What Is Happening To Our Country?

[whelk]

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

[Baird of the land]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

Swaddle would rise up the ranks if only that didn't involve verticality

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

Mike Ashley likes a bit of vertical drinking in London. And a good fireplace to barf in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40484091

[Gloucester Saint]

Not content with poisoning customers and landing them with some of the country’s highest water bills in a seasonal economy, SW Water now scares them senseless in the middle of the night with an update about a hosepipe ban https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8ey8lv5jno

[benjii]

This is what's happening to your country. Be aware.

 

 

[AlexLaw76]

From the Private Eye.

[Farmer Saint]

45 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

From the Private Eye.

1 - Number of benefits cheats details @AlexLaw76 said he'd provide if an email address was sent over.

0 - Number of benefits details received by said email address.

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Farmer Saint said:

1 - Number of benefits cheats details @AlexLaw76 said he'd provide if an email address was sent over.

0 - Number of benefits details received by said email address.

You keep presenting this as though I agreed to give you someone's personal information and then backed out. That's simply not what happened. I just asked you to IM me an email address if you wanted to do it - just to see if you would actually go that far (oddly).

You asked a complete stranger for someone else's personal details. I said no. You then went as far as creating a new/burner email address to try to get me to hand them over.

I'm not sure how many different ways this needs explaining: I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not giving a stranger somebody else's personal information just because you want to prove a point.

A little bit weird. Perhaps it's time to let it go.

 

 

[badgerx16]

https://news.sky.com/story/thames-water-risks-fresh-storm-over-1m-payment-to-finance-chief-13571530

 

"Thames Water risks igniting a fresh storm over boardroom pay after handing a £1m signing-on fee to its finance chief even as it teeters on the brink of collaps"

[Farmer Saint]

18 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

You keep presenting this as though I agreed to give you someone's personal information and then backed out. That's simply not what happened. I just asked you to IM me an email address if you wanted to do it - just to see if you would actually go that far (oddly).

You asked a complete stranger for someone else's personal details. I said no. You then went as far as creating a new/burner email address to try to get me to hand them over.

I'm not sure how many different ways this needs explaining: I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not giving a stranger somebody else's personal information just because you want to prove a point.

A little bit weird. Perhaps it's time to let it go.

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂

Jesus, no wonder you got thrown out of the Navy if you're that dishonest. But as you said this is your Mrs' friend who you hold in distain for cheating benefits, but won't report for some reason. No morals, no ethics, but then of course "birds of a feather..."

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

😂😂😂😂😂

Jesus, no wonder you got thrown out of the Navy if you're that dishonest. But as you said this is your Mrs' friend who you hold in distain for cheating benefits, but won't report for some reason. No morals, no ethics, but then of course "birds of a feather..."

Good god. Who said I was thrown out of the Navy?

You are displaying some very odd, and mildly obsessive, behaviour.

Calling me dishonest and claiming I have no ethics because I won't hand a complete stranger somebody else's personal information is quite the stretch.

There is nothing dishonest about refusing to disclose someone else's private details. In fact, I'd suggest having enough respect for someone's privacy to say "no" is rather more ethical than handing their details to a stranger simply to win an argument on an internet forum.

You don't know me, you don't know the person whose details you're demanding, and you're not entitled to them.

As said, just let it go.

Edited August 11 by AlexLaw76

[egg]

36 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

You keep presenting this as though I agreed to give you someone's personal information and then backed out. That's simply not what happened. I just asked you to IM me an email address if you wanted to do it - just to see if you would actually go that far (oddly).

You asked a complete stranger for someone else's personal details. I said no. You then went as far as creating a new/burner email address to try to get me to hand them over.

I'm not sure how many different ways this needs explaining: I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not giving a stranger somebody else's personal information just because you want to prove a point.

A little bit weird. Perhaps it's time to let it go.

 

 

I think you're trying to rewrite this mate.

[Farmer Saint]

29 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Good god. Who said I was thrown out of the Navy?

You are displaying some very odd, and mildly obsessive, behaviour.

Calling me dishonest and claiming I have no ethics because I won't hand a complete stranger somebody else's personal information is quite the stretch.

There is nothing dishonest about refusing to disclose someone else's private details. In fact, I'd suggest having enough respect for someone's privacy to say "no" is rather more ethical than handing their details to a stranger simply to win an argument on an internet forum.

You don't know me, you don't know the person whose details you're demanding, and you're not entitled to them.

As said, just let it go.

I'm calling you dishonest and having no morals and ethics because you won't report them yourself. You're missing the point and trying to rewrite history.

