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Catfish 03-17-21 04:49 PM

Especially those vids take rumours, twist them and additionally amplify them out of proportions in best propaganda fashion. Only look for evidence of those rumours, and you know what to make of the rest.

mapuc 03-17-21 04:56 PM

To use a phrase from Commander Data.

It's time to initiate a self-diagnostics

Meaning
if you like or dislike a video posted in this thread or other threads then ask
yourself

Did I like/dislike it because I support/do not support it(politicians, organisations like EU/country)

Markus

Moonlight 03-18-21 04:38 PM

I don't think this is enough to bring the Poison Dwarf down, if they haven't got any more evidence than that she should breeze through a vote of no confidence.

Alex Salmond inquiry: Nicola Sturgeon’s future in question as Committee concludes she ‘misled Parliament’
"It is understood the cross-party committee decided by five votes to four that Ms Sturgeon had given an inaccurate account of one of her key meetings with Mr Salmond".

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...?ocid=msedgntp

Jimbuna 03-19-21 07:07 AM

^ The BBC take on the matter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-56451170

Jimbuna 03-19-21 07:08 AM

Now this I certainly do agree with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZvlgTQPNU

Rockstar 03-19-21 08:16 PM

Cap on Trident nuclear warhead stockpile to rise by more than 40%

Quote:

Exclusive: Boris Johnson announcement on Tuesday will end 30 years of gradual disarmament

The increased limit, from 180 to 260 warheads, is contained in a leaked copy of the integrated review of defence and foreign policy, seen by the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y-more-than-40


Five areas of interest from UK defence and foreign policy review

Leaked document likely to disappoint Tory China hawks while the EU barely gets a look in

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-policy-review

MGR1 03-20-21 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moonlight (Post 2737278)
I don't think this is enough to bring the Poison Dwarf down, if they haven't got any more evidence than that she should breeze through a vote of no confidence.

Alex Salmond inquiry: Nicola Sturgeon’s future in question as Committee concludes she ‘misled Parliament’
"It is understood the cross-party committee decided by five votes to four that Ms Sturgeon had given an inaccurate account of one of her key meetings with Mr Salmond".

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...?ocid=msedgntp

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2737359)

Robert Burns:
Quote:

In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Mike.:D

Jimbuna 03-20-21 12:27 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK3VL2XCWEE

MGR1 03-21-21 09:13 AM

It would be prudent for both sides to refrain from "counting their chickens" - as Burns wrote even the best laid plans can go awry.

We'll just have to wait and see what happens in May, assuming the elections go ahead as planned.:hmmm:

Mike.

Jimbuna 03-21-21 11:37 AM

My prediction is the SNP will maintain their majority and the poison dwarf will tough it out and go nowhere.

MGR1 03-22-21 08:18 AM

Technically the SNP don't have a majority - Holyrood uses a hybrid PR system, not pure FPTP. What they are is the largest party in terms of MSP's. Adding in the Scottish Greens, who are also pro-Indy, then yes, there is a pro-independence majority in terms of MSP numbers.

What the SNP have ultimately done is to take over SLab's share of the vote, which goes to show both how SLab mismanaged it and how little loyalty to the UK that vote had. Mind you SLab had to play the sectarian card to get anywhere in Glasgow - as I wrote earlier you have to control that area if you want to control Scotland politically. Unfortunately Scots who are of Irish Catholic decent are the group most likely to support independence and there's a fair number of them in the Clyde Valley constituencies.:hmmm:

Mike.

Jimbuna 03-22-21 02:24 PM

Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-56482878

Moonlight 03-25-21 10:32 AM

Eurostar on brink: French pleaded with UK to save company as 'catastrophe is possible'

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/14...ion-europe-spt

Eurostar is 55 percent owned by the French state railway SNCF, 40 percent by infrastructure funds CDPQ and Hermes, and five percent by Belgian railway SNCB.

The British Government has so far been reluctant to step in, saying it is the French government's company to save.
Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary, said in February “It’s primarily a French lead, but we’ll be as helpful as possible.
“It’s not our company to rescue – it’s majority owned by the French state.

Hey Micron you tosser, go and rescue one of your companies or go and ask the EU for financial help if you need any, a EU Member State company asking the British taxpayer to bail them out, you couldn't make this crap up, we finally leave the EU shambles and they're still holding the bleeding begging bowl out.
As Princess Anne once said to the press reporters "Naff Off" well, not really those two words but you can give a good guess at what she actually said. :O:

Jimbuna 03-25-21 01:11 PM

To Macron "Aucune chance"

Catfish 03-25-21 05:15 PM

We had this before, but still:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/24/u...gbr/index.html

"During the weekly "1922 Committee" meeting of Conservative backbenchers, Johnson made an unguarded comment in which he claimed that the UK's successful vaccine rollout was "because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends," multiple sources who were on the call have confirmed to CNN.

Realizing how controversial his comments could be if made public, Johnson then retracted them almost immediately, according to the sources, saying "actually I regret saying it ... forget I said that." "


He meant exactly what he said.


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