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It's extraordinary that people are looking at the decline and breakdown of USA in real time and thinking "that's what I want for this country". The people doing this (Farage, Tice et al) see only opportunities for power and self-enrichment. They should be called out for the traitors they are.
You’re telling this to a fanbase who were still talking about Mitrovic about 4 years after we sold him.
Sorry, I’m totally going off on one: I really hate that bastard, more than any single human. No small thing when I consider that Mike Ashley owned my football club for 14 yrs.
“And we got condos here and they’re just overlooking a molten lake of fire that’s guarded by a dragon. And he’s mean and kind of left wing. But the real estate potential is like you wouldn’t believe.”
“But I told them, the smell of sulphur is okay but maybe we could do a deal and market that and sell it as perfume in Hades but they didn’t seem very interested which is a real pity.”
Like I totally get atheism, but isn’t it worth having hope that there’s a heaven so that there can also be a hell so Trump can go there?
“I mean they spent billions on this place, I told them I could get them sharper pitchforks and things but they wanted to go a different way which is a real shame but there you go.”
Trump in 20yrs “I persuaded Satan that he should get more fire in here, fire like you’d never believe, more fire than the world has ever seen. And they’ve been trying for a thousand years to get more than seven circles to Hell. They said it’s impossible I said there’s no I in impossible. We did it.”
Enlightenment thinkers - guys like Franklin, Rousseau, Locke, Newton, Galileo - are looking down at the US and thinking “why did we fucking bother?”
Anything to distract from the Epstein Documents eh?
Listened to 10 minutes. CBA anymore.
“Sometimes he says things he doesn’t mean”
Just listening to that orange wanker rambling on about how many wars he’s ended. Imagine all the great statesmen that have spoken in front of the UNGA. What a fall this is. Self-aggrandising prick.
For sure.
My father sundowns - he has mid stage dementia. Most of the time he makes more sense than Trump.
Because this will obviously help Willock to regain his form. Some people are bloody morons.
I don’t know Nick. How did we? Maybe by msm focusing on activities that aren’t linked to hotel protests rather than the RW rhetoric that directly caused it?
No doubt tha’d enjoy tha sen.
A smattering of snow up there eh?
This is the reality of life inside hotels housing asylum seekers. It’s a shame it gets buried beneath other rhetoric. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A low bar but you need to start somewhere.
The tangerine twatface scaremongering about autism. My two autistic kids are amazing. I wouldn't change them, even if I could. They're sweet, kind, funny and intelligent. All the things that fucking abomination of a human isn't.
Why are people getting a free pass, as if going out and causing public disorder is just a natural reaction to someone else committing sex offences? No. That is on the individuals themselves.
The creeping legitimisation of criminal behaviour by white English (mostly) men that puts lives at risk and drains resources of our police and emergency services. “Legitimate concerns” though
Objectively it wasn’t the sex offences that “sparked” the disorder was it? Whatever he may be, whatever he did, he didn’t spark the disorder. Others did that. Try again BBC.
Waitrose. Colourful trousers. Country Houses.
It doesn't matter what they say later, when the media have already moved on to the next shiny thing. What matters is the instant visceral gut reaction delivered moments after Farage stopped speaking. That's what people will remember. That's what the media will report. That's what gets chewed over.
Nigel Farage pledged yesterday to remove all non-British citizens from any form of welfare access - including permanent residents who have contributed. Zia Yusuf then exempted those with EU settled status from the policy - so the slogan is now a false one. Reform have forgotten about Ireland too
Please God. Can some mainstream news outlet explain properly how long and how costly the immigration process in the UK is? And that there is NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS the whole time. And you PAY A SURCHARGE for the NHS. And you pay your taxes.
Too late if he’s thinking of winning back voters like me. I know that social media is a massive echo chamber but I’d really hope (maybe in vain) that a large proportion of people share my horror at the language he’s used on the issue of immigration thus far.
I'm glad Kimmel is coming back. However, "free speech" where you can reverse government-coerced corporate censorship but only if your supporters make stock price influencing noise would be like a healthcare system in which you need a GoFundMe to go viral to afford treatment. ... wait.
He’s a little weasel.
The lesser spotted Pivas makes an appearance.
I cannot believe this still needs saying, but, and I say this as an autistic individual, vaccines do not cause autism. Whatever comes out of the White House is aimed specifically at undermining recognition and support for autistic individuals, and minimising our lives and experiences.
I’m sick to fuck of indulging fuckwits. If free speech is such an important thing, why aren’t we allowed to not pander to fucking twats and tell them as much? Seems like we’ve spent a decade skirting around these people so as not to hurt their feelings.
It wasn’t just you, you narcissistic prick.
Nice of him to airbrush Arthur Matthews from history.
Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense. Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs. No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that. You cannot defeat delusion with reason. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Doesn’t this rather defeat the purpose of having UGGs at all?
The ones citing “traditional Christian values” are among the worst. For three weeks now, the gospel has been about putting other people first and even if you accumulate some wealth, putting it to good use in the service of others. Where does this fit?
The Labour Party has a tradition of antiracism campaigning. It’s supposed to be in the party’s DNA. That they cannot say it’s just straightforwardly wrong to alarm families who choose Britain to live, work and raise children in is a total moral failure.
