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- Wed 24 Apr, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th April 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3912
Re: Wednesday 24th April 2024
One consequence of Putin's invasion ( which I could well have done without given the horrendous suffering involved) is an improved knowledge of geography -- I'd never heard of for example Bashkortostan, a Republic with a population a bit smaller than NZ , but it's very rich in all natural resources ...
- Wed 24 Apr, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th April 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3912
Re: Wednesday 24th April 2024
Well AK there are a few odd things going on outside the UK bubbleAnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Wed 24 Apr, 2024 3:49 pm Bit quiet today innit?
Still, we will have plenty to talk about in barely a week......
- Wed 24 Apr, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th April 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3912
Re: Wednesday 24th April 2024
Listened to a little Toady earlier , a retired senior civil servant on c£300k pa demonstrating the cost of the quangocracy --
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4179
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Good morning. I can't help thinking that the Met know far more about Mr Gideon Falter and the backgrounds of his entourage than they are letting on. Really, was anything more predictable than that there would turn out to be a bit more to this "story" than we were originally told? Haha ! N...
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4179
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Crowdfunded war !
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4179
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4179
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
All going splendidly !
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4179
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Good morning. I can't help thinking that the Met know far more about Mr Gideon Falter and the backgrounds of his entourage than they are letting on. Indeed ! I've seen various Xitts on the 'bodyguard type' accompanying him, also seen guarding Herzog et al . Ah, found one of them -- https://twitter....
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3606
Re: Monday 22nd April 2024
At 13.08 WATO disgraces itself saying Gideon Alter " only wanted to cross the road"
(my paraphrase but that's the essence of it )
The little shit had an airing on Good Morning Britain too.
(my paraphrase but that's the essence of it )
The little shit had an airing on Good Morning Britain too.
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3606
Re: Monday 22nd April 2024
First LOL of the day,
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3606
Re: Monday 22nd April 2024
Some years ago my sister had her 'NHS' hip done privately, and last week her husband had this, while they had themselves been thinking of paying up -- He saw a nurse at the surgery who looked at the X-rays and asked if he wanted to go on the NHS list - 9 months + - or go to the local Spire (Bupa as ...
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3606
Re: Monday 22nd April 2024
Nesreen Malik on lecturing the world when your own country has swathes of poverty , boarded up shops, and sick people - So how is British foreign policy to work, now that its Brexit ambitions have been dashed? The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has a suggestion – “progressive realism”, which...
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3606
Re: Monday 22nd April 2024
Morning, just ! Missed last night's on the Temporary PM and DLA/PIP because I was off to bed thinking of listening to the Week in Westminster . That didn't take long as they began with the spiel from Gideon Alter, which we now definitely know to be completely untrue . A BBC R4 news also allowed him ...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
I switched off Sunday WATO at 13.17 when it was obvious they were going round in circles .
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Slowly slowly, more coming out .................... ?
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Using a hand-cranked field telephone for 'interrogations' was common in the Thirties in Vietnam. Possible that the French invented it even, but that needs checking .
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Morning AK -- seems to me they are still chasing the racist and other unhappy voters, because there are so many of them around ? Hard times make it easy for the populists . Anyway, was Mr Falter really 'just going for a walk with a few friends' or taking a film crew for a bit of provocation ? I beli...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Very much more detail here, from Gideon Falter I was treated like a criminal for being Jewish. The Met chief must go Pelted with insults like ‘scum’ and ‘Nazi’ after stumbling across a march, the leader of the Campaign Against Antisemitism was told he could be arrested https://www.thetimes.co.uk/art...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
https://twitter.com/richardxxx4/status/1781959214958547303 As far as I can see, the coppers made a mistake, should have waited until one 'side' or the other went too far, but fell into a trap ? Plus, the same approach should apply to a 'Muslim lady' ! The CAA published footage of a police officer de...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
While masses of people are being tortured dismembered killed , in for TWO examples ONLY in Gaza and Ukraine , I still follow up the Trans Wars a bit - Phoebe with an F worth a look, plus replies -- https://twitter.com/TheStephOfStars/status/1781800187536527854 From this interview it looks like Dawn ...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
State sick pay is pretty mean here, but apparently it's twice the UK rate ...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 6:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
I can't remember SuperMac or Harold Wilson highlighting their enthusiasm for keeping the borders safe ... Though it was the (first) Wilson government that passed the first major anti-immigration legislation for decades in the late 1960s. You don't think good old Enoch made *that* speech just on a w...
