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Irishman in UK. Love my wife, dog and children. Hate Tory governments, Brexit campaigners, reality TV! 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 Credit to Charles Shultz for the avatar and profile caption.
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I'd rather gouge my eyes out than listen to Gove. You're safe from my defection. Keep up the good work! Even though, as an 80s metal fan, I am disappointed in your choice of theme music. I was expecting you to have selected a track from Quite Riot. Im sure you tried. Rights innit?
We now have a generation of parents and grandparents who were themselves vaccinated and have no memory of the devastating effects of preventable illness or losing school friends to measles or polio or losing an unborn baby to rubella.
Every the dog in the street knows that leaving the ECHR will be a disaster and for anyone to assert otherwise is treacherous nonsense. And for the media to promote them is a dereliction of journalistic standards.
Putin has popped in?
Why is @theguardian.com jumping on this band wagon. And @theguardian.com there is an error re SDLT. It is charged depending on how many properties you already own. Not if it's the primary or secondary residence - which is not declared when paying SDLT. This undermines your whole section 1.
I was 4 on August 21st and in school 9 days later. Smallest in class and last to be picked for playground games. And I'm still traumatised!
I bet all meetings were at ground level, ruling out defenestration so poison it had to be. A quick spray of nerve agent on the back seat of the car.
It's going down hill now. It'll go at warp speed when Theil and the Heritage Foundation take over. (Vance is an empty vessel, a glove puppet.)
And if he thinks it's the lunatic British nationalists on BS god preserve his eyes should they fall upon X. The irony being the lunatic British nationalists on X would fully agree with him that CTM is not British.
Is this the banana salad so beloved of Dr Annie Grey?
I am a firm believer in there being at least two intakes annually to reduce the difference between oldest and youngest class mates. Or formal academic education not starting till after the 7th birthday. The Finns do that and they come out the other end as proficient as other nations.
Yep. A Sept child starting school is almost 25% older, bigger with better hand-eye coordination and more confident than an Aug born peer. The gap does close but it's an advantage that carries through school. Month of birth for professional sports people show a similar bump in Sept born athletes.
Don't be so sure. There are plenty of English people who will think nothing of greeting an Irish person with "Top o' the mornin'" and saying the word potato to them in an Irish accent and get offended if we don't join in the "joke"...sorry, banter.
What ever you do don't go looking into the origins of Tiramisu. Your head will explode!
That's insufficient recompense for losing my basic human rights. Add in every Brexit nd anti-immigration campaigner and voter. Just about every retrograde move in the UK in the last 20 years can be traced back to pandering to these gobshites.
Urgh...straight A's student in Nigeria becomes a poor student in the UK and blames poor teaching. Always everyone else's fault. Nothing to do with the disruption of moving countries without parents at 16. Or the UK school system and curriculum being just different. Or simply being a 16 year old.
By-line date from the story: 31 August 2025, 14:24 BST 31 mins after your comment. Please don't exaggerate - it blunts any point you are trying to make.
I think any middle-aged right-leaning person moving to Mississippi out of choice is already well down a certain road so I'd guess it's not having any additional effect. Racist git before the move. Still a racist git.
OMG - Oifig an tSolathair - I'd completely forgotten about that! It was stamped on everything supplied by the Irish government through the Oifig an tSolathair (Supply Office) for use in their offices. Most of my biros at school came from Oifig an tSolathair via my Dad's work in the post office.
There is a dark heart at the core of the USA which thinks that's okay to allow killers access to guns because to say no would infringe on their right to be able to kill.
While applaud you and your son's empathy and motivation you should trad carefully.
4. Why is the school allowing/making kids without lunch or the means to buy it sit and watch other kids eat. That is a welfare issue against the school in itself. They should make sure every child has lunch regardless of means or provide alternative arrangements at mealtimes for these kids.
3. If a child is coming to school without lunch It could be an indicator of welfare issues at home. School lunches are one of the last things to go when money is tight or home life is chaotic. Have you raised a welfare concern with the school?
