moonraker

Why

Not difficult to find that answer for one seemingly so well versed in politics and parliamentary procedures. Simple answer is because he did the decent thing in an attempt, sadly failed, to avoid the ridiculous, despicable and dishonourable accusations that are being maliciously spouted by Johnson apologists and right wing rags. Our democracy has been abused and threatened for long enough, it is time to banish this Eton mess and their sycophantic hangers on from all aspects of public life. Sir Bernard Jenkins did the same thing over the Patterson report. Why do you always play the man not the ball?

Without divulging sources belief you me the U.K. MoD and armed forces are providing Ukraine with some very serious support and kit. I do agree after 13 years of Tory cuts our armed forces have been cut to the bone. An island nation that gave up its air based MP capability for 10 years thanks to unnecessary austerity, thankfully the military managed to retain knowledge and experience despite the politicians. Not sure how much longer they can mitigate the Tories defence policies.

Offensive action of the kind the Ukrainian forces have embarked on will obviously involve losses. Attacking prepared defences has a cost, lack of air cover is Ukraines biggest problem. The allied battle for Normandy suffered many notable setbacks despite a large proportion of the German units being sub par, defending is far simpler than attacking, it takes time, the age of the one day decisive battle ended 200 years ago. I do not know whether Ukraine will prevail, I do however firmly believe they have the will, the morale and increasingly the equipment to inflict more serious damage on Russias poorly led, poorly trained and increasingly poorly maintained military.

According to your early analysis Russia were going to achieve all their objectives in two - three weeks, that didn't go to plan. Yes Russia may run out of missiles at some point, or at least be so denuded of them that they are unable to launch any meaningful strikes. Add in Ukraines increasing air defence capability and Putin and his gaggle of war criminals are rapidly running out of options, and this is my biggest worry.

This from the longest standing political party in the U.K. This Tory current rabble have neither knowledge or respect of our parliamentary constitution and democracy. There continued displays of entitlement and failures to recognise and/or understands the needs and genuine concerns of the British people are beyond belief. Put them all in a rubber boat and send them over the horizon, hopefully to oblivion.

Yes it’s not difficult to spot the difference between the current bunch of nasty looneys and some of their dignified predecessors.

More snowflakery.

Possibly many viewed out of curiosity, you will need a larger sample size to draw any useful conclusion

Some all or a few, he is speaking for folks who are in afar worse place than you or I have ever been

I love the Tory snowflakes raging about a man who stands up for the oppressed and vulnerable.

David Attenborough being censored now,

It’s a myth that they have to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach, is not has been part of the UN rules for refugees we are signatories to. It is a rule for EU countries. There are numerous reasons people choose the the U.K. language and family ties being significant. Yet we still take fewer refugees than most civilised countries.

I didn’t need hindsight to predict that Brexit would be a shitshow and that the buffoon Johnson would make an even bigger mess than it might have been.

Just arrived back from Spain no shortages of fruit and veg there.

Other results not going our way is a massive pain, but all we can do is hold on and win.

Most of what you say is very valid, but amongst the many lower league players who will not be able to step up are some real gems, identifying them is the real skill. Lambert and Vardi just two obvious candidates, our issue at this stage is we need a striker to hit the ground running and therefore the only solution is a proven prem level striker, and finding and affording one of those is equally challenging.

Defined benefits schemes are final salary, I think you mean “lesser defined contributions scheme”. The value of a DB scheme is arbitrary, a multiplier of the annual pension set , currently at 25 times I believe, this is purely for calculating a figure for your lifetime allowance. DC schemes are simply based on each £1 contributed, by both the individual and their employer. Most good private sector employers contribute between 5 and 10% to staff pensions so to be totally accurate when comparing the value of the benefit of public sector pensions this should be added to in to the value of private sector renumeration.

No they are not, while your “researching” the nurses pension please also ascertain the % of publicly funded pensions that are over 7 figures.

Sadly the ERG and the arch Brexiteers are not interested in what most people think. They fooled them once and they are playing on that. They have Covid and Russia to blame for the shitshow we are now living. I am ever hopeful that enough of the British electorate will see them for the biggest bunch of charlatans and traitors they are, self interest and personal wealth is their only motivation.

Anyone who believes there is to much bureaucracy in the NHS needs to take a detailed look at the US health care system. The very high costs of treatment are in large part due to the high administrative burden required to ensure every penny is recouped from patients. A friend recently required an emergency appendectomy, it cost $45,000, the very first procedure they underwent was to have a bar code stamped on each arm. To ensure every element of their treatment was recorded and billed. Add to this the influence and power of commercial pharmaceutical companies and the non clinical cost element is far greater than that of the NHS.

I appreciate times have changed, and modern day footballer egos can be off the scale, but we have a history of appointing managers with no top level experience and many of them turned out to be good. Mcmenamy, Nicholl, Poch, even Ted Bates. The difference now and my big worry is there is no time in the modern game for managers to develop their own team.

The incompetence and unsuitability of this shower currently masquerading as our government continues to be demonstrated with the revelations on their attitude to security. Truss and Braverman have both identified as having compromised security, I won’t be surprised if others have as well. If a civil servant or member of the armed forces had done this they would be severely disciplined. Following the rules and protocols should be the minimum we expect of our Government Ministers, they truly are unfit for public office.

Bring on the euro, Schengen and all the other benefits of the EU that our cowardly politicians of the past failed to embrace for fear of upsetting the muppets in the ERG, the right wing press and the traitor in chief Farage. Not to mention the thick red meat eating, mail reading gamonati that either vote for them and purchase their chip wrappers full of lies.