UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679

A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.

It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.

 

[Snekposter]

I'm shocked that the skirt-wearing faggots are anti-troon.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I do like seeing a sign Scotland is moving away from one party rule.

I'll keep the trend of good news up, looks like the last lot to receive medals for gallantry that were approved by the Queen include those involved in the London Bridge attack. Including the man who decided the best thing to do when seeing a knife armed suicide bomber (bomb was fake but he did not know that at the time) was to grab an ornamental narwhal tusk to fight him with.

Attack heroes on Queen's final bravery awards list

Five of the civilian commendations go to men who confronted the London Bridge attacker in 2019.

www.bbc.com

Members of the public who tackled the man behind the London Bridge attack in 2019 are among the recipients of the final civilian gallantry awards approved by the late Queen.
The list includes a Queen's Gallantry Medal for Darryn Frost who used a narwhal tusk to fend off Usman Khan outside the Fishmongers' Hall event.
The same award goes to two ex-offenders - John Crilly, who used a fire extinguisher on the attacker, and Steven Gallant, who helped confront him until police arrived.
Mr Gallant, who had been convicted of murder but has since been freed, has since spoken of wanting to inspire prisoners wanting to turn their lives around.
He was commended for standing his ground against Khan, who was carrying two knives and wearing what turned out to be an imitation belt of explosives.

The bravery award winners are among 15 people praised for their heroic actions in the last list approved by the Queen, who died last September.

Such awards in future will be known as the King's Gallantry Medal or the King's Commendation for Bravery.
In November 2019 Khan fatally stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, and injured three other people at the conference held by an organisation involved in the rehabilitation of offenders in the City of London. He then ran on to London Bridge, and was later shot dead by armed officers.

A porter at the hall, Lucasz Koczocik, also received a Queen's Gallantry Medal for forcing Khan out of the venue, using an ornamental spear, despite him having sustained serious injuries from three stab wounds.
And prison officer Adam Roberts was commended for providing emergency first aid, while the attack was going on around him.

The bravery awards include those caught up in the terror attack beside London Bridge that claimed two lives
The five men brought together by the event were commended for the courage of their response - using improvised weapons and facing great danger themselves, as they chased the attacker on to the bridge.
Mr Frost used a narwhal tusk that had been on display at Fishmongers' Hall and pinned Khan down, despite the risk from what had seemed to be the suicide belt.

The final Queen's awards also include a posthumous Queen's Gallantry Medal for John Rees, who at the age of 88, died when he intervened in a knife attack at a shop in Penygraig, Rhondda in south Wales in May 2020.
There are also awards for Lisa Way and Ayette Bounouri who came to his assistance. Mrs Bounouri used a shopping basket to try to deflect the attacker.
Other awards for bravery include:

• Ed Durante and Craig Jones for rescuing the occupants of a vehicle that crashed and caught fire on the A38 in Devon
• Bardha Kola for rescuing her neighbour from a house fire in Trowbridge, Wiltshire
• PC Mohammed Nadeem for rescuing a distressed man from the River Irwell in Bury
• Kenneth Wood and Rafal Majchrzak for rescuing a woman from a fatal house fire in Boston, Lincolnshire
• Andrew Lax for rescuing a motorist from a vehicle following a head-on collision

The recipients, announced by the Cabinet Office, are nominated by the public in recognition of "exemplary bravery in saving the lives of others".
They are approved by the monarch, on the advice of the George Cross Committee which considers such awards, with these latest civilian honours the first for two years.
Oliver Dowden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said the latest recipients were "extremely worthy winners" of the Queen's last such awards.

"We all hope we'd react with courage in the face of danger. These people have lived through that test, and responded in the most admirable way," said Mr Dowden.

Edit; found a picture of this insanity in action. Somehow I do not think stabby pictured this was how his day was going to go.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

So some head teacher had an OFSTED inspection, and the school was failed on Safeguarding concerns; she an hero'd and the usual suspects are trying to use this to disband school inspections with one bucktoothed cunt refusing inspectors access to her school. The board of governors of the school who are ultimately responsible for school progress skulk away with no fingers pointing at them. Facebook is up in arms.
In other news, pakistani rape gangs are bad,.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Launch of life-saving public emergency alerts

A new system that will give the Government and emergency services the capability to send an alert directly to mobiles phones when there is a risk to life has been launched today

www.gov.uk

Government literally flexing that they've arbitrarily given themselves the power to fuck with your phone at will. Because 'Wildfires' are such a common problem in one of the dampest places in Europe. Fucking cunts.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

So some head teacher had an OFSTED inspection, and the school was failed on Safeguarding concerns; she an hero'd and the usual suspects are trying to use this to disband school inspections with one bucktoothed cunt refusing inspectors access to her school. The board of governors of the school who are ultimately responsible for school progress skulk away with no fingers pointing at them. Facebook is up in arms.
In other news, pakistani rape gangs are bad,.

