Gary Martin

@Artemisfornow Not so much brain freeze, more like permafrost.

Words cannot describe how bad this is🤡 This is the Deputy Mayor of London for crime and policing, salary £148,000 a year. Her job is to oversee the police, deliver the crime plan & cut crime. I’m not even joking!

@EricOlson18 No correction needed, I think we were always 'singing from the same song sheet'. Like you I also anticipate the inevitable counterpoint on spurious legal concepts. Have a good evening.

@GaryTMartin2 Yea it would be deemed reasonable legally due to the context of the situation. I fully agree with that. I shoulda said controversy more so in public perception, not legally. You're right, the Cops would not get charged in any Western Country I can think of. I stand corrected.

Wow, in a very unusual step the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has sent a blistering letter to Green Party leader Zack Polanski saying he shouldn’t be retweeting “armchair critics” who criticised officers for kicking the Golders Green attacker in the head.

@EricOlson18 Totally agree with your first paragraph and my only observation, re the second, is that it wasn't the time or opportunity to discuss or consider legal nuances until his arms and the weapon were secured, therefore all legally reasonable in the circumstances.

@Exp13Sa @MeganA10351 @PaulBrandITV @metpoliceuk They had the right to shoot him dead until he dropped knife. So they definitely had the right to head kick him when he hid his hands under his torso while laying on knife. The only controversy legally is that he had just been tased,&maybe didn't have control over his arms.

@Dawn07245473151 @happyhardwick @PaulBrandITV @JuliaHB1 Oh, it really is for some people, deluded would be too kind a word.

@happyhardwick @PaulBrandITV @JuliaHB1 Wasn't incapacitated & was still armed. This really isnt hard

@PaulBrandITV Must have seen Polanski's policies. Effective elimination of immigration controls. No prison expansion, with a long term aim for a switch to almost total community punishments. Legalisation of all Cat A+B Drugs, reducing mental health detention with patient autonomy increased!

@lauraev81180802 @PaulBrandITV Yeah, Nigel Farage's 2 former wives and current partner are Europeans, so he could never be anti European, could he? It is of course possible to both embrace and at times fail to support aspects of the same thing.

@PaulBrandITV Do these idiots realise that Starmer is married to a Jew and that he is bringing up his children in the Jewish faith? I loathe Starmer but really do some basic research.

Protestors waiting for Keir Starmer to arrive outside Hatzola. PM arrives to shouts of “Keir Starmer, Jew Harmer”, “traitor” and “shame on you”!

@ClarkeMicah While you are there, ask why it takes a month to do a simple probation report for court, or 5 plus years for a public enquiry, nearly a year to sort out Angela Rayners stamp duty and even 28 months to charge Lucy Letby. No guarantee of satisfactory results of course.

'The Met had roughly 27,000 sworn officers in 1995; it now has 33,000. So what are they doing? They no longer control the traffic and have long since abandoned the streets. Why can't they sort out an open-and-shut assault within 24 hours?' thetimes.com/life-style/cel…

@Iromg And for all we really know, they could both be aged anywhere north of 30.

And a couple more from Afghanistan

@RAF_Luton Love starved, stuttering, RAF Reg squaddie, miles from home, indulges his fetish and tries to ' P...P..Pick up a penguin'. Note the red bull beret, awarded for the 5 fizzy drinks of death ' it gives you wings'

BREAKING: After assessing the threat the Argentinian Armed Forces pose to the Falkland Islands we have deployed an extra 5 seagulls to join the one RAF Regiment Gunner already there to defend the islands Photographed from a Canberra

@EloiseHenrietta @ClarkeMicah It was an independent sovereign country when you annexed it, after supporting a coup organised by US sugar interests. Cleveland to his credit tried to reverse it but the US later aligned with the new leader Dole and took it as a territory. A possession like the spoils of a thief.

