Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "TalkTV" channel.

  1. The most perplexing thing of all was that, when the Dear Leader called for release of the sausages, he was cheered and applauded.
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  2. “This Was A Very Nasty Man” but, we are told, definitely, definitely, not a terrorist. Really, truly, honestly, not a terrorist.
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  3. It really doesn't matter whether the Budget is delivered by a Woman, a Man, or a well-trained Chimpanzee. It is what is in it that matters, surely?
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  4. The real sadness is that there was nothing surprising about the tone of the programme. As soon as it was announced, it was totally predictable.
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  5.  @brianconnelly-s5e  Farage has no power, but, like the rest of us, has the right, at least for now, to express his opinions. The Dear Leader is Prime Minister. He needs to learn, and quickly, that, unlike when he was Leader of the Opposition, his behaviour now matters, and that his words, and actions, have consequences.
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  6. Grossly unfair! The Metropolitan Police have been making themselves look absurd for some time. It is hardly a recent development.
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  7.  @kevingrant7098  So, because pensioners may, or may not, have voted Tory, or for Brexit, they deserve to be punished? I wish I had your democratic standards. Would you recommend Euthanasia?
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  8. I thought 'The Bench' was excellent. I bought a copy for 25p at my local charity shop. and it was perfect. My dining table leg no longer wobbles.
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  9. Someone needs to explain to the Noble Lord that taking a patronising, 'I'm smarter than you' attitude in response to a question is not likely to win much support. Perhaps he has been around too many of his own kind for too long? Back to the comfortable House of Peers, with your £300+ a day attendance money, heavily subsidised meals, and warm comfy benches upon which to sleep, Lord Alex.
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  10.  @YourDad-dp1xe  'anyone with religious values who wants to follow them can live in this country.' Indeed, but that does not mean that they should seek to impose their values to the exclusion of everyone else's.
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  11. Perhaps the Butcher of Tripoli was only offered the job because around 290 'Conservative' MPs turned it down first?
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  12. This is unprecedented! James Whale is actually interviewing a Polytechnic lecturer from the 1970s or 1980s. Who says that Time Travel is an impossiblity?
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  13. Perhaps the Dear Leader wants Chinese troops to help him maintain some level of control over the British peasantry?
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  14. My wife's response to Vennells' tears rather surprised me. She said 'How typical! She wanted the power, the glory, and the money, but when challenged about her misdeeds, she promply resorted to the ' I'm just a vulnerable little girly, being bullied by all these rude men', in order to deflect criticism. Needless to say, I immediately put her right by ordering her into the kitchen to make me a cup of tea!
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  15. Put simply, can anyone explain why the 'leaders' of the EU, and our own Dear Leader, are so eager to keep the war in Ukraine going for as long as possible?
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  16. I think it is more a case of trying to protect their core vote of the public sector, and keeping the bosses of the big unions on side. The others, such as farmers, the elderly, and those from the private sector, are of no interest, and can therefore be considered expendable. After all, in the world of Rachel from Accounts, a dead pensioner is both one less pension to pay, and, potentially, one less non labour vote.
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  17. Make them King & Queen of Rockall. Drop them off and leave them there.
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  18. Or, as the Noble Lord probably wanted to say, 'I'm really clever, I am!'
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  19. That should fund an awful lot of unused cycle lanes and vast numbers of Transgender events.
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  20. Because they are MPs, who don't expect to pay for anything.
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  21. Perhaps the Legal Aid bonanza is drying up, and the lad is looking for another source of equally easy money?
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  22. I agree. I personally don't much like Robinson, but it seems he was arrested simply for not holding left of centre opinions. This is the beginning of a steep and dangerous slope.
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  23. Unfair, Mainwaring was at least patriotic. Unlike the Dear Leader, who openly dislikes almost everything British.
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  24. Would it be wrong to suggest that government policy is generously to distribute largesse all over the world, whilst at the same time withholding funding from the British people?
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  25. As best I could tell, some of the agents were far more concerned about their dark glasses.
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  26. How can you be confident which way, when trained & equipped, they will point their guns?
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  27. I believe the names are The Black Prince and Richard III.
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  28. I wonder when Sunak's Green Card expires? I am sure he wouldn't want to miss out on the opportunity.
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  29.  @Craig121000  Actually, isn't he simply making a statement?
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  30. I recall watching Oprah's faux 'shock' at the time, and thinking that she could surely have afforded a better acting coach.
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  31. That is the beauty of the 'Hate Crime' concept. It can mean whatever those in authority decide that they want it to mean.
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  32. Even more worrying. Perhaps he knows precisely what he is doing?
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  33. Many of the teachers I have dealt with are absolutely sure that they know everything about everything.
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  34. I think it is a standard letter. Our local MP did much the same.
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  35. When you surround yourself with sycophants, after a while you begin to believe them.
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  36.  @Clockwise26  Actually, I can. However there wasn't one in this video, although I did observe an arrogant, bigoted, one, who alienates almost everyone who hears her spout her bile.
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  37. They are probably the last few hundred Labour supporters in Scotland. When support for the corrupt & utterly incompetent SNP in Scotland has actually risen by 4% since August, whilst that for Labour has fallen by 8%, it tells you why the Dear Leader is beginning to panic. Tories, by the way, up 2%, LibDems up 1%, Reform up 3% and Greens down 1%.
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  38. I suspect that they dare because they can, and assume, probably correctly, that the police will protect them.
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  39. But no doubt quite a number were ex-military, and therefore of no interest to Sunak, nor to Starmer.
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  40. The pensioners, and now the farmers, are being punished because the Dear Leader & Rachel from Accounts are only interested in cosseting what they perceive to be their core vote, the public sector.
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  41. I suspect that you are giving the Dear Leader far more prominence than he deserves. I doubt that Trump thinks, or cares, much about him at all.
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  42. The response of the two stooges seemed to be 'We are senior Civil Servants. We aren't expected to know anything.' The way that they turned and looked blankly at each other when asked the question was most illuminating, however. Doubtless, Life Peerages await for both.
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  43. The BBC text service yesterday evening (Monday) presented the Carnival as a wonderful display of Caribbean culture. No mention of any unrest or of violence at all. Surely the impartial BBC would not possible be less than entirely honest in their reporting, would they?
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  44.  @FrontSideBus  But as the Dear Leader doubtless reminded his Cabinet colleagues : but' some of us are more equal than others.'
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  45. 'From mid-February to April 2025 Serena will be seconded to the College of Policing as Cohort Director for the Executive Leadership Programme.' Onward & upward, it seems.
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  46.  @madamebrunhilda5105  You should look at the issue from Harry Markle's point of view :- ' I really don't understand my family. It doesn't matter how much I insult them, or lie about them, they still refuse to apologise.'
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  47.  @PiE-zx  Which isn't quite the same thing. Moreover, didn't the Dear Leader support the idea when in opposition?
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  48. Unless the new, invented, job is even better paid, and a stepping-stone on the path to a peerage for 'services rendered.' perhaps?
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  49. £1 billion? That should buy a lot of Camper Vans.
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  50. Isn't the problem that Starmer hasn't yet realised that he is no longer Leader of the opposition, where he could say more or less what he wanted and no one would much care, but is now Prime Minister, and that his words have consequences. Labelling the bulk of the British population into the category of 'far right thugs' is likely to exacerbate the current situation, especially when he has also promised special levels of protection for Mosques. In short, in the first crisis of his Premiership, he is failing badly. There are, without doubt, a number of unpleasant far-right thugs in the country, but all Starmer has done is give them a spurious credibility, by refusing to listen to the concerns of many ordinary British people. Hopefully, there are some wiser politicians in the labour camp, who will be able to make him aware of what he has done.
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  51. Perhaps, after having him thoroughly searched for recording devices, and having lots of impartial witnesses present?
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  52. His name is Hugo Benedict Norton-Taylor. He was born in Bruxelles, and daddy was a Grauniad reporter on military and defence issues for many years, which I find totally unsurprising.
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  53. I rather expected the BBC to have played solemn martial music, and their announcers to have worn black armbands, when they mentioned the death.
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  54. Does this Hodges person base all his opinions on headlines he apparently stumbles across? It appears that he hasn't viewed the whole of the meeting between Zelenskyy & Trump/Vance, nor listened to what Vance actually said about 'random European countries'. One should surely be entitled to expect a greater degree of professionalism from someone in his position?
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  55.  @ShyTalks-d8b  It seems to be a recent trait. Accuse a post of being from a troll when you cannot think of a credible response.
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  56. 'People don't really like them together.' I don't think people like them apart, much, either.
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  57.  @elizabethsheffield6609  By and large, the Public Sector have done and will continue to do very well out of the current government. I doubt that many of them will struggle at all.
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  58. Why not strip her of her assets and most of her savings instead, given that she seems to have acquired both under false pretenses?
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  59. Unfair. He is a Polytechnic lecturer from the late 1970s transported through time to 2024 by a time/space wormhole. He has not yet come to terms with it.
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  60. At least Trump is talking to people. Harris seems to be being kept away, apart from occasionally reading a speech or two from a teleprompter.
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  61. Rather more than that, I believe.
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  62. If the Dear Leader insisted that every liar in his Cabinet resigned, that would include Starmer himself. Presumably Larry the Cat would take temporary charge. Who knows, he might even produce a more sensible budget?
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  63. The £300 reduction might well happen. What Miliband did not mention was that bills must rise by £1200 before it does.
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  64. Where was the Education Department, the Local Authority, his Head Teacher, the local M.P., the police, or the unions, when a teacher from Batley was driven into hiding for teaching a lesson?
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  65.  @jayrwickerman  Do I take it that you aren't even willing to ask whether the vast majority of ordinary people who have expressed these concerns have genuine worries? Put simply, if people were content with their lot, no amount of extremist agitation would generate such behaviour. You aren't the Dear Leader, Sir Keir Starmer, incognito, are you? Say hello to Angela for me.
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  66. Thank you for showing the interview at the head of this item. Actual footage of Dracula and Igor sitting side by side is very rare.
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  67. This is grossly unfair! The Dear Leader was invited, but was obliged to decline after Lord Alli failed to offer to supply him, and Lady Starmer, with new outfits for the occasion. In any case, it was already known that Lady Starmer was washing her hair that day. Shame on you for a far right activist!!
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  68. Did you say that David Lammy is going to Africa? On his own? As Sergeant Wilson would say 'Do you think that's wise?'
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  69. Do you think that the Dear Leader will care?
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  70. 'I really give up on any intelligence or common sense remaining in the world.' Alas, the last vestiges of both disappeared some time ago.
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  71. As I remember it, the BBC was comparatively impartial, until it occurred to them that the result they craved might not be forthcoming. The horror and disbelief on the faces of their presenters when the result came out was remarkable.
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  72. I wonder who the person sitting two places to her left, and nodding supportively, is?
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  73. MPs get their heating allowance and their generous expenses for one reason only. Because they can.
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  74.  @Mylostsock11  Actually, he couldn't have attended anyway as he already had an appointment for a dental check up, for which Lord Alli had already paid.
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  75.  @BigAndyG  So, a screaming mob in the centre of Londonabad represents 'the peace' in your view, does it? This particular 'fella' wasn't likely to have started any violence.
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  76. Too many syllables, for a start. I doubt that Harry Markle understands words longer than two syllables.
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  77.  @lesleylamy  Lamy? Are you related to David Lammy? Actually, the Dear Leader doesn't have to wander around the world pretending to try to solve the world's problems. Moreover, he might not be experiencing such a rough time if he hadn't stripped pensioners of their winter fuel payment, and then imposed crippling inheritance taxes on farmers, presumably because he thought they were not Labour voters, whilst distributing largesse to the public sector and to train drivers, because he thought that they were.
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  78. Surely, saying 'Ed Miliband is speaking nonsense' is on a part with saying 'It goes dark at night.' Both statements are self-evident, and universally accepted.
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  79. I wonder if Lord Alli has arranged his accommodation for him?
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  80.  @john_cockpit  Hello Omid! How are things, owd lad?
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  81. I expect that he cannot open his front door for the long queue of Yuman Rites lawyers desperate to take on his case.
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  82. David Lammy? Wrong? I am shocked at the very idea!
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  83. Sadly, the petition could reach 50 million, and those who run things wouldn't take any notice.
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  84. Not really. In 1944 Britain had two intensely patriotic leaders, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee. Now we have two leaders who could hardly be regarded in the same manner.
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  85. That £22 billion black hole is an elusive one. When domestic issues are concerned, it is an almost insurmountable. However, when Ukraine, or the Chagos, are mentioned, suddenly it vanishes.
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  86. More than just Europe, I fear.
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  87.  @obiwanyorkshobi6507  Define 'Mandate' One in three of those who voted actually voted for Labour, and almost half of the electorate did not vote at all. One of the glories of a two party system. Labour received 10,269,051 votes in 2019. Labour received 9,708,716 votes in 2024. As might have been said in an old episode of 'Star Trek' 'It's a Mandate, Jim, but not as we know it.'
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  88.  @ShyTalks-d8b  What a really good idea. Ignore the most powerful nation on the planet, simply because European 'leaders' have been annoyed by a few home truths.
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  89. Who knows? Perhaps Jim fixed it for him and Lady Starmer to be given masses of free clothes?
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  90. Alas, when the science fiction short story 'The Marching Morons' was written in the 1950s, about a future world inhabited almost entirely by half-wits (and quarter-wits!) the author did not realise how accurately it would predict the 2020s.
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  91. Perhaps you might define what a racist building is?
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  92.  @perrydickerson-n8i  Well, from Britain, I assure you that our current 'leaders' intend much the same for us.
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  93. If you were a Labour MP, £91k per year, more or less unlimited expenses, and the ability to make a few lucrative 'contacts' would you rock the boat? These creatures do not become politicians because of an over-developed sense of decency or integrity. Quite the reverse, in fact.
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  94. More likely, a desperate politician, deeply unpopular domestically and with a failing economy, seeking to look relevant by posturing on the world stage.
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  95. Very odd, then, that this 'Very DANGEROUS Individual!" was not placed in a maximum security prison then, wasn't it?
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  96. Perhaps this tells us something about how trustworthy Welby's judgement really is?
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  97.  @JohnMcDonald-ef5gz  Sorry if you are offended. One thing is certain, however. Our own Prime Minister would never cloak himself in such a flag.
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  98. @Big Stu But that is precisely the issue. The makers of the programme are not saying that it is 'just a show.' They are trying to push the claim that Cleopatra VII was black.
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  99. What I am surprised about is that anyone should be surprised about this.
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  100. Yes. He was then taken to Downing Street in a fast car to discuss a promotion to a higher givernment post in due course.
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  101. Does any of that justify her inventing her own laws?
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  102. Leave dear Rory alone. He is living proof that it is not necessary to be stupid to be wrong about most things. It is equally possible to be intelligent and wrong about most things.
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  103.  @ShyTalks-d8b  Presumably, then, you are a troll yourself?
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  104. Is there any convenient location where the members of the 'Wildlife and Countryside Link', apparently 'a coalition of 80 environmental organisations,' are listed? We have been in the habit of making regular donations to several charities, but would not wish to embarrass them further by continuing to force them to accept our tainted funds.
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  105. You right wing monster, you. Sir Keir will be sending the Thought Police round to have a quiet word.
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  106. Quite the reverse. Councils can charge we peasants for the repair of the damage the councils caused in the first place. Another nice little earner.
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  107. Perhaps Rachel from Accounts had the painting removed because she felt ashamed to be in the presence of the Great Man?
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  108. Ever heard the proverb, 'the squeaky wheel gets the most oil?' These people behave as they do because previous experience has taught them that it gets them what they want.
