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  1. skybluetony176

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    We all make mistakes don’t we. Key is to recognise your mistakes and learn from them. Something you’re clearly not capable off.
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    I get bored the Tories make it so easy. Pretty sure I’m allowed an opinion and allowed to vent that opinion on any platform I care to without getting directly involved in politics past exercising my right to vote and occasionally (for what it’s worth) writing to my local MP and/or councillor. I...
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    I also wonder how much of the latest nett immigration figures boil down to how we record immigration following brexit. When we were in the EU no one was doing an exact count on EU citizens here under freedom of movement. I seem to recall one analyst coming to the conclusion that the actual...
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    Pop stars that look like they shouldn't be pop stars and seem more suited to another profession

    In a twist from the undertaker theme. Ron and Russell Mael. Wedding planners.
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    USSR invades Ukraine.

    See, all you’ve done there is confirm that the front line is on the doorstep of Crimea. Which is exactly what I said. For clarity Kyiv is over 800 kilometres north of that point.
  6. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    Kyiv? Never. Crimea? Before Kyiv.
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    They’re blowing smoke up people’s arses. We’ve given an open invitation to 6.5M people from Hong Kong to come here. In fact they’ve just extended that scheme by a year because uptake wasn’t as high as the government expected/hoped for. It also quashes the notion that everyone wants to come...
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    This is where Sunak really has issues. He already has a big majority, in the unlikely event he wins even with a big majority nothing changes for him. He still has a lunatic fringe, his party is still a battleground and he won’t last a year as leader. The clamber for a headline to throw the...
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    USSR invades Ukraine.

    It’s closer than Kyiv. The war is at least on its doorstep.
  10. skybluetony176

    USSR invades Ukraine.

    We’ve already had these strict conditions. It’s called the Budapest Agreement. Means shit when dealing with someone like Putin. What’s that saying about doing the same things expecting different results?
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    Sure I remember reading that the £120M is non refundable, not sure about the extra £20M or any subsequent payments we may have made.
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    IIRC the £140M is just for the properties and 5 years of maintenance. The properties were supposed to be affordable housing for Rwandans but we’ve essentially stole them, although no doubt we’ve paid over the odds for them. Even if they get a property each we’ve apparently brought 100 properties...
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    We’ve sent more Home Secretary’s there than we have asylum seekers. He’s the third.
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    So the Rwanda plan looks more and more like a pointless red meat for the frothers gimmick the more the details come out. What we’ve learned today against a backdrop of a backlog of over 100K claims for asylum is that there’s capacity for 100 claimants in total in Rwanda and we’re bringing...
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    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Which is ridiculous because Jews are not excluded from being anti-Zionist. In fact when some Jews invented Zionism other Jews immediately invented anti-Zionism, Jews are the original anti- Zionist and still are to this day including Jews who live in Israel. They see Zionism as a direct threat to...
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    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    If you didn’t know it was that bad you haven’t been paying attention. It was reported by all outlets including the BBC at the time. The media are now rehashing these stories as good client journalists because our government wants to distract from Israel’s own behaviour since that day. 6000...
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    Dumbest work meetings

    I worked for a company once that insisted on sending you on various courses all of a similar theme and quite often for a week, 90% of which were with the same training company. The first one was usefulish as a new employee although I’d been recruited from the opposition in an industry I’d worked...
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    Pretty much what Yvette Cooper was saying in response. She was also pointing out that employers were allowed to employ for example an engineer on 20% lower wages as an immigrant compared to a British engineer which is also linked to a drop off in training British engineers. Labour’s plan is...
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    Also on this immigration clampdown surely the draw for medical professionals coming to the UK was largely because you could bring your dependants. Where’s the incentive now? Sounds like a trap for the next government who will have to reverse it for the benefit of the NHS.
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    Sunak had his first defeat in the commons yesterday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67615379 I wonder if we’ll see more of this as a lot are standing down at the next GE and plenty more won’t be expecting to win? Still, on a positive it should have passed given the importance of the...
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