Apparently this is fairly normal.

2000

Ofsted fears drove teacher to suicide. - Free Online Library

Free Online Library: Ofsted fears drove teacher to suicide.(News) by "The Birmingham Post (England)"; News, opinion and commentary General interest

www.thefreelibrary.com

A gifted young teacher who was depressed about an upcoming Ofsted school inspection hanged himself from a tree near his Birmingham home.

Mr James Patton, aged 29, who worked up to 60 hours a week, felt that he was failing the class of 10-year-olds he taught at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic primary school in Stechford, an inquest heard yesterday.

After having time off work and being treated for anxiety and depression by his GP, he wrote a goodbye letter to his wife, Melanie, which said: 'My best was not good enough.'

Then he hanged himself from a tree on a public right of way close to their home in Green Acres Road, Kings Norton.

A neighbour cut him down and Mr Patton was taken to Selly Oak Hospital. He died there 13 days later after suffering brain damage and a neck fracture.

Mrs Melanie Patton, also a teacher and his wife of two years, said that he had originally worked as a branch manager for a tool-hire firm and had retrained as a teacher because that was the job he really wanted to do.

But she said last November he had suddenly become very upset and withdrawn and said he was finding it hard to cope.

'He was extremely anxious about a pending Ofsted inspection,' she said.

'He worked very long hours and was doing extra work for the inspection. He was a perfectionist. He wanted to do the best for himself and the children.

'He was the sort of person that wanted to carry things himself. He wanted to do well. He had completely lost his appetite and wasn't sleeping.'

Asked what she thought was behind her husband's depression, Mrs Patton said: 'It's difficult for me to say really but I do believe it was stress through work.'

Mrs Patton told the court her husband had taken the week before he was found hanged off work and had seemed very quiet and deep in thought.

'I think in hindsight if I had seen the signs and known that they had been so serious then I feel that perhaps myself and other people could have done something more but it was difficult to see the signs really.'

Dr Andrew Coward, his GP, said that Mr Patton had lost nearly a stone in weight and was suffering from stress and insomnia and he told him to take time off work and gave him anti-depressant tablets.

Mr Andrew Cunningham, head of the school, said that Mr Patton had been a student there during his retraining and had done so well that he was offered a job.

He said: 'James was very dedicated and very hard-working. He was adored not only by the pupils but respected by the staff.

'James was such a likeable person. He had such a lovely rapport with the children, the parents and staff. The fact this happened to James was a shock to us all.

'The school has been devastated by the events. I was pleased to employ James.' Mr Cunningham said that it would have been his first Ofsted inspection but added: 'We felt as a school that we had nothing to worry about.

'We had every confidence in his ability. I knew he would do exceedingly well.'

City coroner Dr Richard Whittington recorded a suicide verdict.

He said: 'In his note James refers to his children. He said: 'My best was not good enough', which shows how he felt about himself but was not felt by others. He was clearly a perfectionist.'

2015

Headteacher killed herself after Ofsted downgrade, inquest hears

Coroner records suicide ruling for Carol Woodward, who was the long-serving head of Woodford primary school near Plymouth

www.theguardian.com

An award-winning headteacher hanged herself shortly after Ofsted downgraded her school, an inquest has been told.

Carol Woodward, the long-serving head of Woodford primary school near Plymouth, suffered a swift decline in her mental health that coincided with an inspection by Ofsted as well as disruptive building work to expand the school.


Police who investigated the death told the inquest in Plymouth that the Ofsted inspection in July was “completed in a fair manner but the timing, without assigning culpability, was wrong”.

DC Peter Riley, the investigating officer, said: “The chaotic environment this caused, coupled with the pressures of the academic year and the timing of Ofsted’s inspection, triggered an immense amount of pressure on Carol.”

Ian Arrow, the Plymouth senior coroner, ruled that the cause of death was suicide by hanging. “There is nothing suspicious about Carol’s tragic death,” Arrow said in summing up. “She just felt she was under so much pressure.”

The Ofsted inspectors downgraded the school’s rating to inadequate and placed it in special measures. The school had been rated as good in its last inspection, in 2012.