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  109.  @jackperry2821  Are you suggesting that the Oil Protestors who received those sentences were from the 'right?' What an odd world view you must have.
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  110.  @BrianMartin-ox2ru  If you were a Labour MP, £91k per year, more or less unlimited expenses, and the ability to make a few lucrative 'contacts' would you rock the boat? These creatures do not become politicians because of an over-developed sense of decency or integrity. Quite the reverse, in fact.
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  111.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  Sir Keir rarely does say anything. His manifesto for the next General Election will be printed on half a sheet of A4 paper :- Vote for us. We aren't the Tories.
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  112.  @Marcus.Halberstram  In Britain, a politician who actually did what her/she promised to do would be a refreshing change.
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  113. Beware, or David Lammy might well offer to take 1 million or so Gazans.
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  114. Why does Charles not only despise the ordinary people of this country, but seems to be quite happy to show his contempt? Especially when those same peasants fund his lifestyle?
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  115.  @DavidGetling  It is easy to be hard line about something which doesn't affect you personally. As these caring, Socialist, MPs, who worry about the least well off in society on a constant basis, demonstrate.
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  116. You think that Trump will care in the slightest what the Dear Leader says?
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  117. I believe future donations/bribes must be made strictly in cash. These should be sent to Sue Gray, who will distribute them discreetly.
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  118. Quite eerie and unsettling. Is this Charles Amos a 1970s or 1980s Polytechnic lecturer who has mysteriously time travelled to 2024?
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  119. I thought her performance on Wednesday was bad. Today's, however, was on a totally different level. Exactly how many times did she say this? 'That might be what I wrote, but it really wasn't what I meant.'
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  120.  @jackperry2821  Perhaps you aren't aware how the legal system works? The sentence is determined by the Judge, not by the Government.
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  121. Doesn't '17.8%' sound convincing? Another product from the Department of Guesswork, perhaps?
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  122. He has done something. He has committed taxpayers' money to building a specifically Moslem war memorial.
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  123. This is an Inquiry, not a trial. Everything Vennells has said so far has been carefully scripted by her clever and expensive legal team, and is intended to serve one purpose only, which is to enable her to avoid criminal charges.
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  124. But his core is a very wealthy one.
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  125. They intend to make assisted dying available. As the Dear Leader might say 'Come on Granny. Do it to help the nation. You've had a good run, and you know it makes sense.'
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  126.  @joshuataylor3550  Unless you regard Macedonian/Greek as being mixed race, then so she wasn't.
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  127. @Big Stu You are missing the point, which is that the makers of this programme, instead of saying that it is simply that, are insisting that Cleopatra VII really was black, which is a claim wholly devoid of any supporting evidence. How do you know what Cleopatra VII did or didn't think, by the way? She spoke Greek, and lived in an area of society totally immersed in Greek culture & tradition.
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  128.  @johnkitching2248  I thought that Germany was the economic powerhouse of the mighty European Empire?
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  129. He has already contacted Trump with his congratulations, apparently. I am sure that that was the best thing that has happened to Trump so far today.
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  130. Isn't it more likely that he is slowly beginning to realise that being Leader of the Opposition, where he could say more or less what he wanted and no-one much cared, was one thing, whereas being Prime Minister, where his words and actions have consequences, is quite another? Saying 'You disagree with me? You must be an Extreme Right Wing Racist' isn't really the best answer to Britain's problems.
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  131.  @RickGhastly-ty8cq  It is quite possible to be proud of Britain yet not support the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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  132. The reality is that the population of India is 488 per square kilometre. That of England (not the UK as a whole, as the vast majority of immigrants settle in England) is 454. Put simply, England is full. Capacity is far more the issue than ethnicity.
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  133. Many Traffic Wardens actually perform a useful function. I wonder if anyone has ever said the same about David Lammy?
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  134. Because what is the point of going into politics if you cannot fill your boots at the expense of the peasantry?
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  135. Perhaps even more worrying is that, within the Labour Party, Lammy is considered an intellectual.
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  136.  @ShyTalks-d8b  'We have no option but to rebuild. Trump has gone. We have to wait 4 years for the US to regain its senses.' Haven't you been watching? Senile Old Joe's presidency was sensible?
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  137. I was planning to visit the Brecon Beacons as part of my holiday this year. Sadly, now it no longer exists, I won't be able to go.
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  138. Interestingly, General Galtieri thought much the same in 1982. Odd how dictators have similar thought patterns, isn't it?
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  139.  @marshjj3788  Apparently they were declared as 'support' not as 'posh frocks.'
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  140. You do realise that you are criticising a person thought by Jusin Welby to have been a suitable candidate for the position of Bishop of London? We know a lot about Vennells, but what does this say about Welby, who seems to have been uncharacteristically silent on this issue?
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  141.  @KemetledAfrica  Whereas Cleopatra VII was entirely of Macedonian/Greek heritage, of course.
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  142.  @KemetledAfrica  What you think is irrelevant. The Ptolemic family tree is well-known from Antipater right down to Ptolemy XIV & Cleopatra VII. That is something you clearly didn't realise.
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  143. @peterholden3672 Au contraire. It is clear that donnag understands precisely how FPTP works.
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  144. Reminded me of the old, and fallacious, argument that, 'You have nothing to fear if you haven't done anything wrong.' Tell that to the Canadian truckers who incurred the wrath of Trudeau.
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  145.  @AlanRoberts-xy4wu  Unfair. Stan & Ollie were wonderful comedians. There is nothing remotely amusing about the Dear Leader & the Monarch.
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  146.  @marmar476  Do you mean when Joe's dementia is admitted? Oh sorry! 'Karma' not 'Kamala'. I apologise.
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  147. It could have been worse. David Lammy might have been involved.
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  148. I wonder if he, or David Lammy, will attend the funeral?
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  149. Consider this. The first new Type 26 frigate, HMS Glasgow, will have taken 12 years to build when (if) she finally enters service in 2028. Japanese shipyards can build a new frigate in four years.
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  150. Just offer him a Peerage, and he will be off like a shot.
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  151.  @gw1nya1al1  Well, your comment certainly was.
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  152. Why would anyone wish to integrate, when, as is being demonstrated on a daily basis, you can become the rulers whilst retaining your medieval beliefs?
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  153. Don't worry. After around 18 months it will be declared a Hate Crime to voice doubts about the righteousness of the Dear Leader.
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  154.  @blue24563  Just to educate you, the Poppy Appeal began life as the Haig Fund in 1921, which adopted the Poppy as the symbol of the fund in the sam year. The button in the centre of the poppy used to say 'Haig Fund' until as recently as 1994, when the words were changed to 'Poppy Appeal.' The Poppy is now, and has been for many years, representative of all British soldiers who have died in war. Don't be ashamed to admit your ignorance, so long as you can learn from others with more knowledge.
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  155. Unfair. Reeves was taken off the tranquilisers for long enough to present the budget. The black stare she has been displaying in the Commons for the last week or two was completely absent.
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  156.  @countfosco8535  What leads you to that conclusion about David 'Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette won a Nobel Prize' Lammy?
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  157. @Big Stu You should read what Jada Pinkett Smith, the Producer, and the Director, Tina Gharavi, have been saying.
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  158. His daddy runs a venture capital company. I think that is sufficient explanation.
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  159. Just wait for the response. The report, and the writer, will be suppressed with cries of 'heresy!' and 'Burn the Witch!' before we are all much older. Fanatics do not concede easily.
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  160.  @debibuxton1335  Had the Archbishop of Canterbury had his way, the Rev. Paula would have been made Bishop of London a few years ago. Clearly, Justin saw in her a character akin to his own?
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  161.  @someguy-eh9mg  The human rights lawyer who has 'adjusted' the law to make possible the immediate jailing of anyone who disagrees with him? You really prefer him?
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  162. Why else would they have gone into politics?
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  163. It seems that in Post Office culture, 'befehl ist befehl' was the rule. Or at least, Bogerd is trying to insist that it was. Apparently, when she left the P.O., her salary was in excess of £400,000 p.a.
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  164. I think that it is more the UN trying to tell Britain what to do.
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  165. Sadly, I agree. I will continue to make donations, but elsewhere.
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  166. To be fair, the Foreign Ministers of both countries had constructive talks. Unfortunately, neither of them spoke any form of intelligible English.
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  167.  @kim-mariefreeston8336  I think that it is simpler than that. He is enthusiastically posturing on the world stage in an attempt to distract from the shambles that is the United Kingdom under his stewardship, and he still hasn't grasped the fact that his words and actions have consequences.
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  168. Unfortunately, like most of the rest of us, one of the 'little people' that the Rev. Vennells so obviously despises.
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  169.  @seanknapton7449  Really, around 50% of the votes in Rochdale were postal ballots, and 12,000 of those 13,000 votes were for Galloway.
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  170. I wonder if Putin would actually be willing to waste a few hours talking to any of them? For good or ill, I suspect he would only speak to the real players in the game.
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  171.  @seewhatifound  Hasn't he already explained that they are merely liars in any case?
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  172. Have you ever thought to ask yourself why the co-religionists of the Gazans are so steadfastly determined not to allow them into their own countries?
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  173.  @Beenjammin.Buttons  Does that really justify Starmer inflaming the situation by making divisive speeches?
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  174.  @marcor6769  Why not wait to see what actually happens before jumping to conclusions?
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  175. I suspect that after listening to the Dear Leader for about ten minutes, Trump simply left the phone on the desk, went away to do something interesting, and left Starmer rambling into the void.
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  176.  @Joy-w5j  Still, at least Rachel cut a penny off the price of draught beer. As she presumably thinks that the working class drink only beer. I am surprised that she didn't cancel VAT on Flat Caps and Whippet Food. After all, isn't that what they wear, and what their hobbies are?
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  177. In the case of Sir Keir, it seems that the Ukrainians are right.
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  178. How dare you criticise this man? The Dear Leader has him earmarked for the position of Secretary of State for Religious Affairs.
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  179. Be fair. He cannot do everything. Wandering around posturing as a Great Statesman on the world stage does take up a fair chunk of his time.
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  180. At present, this is an Inquiry. Hopefully criminal proceeding might follow?
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  181. Perhaps the pause is simply to give hime time to get larger wardrobes. Donated for free of course.
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  182. Oh dear. It seems that the Dear Leader hasn't quite lived up to your expectations, Comrade? I do, however, understand your Homer Simpson approach, of 'Block my ears long enough and it will all go away.'
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  183. Former advisor to Yvette Cooper. Either she didn't take any notice, or he gave poor advice.
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  184.  @Ruby16663  Indeed. The faux shock that Oprah tried to express was so artificial that clearly her acting coach had had a week or two off.
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  185. Oh look. One of those who believes that democracy simply means the right to agree with him.
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  186. The two my wife refers to as the Rotweilers? Looking forward to it immensely.
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  187.  @paulcundy7329  Yes, you would. Unless those in authority steadfastly chose to raise them.
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  188. She claims to have had a very important job. That of passing on instructions for her superiors, without, of course, reading any of them. I wonder if her main line of defence, that of 'some big boys and girls did it, then ran away,' will succeed?
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  189.  @ant270  Having seen Dear Rachel on the front bench in the Commons recently, staring blankly into space, blinking occasionally, I suspect that you may be right.
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  190.  @mzaf2247  Of course you have credible evidence to show that she provoked the rioting, don't you?
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  191.  @AlanFagan-y5l  Are you aware of the effect that the Employment Bill will have on the Private Sector? Will those workers who are likely to be laid off, or not employed in the first place, be happy about that effect? Noe eveyone works in the Public Sector, where costs seem not to matter.
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  192.  @mrwpg  'Balfour decleration is illegal.' Who has determined that it illegal? You?
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  193. If so, Trump is far from alone in that detestation.
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  194. Beware! His successor is someone who has just awarded a Damehood to the awful Jacinda Ardern.
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  195. The Reverend Paula is about a month away. I expect that she is eagerly awaiting her opportunity to set the record straight.
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  196. Even more alarming, Jonathan Brearley, CEO of OfGem, appeared on Martin Lewis's programme on Tuesday evening, and revealed himself to be as dedicated a net zero fanatic as Ed Miliband, often repeating, almost word for word, his master's voice.
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  197.  @GS-dc4dt  The public already know how the current 'government' looks.
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  198. The earth of the 1970s, through a time warp.
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  199. She is an inspired choice. Every times she excretes her arrogant nonsense, she alienates a few more neutrals from her viewpoint.
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  200.  @jeanettecardinal790  Sir Mark is brilliant! Who else could have caused people to look back on dear Dame Cressida's time as Commissioner as a golden age?
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  201. Why should he bother? None of those problems will ever apply to him.
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  202. Which, of course, presupposes that the Princess of Wales does smoke.
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  203.  @taffyterrier  Sounds a bit like Preston Bus Station.
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  204.  @Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak  As anyone else will be. There is no serious intent to solve this issue in the Tory Party, and the Labour/Lib Dem approach seems to be 'come one come all.'
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  205. Have you considered the alternative? That Lammy knows exactly what he is doing, and it isn't intended to benefit the UK?
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  206.  @Mavmode  Sure, and didn't Barack Obama be after doing exactly that, bedad!
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  207.  @Beenjammin.Buttons  You really believe that accusing the vast majority of the people of the UK of being 'extreme right-wing thugs' was wise, or accurate? Try to ask yourself. If people were content with their lot, would they respond sympathetically to any extremist agitation. of the right or the left, in the first place? Starmer should have tried to aim for unity, not simply created further tension, but he chose not speak more as a rabble-rouser than in the manner of a Statesman.
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  208. Five years at £91k pa, plus more or less unlimited expenses and the opportunity to make a few 'contacts.' ? I doubt that they will be worrying much.
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  209.  @joshuataylor3550  'There's plenty of evidence that they married with locals who would have been brown and black.' I assume you can provide an academic source in support of your claim? The Ptolemys are known to have intermarried within their family, and to have established marriage alliances with the Seleucids, who were also Macedonian/Greek.
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  210. Alas, irony doesn't work very well on here. Nor does sarcasm.
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  211. But please ask him not to send the malignant markles to Britain. We have troubles enough.
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  212. Don't worry. Starmer has probably been secretly taking lessons in how to look both dignified and sad when greeting the body bags.
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  213.  @Angular_Extra3859-n4s  What did Churchill say? 'Jaw Jaw is better than War War' I believe. What is it about perpetual war between Ukraine & Russia that you, like Starmer and the EU 'leaders,' apparently find so oddly appealing? I don't recally Winston being particularly afraid of conflict, but I do recall that he, like most people, believed that wars end at the peace table, not on the battledfield.
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  214. Or, at the very least, not believe that Henry VII was the son of Henry VIII, or that Marie Antoinette won a Nobel Prize.
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  215.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Perhaps I missed something, but weren't MPs aware of where Westminster was when they sought election? If I applied for a post in a location 200 miles, for example, from where I lived, I would not expect my new employers to pay for a second home for me should I get the job.
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  216.  @vel230  Do you think that Greeks & Macedonians were different races?
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  217.  @wonderlocs7758  That isn't what the comment said at all.
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  218. I assume that he was visiting in order that any people required to give evidence at the Inquiry knew wxactly what he wished them to say.
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  219. Sorry, but 'Achilles' is a traditional and respected name for a Royal Navy warship. There have been ten previous ones in the Royal Navy, and, indeed, there were two at Trafalgar, albeit one on each side!
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  220. Tragically, we also have Ed Miliband.
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  221. The Rev. Vennells probably thinks that a seat on a Quango, or the CEOship of an NHS Trust again, still isn't out of reach. She has, after all, contacts with Labour Royalty through Alice & Jack.
