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Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:41 pm Really hope people don't take the Russian position at face value here. Truss has a room temperature IQ but she is not the reason why Russia is doing what it's doing.

sturginho wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:45 pm

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:41 pm Really hope people don't take the Russian position at face value here. Truss has a room temperature IQ but she is not the reason why Russia is doing what it's doing.

Obviously not I just found it amusing the idea that Liz said something so stupid the Russians had to arm their nukes

sturginho wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:38 pm

GogLais wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:18 pm

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:00 am It's also technically illegal and any Westerners captured by the Russians are a PR dream.

I was wondering that or is it just if you go and fight for the likes of ISIS?

It's illegal to enlist in a foreign army to fight against a country which is at peace with the Uk.

Meanwhile the Russians are blaming Truss for everything...
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraine- ... s-12554048

laurent wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:04 pm

sturginho wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:38 pm

GogLais wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:18 pm

I was wondering that or is it just if you go and fight for the likes of ISIS?

It's illegal to enlist in a foreign army to fight against a country which is at peace with the Uk.

Meanwhile the Russians are blaming Truss for everything...
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraine- ... s-12554048

Welcome to the foreign Legion my friend ...

Slick wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:43 pm

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:41 pm Really hope people don't take the Russian position at face value here. Truss has a room temperature IQ but she is not the reason why Russia is doing what it's doing.

I don't think so. But she really seems to have got under their skin which is pretty amusing.

JM2K6 wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:33 pm

Slick wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:43 pm

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:41 pm Really hope people don't take the Russian position at face value here. Truss has a room temperature IQ but she is not the reason why Russia is doing what it's doing.

I don't think so. But she really seems to have got under their skin which is pretty amusing.

It's really not that. It's that she's easy for them to mock and humiliate

I like neeps wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:52 pm She's the foreign secretary of a nuclear member of NATO encouraging UK combatants to go to war with Russia.

It's an incredibly stupid thing to say and obviously provocative. Even if it's an air headed comment. And for what tangible gain? It shows what a totally unserious politician she is.

Don't think it is getting under their skin - they aren't worried about UK citizens going to Russia. Gives them a chance to escalate though.

What's next? Saying the SAS is already there. Just mental.

“If we don’t stop Putin in Ukraine we are going to see others under threat – the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, and it could end up in a conflict with Nato,” said the foreign secretary on Sunday.

“We do not want to go there. That is why it is so important we make the sacrifices now.”

Insane_Homer wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:47 am





Yup, still cunts.

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:04 am
Less than 3 hour flight required to evacuate the Mums and Dads, Grannies and Grandads and the kiddies yet Raab the Baam says geography is an issue! FFS I have mates that have flown there for the weekend to go on the lash and still got home for work on a Monday morning! Hire some jets and get those poor fuckers who have kids or other relatives here out asap and we will look after them. It is then only a 3 hour flight to get them back home again if that is what he is worried about! He really boils my piss! Don't even get me started about the little nazi Patel.

Johnson told his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki: “We stand ready, clearly, to take Ukrainian refugees in our own country, working with you, in considerable numbers, as we always have done and always will.”

SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:43 am

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:04 am
Less than 3 hour flight required to evacuate the Mums and Dads, Grannies and Grandads and the kiddies yet Raab the Baam says geography is an issue! FFS I have mates that have flown there for the weekend to go on the lash and still got home for work on a Monday morning! Hire some jets and get those poor fuckers who have kids or other relatives here out asap and we will look after them. It is then only a 3 hour flight to get them back home again if that is what he is worried about! He really boils my piss! Don't even get me started about the little nazi Patel.

Perhaps the blonde slug could have a word with that nice Mrs Patel before spouting off about refugees

Johnson told his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki: “We stand ready, clearly, to take Ukrainian refugees in our own country, working with you, in considerable numbers, as we always have done and always will.”

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:05 am

SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:43 am

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:04 am
Less than 3 hour flight required to evacuate the Mums and Dads, Grannies and Grandads and the kiddies yet Raab the Baam says geography is an issue! FFS I have mates that have flown there for the weekend to go on the lash and still got home for work on a Monday morning! Hire some jets and get those poor fuckers who have kids or other relatives here out asap and we will look after them. It is then only a 3 hour flight to get them back home again if that is what he is worried about! He really boils my piss! Don't even get me started about the little nazi Patel.

Perhaps the blonde slug could have a word with that nice Mrs Patel before spouting off about refugees

Johnson told his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki: “We stand ready, clearly, to take Ukrainian refugees in our own country, working with you, in considerable numbers, as we always have done and always will.”

