Retired now, back in UK after time away, likes walking, baking, motorcycles and warm weather. Definitely left of centre, pro EU. Don't DM me a generic "Hi" or "Hello" and little else it makes me guess you're a bot, ditto 1/2 naked pictures.
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If I did it no one cares but if you're a public figure and firmly in the public eye and under intense press scrutiny all the time then it shows a fair degree of stupidity not to make sure that 💯 of transactions are above board and free from criticism.
I've often wished I lived in the alternate timeline where that was the end of the frog faced fascist.
Second shingles vaccine yesterday, having seen how hard shingles hit my dad I'll take the sore arm thanks.
I do like King Goblin, not a session beer though. That or Old Crafty Hen are what I'd usually grab for the weekend.
I'll be shocked if he's still breathing in three years.
I once got a Facebook ban for quoting Blackadder. I now have a Reddit ban for quoting Monty Python. And these dumb twits want to use AI to run things 🤦🏼
Crikey. That's bloody good.
Oh Lordy my poor eyes.
It does depend what's being classified as avoidance. An ISA or as pension has a tax avoidance element and for good reason. That's somewhat different to e.g. a nameplate company in another jurisdiction being used to funnel profits through.
Starmer not a chance, jellyfish have more backbone.
Stupidly using a skewer to clear blocked silicon sealant from a dispenser I managed to prove that with sufficient force it's possible to force a skewer quite a long way into and through a finger and as well as being possible it's bloody painful.
The government were in a lose/lose scenario with this. Don't appeal or appeal and lose and have loads of similar challenges across the country. Appeal and win and the usual suspects are up in arms and ready to riot. This is all going to get messy.
Ha. I had a filling replaced many years ago, my then dentist advised no need for a local. Hit a nerve, it hurt, a lot and he just missed me reflexively biting a finger. Never tried that since.
Rockall would be funnier, seems unfair on the inhabitants of Pitcairn to inflict the frog faced fascist on them.
I suppose that at least from reform ltd's POV absent a Ouija Board there is bog all chance she's going to say / post some racist twaddle so an ideal candidate for them.
Suppose he's got to get up to something in between spells of kraftywank.
Labour's messaging is dire. Doesn't matter how well they manage the problems they don't manage to get a coherent message out. Sadly reform ltd are winning the social media battle & the hearts and minds of the gammon. Tories are as bad, happy for them to be inn the doldrums.
I drove 1/2 way around the M25 Saturday for a friends 60th, the flagshaggers have been out in force draping flags over the bridges. Must have see a couple of dozen, although I've yet to spot my first painted roundabout 🤦🏼.
My dad had shingles a couple of times, it was shit. I bought the old vaccine when I lived in Penang, signed up for the new one here and the second dose of in 2 weeks.
Is she being attacked for her colour or that's she's a ghastly far right incompetent?
You're a poet and did not know it.
Had a couple of Bonnevilles a T140v I bought new in 1977. Stupid insurance rises made it impossible by 1981 and then a 1972 T120r for about 10 years from 2005 until I left the country for a while.
By the time the orange Pedofuhuer is ejected China will have any unassailable lead in green tech. MRNA not sure who will grasp the baton, prob the EU.
There's a few things but mostly she pled guilty, ergo admitted they offence and had a history of similar posting. He pled not guilty, the jury agreed, that's not getting away with it. They most likely also saw the full video I suggest you check it out too rather than the last seconds widely shown.
Obviously anecdotes are not evidence. I've had a few referrals in the last couple of years. Optician > treatment in hospital ~ 3 weeks, GP > ENT consultant 3 days. GP > consultant for Dupuytren's contracture still being messed about.
I've read the Bible (know your enemy) and my interpretation would be that if Christ existed and returned Lowe and his ilk would be out of favour.
It's a madness that many of us would like to change. Few people attend church, I can think of only one of my friends that is a believer and a church goer.
Blimey just had the cheque book I ordered turn up. We're in the process of updating our wills and given the law firm want £60 a year to store and the high court a one off £23 it's going to be lodged with the court. They only take cheques so my first cheque book in at least a decade.
When as family friend (old school tory) said that to me 3 months in I thought with that stonking majority just won no way. To be so inept as to have frittered it away in 12 months...I knew they'd disappoint, just didn't think it would be so quick.
