Laurence Elton, Facebook
The government continues to waste billions yet continues to put the most vulnerable in society at harm.
Raisingawarenessofsarcoidosis, Instagram
I’m so sad at all these stories I keep hearing. There was a time when I’d defend them and assume the stories were fake… not any more.
esthermaria5901, Instagram
Starmer went after the Daily Mail vote and looks intent upon keeping it.
waynethewanderer, Instagram
Thatcher closed down the asylums and made us all socially vulnerable too.
lanah.p, Instagram
[Asylums] were actually a place of safety, refuge and routine for a lot of very vulnerable patients. I had this discussion with a very well-respected psych consultant who raised some real eye-opening issues with the closure of asylums and the movement to community based care. It failed a lot of people.
el.unsworth, Instagram
Human cost
It’s so sad that the 21st century has not brought improvement but a cycle of decline for ordinary people. The fact is not so many people are needed in workplaces – for example shop assistants, bank clerks and factories. So human life is devalued because it’s not required and people, who once served oligarchs, are discarded as surplus to requirements.
The standard of living has become degraded too. Those who work are fleeced by landlords and robbed of a future because climate change is ignored.
I was reading about the financial and environmental impact of decommissioning Sellafield nuclear dump. Inefficiency means it will be leaking low-grade waste until 2050. That seems like an example of the state of the whole country.
Jane Catherine Pawley, Facebook
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Police academy
With cuckooing, there’s a wide range of crimes going on. Usually, it’s an abusive agreement where a drug addict allows their home to be used by drug dealers in exchange for some of the crack and heroin being moved through their address. Usually, the addicts are threatened with violence if they report the activity, but the actual handling of the drugs will be done by non-addicts (often vulnerable kids being drawn into the gangs) because they won’t try to consume the products themselves.
Often the addicts or other vulnerable people can become victims of false imprisonment (when they aren’t allowed to leave) or physical violence if they’re believed to have given away their address’s use to the authorities.
The police (hi) usually tackle these problems with search warrants under drugs legislation, combined with social services referrals for the occupants to try to get them relocated. If they’re not willing to cooperate with safeguarding and keep being cuckooed, we can also get something called a closure order which bans them from having “guests” in their house (which would let us take action more easily if people are coming and going who don’t live there).
I’ve been to addresses before where the same victim was cuckooed six or seven times in a couple of years, and we could have the same suspects awaiting multiple trials for cuckooing-related crimes for months at a time. It’s a big problem. We can only really tackle it effectively if people around the address notice and contact us to report it.
@Acting_Constable_Sek, Reddit
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