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With the country going down the shitter, good to see Parliament tackling the really important issues of the day, eh, kids?

MPs grapple with future of British wrestling

By Jennifer Scott
Political reporter, BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56851875

Bread and circuses, Arrer.

The Red Arrow wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:55 pm With the country going down the shitter, good to see Parliament tackling the really important issues of the day, eh, kids?

MPs grapple with future of British wrestling

By Jennifer Scott
Political reporter, BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56851875

Is it a Wrestling super league.
Or a bill requiring all wrestlers to wear Union Jack dungarees like Big Daddy.

There is actually quite a serious bit underneath all the usual tropes concerning pro-wrestling that the BBC report have used to the full...

Last year, on both sides of the Atlantic, there were a number of breaking news pieces, revelations and confessions concerning the pro-wrestling industry. It's known for not being the cleanest of industries especially given its "carny" fairground roots, but there was its own #metoo stories that came out about how certain wrestlers & trainers had been committing sexual abuse & worse.

There's a lot to pick up from, but some wrestlers were either effectively blackballed from the industry and in some cases released from company contracts e.g. "Gentleman Jack Gallagher" from the WWE.

The big problem is that unlike most sporting activities where there is now procedures in place for coaches to be police checked etc. there is none in place for the likes of wrestling schools, nor anything similar for those participating in wrestling performances which are marketed at families.

Had this been in another industry or part of culture other than pro-wrestling, it would likely to taken much more seriously by the press - in a way it's actually good that some MPs have come forward to take this seriously.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_Out_movement covers both American & British incidents.

Octopuses need legal protection

MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection

When you think of an octopus or lobster, what comes to mind? Seafood or intelligent marine life?

A group of Conservative MPs think it's the latter and argue they should be included in a law to protect animals...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57528249

While physically and mentally disabled humans can get tae fuck

A disabled woman's suicide was "a direct result" of having her benefits cut, the High Court has been told.

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, died in 2017, days after her payments were halted because she missed a work capability assessment.

Her mother, Joy Dove, wants a new inquest to examine the role of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in her death.

Ms Whiting's original inquest lasted just 37 minutes.

It concluded she had taken her own life but Ms Dove's lawyers argued there were "multiple, significant failings" by the DWP that were not considered...


..The High Court heard Ms Whiting had received disability benefits for more than 10 years due to serious, long-term physical and mental health issues including severe pain and a history of self-harm.

Barrister Jesse Nicholls said she had told the DWP she was having suicidal thoughts "a lot of the time".

Mr Nicholls said that when the department was reassessing Ms Whiting there was "no evidence" it had seriously considered her request for a house visit, despite her being housebound with severe anxiety and unable to walk more than a few steps.

Ms Whiting had told the DWP she was in hospital and had not received a letter about the assessment.

Ms Dove later found the unopened letter at her daughter's home...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-57570295

Before anybody says yebbut it's the DWP, remember the DWP only carries out policy set by government, and any disabled people will tell you it's been getting steadily worse since 2010.


If only Conservative MPs showed as much concern for humans as they do for cephalopods.

What the BBC haven't mentioned is that it's currently Cephalopod Week, which may explain the timing.

The wider point still stands, though.

Plans to rip apart the very fabric of our society are undergoing a public enquiry

Historic England has said plans to move a grave honouring the Dambusters' dog would cause harm to the "heritage significance" of RAF Scampton.

The 617 Squadron's mascot, a Labrador, died on the day of the famous "bouncing bomb" raid on German dams in 1943.

Plans to move the grave from the former RAF base in Lincolnshire to the squadron's current base in Norfolk have attracted hundreds of objections.

A public consultation on the proposals is currently under way.

The RAF's application to move the grave has been made due to uncertainty over the future of the Scampton site, amid government plans to convert it into a migrant camp...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lin ... 774839.amp

I really don't understand why so many people appear to have attached so much importance to this total non-issue.

Meh.

I'm guessing, because its on a MoD site its not as if everybody as everyday access to go and "pay their respects"......although I've never see it recorded in the Poppywatch thread that people have been refused access to lay a wreath on 11/11

It's a fucking dog. Some people need to get a grip.

Yeah, but it’s a dog wot won the War

I know.

How many missions did it fly?

Ultra-fetishisation, incipient fascism.

A dog you're not allowed even to call by his name no more - thanks to the snowflakes.

The woke brigade made us change it to "Trigger" you know.

But according to Littlejohn, that's one of the words we can say we've consigned successfully to the past and we never need to use again. Except when those rapper fellows like Icey Tee and the Ice Cubes, or that M&Ms fellow use it, now what's that all about? Why's it OK for them and not for me?

It's a forbidden fruit to them. The sign that they're Not Racist Actually (and really it's just a word and a load of fuss over nothing and didn't anyone tell you darkies that sticks and stones break your bones - ha ha, you'd know all about that in Bongo land - but words will never hurt you?), but uttered in private with the relish of Grady in the Overlook Hotel's bathroom*.

*A reference to The Shining, a book by Mr Stephen King of Maine, and its subsequent film adaptation by Mr Stanley Kubrick, late of the environs of Pinewood, m'lud the honourable Abers.

Always worth a watch...

You often see them write “oh I prefer the original” the only difference is the name of the dog.

They are fucking idiots.

They're the same people who were greeting about changing a word in Fairytale Of New York, the only song that has ever been edited for radio play.

A dog's grave has priority over homeless people. But they ain't racist, oh no.

And just how much fuss would they make if the dog had been called Rex?

Rex? You’d have Rees-Mogg convincing the mouth breathers that it’s named that in honour of the king, and therefore any act against said dog is treason