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  222.  @robertcreighton4635  Alas. A vote for Harris would indeed be a vote for an Aspidistra.
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  223.  @genuinerf4868  Yet, presumably, you haven't been?
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  224.  @DeneMonkey  What is your excuse for your incorrect grammar?
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  225.  @zuludawn2010  I am writing about your intriguing idea that the Ukraine war is about 'freedom and democracy.' You surely cannot believe that European leaders, still less Sir Keir, have the slightest interest in either?
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  226. Population per sq. km. in India, for example was, 435 in 2022. In England (as opposed to the UK) in the same year, it was 434. Perhaps Louise might explain why, when 'Refugees welcome here' demonstrators are asked, they almost universally make the pious comment, 'I would love to accommodate an 'asylum seeker' but I simply don't have the room.' Which is, being interpreted, akin to saying that 'refugees are welcome, but mustn't be allowed to inconvenience me personally.'
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  227. Sometimes it seems that Blair could be seen drinking the blood of new born babies, and he would still be invited onto certain parts of the media for his opinions.
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  228.  @teresaward8174  Hague, as Cameron's lackey, was quite effective in reducing Libya to a charnel house and opening up the whole of southern Europe to uncontrolled immigration.
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  229. If these creatures are symptomatic of the qualities and abilities of the senior 'management' of a major organisation like the Post Office, I wonder about other major Britith organisations, and the qualities of their 'great & good?'
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  230.  @bluestream50  Yes they do. She has done interviews in the last few days.
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  231. I see the mistake you have made here. Putting 'MP' and 'Principle' in the same sentence, when the terms are mutually exclusive.
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  232. Seriously, does one more anti-British MP in Parliament matter, when there are already so many?
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  233. By now, he is probably an Inspector.
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  234.  @lesleylamy  The comment above did not even mention Farage, but referred solely to the Dear Leader.
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  235. Grossly unfair. If you had to sit in a room with Angela Raynor, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, & Yvette Cooper, wouldn't you try to get as far away as possible? After all, it might, just possibly, be contagious.
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  236.  @PAB86  You think that the Dear Leader cares in the slightest about the state of Britain?
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  237. Nonsense! Mr. Lammy is well aware that Thomas Cranmer was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Henry VIII and his successor, Henry VII.
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  238.  @michaeldunham3385  'So what are you saying, you disagree with his decision to stand up to a brutal authoritarian dictatorship?' I think most people disagree with his determination to drag Britain into something that is much more easily started than finished. Have you never heard the saying that there are few things more dangerous than a desperate politician? After the shambles of his administration to date, Starmer must see an exciting oversea adventure as a means of diverting attention from his catalogue of failures, as it enables him to posture on the world stage. I understand Leopoldo Galtieri thought much the same in 1982.
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  239.  @sugarkane4830  Incorrect. The Church of England defines itself as 'Catholic,' but not in the same sense as Roman Catholicism.
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  240. Perhaps you might go there and fight for the cause you so clearly espouse?
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  241.  @beejj6190  Didn't you listen to what he actually said? Which was that if he was the DEFENCE barrister he would have defended Blake with all his heart?? Not what you have claimed. The fact is that even the most guilty people imaginable are still entitled to a defence of their actions to be presented in court. If you object to this, then you propose a system that, like much of the Media. judges those accused on the basis of political convenience, or the prejudices of their paymasters. Would you prefer the 'Burn the Witch' of the Salem witch trials?
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  242. Revealed by whom, exactly?
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  243.  @aleph8888  I don't thin k that the 'appearance of impropriety' has ever bothered Mandelson much.
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  244.  @gbentley8176  'Not signed yet, see what the MP's say next week.' Alas, the new batch of labour MPs are little more than automata, who will say and do exactly what the Dear Leader requires of them. That is if my own MP is anything to go by.
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  245. More worryingly, he might know exactly what he is doing.
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  246.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  Unfair. It is generally accepted that, it you are intent upon being a hypocrite, don't be half-hearted about it.
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  247. Perhaps you aren't aware of the state Haiti is in today? Or of what happened in Haiti after the French left?
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  248. I doubt he will, until he gets his peerage.
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  249. I wonder if, when the House of the Living Dead rejected the Rwanda proposals once again, Welby and his fellow Bishops, as one, cried 'Allahu Akbar!'
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  250. Don't expect the media to mention that. The photos shown of this saintly young are highly selective, to say the least.
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  251.  @joshuataylor3550  Certainly, culture changes. However, history does not.
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  252. Sorry, but the Barrister is correct in his explanation of how the law works. Whether the CPS was right in concluding that there was a case to answer in the first place is not the issue. Once it had, then the trial had to proceed. It did, and the correct verdict was reached. If anything, that demonstrates that the Legal System is still fit for purpose. Consider the alternative. If the facts and the evidence had not been properly tested before a Jury, how do you think the usual subjects would have reacted? What is more dubious is the way the BBC and others portrayed Kaba as a young angel, 'unarmed. training to become an architect, and about to become a father' when those responsible within the organisation doubtless knew the facts, but chose not to report the events in an impartial manner. The BBC had, it seems, concluded, for reasons of their own, that the Firearms Officer was guilty until proven guilty, as the virtually unconcealed fury of their presenters on Monday's news made obvious. When the facts became public, the startling hand brake turn undertaken by that same BBC on Tuesday was 'mirabile visu.' Wonderful to behold.
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  253. No, but they share the same brain, which is swapped between the two as required.
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  254. Actually, 81% of the electorate didn't. Oh, the joys of First Past the Post!
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  255.  @beatlebrian4404  'can you explain this? last April the pension went up by £442 per year so this winter they will have £442 more than last winter and the energy prices this year are cheaper than last year.' Grasping at straws, comrade? Your argument might have slight merit if inflation did not exist. It does, of course. Would you try to use the same argument to suggest than there should be no pay rises, either? The Pensions rate is calculated to ensure that pensioners do not find that their incomes have fallen in real terms. It is entirely unconnected with the Dear Leader's recent cancellation of the Winter Fuel Allowance.
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  256.  @Ken-yy9us  You have posted a similar comment several times before on numerous sites. Be honest. If you are a 79 years old pensioner, then I am Holy Roman Emperor. However, to give your comment more attention than it deserves, do you suggest that, because a few wealthy pensioners are receiving something that they do not need, the many thousands who are already stuggling, but just over the benefits limit, should be punished in this manner? Seriously?
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  257. Seriously? £91k p.a., unlimited expenses, and the opportunity to make lucrative 'contacts?' Five years of that will do very nicely, if the new M'P. for my area's attitude is anything to go by.
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  258. If you think 'Have I Got News' is bad, I urge you to steer well clear of the radio version, 'The News Quiz.'
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  259.  @BridgetHue  Firstly, there is no actual evidence that this statement was ever made. Secondly, 'concerned' or simply 'interested?' Just as there might have been interest in whether the child might have red hair.
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  260.  @DeneMonkey  'Winston Churchill accepted gifts too.' Is that really the best you can do?
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  261. Here is an idea. The Dear Leader is rumoured to be about to overrule Rachel from Accounts, and slightly increase Defence Spending. What an ideal opportunity for Rachel to resign 'as a matter of principle' thus getting both her and Starmer out of the hole into which they have got themselves?
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  262. But didn't the Dear Leader constantly tell we peasants how decent, honest, and truthful his party would be when in office? That didn't pan out, did it?
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  263. Isn't it odd how the £22 billion black hole so beloved by Rachel from Accounts applies on some occasions, but not on others?
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  264. I don't think that the Royal Family see themselves as some sort of circus act at the beck and call of every passing media idiot. Do you think that they should be?
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  265. Put simply, what do you eat when the farming industry is crippled?
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  266. ' How about the 'Nationwide Imposition of Covert Euthanasia?'
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  267. I believe that Sir Keir has asked President Blair for permission to have an independent opinion, but Blair has denied it to him.
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  268. Seriously, expecting Mr. Lammy to know who Archbishop Cranmer was is akin to expecting my cat to write an erudite thesis on Pope Innocent III. Thomas Cranmer, by the way, was Archbishop at the time of Henry VII, Edward VI, and (briefly) Mary. But not, oddly, of Henry VIII's successor, Henry VII, Mr, Lammy.
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  269. Surely you are not suggesting that the Learn'ed Judge, Hugo Benedict Norton-Taylor, born in Bruxelles and son of Richard Norton-Taylor, a former Grauniad reporter on defence and security, is in any way anything other than totally impartial? Shame on you!
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  270.  @Just..........33  Indeed it is, even if Starmer didn't quite seem to realise it.
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  271. Do you know? I think that you are actually serious!
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  272. No, but he is being given martial arts lessons. Funded by the taxpayer, of course.
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  273. If Charles really believes that abasing himself before the left and the faithful will miraculously ensure that the monarchy might survive, he is quite remarkably deluded.
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  274. More worryingly, perhaps Lammy knows exactly what he is doing, but he isn't doing it for the benefit of the UK.
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  275. The BBC, unlike any other broadcaster, is publicly funded and has a Charter which requires it to be unbiased. A Charter which it ignores on a daily basis.
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  276. The answer to that question is obvious, but may not be spoken.
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  277. So Peter Hitchens is 'unimpressed' by Trump? I wonder if, when Trump finds out, he will immediately stand down and retire to private life, rather like Diocletian did? As to 'kindness,' Jacinda Ardern expressed a wish to be remembered as 'kind' but look what she did to New Zealand.
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  278.  @robinsonfrancis1498  Perhaps you haven't heard the old joke about the Foreign Office? That it exists solely to represent the interests of foreign nations in the UK? At least no-one denies this these days.
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  279. 'Britain was in the same situation (as Ukraine) in 1940-41.' Really? what parts of the United Kingdom had Germany occupied in 1940-1941? Where in Britain were the British desperately fighting against a steadily advancing foe? Of course Churchill wanted US aid against Germany. Who wouldn't seek an alliance with the strongest economy on earth? But Churchill, even though he and FDR disagreed on a number of matters, didn't indulge in a public slanging match with Roosevelt.
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  280. I will always remember the two goals Sir Keir scored for Liverpool against Sunderland in the Cup Final of May, 1992. Not to mention the five set thriller in which he defeated Goran Ivanišević in the Wimbledon final in June. My favourite memory, however, was of the wonderful century he scored against Pakistan in the Old Trafford Test Match of July that year. All fully detailed in his CV, I expect.
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  281. Perhaps there is more reason to be ashamed of the 'British' government, than of Britain itself?
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  282. How dare anyone suggest the arrest of an individual who may well be destined to become Director General of the BBC?
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  283. But surely, if you embark upon a policy of population replacement, it is vital to make the new population feel comfortable?
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  284.  @Quizzes_pro  Brilliant! Congratulations on the most outstandingly irrelevant comment of the day.
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  285. No. A safe Labour Parliamentary seat, a subsequent appointment as Minister for Sharia Law Imposition, and finally elevation to the House of Lords. All the time being allowed to keep her trusty old scimitar.
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  286.  @jackperry2821  Oh dear. You wrote 'Right. So you don’t want him to be tough on crime? 5 years for peaceful just stop oil protests.' I simply explained how the legal system works. I regret that you don't understand. Where is there any reference to the Catholic Church, by the way.
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  287.  @michaeldunham3385  Have you been down to the local Army Recruiting Office yet?
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  288. Tell me, Miss Van der Bogerd, these documents show that you received many e-mails informing you that Fujitsu could access sub-postmaster's accounts, didn't you ? I don't recall seeing any of them. Not one. By the way, where am I, and who am I again?
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  289. But the Dear Leader needs these people. Where else will he get his infantry soldiers from?
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  290. Did this Mail on Sunday commentator actually watch the whole of the meeting, or simply the sections broadcast by the perpetually impartial BBC?
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  291.  @desmondroberts6034  No. But the case, and the verdict, proved that the police did no such thing.
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  292. Kosher restaurants are advertised as such. Restaurants adhering to Halal rules are, in most cases, not. The fact that you cannot accept this shows why the problem exists.
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  293.  @nuabe8285  'most of France was in the resistance standing their ground during ww2' You are absolutely sure about that claim, are you?
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  294. Odd that people haven't realised yet that Welby is not so much a priest as a politician exploiting clerical garb.
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  295. Ironically, those who bleat about Thatcher and the miners are without doubt the sane people who, had the industry still existed, would have been in the front of the demonstrations demanding that it be closed down. Just as they are blissfully unaware of the fact that the Labour government preceding Thatcher closed down far more pits than Thatcher ever did. I am sure that significant increases in the cost of food will be a delightful surprise in store for you.
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  296.  @Kat-ds5xd  It might be disrespectful, but had Markle been there, the Queen's last words might well have been 'Keep an eye on her or she'll pinch some of the jewellery.'
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  297. Perhaps Lord Alli paid the bill?
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  298.  @paulm2339  Especially, of course, when it is merely public money being wasted.
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  299.  @Mighty5754  You've spoken to all of them, have you? You must have been very busy.
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  300. Joe Stalin did something similar in the 19830s and millions starved.
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  301.  @Craig121000  Then explain the concept to him. Who knows, if you make a valid enough case, he might reverse his decision?
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  302.  @nigelhart3897  To be honest, it would be easier to judge Sir Keir if he actually we peasants what his policy on the subject might be.
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  303. Unfair! Not everyone, as he is doing quite well himself.
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  304. I did read that the Rev. Vennells, has the largest collection of completed Sudoku books and 1000 piece Jigsaw Puzzles in the United Kingdom. After all, as none of her 'people' ever told her anything, she had to find some means of passing all those long, tedious, days in the plush office, sitting in a comfy chair behind a large, elegant, desk.
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  305. Rachel lass. If you have to post, you should do it using your own name. Indeed, the economy has been stablised. Just as the situation of the Titanic has been.
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  306.  @Nick-fg4dq  I do apologise. I had assumed a greater degree of knowledge on your part than you appear actually to possess> Still, just to help you, here is a dictionary definition of 'Sophistry.' 'The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.' In your case, I would remove the 'clever but' part of this definition.
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  307.  @lindsaymckeown513  Apparently, Mandelson was on a short list of three for the post. The other two were Diane Abbott and Tulip Siddiq.
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  308.  @lindsaymckeown513  Sorry. I was being humorous.
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  309.  @lindsaymckeown513  My fault entirely. Sarcasm doesn't work well in writing!
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  310.  @thetellmechannel8952  Perhaps you should read John 17 3 in the original Greek? You would then learn what it actually says.
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  311. ' I am not British, so I obviously have the right to tell you British people how you may or may not behave.' Is that what this former Labour Advisor really means?
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  312. What if the question was 'The northern border of India in the days of the British Raj was called the Khyber what?
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  313. To what end? Exactly what does the Dear Leader believe 'as long as it takes' means? What does he believe that the outcome of the war will be? When the last Ukrainian soldier is dead, perhaps?
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  314. 'Royal feathers are flying?' Really? I don't recall reading a single comment by any member of the Royal Family. The only people obsessing about this book are you media people.
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  315.  @plcf6995  Before my son was born, I wondered if he might be left-handed, as I am. Clearly, I must be a shameful bigot.
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  316. Perhaps you missed the events of the evening? Certainly, the BBC did.
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  317.  @markabrahams2191  Odd how these people seem to confuse Suffragettes, who were willing to take violent action to achieve their ends, with Suffragists, who were genuinely non-violent.
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  318.  @pathopewell1814  I am gald you qualified your comment by using 'possibly'. What evidence do you have in support of your statement?