2. As a 13 yo coeliac I'd have accepted and eaten unsuitable food through fear and embarrassment about the condition. And the sheer joy of eating something I really missed even if it was bad for me. So don't take the kid's word on food intolerance.
This whole situation makes me uneasy for a number of reasons. 1. You can't just feed other people's kids without their consent
No - the media would still have hated and demonised JSO. Ot' s the two tier Mail.
Why restrict yourself like that? I'd doubt there is a coeliac sufferer who wouldn't cut off their right arm to be able to go back to a gluten diet. Go low carb by all means, but don't expect a GF diet using GF replacements for bread, cakes and pasta to help.
GF foods for coeliacs aren't lower in carbs. They normally replace gluten containing grains for non gluten grains of about the same carb content plus a load of ultra-processed additives to mimic the texture and feel of the gluten containing product. They are sh*t.
I've no influence but good luck to him. It must be an unsettling time for you both.
Why are they selecting someone from Yorkshire for a London borough mayor race? Does being known to the electorate in the area disqualify you?
With Theil and the Heritage Foundation's glove puppet Vance in the wings, things will get even worse even more quickly if Trump doesn't see out his term.
Oh I know and I know that he has very strong ties to Israel - but the scales may fall eyes at some point and realise that the Israel branding does more damage than good. But if not the UCI should shut them down. It's beyond a joke now that they are allowed to promote the regime.
If course there is also hope that IPT have a deal in place for '26 that will see new sponsors and a disassociation from Israel that the singing riders know about but can't say anything yet. Or I'm being desperately naive.
Politicians' and NRA thoughts and prayers are not welcome. Political action on and NRA support for meaningful gun control is welcome.
Even more baffling is that IPT is still allowed to exist as a team given how the Gazprom team were put out of business and Russian affiliation stripped from riders the day after the Ukraine invasion. I know initially Israel was given some latitude because of Oct 7, but that goodwill is gone now.
It gives him cover to raise support remove the UK from ECHR.
What has changed is his being able to make hay for the next four years promising to do it and garner enough votes at the next GE ro be PM - when he'll tell disappointed voters after stripping UK citizens of their human rights it is politically impossible to deport migrants in large numbers.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social run a piece in their Rotten Boroughs column every issue highlighting their antics. A web search for "reformwatch" throws up a number of sites as well. I don't know how systematic or up to date any of them are - nor except for PE, would I vouch for them.
Another "Vote for a deal I've not negotiated yet" appeal - and a substantial number of people will fall for it...again.
Huge shout out to Smart Fish Bar, Stoke Gifford in Bristol. They have a dedicated GF fryer and a wide range of options. And they seem to take care with the processes to avoid cross contamination, even wrapping separately.
Today's flags flying proudly from lamp-posts in the summer sun will become unsightly grey, faded, tattered rags by the end of winter. It's fine these people spending the summer hanging them, but who maintains them? Underfunded councils, that's who. That's my objection.
Farage is a traitor to the state of the United Kingdom and to the very notion of being British and what being British means.
I am so sad today I can't believe it. That an MP can think for one minute that is okay to give a speech like that and on top of the racism involved in mass deportations proposes the stripping of every UK residents' human rights and he gets away with it is deeply troubling.
Not counting non-citizens in the census for the purposes of congressional representation which will reduce the number of seats in high immigration blue states like CA and cities around the country. Republicans have a low cunning streak.
They have a whole box of tricks to use before they suspend elections and retain a veneer of respectability in the eyes of the world. A fully gerrymandered map, no mail-ins and half a dozen ICE or brave militia men "protecting the integrity" of polling places to suppress turnout.
217. Whoever had that as the number of days from inauguration to martial law in the sweepstake make yourself known and claim your prize.
Farage is a man without principles or scruples. He'll happily ditch any policy that no longer stirs up the mob or serve a purpose. PR will be next to go now he sees Reform might do better under FPTP.
You know it's a breach of tenancy to allow ostriches in your flat.
It's the modern version of Roman games, violent entertainment to keep the plebs placid. ICE are the lions and Latin Americans the Christians.
It's total BS. In evidence I present the male voice choirs and brass bands linked to pits, steel works other heavy industries around the country performing top-notch classical music, normally seen as the preserve of the middle and upper classes.