This is what fecks me off - its bad enough playing politics within your own country, lying, obfuscating and twisting the truth to make yourself look better when folk are struggling to heat and feed themselves but doing it in the middle of a serious armed conflict in Europe with folk literally dying in their hundreds and desperate for help and refuge is just about as bad as it gets. He is a feckin cnut, always has been and always will be, - who else is shagging his way around London whilst his wife is getting treated for cancer - but to spout this shite when it is demonstrably untrue is just unforgivably. He and his bunch of moronic, racist, jingoistic, Russian funded, right wing Brexit Ultras need to go asap.

Johnson says the UK has always had a tradition of taking people from war zones. He says the rules have been changed. That could lead to the UK taking 200,000 people, maybe more.
(Yesterday the government figure was 100,000. It appears to have doubled overnight.)

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:05 am

SaintK wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:43 am

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:04 am
Less than 3 hour flight required to evacuate the Mums and Dads, Grannies and Grandads and the kiddies yet Raab the Baam says geography is an issue! FFS I have mates that have flown there for the weekend to go on the lash and still got home for work on a Monday morning! Hire some jets and get those poor fuckers who have kids or other relatives here out asap and we will look after them. It is then only a 3 hour flight to get them back home again if that is what he is worried about! He really boils my piss! Don't even get me started about the little nazi Patel.

Perhaps the blonde slug could have a word with that nice Mrs Patel before spouting off about refugees

Johnson told his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki: “We stand ready, clearly, to take Ukrainian refugees in our own country, working with you, in considerable numbers, as we always have done and always will.”

This is what fecks me off - its bad enough playing politics within your own country, lying, obfuscating and twisting the truth to make yourself look better when folk are struggling to heat and feed themselves but doing it in the middle of a serious armed conflict in Europe with folk literally dying in their hundreds and desperate for help and refuge is just about as bad as it gets. He is a feckin cnut, always has been and always will be, - who else is shagging his way around London whilst his wife is getting treated for cancer - but to spout this shite when it is demonstrably untrue is just unforgivably. He and his bunch of moronic, racist, jingoistic, Russian funded, right wing Brexit Ultras need to go asap.

salanya wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:43 am It's something that annoys me no end: this schoolyard boasting on every single topic, and generally without context or facts to prove it (as they don't tend to exist)

Every time a member of the cabinet speaks in public they boast about the UK having the biggest growth, most evacuations, quickest vaccines, most financial contributions, highest increase in GDP etc.

Most of it is bollocks anyway, but it's also just very petty and pathetic - intelligent adults don't turn everything into a competition, especially not of they're pretty bad at playing the game!

Big D wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:49 am

salanya wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:43 am It's something that annoys me no end: this schoolyard boasting on every single topic, and generally without context or facts to prove it (as they don't tend to exist)

Every time a member of the cabinet speaks in public they boast about the UK having the biggest growth, most evacuations, quickest vaccines, most financial contributions, highest increase in GDP etc.

Most of it is bollocks anyway, but it's also just very petty and pathetic - intelligent adults don't turn everything into a competition, especially not of they're pretty bad at playing the game!

Agreed.

GogLais wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:07 pm

Big D wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:49 am

salanya wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:43 am It's something that annoys me no end: this schoolyard boasting on every single topic, and generally without context or facts to prove it (as they don't tend to exist)

Every time a member of the cabinet speaks in public they boast about the UK having the biggest growth, most evacuations, quickest vaccines, most financial contributions, highest increase in GDP etc.

Most of it is bollocks anyway, but it's also just very petty and pathetic - intelligent adults don't turn everything into a competition, especially not of they're pretty bad at playing the game!

Agreed.

Yes, it’s embarrassing.

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:25 pm

GogLais wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:07 pm

Big D wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:49 am

Agreed.

Yes, it’s embarrassing.

My Dads bigger than your Dad!

dpedin wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:25 pm

GogLais wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:07 pm

Big D wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:49 am

Agreed.

Yes, it’s embarrassing.

My Dads bigger than your Dad!

Insane_Homer wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:57 pm

C69 wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:23 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:57 pm

What sort of people vote for these racists?

fishfoodie wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:26 pm

C69 wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:23 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:57 pm

What sort of people vote for these racists?

other racists ?

Or people who don't give a shit how disgusting their representative is, as long as they're wearing the right colour rosette

The co-chairman of the Conservative Party once boasted about his company’s success helping Russian oligarchs to buy property in London and move their children to British public schools.
Ben Elliot, 46, is the co-founder of Quintessentially, a luxury concierge company that catered to the needs of Russia’s wealthy for the past 15 years.

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched


UK efforts to create a high-tech research and development region designed to rival Silicon Valley seem dead in the water as government prioritises other initiatives.

Oxford-Cambridge Arc had planned to create new road and rail links between the cities' universities and research centres in Milton Keynes, as well as housing and a strategic planning framework sympathetic to economic development across the region. But reports suggest levelling-up minister Michael Gove, who is supposed to spearhead economic development in regions outside London, has dropped support for the plans.