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  319.  @pathopewell1814  Actually, the family tree of the Ptolemies, right back to Antipater, is known to ancient historians in great detail. There is no mystery about it at all. The only 'ambiguity' is the one created by people with particular axes to grind.
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  320.  @VTepesIII  Presumably, you consider military aggression, mass extermination, and the widespread use of slave labour as far more preferable?
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  321.  @Shadylady4181  In terms of the numbers of votes needed to elect one MP, the figures were as follows :- Labour : 23,622 Tories : 56,437 LibDem : 48,877 Reform : 823,522 The Labour vote actually fell by 500,000 from that of 2019. What might Spock have said of that in Star Trek ? 'It's democracy Jim. But not as we know it.'
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  322.  @CCCGustavo  How do you reason that? Wonderlocs comment did not have any relevance to the original post. I merely pointed the fact out to him.
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  323.  @thomas-q8z  'which instrument did you play in the band Neville.' You would have flourished in early 1914 - 'We haven't had a decent war for some time, and it'll be over by Christmas anyway.' I assume you have been down to you local Army Recruiting Office? Motivated and enthusiastic volunteers for front-line infantry units are in short supply.
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  324.  @skagamnesia1972  We had Pakistani Daleks years ago, courtesy of the late great Spike Milligan.
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  325.  @danako2382  I am well paid by my employers, but that does not give them the right to involve themselves in my personal matters.
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  326. Another invented job for someone who has presumably demanded nothing less in exchange for the immense favour she did for the Dear Leader, and who requires continual bribes in order to keep quiet. What next, Sue? A Peerage, presumably?
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  327.  @hazelthorp317  True, when Starmer has David (Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII) Lammy, and Yvette Cooper in two great Offices of State, it really doesn't bode well. I was thinking more of older people no longer active in politics, such as Blunkett for example. Certainly not, however, 'President' Blair.
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  328. Which is precisely why the Dear Leader is posturing on the World Stage. Starmer's domestic policies are crippling Britain's economy, and as a result he is widely detested for his duplicity. As desperate politicians tend to do, Starmer is seeking an exciting overseas adventure to divert attention from his serial failures. I wonder if he got the idea from General Galtieri of Argentina in 1982?
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  329.  @bengunn3698  No, it doesn't. The US Election was a straight 'either-or' vote, where First Past the Post is appropriate. The British General Election involved numerous alternatives, and in that case a party for which less than one in five of the electorate actually voted, and which received half a million less votes than it did in 2019, was able to stumble across the finishing line on the basis of a protest vote.
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  330.  @paulsara9694  No. Less than one in five of the British electorate actually voted Labour.
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  331.  @bobby9791  What was complex about it. Basically, the Government suspended negotiations, handed the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius without even considering the concerns of the Chagos people, and then gave the Mauritian government a cash payment. The term 'negotiation' only applies when both sides are talking, not when one side is simply capitulating.
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  332.  @bobby9791  'In December 2023, it was reported that the UK government was planning to discontinue the talks.' Perhaps you are unaware that many Chagossian activists opposed the talks, as they did not include Chagossians as participants. Still, they needn't worry about that now, need they? Their concerns have been totally abandoned.
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  333. The foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  334.  @bobby9791  Started negotiations, but didn't simply hand them over.
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  335. By the time he has finished, his appeal will have been considered by the Klingon High Council!
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  336. Silence does not necessarily imply lack of unity. Perhaps the members of the Royal Family simply do not choose to respond to every whim of the media like medieval performing bears?
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  337. Unlikely. No foreign leader regards him as anything other than irrelevant, whilst no British citizen regards him as anything other than an embarrassment.
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  338.  @margaretcardona2165  Indeed. He saw an exciting foreign military adventure, the invasion of the Falklands, as a way of diverting attention from the chaos within Argentina. Our Dear Leader is about as unpopular, and is evidently working to the same plan. We, however, know how it ended!
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  339. Because, in their opinion, they are more important than you.
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  340.  @markparry63  The last HMS Agincourt was a Battle class destroyer, broken up in Sunderland in 1974.
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  341. Be sensible. Do you seriously think that Zelensky was influenced in the slightest by anything that Johnson, or any other British politician, might have had to say?
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  342. Actually, she was giving him the opportunity to answer the sort of questions that the 'Come One Come All' gang and the Yuman Rites Lawyers will direct at him. Don't you want a proper debate?
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  343. Beware, these celebridees might well decide to come en masse to the most accessible left wing country they can find. Which is Britain.
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  344. Perhaps it is an image of her former boss in the Complaints Department of her bank?
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  345. In terms of his personal wealth, I am sure he is.
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  346.  @floro7687  Actually no. The British disbanded their Empire almost entirely peacefully. Unlike France, for example. You might buy a history book, or even visit a library?
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  347.  @EdBenji  Actually, one in four of the electorate.
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  348. Sadly, the United Nations ceased to have any weight, either moral, or political, long ago. Perhaps you are unaware that Mauritius has never had any authority over the Chagos Islands? Or perhaps you simply wish not to know that fact?
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  349. Starmer actually thinks that the Royal Navy, at least, is far too large. On the rare occasions he visits Parliament, he always sees that big ship near Tower Bridge, which never seems to sail anywhere.
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  350. Unfair. Ms. Phillips is one of the nation's elite. Her opinion is that if people wish to give her a few freebies in exchange for favours, then the peasantry should simply accept the fact. What is the point of being a good socialist if you aren't allowed to look down on the little people and make a few quid profit doing it? Isn't that the way all politicians seem to think?
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  351.  @theotherside8258  You haven't listened to his speeches, then?
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  352.  @bluestream50  I refer you to your original comment : 'Same as the police woman who exposed the gangs back in 2006. Nobody mentions her.' 'They' are the 'nobody' to whom you referred. The media, of course.
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  353. Starmer may well impose Martial Law and send troops onto the streets. That worked out well for Tsar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg in 1917, if I recall correctly.
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  354. There doesn't actually seem to be any 'negotiations' as such. What seems to be happening is that Lammy keeps upping the amount of money the British will pay Mauritius to take the Chagos Islands until they finally agree. There must be an ulterior motive for this unseemly haste. I wonder what it might be? Something to do with events scheduled for 20 January, perhaps?
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  355. I don't think that that was what he said. But there again, I actually listened to the interview.
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  356. She doesn't need it. She has simply been moved to a new, imaginatively created, sinecure.
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  357.  @chuckmaddison2924  No. They really don't.
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  358.  @susanbishop5228  'where did I say or imply that.?' I don't recall saying that you did. I merely asked if she was justified in inventing her own laws. Read my post again. After all, it did only consist of ten words.
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  359. They aren't in the real world, however. They are senior Civil Servants.
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  360. But Starmer's hero, Kim Jong Un, really is.
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  361.  @BlueSabor  I think that that has been known for some time.
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  362. But was Archer ever Chancellor of The Exchequer?
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  363. Surely, this Moslem preacher is ideally qualified to become the Dear Leader's Secretary of State for Religious Affairs?
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  364.  @DB-np2vg  No. He and Gary Lineker will simply exchange roles. Although Welby has rather controversial opinions about the offside rule.
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  365.  @sianpearson9927  Do you actually know what a fascist, by which I mean an actual facist, is, or is it just, like 'RAYCIST!!, a lazy accusation, intended to stop discussion?
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  366. I'm not sure that Stella Creasy is real.
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  367. Perhaps Lord North, at the time of the American War of Independence?
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  368.  @Celticcross688  'British LAW 🇬🇧 which is an ass.' Your alternative being?
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  369.  @sugarkane4830  We, as your original post 'This country hasn’t been Catholic since 1690 what are you on about?' was factually incorrect, it is difficult to determine what you think you know or don't know. I regret, however, apparently confusing you with mere definitions.
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  370.  @Michael.1312  More than one British Prime Minister was enthusiastic about dragging Britain into those adventures. Look at how much money Tony Blair, for one, made out of his involvement.
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  371.  @rkn3zdesign  You believe 'President' Blair's crimes were legal, then?
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  372. Fine. But didn't the Dear Leader say that he was going to 'smash the gangs' and we were supposed to take that on trust?
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  373.  @gpw203  Perhaps you might consider assessing people on what they say, rather than how they look?
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  374.  @beejj6190  Woke deflection? When you confused prosecution with defence? Do me a favour. The Barrister, whether you like it or not, simply explained how the law is expected to work in this country. The decision to progress the prosecution was made by the CPS. Take your complaint up with them. You say that I am 'disturbed?' You should look much closer to home. In a mirror, perhaps?
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  375. I assume you have a Masters in English?
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  376.  @Freespeech1947  The Peterloo Massacre predated the establishment of the Police Force, as it used to be called.
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  377. Given the arduous nature of the post, I expect the queue of applicants will be in the hundreds of thousands. Although I suspect that there is a preferred candidate, of course.
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  378. 'Chagos belongs to Mauritus under French rule.' Approve of colonialism, do you?
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  379.  @SoChill-ts6ci  I fear that you don't understand irony.
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  380. Yes. But when it happens, our government will be surprised! However, wait for the 'Members of Parliament - Provision of Free Diesel Generators for Heating Act' 2026, shortly thereafter.
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  381. To be frank, the parallels between the Western Empire of the mid fifth century and the current situation are disturbingly similar. As Theodoric said. 'Every Goth wants to be like a Roman, Only a very poor Roman would want to be like a Goth.' Yet that happened then, and seems to be happening now.
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  382.  @anthonybartlett6924  Give it time. We still might!
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  383.  @carlstewart8787  Gordon firmly believed in the 'Buy low Sell high' principle. He simply got the two confused.
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  384. Why not give Diane Abbott a shot at it? She ticks two of the three boxes, after all.
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  385.  @Hometruths29  I doubt that any information on that would be available. My point was of a more general nature. That a First Past the Post system might have been adequate when there were basically two main Parties, firstly Liberals/Conservatives and then Labour/Conservatives, but it is outdated when the number of serious parties in, for example, England alone has risen to four.
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  386.  @Les-i7e  Well, even before Irish Joe's dementia kicked in, he was quite openly an enemy of Britain. Perhaps judgement of Trump should be deferred until it becomes clear exactly what approach he intends to take to the UK? Admittedly, though, having what currently passes for a government of individuals who have spent the last few years heaping insults on him could be considered unfortunate, where Britain is concerned.
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  387. Reminds me of the proud mother telling friends that her soldier son had just taken part in a march past in her home town. 'Do you know? He was the only one in step' ( I am allowed to write 'mother' or 'son' I hope?)
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  388.  @davidroberts4398  Do you think we want to? Last time, I believe it was Gordon & his merry men who made the decision. I don't recall being consulted.
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  389. Perhaps the Dear Leader thought that his Uncle had served aboard the General Belgrano? I suspect that a relative who had been part of the British Armed Services might have been rather unpalatable to those with whom Sir Kier associates.
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  390. Oddly, I know a number of people who had covid jabs, and appear to have been entirely unharmed by them. I also had a friend who died of covid. Please dorgive me for not upvoting your comment.
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  391. If people wish to know how the British actually reacted to black people during ww2, look up the 'Battle of Bamber Bridge' of late June, 1943. My mother actuallylived there at the time. My future father was busy elsewhere, preparing to visit a place called Salerno.
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  392.  @franlayton6370  Yet he maintained his stance concerning Robinson. Was that 'falling in line?'
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  393.  @cyclingSausage  No. They sometimes turn a blind eye to such foolishness. Have you actually looked up the Oxford English Dictionary definition of 'pavement'? 'A raised paved or asphalted path for pedestrians at the side of a road.'
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  394.  @cyclingSausage  As is abundantly clear from my comments, I am not confusing anything. I am simply demonstrating to you the difference between a road and a pavement, and a vehicle and a pedestrian, in order to try to get you to understand that simply being a cyclist does not give anyone the right to ignore those differences simply to suit their own convenience.
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  395.  @cyclingSausage  You don't consider that supporting the idea of vehicles using pavements simply because they are bicycles does not amount to that? I am not confused about anything, although I suspect that you are unable to counter with a credible argument?
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  396.  @cyclingSausage  Presumably, you only support the idea of the police using 'common sense' by allowing it to happen? So, it is 'common sense' to allow people to break the law? Didn't you previously post: 'The problem is though, motorists drive so dangerously that it's much safer for cyclists to be on the pavement.' I do not condone breaking the law. Isn't it unfortunate that you, it seems, do? By the way, I don't intend to reply to any further post you might make, as you are clearly in a state of some confusion.
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  397.  @ShyTalks-d8b  The fact that you are unable to answer a straightforward question says more about you than it does about the relevance of the question. You claim that the US will regain it's senses post-Trump. I asked you when you you consider, then, that the US was last sensible. You are, it seems unable to answer, and thus feel the need to resort to evasion.
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  398. I am sure he is simply an actor playing a part for comic effect. Wasn't he in 'Midsomer Murders' or 'Vera' recently? Didn't he say, in the latter, 'Wai Ay, bonnie lad' in a very poor Geordie accent, to Kenny?
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  399. Politicians do not have self-respect. Only self-interest.
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  400. Be fair. The Noble Lord was required to make his replies whilst locked inside what appeared to be a store cupboard. Doubtless, for his own good.
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  401. The most recent statistics available, those from 2022, suggest that in terms of population per square kilometre India, for example, is at 435. The United Kingdom is 274. However, this is misleading, when the British figures are broken down further, as they reveal the following :- Scotland 70. Wales 153. Northern Ireland 137. England 434. Gaza, by the way, in 2022 was 365, Germany 233, and France 117. Perhaps this explains why, when 'Refugees welcome here' demonstrators are asked if they would be willing to accommodate an asylum seeker, they almost universally say 'I wish I could, but I don't have the room' without realising how ironic the comment really is.
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  402. To be fair, the Dear Leader didn't know about the hole in the finances of 22 million, or billion, or trillion, or something like that, give or take 50%. Meticulously calculated by his economic guru, Diane Abbott.
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  403. I wonder how Marina Purkiss would justify the cancellation of, for example, David Starkey?
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  404. Won't it be fun watching Charles reading a King's Speech in which he says 'My Government, during the course of the next two years, will abolish the Monarchy and declare Britain to be a Socialist Republic.' Then whispering to the Dear Leader 'but can I keep my money, Keir?'
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  405.  @leonwright3174  Really? British aid for Ukraine amounts to 25% of the total Defence Budget.
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  406.  @Nick-fg4dq  Mere Sophistry.
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  407. The statue was financed by private subscription. Had the other philothropists received a similar level of subscription, doubtless they would have received similar memorials.
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  408. KERCHING!!!!
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  409. Correct. As a manager of a compamy which regularly sent freight to Northern Ireland during the Troubles, I was issued with something similar in order to check the underside of my car. Surely prison staff have a similar procedure?
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  410.  @ritaarmitage2055  Alas, I think we already know.
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  411.  @ntandowetu3733  What are balcks?
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  412.  @aliciafletcher9739  'U do realise sailors chose to put their lives at risk.' No, they didn't. They were serving sailors in the Royal Navy, under orders. Out of interest, 383,000 British military personnel died in WW2. 236 Caribbean volunteers either died or were reported missing, with a further 268 wounded. Aren't facts a nuisance, sometimes?
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  413. I believe that the Dear Leader has asked Lord Alli to buy him a military tunic just like his hero Genial Joe Stalin wore in WW2. Made to measure, of course.
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  414. I didn't realise 'Bridgerton' was a drama. I thought it was a pantomime.
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  415. Apparently he is also in negotiations with Norway about the Falkland Islands. There are, according to his map, to be found just to the north east of the Shetland Islands.
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  416. Nurse!! He's not taken his medication and he got hold of the laptop!
