badgerx16

Abbott is just after David Lammey's job as Shadow Foreign Secretary - proving she is as qualified for the shadow position as Liz Truss is for her job in the Cabinet.

Money talks.

I watched a video yesterday of a Russian news reporter, in his full body armour kit, presenting a piece for Russian news from inside a Ukrainian city. As he shows film of bombed and shelled buildings he narrates how the Ukrainians are deliberately destoying them so that they can plead to the West that it is the Russians who are doing it.

North London yobbos.

Trippier, Hayden, Wilson, and possibly St-Maximin. ( Fingers crossed ).

Are they your own goal specialists ?

The EU had an emergency plan to cope with such a refugee crisis already on the books, they have just tweaked it and set it in motion, hence the granting of 3 year residence at short notice.

So we take Ukrainian airforce pilots away from the war, and ship them to the US to do conversion training on F-16s/F-18s ? They have been brought up on Russian aircraft, mostly models that are at least 15 years old, so in order to supply them we need to probably find a way that is acceptable to Poland for them to ship in their Mig-29s - offensive weapons being sent directly to a wartime enemy of their most powerful and threatening neighbour.

If I was MLG I would point out that I posted about the conscripts on page 18 😉

Vlad tells Russia that there are no conscripts involved in the Special Military Operation. Now the Russian Defence Ministry have "discovered" that there might have been some there after all, ( probably after the Ukrainians repeatedly posted videos of them after capture ). How come they didn't know ?

There is a video on reddit/combatfootage of a Russian tank flying a Soviet hammer and sickle flag from one of it's antennae.

RH on Man Utd's radar according to the press.

Oh for the days when the RAF claimed to have shot down 200 German aircraft in one afternoon. Whilst the Ukrainian claims are no doubt exaggerated, counting the KIA, wounded, and POWs, there will be far more than the Russians admit to - if they even have an idea as to what their true casualty numbers are.

To what point in history ? To the early 1980s when we struggled to put a task force together to retake the Falklands, and if the Argies had waited 12 months for the Defence Review to kick in would have found it even harder ? To the 1950s when National Service kept the numbers high as we tried to keep peace in East Africa and Malaysia ? Or to the numbers in uniform in May 1945 ? Remember, this is the Government that has considered reducing our MBT force down to zero, and reduced our F-35 numbers to a quarter of the original order.

Tipolino

Crimea only became part of Ukraine in 1954.

Well he does over-value his own importance.

Sanctions about to get serious; Maccy D's is closing all of it's outlets in Russia.

My wife's reaction on seeing that - "That's pathetic".

Thinking that we might otherwise have been in the Hampshire Bowman.

St Helena with my family.

The EU scheme for Ukrainian refugees is visa free and covers the Schengen area and Ireland. They can travel freely and stay for up to 3 years.

Cake always comes into it somewhere.

True, but they do get an inhindered route to Ireland.

But Ireland are part of the EU scheme to allow visa free travel and settlement for up to 3 years.