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Actually, this will do. :lol:

Prize fighters are skilled professionals, fighting in a controlled setting, rather than pissed up on concrete streets with no rules or oversight at 3am. Fair enough for your view on boxing (I love it) which I completely understand, but I don’t think drunken street fights are quite the same...

Pressing charges isn’t actually a thing. It isn’t actually you, the person, deciding that, it’s the Crown. The police might ask whether you intend to “support the prosecution” by acting as a witness, but even if you decline they can proceed. Assuming he pleads guilty, the point is moot. The...

Totally agree, love seeing Alan just completely out of his depth like that. It’s brilliantly acted.

Very “The Thick of It”!

Alan Ford’s face when he does this is priceless :lol:

This. At this time it’s perfectly legal to speculate and react to evidence in the public domain. However, once the case becomes sub judice it is not.

I just think it’s entirely common to be effective in a fight even when hammered drunk. I’ve seen it myself many, many times.

A real possibility. Really helps to do this before pleading guilty to demonstrate remorse to the court that you’ve done it yourself without being court-ordered.

Hardly split second. Honestly, just watch it back yourself a few times. They’re talking/arguing, the bloke looks away, the MP takes the opportunity to hit him. It’s clear as day.

Do you want to get sucked in? It was a couple of ponces mincing about talking rubbish.

No, the majority of late night fights/assaults/manslaughters from fighting occur after alcohol has been consumed. 600,000 incidents of alcohol-related violence occur each year, predominantly on weekends. https://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Women/bs_alcohol_violence.pdf

Not in real terms…

He wasn’t walking away, but he turns his head away in the moment before he is punched. Watch it in slow-motion, they break eye contact, he turns his head, and that’s when he throws the punch.

Good. The Greenwood thing really, really pissed me off.

Slurring his words, repeating himself, can’t walk straight. Drunk on the streets at 3am having a scrap. Crikey

Of course, this will mean the loss of two Labour MP’s already. But this one isn’t about the colour of the rosette, it’s a violent thug beating someone up on the street like a hoodlum.

Oh that’s done him. That is assault by beating, no question.

“Mr Amesbury, after you had punched him to the floor, you punched him again in the head. Did you still believe him to be a threat at this time?”

Decades of legal precedent. There is no justification in British Law for striking a person unless that person is facing an imminent risk to their personal safety. And even then, physically assaulting someone in self-defence would be considered “an act of last resort”. If your (completely...