All you need to do is apologise for not giving the details you promised and admit you're a liar, and I'll stop. Otherwise I will continue. That's what happens when you've spent the last few years piling on another poster for similar behaviours.

Edited August 11 by Farmer Saint

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Farmer Saint said:

I'm calling you dishonest and having no morals and ethics because you won't report them yourself. You're missing the point and trying to rewrite history.

All you need to do is apologise for not giving the details you promised and admit you're a liar and I'll stop. Otherwise I will continue to pile on. That's what happens when you've spent the last few years piling on another poster for similar behaviours.

I never “promised” anything 

and I am the one re writing this!

I know this must be consuming you, but let it go. It is not healthy. 
 

 

[Farmer Saint]

4 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

I never “promised” anything 

and I am the one re writing this!

I know this must be consuming you, but let it go. It is not healthy. 
 

 

Eating me up, no, but I'm enjoying watching you squirm 😂😂😂

 

Edited August 11 by Farmer Saint

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, Farmer Saint said:

 

Yes, can’t see where I promised anything.

look let it go. Your desire for harvesting personal information of a total stranger, from a total stranger via a burner email account you quickly set up, to win an argument on a football message board is fucking weird.

Of course, I am the bad one here, it’s how it works.

[Farmer Saint]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Yes, can’t see where I promised anything.

look let it go. Your desire for harvesting personal information of a total stranger, from a total stranger via a burner email account you quickly set up, to win an argument on a football message board is fucking weird.

Of course, I am the bad one here, it’s how it works.

TBF, it's not a burner email account, and it's been active for 3 or so years, but anyway.

You are indicating above that if I sent you my email address you would give me details to report them. Or did you mean something different?The point remains, why won't you report them yourself? You're enabling benefits cheats when you post about how they need to be stopped? Or, as we all suspect, you're lying and doing a SOG.

Edited August 11 by Farmer Saint

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

From the Private Eye.

I vaguely recall, from the eye most likely, that there was lots of government/political harrumphing about Fujitsu. Things like holding them to account and making sure they followed through on them saying they had a "moral obligation."

And certainly not giving a company, who had caused so much damage (not just by themselves), new contracts.

That was swiftly watered down to really just referring to bids for brand new things. A thing they were in the bidding process for, was fine.

Then it was also fine to give them renewals on existing contracts. Because it would be fidgety and expensive to switch.

All that was a while back. Plenty of parties involved in it just being business as usual.

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

From the Private Eye.

To be fair Fujitsu have had a really tough few years, rightly so some would argue. Lost a lot of contracts and suppliers moving away from them as don’t want to be associated with the Post Office stuff. We work with them in pockets of central gov and although I don’t know what the a situation is with the compensation for Post Office they’ve certainly felt the damage with other customers and supplies. 

[egg]

12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

To be fair Fujitsu have had a really tough few years, rightly so some would argue. Lost a lot of contracts and suppliers moving away from them as don’t want to be associated with the Post Office stuff. We work with them in pockets of central gov and although I don’t know what the a situation is with the compensation for Post Office they’ve certainly felt the damage with other customers and supplies. 

They deserve more than a tough few years. More to the point, it's astonishing that they haven't picked up the full bill for the post office fallout, and that the government has an ongoing relationship with them. 

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, egg said:

They deserve more than a tough few years. More to the point, it's astonishing that they haven't picked up the full bill for the post office fallout, and that the government has an ongoing relationship with them. 

Oh I agree 100% as a company yes. But as always it’s the people on the ground who suffer whilst the ones responsible are long gone coining it in elsewhere. The guys we work with are decent people who all feel the same too but they also have mortgages to pay. Home office is one of our joint customers and I too am amazed they carried on working with them. 

[AlexLaw76]

 

[whelk]

FFS who assaults a 102 yo

https://news.sky.com/story/102-year-old-man-dies-after-alleged-assault-at-pub-13572598

[egg]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

FFS who assaults a 102 yo

https://news.sky.com/story/102-year-old-man-dies-after-alleged-assault-at-pub-13572598

Indeed. A properly horrible thing to do. 

[Osvaldorama]

WTF is wrong with our politicians?:

Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie suggests a policy of brothels in villages near asylum seekers as a way to reduce sexual violence. 
 

 

[bpsaint]

18 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

WTF is wrong with our politicians?:

Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie suggests a policy of brothels in villages near asylum seekers as a way to reduce sexual violence. 
 

 

Anything to avoid dealing with the actual problem and sending them straight back home.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

19 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

WTF is wrong with our politicians?:

Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie suggests a policy of brothels in villages near asylum seekers as a way to reduce sexual violence. 
 

