From: the_todal@icloud.com 
  
 On 05/09/2025 13:19, Pancho wrote: 
 > On 9/5/25 11:19, The Todal wrote: 
 > 
 >>> Why doesn't the victim of a mugging at knifepoint in a local park get 5 
 >>> armed offices deployed ? 
 >> 
 >> Maybe when you want your officers to detain a public figure you expect 
 >> resistance from his/her supporters. I'd expect the police to send more 
 >> than one officer if the plan was to arrest Tommy Robinson. 
 >> 
 > 
 > If I were a police officer wanting to arrest Tommy, for one of his 
 > standard type minor crimes, I would phone him up and ask him to report 
 > to a police station. 
 > 
 >> For some reason Mr Linehan seems to believe that it is now open season 
 >> on trans people, that the courts have declared them to be worthy of 
 >> taunting and ridicule. 
 >> 
 > 
 > The comment about hitting them in the balls was a standard format joke 
 > before the 1990s. i.e. present some reasonable actions and then say if 
 > that fails, hit them in the balls. The type of thing that would have 
 > been on: Not the Nine O€€€clock News. No one sane would regard it as a 
 > serious attempt to incite a physical assault. 
  
 I haven't seen any reports that tell me that he is being prosecuted for 
 that phrase. 
  
 It seems to be more about harassing a child. 
  
  
 > 
 >> I suppose he is comforted by the attitude of certain crowdpleasing 
 >> politicians who are ready to claim that the police have over-reacted. 
 >> 
 > 
 > Politicians are there to please the crowd. 
 > 
 > 
  
 Seemingly to compete with Nigel Farage to lick Donald Trump's arsehole. 
  
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