- Sat 20 Apr, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
"RT is funded just like the BBC" " Ukrainian doctors castrate Russian POWs" "We occupied Kiev in the first week, then gave it back" ( Seen that one this week from a Troll at the Times) "Nuclear war is no big deal , we're all going to die sometime" https://www....
- Sat 20 Apr, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5860
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
I can't remember SuperMac or Harold Wilson highlighting their enthusiasm for keeping the borders safe ...
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4163
Re: Friday 19th April 2024
Maguire somewhat out of touch, it was already online at 6.30 .
CCHQ trying to tell the 78you secretary she'd imagined it !
CCHQ trying to tell the 78you secretary she'd imagined it !
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4163
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4163
Re: Friday 19th April 2024
Absolutely and, after all, Cameron said that had we been on the receiving end we would have given a very strong response. What Iran actually did is part of the reason that I think it was a case of (very expensive) play-acting. They could have used fewer missiles with no warning whatsoever and cause...
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4163
Re: Friday 19th April 2024
VERY VERY naughty as it might push up the gas prices for the US election !
Thanks Sky as always for the QT Report .
Damn -- just saw a clip of TC droning on unpleasantly, monotonously, then lost it !
Dreadful .
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
21° and I was thinking of getting out my shorts, then realised I should do some strimming first ! !
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Looking forward to the ReportSky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 18 Apr, 2024 1:53 pm Tice vs David TC Davies could prove to be amusing. I guess I better go and get some cheap plonk.
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Good morning. Yeah, funny that... Jeremy White @jeremyiwhite 55m Absolutely, not yet clear what the facts are here but sounds suspiciously close to theft and yet the Police aren’t involved Years ago our great Corruption Inquiry judge Eva Joly wrote - " in my years as a magistrate common or gar...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Example above ! Readers added context they thought people might want to know This is not one of the 32 recommendations. The Cass review recommends establishing separate services for 17-25 year olds in order to increase the capacity of care available for the trans community and ensure a smooth transi...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Sigh Several years ago I decided I just didn't have the time left to spend it on properly researching and then making up my mind on MMT, tho I DO have some sympathy for the arguments I've seen around . The Trans Debate is about the same for me, time is limited :-) Below I notice that there is often...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
We have no (IMMEDIATE) plans ....
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4201
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Morning refit A free view for Gilsey ** and anyone else interested in the economy https://twitter.com/FT/status/1780244685182620063 ** First holiday for four years , something to do with covid ? I know it would for me if it involved public transport . ------------------------------------------------...
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3342
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3342
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3342
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3342
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3342
Re: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Morning AK "Actually, the effect that Stein had on that election is still debated. It may have made some difference, but not as obviously as Nader did in 2000." Agreed . Not all Stein people would have voted Clinton rather than stay at home or very unlikely vote Trump ! Stein's 2016 campai...
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Jill Stein's votes lost three states for Hillary
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Just a little more on RT and the weirdos affiliated to it and all going back to Vlad --
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Anyway, the new Liz Truss book. Anybody buying it? :) I wonder if her US billionaire backers will buy enough to delay the inevitable remaindering ? I saw a parody of it on Xitt yesterday, and it might just as well have been the real thing . Much fun from Gaby Hinsliff Zoe Williams and Hugo Rifkind .
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
OUCH !
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
This fits with the popular " Forty Beheaded Babies" **-- https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1780233559971594249 One would think that in a decent society with any respect for truth and public safety she should see consequences for Hate Speech which very well COULD have fatal conseque...
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3040
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Parliament back yesterday, also John Crace after a heart attack -- " Matt Hancock got up to say he had nothing to say but wanted to say it anyway as he couldn’t bear to be left out. Cue an exit for the tearooms." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/15/rishi-sunak-tries-for-gravit...
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2614
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
If you want a scary listen, the new episode of This Machine Kills podcast talks about how Israel has used AI to 'identify targets' in Palestine. There should be war crime prosecutions based on this information https://twitter.com/machinekillspod/status/1779630717099442527 The guardian article was q...