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  417. Shame on you! Calling our Government a useless pile of dung is grossly unfair. To dung, that is.
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  418. There was also an Achille in Nelson's fleet, which did not explode. Which disasters did HMS Achilles suffer? Trafalgar? The Plate? Guadalcanal? Okinawa?
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  419.  @MMoreau  As I wrote, there was also an HMS Achille at Trafalgar. A 74 gun ship of the line, built in 1798 at Gravesend. The two ships, both 74s, briefly engaged each other.
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  420.  @MMoreau  'Yes, I confirm that there were indeed two ships named Achille at the Battle of Trafalgar, one English and the other one French.' You didn't need to confirm anything. Unlike you, I already knew.
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  421.  @MMoreau  It seems that there is something wrong with you. Never fear, qualified help is available.
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  422. Sorry, but the words 'David Lammy' and 'should know better' do not go well together at all. As Henry VII, apparently the son of Henry VIII, would confirm.
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  423. "How Does Keir Starmer Regain Public Trust?" I doubt he can. He seems to be learning the hard way that there is a difference between being Leader of the opposition and Prime Minister. As he struggles to come to terms, he may well indulge in more extreme words and actions.
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  424.  @stephendoherty981  I know enough to know that in 1948 Israel accepted the UN proposed two state solution, whereas surrounding Arab nations did not.
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  425.  @stephendoherty981  Very impressive. The most fatuous analogy so far today. It is still early, however.
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  426.  @stephendoherty981  Are you the UK Representative of that well-known Multi-National 'Fatuous Comments Are Us?'
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  427.  @stephendoherty981  Perhaps because reasoned argument would not work where you are concerned. The Balfour Declaration supported the concept of a Jewish State in Palestine. As you presumably don't know what it said, here is the text of Balfour's original letter to Rothschild, dated 2 November, 1917. 'His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.' The structure of that State was determined by the United Nations, after the end of the British Mandate.
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  428. Isn't there a memorable line in a Simpsons episode? 'He's getting away. Very Slowly!'
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  429. Or perhaps Flodden? Another battle involving both the English & the Scots.
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  430.  @mikeryan3701  Flodden was just as much an English victory as Agincourt. An invading Scots army was defeated, and the Scots King, James IV, killed, by a smaller English force under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. September, 1513. Look it up! Hence, 'Flowers of the Forest.'
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  431. 'Meghan Markle Will Never Return To The UK' May we have that in writing, please?
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  432.  @carrier411  Please don't be offended. My comment relates more widely, to the current state of the Church of England and the political activist in clerical garb who is steadily destroying it.
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  433. Well, it worked for the soon to be departed Justin.
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  434. Assuming that you know of their policy in the first place, of course.
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  435. Of course a former adviser to 'President' Blair wouldn't agree with Vance. McTernan and his like are the people who created to situation which prevails today. How is silent prayer 'harassing' anyone, Mr. McTernan? Do you really believe in the concept of the 'thought crime?' As to banned chants at football matches, chants are, as the word explains, demonstrably not silent. Wasn't it John McTernan who said that he was in favour of doing to farmers "what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners" of course? Seriously, where do Talk TV dig up these creatures from?
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  436. They will never be irrelevant so long as you media people keep obsessing about them.
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  437. Just wait, then, until 'Assisted Dying' morphs, Canada style, into Euthanasia. 'Come on dear, you've had a good run. Rachel has wrecked the economy, and the Dear Leader is short of money. Do it for the sake of the almighty State'.
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  438. Most ordinary Britons, those Starmer regards as the Lower Orders, agree with much of Mr. Vance said.
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  439. No, it isn't 'dangerous' at all. The vast majority of people have little or no interest in the antics of Meghan Markle and her poodle. Such interest in these two as does exist is almost wholly generated by the odd media obsession with the pair.
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  440.  @dawnelder9046  The Vikings were some 800 years in the future at the time of the Ancient Greeks and Macedonians.
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  441. I think the Dear Leader was quite correct in what he said. After all, he cannot do favours in return for 'gifts' for everyone, can he?
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  442. This attack on the political titan that is Rachel Reeves is disgraceful. I doubt anyone would argue that a few elderly nobodies dying is anything other than a price well worth paying, if it means that the bless'ed Rachel can fully heat her various properties as a result.
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  443.  @michaelmcginley7930  Perhaps opinion should be deferred until she has actually given her evidence? Although a day or two of her saying to every question, 'I have no recollection of that' might become rather tedious.
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  444.  @Scott-up3bq  They didn't. The Dear Leader's party actually got half a million fewer votes than it did in the Corbyn debacle of 2019. The result is simply because of the First Past the Post system which the two main parties have protected for around 150 years. This system should never be confused with democracy. It is simply elective dictatorship.
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  445. The relevance to the Post Office being, exactly?
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  446.  @THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of  'NIGEL IS NO BETTER.' Whether true or not, Farage is not in a government position, and cannot do 'favours' in exchange for 'gifts.'
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  447.  @DeneMonkey  Perhaps because accepting 'gifts' in exchange for favours is not what normal people expect from their governing politicians? Especially those who have been portraying themselves as bastions of honesty, integrity, and transparency for years. You must have found the grubby details quite distressing.
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  448. At least you are still waking up. When the 'Assisted Dying' bill morphs into the 'Euthanasia for the good of the State' bill, which it assuredly will, you may no longer have the option.
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  449. It has been mentioned that the majority of prosecutions for sex with under age girls have been of white men. However, the grooming and mass rape of young white girls in this manner is a totally different issue. As even an apologist for it, as you clearly are, must know.
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  450. I expect that she will be heartbroken.
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  451.  @somethingelse9535  I wonder if knocking on someone's door in the US and saying, ' I'm from Islington in Englandland. You should vote for Camellia Harris' really helped the Democratic cause?
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  452. Didn't the Dear Leader just label her an extreme right wing activist?
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  453. This is nonsense. Everyone knows that Both Nelson & Wellingtion were also black. I know this for a fact because the spirits of both visited me in a dream a few nights ago and confirmed the fact to my total satisfaction.
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  454. Of course not, as they are far more important than the little people. Don't be surprised if he is secretly taking lessons into how to look dignified and sad when the first British body-bags are flown home.
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  455.  @minkgin3370  I too am a royal expert. I have had a number of coins & notes with pictures of the late Queen on them. Available for interview any time.
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  456. How can you say that? David Lammy alone, of all the people in this country, knew that Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII, or that Marie Antoinette won a Nobel Prize. The man is an intellectual giant.
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  457. Why is there any surprise? In not so many years time, the Prime Minister George Galloway will make this official state policy, and his Janissaries, formerly known as the Police, will enthusiastically enforce it.
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  458. Labour do not need to be 'balanced.' With their huge majority, they can do exactly what they choose to do, as Rachel Reeves recently demonstrated when distributing largesse to a group of core voters and telling the rest, in effect, that her party did not intend to govern on their behalf.
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  459. Put simply, the IOPC and the CPS based their decisions on politics, not on evidence.
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  460. Does anyone really care what this person tweets? Every time she appears, she alienates anyone unfortunate enough accidentally to catch what she says.
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  461. Having seen Amanda's comments, the most charitable interpretation might be that she was 'tired and emotional'. The least that she was stoned.
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  462. Even more remarkable, had dear Justin had his way, the Inquiry would have been examining evidence being given by the Bishop of London.
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  463. The foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  464.  @stefansollberger5658  I find that insults of a personal nature are generally a poor alternative to rational debate. You, apparently, do not?
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  465.  @stefansollberger5658  Not, perhaps, the most erudite of responses on your behalf, I suggest?
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  466.  @stefansollberger5658  Thank you for your generous offer. However, I really don't need your authority in any case.
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  467.  @AlanFagan-y5l How will they do that if? 1). They lose their subsidies which make farming viable? 2). They are threatened witn inheritance tax which they could only pay by selling off part or the whole of their farm? 3). Their farns might be compulsorily purchased by local councils at a rate determined by the council? Farmers in most cases probably do wish to carry on farming. If your government stops putting obstacles in their way, of course.
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  468.  @jjefferyworboys8138  You probably aren't simple so why pretend to be? Farmer Jones dies. His son/daughter faces inheritance tax which can only be paid by selling off part of the farm, making it an unviable business, or indeed all of the farm. Do you think that there is a long queue of 'farmer Browns' with both the inclination and/or the financial resources to take over father Jones' farm, or what remains of it, only to be faced with exactly the same situation in a few years' time? Perhaps you are really so eager to soak those you imagine to be 'the rich' that you actually do.
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  469. But what has he actually DONE?
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  470. Yes, but look at the positive side. Tony Blair became a multi-millionaire on the strength of a few hundred thousand dead or maimed nobodies. A great deal for 'President' Blair, if for no one else.
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  471.  @someguy-eh9mg  The TDS is strong in this one.
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  472. A hurried attempt to annoy the incoming President of the United States, and to cosy up to China. Perhaps the twelve quid or so that China gave to Rachel from Accounts was confirmation of the deal?
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  473. Nor is someone a right wing extremist because he/she dares to criticise the Dear Leader.
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  474. We are insecure, with good reason where Britain is concerned, domestically. Abroad, our beloved Dear Leader is simply posing as a Statesman to distract attention from his ruinous domestic policies.
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  475.  @billyliar1614  Well, let's see. A budget which will cripple the wealth producing private sector, whilst pandering to those seen as natural labour supporters in the public sector. Large pay rises to those with the benefit of powerful unions, removal of winter fuel allowance to the most vulnerable, continued enthusiasm for mass immigration, attacks on food producers, a reveral of manifesto promises. Vastly expensive overseas aid budgets. But worst of all net zero policies in the hands of a Zealot, destroying existing jobs in favour of jobs which might appear in a few years time, and 'investing' somw £22 billion into unproven net zero technology. You haven't been watching, have you?
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  476.  @billyliar1614  'Yes, foreign aid is unjustified, but isn't Starmer sorting that?' Perhaps, but only for so long as he pretends to be a war leader. His own left wing will not tolerate this as anything more than a temporary pause. Where exactly do you think that the monry to fund pay rises in the Public Sector comes from? Increased employer National Insurance contributions and, soon the Emnployment Rights Bill. As someone who has spent most of his working life in the private sector, unlike, it seems, anyone in the Cabinet, let me explain how these things work. My old MD, after a few minutes shouting at us in Managers' Meetings, explained lot as follows :- To make £1 of profit, you need to make £10 of extra revenue, or make £1 in cost cuts. That is why the sector is now abandoning potential recruitment, and looking at redundancy plans. You need to be an economic ignoramus not to grasp the fact that reducing the sector will, far from growing the economy, contract it, thus generating less revenue from the National Insurance leaving less to be poured into the bottomless well that is the NHS and, indeed, many parts of the public sector as a whole. As to pensioners, instead of spouting platitudes like 'the over-65s are the richest demographic' why not think instead about those who were already in difficulties, but did not make the cut? Certainly, many pensioners did not need the allowance, but does that justify considering the rest as mere collateral damage, as Reeves apparently did? As Matthew Rycroft, told the UK Mission to the UN at the Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict 'How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity.' Apply this to the current government, and Starmer has been found wanting. That's it. I will not explain further.
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  477.  @run2cat4run  He won't be able to do that, but what he seems determined to do is to alienate the people who still support, or at least tolerate, him.
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  478.  @teemac148  To be sympathetic about him, more than 60 years preparing for a job, and then proving that you have no idea how to do it, might be considered unfortunate.
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  479. But, of course, Miliband and Reeves will not be inconvenienced in the slightest.
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  480.  @robinjones5169  So. Would you say to a group of workers being made redundant now 'Don't worry. There will be new jobs for you in ten years time, or thereabouts' then? I hope that you are quick on your feet.
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  481.  @karlowens5632  Actually, there is a difference. The Dear Leader neither owns, nor even rents, 10 Downing Street. He merely occupies it for the duration of his premiership.
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  482.  @nathijomac  You argument would have a shred of credibility if you could point to any previous Prime Minister who had portraits of his/her predecessors removed. 10 Downing Street is not his private residence. It is the temporary residence of whoever happens to be Prime Minister at any given time. Effectively, an up market hotel room.
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  483.  @nathijomac  10 Downing Street, like Chequers, is the residence of whoever might be the Prime Minister at any given time. No previous PM has done anything similar to Chequers, largely because neither is the property of the PM. Changing tne interior of the residential quarters in No. 10 is perfectly acceptable, and has been done on numerous occasions, but the Thatcher Room, and the portrait, do not come into that category. The portrait, by the way, was commissioned by one Gordon Brown, by no means a Thatcher groupie, but someone mature enough to understand her place in British history, and someone more than mature enough not to be unsettled by the images of his predecessors.
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  484.  @nathijomac  When did I say he was not allowed? I have simply explained that it would be an inappropriate action. Something which no previous PM had ever felt it necessary to undertake, and that it was disrespectful to his predecessors, to the office of Prime Minister, and to the British people. A shame you lack the ability to grasp something so obvious.
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  485.  @nathijomac  Don't be silly. 'Unacceptable' is not the same as 'not allowed.' To give an example from my own sport, cricket. As an opening bat, I would find it unacceptable to be given out LBW to a ball which was missing leg stump. I can assure you from personal experience, that this is certainly not 'not allowed.' Actual definitions:- Unacceptable : Strongly disapproved of, or objected to. Not allowed : Forbidden or not permitted. banned. proscribed. Oh, and Thatcher does not have a room in 10 Downing Street which cannot be touched. It is simply a room named after her, and including her portrait. I believe it was so named by Gordon Brown.
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  486. Just as France can boast about the 100 Years' War if it divcerts attention from 1940. Which, of course, it doesn't.
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  487.  @bobby9791  'The deal was already in progress, it’s been going on for years. Your team were going to do this anyway.' Acrually, no. The last government were involved in negotiations, certainly. This government simply handed the Chagos Islands over, and paid Mauritius to take them.
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  488.  @bobby9791  'I’m not sure what your position is here.' Odd, that. You seemed sure enough when you posted a few insults in your previous post. 'You say that the Chagossians didn’t have a say in the decision but that’s always been the case under the Tories.' Indeed, but the Tories had not reached any definite settlement with Mauritius. Now, the feelings of the Chagossians can never be considered. 'You say that the island shouldn’t have been handed back, but now they have the Chagossians are free to return home.' Indeed they can. To islands now under the control of a state which has never been sympathetic to them. 'Then you say that the uk Tory government was planning on suspending talks as that were a good thing.' I did not express any opinion upon whether it was a good or a bad thing, only that it was a fact. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the Parliamentary Debate on British Indian Ocean Territory Sovereignty of 7 December, 2022? It is, of course, recorded in Hansard.
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  489.  @bobby9791  'which is fair but to say Mauritius is unsympathetic when the Chagossians can now return home.' Perhaps you might read how the Chagossians themselves view that prospect? I agree that the removal of the Chargossians, at the behest of the United States and by a Labour government, was wrong, but lets see how many of those Chargossians currently living in the UK leap at the chance to return to a country under the control of a rather unsympathic Mauritian government, shall we?
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  490.  @bobby9791  There you go again. Trying to drag me into a political opinion, when all I have been doing is stating a series of facts. As it isn't going to happen, I will not comment further.
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  491. Perhaps the next General Election might be cancelled indefinitely, 'because of the current state of emergency.' Certainly, Labour MPs would support that proposal en masse.
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  492. Odd how people of a right of centre persuasion are always keen to split into lots of bickering factions, squabbling over a limited number of votes and keeping well away from having any real influence, isn't it? Reminds me of the plethora of resistance groups in the 'Life of Brian.'
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  493. Why do you consider having a consistent view a weakness?
