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[martinuzz]

Today we finally got a new government, after nearly a year of formation talks.

It starts well: Our new Minister of Finance missed the inauguration because she tested positive for corona

[Loud Whispers]

Ah, so Putin's actions are just because he misses Trump.  They must have gotten along quite well.

Even with Trump, Putin would've known that he had at best 8 years of passive USA; it extends beyond and before Trump. Russia just can't compete with US resources

Today we finally got a new government, after nearly a year of formation talks.

It starts well: Our new Minister of Finance missed the inauguration because she tested positive for corona

Congrats until the next coalition breakdown

[martinuzz]

Save the congrats UNTIL the next coalition breakdown haha. I hope they won't last long, bunch of miserable neocon fucktards.

[Loud Whispers]

Oh it's one of those coalitions lmao

[martinuzz]

It's exactly the same coalition as the one that was sent home 360 days ago, with some new faces on minister duty.

In other news: There is a prison riot ongoing over here in Schiedam. Prison is now surrounded by armored police vans, police in body armor, machineguns, roadblocks, while the prison wards are trying to negotiate with the prisoners. It's one of our high security prisons that houses terrorists.

[martinuzz]

moved to the covid thread

[Loud Whispers]

Uganda be joking me

[martinuzz]

Oh, heh, I meant to post that in the covid thread.

[TD1]

It's exactly the same coalition as the one that was sent home 360 days ago, with some new faces on minister duty.

In other news: There is a prison riot ongoing over here in Schiedam. Prison is now surrounded by armored police vans, police in body armor, machineguns, roadblocks, while the prison wards are trying to negotiate with the prisoners. It's one of our high security prisons that houses terrorists.

I can't help but feel 'negotiation' is perhaps non-conducive. Though it depends on what's at stake; if they're endangering others (ie cleaning staff, cooks, guards) then negotiation is best.

[dragdeler]

I mean if everyboody gets a silk road gift card that can only be exchanged against sedatives, you might be looking at a win-win-win.

[martinuzz]

The situation has already been resolved. Apparently, 18 prisoners were protesting against corona measures. After negotiations they agreed to return to their cells.

[TD1]

Ahh, I was envisaging violent prison mobs.
A protest about poor living quality is slightly different, heh.

[martinuzz]

I suppose the show of force was because they didn't know which prison population was causing trouble, and to be sure just in case the riot was a diversion for a prison break. The prison has 3 different populations. Terrorist ward, standard prison ward, and police custody ward.

[Duuvian]

Uh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police,_Crime,_Sentencing_and_Courts_Bill

Where I heard about it (opinion piece)

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/1/13/the-save-its-democracy-the-uk-should-kill-its-new-police-bill

I don't live there but many portions listed in those links sound bad to me (without having looked through bill texts). What do people who live there think?

[Loud Whispers]

Oh hey Duuvian, nice to see you join the pleasant EU thread

Yeah the UK is a shitty little police state. Not in the sense it's a police state; there's too few police for it to be one, and they certainly can't help you if you are attacked, robbed or otherwise waylaid. But there's enough legal, surveillance and security apparatus in place to make sure you if you cause problems you can be inconvenienced to say the least. I fully expect there'll be very selective enforcement of the bill, so any public nusiances will not fly on police radars but demonstrations and protests will get the ol' tear gas. You'd hope the public would be in uproar but they tend to get divided whenver the police are gassing "your dudes" and not "our dudes" when the media pundits start poisoning the well of good faith. There is always the potential however, that even should this bill come to pass, that the public will just ignore it and refuse to allow it to be enforced. Such political prosecutions are rendered rather tame by political shitflinging