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To be fair, I can see why aintclever usually just inhabits the fence and never gives an opinion! When he does finally give one The kids went too far with their April fools joke, so they had to be slapped. The missus just went too far with her joke about my hair, so she needed a good slapping. Seems reasonable 🤷‍♀️

We're already there 🤷‍♀️

Is that the one by David P Baras, the author of numerous books and hundreds of papers on the ideology of peace, a conscientious objector and notable member of CND? Is that the Soggy equivalent of someone quoting from Tommy Robinson's book and claiming it to be a well reasoned, sensible read?

Looks like the Japanese don't get the Guardian in their neck of the woods. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60857346

It's not fair, why aren't we instigating a no fly zone, we should be interferering etc etc : https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-air-defences-destroy-houthi-drones-state-tv-2022-03-25/ On another note, maybe this time Boris's incompetence and failure to get any assurances from the Saudis regarding oil supply hasn't worked out too badly given the lack of security of the product in the country. Looks like some more cracking news for fuel price rises

If you read the Guardian article that soggy posted you'd understand his argument that the only way to guarantee no one ever uses nukes is to get rid of all nukes. He's not figured out how that will happen, just noted it as some sort of utopia.

The reason that there haven't been any wars is MAD. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

This makes zero sense.

Would it not need to be ratified by the UN security council? Somehow, I don't see Russia voting 'aye' for this : https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9488/

Is it just Putin's nukes stopping that or is there a legal question as well? What right do we have to instigate a NFZ over another country - probably about as much right as Russia has to invade it...

Quantify 'substantial help'.

Isn't that how MAD works? Have a territory invaded by a conventional force, defeat said enemy with your own conventional force and then nuke the shit out of the country that 'started it'. Seems reasonable.

Endure

Someone needs to point this out to Boris as it appears this is another issue he is confused about! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60849957

I'm not suggesting there's any corruption in football, but they'll probably get both of them.

It has now been confirmed that the affected staff were employed under Jersey employment contracts (as mentioned earlier by Badger). Jersey employment law in relation to redundancy is slightly different to UK laws : https://www.jacs.org.je/legislation/employment-jersey-law-2003/procedure-and-payments-for-redundancy/ Assuming they have notified the 'Minister' (and they needed to do that before they notified staff, so technically they could have done that 30 minutes before the infamous video call), then they are in the clear in terms of the company's legal duty to notify. The minimum redundancy pay is 1 week's pay for every year worked - apparently they are paying 2 week's for every year worked and also paying those with less than 2 year's service who wouldn't normally qualify. There is no specific law that deals with consultation process in Jersey law, however, there is case law and custom and practice - they are paying 13 weeks pay in lieu to all to cover this. All things considered, they look to be paying above and beyond what a tribunal in Jersey could be resonably expected to award based on the relevant laws around redundancy and they don't appear to have broken the law. Mick Lynch seems to have completed misunderstood the law though, or perhaps he just enjoys the fight Under Jersey law, in order for the employee to be eligible for the redundancy they must follow at least one of these criteria (point one seems to be the point that Mick is so angry about, yet it's part of the law in the country where they were employed) :

Wow! £36m payout - meaning an 'average' of £45k per person. In reality it will be over £100,000 for a small number of people with a guarantee that no worker will receive less than £15k. These figures seem like much, much more than could be won in a tribunal, especially for those that have less than 2 years service with the company. Not excusing what they did but the payout (and additional promises around helping those that can't immediately find work) certainly helps to take the sting out of it....

Looks like he's really suffering as a result of these sanctions! Over $1.3bn worth of superyachts that he's managed to get safely into Turkish waters! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60739336 Must be hell having to live on one of these two - pools, helipads, submarines!

Pointless asking that question to Soggy as he clearly has no understanding of how MAD works! In Soggy's world, Putin would never fire nukes at us if we didn't have any as our daisy chain necklaces would protect us. At the same time, he comes out with this classic (which suggests he doesn't even know what his own argument is) :

Front of house wages are reasonable - although all workers depend on their tips. The back of house staff that you don't see are on the poorest wages - pot washers in kitchens who are generally from the Phillipines and tend to work 6 to 9 months onboard, 12+ hours per day, before having a month off. For Tamesaint's benefit (who is proving himself time and time again to be the world's shittest stalker!), I get this info from first hand experience having previously worked on cruise liners.

https://youtu.be/-LBCkW0kz2E

I suspect you're getting your Brexit and General Election campaigns mixed up, no surprise there. The more I see about this P&O debacle, the more it doesn't make any sense. It's still not clear under what jurisdiction the workers' contracts were written, but assuming UK employment law, then P&O are in for a pounding in the tribunals. Absolutely no evidence that any form of consultation was carried out, so slam dunk verdict that this can't be considered a 'redundancy' process. Not to mention the almost immediate 'replacement' of the workers, guaranteeing a ruling against redundancy so any workers with over 2 years service will be guaranteed a payout. Any workers with less than 2 years service are on their own though and won't get a penny, which is the travesty of UK employment law. Wait until Warrior finds out what cruise ship workers get paid (especially those from India and the Philippines), it'll blow his mind, especially given how long those labour markets have been exploited so the rich folk can eat canapes.

Behave! 2 simple questions : 1. What does NATO stand to gain from entering into a war with Russia over Ukraine? 2. What does NATO stand to lose by entering into a war with Russia? I'll bet you don't answer either of them...

Because Russia is one of the permanent members of the UN and any UN action needs 100% approval from all members. I suspect that Russia isn't going to ratify any action from the UN against it's 'special military operations'

Whilst Putin has no right to be there, what right does the rest of the world have to enforce a no fly zone? What legal basis are you using to justify this?