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Forgive me as a foreigner, but it seems like Republicans are putting the party above the country.
This attitude gave us the economic ball and chain of Brexit.
America is getting something even worse.
We had mass defections from the Tories....not all are bad. Republicans, take note
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Britain sent suspected Irish terrorists to prison without trial during the Troubles.
Even then, with bombings on the streets and railway stations and people being shot for being the wrong kind of Christian, the people knew it was wrong, and it was stopped by Parliament.
This, too, is wrong
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He can always ask Musk for a tenner until payday
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That ship has sailed, I think
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Deeper than any other colonoscopy and with a bigger tube
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And Nigel Farage
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No one said no to flying a flag? Bigots are slipping....
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If you have a disease, you are not healthy!
It's not exactly coming from a man in 100% health, either
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Good luck to him
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It's always fun to see Father Ted and Dougal, but the scale is roughly correct. Although the Earth is over 90,000,000 miles from its parent star.
And is flat. (I'm kidding, of course, it's an oblate spheroid)
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We had a long, incredibly disruptive General Strike in the UK in the 30s.
Army and women (not allowed to take most jobs,normally) filling strikers' jobs. The government issued its own newspaper.
The strike achieved nothing except the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberals
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"Don't have alternatives." Days after we celebrated the anniversary of the death of Thatcher, her malignant legacy reaches out.....
We had a great manufacturing industry in the UK. Then we saw Thatcher's ideological war on the unions....to destroy them, she destroyed our industrial base
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Rejoining the EU is out of the question.
As America has done to us, we cr*pped on our EU allies from a great height and they will not readily trust us again.
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People are quick to condemn Starmer's measured approach, but they don't know or just ignore the fact that 80 years of trusting our "closest ally" has left us dangerously dependent in some respects.
We need to disengage ASAP, but we need to prepare the ground
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Funeral? He thinks he is immortal. That was the deal with Satan, presumably.
All the good, decent young people that die, and the scum lives on and on....
The hardest question for Christians. Why do the good die young, but evil thrives?
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I really wanted Zelenskyy to stand up in the Oval Office, look Vance and Trump in the eye (liner) and say "I don't have time for this, I want to deal with adults".
I know it wasn't possible, but it's my fantasy
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Not an ounce of self-respect in any of them! I can't imagine what it's like sitting there, then finding your boss had stabbed you in the back and made you look stupid.
I don't think I could tolerate it.
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How much do you have to hate yourself to work for this man. I mean to have to sit in front of a committee like an imbecile and still try to defend him. Or be a lawyer going to court and being basically laughed out. All for the “honour” to serve the idiot in chief? Self flagellation.
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Panican (n) - a cross between a pelican and a panther. Very fast, with a huge bill.
Like a Tesla
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Birmingham's "Corporation bus" service ran well for many years, and people didn't like Thatcher's assassination of public transport.
Buses are best run on a local basis by local people who know the need for strategic routes and frequent services for those without a car
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Bio in Welsh, too. Cymru am byth.
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Fear of upsetting the oligarchs and the simple fact that they can't afford to do it.
Nationalisation with compensation is anathema in the current climate, not so much in the Labour Party, but generally
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So we stop subsidising them, but keep price caps in place, set within sensible parameters, not the ridiculous guidelines now used.
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We need the Tories to split the right wing vote, but a sensible Tory leadership would take Labour votes. It's an interesting dilemma
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Absolutely. The data is coming in, NHS waiting lists down, more GPs and nurses being recruited, medium-term economic figures were sound (before Trump), and so on
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Who do you want? Farage? Johnson? BadEnoch?
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He is cautious. Not the worst trait in a Prime Minister but not the best one for a politician.
Which do we want, Boris Johnson, all front and no trousers, or a steady hand on the tiller?
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Also, if we rejoin without a vote, a future Tory / Reform plc government could take us out again without a vote.
I hated the idea of the referendum on such a complex issue (I voted in '75 to join and '16 to remain) but the genie is out of the bottle
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Starmer knows Trump has had only one friend, and he was found dead in his cell.
I think this is part of a more subtle plan. 🤔
World leaders haven't criticised the UK stance, afaik.
Disclaimer. I want to lash out, but I want the PM to deal effectively with the Mango Mussolini once and for all
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Be fair - he's been busy ending the bloodshed in Gaza. He's not Superman. Except in his own addled head