Seems she fits right in with the current party that calls itself Labour.
Surely if you wanted to not be called out for spreading malicious falsehoods you could fact check before posting?
They may as well couldn't make more of a hash of it than the current idiots running the show.
Like much of the current labour government you're becoming what you claim to be fighting. And are amongst the reasons many have left the party and why this will be a one term government. BTW for the avoidance of doubt the OSA is a deeply flawed authoritatian nonsense and should be scrapped.
Demonstrating yet again she's not quite the full ticket.
I saw that earlier and thought good luck applying your ill conceived law to a foreign citizen in their own country. Reckon they'll be struggling to convict those they arrested all ready here.
Voting for a ghastly right-wing party in order to keep out an even more ghastly far right party. I don't think so.
Thanks for breaking it down.
See if he'd not written that we'd only be wondering if he was as thick as mince.
Same as in the UK it is Tel Aviv that calls the shots.
A friend was on maternity leave got messed around by her employer missing bonuses and raises because she was on maternity. Her company had recently been bought out by a US company, turned out to be an expensive lesson that local law trumps the new owners desire to act as they would in the US.
Worse really Chamberlain allegedly knew he needed to buy time to rearm and to swing the public mood. Trump has no such excuse.
Are they really determined to piss off the oldies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... OTOH evasion costs them £150 million+ and the staff just stand there when people jump the barriers.
I've previously wished I lived in the timeline where his light plane crash has ended differently.
I know some swear words
There was a brief period before I met the current Mrs B where I toyed with transferring to Finland. Despite their higher taxes I worked out I'd not have been really worse off. Lower take home, more holidays, nicer social environment.
This current incarnation of labour would be way to the right of Major's 1990s tories.
Was it Lee Harpin or Wes Streeting who told the world Labour was shaking of the fleas as people quit. Well Quelle Surprise...
English, my mother's wooden spoon.
TBF they did elect the disgusting Neil Hamilton to the Senedd
My nephew who has worked in kitchens for years and consequently has many Eastern European friends and speaks Polish got abuse from a ¼ wit when on the phone to one of his Polish mates. Telling said fuckwit to bugger off in English with a local accent had them backtracking.
Having to use a VPN to access Wikipedia wasn't there in my wildest dreams.
I expected to be disappointed. In opposition it was obvious he was clueless but still I hoped we'd like Bliar get a term before it went to rat shit. Not even a month wasn't in my card.
Even if you do it by miles driven it's not until you get to 86+ that the killed or injured goes higher. It rises slightly above 75 but only to approx. equal to late 20s
We gained an old dishwasher when we moved last year and first world problems it's croaked so I'll have to wash up by hand .
While I don't have an issue with this let's not lose focus that males aged 18 - 28 are responsible for road accidents at about 4x the rate of the elderly.
To consider changing cause Starmer would have some self awareness. Unsure if Mc Sweeney allows him that sort of latitude.
They have a fair degree of choice in how they apply the law. Still next time their pensions, their pay etc are on the line there'll be less sympathy.
Chucking anyone left of Ghengis Khan out of the party, suggesting starving civilians was legitimate, they were all clues to just how awful he is.
Next time the old bill are bleating about their T&C being worsened I forsee crickets.
This one had found a quiet spot to sunbathe in our garden. Suppose it's us being away a month created security. It did seem a bit peeved when I opened the door to go out disturbing its slumber.
First thing I did when jacking in working was to delete LinkedIn.
I didn't, my then Labour MP was Streeting. However, many did to #GTTO, which was an honourable reason it's a shame that they unknowingly swapped one bunch of ghastly biggots for a tribute act.
What's the betting that the orange PedoFührer sells Ukraine out? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Improve NHS lists and in the balance is their attacks on the old, the disabled, trans folks, civil liberties. The support for genocide etc. Inflation is still rising too much. Personally it doesn't bug me much but his bold "smash the gangs" and failure to do so has handed a weapon to Fatrage
I've often thought rarely is a change of government wanting the opposition in it's often/always that the country is fed up to the eye teeth of the incumbents. Labour benefited immensely from #GTTO
They promised to be and one or two things in the beginning looked promising but the reality now is they're behaving worse in their vain attempt to out ghastly Fatrage. Shambling idiot that he was Bozo is not socially liberal than Starmer.
