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by frog222
Tue 02 Apr, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1180

Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024

We seem to have a bit of a birthday bonanza going on. To be honest being born on April fools day does help somewhat when viewing life as one big cosmic joke. An outlook shared by Sunak apparently given the bizarre jollity he expressed today. Can anyone remember when Gordon Brown became Prime Minist...
by frog222
Tue 02 Apr, 2024 8:18 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1180

Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024

We were discussing birthdays in the long weekend thread, its my sisters today and she is 56. (almost exactly 20 years after our mum, and roughly 18 months younger than me) HB to your sister and missed ones to the others -- , Sky and your young Mum AK ! I'm with notnow, pushing 80, in 3years for me....
by frog222
Tue 02 Apr, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1180

Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024

Lazing by the stove while a gale blows outside . It's also too wet .The cat agrees . Another saddo non-negotiable Zionist -- https://twitter.com/Loyalfan68/status/1775089286267666825 The USUK actions on continuing to supply munitions don't sit well with this -- https://twitter.com/ChrisMcGreal/statu...
by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 11:10 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

Amazon book, rather journalistic style, I thought it might be fiction ...



I checked --

by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 11:10 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

refitman wrote: Sun 31 Mar, 2024 10:19 pm When Damien Green and Iain Smith say you're being too cruel...
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https://archive.is/JMD2O
Reminds me of one T.Blair's fagpacket idea of fining bods, was it also rough sleepers ?

As tho they have charged-up bank accounts AND a bloody card !
by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

"""" After the CIA PLOT which brought the Nazis to power .... these are either extras re-enacting and playing dead OR the result of a false flag operation ! """" George Galloway News (I wouldn't be surprised ! ) https://twitter.com/olddog100ua/status/17745017...
by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

<r>Heroes of Putin's Russia -- <br/> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s><SIZE size="150"><s>[size=150]</s>How Putin’s convict soldiers return as ‘savages’ to rape and kill again<e>[/size]</e></SIZE><e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <B><s>[b]</s>Thousands of criminals have come home broken after fighting in Ukraine to secure the...
by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

Radio 4 early this morning was deep in the Shitty Rivers story --



Good one in The Times too--

by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 5:23 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

Nice read with a very funny bit at the end -- Some people notably Davis Runciman this week in the G have assumed that a Corbyn labour government wold inevitably have led to a run on the pound similar to the Truss Disaster and Mitterand's first govt after 1981 ! Well Corbs would have had some sensibl...
by frog222
Sun 31 Mar, 2024 3:37 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

AnatolyKasparov wrote: Sun 31 Mar, 2024 3:07 pm Its another nice day today, I suppose that explains why it is so quiet here.
Lovely morning... which I spent getting up late, making an experimental sweet and sour pork ...
then it rained !

Nice thread --

by frog222
Fri 29 Mar, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

This looks really good, will watch after getting in the last of the wood ( by headlamp ) ! " Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author...
by frog222
Fri 29 Mar, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

The Russian Church was very much persecuted between the Wars, until Stalin brought it back to help the War Effort in 1943 as so many Russkys were still believers ! Since then it is documented that they were then literally a part of the KGB and now the FSB . ( Sergeant Starsky was infantry from Maida...
by frog222
Fri 29 Mar, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

Jonathan Fink began his daily hour-long Youtube interviews not long after the Invasion and his interviewee last night - " I'm obliged to watch a lot of Russian TV , and it's NOT good for my health ! " With which he heartily agreed as he has to do the same . The Russian public has had this ...
by frog222
Fri 29 Mar, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Replies: 47
Views: 1682

Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday

Not really news, from heli gunships with hellfire missiles to tanks at Be'eri kibbutz on the day .

by frog222
Thu 28 Mar, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
Replies: 12
Views: 1941

Re: Thursday 28th March 2024

Ah Well, he saved ten grand deposit on his mayoral bid :-)

by frog222
Thu 28 Mar, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

Only posted that for a larf

C apparently close to Zero here, but is OZ behind us or ahead ???????

by frog222
Wed 27 Mar, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

by frog222
Wed 27 Mar, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

Everyday life in Kharkiv, unnoticed on my social media . 

I wonder why ????

Anastasiya’s mum hid in their Kharkiv basement (I think it was two years ago ) , her dad went onto the balcony to watch the fireworks . 

One missile, no Dad.

by frog222
Wed 27 Mar, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

Though as with Putin, you do wonder what might happen after Orban goes. Haha AK -- a couple of the multitude of known unknowns :-) One I occasionally watch -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsU6gONt8Z8&ab_channel=ZeihanonGeopolitics As he concludes after a bit of frog-bashing (!) " if you...
by frog222
Wed 27 Mar, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

14.10 WATO — Feargal Sharkey on fire !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lady Brooke talking over him , when she can ........... Now interviewing industry representative , blablabla " it's ofwat's fault" Have they really invested £200BN since privatisation ? "Thames Water soon insolvent ? Anglia Water &q...
by frog222
Wed 27 Mar, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

Unfortunately they need more than a few thousand -- @evoluxman· " Dont think it matters, Fidesz still has huge popular support. It's exactly like Russia, a tiny bit of opposition in the capital but the rest of the country has been lobotomised to support the tsar. That's why the "fair"...
by frog222
Wed 27 Mar, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Replies: 11
Views: 1414

Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024

What is your reaction to this ?



