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- Sat 18 May, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11
Re: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
It’s staggering how senior Labour figures just keep going down in my estimation “David Lammy rejects call to label Trump racist” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyer0y1klwro I've got plenty of dislike for Lammy, to put it mildly , but agree with him on this defence of previous statements -- Mr La...
- Sat 18 May, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11
Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
Morning !
- Fri 17 May, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
NO safe and legal routes with SKS
- Fri 17 May, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Ha ; in the two months since that vid Putin has completely shaken up the power groupings , arrests and 'corruption' charges !
Glad to see that Beevor finds Hollywood 'WW2 films' as unwatchable as me , better interview !
Glad to see that Beevor finds Hollywood 'WW2 films' as unwatchable as me , better interview !
- Fri 17 May, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Just stumbled across this, the Kievan Rus and all that ---
- Fri 17 May, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Just hoping they have some Very Secret Plans , but .......................
- Fri 17 May, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Following Roger's link last Thursday should Nattie Elphicke be suspended from Labour for her Far-Left views on housing? /quote] I mean, dunk on Starmer all you like but that just isn't true is it? Housing is virtually certain to be one area where an incoming Labour government *is* going to be very ...
- Fri 17 May, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
- Fri 17 May, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
- Fri 17 May, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
- Fri 17 May, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
I noticed this yesterday , NHS CV figures going U- P for the past three weeks, and 10000+ people have already forked out the c£80 for a vaccine ... https://www.twitter.com/theipaper/status/1791172466426937473 And Taylor Swift is ravaging the frogs -- https://www.twitter.com/nicolasberrod/status/1791...
- Fri 17 May, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Following Roger's link last Thursday should Nattie Elphicke be suspended from Labour for her Far-Left views on housing?
- Fri 17 May, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Gdn Letters -- Can we please start a campaign to ennoble, or perhaps beatify, Marina Hyde? Just when I thought I couldn’t love her any more, she produced this account of Russell Brand’s baptism, including the line “I know, it’s incredible: Thames Water is no longer responsible for the biggest piece ...
- Fri 17 May, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
I listened to WATO on Gaza -- much time on the US "pier" to deliver a handful of truckloads of stuff , while hundreds of trucks are held up at the border by different Israeli methods . One Sir somebody ( i missed his name ) pointed out that many Hamas fighters are orphans from earlier 'con...
- Fri 17 May, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Lightning glimpse ONLY --
A glitch ?
A glitch ?
- Fri 17 May, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Much better than the waffle Starmer came out with ... :-) Once more into the minefield, "you go first ! " There appears to be a widespread belief that kidz are empty vessels into which teechers and others pour truths which the little dears then accept ? So they have bugger-all agency and ...
- Fri 17 May, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 106
Friday 17th May 2024
Morning
Off for croissants
Off for croissants
- Thu 16 May, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 103
Re: Thursday 16th May 2024
Bon voyage Sky !
- Thu 16 May, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 103
Re: Thursday 16th May 2024
Afternoon all , I recommend Bill Browder to anyone who has not met him ! ( His lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in 2009 ) Some excellent viewing at the Treasury Select Committee, ( what a change for so much in the HoC ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXOJFuGkAU&ab_channel=TimesRadio To sav...
- Thu 16 May, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 103
- Thu 16 May, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 103
Re: Thursday 16th May 2024
It's that day again !
- Thu 16 May, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 103
Thursday 16th May 2024
Good morning
- Wed 15 May, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 103
Re: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
This is new to me ... ...
- Wed 15 May, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 103
Re: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
I was wondering how long this would take !
- Wed 15 May, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 103
- Wed 15 May, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 103
- Wed 15 May, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 103
Re: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
I confess to enjoying Krembot-teasing on the Ukraine threads at the Times (quite a squad ganging up on those ! ) but instead there's a Zionist tinted one today , with 90+++% of comments agin the student and staff protesters at Columbia so am in a tiny minority !!!!!! " 76 years on today, google...
