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It's just fecking pointless. I don't think anyone gives a monkeys.

Jeez SoG, this is not your finest hour mate.

Probably, yep. I hadn't appreciated he was that old either. Seems to have been a bloody sad ending though - not many explanations if nobody else involved.

Can one stand behind the other and catch the bullet on the way through?

Him, his wife and dog all found dead at home. His wife was only 63. Very sad, whatever the cause. Great actor. RIP.

That video was appalling. Alas I think it will happen. If there's a bonus, hopefully the Russians will flock there and leave other tourist areas for civilised people and Germans.

Gotcha. Any suggestion of that sort is unnecessary. I was referring to the smoke in connection with lifting the travel ban.

There's a lot of smoke here so there could well be something in it. It's unsurprising that the Romanian PM would deny doing as he's told.

He's constantly moaning about labours broken promises, but champions the cause of a party who's financial policies are so mental they will have to be broken. There's a logic there which is illogical.

Bladder

First you jumped on the 'equivalence'' bandwagon, now the 'child like '. You're better than that. Possibly. You've talked up reform, ergo you're a supporter. The economic policies of a political party affect us all every day if they are elected. Why you'd vote for that if you don't want it only you know.

If you're a reform supporter, it follows that you support their program. If you're not a reform supporter, I've lost track of who/what you support. Apart from waspi 'birds'.

Amen to that. We want equality. But we don't.

Angela Rayner gave her support in 2019. 6 years ago. The world has changed a wee but since then, and our economy has slumped. 6 years ago my missus wanted us to retire by now and enjoy life more. I supported that. 6 years on we can't afford to, so we won't. Things change, so decisions need to change accordingly. That's life.

As is said, they supported the campaign. What did they pledge to do as a government? Regardless, we can't afford to address the issue.

Was the waspi support not more implied by supporting the campaign, rather than a pledge or commitment? I agree with the sentiment though.

I'll continue the theme. That is quite restrained from you Whelk.

Let's get this straight. You're saying that it's "child like" to believe that a ruling party is being sensible rowing backwards on a pledge when they deem it unaffordable? Feck me.

I've never voted Labour mate. Not my party. The rest is too stupid to acknowledge.

Just picking up on this Duck. You criticise Labour for not delivering on things that will have cost a lot of money. You then highlight that spending will have to be cut, which suggests that you acknowledge that we're overspending. No wonder you're loving reform's "spend more and tax less approach". Madness.

How much of that nonsense reform manifesto could they have delivered? The answer is to nex to none. How many promises did the Tories break? You could argue that labour have broken promises. Or, more sensibly, you could argue that they've taken sensible courses by rowing backwards where necessary. As a non labour man, it's obvious where you'll go with that.

Reform voters seem mostly to be Tory voters with even more fanciful expectations, and a lesser grip on reality.

We fundamentally disagree on this Whitey. The fuel allowance was free money. Nobody, absolutely nobody, worked and contributed on the promise of an annual lump of cash, regardless of need. They latterly got it, but they never contributed expecting it. To suggest otherwise is dishonest. Anyone who needs state help is needy. It's not offensive to say that. Anyone who feels an entitlement to it, but does not need it, is being greedy. You can feel otherwise, and as I say, we fundamentally disagree. UK pensions are a separate issue, but I don't accept that the fuel allowance was a state pension bolt on as such. I'd love the state pension to be higher, but my retirement planning is by responsibility, and I'm a realist and acknowledge that what I'd like isn't how it works. Simply, we're skint, and cannot afford to give bigger pensions, and/or fuel allowances to every person of retirement age. As for my mum, I'm delighted that she's financially secure enough to be doing road trips and living her best life. She deserves it. That financial security means that she does not need state support that this country cannot afford and quite rightly are spending where it's actually needed. Indeed, had she had her fuel allowance this year it may well paid for a day out at Dollywood - nobody is persuading me that's a good use of my taxes.

He could have got European attention without empowering Putin.

I agree re complacency. Reliance on the US for so long was daft, ditto reliance on Russia for gas. Europe needed a wake up call and Donny has done that, but done it in a ridiculous way. The GDP comparison point is a bit misleading and compares apples with cabbages. Our GDP buys us overpriced military gear from the US with a shit pound. It doesn't go as far as it should or once did. We also don't produce much. Russia's cash stretches so much further buying from North Korea and god knows where, and they have the ability to produce much more than us, and probably the rest of Europe.