@GaryTMartin2 @ClarkeMicah Hawaii is our 50th state, not a possession like the ones I listed. Note, however, it was not yet a state when Pearl Harbor was bombed. And look how we reacted to that.

The Falklands are not an ‘ imperial possession’ as the Pentagon claims. Their people actively insist on staying British. dailymail.com/debate/article…

@EloiseHenrietta @ClarkeMicah Don't forget Hawaii, although at least Clinton legislated to apologise 100 years later. I bet that is a great comfort for the native Hawaiians.

@ClarkeMicah We have possessions: Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa & the Northern Marianas, yet have the nerve to call the Falklands an "imperial possession" unworthy of defense?

@CapelLofft @ClarkeMicah 'Selfish Hitchens consumes the fat of the land whilst contemptuous of others mourning the loss of their meagre fare.' Something like this is probably all you can reasonably expect.

I for one think that Popbitch should correct the record. Justice for the Whole Milk One.

@harper_dyl66271 @JulianTyer73060 @TiceRichard A bigoted, angry and frustrated person, shouting that they want the national flag shoved in your derrière, elicits a polite and respectful response from the target of her ire. Now who really are the nasty people? Some professional educators not excluded.

Calling her a “bitch” because she’s angry and frustrated doesn’t make you right... it just makes you part of the problem. The country is deeply polarised right now, and people are boiling over for good reason. Years of broken promises, failing services, and politicians who seem completely out of touch. Directing all that rage at one random woman in a petrol station is aiming at the wrong target. We’re better than this. Stay confused 😵‍💫 They like it that way !

Lee Anderson educates lefty teacher ….

@stoopidminidisc @ClarkeMicah Addicts are not helpless. They still retain autonomy and it is not a certainty that their cravings will always defeat their own choices. A testiment to this is that many people have stopped using drugs of all types and even more decided to avoid them in the first place.

My Mail on Sunday column today.

@RAF_Luton Not sure the baddys would take the Cooper Works version seriously though.

Fact of the Day: The AH-64 Apache gunship can fire up to 80,085 rounds (bullets) per second from its twin SA80 machine guns. Most baddys know this and surrender within 71.75secs of seeing an Apache Photographed from a Canberra

@TomPowell6742 @afneil And yet, people hold up their investigations and judgements as if they possessed some moral virtue.

@afneil UN committees aren’t awarded based on moral virtue. Seats are allocated by regional rotation and political bargaining. You regularly get states with poor records sitting on human-rights bodies.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention. The British government, of course, did not object to Iran’s appointment — even though the Iranian regime has been massacring thousands and thousands of protestors this year. At least it shows satire is not dead. NEXT UP> Satan nominated to investigate sin.

@MrTCHarris Ah, in desperation she played the dodgy tradesman defence, 'I didn't really want the job so I quoted a ridiculous fee for my services'. The trouble with this is that, if the charity accepted, she would have willingly drained their funds.

I'd forgotten about this event, where Laurie Penny got her arse deservedly handed to her after she made an unprovoked personal attack on David Starkey. I expect it was about this time that she started suffering from PTSD.

@PaulCoxComedy That's Tracy Emin's new installation, 'Impo Tent'. A striking allegory of Mayor Khan's period in office. Hailed by critics as a startingly realistic homage to the mayor's impact on London's essence.

Say what you like about Sadiq Khan but he’s done the impossible and turned London in to a popular place to camp.

@RAF_Luton I think that was extremely close formation Operation 'Texas line dance' there's always one though...

Fact of the Day: Lancaster bombers wait to be recycled into passenger jets at the end of WW2. Over 8008.5 Lancasters were used during WW2, just 717.5 were converted into passenger jets and used to start British Airways on the 31st Feb 1926 Photographed from a Canberra

@piersmorgan Totally understandable, a bout of Spursy can strike any person. That sick feeling and nausea might last awhile and don't trust the medicine dished out by your rivals, those Pep Abysmal tablets, can have long lasting side effects.

I just can’t face it.