Britain.

 

We can scarcely strip the emperor’s clothes from a man who has built a career, or at least a lurid love life, out of strutting without them. The weekend stories of his domestic affairs are only an aperitif for his future as Britain’s leader. I have a hunch that Johnson will come to regret securing the prize for which he has struggled so long, because the experience of the premiership will lay bare his absolute unfitness for it.

 

If the Johnson family had stuck to showbusiness like the Osmonds, Marx Brothers or von Trapp family, the world would be a better place. Yet the Tories, in their terror, have elevated a cavorting charlatan to the steps of Downing Street, and they should expect to pay a full forfeit when voters get the message. If the price of Johnson proves to be Corbyn, blame will rest with the Conservative party, which is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people – who will not find it funny for long.

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