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On behalf of his constituents in Clacton, where’s Nigel???

So what is the difference between Katie Price and 'Tommy Robinson'? Among the overnight news we learn that celebrity Katie Price was arrested on arrival at Heathrow yesterday, 8 Aug, and remanded. She will appear at the Royal Courts of Justice today. Why would this interest Searchlight, you may reasonably ask. She’s not a fascist, is she? Indeed not. The former ’glamour’ model who rose to fame as ’Jordan’ of The Sun’s Page 3, has certainly led a colourful life, and has been in numerous scrapes, but we’re not suggesting that there’s anything remotely nazi about her. No. What interests us is this: Price was busted for failing to appear at a court hearing related to her bankruptcy. A warrant had been issued at the time by companies court judge Catherine Burton, who said “It is in my judgment necessary that the court issue a warrant for Ms Price’s arrest. She has no real excuse in failing to attend today’s hearing.” Thus Price returns from a trip to Turkey and is promptly arrested before she can even leave Heathrow Airport. Fair or not? It’s really not for us to say. But let’s compare and contrast this with the position of Stephen Lennon, better known as the rather more dubious type of ’celebrity’ Tommy Robinson, a man widely regarded as one of the key hate-merchants responsible for ramping up the anger that boiled over into the present riots. Lennon, too, has failed to attend a court hearing. His was in the High Court, and was supposed to settle the issue of whether he was in contempt of that same court, with a potential penalty of two years in prison. So, a very serious issue. But on the eve of the hearing, Lennon fled the country via the Eurostar train, and has since been spotted sunning himself in Cyprus and then Greece. The judge at that fruitless High Court hearing, Mr Justice Johnson, also issued an arrest warrant but – and this is a significant ’but’ – delayed the activation of the warrant until October, when Lennon is next due in court. The upshot of this is that if Lennon today flies into Heathrow, despite the fact that he has committed the same offence as Price in failing to appear in court with no reason tendered, he will not be arrested at all, because there is no active warrant to do so. Whereas Price was nicked more or less as her feet touched the ground. Clearly Mr Justice Johnson cannot be expected to explain the decision of Judge Burton, nor Burton to justify Johnson. Each will have their own reasons for acting as they did. But viewed from the position of those of us outside the judiciary, it seems fair to ask whether different standards are being applied within our justice system – harsh ones for someone who owes the taxman a lot of money, and rather softer ones for a dangerous racist rabble-rouser. Read more about 'Tommy Robinson' on the run here: searchlightmagazine.com @uaf @AntiRacismDay

Can you imagine the Unionist media if the race riots were in Scotland only? Scotland is predominantly culturally different from the rest of the UK.

@RogueCoder250 Glad to see this. Also made the decision to boycott this right wing cesspit and delete my account

I created a Mastodon account a few days ago and will be moving to it. I'm incredibly sad that after 10 years and 120,000 posts it has come to this. Elon Musk has destroyed Twitter and turned it into a far-right cesspool of lies, misinformation and overt racism.

@RogueCoder250 The irony is this probably won't make it through to the demographic affected the most. In fact they'll continue to blame the Scottish gov, against all reason.

Pensioners in Scotland will be able to watch the gas being piped ashore and sent to England to keep middle England "One Nation" Tories warm while we freeze to death. You know what Scottish voters need? A GIANT FUCKING WAKE-UP CALL.

Should Anas Sarwar resign for deliberately misleading Scottish voters during the general election campaign? #ResignSarwar

@SconeOf Unionists will scoff, but why else has the Prime Minister labelled Indy supporters 'extremists'?

all that interuption the snp are subject to in interviews and on question time etc is not subconscious personal bias. The bbc is a state asset and so are their interviewers and they are instructed to do this. The chain goes right to the intelligence services.

@NapolinEsq @KarenFullerton2 @GhalebCachalia @JamesvandenHee2 This attempt to justify 21k civilian deaths as collateral is utterly shameful.

A war crime is intent-based. Your confusing the collective consequences of a heavy urban war against combatants who have literally built hundreds of miles of tunnels interlaced and underneath civilian infrastructure, which is all a huge big fat war crime precisely because a war under those circumstances will certainly lead to massive collateral damage for the population. Just because you say war crime, war crime, war crime, doesn’t make it so. It’s effects-based condemnation, but you have to prove the intent to kill innocent people without a valid military target. Effects-based analysis isn’t enough.

I’ve just read all 84 pages of the SA application to the ICC over genocidal acts by Israel on the Palestinian people of Gaza. It’s a most comprehensive document with which I find myself in complete agreement. news24.com/news24/southaf…

We’re almost in 2024 FFS… When are we going to end all this nonsense?

@definitivegazer @BBCbreakingNewt @theSNP But it's cost neutral gaelic signs that seem to trigger them most

@BBCbreakingNewt @theSNP It always amazes me, Conservative voters frothing at things like this, but taxpayers paying for Johnson’s daughter for the next 50+ yrs in HOC, or Sunak £500,000K on flights in less than 2 weeks………. absolutely nothing. Their hypocrisy is breathtaking.

To everyone sleeping rough in Glasgow tonight, never forget @theSNP made a choice

@Wilson34David @lleven2 It takes all of two seconds to tweet that. Plenty time for turkey and sherry... Yet here you are yourself crying about Charles' detractors. Cheer up David.

@lleven2 Perfectly proving my point 😄

King Charles doesn’t half trigger the Braveheart bunch. Instead of imbibing on eggnog and sherry and stuffing themselves with turkey it seems a good number of William Wallace wannabes spent most of yesterday tweeting furiously that he wasn’t their king 😂. Bonkers.

@magnusllewellin Your pal has a habit of threatening to throw his toys oot the pram:

@ruaraidh1985 @definitivegazer Literally 6 mins ago

@definitivegazer Never seen one racist comment about him. This is proper hard left greivance tactics. If someone is a minority, they cannot be criticised. It’s utterly pathetic. Sad how our society has been conned by this gutter level politics.

I get not everyone wants #Independence but decent Unionists must read some of the absolute racist disgusting comments on here about #HumzaYousaf Say something to them for Godsake, let them know it’s not alright to say these things.

@Duncan20212 Good

Second-home owners in Scotland set to see council tax doubled thenational.scot/news/23777047.…

But we're a chaaaaarity, why can't we break laws?

Well, well, well... thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunak…

@RealStephenKerr That's what you told us with glee, in 2014, yes

Seeing today's SNP reaction to Rishi's investment in Scotland's energy sector, it appears the nationalists think Scotland is too wee and too poor to fully utilise our resources, over importing them from overseas. That's how it goes, isn't it?

@HTScotPol Does this spirit extend to Boris? Or Sunak? What about Mone?

Parliaments will always have rogues and scoundrels, yet at Holyrood disgraced MSPs can sit tight and count their money. Ridiculous there's no mechanism to get rid of wrongdoers who have stopped being useful to voters heraldscotland.com/news/23690816.…

@AlanDuncan1971 @fatzdomingo Not what Sir Wood said. *You* are reinventing the past.

@fatzdomingo Twisting the past seems to be a Nationalist pastime. We were told existing fields we’re running out and that new fields would have to be developed. The leave campaign did hugely inflate the oil prices in their projections

@wildmountain_1 @magnusllewellin And Norway is the heat pump world leader right now...

@magnusllewellin They work very well in Switzerland. It’s colder there in winter.

One of the country’s leading suppliers of heat pumps has warned that the “green” alternative to gas boilers is not suited to the Scottish climate. thetimes.co.uk/article/b4dee0…