David Shipley
@ShipleyWrites
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Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Write and speak about prisons, justice and crime.
Gloucestershire
Joined August 2021
Guess it wasn’t really paying for itself!
Excl: Reeves to target Motability scheme to save about £1 billion at the budget Chancellor drawing up plans to scrap tax breaks for cars through the benefits system Sources insist it’s about fairness not just cost cutting
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Today I have written in the @Telegraph about the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Birmingham. "Looking at how baked-in Two-Tier Policing has become in Britain today, I worry that I scarcely recognise the institution I once served and loved." https://t.co/UWbg3SKnIU
telegraph.co.uk
As a former officer of the ‘thin blue line’, I scarcely recognise the institution I once served in
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This is the reality of multiculturalism, and the lie of “integration”. In the centre of the UK’s second city over a third of residents do not identify as British.
When you look at the Maccabi Tel Aviv story and wonder how this could happen in a British city, one version of the answer is that it didn't. About 14% of Birmingham's population straightforwardly does not identify as British. In the centre it's more like 35%.
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If the arrival of several thousand Israelis in our second city is expected to precipitate a major, violent riot, this is not the fault of the police but of successive British Governments’ immigration policies.
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Kids. If you're planning a kickabout this weekend, check it's all OK with local community leaders, right?
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They’re doing that thing again where they pretend the English don’t exist.
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We know from the cover-up up of the grooming gangs that any legal or moral duty duties can be jettisoned to put “community concerns” first. The celebration of the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban from the local Birmingham MP is disgraceful, but not surprising
“It's disgraceful“. The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn reacts to the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from their Aston Villa away fixture on safety grounds. #Newsnight
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It's interesting that football fans can be declared hooligans and criminals not because of conduct but simply because of nationality place of birth. I wonder how he would feel if people did the same with people from Pakistan? To me, it just seems, well, quite racist.
What an odious sectarian fool.
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Civilisation is not an accidental collection fungible consumer units, acting ccording to disembodied procedures. It is sustained by custodians and defended by heroes, for whom their home, heritage, history, and culture lights a fire in their heart. You don't keep your
Charles Moore insists that it would have been “uncivilised” for Margaret Thatcher to take Enoch Powell’s advice and reverse much of Britain’s post-war immigration experiment in the 1980s. The full Forge debate on Thatcher’s life and legacy is available at the link below 🔥
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Polanski has essentially described Birmingham as a flight board at an airport. This is what internationalism and egalitarianism do, they turn a country into a terminal, not a homeland.
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“Birmingham is a well-integrated diversity success story” update:
I welcome the news that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be permitted to watch the match at Aston Villa! Well done to all those that signed our petition!
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I’ll be on Sky News just after 8pm talking about drones in prisons.
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Fucking shameful. What has England become?
BREAKING: Aston Villa's home Europa League match against Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv will have no away fans attending after West Midlands Police decided it would not be safe based on "current intelligence and previous incidents". https://t.co/G8gDzyqv3Q
@RobHarris 📺 Sky 501
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What about Birmingham?
I will do everything in my power to guarantee Jewish communities the security they deserve.
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Pray for Rose
arrived at a haunted-looking hotel in the middle of nowhere. we are the only guests. the owner tells me it was once the most haunted house in france, home to a famous medium and subsequently owned by esotericists until he put an end to the hauntings. I ask how. exorcism, he says
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As a fan of Edward Hopper I couldn’t help but take this photo in Greenwich tonight.
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Tom Tugendhat “Can I start by saying how this feels. “My home has been broken into, my files have been ransacked, someone has been put into my office by a hostile state. “And two parties are playing politics with it.” On No10 he fumes “who’s the hell side are you on.”
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Mickley thinks tweets are worse than actual rape and sexual assault
@ShipleyWrites A tweet which encouraged others to set fire to hotels with people inside. As much as this savage’s actions are monstrous they didn’t immediately endanger dozens, maybe hundreds of lives …
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