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Interesting spelling of 'suck it up Nigel'.....
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Quite the metaphor for the Trump/Musk relationship.
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TBF Would you buy a second hand car of Tice?
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What Rupert doesn't say is that nearly all the fish that Brits like to eat (cod haddock etc) doesn't come from UK waters. Which is why much British caught fish was exported to the EU before he and his mates made that much mire bureaucratic and expensive.
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Two words: Good lord!
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I was there A guy got up and left at 0-3 saying "That's it. I'm not letting this lot ruin my birthday.". 😀
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Expect Putin to provide Assad with some more explosive helping hands.
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52-48 in favour now. What a coincidence!
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Bit of a short sighted attitude if you ask me....
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Well done. Can we coordinate with my campaign to get Easter eggs into the shops as well?
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So are you saying Trump's a jammy dodger?
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Antisemitic or anti Israel? I don't know the answer but the two have become increasingly conflated most obviously by Netanyahu's government.
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It's an addiction to the soap opera of politics - personalities and petty issues rather than the real issues that impact society and international politics.
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Wasn't it also something to do with EU farming subsidies as well?
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No he won't. Mind you if he did it would at least stop him breeding other idiots like him.
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So- this comms cock up. Presumably nobody told anyone about it....
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It's a cult. They must invoke the founding saint to anoint the new leader.
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That plays into his victimhood narrative thus further enraging his goons. It's still the right thing to do though.
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That'll hit the old white MAGA guys where it hurts.
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And blocking them when they quoted his 'no one is planning to leave the Single Market' comment back to him.
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No it was definitely the shirt....
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I'm sure those inside are capable of being civilised though so don't despair.... 😀
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It probably will degenerate into a twitteresqe hellhole. The consolation is that you aren't implicitly endorsing Musk on here.
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Do Erasmus students pay the local level tuition fees? So possibly a financial problem as that doesn't cover the true costs maybe? Could be holding back to use as a bargaining chip? Just guessing/thinking out loud.
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Sounds like a faux-Johnson opportunist - no real convictions and wears whatever political clothes will enhance his career.
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A fine example of 'joined up idiocy'.
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What next if they get what they want and immigration continues? Leave the continent/real world?
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He personally dug most of the potholes.
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There's an argument that just as Twitter being a bit of a progressive echo chamber in 2016 led them to get complacent about winning, perhaps the reverse is now happening for the MAGA people in 2024. Let's hope so.
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Feels to me as a Northerner that what is called Englishness is a concept hijacked by London and the South East and is therefore inherently incomplete. (TBF I think that is also true of 'Britishness')
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I think the problem in defining English culture is the assumption that England is/was ever a monoculture. Even today there are regional differences within England that are as big as those between Wales, Scotland, and NI. The difference between North and South Wales is equally large.
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I'd noticed.... 😀
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No. The Danelaw as such had ended with Athelstan's subjugation of Northumbria in 926. The Vikings Harold defeated at Stamford Bridge (not that Stamford Bridge) were a new invading force supported by Harold's brother Tostig who was miffed he didn't get to be King.
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Ælfred was spelt using that character as well at the time.
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Isn't having a pile on about lack of pile ons on here all a bit meta? You should go to FaceBook for that....