The school of more than 400 pupils was undergoing extensive building work at the time of the inspection in order to add capacity for a further 200 pupils across all year groups.

Under the terms of Ofsted inspections, schools can delay visits in exceptional circumstances such as building disruption.

The inspectors’ report was critical of the standard of teaching and pupil attainment, after a decline in key stage two results. It also criticised the school’s governors and the local authority for failing to take measures to improve the school.

After the inspection, Woodward contacted her doctor several times to discuss stress and other health problems, the inquest was told.

In late July, the 58-year-old told her GP that the school had failed the Ofsted inspection and that she felt she had let everyone down, the inquest heard. She later complained of being unable to sleep.

Woodward had been headteacher at Woodford infants school since 1996, becoming head of Woodford primary after the merger of the two schools in 2010.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/may/01/headteacher-kills-herself
In 2006 Woodward was named a regional primary school headteacher of the year, in an awards programme sponsored by the Department for Education. In 2007 the school’s results were in the top 5% in England, and two years later the school was feted by Ofsted for its results and outstanding teaching.

Debbie Johns, the school’s assistant head and chair of governors, told the Plymouth Herald in August: “Carol was extremely proud of the school and believed in the importance of focusing on the needs of each and every child to ensure they felt confident, happy and safe.”

An Ofsted spokesperson said: “Like so many others, we offer our sincere condolences to Mrs Woodward’s family, friends, colleagues and pupils at this very difficult time.”

And this one from the Guardian, to ensure maximum outrage. However note underlined because it might not be true.

Headteacher killed herself after news of low Ofsted rating, family says

Ruth Perry was told that Caversham primary school in Reading would be downgraded to inadequate

www.theguardian.com

A headteacher killed herself after she was told that her school would be given the lowest possible Ofsted rating, her family has said.

Ruth Perry, 53, who had worked at Caversham primary school in Reading for 13 years, took her own life in January after she was informed that the school was being downgraded from outstanding to inadequate.

Her sister, Julia Waters, said Perry had described the inspection in November last year as the worst day of her life. She said Perry had been “an absolute shadow of her former self” while waiting for the report’s publication.

Matt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading East, said Ofsted must take action after Perry’s “devastating” death. “Ofsted must now ask themselves some tough questions about their role and how we prevent further tragedies in the future,” he said.

Rodda said he had met the schools minister, Nick Gibb, adding: “I think it’s fair to say there are local concerns about the way the inspection was carried out, also about the way the Ofsted framework and other regulations affecting Ofsted effectively work, and the wider pressure on headteachers.”

Waters told BBC South that Perry was informed that the school’s rating would be downgraded on the first day of the inspection, which was the first she had faced as headteacher.

She said inspectors reported that a boy doing a flossing dance move, from the video game Fortnite, was evidence of the sexualisation of children at the school. She said inspectors told staff they had seen child-on-child abuse, which turned out to be a playground fight.

Waters said: “Ruth took her own life on January 8; all during that process, every time I spoke to her, she would talk about the countdown. I remember her clearly one day saying ‘52 days and counting’. Every day she had this weight on her shoulders hanging over her and she wasn’t officially allowed to talk to her family.

“I remember the very first day I saw her, rather than just speaking to her on the phone, a couple of days after the end of the Ofsted inspection, she came, she was an absolute shadow of her former self.”

The report, which was published this week, found the school to be good in every category apart from leadership and management, where it was judged to be inadequate, the lowest rating. It meant the entire school dropped to the lowest rating.

Waters said the rating had “destroyed” the vocation of her sister, who had once been a pupil at the school. “This one-word judgment is just destroying 32 years of her vocation – education was her vocation – 32 years summed up in one word, inadequate,” she said. “It just preyed on her mind until she couldn’t take it any more.”

Daily Flail however contradicts the article. Weasel words used by Guardian where they are quoting the dead woman without using quotations.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11873175/Sister-headteacher-killed-blasts-watchdog-inspection.html

It is also alleged inspectors told teachers that they had seen child-on-child abuse - but Mrs Perry insisted it was a playground scuffle.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

A teacher at a school in Newbury took to the Twitter to channel her anger over Ruth's suicide for 15 min of fame. OFSTED were due in tomorrow but she said on Titter that she refused them, and then asked people to show up and protest.
Now she's done a U-Turn and asked for people *not* to turn up, and the inspection will go ahead as usual. I guess someone told her that she's going to lose her job, and all of a sudden her 'stand' isn't worth it after all. Coming to a prohibition hearing in the near future for bringing the profession into disrepute.

