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On the face of it a little shocking, but then we have to remember that there were some Ukrainians who collaborated with the invading Russian forces. Some willingly, some through coercion (usually threats to family).

Remains to be seen whether it's anything broader or a lone nutter. He ...

That 40% unemployment thing - from what I hear from employers , some workers don’t help themselves by just not rocking up for work for a few days/ weeks at a time , and then just one day appearing as normal and expecting to be paid.
Then excuses seem to range from the lame but truthful ‘ehhhhhh I ...

Is it worth watching all that Trump v Cyril stuff ? Was it as awful as the Zelensky set up ?

Pretty much the same circus. Just a different act.

Cyril had more backup in the room to defuse some of it, but it was the same "ambush diplomacy" that Trump pulls on his "guests".

Ok, will give it ...

Is it worth watching all that Trump v Cyril stuff ? Was it as awful as the Zelensky set up ?

Fully agree with your second paragraph.

Taking some anecdotal examples from my own circle, a few people I know have fairly recently missed out on big promotions due to company ‘positive’ discrimination programmes and it has to a man turned their politics from very middle of the road to ...

A £32 billion cost to the taxpayer isn't one might consider the same as the hit to the economy. One might event venture the hit to the economy that would underscore a £32bn reduction in tax taken might be say... £100bn

Yes but the critical word in the OBR forecast (beyond ‘forecast’) is ...

So £32b less £13b = £19b per year likely actual cost then of brexit ? And as of yesterday £9b got added back so £10b per year is perhaps closer to reality than £100b ?

(Or was the 9bill not annual? Hard to keep up with all this pie in sky numbers)

Seems quite good value tbh, especially measured ...

It's both racist and ignorant. Sadly you can't deny the vote from stupid people.

Ah, you the type who labels any concern over immigration as racist then yep? Gotcha

It IS racist when someone says " the numbers and types of immigrants & ‘refugees’ coming to the uk (especially those that ...

I think you over estimate just how much the economy / global economy matters to the large number of voters who have little or no wealth, property or foreign holidays and work opportunities.

Stopping anyone not white / ‘sending back home’ those already here legally, yeah that’s racist. Being ...

Luckily, I never encountered that...

That you know of. They are games of stealth, and the psychos who play it can be quite adept , especially since cameras on phones

Luckily, my time was way before mobile phones :lol:

Think back to whenever you had a pint that tasted funny, and or you ...

Brexit has proved a very popular research area. Costs/losses to the UK economy are estimated to be circa £100 billion per annum, what figures are attached, ongoing that is, to Covid, Trump and Ukraine?

Covid alone estimated to be £500b pa, longer term mental health and industry structure ...

It's possible people thick enough to vote Brexit would believe such rancid commentary. But as positive step as the agreement might be it's vastly inferior to the SM and CU, and the push back then shouldn't have been t scrapping those anyway, but rather to progress the SM in services

For ...

Biffer wrote: Mon May 19, 2025 3:02 pm Good demonstration there that yeeb is one of those astonishingly thick fucks to which you refer.

And yet you are on the same forum as me , hmmmm

It's possible people thick enough to vote Brexit would believe such rancid commentary. But as positive step as the agreement might be it's vastly inferior to the SM and CU, and the push back then shouldn't have been t scrapping those anyway, but rather to progress the SM in services

For ...

One can still be racist to the core and also realise Brexshit was a economic failure and had zero effect on keeping the foreigns out.

Well after today’s agreement , Brexit doesn’t really make much difference now to anything - handy scapegoat for every economic effect for those with an ...

I dunno, 10 years of shit economic growth and rampant immigration from the Global South might have actually changed a few minds about the sunny uplands of Brexit.

That doesn’t really sit with the reality of rising support for Reform

One can still be racist to the core and also realise ...

Buyers remorse big style
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Also had had ten years of leave voters dying , and ten more years worth of Yoof now entering polling age. Doubt whether many who ...

Buyers remorse big style
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Also had had ten years of leave voters dying , and ten more years worth of Yoof now entering polling age. Doubt whether many who ...

Sandstorm wrote: Mon May 19, 2025 8:33 am
Slick wrote: Mon May 19, 2025 8:30 am Me and a Welsh lad.....got lucky, but that's another long story...
What happens on tour....

Wasn’t that lucky, he said Taranaki

Inevitable more like

It's been coming a long time unfortunately. People have become so disengaged from modern democracy that their answer seems to be "elect a tyrant who will only tyrannise the people who are not me".

Yeah, I get a fair amount of flak from friends for being a policy wonk - but at the end of ...