Reports claim that Gove mimed sitting on a toilet and pulling the chain when asked about the regional plans, adding: "That's what's happened to the Arc," according to one MP from the ruling Conservative Party.

...

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:21 pm

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched


UK efforts to create a high-tech research and development region designed to rival Silicon Valley seem dead in the water as government prioritises other initiatives.

Oxford-Cambridge Arc had planned to create new road and rail links between the cities' universities and research centres in Milton Keynes, as well as housing and a strategic planning framework sympathetic to economic development across the region. But reports suggest levelling-up minister Michael Gove, who is supposed to spearhead economic development in regions outside London, has dropped support for the plans.

Reports claim that Gove mimed sitting on a toilet and pulling the chain when asked about the regional plans, adding: "That's what's happened to the Arc," according to one MP from the ruling Conservative Party.

...

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/ ... c_stalled/

sturginho wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:59 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:21 pm

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched


UK efforts to create a high-tech research and development region designed to rival Silicon Valley seem dead in the water as government prioritises other initiatives.

Oxford-Cambridge Arc had planned to create new road and rail links between the cities' universities and research centres in Milton Keynes, as well as housing and a strategic planning framework sympathetic to economic development across the region. But reports suggest levelling-up minister Michael Gove, who is supposed to spearhead economic development in regions outside London, has dropped support for the plans.

Reports claim that Gove mimed sitting on a toilet and pulling the chain when asked about the regional plans, adding: "That's what's happened to the Arc," according to one MP from the ruling Conservative Party.

...

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/ ... c_stalled/

Knowing this lot they'll just say that they've done it

tabascoboy wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:01 pm

sturginho wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:59 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:21 pm

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/ ... c_stalled/

Knowing this lot they'll just say that they've done it

"...Biggest in Europe!"

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:21 pm

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched


UK efforts to create a high-tech research and development region designed to rival Silicon Valley seem dead in the water as government prioritises other initiatives.

Oxford-Cambridge Arc had planned to create new road and rail links between the cities' universities and research centres in Milton Keynes, as well as housing and a strategic planning framework sympathetic to economic development across the region. But reports suggest levelling-up minister Michael Gove, who is supposed to spearhead economic development in regions outside London, has dropped support for the plans.

Reports claim that Gove mimed sitting on a toilet and pulling the chain when asked about the regional plans, adding: "That's what's happened to the Arc," according to one MP from the ruling Conservative Party.

...

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/ ... c_stalled/

Paddington Bear wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:57 am

fishfoodie wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:21 pm

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched


UK efforts to create a high-tech research and development region designed to rival Silicon Valley seem dead in the water as government prioritises other initiatives.

Oxford-Cambridge Arc had planned to create new road and rail links between the cities' universities and research centres in Milton Keynes, as well as housing and a strategic planning framework sympathetic to economic development across the region. But reports suggest levelling-up minister Michael Gove, who is supposed to spearhead economic development in regions outside London, has dropped support for the plans.

Reports claim that Gove mimed sitting on a toilet and pulling the chain when asked about the regional plans, adding: "That's what's happened to the Arc," according to one MP from the ruling Conservative Party.

...

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/ ... c_stalled/

This is so infuriating. A scheme that they reckon would permanently raise GDP by 3% scrapped because the government is terrified of NIMBYs. Managed decline.

Boris Johnson is under pressure, including from his own MPs and opposition parties, to move faster in targeting assets of Russian oligarchs after it was conceded it could take “weeks and months” to build legally-sound cases. The EU is pressing the UK to go further and faster in imposing sanctions on Russian oligarchs over fears that assets are being swept out of the UK. Contrary to the prime minister’s claims to be leading the world in the economic response to the invasion of Ukraine, there is frustration among allies over the UK’s lethargy in hitting Russian wealth

Boris Johnson has awarded a knighthood to Gavin Williamson, who was sacked as defence secretary for allegedly leaking secure information before presiding over a series of exams debacles as education secretary.

SaintK wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:38 pm This about ssums up these useless bunch of bastards. The most useless and incompetent Secretary of State ever gets a reward.........probably for keeping his mouth shut. What a tinp[ot state we live in.

Boris Johnson has awarded a knighthood to Gavin Williamson, who was sacked as defence secretary for allegedly leaking secure information before presiding over a series of exams debacles as education secretary.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics ... -johnson

GogLais wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:39 pm

SaintK wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:38 pm This about ssums up these useless bunch of bastards. The most useless and incompetent Secretary of State ever gets a reward.........probably for keeping his mouth shut. What a tinp[ot state we live in.

Boris Johnson has awarded a knighthood to Gavin Williamson, who was sacked as defence secretary for allegedly leaking secure information before presiding over a series of exams debacles as education secretary.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics ... -johnson

Dear God, what does somebody good get?