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It’s not wrong. But by that measure I’m not sure what else Ukraine is supposed to do other than surrender, preferably 11 years ago - Russia’s been butchering people and annihilating cities in Ukraine for years. And just maybe that’s escalatory as well.
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Slightly different issue, but I’m not particularly wide and that seems to lead to people generally assuming I’m taller than I am. They often refuse to believe me when I say I’m exactly 6ft, and insist that I must be 6ft 2. Like, I’ve checked. More than once. I’m not that tall.
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Yes, but “X proportion born to foreign-born parents” surely is enough to achieve that. And it would be correct.
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I don’t get why whiteness is mentioned. It would have been correct and a valid discussion to have if he’d just said “people with at least one parent born abroad”.
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That’s insane. What on earth has race got to do with place of birth? “Majority with a foreign-born parent” would be a legitimate point to make without bringing the factually incorrect race into it. Also complete guesswork, obviously.
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Obvs I don’t have a Telegraph subscription - is that the only way he’s describing white British? Two parents born in Britain?
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We must be doing something right then.
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I think I understand the long-term aim - to replace people doing jobs; one wonders what our tech overlords have in mind for us instead of work - but in the short term I don’t understand it. At best it’s making some stuff harder to use.
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Not seen it for ages. Early series were really good, when it started running dry they added kids and it seemed to stop being funny.
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Plenty of colliery football teams and bands still about as well.
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That sounds exactly what like what I mean, not “bring back national service, that’ll sort the herberts out”. There should be value in it for both parties, leaving those selectively conscripted with more skills, and the armed forces better equipped and better prepared should the worst happen.
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Interesting, thanks. Obvs our armed forces have shrunk massively and in changing times they’re going to have to grow again (a lot?). I just really struggle to believe that if you offer a few more quid suddenly vast numbers are going to be signing up - esp with a good chance of actual fighting.
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Sounds a bit RCP.
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Good point. I hadn’t thought about it like that. I always thought it was set in a dream world and dreams rarely make sense, so complete changes in scale wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.
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I don’t like the vibes of young people being toughened up and given a good kicking, but I think it’s needed - we’re past the geopolitical point where we can shrug our shoulders. FIN has national service and spends a smaller proportion of GDP on defence than the UK. See FIN/SWE for how it could work.
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That’s exactly the mentality we need to get away from. We’re going to need it. Sure, it needs to be made attractive. But we’re way past being able to pick our fights. Look at Sweden for how it can (should?) be done.
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Wonder if Mrs Price found her Beatles lookalikes and, if so, what became of them.
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Who are they? How many of them are there and why should anyone care what they think? Unlike May-era ERG they’re not in a position where they can make demands and bring down legislation. The majority is huge. They’re an irrelevance.
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Also - DEI is an Americanism. There should be no pretence that they’re doing anything other than aping Trump.
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We seem to hear every week about “Blue Labour”. Who the fuck are they? This shit mattered with the Tories and the ERG because the tiny majority meant May couldn’t get legislation through without them. But Labour’s is huge. “Blue Labour” have no power to do anything except turn off Labour voters.
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What is the point of those accounts? I’ve never understood. They’ve moved on a bit since Twitter though - that one seems to have opinions?
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He wasn’t lying about rating Eamonn Collins - Ball signed him three times.
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That’s very good, but the version in the alt text is potentially even better
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It’s the last sentence I don’t get, the rest makes perfect sense. Average full-time childcare cost for an under-two is £15k a year, and for most parents the alternative is working less or not at all (let’s assume child benefit is enough to cover the price of consumables, which it probably is?).
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Is this a joke that I’m not understanding? I assume it’s a joke I’m not understanding.