badgerx16

Who is that backup lad at Spurs ? Fraser something.......

Mariner

The Government needs to extend the new dangerous cycling laws to include deadly bike racks;

As practiced by the Lizard People ?

He does get most of his stuff from the Telegraph, which yesterday reached a new height of journalistic excellence with a story about cyclists riding through central London at speeds faster than those achieved by Sir Chris Hoy when he won track gold medals at the Olympics.

https://road.cc/content/news/telegraph-slammed-claiming-london-cyclists-hit-52mph-308431

Etymology? Food options - veganism, OK. 5G - we all know the conspiracy theories over that. Paper solutions- third grade origami. But the origiin of words.............

Jack Beckenbauer striding through midfield.

The Saint's way.

lucky sneeze works !!!

AA is nowhere near as effective through the middle, Che is a big miss as he allows Arma to come in from wide positions.

That is what happens when you trust and believe Boris Johnson.

Local Government funding is broken.

It all depends on what the justification for a change is. I personally think there is scope for revising the tax system to better balance how it is generated, and overall leaving the amount of revenue generated at about the same level, or possibly slightly higher. However, I would not have a problem if, for instance, income tax went up by a penny or two. It is the totally disingenuous, bordering on fraudulent, pronouncements from "the party of low taxation" trying to pull the wool over everybody's eyes and exercise their sleight of hand that I find objectionable.

Which difference is common knowledge anyway. People vote for Labour understanding that their approach to the public purse varies from that of the Tories. After all, somebody has to pay to fix all the potholes.

Jeremy Hunt warns that taxes will go up under Labour - bit rich from the Chancellor who's Government has them pegged at the highest level since 1948.

Port

Do you think the IDF deliberately target their own troops ?

Why not wait until the IDF have carried out their investigation and reported on the incident before jumping to conclusions ? Or does your preferred narrative not allow that ? If they saw a rifle barrel in a position they assumed was hostile, given the availability of RPG-7 grenades in HAMAS' arsenal, it would be a fair judgement to assume such weapons were also present. It is also possible that in the confusion of live contact an RPG launcher might at a glance be confused with a modern rifle. Either way that is moot, the tank crews detected a threat and eliminated it. Your continued attempts to demonstrate the IDF have a complete sociopathic disregard for the lives and safety of their own side is ludicrous.

EDIT: There would have been intelligence briefings indicating where the line of contact demarked IDF and suspected HAMAS positions. However, in a ruined city with no road signs, and most landmark buildings reduced to rubble, it would be easy for one or other of the IDF units to get disorientated and wander out of position.

''Let slip the SOG of war'' ( Sorry SOGgy, couldn't resist ).

How much frontline experience of a shooting war do you have ? Tanks are not suited to urban warfare, there is too much cover close to - a circumstance that has been clear since Stalingrad. If you were a conscript and think you have just seen an RPG launcher within it's effective range what would you do ? Fire first or wait for radio confirmation of whether it was hostile or not ? Don't forget, even these days, military radio comms can be erratic and unreliable.

In war shit happens. Lots of nervous young men with guns and tanks. Even the British army managed to blow up one of it's own Challenger tanks in Iraq.

GDP compared to pre-pandemic levels; UK +1.7% Eurozone +3.4%. ( From House of Commons data published 10th May 2024 )

Given Grant Shapss' response you should be grateful that the Cabinet is publicly dividing itself over such a trivial matter at a critical stage in the build up to the GE. If the Fail, etc, want to waste column inches trying to persuade people that this is an important policy matter then Labour have nothing to fear.