 

Is she commuting between the villages, or is it an Edwina's Mobile Brothel? Asking for a friend with John Major glasses and zero personality. Oh, wait that's Starmer. No, a different person...

[AlexLaw76]

It just gets worse.

Mrs Brown's Boys Xmas Special has been cancelled.

FFS!

[Gloucester Saint]

Good to see Anglo-German co-operation working from inception in December 2024. Far more practical than wasting Naval resources, German courts need to do their bit now. It reduces the incentive for illegal migration into Germany and on across the channel given the parallel squeeze in N France, Belgium and Netherlands https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq809zrvqdo

It’s why the boats are bigger it less of them. At some stage one will sink with a lot of hand-wringing. I hope it doesn’t happen but the blood will be on the smugglers and go after them for manslaughter. Any Kurdish nationals arrested who can be deported, then do so. 

[bpsaint]

5 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Good to see Anglo-German co-operation working from inception in December 2024. Far more practical than wasting Naval resources, German courts need to do their bit now. It reduces the incentive for illegal migration into Germany and on across the channel given the parallel squeeze in N France, Belgium and Netherlands https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq809zrvqdo

It’s why the boats are bigger it less of them. At some stage one will sink with a lot of hand-wringing. I hope it doesn’t happen but the blood will be on the smugglers and go after them for manslaughter. Any Kurdish nationals arrested who can be deported, then do so. 

Will it really make a difference though? We’re at the point where the “conspiracy” that it’s all part of a grander plan to flood Europe with Muslims is looking more sensible by the day. A couple of gunboats patrolling the channel taking shots at the dinghies forcing them return should be so simple, but there’s zero interest.

Edited 6 hours ago by bpsaint

[Sir Ralph]

On 13/08/2026 at 20:30, bpsaint said:

Anything to avoid dealing with the actual problem and sending them straight back home.

Just proves how degenerate Westminster’s politicians are - imagine even that going through your head. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[egg]

4 hours ago, bpsaint said:

Will it really make a difference though? We’re at the point where the “conspiracy” that it’s all part of a grander plan to flood Europe with Muslims is looking more sensible by the day. A couple of gunboats patrolling the channel taking shots at the dinghies forcing them return should be so simple, but there’s zero interest.

Who's plan is this? 

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

Who's plan is this? 

The authorities above our governments who agreed all this back in the 50s

[egg]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The authorities above our governments who agreed all this back in the 50s

Oh I see. A plan in the 50's to overrun Europe with Muslims 70 years later. Hmm. 

Sounds a bit MLT. 

[bpsaint]

33 minutes ago, egg said:

Who's plan is this? 

The influx across Europe is so ridiculous you have to start asking who’s behind it. This isn’t the work of a few people smugglers, this is a full on planned and paid for invasion.

[Turkish]

29 minutes ago, egg said:

Oh I see. A plan in the 50's to overrun Europe with Muslims 70 years later. Hmm. 

Sounds a bit MLT. 

Care to offer another explanation rather than criticism of others

Edited 1 hour ago by Turkish

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

The influx across Europe is so ridiculous you have to start asking who’s behind it. This isn’t the work of a few people smugglers, this is a full on planned and paid for invasion.

You can’t say that mate you’ll be ridiculed for it. There have been wars in countries for decades if not centuries but only relatively recently suddenly you’ve got tens of  thousands of young lads, never any women or kids, every week all wanting to come to europe. 

[bpsaint]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

You can’t say that mate you’ll be ridiculed for it. There have been wars in countries for decades if not centuries but only relatively recently suddenly you’ve got tens of  thousands of young lads, never any women or kids, every week all wanting to come to europe. 

Yep, always the same shite from the left in response too. Oh it’s women and children fleeing war torn countries, the UK shouldn't have bombed them, diversity is our strength….Bollocks, loads of fighting age men from shitholes like Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea, and anyone that dares question what single benefit they bring to the UK is a right wing racist/facist.

Edited 1 hour ago by bpsaint

[egg]

35 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Care to offer another explanation rather than criticism of others

I'm not the one making bold claims. 

Who's planned in the 50's to overrun Europe with Muslims 70 years later?

Who's behind any ongoing plan?

It's your claim, so it's for you to explain.

[egg]

15 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

Yep, always the same shite from the left in response too. Oh it’s women and children fleeing war torn countries, the UK shouldn't have bombed them, diversity is our strength….Bollocks, loads of fighting age men from shitholes like Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea, and anyone that dares question what single benefit they bring to the UK is a right wing racist/facist.

That's not my response, and I'm not from the left.

If you say it's a plan, explain who you think is planning it.

It's a simple question.