What Is Happening To Our Country?

[Gloucester Saint]

4 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

£7 for standard Colgate toothpaste in Sainsbury's this morning. What the hell is that about?

Sainsburys has become horrifically expensive, more so than Waitrose I’d say (or Booths in the NW). That item would be 50% of the cost in Lidl.

[sadoldgit]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Sainsburys has become horrifically expensive, more so than Waitrose I’d say (or Booths in the NW). That item would be 50% of the cost in Lidl.

It certainly has. I prefer it to Tescos but might have to bite the bullet. I have to travel further for a Lidl or Aldi and can’t get all I need in those so don’t usually bother.

[Lord Duckhunter]

27 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

have to travel further for a Lidl or Aldi and can’t get all I need in those so don’t usually bother.

🥱

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Sainsburys has become horrifically expensive, more so than Waitrose I’d say (or Booths in the NW). That item would be 50% of the cost in Lidl.

They used to blame it on the cost of fuel but that’s now 30p less a litre than 2022 when the cost of living crisis started so that doesn’t wash. They’re put the prices up and won’t bring them down. Just like electric and gas where the companies are making 10s of billions or profit a quarter 

[The Kraken]

6 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

£7 for standard Colgate toothpaste in Sainsbury's this morning. What the hell is that about?

I noticed this very thing last week. Tbf they also had plenty of other Colgate variants that were 2 or 3 quid so I just got one of them instead. 7 quid is a joke though.

[Farmer Saint]

Interesting piece about London, and the rights attempt to create fear about it's safety.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUcwBj_in9Y/?igsh=dXVwZGFzMGc0czlt

[badgerx16]

57 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

Interesting piece about London, and the rights attempt to create fear about it's safety.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUcwBj_in9Y/?igsh=dXVwZGFzMGc0czlt

Helps explain Nic.

[east-stand-nic]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Helps explain Nic.

In light of people saying to stop, why bring me up at every post you make then complain when I reply? Are you aware of your own stupidity? Caught out yet again so replies with silliness. 

Edited Sunday at 11:18 by east-stand-nic

[badgerx16]

13 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

 Are you aware of your own stupidity?

No, but yours is very publicly apparent.

[rallyboy]

3 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

Interesting piece about London, and the rights attempt to create fear about it's safety.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUcwBj_in9Y/?igsh=dXVwZGFzMGc0czlt

Misinformation is at the heart of every Farage campaign, his supporters don't care for facts, they lap up slogans.

The real problem for the Russian-backed multi-millionaire, Epstein-linked, employer of failed Tories, multiple breaker of the ministerial code and man of the street Hedge Fund manager who cares deeply about the working class, will be that Reform slogans won't run the NHS, education etc.

At that point his trusty band of nodding loser faux-patriots will be blindly hanging flags that were made in China, upside down, and will follow their master's instructions to blame foreigners again.

[AlexLaw76]

[AlexLaw76]

The whole attitude we have of jus dishing out money to anyone who comes over in any form, is ridiculous 

 

[Turkish]

https://news.sky.com/story/rise-in-antisemitic-incidents-after-manchester-synagogue-attack-13505699

Antisemitic attacks are up. 

[skintsaint]

28 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Pretty sure thats from a year or so back?

[hypochondriac]

44 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Pretty sure thats from a year or so back?

Yeah I definitely read that before.

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Pretty sure thats from a year or so back?

Anyone know if they did achieve the much sought after school of sanctuary accreditation?

Did they have a Christmas play or was that cancelled as well - presumably no decorations, no Christmas cards etc?

[rallyboy]

You'll be thrown in jail if you call yourself English now - China will be banning us from playing cricket next. 

😡

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

The whole attitude we have of jus dishing out money to anyone who comes over in any form, is ridiculous 

 

What’s the source in this report/data?

[badgerx16]

13 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

What’s the source in this report/data?

It looks like the accumulated total of loans to EU students, based on SLC data, so not an annual bill

 

Edited Wednesday at 13:30 by badgerx16

[Holmes_and_Watson]

23 minutes ago, rallyboy said:

You'll be thrown in jail if you call yourself English now - China will be banning us from playing cricket next. 

😡

As it never gets old...

