#oneruleforthem — Public Fediverse posts
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Ooh, "named and shamed". That'll show them. They even got fined amounts that might just show at the third decimal place in their accounts if you're lucky.
There really is remarkably little incentive for companies to obey the law here.
How many directors were disqualified?
How many directors were fined personally?
How many directors were made to wear an ankle tag and obey a curfew?
How many directors had to do hundreds of hours of community service picking up litter?
Guessing the answer is a bit fat zero to all of the above.
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Hands up all those who think that a black man from a council estate would have had his sentence reduced to a suspended one on appeal if he'd punched someone in exactly the same circumstances as Amesbury did?
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If you or I lied to 3 courts and got found out, we'd be locked up for perjury.
But if MI5 does it, they say sorry, and that's the end of it.
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I've said it before, but I think it's worth repeating:
It shows the US to be a fundamentally corrupt country the way they've actually written into their constitution that some people are above the law
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It's wild how corrupt the US justice system is. It seems that Trump got off with no punishment, despite being convicted of a felony, simply because the judge thought he couldn't punish a senior politician.
And yes, I know I write this from the UK, and we're not much better here. But it just seems so much more explicit and codified in the US that politicians are above the law.
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Oh, and while I completely support the wealthy landowners' right to protest peacefully, you just know that if anyone took that many tractors to Westminster to hold up the traffic because they were protesting against climate change, they'd be locked up by now.
Why is it one rule for the wealthy and one rule for the rest of us?
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I realise that senior politicians are de facto above the law in the UK, but it's kind of wild that in the US they make it official.
I'm not sure that making people above the law is a good and safe thing.
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I seriously doubt that Musk cares if his scheme is illegal.
One of the great things about being rich and powerful is that you are above the law and can pretty much do whatever you like.
Just ask his mate Trump: a convicted felon who has faced absolutely no punishment for his crimes (and has only even been convicted for a tiny proportion of his crimes).
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I know that there is often a perception that politicians aren't subject to the same laws as the rest of us, but TIL that there is a law specifically exempting #Starmer from the same tax treatment of his pension as the rest of us have (albeit dating from before he was a politician).
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "The Pensions Increase (Pension Scheme for Keir Starmer QC) Regulations 2013".
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2588/made
And an explanation of what it means:
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Isn't it strange that the people who attacked the police officer were just arrested on the spot, but the police officer who kicked someone in the head has not been arrested because they first need to have an investigation "in a thorough and measured way".
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CW: US Politics
I hope I'm wrong about this, but I can't see any court actually going ahead and seizing Trump's assets.
Surely the rich and powerful always manage to wriggle out of justice somehow, don't they?
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CW: UK Politics Budget leaks
@RamblerPaul Yes, but you're forgetting that "insider trading" is a crime, and therefore this can't possibly be insider trading, because crimes don't apply to politicians.
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If you or I blatantly encouraged other people to break the law in a very public way, we would be in trouble.
But of course MPs are above the law. 30 p Lee will probably get promoted.
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CW: Covid Inquiry
@RamblerPaul I'm guessing he would have got a £50 fixed penalty notice, but they were mostly confidential so I don't think we can know for sure.
If he got a £10K fine I'm sure we'd have heard about it.
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Rich white man defrauds £650m from the UK Govt. Doesn't go to gaol.
#OneRuleForThem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67088503 -
If you or I ignored an order from the High Court, we'd get in trouble for it, wouldn't we?
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-covid-inquiry-whatsapp-messages-chancellor-2658321
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@kim_harding If you were to make such a failing in relation to a benefit claim, you'd be sanctioned or end end up in jail. #OneRuleForThem #GTTO
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If you or I broke the law and got caught, we'd be in trouble.
But if a big company like Boots breaks the law and gets caught, they just apologise and that's the end of it.
Large companies know that. There is no incentive for them to keep their ads within the law. It takes ages for any complaint against them to be investigated and their ad stays up in the meantime. The worst that happens is they eventually have to take it down.
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Boris Johnson ‘lockdown breaches’ evidence withheld from Covid-19 inquiry | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cabinet-office-blocks-whatsapp-messages-diary-boris-johnson-covid-19-inquiry/?utm_source=oD%20Daily%20SEGMENT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%F0%9F%9A%A8%20BREAKING%3A%20Boris%20Johnson%20%E2%80%98lockdown%20breaches%E2%80%99%20evidence%20withheld&_kx=Lq4IaDZReuI8pm--CQlSAJ7nY8GtDD7xZPwlwSSlIkc%3D.YjCYwm -
Well that was £250,000 of our hard earned cash for legal fees straight down the shitter as Boris Johnson mounts the most pitiful defence we could have imagined.
Even his barrister looked thoroughly ashamed to be associated with #Johnson & his lies, obfuscation & aggression.
#BorisJohnson #Indefensible #JohnsonLiedPeopleDied #JohnsonComeUppanceDay #Partygate #partygatehearing #Committee #BorisJohnsonHearing #OneRuleForThem #LiarJohnsonBigDay #JohnsonOut
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"More than £1m" in taxes.
I should bloody well hope he did pay more than that on £4.7m of earnings. Normal people have to pay 45% tax on income over £150K.
But I guess normal rules don't apply to the rich and powerful.
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The “defence” presented by #johnson appears to boil down to
1/ yes I did mislead Parliament
2/ a man told me that some of the parties were within the rules
3/ lying to Parliament is serious so there’s no way I would have done that
4/ I object to being investigated like thisDid I miss anything?
#partygate #MisleadingParliament #dishonesty #letthebodiespilehigh #doYouKnowWhoIAm #oneRuleForThem -
So... Gary Lineker isn't allowed to make a political comment outside of his BBC work but the entire BBC is allowed to be managed by the massive Tory Richard Sharp???
Make it make sense!!!
#BBC #garylineker #smallboats #RagingTory #bbcbias #ToryGaslighting #oneruleforthem #GTTO
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"You wouldn't put your tax returns in the newspaper, would you Nadhim?"
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CW: Dartmoor: wild camping …the plot thickens
#Dartmoor landowner who won #wildCamping ban may be putting rare beetle at risk by releasing non-native game birds for #shooting.
#Conservation #OneRuleForThem #feudalism #landreform #England #WAKENUP !!
