And we all know what that means. If it had been the booze, then they would just have said so. Tom Meighan acted as he did under the influence of cannabis.
Any medicinal properties of cannabis are no more applied by smoking a spliff than those of opium would be by injecting heroin, or than those of aspirin would be by ingesting bark.
Cannabis is linked to violent psychosis, as we see yet again in this case, among so very many others.
Any medicinal properties of cannabis are no more applied by smoking a spliff than those of opium would be by injecting heroin, or than those of aspirin would be by ingesting bark.
Cannabis is linked to violent psychosis, as we see yet again in this case, among so very many others.
We need a single category of illegal drug, with a crackdown on the possession of drugs, including a mandatory sentence of three months for a second offence, six months for a third offence, one year for a fourth offence, and so on.
We also need to restore the specific criminal offence of allowing one's premises to be used for illegal drug purposes, and we need Peter Hitchens's The War We Never Fought to be taught in schools.
Radical change would be impossible if the workers, the youth and the poor were in a state of stupefaction, and that baleful situation, which has been contrived in the past, is being contrived again today.
We also need to restore the specific criminal offence of allowing one's premises to be used for illegal drug purposes, and we need Peter Hitchens's The War We Never Fought to be taught in schools.
Radical change would be impossible if the workers, the youth and the poor were in a state of stupefaction, and that baleful situation, which has been contrived in the past, is being contrived again today.
As for Meighan, he has been given 200 hours of unpaid work, £85 costs, a £90 victim surcharge, no restraining order, and that's it.
I got 16 months suspended for two years, 300 hours of unpaid work, £500 costs (paid in full), a £140 victim surcharge (paid in full; where does it go?), and a court order that among other things bans me from writing the names of 57 past and present Labour members of Durham County Council.
There is no video of me assaulting anyone, as witnessed by a child, but this is what Britain does to political dissidents.
Although I have already done an hour of my unpaid work by taking the telephone call to tell me that it would not be running until further notice, and that I was still medically unfit for it anyway, as my probation report had said in the first place.
Yes, you read aright. Unpaid work has not been running since the lockdown was imposed, and no one has the faintest idea when it is going to start again. For all practical purposes, Meighan has been fined £175, and that's the end of it.
Imagine that you had stolen £5,500 from the public purse, perhaps by fraudulently claiming benefits. Would you expect to be told that, so long as you paid it back, then you could still be created Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, of Crook in the County of Durham, and all would be forgotten?
Or imagine that you had stolen £3,835.32 from the public purse, perhaps by fraudulently claiming benefits. Would you expect to be told that, so long as you paid it back, then you could still be a Labour candidate for Durham County Council next year, and the Labour candidate for your own former parliamentary seat of North West Durham in 2024?
I'll do my remaining 299 hours of unpaid work when Lady Crook and Thieving Laura do theirs.
I got 16 months suspended for two years, 300 hours of unpaid work, £500 costs (paid in full), a £140 victim surcharge (paid in full; where does it go?), and a court order that among other things bans me from writing the names of 57 past and present Labour members of Durham County Council.
There is no video of me assaulting anyone, as witnessed by a child, but this is what Britain does to political dissidents.
Although I have already done an hour of my unpaid work by taking the telephone call to tell me that it would not be running until further notice, and that I was still medically unfit for it anyway, as my probation report had said in the first place.
Yes, you read aright. Unpaid work has not been running since the lockdown was imposed, and no one has the faintest idea when it is going to start again. For all practical purposes, Meighan has been fined £175, and that's the end of it.
Imagine that you had stolen £5,500 from the public purse, perhaps by fraudulently claiming benefits. Would you expect to be told that, so long as you paid it back, then you could still be created Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, of Crook in the County of Durham, and all would be forgotten?
Or imagine that you had stolen £3,835.32 from the public purse, perhaps by fraudulently claiming benefits. Would you expect to be told that, so long as you paid it back, then you could still be a Labour candidate for Durham County Council next year, and the Labour candidate for your own former parliamentary seat of North West Durham in 2024?
I'll do my remaining 299 hours of unpaid work when Lady Crook and Thieving Laura do theirs.
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