The link is in Russian about the imprisonment of Norman Scarth who is actually 85. He has a complex history including a court hearing which found that he used a chainsaw to fight off bailiffs when he was 75. [a court judgment which is disputed see comments] However, that does not justify imprisoning him for 6 months for recording a court hearing (see the link and ask google to translate it if your Russian is not up to it).
It has got into the Argyll News
Because he has been held such that people cannot get to him to sign paperwork an application for a writ of Habeas Corpus was made today. This has been adjourned until next week.
The English judicial system is really not good at responding to major abuses of human rights by the judicial system.
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That image did remind me of a conversation some of my work collegues and I had last week. We were discussing where parliament would move to when London is too badly flooded and has to be abandoned. Birmingham would be the obvious location due to being built on a hill, our transportation network and the fact that we already have 3 venues that could be easily adapted to accomodate the government.
A number of people did comment, however, that the rampant Brummiephobia that seems to infest the south east would mean that Manchester would be a more likely relocation site.