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  494. How ods. A former Communications Director who was barely able to communicate without showing more or less open contempt for his audience.
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  495. I believe that Trump will accept him, with the proviso that, were he to visit the White House, he wouldn't be left alone near the silverware. That applies to both reptiles, by the wat.
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  496. Oh dear, Omid. Looks like you will be back on the construction site on Monday. Don't forget to bring your own shovel.
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  497. To be fair, the name 'Lioness' line was only chosen after one of Khan's courtiers dared suggest to him the original choice, the 'Allahu Akbar' Line, might be problematic.
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  498. Why is 'Achilles' a ridiculolus name? Do you know how many ships named Achilles or Achille have served with the Royal Navy, or that Battle Honours include Trafalgar, River Plate, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa?
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  499.  @AndrewMacaulay-s7e  You need to get your caps lock fixed.
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  500. Acrually, Farage's views on Robinson have probably gained Reform large numbers of votes. Becoming the plaything of a multi-billionaire would destroy them .
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  501. Years ago, one of my more cynical lecturers remarked that politics was like cooling dishwater, in that the scum congealed at the top. I believe he would have applied this to the Post Office as well.
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  502.  @JJ-zl9vo  Most didn't.
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  503. Isn't it odd that people of a left of centre persuasion (I believe that this Noble Lord is a LibDem) would generally be happy to crawl across a field of brambles if there was an honour at the other side. If the honour was a life peerage, they would probably do the same thing naked!
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  504. I assume that these are the views of a Labour moderate? Not once did he propose the use of Zyklon B.
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  505. This 'ex adviser' to 'President ' Blair, John McTernan, also said he was in favour of doing to farmers "what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners". I suggest his contradictory ravings may be safely ignored.
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  506. Is it true that, when leaving the room, she asked Mr. Beer to ask Sir Wyn if he could arrange for her to have her CBE back, as she believed her evidence had convinced everyone that she was an innocent, much maligned, woman?
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  507.  @bobby9791  'What was the Tory plan then when they started negotiations?' Who knows? Negotiations about the future of the islands were progressing, until the current government simply suspended them and handed the islands over.
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  508.  @bobby9791  'Why do you have such a vested interest in these islands, which you probably never heard about until 3 days ago? I think it’s more to do with watching too much GB news and Talk Tv and wallowing in their disdain for Labour.' As one of my old tutors often said, 'when people resort to personal attacks, it is usually because they are unsure of their argument.' 1). You know precisely nothing about what I know, or do not know, about the Chagos Islands. 2). You know precisely nothing about my political beliefs. 3). Sad that you have abandoned discussion, and turned instead to insults.
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  509.  @NeilMelling-pw6ts  But didn't the Dear Leader have a brilliant plan to 'smash the gangs?'
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  510. She is a totally reformed character. She hasn't supervised a beheading for some time. Not even of a mere non believer.
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  511. Stop this nonsense. Simply look up 'Kiddy Hawk Air Academy' on line. It is a tiny charity encouraging small children to develop an interest in aviation. Doubtless very worthy, but hardly significant. I suspect that were I to give £50 or so to the local branch of the Sea Scouts, they would agree to me calling myself their 'Honorary Vice Admiral.' I doubt that this would allow me to command a Carrier Task Group, however. This is a non story, Give it up.
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  512. Your caps lock appears to have jammed.
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  513.  @countfosco8535  But clearely one without many actual arguments?
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  514.  @Billy_Mandalay  Has he? Where and when?
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  515. 'We Need Anglo Saxon Western Alliance To Be Strong' Something which is hardly possible with the Dear Leader & his lackeys running things. Personally, I would love to be a fly on the wall of the Oval Office when Starmer and Lammy visit Trump for the first time.
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  516. Perhaps you should have posted whatever you were trying to say before opening that ninth can?
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  517. Aside from millions starving to death, old Joe Stalin's plan worked quite well.
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  518.  @johnkitching2248  What do you think 'economies of scale' actually means?
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  519. You think that seeking to impose Halal standards upon people who have misgivings about them isn't causing division, them?
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  520. I believe that David Lammy is in discussions to hand them over to Norway, after misreading his Kiddy's World Atlas, and believing that they were north east of the Shetlands.
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  521. Really? Are the recent opinion polls evidence of a 'classic leadership failure?'
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  522. Starner doesn't really think that Britain is a world power. He is simply that very dangerous thing, a desperate politician trying to pose on the world stage, and seeing an exciting foreign adventure as a way of improving his image domnestically. I believe he is inspired by Leopoldo Galtieri's actions in 1982.
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  523.  @zuludawn2010  'Seems to me it's about freedom and democracy.' Then I hope you don't venture out on your own, as you are clearly very naive.
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  524.  @zuludawn2010  If this addressed to me 'At least they are doing something and not throwing Ukraine under the bus like your illustrious leader did' then who do you think my illustrious leader' actually is? If not, then you need to make it clear to whom your remarks are addressed.
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  525.  @bm4792  I believe that Starmer secretly admires the late North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il, who was also so-named during his lifetime.
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  526. I believe that their respective legal teams are arguing over who gets custody of the Camper Van as I write this.
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  527. Labour MPs. What wouldn't you put up with for £93,000 p.a. for four more years, largely unquestioned expenses claims, and lots of useful 'contacts?' Compared to that, neither integrity nor honesty even register.
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  528. If Reform allows itself to become the plaything of a multi-billionaire, then it will fail as a credible political party. It really is as simple as that.
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  529. The foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  530.  @raphwalker9123  Perhaps because, for good or ill, the United States is the leader of the Western World?
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  531. If your Reform party allows itself to become the toy of a multi-billionaire then it will forever remain a minor party of minimal importance.
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  532. Put simply, Showboating.
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  533. The standard Metropolitan Police statement covering all such events seems to be 'Do not speculate. We have no idea at all of the motivation behind this attack, other than it cannot possibly have been terrorist-inspired. Honestly!'
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  534. Well, she certainly seems to get angry when anyone has the shameless temerity to question her claims.
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  535. Which will fail. Over 400 Labour MPs, each on a guaranteed £91k p.a., plus unquestioned expenses and the ability to make a few handy 'contacts' for the next five years. Why should the 'honourable' members put that at risk?
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  536.  @AmericasChoice  Just possibly, there may be a few members of what is pretending to be a Labour government who actually still believe that their Party should care about we working people? Who knows?
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  537.  @Ken-yy9us  The saddest thing of all is that you might actually believe that.
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  538.  @Ken-yy9us  'A argument could be made that they've set the bar to low, but at least they are trying to stop taxpayers money being sent out to the likes of Heseltine, Curry and Major to name a few.' So, the vaster greater number of pensioners struggling just over the benefits limit, who will suffer greatly from this decision, are simply collateral damage and a price worth paying if it means that the Dear Leader can build his Utopia, are they, Comrade?
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  539.  @angelamary9493  Unfair. Her domestic servants would feel the cold.
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  540. They are not 'his' borders. He isn't much interested in the concept of the Nation State.
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  541.  @nathijomac  British Rail was sold off by the comic turn who succeeded Thatcher, John Major.
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  542.  @nathijomac  Unless you mean the narrow gauge steam railway, the Vale Rheidol, to the Brecon Mountain Mountain Railway, in 1988, then no, she didn't. Although Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson had advocated some form of privately or semi-privately operated rail network, this was deemed "a privatisation too far" by Thatcher herself.
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  543. Should the Markles actually be kidnapped, how much are the kidnappers likely to demand from the authorities not to release them?
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  544. What 'huge support' might that be?
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  545.  @kazkaz2212  No. It was, as William Shakespeare might have said, a humorous aside. Clearly, you missed it.
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  546. How is remaining consistent to your beliefs 'agreement with the establishment?'
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  547. Very good. Now try typing again with the other foot.
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  548. What colour is the sky on your planet?
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  549.  @JillLawton-zt8me  Not if Charlie Falconer gets his Assisted Dying Bill through the Lords. Give it a few years, and imposed Euthanasia, in the best interests of the victims and for the good of the State, of course, may well become the order of the day.
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  550.  @stephenrhodes9767  You are being (deliberately?) simplistic.
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  551. Longbows are net zero, and worked well at Agincourt. I wonder if the Dear Leader has considered them as an alternative way of equipping British troops?
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  552.  @deang5622  There was perjury in some of her earlier evidence in court cases, and a host of e-mails with her name on them really cannot be dismissed by her 'but I never read any of them' approach.
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  553.  @billybatts8283  No. He was elected to Parliament as an MP. The Dear Leader chose him to be Foreign Secretary.
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  554. . Becoming the plaything of a multi-billionaire would destroy Reform in days.
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  555. June, 1944. Were you off school the day your peers were taught about D-Day?
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  556.  @wjf0ne  A head of Government who works in the interests of his country.? What a shame that that idea hasn't occurred to our Dear Leader, Sir Keir.
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  557. Perhaps they weren't helped by the Yuman Rites industry, including Starmer, seeking to block everything that they tried to do?
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  558. I love to read comments from intellectuals. A pity you don't appear to be one.
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  559. I believe that the Dear Leader turned up in a Siren Suit, waving a big cigar.
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  560. to be fair, there are very few countries around where the Dear Leader would be favourably received. Turning up with offers of money or support is probably an essential for him.
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  561. Be fair to the Dear Leader. The pool of talent in the current Labour Party is not so much shallow as evaporated. When only about 30 or so of your MPs can actually read and write, your options are rather limited.
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  562. Who knows? If the Dear Leader can keep the war going long enough, he might decide to cancel the next General Election, 'because of the state of National Emergency.'
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  563.  @kumasenlac5504  DS wasn't at Coronel. He was at the Falklands and at Jutland.
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  564.  @garyh1572  Not so. There were in 'negotiations' to placate the UN, but no deal was agreed. It seems that the new Mauritian Government have been taken aback by Mr. Lammy contacting them at regular intervals offering increasing amounts of money to them to sign the deal. Before 20 January, for some reason.
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  565. By 'Government of Change' does the Dear Leader think that what Lord Alli has given him so far is merely change? When will the noble Lord come through with the real money?
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  566.  @christinearthur5546  Perhaps you are unaware of the way the British system of Governance works. The 'King in Parliament' makes the law, and the Judiciary enforces it. Sir Keir has the means at his disposal to change any law, or any government policy, he chooses. That is what, in fact, Prime Ministers do, and have done, for good or ill, since Robert Walpole. The fact is, as I have already written and you have either misread or simply misunderstood, the rioting is the result of many people believing, whether correctly or not, that their concerns are being either ignored or marginalised. The Prime Minister had an opportunity to call for unity in a time of crisis. Instead, in more than one statement, his response has to have been openly divisive. Isn't it sad that, when people are struggling to make a sensible argument, they immediately resort to confrontational comments instead, as you have done?
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  567.  @christinearthur5546  What point do you think you have made? That you didn't understand my original comment, or that it is easier to insult than to debate?
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  568.  @christinearthur5546  As I thought I had made clear, the Prime Minister, through the 'King In Parliament' system of governance which has existed, at least since the 'Glorious Revolution' and arguably since the restoration of Charles II after the collapse of the Commonwealth following the death of the Lord Protector, has the power to enact or amend any law he chooses. As I am not Prime Minister, nor, indeed, a political animal, all I can do is express my views on the manner in which Starmer has acted to date, and so far he seems to have behaved in an unwise and blatantly partisan manner. At a time when those in power are expected to respond in a manner intended to pour oil on troubled waters, Starmer seems to be, rather, pouring petrol onto fire. If you think that his demonising, en bloc, some 80% of the population, then I fear you are sadly mistaken.
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  569.  @christinearthur5546  Perhaps you might explain which comment of mine you think you are addressing. I don't recall any reference to 'rule by decree.'
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  570. I fear it soon won't matter. The BBC will be incorporated into the new Ministry of Propaganda, and funded from taxation in any case.
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  571. I suspect you have never been a false 'self employed' worker exploited by companies like Evri?
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  572. I would hate to be David Lammy's tailor. How often must Lammy turn up at the workplace and say 'This suit you made for me last week. It has shrunk. Just like the previous four have.'
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  573. Has the concept of sarcasm, or of irony, totally escaped you?
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  574.  @karlherkess7066  First Past the Post is now, and always has been, intended to perpetuate the two party system.
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  575. Yet it seems that the Dear Leader hasn't worked that one out yet.
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  576. Actually, I doubt that Trump gives the Dear Leader, still less David 'my brain hurts' Lammy, a moment's thought.
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  577.  @eliopacheco  Oh dear! You cannot imagine how tedious it gets having to educate people. Aside from the fact that the Channel Islands were, and are, self governing Crown Dependencies, not part of the UK, the British were never remotely likely to have lost WW2. I appreciate that you are clearly not Clausewitz, but he would doubtless have agreed with the proposition that, if you seek to invade an island defended by the largest navy on earth, and your own fleet will fit into Adolf's bathtub and still leave room for his pet rubber duck, Franz, it is probably better not to try. In short, mon vieux, the Germans were never able to invade Britain and thus defeat her. Indeed, after embarking on Barbarossa in June 1941, they were going, eventually, to lose the war. The massive US involvement, after being reluctantly dragged in by Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war, simply made assurance doubly sure, and speeded up the process. Lesson over. You are fortunate, as normally I get paid to give lectures to the less well-informed!
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  578.  @eliopacheco  Well then, FYI, The Channel Islands are, and never were, part of the United Kingdom. Please stop. You are embarrassing yourself.
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  579.  @eliopacheco  Yes. I do know that. Just as I know that my original reply referred to the 'United Kingdom.' When you are in a hole, you really should stop digging.
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  580.  @eliopacheco  Please stop this nonsense. In point of fact, Jersey citizens hold a "Jersey variant British passport," which is essentially a standard British passport with a design variation indicating that it was issued in Jersey, a British Crown Dependency. Perhaps you might look up what 'British Crown Dependency' means?
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  581. Don't you just long to be back in the Middle Ages, when surplus royal sons were simply encased in armour, put on a big horse, and sent to France to get killed?
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  582. In politics, they say 'keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.' Will the Dear Leader really want Miliband on the back benches intriguing behind his back in the style of Michael Gove?
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  583. Some of these comments are so unfair. All poor Angela did was push the tea trolley up and down the corridors at Post Office HQ for years, whilst occasionally passing on e-mails to other, more important, people. Without, of course, ever reading any of them. Her leaving salary of £420,000 p.a. was simply because she brewed excellent tea, and never, ever, forgot to put the biscuit tin, or the milk and sugar, on the trolley before setting off.
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  584. A combination of things. Firstly, a series of government thinking that drastic cyrs in military spending was a really smart idea. More recently, young men in the UK choosing not to put their lives on the line for a political class which openly despises them.
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  585. Poor Magna Carta. It looks like she really might have died in vain.
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  586. When you have had around 30 years of left of centre indoctrination at our centres of education, what else can be expected? “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man”. Was attributed to Aristotle. The left learned this long ago, when the programming began.
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  587. The Minister was not sacked for saying that he hoped a pensioner would die. He was sacked for making public a policy espoused by the Dear Leader, Rachel from Accounts, and their coterie of zombie-like followers.
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  588.  @TW-dv1im  You think that what is happening at the moment is 'Tabloid Nonsense?'
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  589.  @LJ2K2025  That is the joy of First Past the Post:- 33.7% Voted Labour, 23.7% Tory, 14.3% Reform, 12.22% LibDem, and 6.4% Green. In terms of Proportional Numbers, that would have left Labour with 219 seats, Tory 154 seats, Reform 93 seats, the LibDems 79 seats, and the Greens 42 seats. In other words, after receiving around 500,000 votes less than they did during the Corbyn debacle, Labour ended up with a virtual dictatorship, despite only around 20% of the electorate actually voting for them. The Tories in the past have, of course, also benefitted from FPtP, but it makes it neither right nor democratic.
