Starmer rules out any movement on another Scottish independence referendum or on the gender recognition bill
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I have only had something through the door from Labour, and only one thing at that .We are a safe seat for them (my borough voted 62% for Khan recently).
Now Harriet Harman is retiring, we have a new MP, Miatta Fanbulleh. I met her briefly yesterday while she was out door knocking in my road.Last edited by wakka; 21-06-2024, 16:56.Comment
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Huh, seconds ago I just saw my Tory MP (majority: 9000) alone with a bicycle, desperately handing out election leaflets in a rundown part of town. All those opinion polls predicting Torygeddon probably have something to them.Comment
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We've had one Labour flyer, no others. Postal vote just arrived today too. Seen a small handful of Vote Labour posters and even one flag. One house with flyers in the window for Reform and nothing for anyone else.
Farage says he doesn't take back his Ukraine claims, after all, why would a Commie?Comment
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His claims aren't completely without merit (or evidence) though. Much as I dislike Farage, the West's take that the situation was completely unprovoked is as real as Iraq having weapons of mass destruction ready to attack the west within 45 minutes. There was a tacit agreement with Russia not to expend NATO well into the East, there are some Western claims that this is made up - but this is something Russia has been vocal about for years. And had there been an agreement early in 2022 for Ukraine to remain a neutral country prior to Russia's actions which was being pursued, potentially those actions might not have happened.
But we can do a thought experiement and see why Russia might be a little aggreived or concerned about encoachment on its borders.
Consider what the West might do and how it may retaliate, say if the USSR decided to expand into Cuba and place weapons and armies there, would it just sit happily by and let it happen? If we look through the other end of the lens and the situation was a new USSR expanding across to the West of Europe through agreed military alliances, I think we'd view the situation very differently.
Whether you can justify a full war on that alone depends on the angle you view it from I suppose - but to claim that there was no provocation at all I would say is a stretch. Farage is still a nob though, so it changes nothing there.Last edited by MartyG; 22-06-2024, 19:49.Comment
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They did expand their military into Cuba and we ended up with the Cuban missile crisis.Originally posted by MartyG View PostComment
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Farage appeared to compare Sandy Hook parents to liberals trying to curb free speech | Nigel Farage | The Guardian​
Sunak continues to mishandle the gambling scandal which is now dominating the final days of the Tory campaign
Small boat crossings reach a record high
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Julian Assange has agreed a plea deal and is finally set to go free
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Julian Assange, Tommy Robinson what year is this
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What are people's thoughts on Assange?Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
He's held up by some as a bastion of truth and a warrior against corruption, hounded by the authorities for revealing their crimes against society.
However, I'm also seeing that he's a bit self-serving. He said he was fighting local corruption, but also using what he found to help his child custody case.
He helped the Victoria Police Exploitation Unit to help prosecute individuals sending child pornography, but he did it to help reduce his hacking sentencing.
When WikiLeaks started, they were hacking to reveal their honesty or abuse, but would accept a "Secrecy Tax" to keep their findings quiet.
It was when he started leaking information he'd got from the US military that he had the ultimate hack around and find out lesson.
Should he be lauded for revealing "unvarnished" logs of the Afghan War, or should he be held accountable for releasing state secrets?Comment
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Assange absconded from bail on a sexual assault charge in order to hide in a foreign embassy to wait out the statute of limitations Sweden has for such offences. I do not have any positive opinions of the man.
On another topic, I had to use a taxi to get to work today, and the driver had some right-wing talk radio station on during the journey. I don't listen to such drivel, but it was utterly depressing to put up with 15 minutes of hearing that poison. No wonder Reform are doing comparatively well in the polls if their worldview is being pumped out unfiltered by these radio stations…Comment
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