Here's the report of the school that failed

https://www.cavershamprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/10242325-Caversham-Primary-Sc-109778-final-PDF.pdf

Clear that they failed because of this not a fortnight dance...

Leaders have a weak understanding of safeguarding requirements and procedures. They have not exercised sufficient leadership or oversight of this important work. As a result, records of safeguarding concerns and the tracking of subsequent actions are poor. Leaders have not ensured that all required employment checks are complete for some staff employed at the school. These weaknesses pose potential risks to pupils.

The Head needed someone to look out for her mental health, the board needed to make sure the safeguarding policy was being followed so Pakistani rape gangs in Reading couldn't fuck kids from their school.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

A teacher at a school in Newbury took to the Twitter to channel her anger over Ruth's suicide for 15 min of fame. OFSTED were due in tomorrow but she said on Titter that she refused them, and then asked people to show up and protest.
Now she's done a U-Turn and asked for people *not* to turn up, and the inspection will go ahead as usual. I guess someone told her that she's going to lose her job, and all of a sudden her 'stand' isn't worth it after all. Coming to a prohibition hearing in the near future for bringing the profession into disrepute.

Here's the report of the school that failed

https://www.cavershamprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/10242325-Caversham-Primary-Sc-109778-final-PDF.pdf

Clear that they failed because of this not a fortnight dance...

The Head needed someone to look out for her mental health, the board needed to make sure the safeguarding policy was being followed so Pakistani rape gangs in Reading couldn't fuck kids from their school.

Head teacher here

https://twitter.com/FloraSCooper

Try to get some archiving done. I'm going to bed for work tomorrow but this idiot woman has potentially majorly fucked up.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Head teacher here

https://twitter.com/FloraSCooper

Try to get some archiving done. I'm going to bed for work tomorrow but this idiot woman has potentially majorly fucked up.

God. what an insufferable cunt this woman is

 

[Mista House]

Launch of life-saving public emergency alerts

A new system that will give the Government and emergency services the capability to send an alert directly to mobiles phones when there is a risk to life has been launched today

www.gov.uk

Government literally flexing that they've arbitrarily given themselves the power to fuck with your phone at will. Because 'Wildfires' are such a common problem in one of the dampest places in Europe. Fucking cunts.

No doubt they'll fuck it up in some usual govt shaped retardation. Remember how shit the track and trace app was?

 

[Help I'm A BritFag]

Alexis Green: BBC South presenter speaks out over harassment ordeal​

The face of the weather for millions, Alexis Green has long been a familiar and friendly companion to people in the south of England.
But as BBC South Today's lead weather presenter, Ms Green ended up being bombarded with scores of sexual messages, photos and videos which had a huge impact on her life.
It started as a message sent to her personal Facebook profile by a man she did not know, following a shift at work.
Ms Green was unable to sleep and had to take time off work after being sent the messages via Facebook messenger.

Article

So basically all that's happened here is some creep was sending her nudes and explicit comments over Facebook messenger, why didn't she just block the fake profiles he's using and alter her privacy settings so as not to receive messages from random profiles? Every woman with a Facebook account ends up doing this after they get a few messages from horny Pajeets, I fail to see how her experience is "traumatic" or newsworthy. It's like how there is a national outrage every time some black footballer gets sent a few emojis on Instagram, who fucking cares.

 

[Mista House]

Alexis Green: BBC South presenter speaks out over harassment ordeal​

The face of the weather for millions, Alexis Green has long been a familiar and friendly companion to people in the south of England.
But as BBC South Today's lead weather presenter, Ms Green ended up being bombarded with scores of sexual messages, photos and videos which had a huge impact on her life.
It started as a message sent to her personal Facebook profile by a man she did not know, following a shift at work.
Ms Green was unable to sleep and had to take time off work after being sent the messages via Facebook messenger.

Article

So basically all that's happened here is some creep was sending her nudes and explicit comments over Facebook messenger, why didn't she just block the fake profiles he's using and alter her privacy settings so as not to receive messages from random profiles? Every woman with a Facebook account ends up doing this after they get a few messages from horny Pajeets, I fail to see how her experience is "traumatic" or newsworthy. It's like how there is a national outrage every time some black footballer gets sent a few emojis on Instagram, who fucking cares.

God forbid they lift a finger and do anything to change the situation when they can whine and complain. Just walk away, just close your eyes.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

And with flawless timing as teachers shiek about "toxic safeguarding" the Mail reminds everyone about this cunt;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11889233/Primary-school-deputy-head-secretly-watched-child-rape-videos-banned-teaching-life.html

A Catholic deputy school headteacher who watched child rape videos has been banned from teaching for life.