Musical taste is a signifier of class now? Hmm...now I don't know what to make of those male voice choirs and brass bands based in pit villages all over the country who enjoyed and performed the same music as you get in Covent Garden and the Royal Opera. Maybe they were secretly middle class.
What Vance lacks in charisma he makes up for in funds from Theil to buy elections. What he lacks in voter pulling power he makes up for by having the electoral map fully gerrymandered in his favour by '28. The Anglofascists are only getting warmed up.
😱😱😱 He pays how much to make the Oval Office look like a tart's boudoir any they can't even get cheap tat that fits the spaces available
I'm sure #Tesco are delighted to be sponsering the Express live blog whipping up support for a race riot.
Maxwell was convicted for the crimes committed while aiding and abetting a pedophile sex trafficer. Unforced, her choice and her crime. Connelly was convicted of inciting hate, arson and violence. Again, unforced, her choice and her crime. Both guilty, both liars, both now playing the victim card.
That Telegraph pic of Connelly is reminiscent of my local click bait sheet's pics of glum looking families after their £500 all inc. holiday was ruined by the resort not serving Smiironoff Blue and Courvoisier XO and only foreign food instead of all day fry-ups.
He accuses the BBC and the media as a purveyors liberal centrist dross. After their breathless coverage and hyping of the attempts by the far right to stir up race riots and live blogs were dedicated to there being almost scuffles between small groups across the country, centrist they ain't.
Socially conservatives have no place in the Labour party, never being tolerated setting up a campaign group within it. They should be kicked out and Glasman and any fellow traveller parliamentarians have the whip removed.
Paul Marshall?
From the picture it looks like she is living in more comfort than the poor people she wanted to burn out.
I'm very much of a mind that if you are the type to amass enough cash to be a media baron you are unlikely to be the type to have any empathy for the suffering of others and so unlikely to be anything other than a raging fascist in outlook. So left wing media barons can't exist. We're on our own.
No frown here. Happy as a sandboy. Like I said earlier I'm happy not being held hostage in Trump land. You have what you wanted. You'll come to your senses eventually, I just hope it won't be too late for the rest of the world.
God be with the days when politicians fecked off on holidays in August, gave us some peace and quiet and the papers were filled with features on wonky vegetables, heroic stray dogs and on teh occasion hot day frying eggs on a car bonnet. Now we have Farage's nonsense 365 days a year.
The difference is face to face you are more likely to moderate what you say and not cause offence than if you are typing anonymously on a keyboard.
Twitter has no resources to throw at compliance, Musk sacked them all. But they have his money to fight any suits for not complying.
You can still speak to them face to face and express yourself as freely as you like. But you might get a slap in the chops if you displease the person you are talking to.
Plus ICE chasing Mexicans around Home Depot parking lots and beating up delivery riders makes great TV, pleases Trump's supporters and keeps the base placid. Like emperors feeding Christians to the lions for the amusement of plebs. And cheap Big Macs are just too hard to give up. Love and ✌️
But there won't be either, will there? Money talks and corporate America has lobbied Trump hard and paid him off to make sure they stay out of ICE's crosshairs and can continue using the cheapest labour they can find, documented or not.
Where are the ICE raids on the corporate HQs to make sure they have paperwork for all their workers and fines and jail for non-compliant CEOs? Where are the illegal immigration hawks' calls for naming and shaming and consumer boycotts of these companies?
Yet Americans want cheap food, goods and services they tolerate employers using low pay, low skill undocumented workers. In the UK employers of undocumented workers are punished heavily with unlimited fines and up to five years in jail, regardless if they are a local chicken shop or corporate giant.
Irishman in the UK is spot on. Learn some geography and history. And I came to the UK for the same reason as migrants arrive in the US, to make a better life. I'm lucky I had a legal route to do so. But legal routes are closed now for refugees and workers unless they already have money.
BTW - I'm not from the UK, I'm your worst nightmare, and immigrant with a vote.
There is no migration disaster outside the fevered minds of the sort of far right extremists and whipped up by the media. If it's losing its culture and soul it's because some politicians are aping Trump. And I'm not sure we need bailed out by Russian stooges.
