I wonder at what age they marry, and if Radley believes the government should step in to stop them?

Ah, yes, seems like you’ve figured out my plot to blame it all on Nancy Pelosi. Good investigative skills!

Which part of this quote from the article is confusing?

“Some House Republican leaders previously said they oppose any congressional action directing the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation.”

The latter has a rather scary element involved as well, and might only be funny to me because of my appreciation for dry British humour.

And the former is much better than the American style; they not only didn’t treat her as a criminal anyway, they apologized quickly, and again thoroughly, promptly repaired the damage, and sent flowers. I wish we had that sort of “kinder, gentler oppressive militaristic overlords” mentality here.

The only people who are *able* to switch their votes are the ones who aren’t dogmatically attached to either party. You could switch ‘Democrat’ for ‘Republican’ in my prior comment and I’d think it’s equally valid.

It’s the fact that the people either party would ‘lose’ is becoming a smaller percentage of their voters that removes any disincentive from pathetic political shenanigans.

I also second what the first two posters say, this is not even comparable to the American style where the police “secure the house” and arresting people before admitting they got the wrong place.

(though admittedly, he really has nowhere to go but up…)

And for the Minnesota banks thing, it reminded me of this quote by Warren Meyer yesterday (talking about government making you fill out stupid extra tax forms):

“Because the government treats us all as serfs. As far as they are concerned, our labor is free, because they have the power to compel us to do whatever they ask without compensation.”

Same deal here. They don’t want to do the dirty work, spend the money, track the people down. So let’s just make someone else do it, and punish them if they don’t.

I’d LOVE to see responses like that after wrong-door raids in the US. But the cops here are too stuck on themselves

Of course, it almost certainly will happen again, and maybe because of the same failure of process, but when do you really hear about law enforcement agencies taking responsibility like that? They usually blame it on dark lighting, and dirty mailboxes, and bad information from informants, as if they weren’t the ones responsibility for vetting their information and ensuring the right address in the first place.