I quite like immigration.
I’m not setting fire to my house because it would mean I’d need to buy new coasters for my drinks and that would be economically unworkable.
Labour walk past an open undefended goal again. Instead of attacking Farage's Trumpian craziness on the grounds of morality and sanity, all they can think of doing is claim he's got his sums wrong and can't make something work that should NEVER even have been considered in the first place.
If you support revoking the settled status of people who, even on your own contentious definitions, came to the country “legally” and are “fully integrated”, what, other than xenophobia, is your rationale?
Thank you Mayor Khan. A much better justification than anything that’s come from weak Keir Starmer.
It’s frustrating that we even need to frame the argument for immigration in terms of what *we* get out of it. This is by and large a safe, friendly country and isn’t it just a nice thing that families want to be here and build lives here?
A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.
Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status. “They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”
Opposing morally repugnant anti-immigrant policies using economic arguments is like trying to convince somebody not to shoot your dog because they can't afford to buy bullets.
Update - the pigeon that flew into our house last night still seems to be alive and is able to fly.
She would have been born within the lifetime of Florence Nightingale.
Thanks ☺️
A bit shocked. It’s never nice seeing any creature suffer.
Nothing I could really do. It seems to have crossed the road and is probably in the bushes there but I suspect it won’t survive long and it seemed to have broken wing. I couldn’t bring myself to kill it.
Any suggestions about what to do about a dying pigeon? Want to end its life humanely - it flew into our upstairs window and cannot fly. It seems to have voided its guts and appears in considerable pain.
I loved visiting Perlan earlier this year.
Waiting for the bus to Kinlochewe?
The pot calling the kettle black.
Imagine anyone thinking this could form a viable alternative to the Labour Party.
“Is this your party?” “Fuck off”
Hope for a performance from Gordon tonight: has let the club down badly twice in the last six months. Am I right in thinking that we’ve yet to score with him on the pitch so far this season?
Enjoying the two guys on this year's Bake Off who look like they could be rival chieftains in Iron Age Gaul
Wouldn't be so bad if any of those so obsessed with this kind of thing had any intention of understanding and following the teachings of Christ. As it is, "christianity" is now just being used as code for something qwhite different.
Oh I hate it. And for some reason I always get leg cramps and need to walk them off and you can’t get out.
This is the state of play. This is how anti-trans hate can affect everyone. When the wife of a world leader is not immune to having to prove she's a woman to satisfy bigots, what hope do most trans and non-binary individuals have of being able to live our lives in peace www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s Your Party and you can vie if you want to.
Amazing.
TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNOOOOOOOOOO!
He’s made his bed.
LPA is something to sort out while your loved ones have capacity. Otherwise the process is much more difficult - I speak as someone with experience of deputyship powers and it’s a colossal mess.
If you’re any less vehement in supporting the right to self expression of your political enemies than that of your allies, you’re not really in favour of free speech.
Still waiting for Toby Young to defend freedom of speech when it’s the left that gets cancelled…
You do other drugs as well?
God rest her.
What you gonna do orange man, arrest me? Don’t share this though.
The left was derided for promoting a cancel culture because they went after predators and those who abused their wealth and power. The right is canceling anyone who dares speak truth to power. Both sides are not remotely the same.
As a matter of etiquette - I could be miles off here - is one not supposed to remove headwear in the presence of the monarch?
The Government and any politician worth their salt need to leave X now, not before the pressure to leave becomes insurmountable.
Well done.👏
He most certainly isn’t.
Tino probably needs an industrial hoist to get that high these days. Or just spend a few days knocking around Bogota.
“Yeah, it was authentic Chippendale, upholstered by Huguenot weavers but we had to throw it all out because that wanker left his make up on everything.”
I feel slightly sorry for the king, knowing that tomorrow he’s going to need to get all his soft furnishings deep cleaned.
Had Melanie joined the Ant Hill Mob or something?
Truly the epitome of it being darkest before the dawn.
Funny because it’s true.
Probably fair. And even if they’d ended up sacking him, no one worth their salt would have wanted to be associated with Mike Ashley having burnt his bridges with Benitez in 2019. Thank God we never got to find out. It would have been bleak.
Caveats though. Stats don’t tell you the full story. That first season which Covid interrupted there were games we won which we never should have got anything from.
I think he sacked it off totally in the summer of 2021. Look at the amount of work Howe had to do just to make the team compete in games. That’s on Bruce, although I take the point that his record from 2019-21 was actually not that bad.
*Unless it is Cameron being replaced by May, May being replaced by Johnson, Johnson being replaced by Truss, or Truss being replaced by Sunak. It is only if Starmer goes. Absolute. Charlton. Hypocrite. Imbecile.
If people can stop sending me emails asking me questions I don’t know the answer to that would be just great.
I presume that Toby Young and the Free Speech Union have already said something about this and I’ve presumably simply missed it.
PSR was designed not to level the playing field but to ensure a hegemony whereby a club can fail on the pitch but still retain its place at the top table financially. Footballing failure doesn’t have to mean a club loses its standing.
Is she actually a dwarf standing on top of another dwarf?
Confirm you’re breaking from the political establishment by becoming a place of refuge for former Tories.
Then why not come out in public and say it yourself? Or back it up by leaving X?
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