Richard Swinnerton resigned from his post at St Clare's primary school in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire after he was caught watching the sick clips on the dark web while his wife and own child slept upstairs.

When officers from the National Crime Agency raided his home and arrested him during the pandemic, the paedophile pointed them to his laptop and said: 'It's me, I have been looking at the indecent images.' He was later convicted and handed a suspended jail sentence.

A disciplinary panel has now banned Swinnerton from teaching in England indefinitely.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...og-Bentley-stroll-LA.html?ico=related-replace
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-drug-addicts-crime.html?ico=related-replace

He had viewed the videos using a router, which gave him access to the dark web, a court heard

The paedophile said he had been accessing indecent images for the past 12 months when his wife and child were upstairs in bed. Swinnerton also admitted that he had been looking at the images over the past year, and told police in an interview that he was sexually attracted to children.

At Teesside Crown Court in 2020, he was given a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and was given a 10-year long Sexual Harm Prevention order.

Prosecutor Shaun Dryden previously told Teesside Crown Court: 'He actively searched images of children and confirmed the purpose of the search was for his own sexual gratification. He would view the images on a weekly basis for about half an hour.'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...meron-dies-aged-59.html?ico=related-replace-2
Judge Deborah Sherwin said there was no evidence Swinnerton had 'crossed the boundary' into harming any children himself.

Now, a Teaching Regulation Agency disciplinary panel has banned him from teaching for life.

This comes following his resignation from his post after his arrest in May 2020.

The panel added that his behaviour and conviction were extremely serious given the nature of the offences.

A St Clare's school spokesperson said: 'This has been an upsetting matter for parents, carers, staff and the wider community at St Clare's. We are grateful for the support we have received from them and we continue to assure them that the wellbeing and safety of children of St Clare's remains our priority at all times.

'It is also important to reiterate that this former employee's offences were not in connection with his employment at the school.'

Timing!

 

[CaptainAutism69]

He had viewed the videos using a router, which gave him access to the dark web, a court heard

Shit, I have a router...

 

[Overly Serious]

Shit, I have a router...

What videos have viewed on it?

 

[CaptainAutism69]

What videos have viewed on it?

There's no screen! Help!

 

[FudgeFish]

Turns out it was a black man who set fire to that elderly Muslim walking home from a mosque.

Watch that story just evaporate into thin air now.

 

[East_Clintwood]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65013545

A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical "middleman" have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, after they brought a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the man for his kidney, in the first such case under modern slavery laws.
The Old Bailey heard the organ was for the couple's daughter, Sonia, aged 25.
She was cleared of the same charge.
The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
The prosecution said he was offered up to £7,000 and promised opportunities in the UK for helping, and that he only realised what was going on when he met doctors at the hospital.

• Nigerian street trader trafficked in kidney plot

It was alleged the defendants had tried to convince medics at the Royal Free by pretending he was the cousin of Sonia, who has a debilitating illness and remains on weekly dialysis, when they were not related.
While it is lawful to donate a kidney, it becomes criminal if there is a reward of money or other material advantage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65054779

Also found something amusing in this. It's a fluff piece about some symbolic/diplomatic chess game between the UK number one vs the Ukrainian national champion. The bit I found funny:

At the same time, a series of 12 matches pitting MPs against peers resulted in a House of Commons triumph by a score of 8.5 - 3.5.

Lords got absolutely mogged by the proles.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Nitrous oxide: Possession of laughing gas to be criminal offence

Targeting the use of nitrous oxide is part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas sales to be banned, says Gove

The sale of laughing gas will be banned under plans to tackle anti-social behaviour, Michael Gove has announced.

The levelling up secretary told the BBC nitrous oxide can have a "damaging effect on young brains" and its public use can lead to "greater lawlessness".

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) recently advised against new laws to ban nitrous oxide.

Nitrous oxide, sold in metal canisters, is known as NOS and is the second most-used drug by UK 16 to 24-year-olds.

The details of the ban have not yet been released. The BBC understands the ban would be issued under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, which regulates drugs based on their perceived harm and potential for misuse.

Gove banning a thing because the police are too busy protecting nonces and pakis to do their jobs.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Just legalise weed. While i disagree with it, it would make things a lot easier, safer and cheaper for everyone involved.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Just legalise weed. While i disagree with it, it would make things a lot easier, safer and cheaper for everyone involved.

Might as well be legal, given how openly people smoke the shit around my way. I just wish they'd do it indoors so I don't have to smell it.