Political compass is worth a visit, somehow seeing their relentless drift towards right-wing authoritarianism on a graph really brings it home.
This is about an 18yr old raping a 13yr old. I'd not criminalise 2 children it's not the same thing, unwise yes. Surprised you cannot see that difference.
Lammy has been a dick for years now
Have to tack them over the ones ridiculing Lammy
The rate at which Starmer is tacking to the right Fatrage well end up to the left of labour.
So Lowe is "Normal for Norfolk" ?
Turns out there is a class dimmer then reform ltd voters, the people they elect to parliament.
That's not really a standout for Starmer's Labour.
As I get older long haul seems to get tougher & tougher. On the train home for the final leg and I am bollixed.
The 18 year old is an adult, the 13 year old is a child and cannot consent.
Shame they bloated orange Pedofuhuer didn't fall and break his bloody neck.
My BiL messaged me, he's sold my F800GS. So for the first time in years I am sans a PTW. I do have use of his in the UK[1] and another BiL's in Penang but somehow not the same. [1] A long story, in which it was unsurprisingly difficult insuring a non resident, non UK licence holder on a UK bike.
I'd love too see them gone. Not sure that genie can be put back into the bottle anymore. Ukraine is a master class on what happens when you give up your big stick. They're a hideous idea, stupidly expensive and you hope never to use but a damn necessary ace to have stashed just in case.
No matter how ghastly Starmer drives labour to be he'll never gain enough votes from the dimwits that vote for reform ltd to make up for those lost from those of us with any empathy.
I am honestly not sure if they are less crap now. Started okay and went straight downhill. It took a term and a half for the gloss to wear off from Blair. Starmer managed it in a couple of months.
If you want you reach the far right voters and sway them it's most likely necessary to talk to their mouthpieces.
I knew that new new Labour would like Blair's original eventually disappointment. The ghastly easy they'd engineered the removal of the left for a start. I expected them again to manage one decent term not to be to the right of Thatcher in 12 months.
There's a 💯 chance they'll completely stuff the economy if elected. Ergo even if the lying shits promised in their manifesto and intended to follow through (yeah right) they'd not be in a position to do so.
What a vomit inducing thought.
"He is, without doubt, the thickest man in a suit that I’ve ever had a conversation with. There is nothing going on behind the eyes. It’s like trying to get through to a mollusc in a coma." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
100% her reign was the beginning of the very slippery slope to the utter shitshow we now fine ourselves in.
Reminds me of the Pratchett quote "the IQ of the mob is that of its thickest member, divided by the number of mobsters".
Does she even identify as human? She's got all the empathy of a cobra.
The chance of th.e EU nations unanimously wanting England back in the club farting about must be as close to zero as can be. Personally I'd vote for back in, ditch the £ for € and curtail Westminster.
All they have left is accusations of anti-Semitism, at one time you'd have been horrified to be wrongly so tarred, now it's a badge of honour when the genocide supporting twats reach for that slur.
Interesting. Found one of those is this text AI generated detectors. Submitted a paragraph of my prose and 95% ai. Conclusion either is utter bollox or I am a terminator and don't know it.
They did elect that utter scumbag Neil Hamilton to the Senedd and vote for Brexshit. Got friends in North Wales and it's very definitely old school tory land. In fact that's the only time I've ever been into a conservative club.
I am that old I can still recall when the Torygraph was a newspaper.
In news that surprised no one with more than a single brain cell Reform Ltd are not a party of the common person but a means to further enrich their ultra wealthy backers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOoR...
My brother gave me a couple of plants 2 months ago, just before we left on a long trip. Him & his GF bring on a dozen or so and hope a few survive. This year they all did so he needed shot. I got onecucumber before we left, my neighbour is watering them for me and obviously she gets to have any.
It seems utter madness to build a new runway at Heathrow. The infrastructure to get people to the airport can barely cope as it is. There's Farnborough just down the railway line and M3 which could handle short and medium haul as is with its 2500 metre runway.
Lock him up.
2028 my current one runs out
I am waiting to see what my installer recommends. An alternative is a portable AC I've seen those for IRO of £300 say $375, they're a bit ugly in that there's an exhaust hose to put out of a window. My daughter had one and it's pretty effective at cooling a room.