Introuvable , post withdrawn !

I agree with Mukhtar , he does look like a baboon .
by frog222
Mon 25 Mar, 2024 11:04 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 25th March 2024
Replies: 6
Views: 1058

Re: Monday 25th March 2024

I had a rough-haired wildboar cross just like Sky's tapir, he loved having his belly scratched too .
by frog222
Sun 24 Mar, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1385

Re: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024

click on pic !
by frog222
Sun 24 Mar, 2024 8:21 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1385

Re: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024

Former Russian FM --

by frog222
Sun 24 Mar, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1385

Re: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024

Timeline
September - those four massive apartment bombings
First October invasion of Chechnya
By December Putin a national hero

by frog222
Sat 23 Mar, 2024 6:01 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1385

Re: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024

Meanwhile ....

by frog222
Sat 23 Mar, 2024 10:32 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024
Replies: 16
Views: 1385

Re: Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th March 2024

Morning refit

First LOL of the day goes to the Haunted Pencil--

by frog222
Sat 23 Mar, 2024 9:20 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 22nd March 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 1190

Re: Friday 22nd March 2024

Looking less and less like the Captain Forensic of yesteryear .
by frog222
Sat 23 Mar, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 22nd March 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 1190

Re: Friday 22nd March 2024

Sure AK , but he really is so cack-handed !!!!!!!!!!!!
by frog222
Fri 22 Mar, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 22nd March 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 1190

Re: Friday 22nd March 2024

So hopeless, isn't he ?

(Unless he was taken WILDLY out of context, but that's diff to imagine from the clip ...)

by frog222
Fri 22 Mar, 2024 8:39 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 22nd March 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 1190

Re: Friday 22nd March 2024

by frog222
Fri 22 Mar, 2024 8:38 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 22nd March 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 1190

Re: Friday 22nd March 2024

by frog222
Wed 20 Mar, 2024 11:49 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Replies: 18
Views: 675

Re: Wednesday 20th March 2024

The first of April will be the fifteenth anniversary of my 2009 stroke which was a very interesting experience all round as I was extremely lucky to have months of rehab including six weeks overlooking the beach at the excellent Granville centre . I try to celebrate it every year with my first dip i...
by frog222
Wed 20 Mar, 2024 11:12 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Replies: 18
Views: 675

Re: Wednesday 20th March 2024

Another classic of a Tweeter making their point ... based on an under-researched bit of 'journalism' P&O crew members interviewed by the Guardian and ITV News said they worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, for up to 17 weeks at a time. The workers said they must remain on the ship until the...
by frog222
Wed 20 Mar, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Replies: 18
Views: 675

Re: Wednesday 20th March 2024

More convolutions ! According to the chain of events, this was also possibly linked to the fact that Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, and Peter Thiel, the owner of Palantir, had business links. Why this matter is that Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who is also the son-in-...
by frog222
Wed 20 Mar, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Replies: 18
Views: 675

Re: Wednesday 20th March 2024

Morning refit

Just sign here and we clever people will fill in the details later --

by frog222
Tue 19 Mar, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Replies: 10
Views: 533

Re: Tuesday 19th March 2024

frog222 wrote: Tue 19 Mar, 2024 8:33 pm " I was there ! "

" That doesn't count, WE KNOW THAT IT WAS A CIA coup "
by frog222
Tue 19 Mar, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Replies: 10
Views: 533

Re: Tuesday 19th March 2024

" I was there ! "

" That doesn't count, WE KNOW THAT IT WAS A CIA coup "
by frog222
Tue 19 Mar, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Replies: 10
Views: 533

Re: Tuesday 19th March 2024

by frog222
Mon 18 Mar, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
Replies: 12
Views: 568

Re: Monday 18th March 2024

Rocket Science !!!!!!!!!!

by frog222
Mon 18 Mar, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
Replies: 12
Views: 568

Re: Monday 18th March 2024

Going back to the original post, there are now many replies, here's just one --

by frog222
Mon 18 Mar, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
Replies: 12
Views: 568

Re: Monday 18th March 2024

Thanks AK , a relief they're not on that bandwagon .

More strongly, it looks as though there are very strong negative feature, see Lord Houchen and Pals ?
by frog222
Mon 18 Mar, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
Replies: 12
Views: 568

Re: Monday 18th March 2024

I understand that Gethings was instrumental in promoting the Welsh Freeports ?

What is the English Labour view on them ?

by frog222
Mon 18 Mar, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
Replies: 12
Views: 568

Re: Monday 18th March 2024

I've been skiving, have a Cat !

by frog222
Sun 17 Mar, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2024
Replies: 28
Views: 838

Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2024

Now, is that completely clear ? But many Labour voters demand more than incremental change and technocratic social democracy. They want bold ideas. They want radicalism. This, perhaps surprisingly given her public image and innate caution, is where Reeves believes she can help: she is Labour’s chanc...
by frog222
Sun 17 Mar, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2024
Replies: 28
Views: 838

Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2024

The Invisible Majority --