- Fri Aug 02, 2024 8:36 pm
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I think Joey Barton is still counting the costs of being a Twitter gobshite! Bloke's lost over £100k so far and counting, and there's still more cases coming his way!
We've seen this all before, though, and it's not as worrying as some people (understandably) think it is. They get all hyped up and ballsy because they think the whole country is behind them based on their Twitter feed. Get away with a couple of skirmishes and then the police realise what they're dealing with and go in hard. Then there'll be a big thing on GBNews about kettling, two tier policing, double standards etc etc and they'll all slink off again until the next time.
It's not the battering from the police that scares them off as much as those 5:00am knocks at the door, in front of their families, names being published and employers finding out. That's what really shits them up and makes them cry in court like the above example. Fuck 'em.
Not full of praise for Cameron, to say the least, but he dealt with the 2011 riots quite well. This'll hopefully be 10x that considering the background of our current PM!