My day is always better because I can thank the lord I don't live under Trump and his boot boys.
But your alright Jack so everything is tickety boo. Way to go, caring, sharing America. If migrants come back legally they will be afforded rights and maybe they can cash in all the SS they paid in so you'll still have cause to complain.
Yup. And he said as much before the election. And he still got elected. Go figure how much democratic norms are valued by American voters.
If, unlike many Americans, you have more now than 12 months ago, have hung on to health and other benefits and your neighbours aren't being threatened by ICE or national guard then yes, you are one of the lucky ones.
Poor editing but I think my point is comprehensable.
Enough to fill the demographic gap in the working age population to fill the gap left by an ageing population retiring with fewer and fewer youngsters joining the workforce. It's time the UK govt and public woke up to this.
On the PA section, why have I not heard any questions (anywhere) about the MoD's security lapse in allowing PA onto the air base. We are questioning the proscription but not basic MoD failures and demanding ministerial heads to roll.
The mobile finally rules, including support for hate filled racists.
You must be one if the lucky (rich) ones - or lying to yourself and everyone else.
What can you say? He lied and enough voters bought the lies or didn't care enough to vote against the well forecast rise in wealth inequality, tax cuts for the rich and punishing the poor for being poor.
Hand on heart, do you honestly believe for one minute that your life is better under Trump? Taxes down, more money left after paying your bills, you and your neighbours are safer and happier, still getting the medicare/aid and SNAP they need? Forget the national headlines - has your life improved?
So there are no set rules or minimum standards any more. Just another enshitification of life in the UK.
His estate will be empty by the time he dies. In fact it probably is already. All his "wealth" is in his head or owed to investors and lenders. Being the boastful, venal little man he is If he had real wealth he flaunt it by showing tax returns. He won't because he personally has nothing of value.
Mrs Andgrump and I are both over 60 and I know if anything happens to our roles, that's it, we won't work again. All our retirement plans are dependent on at least one of us working until we are both at state pension age.
I for one would rather the fox was not consulted on the design of the fence around the chicken coop.
That's okay. Trump has already forgotten that he announced it.
What a dreary life this woman must lead to be able to think of nothing better to write about.
It's probably a case of if the hotel stops selling rooms, meals and drinks to the public and only accommodates homeless and asylum seekers that's a change of use. If the council books a few rooms as emergency accommodation in an otherwise open to the public hotel it's still a hotel.
And a hope value tax. A tax on the increase in value from agricultural to development price when planning permission is granted - to be used to fund the building of public sector infrastructure - roads, water, sewage and utilities, without which the development is unsellable.
Better still, Russia now knows that UK defence kit is basically undefended and can be sabotaged or destroyed at will. That is the scandal here. How did PA get into an airbase and spray the planes undetected? MOD and ministerial heads should roll over that.
I hope you got your money back.
There are teacakes and there are Tunnocks Teacakes. Two very different beasts. Teacakes are enriched, fruited and spiced yeast buns. Like hot cross buns, without the cross. Tunnocks Teacakes are a soft biscuit base, covered in a dome of soft mallow and coated in chocolate.
UK? I find GF in-store or online with Tesco, Asda etc. can be hit or miss so I use Ocado once every 6/8 weeks to stock up. Because they don't have shoppers clearing shelves they tend to know what they will have available at the time they are picking your order so they are more reliable.
There is a blood test that is indicative of coeliac and depending on the results you'll be sent for an endoscopy & biopsy for confirmation. Don't stop eating gluten until after all tests have been conducted otherwise the markers will not be there. And if you have stopped start again now.
And they will slash the number of polling places and under staff them in Dem districts to guarantee long waits to vote. GOP states will pull every trick in the book in '26 to stop likely Dem voters voting. Just waiting on the literacy test being reinstated.
No, it's because easily intimidated minority groups can't avoid having to vote in person. All it will take is half a dozen ICE or Proud Boys "protecting" the polling place and the integrity of the election to suppress turnout in high immigrant or black neighbourhoods.