What happened on 23rd July 2023 - With your comments in the Web

Sunday started with sad news. A man's arm was 'chewed' by XL bully as he walked it for family member. The dog was seized by police and has been signed over for destruction.

Merseyside Police attended Station Road in Gateacre at 10.48am after reports a 60-year-old man had been attacked by an XL bully. The man was walking the XL bulldog along the road when it slipped from its lead and started acting aggressively.

The dog then attacked the man, who suffered serious injuries to his arm and was taken to hospital.

 

Attacks by XL dogs became regrettably frequent, recently. No surprise, such irresponsibility much annoys Brits.

"Monster dogs owned by weed smoking dole rats who haven’t got to brain cells to rub together."

"Says it all …..’ Headed straight for the children ‘ ban this breed asap."

"Probably Nigel Farage getting menaced by such a breed. Then the government will move at breakneck speed, probably getting a Bill before Parliament or an SI if necessary within days, to achieving Royal assent in five working days."

Also on Sunday, the home secretary, Suella Braverman, has personally intervened to bar a man living in exile in Turkey from being reunited in the UK with his British son.

Siyabonga Twala from Chester has been in limbo in Ankara for more than six months after he was blocked from boarding a flight back to Manchester last December.

He wrote to the Home Office asking to be allowed to come back but instead Braverman has ordered his exclusion “on the basis of serious criminality” because of a cannabis offence from five years ago. Twala’s lawyer said Braverman’s intervention set a “worrying precedent”.

Twala was on his way back from a family holiday to South Africa with his nine-year-old son, Mason, and his parents and siblings when he was prevented from boarding a flight home at Istanbul airport on 30 December.

The trip was the first time that Twala, 34, had returned since his family relocated from Durban to Chester when he was 15. Twala had residency in the UK having grown up in Britain but had not yet applied for citizenship. His immigration status now hangs in the balance because of a 2018 conviction for possession of cannabis with intent to supply.

This story apparently was meant to be a tear squeezer. Yet, Britons don't have much sympathy towards migrant law-breakers.

"Foreign national commits crime and is not allowed back into country.

Why is this even news"

"Claiming he’s from Chester as if he is British. He’s a South African criminal."

"Gonna go against the herd on this one ("he's just a small time drug dealer! Never hurt a fly!"), but look. I'm emigrating to Oz in a few months. You can bet your arse that I'm going to be on my absolute best behaviour. If someone lets you into their country, you follow their rules. Simple as that. Happy to take the downvotes"

On Sunday, it became known that teachers have to fill in social worker gaps while postal workers report being physically exhausted after having to walk miles with heavy bags at speed. 

That Guardian article is about teachers complaining on intensifying conditions of their work during cuts in funding and constant stress and burnout.

 Judging the Reddit comments, this situation is about other occupations either.

"I have noticed this, everything is becoming more and more micro managed and tracked. It seems like a lot of company’s have as many people in the office coming up with ideas to make improvements and spreadsheets on workers performance to bash people over the head with as there are doing actual meaningful work. making everyones jobs harder and more stressful. Some weeks years ago I could get my work done in three days and have a long weekend , other weeks would be busy it was give and take. but I have to long it out so they feel like they are getting their pound of flesh now. Edit to say, I got downvoted, the office “workers” are on Reddit now too!"

"E.ON was basically a prison, posted your toilet times to the call floor daily to embarrass you and make you bring it down. I begged them to remove mine and let me use an emergency code because I don't want everyone knowing I'm having medical issues but they refused yet other people were able to use the code for their issues.

They timed us in seconds as well. A few seconds over a target and you would still be called out and told to improve it. Your personal targets affected group targets which added more pressure overall.

Micromanagement is just asking for depressed staff"

Yet, some were lucky.

"I work for a very big company that you’ve definitely heard of and thankfully there’s none of this at my place. It’s one of the reasons I don’t want to look for a new job, even after nearly 6 years. I was horribly micromanaged in my previous job and it led to an incredibly toxic atmosphere."