What happened on 5th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Monday, a faith in justice abandoned Brits when they learned that hit-and-run driver, 26, who had mowed down schoolgirl, 10, while she had been cycling home then left her for dead in horror smash avoided jail.

Farhan Musaji, 26, of Bolton, was further fined £400 and ordered to pay £300 in costs after he jumped a red light at a junction in his Audi A4 and ploughed into Layla Shepard as she was cycling home, before fleeing the scene and abandoning his car, at around 6.49pm on Saturday October 16, 2021.

While reading this we can just ask, "What is going on with the UK justice system ? We had a man arrested and charged over a shirt. This fool does attempted murder and flees and get's a small fine ?"

• Runs red lights

• Seriously injured child

• Flees scene

• Removes plates from car

U.K. justice system: slap on the wrist will do"

"I think the main qualification to become a judge is to have zero ability to live in reality or recognise anything about the real world"

"And a few weeks ago, a bloke got 11 years for pirating Sky Sports ... Pathetic sentencing. Not stopping for an accident should carry an immediate five year sentence. No ifs, no buts."

Some Redditors even call to rough justice:

"If this was my daughter I'd be taking the law into my hands, this is a total disgrace.

A bit of betting fraud - 5 years

Steaming PL matches - 11 years

Almost killing a kid and try to hide the evidence? You're OK mate, off you go."

 On Monday, as well, the UK Prime Minister twitted to his co-nationals:

Those were the most popular answers:

"Your Party has had more than enough time to deal with this minor problem! You chose to turn a blind eye! Resign now…. or be humiliatingly thrown out on your scrawny arse! You’re a disgrace to the office of PM. A Traitor to this country!"

At the same time, he announced two new barges to house asylum seekers. 

"So, as part of the plan to “stop the boats” the government has purchased two large boats."

 

A-a-and then Mr Sunak decides to take helicopter for 74 mile journey to Kent - that would be an hour on train.

Helicopter enthusiast Rishi Sunak was flown from London to Kent for a briefing today - despite it being just over an hour away by train. The PM, who has been criticised over his repeated use of choppers, flew from the capital to Dover, where he will desperately try and convince critics his small boats strategy is working.

An RAF Agusta Westland A109 - believed to have been transporting Mr Sunak took off from Battersea Helicopter just after 8am. Had he caught the 8.04am train from London St Pancras, he would have arrived at the coastal town at 9.12am.

 

That raised another wave of sarcastic comments:

 

"It's because the trains are so unreliable because of stri......oh .....wait"

 

 "I thought it was because at the rate things are going the helicopter was probably cheaper!" - "If that was true he would take the train."

 

"A train wouldn't let him look down in utter disgust at the filthy plebs tho"

 

"Everything is always about the PR because of how vicious the press is.

If he did go by train he would have had to book an entire carriage for security reasons and the headlines would have been about spending taxpayers money on stopping people taking the train by booking a whole carriage at at time when train capacities are being stretched to their limits.

But yeah, could have just driven him unless time was of the essence."

That day either, Labours called for developers without a licence to be barred from working on advanced AI tools.

 

Ministers should introduce much stricter rules around companies training their AI products on vast datasets of the kind used by OpenAI to build ChatGPT, Lucy Powell, Labour’s digital spokesperson, told the Guardian.

Her comments come amid a rethink at the top of government over how to regulate the fast-moving world of AI, with the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, acknowledging it could pose an “existential” threat to humanity.

One of the government’s advisers on artificial intelligence also said on Monday that humanity could have only two years before AI is able to outwit people, the latest in a series of stark warnings about the threat posed by the fast-developing technology.

 

 Readers didn't like that offer.

"Well, that's certainly one way to drive all investment AND oversight of AI offshore. The jobs would follow right after." - "EU would be doing the same. As usual, the U.S wins."

 

"How utterly Luddite. You have something where the UK is well placed to take advantage of and you want to wrap companies up in red tape."

 

"Labour confirming what everybody already knew - politicians have absolutely no idea what they're talking about."

 

But admitted it necessary in current situation:

 

"Perhaps, we do have other licensed areas that still see investment. The jobs are going either way - AI is happening whether we like it or not. Might as well get the controls in place before we’re all unemployed lmao. It’s not just working class, lots of professional jobs are at stake. It may be a while but like the ever warming climate we’ll be fucked before long if we don’t do something."

 

"a little late perhaps… the original EU position on AI included statistical modelling… the sort you do in excel. No idea how to govern something like this and it’s going to grow exponentially until they realise Pandora’s box is well and truly open." 

 

Meanwhile, 75% of London children in poverty from employed households, new figures show. Three quarters of children in poverty in London have at least one parent in a job, new analysis has found.

The statistics from Loughborough University shows that overall a third of London’s children are in poverty – with Tower Hamlets having the highest rate in the country at 47.5 per cent.

Four out of the 20 worst affected council areas in the country are the capital, it shows: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney and Barking and Dagenham.

The End Child Poverty Coalition, which commissioned the analysis, said on Monday the figures showed that child poverty was “the ugly side of London” – and warned the problem could worsen due to persistently high inflation.

 "Expand the benefit system to support more working households, allow benefit claimants to keep their money for the first few months of returning to employment so they can build their own safety net. Pay workers a wage they can actually live on. Reward those who stay in work with things like free child care & discounts at the supermarket. There’s so much this government could be doing to tackle this, but they wont because they don’t care."

"If someone can't afford to live on their salary and gets benefits to enable that then it is a grant to their employer.

We need to increase minimum wage until no one that works is claiming benefits or requires charities to survive."