The Cliff Richard case

I can't say I know much about what goes on regarding the Jewish faith, but what I do know is that their practices are not being foisted upon me.

OMG!!!!  How many Bunnies have to die to make them Duracell batteries eh? Disgusting.

I take it by your comments that you have never lived in country where the rule of law is not applied democratically? If not I will pull rank on you and state that I have, not only was it a near fascist state but a theocracy at that. As for the demand for justice for sex crimes, your allegation of greater rights than the victim is preposterous. The truth is your version of justice is revenge, an idea that we, in the UK, moved away from centuries ago. Rather strangely your view absolutely corresponds to the Sharia Law version of justice where revenge is absolutely the response. Contradictory to your view of Islam? Totally. But absolutists share a common thread. Autocracy.
The fundamental point you are making, again, is that you are not happy with the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. The separation of these three fundamental pillars of government are essential to a healthy democracy (as you probably believe, correctly, in a theocracy, Islamic or otherwise, they are not)
As citizens it is absolutely correct that we do not, cannot influence or undermine the independence of the Judiciary. Our role is to vote in the legislature, the executive role is to govern by the rules passed by the legislature, it is the Judiciary to interpret and then apply the tariff when those laws are broken. Independently. To change the rules you vote in the government to just that. If you lose the vote you accept, in a democracy, the outcome. You appear not to. That is my friend anarchy at best, criminal at worst.
I refer to my previous comment. The UK did not end up a making a reasonable stab at democracy by accident. In our past many people were killed (The Peterloo Massacre) deported (Tolpuddle Martyrs), stripped of livelihoods (Union Membership) or willingly died for the cause (Suffragette). Whilst I completely share your views on the disgrace of empire as we acted it out, that is not what I am talking about and you know it. Its the hard won rights of the "ordinary" citizen, a description you and I share, that your views the people who enabled those rights would be embarrassed by. The "no one to vote for" refers to Brexit, where all political parties and protagonists on both sides of the debate are a disgrace. Vote I will given the opportunity, but the way this is going I very much doubt that I will be allowed to given that our Parliamentary legislature has been hijacked by 40 or so hard right extremists in the Tory Party and opposed by a few idiots in the Labour Party.
Absolutely wrong. I quote Voltaire and believe in it with a passion. Time and time again, the more one allows extremists the exposure to express their views, the more the fool they make of themselves. You may recall Nick Griffin on question time. Made an utter fool of himself and destroyed his vile party. Lovely. Don't jump out of your pram about the inference that you are an extremist, I don't know that. But you do come across as angry, and may I say confused. Easy prey for the extremists in politics.
Your life experiences are your own and not for me to interpret. As for myself I have lived in three countries during the course of my life. I Have never knowingly or willingly broken the law in two (I did get a speeding ticket (once) in the UK, does that count?). I did willingly and knowingly break the law in one, by being in possession and distributing a UK publication that was highly critical of the regime there. The secret police (laughingly not so secret, actually came up to my office desk and demanded I hand over the original. I did. But they were to thick to not understand I worked for Xerox, a reprographics company. Black and white copies were already in circulation) It was that well known ultra left publication, The Economist. Laugh? we all did)

I hope this helps you understand my viewpoint and why I object to yours.

I'm not rushing to defend anything.

I'm pointing out hypocrisy in saying this way of treating animals like sh** is worse than this other way of treating animals like sh**.

I'm not arsed at all about halal meat.

They can bless it all they like, it still tastes like chicken.

If you are that bothered, just eat sausages.

No, I think the point that's being made that I do understand is that there is no choice.

It's not regulated or labelled in the same way the battery/free range is.

For example, KFC only do halal meat.

It's not labelled and there is no choice.

I still don't see what difference it would make if KFC sold battery chicken as both are cruel.

It still would not be labelled and still would not be a choice but is somehow better.

I do love their burritos though.

I was being genuine.

Im really not arsed if the meat I eat is halal or not. I genuinely can't see what difference it makes either way.

It's killing another life for us to eat. I'm not defending halal, it's seems quite an odd concept to me, but the animal is dead or about to be killed whatever you do.

It bothers you, so as you say, do your research and you can easily avoid eating it.

Buy labelled free range meat or eat in restaurants that dont sell it.

Or better still go veggie?

Heh heh.

I was veggie for like 12 years or something, mainly because of animal cruelty and conditions.

Then I realized they were still killing animals despite my best efforts and that bacon is delicious.

Ha ha, coming from Jaggas I took it as a compliment. Is beef sold in Kuwait??