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The population of Crimea has been manipulated for political purposes for the last 100 years. It has always been a mixture of Ethnic Russians, Tatars, and Ukrainians, with a sprinkling of Greek and Bulgarian citizens. Stalin deported almost all of the Tatars to central Asia, and encouraged Russians to move there in their place. As a consequence, the number of Russian citizens increased from 560k to 860k between 1939 and 1959. Since 2014, Ukrainians and Tatars, who had started to return after the fall of the USSR, have fled the illegal Russian occupation and yet more Russians have been relocated into the region. At the point of Ukrainian independence Crimea was part of it's territory, actually thanks to Kruschev. Naturally there were some ethnic tensions, as with all the other former SSRs, as the 'local' peoples found their voice and identities after years of Russian suppression, but there certainly was not any form of genocidal oppression. The illegal military invasion and occupation of Crimea was never to rescue the ethnic Russians, as it was framed in Kremlin propaganda, it was naked imperialistic expansionist aggression. If the Russians living in a liberated Crimea don't want to live in a restored Ukrainian state, they will be free to cross the Kerch bridge before Ukraine destroys it once and for all. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-accused-of-reshaping-annexed-crimea-demographics-ukraine/29262130.html

Windows VISTA surely ?

1) I heve never denied Brexit, I just feel it is a big mistake. 2) I am not angry, but I am sad that the UK has started a slow decline into International obscurity to satisfy the selfish aspirations of a few extremists.. 3) What is there to bargain with or about ? 4) Depression - logging on here and seeing you have polluted the forum yet again. 5) As with (1); Brexit is a reality, but hopefully once enough of the old stagers harking back to the ( lost ) glories of the Empire have kicked the bucket, the next generation will put things right.

Brexit is a Pyrrhic victory. It wil never deliver what you think it will. As for whining like a "bitch", at least I'm not Farage's bitch, or Rees-Mogg's stooge.

Correct. The punt being taken is based on predictions and presumptions on how things might look in 30 years time.

I love posts where people state that we ought to be "reading the real science", and ignoring the vast majority of informed sources around the World. I prefer the surreal science, the outcomes are far more entertaining.

It is a known, very rare, side effect of certain forms of vaccine. The COVID vaccines were not special in this regard.

Tears of laughter at gullible twats like you thinking the Telegraph is the fount of all wisdom and that Brexit is leading us to the Promised Land.

GM is doing the Time Warp again.

Can't even quote accurately - "kool aid". Question for you, how do the CPTPP regulations on pesticides and environmental poisons compare to those of the EU ?

Why don't you just post a link to the Daily Telegraph every morning ? It would save you time, and at least give the people thinking up and writing this stuff the acknowledgement for their efforts.

There is if you are a multinational.

He doesn't understand what half the drivel he cuts&pastes means.

Joining the CPTPP does not prevent the UK rejoining the EU, but it does potentially make it a bit more difficult. And does taking a hopeful punt on how the World economy might look in 30 years time really balance out losing 4% of our GDP due to Brexit ?

An historically innaccurate western stereotypical image of a possibly mythical person. ( And that ignores the liklihood that Jesus would not have known about or experienced popcorn ).

You have to bear in mind the audience in Germany would be full of his relatives.

More pinko, lefty, remoaner, traitor trolling, this from the BBC reporting on the UK joining the CPTPP; "The short-term gains are marginal. The UK already had deals with the majority of these nations as part of its EU membership which have been carried over. Since Brexit, the UK has added Australia and New Zealand to its trade deal tally. It was just Brunei and Malaysia left that the UK didn't have a deal with and between them those two account for less than 0.5% of the total of UK trade. Even with some changes to the trading arrangements with other countries, the gains from the expanded accord is expected to be fairly small - around 0.08% of GDP over 10 years, according to the government's best stab at an estimate. By contrast, leaving the EU, the government's independent forecasters reckon, will cost the UK far more than that - perhaps 4% of our income. In total, the CPTPP accounted for 8% of UK exports in 2019 - less than we sold to Germany" ( Please note that, unlike a certain poster, I attribute my sources ).

It just goes to show that our "dross" may well have not been, but just didn't fit Saints or the PL. ( Doesn't explain Hoedt though ).

What is confusing is that Hoedt, Van Damme, Elyounoussi, Clasie, Onuachu, and Delgado were/are full internationals, and 2 have played in World Cup finals tournaments, with Tall Paul having appeared at the AFCON finals.

There are no dentists taking on new NHS patients in the county of Lancashire.

Trying to be serious, to my mind there are 2 issues with the CPTPP deal; firstly, and simply, the fact that the nearest member country is Canada, and the others are on the other side of the World. This is hardly going to help small and medium businesses trying to cope with the issues caused by Brexit and loss of access to markets 30 miles away. Secondly, there seem to be significant differences in some areas between EU and CPTPP regulations, such as animal welfare and food hygiene, which could mean that complying with CPTPP rules, which are not as strict as EU rules, means we no longer have straight forward access to European markets. But what do I know, I'm just a troll.

What a big girl's blouse. And as for "my opinion.....", nobody gives a shit about your opinion, you pompous, self righteous ass.

Yet they are oh so quick to send out recovery letters for slight overpayments of pension and benefits when somebody dies.

Our youngest son is a tax accountant and many of the small businesses his company deals with are complaining when told their Covid Support LOANS have to be paid back.

Bonds