>Xahra Saleem, 23, admitted using more than £30,000 that was supposed to go to a charity for disadvantaged youngsters in the city to fund her lifestyle, including spending almost £6,000 on Uber rides.
She spent £6,000 on Uber over 15 months, that’s about £100 PER WEEK. Pretty sure every Uber driver in Bristol recognises her.
If she’s done something wrong, that changes my opinion about slavery entirely.
I think slavery’s great now. I think we should put up statues of people who have murdered tens of thousands of slaves.
Good.
We had this whole thing called the “feudal system” in the UK for hundreds of years; handwringing Gen Z ignoramuses who write posts about Matthew Perry on Netflix making them “feel unsafe”, are encouraged to google the feudal system and learn what it was.
We generally don’t pull down statues of feudal oppressors, overlords, tyrants, even though they held the population in conditions of slavery for hundreds of years.
Why don’t we do it? Because these oppressors are part of our history. Revisionism does not help in the present and only obfuscates the past.
We need to stop capitulating to people who aren’t behaving in a way that is rational or civilized, and are only driven by emotions and victimhood complex.
Yes, indeed the slave trade in the 17th century was a great evil, but many things in the UK’s past were great evils yet we don’t topple down statues as a custom.
So, when you inspect this argument legally, the statue-toppled doesn’t have a leg to stand on. That is just not how behave here. She tried to argue her case legally, and she lost.
If we’re going to brook some “revolutionary” change of our norms and protocols, there are many better places to start, which could achieve much greater good for a greater number of people, that by than toppling statues of people from the 17th century.
I’m glad that we’ve really moved on since 2020. There was a lot of grift going on that couldn’t be questioned so long as it was associated with the right movements.
It was always obvious there was large scale grift on both sides of the political scale. She’s absolutely shameful.
Before some people (and there seem to be some here already who didn’t even read *the fucking headline*) misunderstands what this is about, money meant for disadvantaged youth was spent privately by her. It is only has a tangential relationship with the slaver statue getting dunked and then put in a museum.
This sub has such a right wing slant. I know everyone is going to deny it.
What this girl has done is not good. It’s stupid and irresposible. She’s 23 now. I wonder how young she was when she commited the fraud. Maybe 19/20? I dont know.
Really should be ordered to pay back whateevr she has left, maybe debt attached to earnings. Not cost the taxpayer more money sending her to jail which costs the taxpayer 30K a year to house.
What’s really really telling about the slant of this sub is Hannah Ingram-Moore has embezzeold more than 100x as much money for personal. Money that was raised with nationwide coverage for the Thomas Moore foundation. She is still at large. very much actively in the news. New interviews and coverage. But there’s no a squeak about this on this sub for months now.
Skimming throiugh the sub, it’s basically anything and everything to do with ethnic minorties and other agenda the interests the right wing.
Funny how all the comments here are about the statue and not the blatant theft by a charlatan with clearly no actual principles.
> She had also been drinking heavily and taking drugs at the time, and had mental health issues.
Heh. But what came first? The theft or the drinking, drug taking and depression…
Anyone else think it would be a great time to start a new convict colony island? I vote she’s first on the boat!
It’s really sad that this has happened. It gives anyone remotely racist an example of justifying their beliefs. It undos a lot of good work the BLM movement achieved
Never got the media frenzy with it all. Wow, you’ve pulled down a statue – congrats. Take criminal damage charge and move on. Take ownership on your own life instead of looking for past pivots to blame for your current anger.
BLM will be remembered with Captain Tom as how lockdowns sent everyone mad.
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>Xahra Saleem, 23, admitted using more than £30,000 that was supposed to go to a charity for disadvantaged youngsters in the city to fund her lifestyle, including spending almost £6,000 on Uber rides.
She spent £6,000 on Uber over 15 months, that’s about £100 PER WEEK. Pretty sure every Uber driver in Bristol recognises her.
If she’s done something wrong, that changes my opinion about slavery entirely.
I think slavery’s great now. I think we should put up statues of people who have murdered tens of thousands of slaves.
Good.
We had this whole thing called the “feudal system” in the UK for hundreds of years; handwringing Gen Z ignoramuses who write posts about Matthew Perry on Netflix making them “feel unsafe”, are encouraged to google the feudal system and learn what it was.
We generally don’t pull down statues of feudal oppressors, overlords, tyrants, even though they held the population in conditions of slavery for hundreds of years.
Why don’t we do it? Because these oppressors are part of our history. Revisionism does not help in the present and only obfuscates the past.
We need to stop capitulating to people who aren’t behaving in a way that is rational or civilized, and are only driven by emotions and victimhood complex.
Yes, indeed the slave trade in the 17th century was a great evil, but many things in the UK’s past were great evils yet we don’t topple down statues as a custom.
So, when you inspect this argument legally, the statue-toppled doesn’t have a leg to stand on. That is just not how behave here. She tried to argue her case legally, and she lost.
If we’re going to brook some “revolutionary” change of our norms and protocols, there are many better places to start, which could achieve much greater good for a greater number of people, that by than toppling statues of people from the 17th century.
I’m glad that we’ve really moved on since 2020. There was a lot of grift going on that couldn’t be questioned so long as it was associated with the right movements.
It was always obvious there was large scale grift on both sides of the political scale. She’s absolutely shameful.
Before some people (and there seem to be some here already who didn’t even read *the fucking headline*) misunderstands what this is about, money meant for disadvantaged youth was spent privately by her. It is only has a tangential relationship with the slaver statue getting dunked and then put in a museum.
This sub has such a right wing slant. I know everyone is going to deny it.
What this girl has done is not good. It’s stupid and irresposible. She’s 23 now. I wonder how young she was when she commited the fraud. Maybe 19/20? I dont know.
Really should be ordered to pay back whateevr she has left, maybe debt attached to earnings. Not cost the taxpayer more money sending her to jail which costs the taxpayer 30K a year to house.
What’s really really telling about the slant of this sub is Hannah Ingram-Moore has embezzeold more than 100x as much money for personal. Money that was raised with nationwide coverage for the Thomas Moore foundation. She is still at large. very much actively in the news. New interviews and coverage. But there’s no a squeak about this on this sub for months now.
Skimming throiugh the sub, it’s basically anything and everything to do with ethnic minorties and other agenda the interests the right wing.
Funny how all the comments here are about the statue and not the blatant theft by a charlatan with clearly no actual principles.
> She had also been drinking heavily and taking drugs at the time, and had mental health issues.
Heh. But what came first? The theft or the drinking, drug taking and depression…
Anyone else think it would be a great time to start a new convict colony island? I vote she’s first on the boat!
It’s really sad that this has happened. It gives anyone remotely racist an example of justifying their beliefs. It undos a lot of good work the BLM movement achieved
Never got the media frenzy with it all. Wow, you’ve pulled down a statue – congrats. Take criminal damage charge and move on. Take ownership on your own life instead of looking for past pivots to blame for your current anger.
BLM will be remembered with Captain Tom as how lockdowns sent everyone mad.