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/stewart_lee_comedy_vehicle/videos/22276/XkCBhKs4faI/

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, rallyboy said:

You'll be thrown in jail if you call yourself English now - China will be banning us from playing cricket next. 

😡

racist game that is from a bygone Empire. 

[tdmickey3]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

What’s the source in this report/data?

X or the Sun newspaper I expect

[Farmer Saint]

5 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Pretty sure thats from a year or so back?

That's the problem when your only source of news is "X".

[badgerx16]

41 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

X or the Sun newspaper I expect

Torygraph

[Gloucester Saint]

5 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Torygraph

Who are notoriously inaccurate about anything vaguely data-related or technical these days.

[Farmer Saint]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15534459/No-wonder-Kate-Ferdinand-struggling-Dubai-Growing-number-Brits-regret-moving-soulless-Emirate-bemoan-80-hour-working-weeks-high-cost-living.html

No shit, it's as if some of us predicted this. 

Just messaged one of my mates who lives out there, apparently workers hours are being ramped up as well (they were bad enough to begin with).

Edited yesterday at 10:20 by Farmer Saint

[whelk]

54 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15534459/No-wonder-Kate-Ferdinand-struggling-Dubai-Growing-number-Brits-regret-moving-soulless-Emirate-bemoan-80-hour-working-weeks-high-cost-living.html

No shit, it's as if some of us predicted this. 

Just messaged one of my mates who lives out there, apparently workers hours are being ramped up as well (they were bad enough to begin with).

People who move to Dubai are people I am quite happy to never meet. Rio thinks tax here is bad - lucky he wasn’t a Beatle in the 1960s  see Taxman

[pingpong]

On 11/02/2026 at 09:31, AlexLaw76 said:

The whole attitude we have of jus dishing out money to anyone who comes over in any form, is ridiculous 

 

Against the 37 billion (net) that they bring with them, that seems a very reasonable cost to be honest.

[Farmer Saint]

58 minutes ago, pingpong said:

Against the 37 billion (net) that they bring with them, that seems a very reasonable cost to be honest.

Shush, men are getting angry for no reason!

[sadoldgit]

Will the flag shagging crowd kick off over this scumbag?

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/nursery-worker-guilty-rape-sexual-assault-toddlers/

[sadoldgit]

So then, there was no compelling evidence to support the government’s claim that this was a terrorist organisation after all.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/2/13/uk-court-says-palestine-action-ban-unlawful-what-does-the-verdict-mean

Edited 2 hours ago by sadoldgit
For those of you who care about these things, this story is also available on the BBC newsfeed

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, sadoldgit said:

So then, there was no compelling evidence to support the government’s claim that this was a terrorist organisation after all.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/2/13/uk-court-says-palestine-action-ban-unlawful-what-does-the-verdict-mean

You could have got that story from the BBC but no, for some reason you read Al Jazeera for balanced news coverage.

[whelk]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

Will the flag shagging crowd kick off over this scumbag?

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/nursery-worker-guilty-rape-sexual-assault-toddlers/

You are very sad

[sadoldgit]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

You could have got that story from the BBC but no, for some reason you read Al Jazeera for balanced news coverage.

I get both in my news feed and as you say they both ran the same story. Not sure why it was an issue which one I chose to post? Would you prefer I just use the BBC in future?

[hypochondriac]

21 minutes ago, whelk said:

You are very sad

Actually pathetic. I read this a few days ago and was appaled and sickened. Why he thinks anyone would be anything other than that because this piece of shit has white skin just shows what a twat he is.

[egg]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

You could have got that story from the BBC but no, for some reason you read Al Jazeera for balanced news coverage.

That's a tad bizarre for you. Who gives a  monkeys what the source is, the facts are the same. 

[hypochondriac]

4 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

I get both in my news feed and as you say they both ran the same story. Not sure why it was an issue which one I chose to post? Would you prefer I just use the BBC in future?

What did Lewis goddall on lbc say about it? I noted you mentioned the talking pou t about bits living in Spain yesterday straight after he had said it on his radio show.

[badgerx16]

8 minutes ago, egg said:

That's a tad bizarre for you. Who gives a  monkeys what the source is, the facts are the same. 

I know it was a bit left field, but I had just had a mental image of SOG riding his personsl Rocinante and tilting at windmills - the Don Quixote of SWF.

Edited 2 hours ago by badgerx16