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  590. 'Who would want to sail on that ship?' Probably, anyone who knows exactly how honoured and illustrious the name 'Achilles' is in the history of the Royal Navy.
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  591. Only that lair made himself vastly wealthy out of it.
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  592. I would be willing to say 'that footballer kicked that ball thing into that net thing' for much less than Gary gets paid to do the same thing.
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  593. Nonsense. Withdrawal from Empire began between the wars, in the early 1930s when Churchill held no government office. How did he give away this country, by the way?
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  594. Surely, Harry Markle simply went to Colombia in order to cut out the middle-man and obtain his 'talcum powder' direct from the supplier, probably at a 'By Pseudo-Royal Appointment' discount.
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  595. Brilliant! A labour supporter who attacks common, self-made plumbers. Impossible to make something like that up, I had always thought. Clearly, I was wrong.
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  596. Of course the UK can protect the borders. But firstly, it needs a government that actually wants to protect them.
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  597. Probably because he effectively demolishes his own arguments every time he speaks?
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  598.  @wildideas7368  Wouldn't be much point. I already have a First in Modern History. Acquiring another would be rather over-egging the pudding, old chap.
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  599.  @Aaron-df6jc  It isn't easy when the word is regularly used by the Dear Leader himself.
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  600.  @wildideas7368  Oh dear. Another one who never learned of the concept of sarcasm at school. The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as a British dynasty was short-lived. It encompassed the reign of King Edward VII, who reigned for nine years at the beginning of the modern age in the early years of the twentieth century, and the first seven years of his son, King George V, who replaced the German-sounding title with that of Windsor in 1917during the First World War. Perhaps it didn't help that the Germans, from June 1917, had been using Gotha aircraft to bomb London? Thus, although George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II. and Charles III might claim the dynastic name 'Windsor' in fact their actual House is the same as that of the Belgian Royal Family, that of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Of course, I am assuming much. Such as that you have actually heard of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, or George V. Or, come to that, George VI, Edward VIII, George VI, Queen Elizabeth II. Or perhaps even Gotha Bombers, World War I, and Belgium.
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  601.  @Thomas-vg8ov  Except planks have a purpose.
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  602. How has he done that?
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  603.  @user-jojo29  You do realise who the King is, and what views he holds?
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  604. More likely, a group of totally inexperience and largely incapable people who really cannot believe that they have sole possession of the keys to a shop full of sweeties.
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  605.  @cyclingSausage  Well, I did. There was no evidence of any physical contact.
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  606. Apparently, according to a recent poll, his popularity is soaring, and he is now the most popular of the four main party leaders. I wonder if the British people are really that stupid? Sir Keir appears to be saying 'I am intent upon destroying what remains of your country, reducing most of you to penury, whilst at the same time sending some of your sons and daughters to a potential war zone where they might be killed or maimed.' And people seemingly applaud him for it?
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  607. Of course. Even the 'Great & the Good' need a little comic relief between meetings plotting to take over the world.
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  608. Surely, if a restaurant is advertised as Kosher or Halal than people know what to expect, and can make an informed decision whether to dine there or not. The clear difference here seems to be that some restaurants are adhering to Halal requirements without making this fact known to the general public?
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  609. You can also see a lot of rats scurrying around in the Palace of Westminster. Most are paid around £91,000 p.a. plus expenses to do it.
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  610. I suppose that we should get used to being an international pariah, perhaps on a par with North Korea?
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  611.  @ASSASIN7-sd5sr  It seems you are a half-wit, at best. Where exactly have I made any comment about Israel, Gaza, or anywhere else? I am far more interested in the fact that the current crop of MPs seem not to show the slightest interest in British affairs. Wasn't, by the way, that what I actually wrote?
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  612. Perhaps the councillor asked him not to do, and he simply honoured that request?
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  613. The Dear Leader is not the leader of Britain. If anything, he is the anti-leader. However, the idea of him undermining Trump is about as credible as a Grand Union narrowboat sallying forth to engage a WW2 battleship.
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  614. Unfair. This is simply what happens when a sixth form debating society accidentally finds itself trying to function in the real world.
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  615. Might I suggest that you all look up 'Kiddie Hawk Air Academy?' Doubtless a very worthy charity. However, the 'award' to Harry Markle is hardly something to get so excited about.
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  616. Mr. Khan is not trying to wreck London. He is simply intent upon converting it into Londonabad, his idealised conception of what a Third World city should look like.
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  617. The foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  618. Mu personal opinion is a straightforward one. That the foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  619.  @charlytaylor1748  How dare you compare Pat Mustard with the Dear Leader? An insult to Pat.
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  620. But Nicola Sturgeon was a formidable politician, albeit a venal and corrupt one.
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  621. I believe that the Member for Clacton has more understanding of the actual workings of the Private Sector than the entire oif what passes for the Cabinet.
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  622. Could anyone possibly cope with the Dear Leader's dreary monotone for 45 minutes without either falling asleep or losing the will to live? I suspect that Trump simply left his phone on the desk and went away to do something interesting whilst Starmer droned abour £22 billion black holes and fixing the foundations.
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  623. What remains of the Royal Navy is obliged to do what it is told by what pass for recent British 'governments.'
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  624. No. Let them speak. They discredit themselves every time.
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  625. When you post insults about someone with whom you disagree, all you do is demonstrate the frailty of your own opinions.
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  626. He did wish to go, but Lord Alli refused to provide new outfits for Starmer and Lady Starmer. In any case, Lady Starmer was washing her hair that day anyway.
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  627. It is an interesting accusation, but Vance did not mention Britain, or France, by name at all. Perhaps believing what the Grauniad, Sky News, or the BBC says without verifying their claims might be considered somewhat unwise?
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  628. Have you ever seen interviews with any of these people? 'Smart' is not a description which comes into the equation. 'Indoctrinated' might be more nearly accurate.
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  629. Wouldn't be fun to be a fly on the wall of the Oval Office the next time the Dear Leader and David Lammy visit the new President of the United States?
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  630. Interesting turn of phrase at the beginning. 'ONLY paying £100 million!'
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  631. For 'annals' read 'dustbin.'
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  632. ' I'm not going to deny anything here.' Then proceeds to deny almost everything.
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  633. I recall another Head of Government, in deep political difficulties and regarded by most of his people as a dictator who refused to listen to any one, who thought it would be a good idea to get involved in a military adventure which cost the lives of many of his people. Name of Galtieri. Perhaps he is the inspiration for the Dear Leader?
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  634. As it appears that Reeves doesn't know what she is doing, she should fit right in with the rest of the sixth-form debating society which comprises the current government.
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  635. The ordinary people of Britain and the EU (or 'the little people' as Starmer sees us) are well aware of that. For whatever reasons, basically connected with their personal political concerns I believe, Starmer and his European colleagues are determined to keep the war going.
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  636. Unfair on dear Rachel. She has never worked in the Private Sector, and seems to know little and care less about how it functions. Totally understandable that she will milk it in order to pump limitless funding into the bottomless pit of the NHS, whilst ensuring at the same time that the big Unions are kept on side.
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  637.  @dennisproctor4090  Fine. If his behaviour wasn't questionable, at best, why is he acting in this manner?
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  638. That toilet bowl must be dangerously full, what with 'President' Blair already occupying a substantial part of it.
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  639. @VincentVance-j4w Oh dear! Anyone who disagrees with you must, ipso facto, be a far-right thug. If you insist on commenting, have, at least, the good manners to use your own name, Sir Keir.
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  640. Tell Sir Keir. I assume he will impose it immediately after becoming Prime Minister.
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  641.  @rockerjim8045  Perhaps you need actually to read posts before commenting on them? I have never made any reference to politics. I have simply tried to explain how the British legal system functions. Sadly, the explanation, however simple I made it, seems to have perplexed some people who have chosen to comment?
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  642.  @stephenbland7461  As we speak, I understand that Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey have applied to join an infantry battalion.
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  643.  @jameswright2974 A dictionary definition of 'Catholic' is :- COMPREHENSIVE, UNIVERSAL especially : broad in sympathies, tastes, or interests. When used of religion, it is defined as :- Relating to, or forming the ancient undivided Christian church or a church claiming historical continuity from it.
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  644.  @jameswright2974  When did I refer to 'Roman Ideology?' Do you find dictionary definitions really so difficult to understand? Your replies are largely meaningless. I won't waste further time upon you.
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  645.  @zzip0  The US had to be physically attacked before becoming involved in WW2.
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  646.  @zzip0  You don't perhaps consider that, after the setbacks Putin has suffered, he might also be seeking a get out clause?
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  647. I ubdertand that the preferred candidate for the Archbishopic is the Rev. Paula Vennells?
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  648. He is even more desperate to divert attention from the shambles he and his cabinet are intent upon making of Britain by continuing his absurd posturing.
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  649. The people are the country. Don't you mean those who govern us have contempt for the governed?
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  650.  @andrewlilley3660  Wouldn't argue with your change to 'the State' at all.
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  651. Kosher restaurants are advertised as such, I believe, whereas restaurants adhering to Halal rules are, in most cases, not.
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  652.  @brosbro8417  Animal Welfare is a different issue. The response I made was not whether Halal/Kosher is acceptable, but how, for so long as it is, it is presented. As, indeed, is the original video.
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  653.  @brosbro8417  It isn't confusing at all. He simply states what his personal opinion about Halal/Kosher is. Nothing at all to do with either your original comment, nor to my response to it.
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  654. Is this reason for the change of name real, or is it simply an assumption? What is the actual source of this claim? By the way, 'Achilles' or 'Achille' is a highly respected name in the history of the Royal Navy, dating back to 1744, and associated with several notable actions in British naval history. A far more appropriate name than 'Agincourt' for a RN warship, in fact.
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  655. I must be odd, as I tend to know which gadgets I have switched on.
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  656. Gavin is obviously looking for a knighthood, or even a peerage.
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  657.  @michaelspencer6318  Every attempt made to deal with illegal immigration had been systematically de-railed by the left wing legal system and politically biased civil servants installed years ago by Blair.
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  658. Lots of bickering, right of centre, parties forever languishing in irrelevance would be better, then?
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  659. Please don't be a silly boy.
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  660. Your ill-conceived idea that the British would today be speaking German or Ukrainian. The Germans had their chance to attempt an invasion, but wisely didn't try. Given the overwhelming supremacy of the Royal Navy in home waters, that was probably a very sensible decision. Perhaps calling you a silly boy was unfair, however, as you might simply be an ignorant or ill-informed older person, of course. I will leave it to you to decide which you are.
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  661. I see the problem here, Aside from you falsely attributing to me any opinion at all about the Soviet Union, you aren't aware that the British were outproducing the Germans in aircraft and in tanks from 1940 onwards, or that the Commonwealth and Empire were rapidly gearing up for war at the same time. Of course the Soviets played a major role in the defeat of Germany, after their friends the Germans suddenly turned upon them in June, 1941. But that wasn't wasn't you wrote, was it? If you recall, you wrote 'Also without the Russians, we would be talking German and Ukrainian. 'Which is simply nonsense. In 1940, and in the first half of 1941, the Soviets were eagerly supplying the Germans with raw materials, and, in particular, oil. Did the Germans attempt to invade then, and if they did not, what leads you to your strange belief that they might have done so later? I won't waste any further time upon you, of course. You should go away and wallow in your own ignorance.
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  662.  @barryj388  Seriously, how could he possibly do that in an 18 minute debate?
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  663.  @gpw203  If you are really so erudite, why was your original comment so cretinous? Do you recall it? :- 'When I saw the thump nail I thought they was talking to the BFG!!'
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  664.  @barryj388  When did I make any reference to 'time constraints?' I simply pointed out that the entire video was very short. I actually wrote 'Seriously, how could he possibly do that in an 18 minute debate?' Moreover, he was not involved in the case. It was not his duty to discuss the evidence. Indeed, it would probably have been inappropriate for him so to do. He was simply debating whether or not the case should have reached court in the first place.
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  665. In the late 1930s, the International Brigade at least put their bodies where their principles were. I don't see these people showing any signs of doing the same.
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  666. The two were clearly highly experienced and professional detectives. They even managed to go to the correct address.
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  667. As, doubtless, the Dear Leader would explain fully to you :- 'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.'
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  668. Your post lost total credibility when you referred to the UN. Have you, by the way, considered that the Chagossian people should have some say in what happens to them, or did the thought simply not enter your head?
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  669. Well, he is a self-made, very wealthy, individual. Can you claim the same?
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  670. Unfair. Dear Sue did a job for the Dear Leader in her assassination of Johnson. Now she is simply claiming the promised reward.
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  671. I believe that that was what inspired Harry Markle to pitch his project.
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  672. Vance did not actually mention either France or Britain, in point of fact.
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  673. Perhaps that was why Rachel from Accounts went to China. To get a bit of Chinese petty cash once the shady Chagos deal is confirmed.
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  674. No. Pol Pot or Kim Jong Un are closer to the Dear Leader's opinions than Putin.
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  675. This criticism of the Dear Leader is grossly unfair. He simply had the portrait replaced with one of Pol Pot, whose opinions more closely align with his own.
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  676. Replace it with a Palestinian flag. The Council will probably provide you with a grant.
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  677. A War Criminal? How?
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  678. They remain silent, or face cancellation.
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  679.  @jimsmithcivils8459  You haven't answered the question. Perhaps you might explain why European leaders seem dedicated to the idea of perpetual war in Ukraine? Have you even considered a fact of history, which is that wars tend to end not on the battlefield, but at the Negotiating Table?
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  680.  @jimsmithcivils8459  In June 1994, Russia became the first country to join NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP), a programme of practical bilateral cooperation between NATO and partner countries.
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  681.  @jonas1lolop561  I don't recall suggesting that anyone was invading anywhere. The Western Empire failed, as Gibbon put it, because of 'those innocent barbarians' who sought to enter it in order to achieve a better standard of living, and in so doing accidentally destroyed the very thing they sought.
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  682. Omid? Lying? Surely that would be a first?
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  683. Where he to apply to Justin Welby for ordination, he might well end up a Bishop and sitting in the House of Lords.
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  684. My concern as well. I wonder how many CEOS as 'competent' as Vennells are as yet undiscovered?
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  685. Let's hope not. We certainly don't want the freeloader back here.
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  686. The Western Roman Empire in the mid fifth century was eminently civilised. What happened to it?
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  687. Quite probably, the Private Sector will do the necessary to ensure that it survives, which means cutting costs, which means redundancies, as staff costs tend to be by far the greatest individual cost item. I wonder how Rachel will explain to the victims of this inevitability how the £12.31 number helps them after being made redundant? Or if she will even bother to try?
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  688. Would you risk your £91k per year, your limitless expenses, and your ability to make a few useful 'contacts' simply because a few people who, in your world view, are nobodies, might die? These are MPs, not people with any sense of morality.
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  689.  @KellySmunt492  You believe that it would be better to wait until people are hurt?
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  690.  @KellySmunt492  If so, you started it.
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  691.  @KellySmunt492  Thank you. But I haven't been to school for many years. In fact, four years before I left University with a First in Modern HIstory.
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  692. As best I can determine, the £22 billion 'black hole' has not been independently confirmed by any authoritative source.
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  693.  @PopularesVox  Whether correct or not, it doesn't explain why the alleged 'black hole' has not been independently confirmed by any authoritative source, does it?