- Wed 15 May, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 103
Wednesday 15th of May 2024
Good morning Up later than usual, was listening to a sensible discussion on drugs and the power of Organised Crime https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien-du-mercredi-15-mai-2024-1473020 Jérôme Durain, sénateur PS de la ...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 130
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
Talking of repulsive drug billionaires live in luxury in Dubai and similar George Greenwood , Investigations Reporter | Emma Yeomans Tuesday May 14 2024, 4.00pm BST, The Times Amoney launderer who bought two luxury Dubai apartments from his prison cell in the north of England is among dozens of Brit...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 130
- Tue 14 May, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 130
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
Morning. Oops! Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher - A Labour contact gets in touch to stick the boot in… “On the day Rishi Sunak proclaims the Tories as the great protectors of our national security, it turns out they can’t even protect a database of contacts. You couldn’t make it up.” I'm looking for the sor...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 130
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
Tom Peck -- Why gamble on change when you can stick with the people who’ve just brought you five straight years of never-ending, self-indulgent narcissistic chaos? He was even asked, at the end, if it was a case of “better the devil you know”. He replied: “In a word, yes.” There are a few people out...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 130
Tuesday 14th of May 2024
Good morning
12° Brrrr!
12° Brrrr!
- Mon 13 May, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
Re: Monday the 13th of May 2024
" " Possibly the worst speech a British prime minister had given since the last one." GENIUS, Mr. Crace! "
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... e-with-him
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... e-with-him
- Mon 13 May, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
Re: Monday the 13th of May 2024
The Observer article playing 'safe' -- [quote ]It was not possible to verify all the details of Merkotan’s testimony, but Ukrainian rights groups who work with returning prisoners of war say that almost all report mistreatment and physical abuse in Russian captivity.[/quote] Graphic accounts from ne...
- Mon 13 May, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
- Mon 13 May, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
- Mon 13 May, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
Re: Monday the 13th of May 2024
Oh dear, how sad
" The Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing is the Conservative MP for Epping Forest, and has been an MP continually since 1 May 1997. She is Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means. "
" The Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing is the Conservative MP for Epping Forest, and has been an MP continually since 1 May 1997. She is Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means. "
- Mon 13 May, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
Re: Monday the 13th of May 2024
Merry futuristic times await when half the UK population will be interviewing the other half under caution --
- Mon 13 May, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 117
Monday the 13th of May 2024
Morning all
£6.30 for bogstandard ale !
I'll now have to have a coffee and a local paper to check the advertised prices here ...
£6.30 for bogstandard ale !
I'll now have to have a coffee and a local paper to check the advertised prices here ...
- Sun 12 May, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
I've seen wildly different figures on stolen children , but there's no doubt on the 'cultural genocide' that is in direct descent from Stalin ---
- Sat 11 May, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Must see about more flowering plants for bees, NNN
- Sat 11 May, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Cooling a bit, off for my third prowl in the sea in a row !
- Sat 11 May, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Is it true that the LK article regurgitates the "Labour need a bigger swing than in 1997 for a single seat majority" nonsense? All quite marginal stuff considering the current polls -- The next election will be fought on new constituency boundaries, redrawn to reflect population changes a...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
29 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sat 11 May, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
27 in front of my cottage, perhaps warmer than Corfu ? Yesterday the sharp-eyed daughter spotted a bumblebee nest in the lawn, now marked with a stick . She also transplanted some of last year's wildflower seedlings to the front of the house, and this morning I watched a bumble enjoying the flowers ...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
- Sat 11 May, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
This is not me, it's Baroness Kuenssberg :-) -- Another senior figure tells me: "What you hear is that people think they are voting Labour because they don't want the Tories - rather than enthusiastically voting for us." The party would love there to be more excitement about them. But some...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
First laugh of the day was extremely early this morning --
" Reported that Macron is "ready to intervene" after France's birth rate hit its lowest in living memory.
As some have noted, if you take that literally that might leave him a bit tired "
" Reported that Macron is "ready to intervene" after France's birth rate hit its lowest in living memory.
As some have noted, if you take that literally that might leave him a bit tired "
- Sat 11 May, 2024 6:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 314
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Last hot day for at least a week so back to the launderette to empty machine .
Asked the favourite baker earlier how many different breads he baked, I suggested eighteen ?
" Facilement ! "
Asked the favourite baker earlier how many different breads he baked, I suggested eighteen ?
" Facilement ! "