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This is the internet equivalent of that traditional heee Larious post match game when wags attend of ‘Willy on shoulder ‘ or the more extreme ‘cock in ear’ or ‘cock in pint’ variants

Luckily, I never encountered that...

That you know of. They are games of stealth, and the ...

Was at a rugby luncheon at Brisbane about 17-18 years back. Speaker was Grant Fox, after the lunch everyone retired to bar upstairs, and Aussie mates were real impressed that Foxy left the bigwigs from QRU and wandered over to our table, to start with to tell me he liked a question I had asked ...

We've got a bit of an issue at the school with a hardcore of parents, almost all mums, who insist on driving their kids to the front gates down a small road. It has a big flashing sign saying not to come down and we have had several near misses recently but despite newsletters etc going out and ...

First paragraph is irrelevant to the point I'm making, which is that Thatcher's economic changes in the '80s started the increase in immigration. I've made no argument about what is sustainable and if it is good or bad. The point is simply that she changed the structure of the UK economy in a ...

Yeeb, how do you actually intend to get rid of "pool shitters"? And who are they exactly, just all foreigners, only some foreigners, some British people included?

You thought Brexit would and it did not. It did the opposite.

You also seem to claim the structure of the UK economy is fine and ...

Last try using a graph for you.

I've cut the graph so that it stops in 1997, the skyscrapers to the right don't cloud the picture. That section from 1979-1997 is clearly different from all the red lines to the left of it. If there was any data 1979-1997 would stand out from the hundreds of ...

Does sound extremely similar to Trump and MAGA tbh

Anecdotal again but...

This is what really worries me since my daughter's EHCP is going to a funding panel next week and the council has now been taken over by a swarm of little RFK Jr impersonators

Reform will not make any more of a mess of it than Labour or Conservative already do ...

ASMO wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 11:43 am
Yeeb wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 11:40 am
ASMO wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 11:34 am

Yes, geoblocking is a thing
I meant for individual readers of forums, so you wouldn’t have to read all their shite ?

Yes to that too, but even the most ardent window licker can work out how to use a VPN and get around that.

I couldn’t .

Oh, wait….

:(

Hal Jordan wrote: Thu May 15, 2025 11:39 am
Yeeb wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 4:16 pm
TedMaul wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 4:03 pm Not judging Yeeb but when I read your posts I never have to look at the author to know it's you
I know my audience.
People who, whilst they were children, took a kick to.the head from a mule?

Neigh

Apologies for the site performance, had an influx of bots for some reason, i am trying to block them but its just like playing whack a mole, got to be a bit careful with wildcard IP bans as that can have some unwanted consequences if i get it wrong (Enzedders knows this :-) )

Can you block ...

Apologies for the site performance, had an influx of bots for some reason, i am trying to block them but its just like playing whack a mole, got to be a bit careful with wildcard IP bans as that can have some unwanted consequences if i get it wrong (Enzedders knows this :-) )

Can you block IP ...

Not judging Yeeb but when I read your posts I never have to look at the author to know it's you :smile:

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This is the internet equivalent of that traditional heee Larious post match game when wags attend of ‘Willy on shoulder ‘ or the more extreme ‘cock in ear’ or ...

The reasons for voting for an exit from the EU were actually way more complex than immigration. There were many polls conducted at the time and it varied from perceived lack of democracy, sending money to EU and not getting enough back, an EU army, a drive towards further integration ...

How do your bring someone like this to heel?

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Democratics know when to toe the ...

[following the big upward trend started by (checks some weirdos graph) Blair circa 1998.

Last try using a graph for you.

I've cut the graph so that it stops in 1997, the skyscrapers to the right don't cloud the picture. That section from 1979-1997 is clearly different from all the red lines ...

The great irony is the refusal to see things as they are, just means more immigration. Pretty sure I told Yeeb years back that Brexit would mean more people from the Commonwealth taking the working opportunities which Europeans wouldn't be interested in post-Brexit. That no actually it would ...

[following the big upward trend started by (checks some weirdos graph) Blair circa 1998.

Last try using a graph for you.

I've cut the graph so that it stops in 1997, the skyscrapers to the right don't cloud the picture. That section from 1979-1997 is clearly different from all the red lines ...

Surely everyone thought that the main reason Brexit was voted for was immigration.

Most Brexiters (but not Yeeb tbf, it was always "pool shitters" with him) would argue the point if you said it was about immigration. They would say you were calling them racist or whatever and it was actually ...

One of Thatcher's favoured economists was Milton Friedman. Both Thatcher and Friedman revered Hong Kong as a low regulation economic miracle. Basically the UK copied that model.

Hong Kong used to have a strong manufacturing sector, but fell behind Japan/SK/Taiwan because the state didn't ...

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