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  694.  @PopularesVox  I'll leave you alone now. I keep pointing out that the black hole has not been independently verified, and you consistently avoid giving a direct reply. If you still feel the need to comment, then my question is :- Has the £22 billion 'black hole' been independently confirmed by any authoritative source? A single word, 'yes' or 'no' will be sufficient
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  695. ​ @PopularesVox  Seriously, how many times? I have asked you a single question, based on your original claim about something which remains unsubstantiated :- 'With the announcement of a public spending black hole of £22 billion.' You have been dancing around it ever since.
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  696. Be fair, though. Wasn't it delightful watching the Dear Leader placing a wreath in front of a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Paris?
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  697.  @pault6731  Yes, he should, but isn't it sad that, so far in his tenure of his office, he hasn't?
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  698. Claus is simply a figurehead. He is controlled by the Elves.
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  699. Unfortunately, the Scottish Government seem to show many of the character traits demonstrated by old Adolf in 1945. They know that the end is nigh, and seek to leave behind a wasteland.
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  700.  @jacky5768  As Friedrich Schiller wrote, ' Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' As you appear to seek to demonstrate.
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  701. Has anyone else noticed how Reeves looks to have aged ten years or so since July? Is that what being totally out of your depth does to one?
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  702. At least the Dear Leader is consistent.
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  703.  @SlowhandGreg  Perhaps they think it was William Beveridge, a Liberal politician?
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  704. I suspect that she doesn't believe what she is saying, either. Carefully scripted by her lawyers in an attempt, probably, successful, to avoid criminal charges.
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  705.  RaymondBond-j1k  Perhaps he has a sense of irony?
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  706. Isn't he in receipt of a salary in excess of $1 million p.a. as CEO of a 'Charity?'
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  707. Presumably, like Rachel Reeves, you don't know, or don't care, how the Private Sector, which actually generates all the money being poured into the bottomless pit that is the NHS, actually works? Put simply, when costs rise, as they will do now that Rachel has punished the sector, management has two options, which are to increase charges to their customers, or to cut costs. The easiest way to cut cost is by reducing the single highest individual cost element, which is the workforce. I won't, of course, mention the potential third, as that is the nuclear option of closing down the business entirely. I look forward to Rachel explaining to those employees made redundant how the increase in minimum wage will benefit them.
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  708.  @RotiJohnPrata-h9o  It is always pleasant to read the comments of erudite academics. Sad that you clearly don't come into that category.
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  709. 'In fact the the British isles could vanish into the ocean.' Please don't write things like that. It might give Starmer & Miliband ideas.
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  710.  @CliveSimmons-b9b  The surprising thing is that you don't even realise that you have just posted gibberish.
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  711.  @Gagge-c9y  More accurately, he likes wandering around, posturing. He doesn't like being in Britain, where people see him for what he truly is.
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  712.  @cyclingSausage  You miss the point. Try this alternative :- Definition of 'road.' 'A wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface which vehicles can use.' Did you grasp the relevance of the word 'vehicle?' Next, try this :- Definition of 'vehicle.' 'Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility scooters), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft (ships, boats, underwater vehicles), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicles, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, aerostats), and spacecraft.' Would you define 'bicycle' as, 'A vehicle whose rider is empowered to travel along any road, pavement, or path, and to which normal road safety legislation does not apply?'
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  713. I feared that our 'Dear Leader President Starmer' might have struggled to come to terms with the responsibilities of a Prime Minister, as opposed to those of a Leader of the Opposition. I did not expect that he would demonstrate how out of his depth he was so quickly. At a time when an appeal for unity and restraint was desperately needed, his recent statement, of 4 August, amounted to little more than an open declaration of war on around 80% of the people of this country. What next, Sir Keir, Martial Law and troops on the streets, perhaps?
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  714. No offence, but hardly anyone in the UK takes the Dear Leader seriously. I wonder if any US citizens have even heard of him, still less care what he does or doesn't say?
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  715. I susapect that that is the first time ever that McTernan has been referred to as 'on the right!'
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  716.  @Mary.Quantum426  Unfair. He didn't reach this figure unaided. His finance expert, Diane Abbott, assisted him.
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  717. These were children. Do you condone paedophilia?
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  718. Beware! The Dear Leader might well have begged for Chinese military support.
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  719. He will win any such vote. Would you risk £91,000 p.a., almost unchecked expenses, and access to lucrative 'contacts' just for the sake of a few tedious and disposable principles? Neither will your typical Labour MP.
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  720.  @ShyTalks-d8b  'Irrelevant.' So, when would you say the US was actually sensible, then?
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  721. As the noble lord Cameron would doubtless point out, a referendum should never be permitted unless the response of the peasantry can be guaranteed. He did try it once. He even brought over an American President to tell them what they were permitted to think, and they disobeyed their betters, with the result that much effort has needed to be expended in negating their wishes. The conclusion is obvious. Never listen to the wishes of the common herd, and certainly never let them express their views in such a manner again.
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  722. It was quite enlightened of him even to talk to (or, rather, shout at) a mere female.
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  723. I suspect that Farage is clever enough to realise that declaring support for Mr. Ribinson would have a catastrophic effect on support for his party.
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  724. If the rest of Labour MPs are like mine, they will remain staunchly loyal to the Dear Leader. After all, £91k and rising per annum for the next few years, largely unchallenged expenses, and the opportunity to make a few profitable 'contacts,' what is mere integrity compared to that?
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  725.  @doloreswylie3067  I wonder if Rachel Reeves has a quotation from 'A Christmas Carol' on her desk, as her inspiration for her policy on pensioners? “If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
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  726. Put simply, if people were happy with their circumstances, no amount of extremist agitation would persuade them to protest. Alas, it seems that the Dear Leader is determined not to accept that idea.
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  727.  @Dan_druft  They must be permitted to present their views, assuming that they do this in a peaceful manner. Presumably, they would then convince the common herd, and be elected to power. Except, of course, that they would never be elected to power, and have therefore embarked on a different course of action.
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  728. Unfortunately, that is what happens when you indulge in the politics of the sixth-form debating society, where everything is black & white. As, unfortunately, is the case with the Dear Leader and his cohorts.
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  729. He didn't question the automony of women. He did question whether silent prayer should be considered a hate crime. Do you think it should be so considered?
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  730. @VincentVance-j4w Quite correct. Turkeys do not vote for Christmas, and if our local MP is anything to go by, he would vote for Compulsory Euthanasia if the Dear Leader ordered him to.
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  731. Do you really think that people having misgivings about meal prepared to Halal or Kosher rules can really be compared to events in 1930s Germany? Put simply, restaurants who use these rules should announce themselves as Halal or Kosher restaurants, then potential diners can make up their own minds whether or not to eat there.
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  732. The foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  733.  @petemayes1940  Why bother posting when you have nothing sensible to say?
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  734. It seems you don't like him, but you agree with him?
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  735. So, how does this work? I have done nothing wrong, and everything was in the rules, but I'm giving £6k back anyway. Doesn't that prove what a decent, honourable, & transparent chap I really am?' What sort of world do these people and their 'advisers' inhabit?
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  736. Why does bringing this to the attention of the public make those who do so 'scum?'
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  737. Fine. Just don't expect others to be required to do the same.
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  738.  @You.are.boring.me.now2024  I suspect he isn't your average Methodist?
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  739. Ex -Servicemen did not end when WW2 did. There are many, and their families, still deserving of support. If the RBL has lost track of its purpose, why not donate to another charity which hasn't?
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  740.  @peterrees6335  Who do? THe Royal British Legion?
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  741. Wouldn't you remain silent for £91,000 per annum (soon to go up, by the way) effectively unchallenged expenses, and the chance to make a few lucrative 'contacts?' Much to be preferred to mere integrity and decency.
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  742. Damn! I wish that I had known about this thirty years ago!
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  743. Can't he simply claim that the brand of marmalade he prefers is only available in this country? I believe it works with Chicken Nuggets.
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  744. How did Britain participate in events of Gaza?
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  745.  @Zee-d5y  Could have been worse. Britain might have supplied weapons to the people who invaded Israel. By the way, which aircraft, which weapons (UK exports of military goods to Israel are low. The primary sources of arms for Israel are the United States and Germany. According to a Government Report) and which military personnel? 'Palestinans are welcome here!!!!' Then why are they not equally welcome in the states in the immediate vicinity of Gaza? Or, indeed, in any other Western State?
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  746. I wonder if this is simply the Dear Leader inventing a 'Get out of Jail Free' card for Rachel from Accounts? It can be presented as Starmer ordering Rachel to find the money, and Rachel then resigning on a matter of Principle. It gets both out from under the mess of their own making, and can be used to justify tax increases. Just a thought. Perhaps I am simply being too Machiavellian.
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  747. Presumably, Humza will receive a Life Peerage? With, of course, a parking space for his Camper Van at Westminster.
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  748. Parliament could pass legislation stating that an MP could break into any house he/she fancied, remove all the contents, and keep it. That would then be within the 'Rules' but would be neither ethical, nor acceptable to we mere peasants. I shouldn't have written this, as it might give the Dear Leader and Rachel ideas. By the way, was the 'Minister' part of a challenge to determine how many times he could use the word 'rules' in a single interview?
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  749. Yes, old chap. These working class oiks are so common, aren't they? Not like you loyal socialist types at all.
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  750.  @jeannemillsom9300  He probably already paid for the Dear Leader's elegant, made to measure, Flak Jacket?
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  751. Poor bloody Americans. Haven't they, just like Britain, got enough problems already?
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  752.  @johnyray5685  Whether true or not, how is that relevant to what is about to happen tinthe private sector? I am not convinced that telling those about to be made redundant, or not being employed in the first place, that ' The Tories were just as bad as Rachel' will be much comfort to them. I assume that you, like Rachel. have no hands on knowledge of how a private business works. I do.
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  753.  @johnyray5685  My mistake. I didn't realise that you were a stand up comedian .
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  754.  @johnyray5685  I didn't say that you were a SUCCESSFUL stand up comedian. Now that would indeed have been a mistake.
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  755.  @Roz-y2d  It turned out very well for Blair. He is now a multi-millionaire. In his view, a few hundred thousand dead or maimed nobodies count for nothing in comparison.
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  756. Isn't asking questions of their guests what journalists are expected to do?
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  757. Because politics had been a game which rich people have played for centuries.
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  758. And if the business is a self-made entrepreneur?
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  759. Perhaps because the major unions pill the Labour Party's strings. When Lord Alli isn't, of course.
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  760. If so, like everything else there, they will be heavily subsidised by the taxpayer.
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  761.  @jonwoodmass2849  Having heard out new MP on the local radio boasting about his chats with Rachel, then trying damage control post on a number of local sites, I think you are being unfairly disparaging about trained seals. Our MP said that, if people who were 'struggling' were to contact him, he 'hoped' that he might be able to help them. Wonderful.
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  762.  @Ken-yy9us  'Simply because everyone has, at one time or another, slipped up when talking.' But the Dear Leader wasn't simply 'talking.' He was making a major policy speech to Conference. Performing at the level of poor old Joe Biden simply is not acceptable.
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  763. Yet so many people are desperate to come here?
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  764. Odd, then, that so many of Britain's 'victims' are keen to be members of the Commonwealth.
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  765. Unfair. She was an averagely competent Complaints Manager, until the expenses fiddle.
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  766. Perhaps simply to make sure that everybody reads from the same script?
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  767. But if they don't get the numbers up, they will never become a serious party.
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  768.  @cyclingSausage  She wasn't pushed. That allegation was not made, even in the original trial.
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  769. I gave my son a lift to a local garage the other day to collect his car. Might I be considered a people smuggler?
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  770. John McTernan, said he was in favour of doing to farmers "what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners". All you need to know about him.
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  771. Odd how people of a right of centre persuasion are always keen to split into lots of bickering factions, squabbling over a limited number of votes and keeping well away from having any real influence, isn't it? Reminds me of the plethora of resistance groups in the 'Life of Brian.'
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  772. Apparently, a last minute was given to Davy Lammy, who arrived in Washington around an hour ago. He hasn't been able to find the White House yet, but it shouldn't be a problem, as Tyne & Wear isn't that big a place.
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  773. Ms Phillipson doesn't want children realising their potential. She wants them indoctrinated from an early age, as they will then be easier to control. Heaven forbid that they should ever think for themselves, when the Party can do their thinking for them.
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  774. Didn't she believe that the money for any increase in Defence Spending, which I take to mean raising a vast amount to give to Mauritius, should come from increased taxes being imposed on the little people?
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  775. The plans were indeed fully costed and calculated. But by Diane Abbott, unfortunately.
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  776. Well, comrade. It wasn't the Tory/Reform people who produced the catastrophic (for the Private Sector) budget pf a few days ago, was it?
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  777. Absolutely disgraceful. Have none of his people told Trump that the fact that the Dear Leader is an idiot is covered by the British Official Secrets Act, and may not be disclosed to the general public?
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  778. Perhaps the strange woman who was constantly rocking backwards & forwards as she spoke should be sent to China, where I assume she would explain the errors of his ways to General Secretary Xí Jìnpíng in a matter of minutes.
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  779. Sorry, but if that is someone symptomatic of the calibre of Democrat Strategists, then one need look no further for the reasons for Harris's catastrophe.
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  780. Is it true that, since being informed that the Dear Leader was set to defy him, President Trump has been crying himself to sleep every night? Apparently, no it isn't.
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  781. 'David Miliband has been lobbying Keir Starmer for the role of UK ambassador to the US.' Who would have thought that, unlike his mad brother Ed, David has a wicked sense of humour?
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  782. Busy trying to ingratiate himself and his family with the incoming new population, it seems.
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  783. It could have been worse. The Dear Leader might have had the portrait secretly taken to Bristol, and thrown into the dock.
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  784. I'd be willing to work one day a week for half that. Give me a ring, Dear Leader.
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  785. Your caps lock is jammed, mon brave.
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  786. Isn't Radical Islam on the rise, then?
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  787. Ridiculing what may be a speech impediment hardly reflects credit upon you.
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  788. @bigCyril Just out of interest, which wars did your indoctrinators tell you that he 'mongered?'
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  789. The BBC needn't worry. In 12 months there will be a Labour government, and Sir Keir will not allow any harm to come to his Department for Propaganda.
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  790. Swine!! It is a blatant Hate Crime against our Dear Leader. Expect a knock on the door at 2.00 a.m.
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  791. At least he has been questioned about it. Indeed, he has been grilled! (SORRY!)
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  792. I rather expected her, and her 'people' to turn up in Sweden this morning.
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  793.  @JasonKing-m6m  No, you cannot. Who decides what blasphemy is?
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  794. When they are, the Intelligence community will be grilling them for information, I expect.
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  795. Alas. 'Consultation' isn't something which comes naturally to Rachel from Claims.
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  796. Correct. The name will be the eleventh time the Royal Navy have used it. I wonder where this claim that the MoD changed the name to avoid annoying the French actually originated?
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  797. Not really. He simply made public what Government policy already is.
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  798. Of course, people in Britain will flock in droves to vote for a gang of lackeys in thrall to a foreign multi-billionaire, won't they?
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  799. They will be safe enough if they convert to Islam, I expect.
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  800. Why not address the points he raised, rather than simply posting insults?
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  801. The way he is going, there won't be a monarchy left to be passed on to anyone, if Charles insists upon continuing to demonstrate his contempt for we indigenous peasants who fund his modest & unassuming lifestyle.
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  802.  @ashnielzradio7926  Your post is.
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  803.  @johnhill8819  Well, you have the right to hope!
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  804. You dare to question the integrity of Labour Royalty? Shame on you!!
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  805.  @Wearmouth  Indeed I am.
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